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Kitty Spangles Solitaire
Jul 3 2008
*****

TIDESHARK  I don't write many reviews, but Kitty Spangles Solitaire (KSS) deserves one.

It's an excellent solitaire game with all the major games including Klondike, Freecell, and Spider with plenty of variations for each. It's graphics are nice, and the window resizes brilliantly. It auto-saves your game, so you can quit any time and come back whenever.

The statistics are neat. I've (supposedly) played over 200 hours. It's nice that some game variations are longer than others. Basic instructions are included in-game for each variation. Autocompletion works as intended and saves you a bunch of "housework" when you've essentially already won. It updates via Sparkle too.

Annoyances: the time counts down even when KSS isn't the active window, only one card style (cartoonish, would prefer one or two more to choose from in the preferences), and wish the new hand button and keyboard shortcut would display a (optional) warning.

Definitely worth the cost. Hours of solid entertainment, way more than those silly arcade games (e.g., Bejeweled). Casual Mac gaming at its finest. I just wish they made a Hearts game too. Two thumbs up!  
(Version 3.7.1)

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Apple Mac OS X
Nov 15 2007

TIDESHARK  Try removing TabStop or SIMBL if you have those installed. Deleting those fixed Safari on my Mac.  
(Version 10.5.1)

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Mori
Aug 22 2007

TIDESHARK  I agree with the original poster. I bought this application awhile ago, and I'm happy with it, but it's a dead product. I wouldn't currently recommend it to anyone.

It's unfortunate to see it got sold to "Apokalypse Software." What kind of name is that for a Mac development shop? The Web site design has been ruined, and the posts on the once-active forum have come to complete stop. It sounds like it got sold to a kid living in his parent's basement.

The developer promised a major new update (1.7) in late June, and there's still nothing in sight besides a bulleted list of features supposedly behing worked on.

If you're looking for note-taking software that shows some promise of active development/community, look elsewhere.

It's a shame. It was headed towards being a fantastic application.  
(Version 1.6.3)

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XMac
Aug 7 2007

TIDESHARK  I have X11 installed, and it doesn't work for me. I wish the developer luck though, this is a much-needed application.  
(Version 0.1b)

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XMac
Aug 7 2007

VM  If you want come to the forum and I can try to help you get it working. http://www.siriusmac.com/forum  
(Version 0.1b)

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TextMate
Aug 25 2006

TIDESHARK  Your review is misleading.

Tabs can be created automatically by dragging 2+ documents to the icon.

Any FTP editor can be used that complies with the ODB Editor Suite:

http://macromates.com/wiki/Main/TextMateAwarePrograms  
(Version 1.5.3)

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