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Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.1.1 (Mac OS X)

What is happening at Adobe?  

all the issues with Flash, with CS 3 and Leopard... wow, i have long been an Adobe fan but i have felt very windowish with all the time wasted on Adobe products... and i agree with other below... same issues now with Acrobat... will not install - point it to the 8.0 folder and it is greyed out...re download for the 3rd time and still the same time waster... i will just not use Acrobat any more.... wonderful updater! doesn't see the ap to update! Please adobe get things right over there... who is in control of your quality? have you outsourced that... please don't! Thanks [alert admin]

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Wednesday, December 26 2007 @ 03:03 PM PST

Adobe Flash Player 9.0.47.0 (Mac OS X)

Is Adobe for Real with Flash  

How about 3 hours later trying to install Flash on a new Mac Book? Repairing permissions, creating a new test user to try to install, downloading the uninstaller from Adobe... yes there is a Mac uninstaller who would have thot? i have used macs for over 20 years... i have tried the sudo. install Flash etc... so how long should i try to spend installing a program on my mac... this is not normal. This is not Adobe... so what has happened since they bought Flash... i still get a error creating file after the installer is down to only two left --- Error creating file. 1008:5,-5000 Access denied error This is the most pathetic experience i have ever had on any Mac and this is what i do every day as a Consultant... soooooo the whole reason for buying macs is the time factor which no one ever seems to deal with. "Money comes and goes, time just goes!" © is what i have told people for years. all my hundreds of reasons for owning a mac are related to time... But ADOBE get your act together - is is most unadobe like and most unMAC like... until this is fixed i cannot give you any report - let alone a good report. thanks, Ian [alert admin]

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Friday, August 03 2007 @ 02:46 PM PDT

Microsoft PST Import 1.0.0 (Mac OS X)

Will not work with PC PST files  

To save you hours of frustration do not use this tool to work with PST files from the windoze OS only with OUtlook Mac and don't bother downloading that from the unmactopia web site because it only works on pre INtel Macs. To answer the person who says Mac users whine below... no we are simply used to simplicity and to truth... when a program has a suffix you would think a pst is a pst file.. no like most of Microsofts products down through the years you think you are dealing with one thing when reality is quite another. I thought i was buying a tested and useful and secure OS... NO you didn't you bought a product with thousands of flaws... so bad that people hate it and it needs fixes constantly vs an OS on Apple that gets features each week and a few security updates. Who wants stuff that you find on the dark side? you can have it. you need to take your OUtook from the pc side and transfer it into Thunderbird then bring it to the Mac and rename each file with a .mbox then import them into apple mail or only recently will Entourage allow you to import Mbox files... go figure microsoft to MacroHard. cheers.... if you use a mac. [alert admin]

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Sunday, December 17 2006 @ 03:19 PM PST

LimeWire X 4.12.6 (Mac OS X)

LImewire has become full of Porn, crap and corruption.  

Many of my clients who have used this since the beginning have reported how this product has gone seriously downhill. While no one wants censorship, it is apparent that unscrupulous people have infiltrated this great concept and corrupted and contaminated many files. ON the Windoze side this is overly clear, on the Mac less so. But there remains a chance for the programmers to add a report spam, or unwanted porn or corrupt files by having a report button on the bottom or someway of flagging the pure garbage that is being found. I can not reccomend this product until there is some way to flag files that are not what they claim to be. Thanks. Lets raise the level of life in our countries and encourage inspiration not degeneration! [alert admin]

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Tuesday, November 28 2006 @ 12:05 AM PST

StuffIt Expander 10.1.0b1 (Mac OS X)

Stuffit has been a great Mac Tool saving Millions - time & Money  

I have used Stuffit on my own Macs since the very beginning, and on all my customers macs, imacs, towers, macbooks etc etc... I can't remember any problem I have ever had other than forgetting to uninstall a really old system 9 version... it hasa been a faithful and useful product for companies, servers, IP providers and all of us trying to keep our time wasted to a minimum and that is why all of us bought a Mac in the first place, it is not just fun, but who would want to waste time with a Windoze OS anyway???? they are sucking the life out of our economies and our families... GET a Mac! Use Stuffit! And thanks to all those who over the years have made Stuffit and Mac products like this that save us all time! Life is short, money comes and goes, time just goes© IGM [alert admin]

