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I should have bestowed only 4 stars upon Cysgliad the joy of discovering a Welsh language app made me disregard the programs weaknesses: *In the dictionary, you have to type the words in full, pl+enter will just lead you to a nothing found. Had Cysgeir implemented a search-as-you-type function (like Apples Dictionary), typing pl would have revealed _pla_ plague immediately. *The dictionary neither shows mutated nor plural forms of nouns. This is a severe drawback, especially if the dictionary is to be used by non-Welsh speakers. (Verbal/prepositional paradigms for each looked-up verb/preposition would also be v. nice, but that is perhaps to much to ask?) Otherwise, the positive comments of my first review prevail! :-) |
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Cysgliad is actually a bundle of two independent applications: *Cysgeir, which is a searchable Welsh/English (bidirectional) dictionary *Cysill, a Welsh spell checker I do not write (coherent) Welsh, so I cannot comment on the usefulness/reliability of Cysill I misspelt a couple of Welsh words in the text field, and it seems to work like any other decent spell checker. Cysgeir is a unique collection of 12 digitalized dictionaries. Most modern-day Welsh and/or English words can be found, from spheres as various as archaeology and child care. This is one of the best free offline dictionary applications Ive seen; a joy for any lover of the Welsh language, and a useful tool (I guess) for those who have to switch between English and Welsh in their everyday lives. A culturally important language like Welsh deserves our respect and attention. I wish to congratulate the developers, and hope that other minority languages will soon receive a similar digital boost. |
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WOW! :-D Just one function away from 5 stars: Make it (optional to) show the cursor when zoomed. I hoped to be able to use this app for graphical niggling; now its just for viewing |
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This is a sad day for Tiger users. |
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(Sure, but learning foreign language colour names by clicking on the actual colours would be something novel. I think you should give it a try in a future edition...) |
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The free version is nice, but it is rather limited when comes to usefullness, as you can only see three "generations" at a time. This makes it very hard to supervise anything but the most minuscule charts. Sure, you can click your way throughem, but you miss the "birds perspective" which is really needed if you want to find unexpected connections between ideas. I must admit the price of the paid version is a ... no-brainer. I cant think of any other app where the leap from "free" to "share" is that steep. |
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Will you please add support for different languages? If you could choose between installed lang. files from a drop-down menu, that would be great too. Then we could even use ColorNamePicker as a tool for learning foreign language colour names! |
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This seems great, but how do I install it? I have run the installer a couple of times, but the Dictionary application is unchanged. :-( |
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Anyone thinking this is a vector drawing application like DrawBerry or Inkscape should be warned: It isnt. It is a bitmap drawing app, which nonetheless has the option to use a vector line as an on-screen delimiter of an actual pixel figure. (It is like creating a [physical world] tile mosaic within the wavy bonds of an encircling rope.) Nonetheless, the lite version is a decent (bitmap) drawing application. It relies heavily on an insert menu, from which different shapes can be selected a kind of collage wizard. This makes it easy to use for the newcomer, but more bossy and less flexible to those accustomed to SeaShore, PhotoShop, etc. That being said, DrawIt Lite has some strength in creating custom bitmap shapes. I think Ill keep it, and use it to create stars and the like, which can then be easily copy-pasted into SeaShore or a text document. |
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This isnt a vector app in the proper sense. Therefore, it cannot possibly export as .svg. When you choose insert vector, it just uses a vector line to delimit a bitmap figure. Try increasing the zoom level, and youll see all the clumsy pixels |
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Thank you for your kind reply. I’m not really angry! :-) I realize it is only a question of time till every developer will do like you. Till then I will happily continue using Tiger, and unhappily have to live without your most interesting application. If I knew more about programming, I would remove the superfluous code and make a Tiger version for my own use. I see that the differences between Tiger and Leopard are more complex than I thought. (Not just superficial things like Spaces and a transparent menu bar.) |
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Nice and handy! Loses one star for being an AppleScript, though. ASs are slower to execute than ordinary applications. The icon could also be more elaborate, but thats no big deal. subidoo does its job, and it does it rather well. |
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Thank you KKNOPP for the warning below. I have always been a fan of PTHPasteboard, but now I will keep the old version until the developer has realized the sense of your message, and removed the nagware. (I post this as an independent comment to give the anti-nagware lobbying some weight.) |
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Thank you. But that one’s java... Almost easier to draw it by hand... :-/ |
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(Here I go again) Is there any technical reason this app is Leopard-only? I mean, it looks simple and cocoa-esque, so why this limitation? If it has anything to do with Spaces, or Leopard Preview, or TimeMachine is there a file or a line in the pref file I can delete to make it work in Tiger? Sorry for this double rant, but I think it would be crazy to buy Leopard just to get a free mind mapping app |
