MRGLSMRC  this software isan elaborate front end for web-based google translation services.

i might try this sometime but i dont understand why ishould give jalada the cash for googles work when i can just use the url for free.

to the minister in latin america-- why did you goto a country where you don't understand and can't be understood without an assistant? what makes you think you are being understood now in a persuasive way with this e-service?

please understand that i admire your determination to spread the word of god but translation is more than just swapping words-- it is cultural and gestural and so many nuanced things where technology is merely a crutch. spanish is not a hard language to learn when you are immersed in it.

i do use translation software myself for business purposes when i am getting a poor response from emails in english from a foreign developer. i use it when i want to show some europeanthat i am willing to go the extra mile to be understood byhim so translation services have their purposes.and jalada is as good a company for software as any. i know because i play with their fractal generator. but i do translation via two apps that are more appropriate and cheaper. i use kavaservices which operates on text in various ways besides translation. also i use the devonagent browser with instant google translation of webpages built in.

i am guessing that jalada's excellent product covers a larger gamutof languages than i need to use but on thos occassions where i want to see an arabic webpage i can just visit or some such without a forty dolar front end.

if the folks at jalada want to give me a reviewer's copy i will be glad togive their product a serious workout but presently i am disinclined to find it more useful than googles own web interface for the google service that jalada uses.  
(Version 2.1.1)

MRGLSMRC  apparently you are defending adobe. you claim this is apples fault and apple does 'not want flash.'

this is factually incorrect. please read the article in ars.

basically there are rules regarding iphone development that don't apply to other platforms. these give the iphone a security advantage and also give apple control over what's sold and why.  
(Version 11.5.2r602)

MRGLSMRC  it is unfortunate that apple and adobe are having a tiff right now which is covered in ars technica.

i sure would like a version of shockwave that can run in 64-bit mode in snow leopard.

i also want a version of flash that runs in the iphone browser.

let's hope these two giants can come to a corporate understanding because so many of us have large software investments in both companies and this erodes our confidence in both brands.

if private industry can't get things right under capitalism, then it becomes pragmatic to avoid expensive proprietary software and search for open-source solutions for enterprise. these companies should know better than to gerry-rig their own products.  
(Version 11.5.2.602)

MRGLSMRC  it would be useful to know which files you object to and why.

especially since i do not believe you are suggesting that google earth requires admin privileges to run or modifies the osx.

all applications generate .plist files and application support files.

your use of the phrase 'per se' suggests are nit-picking me. please disabuse me of this notion. thanks.  
(Version 5.1.3509.4636)

MRGLSMRC  i just bought the iphone version and i like it. very complex but it should be because it is powerful.

mu has misinformed users about the price of the mac vwersion. while the posted price here is 30usd the actual price is 100usd currently discounted to 60usd for a short while.

i hope this geys fixed on the site because i felt a bit baited.  
(Version 4.0.1)

MRGLSMRC  thomas-thank you for your kind and prompt response.

using your benchmark software alerted me to the fact that my host does not directly look up dns but proxies to my router to do so.  
(Version 0.9)

MRGLSMRC  to disambiguate:

this is merely a benchmarking utility distributed through google hosting.

this utility does not actually switch your dns server!  
(Version 0.9)

MRGLSMRC  i am a little nervous about software that switches my dns server written from an institution i don't know about.

i hope MU checked these people out. I have no particular reason to believe they might be russian mob installing malware on my machine. but can you be sure the new dns server is directing you to your bank or amazon instead of a cloned site?

if i knew how to check on that stuff this would interest me more as an application.  
(Version 0.9)

MRGLSMRC  the 64bit package for snow leopard is no good.

the unzipped package won't open because the BOM file is missing from it.

you should skip this download until you are notified of a fix!  
(Version 0.83)

MRGLSMRC  @sparrowhawk

thank you for explaining your point of view. i did not 'miss the point.' I simply disagree with you.

and in as much as the developer uses the word 'antivirus' in the title of his program it begs the question whether he does too.