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Saturday, July 29 2006 @ 10:48 PM PDT

Scroll Switcher 1.0.2 (Mac OS X)

This is a great timesaver  

I have the utmost respect for folks who try to do things to save us all time. i have said for years, money comes and goes but time just goes... therefore i honor those who make software like this who save us keystrokes and thus time. After all this is why we bought a Mac in the first place. i have installed this tiny tweak on over one hundred macs and all my clients have thanked me. i think it is excellent and i have no trouble reccomending it... sometimes it has failed to install and i wish there was a newer version. But I want to thank the author for making time to help us all, May those like you multiply! [alert admin]

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Friday, February 10 2006 @ 08:23 AM PST

Microsoft Office 2004 11.1.0 (Mac OS X)

NOT so HOT email in Entourage  

Those using MS If fuss Entourage who also have a Hotmail account coming in there, as well as your normal email Will have, may have, no doubt have, noticed that the very poor and suffering Macrohard corporation is now charging $20 dollars to allow you to use Hotmail with Entourage – forcing us to go to the browser to pick up mail again... Like why did we all buy Microsoft office in the first place for such an exorbitant fee? Not so HOT Mail any more... Ouch ... One would like to give a good report of this corporation... But they go out of their way to undercut those of us who want to believe in them the way we do APPLE. This is one company i have found and most of my clients over 18 years, that there is no one listening over there even if you actually get someone on the phone... and they certainly don't read the reviews and comments about their product. Or they would give less to charities and truly give more to those who enrich their company buy hoping this next release will fix all the issues with the last one. [alert admin]

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Saturday, February 12 2005 @ 06:07 PM PST

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Why did we pay for this product in the first place?  

those of us who use Macrohard products are used to this kind of treatment to semi-loyal customers.... but really we have endured a buggy version of this product for three years with OS X then we upgrade to Office 2004 and hope to find things like having to wait for ages for the font list to pop up whether you have 5 fonts or more it makes no difference and we wonder why they call it a major upgrade... now this week they want to charge those of us who bought entourage another 20 dollars for using Hotmail... Lets just use yahoo mail or something else and leave Macrohard to get harder and harder until they crack in their extreme brittleness and fragility... One really wishes to give a good review and a good report about Microsoft... but they don't listen, now for years and seem to care little about correcting this image... those using Entourage who also have a hotmail account coming in there as well as your normal email Pity the very poor and suffering Macrohard corporation is now charging 20 dollars to allow you to use hotmail with Entourage – forcing us to go to the browser to pick up mail again... Like why did we all buy Microsoft office in the first place for such an exorbitant fee? Instead of giving huge gifts of money to charities - how about putting out cheaper software that works and has value? The world will thank-you for your good software and your true goodness not apparent charity. [alert admin]

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Saturday, February 12 2005 @ 05:52 PM PST

Microsoft Office v.X 10.1.6 (Mac OS X)

Easily 60% of my Mac Work comes courtesy of Microsoft bugs, Thanks Bill  

I have found that many of my clients cannot open Powerpoint files after installing the 10.1.6 upgrade - which was appreciated in that it finally seemed to be a combo upgrade instead of the ridiculous installs previously which required you to do 1.2, 1.3., 1.4 etc... BUT lo and Behold if after installing your Presentations don't open and you are in front of a group and ... well... how often has Microsoft done this... one asks himself... do i reinstall the OS.? Do i reinstall Office? so hours later the user or tech guy as usual, and i have seen this for years... finds out - it is INDEED a Microsoft problem... How many keystrokes has Microsoft cost us all? They are sucking the life out of our economy with Windows and now more and more on the MAC, Please when will quality control become an issue instead of Philanthropy on our backs? User beware. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, January 12 2005 @ 03:41 PM PST

Symantec Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2004 10.0 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)

Symantec products are so fragil i wonder if we should install them at all?  

