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User Name robio
Member Since 2005-02-10
Total number of Feedback Posts: 43
Total number of comments: 14
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Calories 1.5 (Mac OS X)
once again VersionTracker gets the basics wrong
Not 10.4 compatible. [alert admin]
Saturday, October 17 2009 @ 02:47 AM PDT
Lego Digital Designer 3.0.9 (Mac OS X)
Sys requirements are wrong - no 10.4 PPC
Sys requirements are wrong - no 10.4 PPC [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 13 2009 @ 02:33 AM PDT
Image Upload 1.1 (Mac OS X)
No longer works. Progress spinner never stops, never uploads. No response from creator. Really disappointing, since I used this widget almost daily. [alert admin]
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Monday, October 12 2009 @ 10:37 PM PDT
Audio Hijack Pro 2.9.3 (Mac OS X)
Description is wrong - 2.9.3 doesn't work with OS 10.4
Wrong info here on VersionTracker. [alert admin]
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Friday, September 11 2009 @ 04:49 AM PDT
ImageOptim 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
1.2.1 bombs on open in 10.4.11 on iBook G4/1.33
1.2.1 bombs on open in 10.4.11 on iBook G4/1.33 Double-click, bounces in the dock, then closes without ever presenting an interface. Tried tossing prefs, but it didn't help. [alert admin]
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Monday, August 03 2009 @ 02:37 AM PDT
Final Start Reader 1.9 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
The UI for this software is anything but self-explanatory. It launches in Flash and goes to full screen, then takes you to an "office" with Marilyn Monroe sitting at a desk, and to get past this screen an into, you know, the READER, you have to figure out where to click. There are no menus or anything resembling a standard GUI interface, and if there's a way to read books you've already downloaded as TXT files, it sure isn't immediately clear. In fact, it looks like you can only read the books offered online by the software itself, and if you want to read more than 4 pages, you have to register. I won't call this a "review" because I gave up trying to use this thing in less than 5 minutes. [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 25 2009 @ 01:46 AM PDT
Safari Cookies 0.6.3 (Mac OS X)
Anybody have a suggestion for a 10.4.11 user? This app is 10.5 only, and none of the others I can find on VersionTracker have been updated more recently than 2 years ago. [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 16 2009 @ 11:41 PM PDT
Postbox 1.0 beta 13 (Mac OS X)
Finally found my new email app 
Ever since Eudora went kaput, I've been looking for a new email app that has even half the features I loved about that old workhorse. While the interface of Postbox isn't very Eudora-like, I've come to like tabbed browsing MUCH more than separate mailboxes, which was the Eudora-unique UI element I wanted most (and was the hardest thing to find). I'm a QA consultant by trade, so in the process of trying every available app under the sun (Entourage, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Revolver, PowerMail, Correo, Gyaz, the T-bird based Eudora pretender called Penelope, the attempted Eudora replacement called MailForge, etc.), I created detailed QA worksheets for my finalists, and came down to two: Postbox and Outspring. I was leaning toward Outspring at first, but their communication with beta testers is almost non-existent, and their development slow. It wasn't long before Postbox's functionality passed Outspring's and now Postbox is a much stronger, more stable app with almost everything I want, plus a bunch of features I didn't know I needed until I had them: To-Dos - click one icon in the mailbox, and any email becomes pinned to the top of the mailbox so it doesn't end up "out of sight/out of mind." Conversation view - Gathers all emails in a given string and puts them in one viewing pane, with all the quoted text suppressed. Practical upshot: a VERY clean view of an entire conversation. Inspector pane - Incoming emails have a sidebar showing attachments, images and links, plus a bunch of simple, quick tools for finding other emails from the same sender, adding them to your addy book. Contact panels - Click on a sender's name, and you can see their Address Book info, perform instant searches, create a filter, etc. Multiple status states - the "read" column in the mailbox can be a blue dot (unread), a little clock (waiting, e.g. for a reply) or blank (read). Attachments tab - All my attachments in one place, without having to dig through User > Library folders. Images tab - All attached and inline images in one place: Trying to find the message you know had your nephew's school picture in it? Find the picture, and follow it to the email. Compose sidebar - I don't use this one much and it still needs some work (Postbox is in beta after all), but you can quickly access previous attachments and images, add signatures, look for maps to include, etc. Topics - didn't like these at first, but now I think they're far BETTER than colored text or highlighting of messages in your mailboxes, and you can have multiple topics per message. Plus there's a Favorite Topics section of the sidebar where you can look just at mail with a given topic. (Example: I can see all my mail labeled "politics" in one place, regardless of what folders I've put them in.) Tons of keyboard shortcuts - although they're not always intuitive (some require CMD, some don't) and there's no cheat sheet yet. Thunderbird Add-Ons - new in this release, and I'm really excited about being able to file messages with just a few keystrokes (instead of drag-and-drop) with the Nostalgy plug-in, for example. Editing - This is BIG one for me: You can edit received mail. Bold or color important passages, change the subject line to something that makes more sense to you, etc. Eudora