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Real Name:David Wallace
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Last Login:17 Feb 2008 06:03
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 14 Apr 2008 17:55
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File downloaded from the "Download Now" link says it is version 3.1.3 from 6 Feb 08. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Feb 2008 00:08
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Nifty; I don't want junk in the dock either and I do use the "Backup Now" option fairly often each day for backing up development directories. Dashboard is active in the LH screen corner, so zip-click from anywhere and that's done. My *nix days go back to PARC and this is just the sort of widget that GUIs are good for. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Feb 2008 06:37
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Marketing Droid to YazSoft CEO: "Well, that went off OK, I think." Rare to see someone load their software company into a Porsche and ram it into a cliff-face. |
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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 25 Jan 2008 05:47
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Go into Preferences and turn off "Shut Down When Finished" . |
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Type: Comments
Date: 18 Jul 2007 07:07
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That is a remarkably good selection of software to bundle together. I currently own Graphic Converter, Little Snitch and Amadeus Pro and use them daily, and used Techtool and Fetch years ago in pre Powermac days. Garagesale would have been handy for my last lot of eBay sales and I don't have a drawing app, so Intaglio was welcome. PhotoPresenter, Cocktail and ProfCast will probably end up being used, but the real sleeper is iWOW. iTunes has always been pretty dull, even with the Equaliser active, but iWOW really makes it boogie. I'd never even heard of it before, so that's another benefit of the bundle. My thanks again - an excellent range of very useful apps and at an unbelievable price. |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 12 Jun 2007 20:37
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Previous version failed with the Safari 3 Beta and 0.9.2 won't work either. Just have the blue box, no input box, no information "i" etc. I've completely removed the previous version, plists and so on. (Great little widget, use it a lot.) |
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Type: Review
Date: 13 Jun 2006 19:05
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DDU is one of the most useful widgets I've got. I have used DDU since it was first released as a normal app, have never had a problem with it and it has always worked flawlessly. I like the way clicking on the station name brings up the BOM regional results and from there, easy access to the regional and state forecasts. Along with Tide Widget this is a must have for anyone who goes fishing or boating. Good one guys! |
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Type: Review
Date: 23 May 2006 19:22
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The good news is that it is the *only* word processing app I've ever used that can open complex Word docs without a single part being out of place. I'd given up trying to use converters as they all failed on several particular docs. Not this one. The drawing and presentation apps are excellent as well. Base is fairly useless at this stage, but the groundwork is there. (I'm a db prorammer by trade.) The db connectivity is glacially slow and it doesn't seem to like opening dBase and other formats. Native MS Access compatability would make it a killer Mac app as there is no real equivalent on the Mac platform - which is why a lot of companies have to use PCs given the ubiquitousness of Access these days. It seems to be very stable, and the interface is beautifully done. As a Mac app it is very nice to use. On the down side, overall it is very sluggish starting up and in loading docs and spreadsheets etc. The screen updating is jerky and slow and saving docs seems to take an inordinately long time. (Word/Excel run like lightning in comparison. (iMac G5 2.1 with 1.5gb RAM) The size of the app is a worry as well. My full install of MS Office uses 216mb - NeoOffice uses 319mb. This is an alpha release and it can only get better in the next year or so. As others have mentioned, it is the only viable alternative to MS Office for workplace compatability/use and despite the slowness and lack of some useful features it's great even now. Up the speed, cut the bloat and get the db side working and it has the potential to wipe Office from the workplace. AND IT"S FREE! |
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Type: Review
Date: 6 Apr 2006 19:01
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Just the thing. Works very well and even has the inner harbour tides for the city I live in - great for working out the time to hit high tide with the kayak and avoid a forty minute drive to find hundreds of yards of mud flats. The latest version fixes the loading delay which was a minor problem. As mentioned in another review, this is what widgets should be about; simple, excellent design and interface, works well, useful and free. |
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Type: Review
Date: 22 Mar 2006 21:31
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Simply brilliant. In fact I like it better than the commercial version. It's fast, simple, configurable and it's worked without problems since the first release. One of those apps like MacSoup for news that just fits perfectly with the way I work. And a big thanks for making it free! |
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