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Real Name:Whit Gurley 
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WaterThumber
Jan 13 2009
****.

WHIT_G  Bought this during the MU Promo. Great little app, makes quick web resizing much easier than dealing with Photoshop for that task. There are just a few things I'd like to see improved:

- Why force me to drop entire folders of images onto the selection window? I don't see the logic there. Let me drag whatever I want onto it.

- Have to manually delete images that have been processed, and by clicking a button to boot (i.e., can't just use the Delete key). This is tedious when you have several individual batches of images to process. I would prefer an option to automatically clear the list each time.

- Regardless of whether you've saved your session, the destination location resets once you clear your images. Again, I don't see the logic in forcing this - if I want the destination to be a sub-folder in the same directory, I'll just leave that field alone, but if I change it then I want it to stay changed for the duration of my session.

- Key commands! Why do I have to use the mouse for nearly every function?

- Just an opinion here: EXIF data should be preserved by default. It takes very little space and people who accidentally delete it can never get it back.  
(Version 2.0.1)

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iSquint
Dec 8 2008

WHIT_G  You can't "undo" poor video quality - once it's been compressed to any quality level, it will always be that level. If you didn't keep your originals, I'm afraid you're out of luck.  
(Version 1.5.2)

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Perian
Dec 8 2008

WHIT_G  It's online now, I guess the server was just having issues: http://www.perian.org  
(Version 1.1.2)

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Nokia Multimedia Transfer
Jul 9 2008
****.

WHIT_G  This software is *awesome*. I just got my first Nokia phone and was pleasantly surprised to discover that Nokia really helps me sync with my phone in a reasonable, hack-less way. I'm very impressed.

The only thing that knocks it down a star is that the smattering of photos that I put into an album in iPhoto that are intended to go on the phone end up in a web of sub-folders on the phone's memory card that mimic iPhoto's library directory structure. This makes the gallery a colossal pain to navigate through (and finding what you want requires that you know what year you added the photo to your iPhoto library), rendering it useless to "flip through" as you would if you were showing photos to a friend. I can't imagine why the Nokia software isn't programmed to cull them into a single folder.

I'm not seeing any evidence on the web that others are getting this problem, so it's possible that this problem is limited to my XpressMusic 5310.  
(Version 1.3)

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TimeNet
Jun 25 2008

WHIT_G  And that was worth giving an otherwise decent application ONE star? I don't think TimeNet is for me (I'm currently evaluating invoice/billing managers), but it's clearly worth more than that. If you haven't given it enough of a chance to make a fair evaluation, post a comment, not a rating.  
(Version 3.9.14)

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UnPlugged
May 29 2008

WHIT_G  No, it doesn't appear to be.  
(Version 1.8)

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UnPlugged
May 28 2008

WHIT_G  Same result here - I just upgraded to Leopard (10.5.3) and UnPlugged does nothing. I've tried opening the pref pane and clicking "start." No dice. "Start on Login" is also selected, no change after reboot.  
(Version 1.8)

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AcidSearch
May 24 2008

WHIT_G  Grrrrr... I would love to attempt this, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get my hands on v.7b3, and v.7b4 is making Safari inoperable (it seems to load but won't bring any windows up). Any idea how I can download 7b3? I've tried manipulating URLs both at the developer's site and the 7b4 download site.  
(Version 0.7b4)

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iMOnTime
Apr 18 2008

WHIT_G  Since the previously mentioned features are now implemented, I'm going to post another feature request: customizable color labels for reminders (a la iCal) that allow you to quickly discern routine reminders from special events when viewing the calendar. The more I visit the calendar, the more I'm wishing it had this. Still loving this software! The editable reminders are awesome.  
(Version 3.0.4)

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AcidSearch
Apr 16 2008

WHIT_G  I spoke too soon - another bug seems to be that the menu also pops up when I hit the space bar. Unfortunately, that means I can't use it, since the majority of my internet searches contain more than one term. :(  
(Version 0.7b3)