my mail server screens for spam and incoming viruses as part of my service fees. it is the responsibility of windows users to protect their own machines whether or not they are my friends. i take reasonable precautions and so do they. if you are so worried about the security of your friends machines then perhaps you should send them a check directly for fifty dollars to protect themselves instead of wasting it on a antivirus program for the mac.

best regards  
(Version 1.1.1)

MRGLSMRC  to those who have added a sad face to my remark without a comment:

i have visited the developers website to research his application.

on his site there are zero examples of viruses which can attack a snow leopard mac.

i repeat :zero examples!

in fairness the developer offers numerous example of trojan malware that was installed from bit torrents in the guise of running serial number key crackers.

i will not use this as an opportunity to moralize. but i will speculate that attempting to monetize your software by selling only to software thieves is a poor long term strategy.  
(Version 1.1.1)

MRGLSMRC  unix based snow leopard machines are very secure. there is no justification for running antivirus software on them or spending fifty bucks to do so.

even clanAV which is free and available for the mac is unnecessary because most if not all clamAV virus definitions are for windows machines.

for the commenter who said he 'found something' with this application, i am not surprised you got a false positive because antivirus software which doesn't convince you of a non-existent threat won't sell.

there is however a definite need for windows based AV software for macusers running bootcamp. that's because your windows disk partition is NOT safe viruses like the mac partition is.

there are many useful ways to protect a mac that doesn't involve virus software. you should regularly eliminate tracking cookies. you should perform backups of your system startup disk. you should use passwords for merchants with strong encryption and these should be stored in a password protected database. you should not accept malware plugins to your browser from unknown sources.

all of these actions are more important than AV software that costs fifty bucks. unfortunately all of these actions require using your brain and while most people have fifty bucks to throw at imaginary problems, few of us really have the time to think and solve our own problems. that's a pity.  
(Version 1.1.1)

MRGLSMRC  why would any one with a degree in marketing name a software after a racist term for diarrhea?

did you just want to piss off latinos or do you keep a lot of beer in the office fridge? :0  
(Version 1.0)

MRGLSMRC  you dont seem to be reviewing saft, which is excellent. what you are reviewing is the price of a competing app.

and you haven't discussed a single feature.

saft uses simbl which is a haxie. not a secret readily available info.

i think you are just spamming for glims. glims never sells itself on its own merits but uses a fear close that its competitors are somehow less stable. i see this as a form of spamming which is why i responded here.

in fairness to glims i have not taken the time to review it but it must have some merits with so many vocal advocates. i cannot know how well written it is or how it changes the security of my browsing or os without giving it a run through. but saft is so safe and reliable that why should i bother?

you complain too much about the modest cost of saft. i like to know how the developer writing free software monetizes his product. how many poor rubes put limewire on their system and took major performance hits because of its little tricky hooks? there aint no free lunch and saft is damn cheap for what it does.

but mostly i do use omniweb over safari these days so i am less on top of the issue than i should be to write about it. but all this spamming for glims pisses me off. i don't trust such vacant enthusiasm.

one of the things i love about saft is the way it organizes downloads by daily folders. saft had private browsing and thumbnails before safari did. saft manages blocked ad servers extremely well. wheresoever safari goes saft leads the way.

i don't give a r@ts @$$ about glims. take it back to your school!  
(Version 12.0b2)

MRGLSMRC  actually you did not take your pills and you are not qualified to explain the law even in your imaginary law school for idiots.

apple's nda for snow leopard does not cover discussions of pathfinder behavior, troll.

and he was validating my problems under leopard not snow leopard but you went off on a tangent about inferences about whether he was a developer or a pirate without any info about it because you are an angry fool who cannot focus.

did you even try google earth before your rant because you complain about the installer and there isn't any installer presently?  
(Version 5.1.3506.3999)

MRGLSMRC  there is no installer in the current version of googleearth.

one just opens the disk image and drag the app to the app folder. no admin privileges are necessary to do that either.  
(Version 5.1.3506.3999)

