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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 12 Jul 2008 20:16

try /library/app support/simbl/plugins

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Type: Review
Date: 12 Jul 2008 20:11
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

This is definitely a 5 star utility - a pref pane, actually. But it functions perfectly: behind the scenes, catching most everything I delete, asking if I want associated files deleted too. 99% of the time, I do. What a time and work saver!

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Type: Review
Date: 12 Jul 2008 20:05
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I am having no problems with this ... in fact, I wish I'd found it sooner. Ought to be in everyone's dock, a handy escape from runaway processes or just a fast look at who's hogging cycles. Way handier than, say, Activity Monitor. Kill kill kill!

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Type: Review
Date: 15 Jun 2008 22:03
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

This utility - and what else does one need, anymore - just keeps getting better and better.

I've stopped using everything else I once bought.

Five stars, says Joe Bob, Check it out!

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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Jun 2008 21:58

The problem with cross-platform: Ugly is hard to take.

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Jun 2008 19:12

A-Dock is still available, still right here ... and still has an amazing number of tweaks to the dock and its behavior that Apple should have included by now.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10287/a-dock-x

Still one of the best, ever.

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Type: Comments
Date: 3 Jun 2008 03:30

MIP isn't working for me (MBP) in 10.5.3, nor did it in 10.5.2. Minimized windows simply .... disappear.

Yet I've read it's working for others. So I wait. If you've got a solution, post it!

There's absolutely nothing like MIP--for shame, Apple, for not including this feature in X from the get go. The hell with Spaces ... I want my MIP.

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Type: Comments
Date: 3 Jun 2008 02:56

Two words: History Flow ...!

More words: SafariStand is not interfering with 1Password or vice versa, in 10.5.3 ... nor was this happening in 10.5.2.

Try downloading the free app InputManagers, which will set the correct permissions.

Important: SafariStand should be located in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. The bundle, only. Loader not needed.

/Library/InputManagers holds the iPasswd bundle (it will install itself there,) and another folder, SIMBL, containing the SIMBL bundle.

This works better than putting SafariStand in your users Input Managers (which shouldn't even exist) and is recommended by the developer.

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Type: Review
Date: 10 May 2008 20:30
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Hey! Thought you were dead and gone, BatchMod!

Thank your developer!!

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Type: Comments
Date: 6 May 2008 17:54

Unsure about that price, but I'm interested to see where this is going! Keep up the good work ... definitely needs a read.me or help file.

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 May 2008 17:47

Yeah, it's up to the devs ... but it's real obvious when the dev is kinda socially clueless.

It's only smart to throw a bone to previous users - they supported him while he worked on the new version - and it builds good will.

A cold announcement like this one does not.

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 May 2008 17:15

I agree with Gerber.

In other words, you've offered zip to all previous loyal customers.

Does this explain it?

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 May 2008 03:46

No upgrade path? Hello?

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Apr 2008 19:02

Why does Chronos even bother.

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Apr 2008 19:00

Watch a product go backwards. Worse and worse. Amazing

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Type: Review
Date: 20 Apr 2008 18:01

I take it all back. Upon further use of new versions, it's clear: This app does accomplish very neatly what so many others do singly. Way to go!

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Type: Review
Date: 16 Apr 2008 00:04
Features:2 Stars
Ease of Use:2 Stars
Value:1 Star
Stability:3 Stars

Bummer.

Is Hamrick a cross-platform developer? Because this thing is all splash-screen and no guts.

The Canon interface is superior to this piece o' worthlessness.

Goes to show, the more heavily promoted, the less the product has to offer.

I'm serious. I've been scanning for years - use something else. Anything.

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Apr 2008 18:14

And this little app uses up an excess of processor cycles why?

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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Apr 2008 22:07

A few weeks later, and I can confidently state: Not Ready for Release.

Look forward to when it moves out of experimental. Meanwhile, there isn't a function here that can't be found in common utilities.

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Type: Review
Date: 2 Apr 2008 22:04

Damn! I was so happy to see this release, and now have strong reason to believe it took my system down. (MBPro 10.5.2) ... and I'd excluded everything possitble.

The other APE's are doing okay - well, FruitMenu ... but these need more work.

Experienced user, and have run APEs for years.

Unsanity, are you listening? It's Leopard now. You really need to work on these babies.

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Type: Comments
Date: 29 Mar 2008 21:45

Well, if you want to turn Mac into Windows, and after buying such a nice machine, I suppose that's your right ... but the tiniest adjustment in thinking--oh, never mind.

