NetBarrier X5 | Nov 9 2009 |
XENOS i urge MacUpdate to shut down the user reviews as they mostly are pure nonsense. comparingLittle Snitch with NetBarrier, for instance, or the fact that those users proving they have not the least order on their Apple joke boxes and never applying system maintenance but calling developer's work crap, demonstrates what annoying burden it is to read all this crap, which it mostly is. MacUpdate, stop it! don't give chaotic kids any longer the chance to produce themselves !
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Firefox | Oct 28 2009 |
XENOS i cannot believe it ! what is all this glorification about this application if it doesn' t even comply to using system services on a Mac ? a crucial criteria, doubtlessly. i tell you: there is just no justification for this new Firefox version to be called a mac application ! but what makes me most angry is that thousands of people take this lack, a major restriction to using the app, in a reasonable way, without any word of protest.
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Firefox | Oct 28 2009 |
OZEAN I guess the way to go if you need services and want Firefox's rendering engine is: Camino
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KavaServices | Sep 29 2009 |
XENOS what do devs actually think ? this immature, unfinished creature of Snow Leo has appeared few weeks ago and leaves a whole mass of users that find themselves anable to use their needed applications and from one day to the other new versions of soooo many progs are Snow-Leo-only !!! it is due to divergent program code, i know, but this is just NOT AN ACCEPTABLE POLICY !!! it is not fair to leave all those behind that - seen the fact that the new OS is not applicable yet - are waiting for a usable operating system.
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Thunderbird | Aug 24 2009 |
XENOS i really don't understand neither ppl ranting about this and that, nor developers concerned about minor geeky things but NOBODY ever has been giving a sign of discontent about the fact that this application not supporting system services is NO MAC APPLICATION. period. i'm using it nevertheless, 'cause i'm crazy.
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Thunderbird | Sep 22 2009 |
BOUSOZOKU I can tell you on the nightly builds of Shredder which seem to be close to the final, that it uses the Mac OS X Address Book list, as well as the Mozilla lists, so they have made progress in integration. I have not looked to see whether they're storing security information in the Keychain or not, but that's being done in the Firefox 3.6 alpha, so if it's not there, it will be in Thunderbird at some point in time.
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Super Flexible File Synchronizer | Aug 2 2009 |
XENOS isn't it extremely hurting when a dev only replies to superficial remarks like the user interface, but doesn't reply to important observations like the file/folder permissions, asked by 2 persons here - an issue doubtlessly higher to be classified as criteria for the usefulness of a soft ?
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Super Flexible File Synchronizer | Aug 30 2009 |
SUPERFLEXIBLE Support for transferring file permissions will be added in a free update. I don't monitor this forum often. Feel free to email me your suggestions and I will value them highly.
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ShutterBug | Jul 6 2009 |
XENOS what a shame, the last review is prehistoric !! this app is the phenix among all available web content creators !! 5 stars for all relevant criteria (one who knows) !!!
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iCab | Jun 26 2009 |
XENOS unless i'm missing something (so, please, correct me if so), i'd just have one one single request: allow adding bookmarks on top of the relative folder (like with OmniWeb) instead of adding it to the end of the list and i'll use iCab as my default web browser.
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Spark | Jan 16 2009 |
XENOS no idea what i'm doing wrong with all versions lately issued: the app always would quit right after launching - as much as i would like to try it out: PPC G4 Quicksilver 2001, 733 Mhz 640 MB RAM OS X 10.4.11 (iKey not active when launching Spark)
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Mellel | Nov 7 2008 |
XENOS "Mellel is the leading word processor for Mac OS X" - but cannot even open an .rtfd document ?! an "industry standard, unaware of an important Mac file format !!!???
