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About simonm Posts:16 Last Login:15 Jul 2008 23:55

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Sente 5.6.3 Type: Comments Date: 15 Jul 2008 23:58

Although you get an initial generous 30 day trial period, after this has expired you can no longer assess future versions of the software! How can we test out new features if the developer won't allow us to trial the software again???

Menu Eclipse 1.3 Type: Comments Date: 9 Jul 2008 05:39

PS If you really like a dark theme and don't mind your colours being screwed up, there's a really easy way to get it without any applications or any risk to the system...simply invert the screens colours! I really like it except for when I have to do anything with colour... Simultaneously press Cmd+Ctrl+Optn+8 Try it!

Menu Eclipse 1.3 Type: Comments Date: 9 Jul 2008 03:29

Unless you can change the colour of text labels in the menu bar, there really isn't much point in darkening it as you're just reducing contrast and making it harder to read. If you want a dark theme you really need lighter text to make it work...

Microsoft Office 2008 12.1 Type: Comments Date: 13 May 2008 13:37

I've found Office 2008 to be generally quicker with a much improved interface over 2004. I'm on a first-gen MacBook Pro (2 years old) so not exactly the latest hardware. As much as I'd love to use Numbers, it's not exactly ready for prime-time. Until then, Office 2008 will be my tools of choice until the next version of iWork.

Pixelmator 1.2 Type: Review Date: 11 May 2008 16:59 Features: Ease of Use: Value: Stability:

Simply one of the best Mac apps around! It's lightning fast, stable, intuitive, has a gorgeous interface and has plenty of features including well implemented layers and masks and core image filters that update in real time so you don't have to apply to see the result. It has a great user support forum as well. It's apps like these that are the reason I own a Mac. 6 stars!

Lineform 1.5 Type: Review Date: 11 May 2008 04:14 Features: Ease of Use: Value: Stability:

Lineform handles svg importing quite well, but it's useability and intuitiveness are quite poor in my opinion. Particularly working with layers, the symbolisation in the layers window, isolation mode etc are all quite confusing. Selecting a layer doesn't select it in the editor. Also, there is no way to specify a canvas size in pixels. I wish the speed and SVG capability could marry with the useability, layout and intuitiveness of DrawIt...Unfortunately there is no lite vector editor that fulfills all these at the moment...

GraphicConverter X 6.1 Type: Review Date: 28 Apr 2008 15:19 Features: Ease of Use: Value: Stability:

It's kind of sad to see this aged software still trying to cling to life. It still looks and feels like an OS 9 app. This software has been well-and-truly trounced by the fantastic Pixelmator in the light image editor category. To the developer...please let it die with dignity...it's had it's time and should be remembered fondly...not like a gollum living beyond its years greedily trying to trick people into giving up their gold.

MPFreaker 1.7.4 Type: Review Date: 21 Apr 2008 06:31 Features: Ease of Use: Value: Stability:

As of 1.7.4 MPFreaker does not recognise songs that have their art stored in the iTunes Album Art folder as having art. It only recognises them if they have art in the file. This is of no use for any iTunes 7 users (and lets face it iTunes 7 has been out for a while). The other features work OK but most people will want this to fill in their album artwork and for that reason you don't wanna touch for fear of replacing decent art downloaded from iTunes with inferior versions from the net.

RapidWeaver 3.6.6 Type: Hint/Tip Date: 1 Apr 2008 20:02

For 5 times the price Freeway 4 Pro would want to have a few extra features!!! Honestly, for creating simple, good-looking websites on the run, you really can't go past RapidWeaver! There are plenty of commercial websites out there that could use a RW makeover! Hunt around for a really good theme and get the free plug-ins and you can really do quite a lot.

Elements 2.1 Type: Comments Date: 10 Mar 2008 06:49

Is good, but it has a few minor inconsistencies with the latest IUPAC rulings on atomic weights (generally last digits or missing digits). Sorry but as a periodic table it's the first thing I'd check and the last thing you'd expect them to miss. Not that they're likely to affect calculations.

JMP 7.0.2 Type: Comments Date: 26 Feb 2008 11:12

I downloaded the JMP 7 trial and it IS a Universal binary. It's just the MacUpdate page incorrectly lists it as PPC. I used JMP in my introductory stats course and found it easy to use (easier than SPSS) though now that I've used SPSS 16 I wouldn't go back to JMP, even though SPSS is a little slow and clunky in some ways it makes really nice, professional graphs and tables, which is what I mainly need.

OmniOutliner Pro 3.6.4 Type: Comments Date: 26 Feb 2008 00:08

This is one of 3 programs from Omni that do variations on the same theme (the others being OmniPlan and OmniFocus). Seems to me (and from what I've heard about excessive upgrade prices) that they're really only out there to make money. I can't believe they still try to charge for a web browser! Who would pay that? Their programs are OK but way over-priced. It wouldn't take a talented Mac programmer too long to make a similar app as this. I haven't seen it do anything I really need anyway.

aMSN 0.97 Type: Review Date: 7 Feb 2008 09:22 Features: Ease of Use: Value: Stability:

aMSN has gone downhill! It seems the latest version is considerably less stable than the last time I tried it a year ago! It crashes whenever you select the Help menu item (done by accident sometimes) is sluggish isn't sending authorisation notifications when adding a contact. It's clearly a bad port of a PC program, which is disappointing because it's the only option for video chat with MSN contacts on the Mac at present.

Yahoo! Messenger 3.0b2.78326 Type: Comments Date: 31 Jan 2008 08:05

Seems to no longer work with MSN contacts. Slow pace of development leads me to consider an alternative client.

iMap 3.5 Type: Review Date: 18 Jun 2007 07:10 Features: Ease of Use: Value: Stability:

I don't know how anyone can claim this app as "powerful". I'm a geographer that uses ESRI ArcMap all day and this app is so basic it's useless for anything except plotting a bunch of points or displaying a vector map or raster image. Bundling a freely available composite satellite image as a "feature" is very poor form. This product might be worth 3o bucks if you've got a GPS. $199 is a joke.

AC3 Codec X 0.3 Type: Comments Date: 2 Jun 2007 01:20

Doesn't seem to let me open .ac3 audio only files. QT claims an unrecognised file format.

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