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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Mar 2008 07:00

If you don't know what these things mean, don't do them! Simple as that!

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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Mar 2008 05:53

Awright! Thank you!

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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Mar 2008 05:52

Hot damn!

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Type: Comments
Date: 11 Mar 2008 06:03

How many of these are we going to get.

Enough already.

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Type: Review
Date: 7 Mar 2008 22:07
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

This way better than Jungledisk, which I'm sorry I paid for.

S3 is mostly straightforward, behaving as you would expect. There's no indication that the terrific browser window opens by double-clicking on the bucket name in the Connection window. But that window, gee, lists your files, in English, their sizes, listed your files, by name, their sizes and dates, the immense number of S3 logs, etc.

There now, was that so hard? It eludes me why Jungle Disk is so ... complicated? Expensive? Exists?

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Feb 2008 03:02

Perhaps define "soon."

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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Feb 2008 00:29

Hell-o Haxies! Leopard has been hell without you.

Spaces sucks, I want my Windowshade! And damn if you didn't show up!

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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Feb 2008 00:00

They're back! It's been just hell on a laptop without Windowshade - thank you Unsanity!!!

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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Jan 2008 18:20

"You can Watch .... but you cannot Save."

(Yeah, I know simpler ways of saving ... just don't like it when developers do that.)

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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Jan 2008 05:46

It's that GUI scripting, and you can turn off the warning in the preferences, I believe.

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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Jan 2008 06:38

Not from the looks of it.

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Jan 2008 18:54

Doggedly on, year after year, ignoring all that has happened to the Mac interface in the meantime. Sadly, for terminal geeks only.

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Jan 2008 18:51

Shows a lot of promise!

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Type: Review
Date: 5 Jan 2008 16:37
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Users can still fool with their dock interface ... this little app is sooo much more useful than Stacks, watch out it doesn't turn up in 10.5.2! Thank you for this!

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Type: Review
Date: 5 Jan 2008 16:34
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Max Rudberg is a name you can trust. And this little tweak makes life worth living. Geesh, glowing blobs? WWTT?

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Jan 2008 04:20

SafariStand works fine with PlugSuit, a free pref pane. Try Input Managers, a free little app, too. I'd rather run either than SIMBL.

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Type: Review
Date: 5 Jan 2008 04:05
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

The only way to get SafariStand to run on my MacBook Pro. No problems at all - this version says it won't disable itself.

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Type: Comments
Date: 31 Dec 2007 17:47

To the Developer: It's really great that you all are working on this ... but I wouldn't mind cutting back on the installs. Several times a week? Take it easy!

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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Dec 2007 15:33

Sorry - fugly. Have you looked at Leopard? Or Tiger?

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Nov 2007 18:49

Boy they've had a long time to get it together with this ... just hasn't happened.

I think I've tried every version. What is their problem?

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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Nov 2007 22:08

Sorry, that wasn't very clear or helpful. I don't know why a given process rises and falls constantly, in CPU usage ... but this one does, and it seems to slow things down. Hard to explain with no tech talk.

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Type: Review
Date: 25 Oct 2007 02:49
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

As with all DEVONtech software, just plain excellent. Have used for years.

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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Oct 2007 02:44

There is no reason on earth to use this unwieldy, bloated thing ... which installs so much crap in so many places installers are not supposed to go in OS X, and there's no excuse for Google releasing this mess for the Mac. Which they know and use, but hey.

When Spotlight is not enough, use the free and excellent EasyFind.

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Oct 2007 21:35

Ditto ... Sits in menubar, take screen shot, nothing happens.

Trash preferences, try again, nothing.

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Type: Review
Date: 25 Sep 2007 19:56
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

This is the notepad I have been working my way towards - through every single note app out there - for several years.

Why is this The One? Not sure ... maybe the iconize, maybe the right combo of simplicity and function, and not hideous ... maybe MacNote just got it right!

All I can say is, try it out for yourself. This long-time Mac user says, Five Stars!

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Type: Review
Date: 15 Sep 2007 17:35
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Still the absolute most trustworthy best. You'll see the care this app takes ... and how careless many such maintenance apps really are. Learn.

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Type: Comments
Date: 14 Sep 2007 06:21

Now how about that price. $25 would still be a bit high, but $35 means no sale, here.

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Type: Comments
Date: 14 Sep 2007 06:18

And a very nice icon it is.