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AcidSearch
Apr 16 2008

WHIT_G  Interesting - I was about to report, after reinstalling, that it still doesn't work, but what I just discovered is that it does work if I use the Enter key to activate my search. If I hit Return, it just toggles the search engine drop-down menu, as though I was clicking the search icon. I'd definitely rather deal with a small bug than not have the software at all!  
(Version 0.7b3)

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AcidSearch
Feb 27 2008

WHIT_G  I miss this add-on every day! Is there any hope of an update, or should I stop checking this page? I see no indication from the author here or on his site that he's working on a fix for Safari 3.  
(Version 0.7b3)

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AcidSearch
Feb 27 2008

MACUPDATE ADMIN  At the developer site there is no email address available to contact the developer, however there is a form you can use:

http://www.pozytron.com/acidsearch/bugs

Maybe you can get info that way.  
(Version 0.7b3)

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AcidSearch
Apr 15 2008

TYPER91563  0.7b3 works for me on Safari 3.1, system 10.4.11 (with a couple quirks). Or, have you tried going back to 0.62?

I just got a response from the developer because I made a small donation but he didn't mention how much time (if any) he's spending on it. If you send me a private message I'll give you his new email address (I don't want to put it on the web without his permission.)

My dream: AcidSearch for Camino-->the ultimate solution to the multiple-browser question!  
(Version 0.7b3)

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AcidSearch
Apr 16 2008

WHIT_G  Interesting - I was about to report, after reinstalling, that it still doesn't work, but what I just discovered is that it does work if I use the Enter key to activate my search. If I hit Return, it just toggles the search engine drop-down menu, as though I was clicking the search icon. I'd definitely rather deal with a small bug than not have the software at all!  
(Version 0.7b3)

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AcidSearch
Apr 16 2008

WHIT_G  I spoke too soon - another bug seems to be that the menu also pops up when I hit the space bar. Unfortunately, that means I can't use it, since the majority of my internet searches contain more than one term. :(  
(Version 0.7b3)

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AcidSearch
May 24 2008

RALPHEROO  With AcidSearch 0.7b3 I just found a solution to the spacebar/return key bug.

In the AcidSearch Preferences -> Options pane there is there is an empty box for:-

Key to Show Search Channels Menu : [ ]

If this is set to nothing then Spacebar and Return bring up the window. If you set this to a key combination then it frees up Spacebar to actually type a space and the Return key submits the request rather than having to use the Enter key.

Hope this helps. I was just about to deinstall it. However when I first installed 0.7b3 this key press box was sort of hiding behing the Default Channel pulldown menu but after a while it appeared in its proper place at the bottom. Maybe it was reading corrupted settings from my previous 0.62 installation?

Ralph  
(Version 0.7b4)

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AcidSearch
May 24 2008

WHIT_G  Grrrrr... I would love to attempt this, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get my hands on v.7b3, and v.7b4 is making Safari inoperable (it seems to load but won't bring any windows up). Any idea how I can download 7b3? I've tried manipulating URLs both at the developer's site and the 7b4 download site.  
(Version 0.7b4)

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AcidSearch
Jun 22 2008

HOLYPOLY  Funny - I've got the same problem as whit_g with 0,7b4 and Safari 3.1.1 under 10.4.11 on an Intel machine. Safari launches but no window loads, and Command-N does nothing. Opening a new tab forces a new window to come up with a strangly distorted Bookmarks icon, and clicking that icon OR opening a URL in the new tab makes Safari crash, as does an attempt to activate the "first" tab in the row.

WebKit nightlies open a new window at launch, new tab works too. Opening a URL in the native window works, in a new tab the same action causes WebKit to crash, too.

A new install of Safari 3.1.1 (even through Pacifist with the option of replacing everything) doesn't help.

Removing the AcidSearch bundle from the SIMBL->Plugins folder restores Safari and WebKit action to normal, every time.

However, the same combination works flawlessly on a PB 1,5 GHz 15'', as well as under Leopard 10.5.3 on a 1st gen Mac Pro.  
(Version 0.7b4)

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iMOnTime
Oct 26 2007

WHIT_G  I don't have any use for a Dock icon, either, and I got rid of it using "Dockless," an old but still functioning app that exists only for the purpose of un-Docking any app that you don't want to appear there:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12516/dockless  
(Version 3.0)

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iMOnTime
Oct 26 2007
*****

WHIT_G  WHOA. I came to the iMOnTime page just to see how it was faring these days (I've been a user for about eight years) and discovered the new release, as well as the fact that no one had reviewed it yet. VERY impressive - I've been using it all of five minutes and am already blown away by the new interface and feature additions. iMOnTime remains, to me, the scheduling app that iCal can't quite beat.

