MRGLSMRC  i have been looking at this camera purchase for a few weeks and have anticipated the drivers for osx.

if the manufacturer is reading our posts here, I wish to make an inquiry about interoperability with iphone and ipod touch running iphone os3 that has some bluetooth support.

If we macheads buy your cool toy, can we expect an iphone app down the line? :)  
(Version 1.0.1)

MRGLSMRC  so sorry you are angry at the way our govt. spends money.

you would do better to post at a political board.

your criticisms of this software, while possibly correct, are too vague to be useful to anybody but yourself.

there are many possible competing applications and you also failed to explain clearly how you like them better except that they're made by private industry.

i don't particularly care about your opinions of nasa either. your mind meanders from topic to topic so you need your medication.

after you've recovered, you should actually try out the software that you say you're reviewing, i mean if you're not too busy writing about in generalities you could try using it.

candidly i am not sure i like this software more than omnigraffle based on the web pages i've seen made in it. but i am impressed with the idea that it can be the front end of an apache server on one of my mac minis. i don't think the other software you mentioned could do this.  
(Version 5.03)

MRGLSMRC  i can now recommend you try calibre because it runs on my machine without crashing, the code has been reduced by 40 per cent and adequate documentation exists on the web.

i will report how well calibre converts ebooks at a future time.  
(Version 0.5.12)

MRGLSMRC  i ran the program after the install. it hung and crashed as i was adding books. i can't be certain it is the programmer's fault because i use safari haxies and there's a lot going on here.

at over 100 meg it seems bloated and slow.

the documentary material about reader format conversion is non-existant on the programmers wiki.

i will wait for the next version and try again..

there's a lot of ebooks out there now and managing them is a good idea.  
(Version 0.5.10)

MRGLSMRC  i just bought this. the wunderground weather reports it uss seem to be less accurate than my aviation weather desktop widget. nevertheless this is a great planning tool that helps you prepare for events even outside of your immediate area. it is good to know when i am going to a place a where it is raining, eg.

and the fact that ical integrates with my ipod touch means that if i synch my touch before leaving the house, i get good traveling info without wasting time.

of course the main drawback to this system is that the touch only synchs with one computer, so my daily results remain static unless i set up an ical server at my house, which i never considered doing before. i will wait for iphone OS 3.0 before i dig into that.

a minor problem i have with the set up reflects the way these new weather calendars integrates with the 'organized widget' from i slayer which i keep on my desktop. individual calendars are not identified. this is a problem when you have multiple zipcodes and weather forecasts for each day. in ical itself the calendars are color coded to respective zipcodes like manhattan and white plains,ny so this is less of a problem. the result is i have to use ical sometimes and this takes up too much screen real estate. while i recognize this is an apple gui issue and not a barebones gui issue it still amounts to an inconvenience for the end user which needs to be resolved for productivity purposes that would propel sales of this neat little application.  
(Version 1.0)

MRGLSMRC  i am testing this out.

i like the concept but the software doesn't work right on my machine.

i get this error message that i don't understand.

there is no help file.

when i check functions out to see if these work, eg history, i get crap about evaluation mode, so i can't say what works and what doesn't.

i will say it's cheap enough to play with. and i like the idea of corkboard technology in something cheaper than the excellent 'tinderbox.'

this 'corkboard' isn't ready for primetime.

and there's no direct link to the software foundry from macupdate which leaves me thinking that i won't get any satisfaction from the designers.

a real pity. if these guys let me test the actual software and it worked, you'd be reading a different review. no stars.  
(Version 1.2.2)

MRGLSMRC  i have used this software for 6 years both on the pc and the mac. i am currently a user of the pro ver.5.1.4 for mac and writing this review as i dl 5.1.5.

this software has an intelligent interface. the learning curve to understand the software is not steep. and the software does what it promises to do in terms of increasing my reading speed. i don't think i read as fast in real life as i do on the computer though because the words are pumped at me very fast in this app. it compresses time and you have to get into your zone to really appreciate what it does.

my minor beef with the software is that it is not universal-- it is powerpc software running through apple's rossetta. i have brought this up with the publisher and he assures me that an intel version will be ready when snow leopard comes out so there won't be a continuity issue.

i encourage you to test this software as trialware and decide for yourself if it can help you manage your time by reading faster.

you should disregard the review by the n00b who couldn't install the software and griped about it here because it's actually an easy install and the publisher is responsive to emails in a direct and personal way about any sort of problem i have encounter over the years, which mostly consisted of changing my license codes for newer editions.  
(Version 5.1.5)

MRGLSMRC  clearly no leopard user would want or need this. it must be intended for tiger 10.4.11 users.  
(Version 2008r3)