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Type: Review
Date: 12 Sep 2007 20:25

Very pretty. But why.

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Sep 2007 20:21

There's something funny about the way this jerks the background processes around. Paid for it, way back, and it works ... but I tend not to use it. I'm no deveoper (can you tell?) but it doesn't play nice.

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Sep 2007 20:18

Did they get rid of the stupid claw yet.

Not all of us are fourteen-year-old boys.

Just a thought.

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Type: Comments
Date: 9 Sep 2007 20:38

Price is way out of line.

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Sep 2007 18:55

No, it's the ICON that's *creepy* ... this is an intriguing piece of software.

But I'm not sure what I'd use it for, in the long run.

Does need clearer, faster access to one's real desktop and running programs.

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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Sep 2007 19:57

Perhaps it should be mentioned, amongst all these raves, that, yes, the Free edition is free ...

and the next upgrade is $149.95 ...

and the Pro version, $249.00.

I hate it when developers do that.

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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Aug 2007 06:48

No longer free ... but can't complain about the cost of storage at AWS.

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Type: Review
Date: 20 Aug 2007 06:46
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

How did I miss this for a *year* ?? An absolute dream app, one click and all but my preferred cookies are gone. Perfect.

Missed something like this ever since I moved to Jaguar - that's a lot of time picking out rotten cookies.

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Type: Comments
Date: 16 Aug 2007 18:53

Sooo promising, but somehow it just doesn't make it.

Even $49 for immense ugliness ...no. And the lack of documentation ...so many of these perhaps amazing new apps seem to be developed by people incapable of providing documentation ...geek syndrome? Well get a friend. Who speaks English, preferably.

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Type: Comments
Date: 16 Aug 2007 18:50

No Service provider?

Can make a Shortcut, but really, out to be part of an app like this.

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Aug 2007 23:40

Be nice if it actually appeared in the menubar.

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Aug 2007 23:22

Why is this updated every five minutes? It's really a pain, you know. Give us a break, how about once a month. If you must.

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Aug 2007 00:21

This is simply not very good. Its own presentation is rather awful. Keep trying.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Aug 2007 16:51

I'm gonig to try this release ... the interface is nothing less than astonishing, compared to iCal ... when and if this totally matures, it will be major.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Aug 2007 16:49

Duh, you're right. This has much more extended capabilities. Thanks! I'll see which plays nicer with Safari.

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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Aug 2007 06:09

Remove any and all Input Managers and the like, see how that goes ... SafariStand is the only thing the previous version would tolerate.

If that doesn't work, see MacFixit / update your WebKit.

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Type: Review
Date: 17 Jul 2007 04:15
Features:1 Star
Ease of Use:3 Stars
Value:3 Stars
Stability:3 Stars

I'm a little concerned to see the developer release this as if it were in any way new ... when I see it is exactly the same as years ago in Classic Mac. And the file types and mappings reflect this, as well as the old, old choice of IE 4.5 for browser. How long ago was that?

RCDefaultApp by RixStep is the true file mapper for OS X, and the only reason to use MIsFox is if you have simple enough needs.

The developer's description is not entirely the case ...but I think this version may be a bit more editable.

I'm concerned that noobs and switchers may get confused by all those file types that don't even exist in OS X ... which is, after all, what we're working with.

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Type: Review
Date: 3 Jul 2007 21:29
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:4 Stars
Value:2 Stars
Stability:3 Stars

Can't get the damn thing to restore Default ... or switch to any other coor than first set; will have to go into System and fiddle ... but that's not what I downloaded this for.

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Jun 2007 17:39

I could be wrong, but I thought the only firewire drives that would boot were NOT bus powered, but with an external power source.

Check it out.

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 May 2007 20:42

Have never seen anything install so many items in so many different places ... and the damn thing is always on the alert, even if you set it not to be. Tried blocking its calls out with LIttle Snitch ... but finally? With Spotlight and Easy Find (and others) ... who really needs this bloat?

Unless you want to include your Gmail ... after the novelty wore off, this experienced user trashed it.

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 May 2007 20:39

How is this better than FLVR? Which seems to work beautifully ...

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 May 2007 20:34

Yes, but what do you really *use* it for.

I'd like to know, having paid for what seemed an attractive interface ... and now feels like overkill, and I'm back to MacJournal ..