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Please make this app available for Tiger users There are a lot of us still! |
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Thank you so much that this is still available for Tiger users! |
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This application is perfect. Everyone should try it out. Proxi has allowed me to automate my system the way _I_ want. Most other system additions give me the feeling of _me_ being directed instead. Because of Proxi Ive deleted Automator and several small one-trick ponies, thus saving a lot of HD space. Keep working on this, developers! |
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Wish I had this some years ago, when I spent several hours correcting signs in my text files which had mysteriously morphed after being transferred from a pc to a mac. Sigh. :-) |
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Thank you developer for this recent update! The program is quite close to perfection now. The only thing I still miss is the possibility to save notes when closing them And maybe a (thumbnail) note browser with all categories |
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Had this been Pet Year Calculator, Id download it Not much help for cat aficionados here And arent there some rules for calculating ages for horses, rabbits, parrots too? |
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I found a bug in WW 1.5 related to non-US keyboards. However, I dont know how to contact the developer, as he leaves no contact info on his homepage. Can anyone help me? |
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Nice. I do not know a word of Chinese, but finally I can add sound to all those mute internet adds (_) Unless you have a CJK keyboard/typing device it is a bit hard to use, though. I picked random signs from the Systems floating Unicode palette (click the flag on your menubar), and discovered that Pinyin Dictionary only covers the mere basics. If you input some sign from the extended sign blocks, like "CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20021" (𠀡), the program yields nothing. I guess actual readers and learners of Chinese script will give this app their thumbs up. Lets wait and see (A final wish: Why not include IPA transscription as well? That would be a perfect way to learn Mandarin. [I assume the program gives the Mandarin pronunciation of the signs, though it does not explicitly says so which it definitely should!]) |
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A good idea with a long way to go before perfection is achieved. First of all, hierarchical browsing through all the folders on one’s computer in order to find image folders is very clumsy and un-mac-ish. Other apps have niceties like ”add folder” buttons and drang-and-drop. (Perhaps even a ”Scan harddisc for image files” menu could be useful.) Secondly, most people do not remember pictures by colours, but rather by things like, I guess, buildings, who were on that particular photo, was it a group portrait or a depiction of a landscape etc. I recognize that a program that can analyze the facial traits of photographed persons and group shots of similar individuals together may be a bit out of scope here, but at least it ought to be possible to do shape-based sortings like: *images with predominant vertical/horizontal elements *images with one central dark element *images with several scattered dark elements etc. But keep up the good work and this may some day revolutionize the way we sort images! |
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It would be wonderful if it were possible to select another screensaver for your desktop than the one appearing as your actual screensaver! Watching the same thing when you take a break as you just saw while you were working, is a bit boring |
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Well, searching does not work on my computer. Keeping the welcome entry (which contains the words This is a portable application.), a search for the word this returns just the same as a search for the word alien: nothing. The screen even stays the same. (No Nothing was found message.) The search field menu also has the custom of jumping back to ✓Entry after I have searched once for ✓Content. Paps it works fine on Leopard. I still use Tiger. |
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The search function does not work properly. Indeed, with only one diary entry, it doesnt work at all. |
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most ingenious ones. People may laugh and say So what? Its just a menu! but someone had to breathe life into this idea. Works like a charm. When I combine it with CornerClick ( http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12413/cornerclick ), all I have to do is to click the menus corner to get uncluttered access to all those small icons The only thing lacking is a way to hide the Menuola icon from the doc Menuola is worth 5 stars, but I give it only 4 for now, to encourage the developer to think about what I just wrote ;-) |
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Dear M. Developer! Could you please make it an option to auto-hide the cursor on launch? That little black fly of Apples bugs the lamp effect ;-) |
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I was looking for something like this. What a pity, then, that its dependent on PhotoShop, which I dont have. How about a stand-alone app? |
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Why would anyone want to download Adobe Reader when Skim has many more functions and runs smoother? |
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This is cool, and it would be useful if you could actually USE it for something: to create ASCII art. It ought to be possible to pause the movie, e.g. by a mouse-click, and then copy the text string. Or even open a non-movie (image file) and see/copy it as ASCII. |
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To the developer: Can you please make a Sporktris widget? |