The only feature that I still wish it had is an editable history/log that's automatically populated with reminders that have passed. Every once in awhile I'll accidentally dismiss a reminder before reading it (such as when I'm typing as it pops up, hitting return at just the wrong time) and have no way of checking to see what that reminder was. It would also be nice if reminders themselves were editable so that you could A) add notes to a reminder that you intend to snooze, and B) alter repeating reminders on the fly instead of having to bring them up in the calendar interface.  
(Version 3.0)

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ChargerChecker
Oct 13 2007

WHIT_G  Second that - this is not a truly "free" app and listing it as such is misleading. I think it's a nice little utility, but I'm amazed that the author thinks it's worth pestering users for money every single time you start your computer. Donationware is a great concept, but it doesn't lend itself to shareware-like harassment.   
(Version 0.5)

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Jasper's Phototools
Sep 30 2007

WHIT_G  Whoa, a little reality check: the app strips all the EXIF data when you have it resize and re-save a photo. PLEASE fix this - I can't use the app again until you do.  
(Version 0.41b)

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Jasper's Phototools
Sep 30 2007

WHIT_G  Great start! I went looking for a way to quickly batch-resize photos, and here it is. Fires up quickly and processes quickly. This will definitely be kept in a convenient place.  
(Version 0.41b)

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iPhotoToGallery
Jul 18 2007

WHIT_G  I'm not having any luck with it - it's giving me the ambiguous '1001' error when it tries to connect. I verified that 'exec()' isn't being disabled and I setup a second user as an admin. No dice. This is using Gallery 2.2.2.  
(Version 0.66)

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PDFLab
Jul 6 2007

WHIT_G  I've loved using this app until just now - it stopped working. I'm getting an error (OS 10.4.10) that says that it requires Java 1.4 and won't work with 1.5. I am using the latest version and just downloaded it again to make sure. Anybody else have this problem?  
(Version 2.0.3r2)

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iTunes-BPM Inspector
Jul 3 2007

WHIT_G  Looks like this fails now with iTunes v.7.3. Any chance it might get updated? This is the best/easiest solution I've come across to set a track's BPM setting.  
(Version 1.0.2)

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MagiCal
Jan 24 2007
***..

WHIT_G  I'd be willing to give this a higher rating if wClock (which is very outdated but still works perfectly in 10.4.8) didn't take up about 10% of the CPU usage as MagiCal. wClock has almost as many features (and full font selection).  
(Version 1.0.4)

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Dec 27 2006

WHIT_G  What he said. \/  
(Version 12.26.06)

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AmunRaa Recording Studios
Oct 19 2006
****½

WHIT_G  Purty. I wouldn't mind seeing custom window widgets and color variations (not a big fan of the gold and green), but aside from that it's very nice.  
(Version 1.0)

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Art Collector
Sep 13 2006
****½

WHIT_G  Great start! After getting frustrated with iTunes 7's anemic cover fetching ability I tried a couple of different 3rd-party apps and this one is the best by far. One major issue, though, is that it doesn't seem to deal well at all with multi-volume (i.e., double) albums - it just can't seem to find artwork for any that I've tried. And I wish it would give you the ability to just forcibly choose a cover from the artist of an album that it can't place, which would make the aforementioned problem not such a big deal. Outside of that, a job very well-done.  
(Version 1.1)

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Corripio Artwork Finder
Sep 13 2006

WHIT_G  I concur, not ready for prime time. I downloaded this hoping to augment iTunes 7's laughably incapable cover art fetching ability, but this is even worse. Major problems that I'm seeing in the first five minutes include:

1. Doesn't appear to handle albums with numbers in the name very well. I just had it search for the self-titled 311 album (with '311' appearing in the artist and album title tags) and it asked me to choose from what looked like every album that 311 ever made, plus it wanted me to choose the artwork for each individual track instead of applying it to all tracks on that album at once. Same problem with the artist/album '33hz'.