had this, and just about no other app does. Plus very good search, a very attractive an easy UI, and a LOT of flexibility regarding how you handle your mail. Different in box for every account? Sure! Same in box for every account? You can do that too (can't do both though, like in Apple Mail — yet). There are a few things I wish were better. There's still no app out there that can compete with Eudora's fantastic filters, and Postbox can be slow to render at times. It could be easier to move mail between accounts (although Nostalgy fixes that too). And I really, really miss the "Who" column in Eudora mailboxes. It makes so much more sense than having to have "Sender" and "Recipient." OK, I've just realized how much I sound like an employee plant here. Not the case. In fact, I offered my QA services, but they've go it covered. However, now that I'm settled on Postbox, I do have an active interest in seeing it succeed so I don't have to go through again what I went through when Eudora died. So here I am, posting the longest VersionTracker review EVAR. Shutting up now, except to say that Postbox is extraordinarily stable for a beta. [alert admin]
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Friday, July 10 2009 @ 04:29 AM PDT
Apple Java for OS X 10.4 Release 9 (Mac OS X)
Beware Release 9 - Safari stalls on javascript
On my iBook G4/1.33 running 10.4.11, Release 9 caused Safari 4 to pinwheel endlessly on pages with heavy java. Checked Activity window, and it's stalling on the javascript. I've cleaned all caches, etc. and hope that will do the trick. Just wanted folks to have a heads up. [alert admin]
Saturday, June 20 2009 @ 01:49 AM PDT
SyncTwoFolders 1.4.0 (Mac OS X)
Great freebie and great support
I've been using SyncTwoFolders for over a year now, and the only trouble I've ever had (the app would screech to a halt in Library>Prefs>Macromedia because there were too many layers of subfolders) was addressed with the 1.4.0 update — which the developer fixed within a day based on my personal report of the problem. Free AND that kind of product support? What's not to love? [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 18 2009 @ 03:34 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by robio [ Search for All ]
Working again now. Unchecked the "shorten URL" option on the back.
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Friday, October 16 2009 @ 04:36 PM PDT
Promising -- pity about company culture
I'm not that keen on the GetSatisfaction forum interface used by Postbox either, but I think you must be using it wrong. The forums for contacting the developers and discussing Postbox are wide open for anyone to see, read and post on any and every question or problem.. The Postbox forums are extremely active, and the developers respond daily in almost every thread, interacting with users to troubleshoot and receive feedback (which is often integrated…
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Friday, September 04 2009 @ 01:06 AM PDT
Dammit, that was supposed to be in paragraphs
Sorry readers.
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Friday, July 10 2009 @ 04:30 AM PDT
That was happening to be long before Safari 4. What I have noticed is that CPU and memory run hotter with 4 than they did with 3.2.1. Really like 4 so far, although I have zero use for Top Sites and have turned it off because it's constantly phoning home to those sites. Wish Apple would get their act together and provide some cookie management — or that somebody would build a decent plug in. I miss SafariPlus. 10.4.11/1.33ghz…
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Sunday, June 14 2009 @ 02:44 AM PDT
Not me, man. I HATED tabs on top. Glad to have them at the top of the PAGE (which is what I've tabbed) instead of the top of the APP (which is illogically far from the page for me).
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Wednesday, June 10 2009 @ 01:15 AM PDT
Found my problem - the Font palate wasn't wide enough to show the drop shadow tools I'm used to using. The developer's site could use a drop-shadow 411 in its online user manual.
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Saturday, September 15 2007 @ 07:32 PM PDT
Found my problem - the Font palate wasn't wide enough to show the drop shadow tools I'm used to using. The developer's site could use a drop-shadow 411 in its online user manual.
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Saturday, September 15 2007 @ 07:28 PM PDT
Similar problem, but I didn't freeze - safari quit on me. Note: This was just after installing 1.6a1, so it was removing a LOT of cookies (1400+). When I relaunched, all my non-favorite cookies were gone, save two, which I had to remove with the single "remove" button, as the "remove all non-favorites" button was grayed out. (Still really happy to have even a test version for Safari 3!)
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Saturday, August 04 2007 @ 12:59 AM PDT
Similar problem, but I didn't freeze - safari quit on me. Note: This was just after installing 1.6a1, so it was removing a LOT of cookies (1400+). When I relaunched, all my non-favorite cookies were gone, save two, which I had to remove with the single "remove" button, as the "remove all non-favorites" button was grayed out. (Still really happy to have even a test version for Safari 3!)
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Saturday, August 04 2007 @ 12:56 AM PDT
Similar problem, but I didn't freeze - safari quit on me. Note: This was just after installing 1.6a1, so it was removing a LOT of cookies (1400+). When I relaunched, all my non-favorite cookies were gone, save two, which I had to remove with the single "remove" button, as the "remove all non-favorites" button was grayed out. (Still really happy to have even a test version for Safari 3!)
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Saturday, August 04 2007 @ 12:53 AM PDT