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Mellel | Dec 17 2008 |
PONTER First a comment about rtfd. This is actually a wrapper, with the file components inside. Right-Click (or Control-click) on the rtfd file and select "show package contents" from the menu. From this subsequent list of files, select the rtf (no "d") that you want. Note, too, that with Mellel, you have to chose File > Import > RTF to perform an import. You should not just "Open" an rtf file. Mellel is a classic case of "no pain, no gain." It's an excellent word processor, but it has its own way of working. You have to take the time -- usually a day or two of serious effort -- to learn its paradigm. In most respects, I find it easy to use. It's virtually bulletproof, never crashes, and is extremely flexible. But it's different from Word. So is just about every other program, for that matter. Everything is a trade-off. You may prefer/need some features in Word that are not in Mellel, and are willing to put up with instability, sluggishness, etc. Other folks find the small footprint, extreme stability, and superb long-document flexibility of Mellel to be more important than the extra features in Word. You pay your money (a lot less for Mellel!) and you take your choice. Because of it's flexibility with footnotes and cross-referencing, plus its great control over styles, buit-in outliner, etc. it is especially popular with academics. The only major downside to Mellel is if you work with colleagues in some sort of group effort based on Word documents. Mellel has its own file format (an XML-based file format, whose structure is openly published, and being XML the contents can always be extracted by any text editor) which doesn't easily go back and forth with people using Word. It can be done, but it's a PITA. And if they are using Word's change markup system, you're completely out of luck. (Sometimes people using different version of Word documents can't exchange files, either!) If Mellel has no such downsides for you and you're willing to learn it, you will be rewarded. In the end, though, there's no right or wrong. You use the program that you like best/works for you. Full disclosure: I usually reach for Mellel, but I also use NeoOffice, Word, and NWP, just to keep a hand in. I always end up going back to Mellel. I also use Scrivener, also a wonderful tool, but that's not really a work processor as most people know it. | |
Mellel | Jan 19 2009 |
ODYSSEUS Ponter's points are well-taken, but the fact remains that Mellel's incompatibility with the de facto standard word processing document format is a huge disadvantage. The developers at Nisus had the smarts to make rtf their document standard. Yes, it's a problem being beholden to Microsoft, but virtually everyone uses that document format, so unless you do your word processing on a desert island, you're probably not going to be able to rely solely on Mellel.
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Mellel | Jan 19 2009 |
GUILE I was thinking exactly the same thing... But devs are frequently talking about their products saying they're the first/leading/best/essential and so one, that's some business talk.
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Mellel | Jan 20 2009 |
SAMADORE If Ponter's points are well taken, then it is NOT a "fact... that Mellel's incompatibility with the de facto standard word processing document format is a huge disadvantage." To reiterate Ponter's 1st point: Mellel is NOT incompatible with .rtfd.
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Mellel | Jan 20 2009 |
ODYSSEUS Depends on what you mean by "compatible." Yes, Mellel can read the format, but how good is the conversion?
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Date Difference | Jul 23 2008 |
XENOS This little app rocks!!!! after trying it out, i was that enthusiastic about it! so i returned to write a word of thankfulness to the author of this little gem of software. just as a hint to other users: the entry field even accepts dates in the format like: 01aug08 and calculates correctly!!!!!! thanx, Zib! and, maybe, you'll solve the month(s)/year(s) output format too, though i'm very happy with DD just as it is.
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Bracketeer | Jul 21 2008 |
sounds for me as if you should do either or both of the following - delete the app's prefs file - rebuild the desktop with Disk Warrior and then try again
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Bracketeer | Jul 21 2008 |
sounds for me as if you should do either or both of the following - delete the app's prefs file - rebuild the desktop with Disk Warrior good luck
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Disk Order | Jun 3 2008 |
XENOS Disclosure Triangles (detected accidentally): the third element in the "view" block of the toolbar! (normally in os x it is column view, here it means disclosure triangles)
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Disk Order | Jun 3 2008 |
XENOS @ EASER or anybody who knows: - how do you achieve disclosure triangles (assuming for folders to unveil contents) ? - any idea how to adjust icon sizes in the navigation bar?
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Uninstaller | Oct 29 2007 |
XENOS it's a real pain with people like THECAUSE, comparing apples with pears. when reviewing a software, one would be supposed to knowing what they are talking about. if it comes to seriously tracking down all new, deleted and changed files implied by an installation, you quietly can forget the whole palette of all other applications like CleanApp, Appzapper etc... Uninstaller is the only working means of being notified about any installation process - provided you know to apply it correctly, i.e. doing an analysis and saving it before the installation begins.
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