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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jun 2008 14:41
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Platypus rocks - So very useful for putting together tools for both myself and clients of mine. I am astonished he doesn't charge for it.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 16 Jun 2008 22:58
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Agreed - it wouldn't take much for them to make a package installer to do this for you. As a matter of fact, 3-4 minutes if you are familiar with how to do it and 15 minutes tops if it's your first time.. I've done it myself to hand out to non-techie friends.. On the other hand, I'm rather grateful they do a Mac build at all and that the winrar key I bought ~8 years ago still works when i install it in /etc for this version. That is truly a liberal licensing scheme.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Apr 2008 07:39
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PEBCAK Error. :) |
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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Apr 2008 16:12
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This is a very slick idea. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 11 Apr 2008 13:27
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It's funny (to me) I've been using Skitch beta since fairly early on when beta invites were pretty difficult to get. Very rarely do I get an app like this where I am actually looking forward to the developer going to a release version so I can pay them money for it.. This one I am - within minutes of getting the notification that they're selling it, my credit card is coming out. I use this app countless times per day to do quick snaps of designs to post to people I work with or customers for input or snap quick shots of web articles/photos to send to someone via IM.. it is one of those apps that I just won't do without now.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Mar 2008 12:19
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I used to jump on every vuescan update as it came out. but over time I realized that "if vuescan works and I am not having trouble and unless the release notes indicate something that specifically addresses functioning of one of my scanners or program errors, or adds a new feature." I just skip it.. Realistically the majority of the 8.4.x releasesat this have been new scanner support or improvements aimed at one specific scanner's function, not new features or major changes in how the program works - for the most part the app itself has been pretty bulletpoof for a long time. Auto update in this case for the number of users he has would start eating a lot of bandwidth.. He's probably smart to not include auto update for this very reason.. anyway, I'd give it 6 stars but they only let you do 5. Auto update isn't a big issue with this, in my opinion. |
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Type: Review
Date: 2 Dec 2007 02:09
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I really want to like this app. But it's just not ready for prime time. I even own a license for it but I'm back to xchat aqua for the foreseeable future.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Nov 2007 08:09
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i've been considering purchasing netnewswire.. I guess I am confused now - is this a software product I can license or a subscription that I have to pay annually or I revert to a mode with significantly reduced capability? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Nov 2007 19:24
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At least he didn't call us dirty hippies. Though, accusing me of going to a sports bar is bad enough. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Nov 2007 16:08
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All I want to do is customize my system icons.. Candybar 2.x fit that bill. While v3 certainly does that, feature creep has priced it way out of the price range I'm comfortable paying. How about a lite version? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Nov 2007 23:26
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I think this is a really neat thing.. but I'm rather dubious about putting tests online for students to take where it actually affects their grade. If you think about it, they are one tabbed browser instance away from...Google. :) It seems quite nice for making tests to print out though. I wish our school used Macs, I'd donate this software to my children's teacers.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 14 Nov 2007 00:16
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I think watching a partially transparent video playing over my work would would trigger ADD, as if I don't get that enough with the reload button on my RSS newsreader.. Now I could watch movies while hitting refresh in Netnewswire. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Oct 2007 01:35
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This thing sounds really neat.. and I've recently become "coerced" into transcribing notes from meetings for family member because I know how to work the digital voice recorder they use... |
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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Sep 2007 19:31
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1.x is good, I see nothing compelling about the 2.0 release to make me say "WOW this is worth paying again!" This is more like a 1.2 release than 2.0. No Sale. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Sep 2007 22:41
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I like the concept of the app - but no sale - devs, if you read this - it could really use some multithreaded routines for scanning folders and generating thumbnails.. I hope some day to check it out again. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Sep 2007 01:02
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This reminds me a lot of acdsee back in the 90's on Windows when it was really fast and did one or two things REALLY good. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Sep 2007 00:53
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Dang, you guys are kicking maczot's butt lately with good stuff.. My wallet is cowering in fear.. So now I have a toy to play with tuesday to see if I want to buy it.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Sep 2007 22:21
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If anyone wants to really know what pushed me over the edge on buying.. I use public ssh keys to ssh between 20 or so machines daily. this keeps me from having to enter passwords every time I want to run a remote command or login. forklift used this key to negotiate a login to my remote account.. If they put that detail into it (which nobody seems to do) they definitely have my attention.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Sep 2007 12:11
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I gotta admit, I'm not 100% happy with how the UI is built - two window trays. The file panes would feel a lot better to me if the duplicated the finder look and feel better, including icon view. I do love the tabs support though. I hate to say it as I get older I am way more visual and recognize icons before text.. I'm still very impressed with the batch rename and bluetooth function - AND the gung ho attitude I see exhibited by the developer(s).. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Sep 2007 00:43
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Going to sleep on this one and buy in the morning when I can see my credit card numbers... I am seeing two sets of them right now. :) |
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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Sep 2007 00:17
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playing with the app more - It would be really good if it would automatically grab your favorites from the finder sidebar. a lot of the time, files I am transferring are coming from/going to there.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Sep 2007 00:05
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The batch rename feature saved me about 4 hours of tedium last week.. I haven't even looked at the rest of the app yet.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Sep 2007 00:30
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I like this app - get good results from it but sometimes I have trouble with how it organizes designs.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Aug 2007 00:43
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Hah - I keep telling myself I need one of these apps - and now after I've spent half the night working on a client's project I'm scratching my head - did I start at 6 or 7? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Aug 2007 00:23
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I'll have to check this out and see how it compares to using the subversion support in xcode.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 18 Aug 2007 01:49
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Mighty generous of you! :) |
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Type: Comments
Date: 18 Aug 2007 01:21
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hahahah! my complaint about my purchased key not working notified me that I just won a free copy while I was posting it.. there's irony.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 18 Aug 2007 01:18
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Been thinking about buying this.. Now I have.. So far it's anti-climactic: "The Key is not correct. Make sure you entered it exactly as you received it." i've cut and pasted, manually typed, tried first name only, first last first plus last with no space, my email address.. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Aug 2007 02:51
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ModOps: they'll just scan the paper and upload it anyway.. Be consistent and curse the scanner and photocoper people too. :) This app is just a tool. My hammer is just a tool, too. I can do illegal things with both of them. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 25 May 2007 22:04
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They have kind of alienated me with this paid 3.6 update. I'm a relatively new user. Yes I bought it through MacZot. I had been checking the app out for a while but was sitting on the fence over buying it. I did jump on it when it was discounted through the maczot website - then proceeded to buy more stuff from their web store.. I kind of feel like they were wringing the last money they could out of 3.5 before releasing 3.6 and do not really value me as a customer. I've read conflicting upgrade policies - the head guy made a post that anyone within 3 months is covered for a free upgrade then stated in his blog that April 1st is the cutoff and that sadly, maczot sales do not qualify for free upgrades. Only full price purchasers. Then the icing on top is that shortly after discounting it via maczot, they were actually giving away licenses to Macuser readers. Fair? I suppose they don't really owe me anything - I got exactly what I paid for - a license for V3.5.1. That cuts both ways, I don't owe them anything - an upgrade fee or loyalty as a customer and positive word of mouth.. Not a very good customer relations move. |
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