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Type: Review
Date: 28 May 2007 20:26
Features:3 Stars
Ease of Use:2 Stars
Value:4 Stars
Stability:4 Stars

Promising, but I'm not sure of what. You pretty much end up with what seem to be small websites - which isn't bad. But for me, anyway, right now the learning curve isn't worth it .. I'm not sure about these one-app-does-all applications anyway ... and the developer needs to be very clear about his or her English. "Missions"? I don't think so.

Give it a try, and review it here. Seems to work beautifully ... whatever it is.

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Type: Comments
Date: 24 May 2007 04:43

WeatherPop seems dead, too ... see reviews, flaking out for me despite paying for Advanced ... where's the great menubar weather app?

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Type: Review
Date: 18 May 2007 20:43
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Brilliant. Nothing like it. An amazing app, which must be tried to be believed.

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Type: Review
Date: 17 May 2007 06:46
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Superb. I had no idea performance could be increased like this. Keep it in your dock and everytime things slow down, run it. You'll see! Big, measurable "RAM" boost.

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Apr 2007 03:31

If anyone who wishes to write spends this kind of money on ... software that touts, on its feature list, Tabs! and, Automatically Updates! ... I will personally come over to your house and whap you upside the head ... One rarely sees such overblown - oh dear, another bad word occurs to me. To all newcomers to the Mac, welcome, this isn't typical at all. Just write.

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Mar 2007 06:03

Gee, I think if you would just take a look at the fine app above ... there are some especially hideous customizations available, and, wow, you can make them *sticky*!

(Best review of '07!)

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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Mar 2007 23:58

Try RixStep's RCDefaultApp pref pane. Not a guarantee, but way better than the nothing OS X offers.

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Type: Review
Date: 16 Nov 2006 17:26
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Got two Macs?

Couldn't be easier. Nothing else needed. Genius.

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Type: Comments
Date: 16 Oct 2006 22:30

Well, it would be extremely helpful if the program were accompanied by a few words from the developer. You know, like a ReadMe?

Jeesh.

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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Sep 2006 03:15

Woulda been really nice if the developer had kept this up. Wish I had something like it.

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Type: Review
Date: 30 Sep 2006 03:12
Features:5 Stars
Playability:5 Stars
Graphics & Sound:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

A competely enthralling ... game, I guess it is ... for my gifted grandson, age 5 ... a unique experience, well-thought-out, much loved. A new release, with new features, is a huge event. We thank you! SteamTRAIN looms very large in his life!

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Type: Review
Date: 22 Sep 2006 19:27
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Nothing like it. Beyond handy. Clips are really underrated; you can see their contents in the preview column, and I habitually drag from Safari, from the web. ClipEdit is invaluable!

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Type: Review
Date: 22 Jun 2006 02:43
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Five stars. Inquisitor makes search sooo fast. And no, not one problem, reports this experienced Mac user.

I don't know how developers stand it ...

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Apr 2006 20:18

Boy, that was a loooong wait. Or so it seemed. Had to hash together all those different utilities again. This little handy tweak makes a HUGE difference, thanks!

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Apr 2006 20:15

My grandson is mad for this - um, game?

BUT. . . it uses up all active RAM on my GB powerbook! - and $25 is too much - and it says $20 on the front page.

I'm most concerned about that eating up max cycles. Leftover OS 9 resources in there? Whatever, clean it up.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jan 2006 07:58

Try AdSanity. Different--but it seems to work, and one does like Safari Stand.

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Dec 2005 20:46
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Best - and safest - interface mod yet! I am an Unsanity fan, but was happy to stop using Shapeshifter, had to add most everything to the exlude list. . .Whereas this unifies the whole machine, very cool and very non-distracting workspace. R U listening, Apple? . . I doubt it. Now if I could just apply UNO to the damn Dock. . .

Huge thanks!!

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Dec 2005 18:13
Features:3 Stars
Ease of Use:3 Stars
Value:3 Stars
Stability:3 Stars

yes, i realized it is a drawer, hey, it *slides*. the new new thing this year? see, i have used macs for a long time . . .and silly me, i want to resize and move windows where i want them.

more importantly. . . .what big advantage--other than the fact that it slides . . .is desk browser offering me?

ya know, i could see a small, swift browser when you don't want to crank up safari or ffox . . .but, to be honest, i'd need some choices where it popped, sorry, slid up or out or down. . .and can't live without the ability to resize the sticky edge. i think you're onto something, since the dashboard sux for web use. maybe i speak as powerbook user? anyway, keep going!

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