MRGLSMRC  you complain a lot about high quality free software.

if you are such a good programmer why can you redirect the messages that 'phone home' to somewhere else like xxx.0.0.1 like all the other hackers do?

and what the hell do you know about homo sapiens? i read some of your rude abusive remarks where you accuse ordinary people of piracy every time you run out of medications!

so now you are mad at google too? was jesus unavailable?  
(Version 5.1.3506.3999)

MRGLSMRC  @cocoatech:

thank you for your courteous reply. MU did not inform me of your participation in this thread or I would have responded sooner. In the future I will repair to your support forum.

I am glad you offer some customers a long trial period. i doubt the maczot offer would stand that long though. i saw the app working on my machine and i believed the reviews so I bought your software in a timely way.

And I am sure that your 'caveat emptor' response to my complaints have little to do with your willingness to address the problems I outlined here and suspected are more universal than you suggest these are.

i am glad eldorado spoke up and validated my complaint and that you acknowledged some discussion of the issue at your forum. i do generally read support forum postings before i buy new software but i did not see this.

it is a pity some pit bull//sidewalk lawyer called eldorado rude names merely because he validated what i said. if he had the stones to deal with me directly he'd be walking funny by now.  
(Version 5.1.5)

MRGLSMRC  i am not sure some one is an 'ignorant' for accurately reporting a problem that you have not experienced.

moreover i took explicit care to describe my hardware platform upon whic the problem occurs so that it can be faithfully reproduced.

your hostile testimonial is somewhat vague. perhaps if you included your platform specifications some rube might be willing to gamble on an otherwise problematic pathfinder license.

i do hope you feel better now that you have vented yourself. perhaps you'll buy some useful internet medicine from china to grow the part of your body that you are clearly lacking.  
(Version 5.1.5)

MRGLSMRC  current link is not to correct version 6.5.5...instead it links to 6.5.3

apparently the new 6.5.5 is only for windows at present and MU is mis-informed :(  
(Version 6.5.5)

MRGLSMRC  D9 is right. the current version of osirus won't run in leopard after installation because the bundle won't load.  
(Version 1.1.6)

MRGLSMRC  friday is almost here. :)

http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#finder  
(Version 5.1.5)

MRGLSMRC  @sjk: i think your opinions stand on their own and I respect your right to have them although i clearly disagree with them.

it's a pity you chose to throw your lot in with MRJW34 in your criticism of my behavior. MRJW34 has not exactly taken the high road and I don't wish to engage him/whatever as his remarks about my presumed predilections for other software he/whatever doesn't like don't bear on a discussion of my pathfinder review.

I have documented my assertions as best I could and I am willing to make some noise about it. I came across my opinions authentically and I paid for the privilege of grousing about pathfinder. Bad reviews are gonna happen to bad software in a public forum nd these shouldn't look pretty. I have lived 8 years under a certain texan president so i am quite used to the tactic of shooting the messenger and ignoring the message. and if the messenger isn't assertive enough to be noticed it will be ignored anyway.

It was with some trepidation that i posted a bad review of pathfinder. i did wait almost a month to post it and i sat on my opinions until i was quite quite sure. it is not in my interests if cocoatech does not fix pathfinder because my review scorches the product. but i owe it others who read reviews here not to be conned and spammed by pathfinder evangelists into wasting their money on a BROKEN app.

pathfinder is an excellent proof of concept and a failed app.  
(Version 5.1.5)

MRGLSMRC  ok now for the bad news. i just rebooted my ipod and in spite of getting positive feedback from the dialog boxes using movement, none of my icons were moved.

movement has no effect on a ipod 2nd gen 32gb under os3 and red snow with cydia.  
(Version 1.1.2)

MRGLSMRC  i just used movement for the first time. it seems to work fine but I am still rebooting the ipod so i don't yet know if my springboard is munged.

i will say that movement is not entirely aware of what is going on in a jailbroken ipod. For instance on my ipod the apps are five apps wide, not the four apps wide per page displayed in movement. So at least for me and other users of boss paper, this is not a WYSIWG application.