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This is the most beautiful version of Tetris Ive ever seen. No irritating melodies, no robotic feel to the graphics. (If you want that, try Quinn.) Pure _recreation_ for the mind. |
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Bellissimo! |
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Im probably biased since I only write in Latin-script languages But even if I never have to analyse Chinese texts, its quite fun (is that the word??) to see how many es, ss etc. a text contains. Gives you at least some orthographic perspective. If it were drop-and-drag, Id give CaraCaraC one more star. Now its open-file-mark-text-copy-to-clipboard-open-CaraCaraC-scan-clipboard, which isnt that elegant. |
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Its not working on my MacBook (Nov. 2006, newest OS) either :-( |
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Tak for en sjov widget! :-) (I assume you know some Danish, since your blog address ends in .dk) Just one wish: Make it an option to turn off those dumb remarks by the Fruit Machine. They sound worse than good old HAL (A Space Odyssey). Argh! |
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No, I havent tried the original TR 606. I see your point A lator (emu-/simu-) is a lator |
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This app should be universal, but works quite OK with Rosetta on Intel macs. This is a VERY basic drum machine, where you highlight the beats on a single line. When playing, a loading bar roams across the screen. It looks lousy. (But hey, its the sound that matters, right?) My main objection is: when you switch instrument, there is NO WAY to see which beats are being played by other instruments. The beat line simply becomes unmarked again. If you for example want two instruments to play at the same beat, you have to guess where that beat is or use your ear really good. This could have been acceptable in a PC program, but on a Mac Id expect something graphically more advanced. Sorry. Try MrDrum or Breakage, theyre free too. |
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You can even do the same and lots more with TinkerTool. Check it out! |
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Not of much use unless you are an expert of Mayan or a medieval-minded modern-day Maya. But five stars for the historical value and the great fun! :-) |
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This program has some interesting features. The box makes it easy to overlook all your notes, even those not stored on the desktop. It is also nice that you have the possibility to doodle on your sheets, and to bring a note to the front of your screen at a specific time (the alarm function). On the other hand, the SketchBox notes are ugly (neon rather than pastel colours; small flags extending from the left side of the note, even when another app is active) and lack the simplicity of Apples Stickies. In the physical world I prefer the pale yellow quadratic PostIt notes to those in heart-shaped ones in screaming orange etc. Thus I stick to Stickies. |
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A decent little app. Doesnt do much; for more advanced drawing, people should download Seashore. However, if you just want to make a quick sketch, its perfect. |
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This program has improved a lot (incl. a lasso tool!), so I will modify my original harsh review a bit. However, I do think that the app was launched to the public too early. |
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The screenshot made me think that this was an app to create system-wide hovering notes, of the kind that appears when you hold your cursor (unclicked!) a couple of seconds above certain spots (like the buttons in Firefox, or the Start button in Windows). Id love to be able to create a reminder note that appeared each time my cursor hovered above the HD icon But no. This program is just another Stickies program. And the BAD thing is that the Sheets (= stickies with one pointing corner) just vanish when you quit the main window. Even when you keep the program running in the background, close a sheet and reopen it, the program seems to have trouble to remember the original position of your reopened sheet. This program adds no functionality that you cant get with Apples stickies or alternatives such as SideNote. Dont waste your time. |
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A paint program with no useable lasso tool? No way. Better download SeaShore. |
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Widget-to-Desktop doesnt cooperate very well with Virtual Dashboard (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22751/virtual-dashboard). When I switch from one dashboard to another, the W-t-D function vanishes, and I have to launch W-t-D again. Could you fix this somehow? |
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Oh, there is a Launcher icon in the .dmg... Now everything works fine! (You just have to be aware that the package itself won't install the Launcher onto your harddrive...) |
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The problem is that SuperTuxKart installs itself as an X11-only program; you have to type a code in the X11 terminal. Now, this code doesn't seem to work on my computer... And I have no idea how to find the SuperTuxKart files, so that I can remove those 30 MB; a search for "SuperTuxKart" yields no results... Until the developer includes an uninstaller, I will dissuade other users from downloading this "game". |
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Using Dockless (which works fine on Intel macs, despite being a ppc app), I've been able to solve the problem. |
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Hi, I really like this app. However, it should be possible to exclude items of your choice from the menu. Right now I'm using several "decoration" programs like MenuShade (search it here on MacUpdate), and it is really irritating that it appears as an icon whenever I start Think. :-/ |
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