2. Doesn't appear to be able to cancel a batch download operation - I had to force quit it when I realized how long it was going to take to fetch artwork for my entire library.

The main problem is speed, though. I have 8000+ tracks in my library, and I think it would take days to fetch artwork for all of them using this app.  
(Version 0.5.1)

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Apple iTunes
Sep 12 2006

WHIT_G  Followup to my own problem: after updating to QT 7.1.3 it still wouldn't open, but after I opened and closed the QT Player and tried iTunes again I got a message from ShapeShifter informing me that I was running a new version of iTunes (blah, blah) and then iTunes opened normally. It would appear to be an incompatibility with ShapeShifter, which isn't particularly surprising.  
(Version 7.0)

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Apple iTunes
Sep 12 2006

WHIT_G  I can't even open it - unknown error #50 right after clicking the user license. Opens fine with another user account. Tried trashing prefs, no dice. My library is on a second partition, but aside from that I don't think anything about my setup is non-standard. Anybody else encounter this?  
(Version 7.0)

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Autocomplete Always On!
Sep 1 2006

WHIT_G  Hmm... well, it doesn't appear to be working for me. I just ran it, restarted and went to Bank of America and a file upload site that I use occasionally and Safari didn't offer to remember any form values in either. I actually wouldn't want the bank site to remember my login, but I'm really tired of having to manually enter info on the file upload site.

Safari 2.0.4 (running Saft and SafariStand, in case that matters), OS 10.4.7.   
(Version 1.0)

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Autocomplete Always On!
Jun 18 2009

 HAWKEYE   Bank of America doesn't use the Autocomplete flag. They use a two-page login. This patch only works on sites which use the Autocomplete flag.

To determine if the site is using the Autocomplete flag, view its source and search for "autocomplete". If nothing shows up, the site is using a different means to prevent your password from being auto-filled.

Sometimes this is achieved through Javascript (which can be quickly disabled via the Developer menu; don't forget to reload the page). Of course you also have to have Safari's preference set to fill in passwords.

If you have strong physical control over your Mac, having it remember your bank's password is more secure than using an easy to remember password which can be easily hacked. Clearly everybody's situation is different, so YMMV.  
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FontExplorer X Pro
Aug 18 2006
*****

WHIT_G  I have to chime in, having finally gotten around to installing this app. Amazing. I don't understand why it's free, but I'm not complaining. Appears to blow Suitcase, which I've been using for ten years, out of the water. Feels like the iTunes of font management to me, complete with smart font sets and a myriad of other options.  
(Version 1.1)

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Cyberduck
Aug 11 2006
***½.

WHIT_G  I applaud the effort (and clearly a lot has gone into it), but it doesn't really feel like a 2.x product. Operation is fairly slow across the board, from opening the app to transferring files. And on top of that, it crashes pretty frequently.

My suggestion: put a hold on new feature development and work on tightening the code so the thing moves smoothly as Fetch or Transit.   
(Version 2.6)

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Meetro
Jun 16 2006

WHIT_G  This thing is waaaaay beta. I can't do much of anything in it without it crashing. It does seem to remember the settings I've changed, but it doesn't seem to be able to upload a profile photo from my local disk or remember my usr/pw from one session to the next, even when I quit it instead of it crashing. Not ready for prime time.  
(Version 0.51)

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Saft
Apr 19 2006
*****

WHIT_G  I'm mainly writing this to counteract the previous review, which I think is completely unfair. He's giving the software, which it doesn't sound like he understands the value of at all, a crappy review because of one (admittedly annoying) fault that doesn't even have anything to do with what the software actually does. Saft is an amazing piece of software that corrects problems with Safari that I didn't even realize it had. Worth every penny.

And by the way, I don't know what's wrong with the aforementioned user's setup, but Safari does indeed remember the l/p of the Saft download page. I just went there and didn't have to input anything. One suggestion for the author: Put the link to the registered users download page in the description above in order to make updating easier.  
(Version 8.3.0)

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