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Real Name:Terence Devlin

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MeshWrite	May 3 2009	TDEV Six months later I re-downloaded this app to see how things have progressed. The price has fallen significantly. There is still no search of any kind. It is designed by people who seem to have never used a Mac in their lives. There are no standard keyboard shortcuts. There are no keyboard shortcuts of any kind. They don’t seem to understand what every other Mac application in the known universe does with the Preferences. They have not figured out what the escape key is for They have lovely mysterious commands in the menus that do nothing: More Lines or Less Lines anyone? They have a bug ugly implementation of Full Screen. Obviously the makers of this app have spent no time researching basic Mac formats and commands. They’ve certainly never researched the competition who make better apps for less cost. (Version 1.1.0)		+5
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MeshWrite

May 19 2009

ANONYMOUS Hi TDEV,

Apologies for your problems.

We were forced to re-evaluate how we supported Windows as it was impacting main development. Contrary to your belief, we are mainly Mac folks. We decided to cease supporting the development

of the text rendering engine on Windows that allowed Windows users to have nice looking fonts. I guess if they want really nice fonts now they should just move to a Mac ;-)

This unfortunately required a major refactoring of the core text engine on the Mac but has had benefits. The main costs of doing this were being hit by a lack of new features for a while and the retrograde step of the keyboard shortcuts then failing.

Our aim is to provide a useful application for people and we have mainly been responding to users that have used the Suggestions/Feedback option within MeshWrite and on the web page rather than trying to follow all online forums (due to the workload of the new text engine).

I really do apologise for your frustration.

We have now released 1.1.5 that contains keyboard shortcuts for most operations. I hope this goes some of the way to easing your frustration.

We are now working on the search - It's next, I promise.

As a direct result of your post we have renamed the "More Lines / Less Lines" menu options to

Smaller Text on Page (More Lines)

Bigger Text on Page (Less Lines)

MeshWrite is page/paper based so you choose how many lines you want on your page just like lined paper. (40 lines Lgeal / 80 lines A4, etc).

Please don't hesitate to bounce suggestions to us via the menu option in the application or on our web page http://meshwrite.com/suggestions.php as all constructive suggestions will help us to produce a more useful application. We are listening.

We are a small team with limited resources and I thank all of our customers who have helped us to push MeshWrite this far. We look forward to supporting all of you in the future.

Also, if anyone wants to chat direct via Twitter I'm there as http://twitter.com/mikemesh please just ask me anything and I'll do my best to respond.
(Version 1.1.4)

MeshWrite	May 3 2009	TDEV . (Version 1.1.0)		-1
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Tags	Mar 31 2009	TDEV I’m not sure how these guys claim to support tagging in iPhoto. If you apply the tag with this app it is not searchable in iPhoto If you search using Tags for a tag applied to a pic in iPhoto it finds the photo... in the Finder, not in iPhoto and opens it in... Preview. Searching through the iPhoto Library via the Finder is dangerous and can easily lead to a corrupted Library. You shouldn’t do it. And these guys shouldn’t claim to support iPhoto, or any form of Photo tagging. Their tags are not complaint with Photo standards. They cannot be written to the file on export from iPhoto. The app is unaware of and does not support IPTC standards. This app may do a lot of things, but it doesn’t “work natively” with iPhoto. It doesn’t work with it at all. (Version 1.2)		+1
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Tags

May 24 2009

DOOBIEXX This app is by far the best tagging app. One click and you easily apply tags to anything from websites to finder windows. Not sure about your problem before with iphoto as I don't use it but iphoto has it's own tagging system.... I think if you contact the dev your problems will be fixed. Don't quit on tags!! It's very intuitive and powerful.
(Version 1.2)

Paper Pilots Screensaver	Oct 25 2008	TDEV Cuter than a basket full of bunnies (Version 1.006)		+3
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MeshWrite	Oct 22 2008	TDEV Poor support for standard keyboard shortcuts - none listed at all in the non-standard menus and while apple-n will get a new notepad, apple-w does nothing, apple-f gets you to full screen not find... oh, that’s because there’s no Find. So, if you have an idea, you better remember it because there’s no way to search in this app. Non standard close dialogues - transparency wow! - makes you wonder if these folks have spent any time on a Mac. But you know, lined paper! For $13 LESS you can buy CircusPonies Notebook and that has lined paper too... and searches as well as a whole lot more. (Version 1.0)		+4
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	Apr 6 2008	TDEV I wonder if Mariner or Dan Schrimpf have seen the icon for this thing. (Version 2.0)		0
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