Do you want to join a lawsuit against the creators of the very fragile Windoze OS? And easily breakable Sickmantek? Send me an email with your story? (Below) Here is mine… This a recent email to a fellow veteran computer consultant… “Why are you up this late? Mac guys aren't usually up like this so you must be playing a game? The only reason I am up this early in the morning is to work on one of my Mac clients who has a pc to hook up to medical services billing... After several weeks of doing machines like this... This is the last one... Each time you install then update service packs it crashes... Then you can't repair cause the repair floppy you took time to make doesn't work... Then you just go with a base system and the video driver crashes the whole config file and you reinstall... Then if you install Norton of any year or version you find it often crashes and you start in safe mode and then uninstall but the uninstall doesn't work and so you go into the registry and delete the refs to it and then it restarts and tells you there is a vxd file that can't be found... Well of course it can't I deleted it... And then in the hidden files of the computer there are still folders from Symantec that won't allow you to reinstall or install a newer version... Often you have to install it and reUNinstall it again... Downloading a further uninstall tool from their web site then you are supposed to download a Windoze registry patch to fix whatever damage Symantec did then you find that damages other stuff and you wonder why do these people not buy Macs???? Kind of like being a Christian and wondering why on earth all these people around here can't see it... Try Christ... Trust Christ allow Christ to come into your life... The grass is greener the sky is bluer guilt is gone, fears will be removed as you surrender to His peace and promises... And yet.... Still people continue to live beneath their privilege... Makes one wonder but the analogy is powerful... Windows is a fragile and weak operating system... Microsoft and Symantec both should be utterly ashamed and yet we find no conscience at all Only thousands and thousands of reference pages on how you can fix the problems they cause with shoddy Os and software and they suck the life out of our economies and meanwhile the Mac people keep on going... I just installed the service pack 4 finally and now it tells me in a blue screen of death that a config file can't be found and there is an error in the software... Care to join me in a class action lawsuit... I don't like legal matters at all I hate all this modern attitude whole mentality of suing... BUT I TELL YOU after dealing with this stuff I am sure I could easily get millions on board... From all web sites dedicated to this stuff I am sure we could find many ... I can reproduce this in front of any judge... Exactly how if you load almost any security patch or update you will crash their own Os... Nope won't boot in safe mode Nope won't boot in safe mode with prompt. Can't read the new blue screen because it goes away in seconds... You wouldn't believe it if I showed you... It is so pathetic... I can see why people are making viruses and all the rest to expose what a terrible, horrifyingly wasteful, keystroke heavy, carpal tunnel disease creating, and time sucking system it is... I feel bad as a consultant charging people for this ---in fact over all these years I don't think I made money on any Windoze unmachine that I have worked on.... Any it person worth his salt with a conscience of even the tiniest size should warm people not to use them if they really love their customers… but then I have never once heard a windoze person say they loved their Pieces of c or even that they like them… they are simply users. But I hear Mac people tell me all the time “I love my Mac, I love my ipod, “I love my ibook” says one film location person and soon all her colleagues came and bought ibooks… and it just goes on and on about as positive a story as working on Windoze dos mil or any other windoze… with Gates and windoze who needs doors? Someone should cement microhard right up solid because it is a toxic waste to our society. They are a bane to society... Government should take action to outlaw these companies from functioning... and I haven't even told you about How windoze browser can be hijacked! You download spyware to find it cleans some off and installs its own. And just try to get rid of 'about_blank” as your startup page if you get it. And then I neglected to tell you of Haven't once been able to use any of the emergency floppies created by their own systems!!!! This is sick but then you know that you work with Macs How I thank God every morning I have a Mac!” Graham brokenwindoze@telus.net [alert admin]

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Thursday, December 09 2004 @ 04:49 AM PST

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