Movement doesn't move apps at all just their representations in the springboard. I have some navigation apps from the itunes store that cannot be loaded into my ipod touch which has a external gps attached to it. itunes resists sending some iphone apps to ipods. I wish movement actually moved things not icons.  
(Version 1.1.2)

MRGLSMRC  @sjk : hi I know you :0 !

I made my remarks because I am quite angry to have wasted not a small amount of money on this app which has been hyped to death. I believed the hype and paid the money.

I gave a very detailed review of why I feel the way I do and if you do not wish to address the granularity of my remarks but prefer to focus on my angry tone, that's ok.

When a software developer hypes his awards for an app that is not stable and no one calls him out a little attention getting is in order at lest until he fixes the app and I have had it a while now.

Pathfinder is a good demonstration of a great concept and if you read my complete review I gave pathfinder 5 stars for features. But the problem is the app stinks and doesn't work right.

I did try it out but you can't discover this until you really use it. The reviewers I believe were also bamboozled -- at least I hope that's the situation because I would sure hate to think that so many respected people like Matt Neuberg are unreliable for some darker reason.

I am disappointed tohave wasted money and why should I let some other sucker be treated like a wanker as I have by pathfinder developers?  
(Version 5.1.5)

MRGLSMRC  i have a pathfinder license and have been using it sporadically for about a month. i upgraded to 5.15 this morning and have given it a run-through.

I wish pathfinder was as better program than it is. While it looks very pretty and practical after you customize it, i guarantee this application will have a negative effect on your productivity and file management workflow.

on my mac mini with 4gigs of ram running 10.5.8, pathfinder has to be force-quitted about every two hours and restarted because it becomes unresponsive. Maybe i have too many external drives for the application to handle--IDK-- but it is much worse than the osx finder.

Copying and installing files/ applications seems more sluggish seems more sluggish under pathfinder as well even though the app claims to be 64 bit--more advanced than 'leopard.'

Combined with the hangs this is a major annoyance. no onewants to wait for their finder to do things when there is other work to be done. it does not feel multithreaded even if it may be.

Lastly pathfinder does not sort displayed files as well as the osx finder does. try to find your latest download in the downloads folder by creation date and you're in for a rude shock because the sorted files are certainly not sorted in a way i can understand. when i use pathfinder i have to resort to an alpha sort--highly inefficient.

I bought pathfinder on a special deal offered at a portal a few weeks ago. i had read a positive review in mactidbits that swayed me. and pathfinder looks really nice until you get down to the brass tacks.

in conclusion save your pathfinder money and spend it on the snow leopard upgrade with a spanking new 64 bit finder that probably works much better than this. pathfinder is for wankers.  
(Version 5.1.5)

MRGLSMRC  a version of this package comes bundled with fujitsu scansnap printers. i have been using it for a while.

this newer product is for twain printers and digital cameras.--it can convert png files to pdf. i cannot therefore use it with my scanner and there is no upgrade path anyway.

when i bought my scanner 7 weeks ago i was promised a mail-in rebate upgrade to a full version of an additional scanning package from another company-- this hasn't happenned yet so i look forward to finding out the full capabilities of the fujitsu scanner.

but consideringing that abyy is selling a software now that is fairly comparable to my bundled software, you ought consider buying a bundled scanner instead of paying abyy the hundred dollars they want for this program.

there is nothing at the abyy site about version history or downloadable files so it is a bit hard to figure out.

what most impresses me about abyy is all the languages the ocr engine can handle and that these can be managed in preferences. I do wish i could use it for chess desktop publishing but that doesn't seem to be a choice. more's the pity because this is a russian product and if the russians wont support chess fonts in an ocr engine then who will? i don't think i will ever need to import pdfs into excel spreadsheets in languages like zapotec and turkmeni but these stupid options are available to me.  
(Version 8.0.0.2806)

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)