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User Name dvk1
Member Since 2006-12-02
Total number of Feedback Posts: 6
Total number of comments: 5
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meinKOPP 2.4 (Mac OS X)
This might be terribly interesting...
...if there were any indication that it worked. I tried to Add both a Note and a To Do. In the first case I could type text but it vanished as soon as I did something else, never to be found again. In the other case I could not enter anything, there being no selection in a field. [alert admin]
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Monday, October 15 2007 @ 11:44 PM PDT
iDefrag 1.6.1 (Mac OS X)
One-trick pony really performs 
Most average users do not need this product but if you use very large files (>20MB) or have a disk pushing the limits of its capacity, then iDefrag is effective, seems safe, and is about as fast as you get. I did a Compact run on a G4 portable (using iDefrag Lite) with 60GB of data (100GB disk) and it took a couple of hours or less. That made it easy to re-partition with iPartition to add a Leopard beta. I also used a licensed version on a full defrag of 80GB of data on an Intel MacBook Pro (160GB disk). That took nearly six hours but the work involved is significantly greater than for Compact. The screen dimmed normally based on Preferences on my Firewire boot disk (thanks, SuperDuper!) so it is safe to run this overnight on any machine. Make sure you sit a portable on a flat clean surface or even on a large heatsink. The disk gets a workout and older models do not have heat sensing. iDefrag will monitor your hard disk if it can, and will pause if it gets hot. Other comments below, and stuff on the Coriolis web site, make clear when you might need to use this product and the fact that many or most people do not. However, if you need it, this does it. Great product. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 07 2007 @ 04:57 AM PDT
Tables 1.2.2 (Mac OS X)
This is the best Excel althernative I have found so far. Excel and its clones are big, clumsy and outdated. Tables is more stable and easier to use than Mesa and far more attractive than Mariner Calc which is an interface mess and has basically been unchanged for years. I have paid and used for all of these three products and consider Tables to be giving me the best return on my money. Mesa might have won the game if they had kept updating it but PLSYS seem to have lost interest. I hope this one continues in development and is not overrun by something from Apple. The fact that Tables does not do graphs might bother you but I have ignored spreadsheets for charting for a long time anyway, using Stata (there are cheaper options!). [alert admin]
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Saturday, March 31 2007 @ 09:12 PM PDT
Sony Ericsson iSync Plugins 1.5.3 (Mac OS X)
I have the K610i plugin which had been working beautifully (all praise to its developer). After updating to OS X 10.4.9, iSync complained about the plugin, demanding it be taken our as "incompatible". I tried that and now the sync starts but eventually fails, iSync complaining that it is the phone's fault for terminating the connection prematurely. I re-paired the two in case that mattered. It says above that the K610i code has not recently been changed. Is there a fix so I can use it with 10.4.9, or does anyone have a way to fix the dodgy Apple sync? [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 25 2007 @ 12:26 AM PDT
launch2net 1.5.7 (Mac OS X)
After endless problems grappling with full net access on an older Siemens SX-1 and now a Sony-Ericsson K610i, I finally found Launch2Net. My first thought was that 75 Euro was a lot of money when there are free scripts around. The diference though, is that this worked. It worked immediately, seamlessly, flawlessly. That is the sort of stuff on which it is worth spending your money. What a pity mobile data costs are ridiculously high in Australia. [alert admin]
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Monday, February 05 2007 @ 03:36 PM PST
Stata 9.2 12 Jan 2007 (Mac OS X)
Not for the faint-hearted and not intuitively graphical, this is a tremendously powerful statistical package with a deeply knowledgeable support community. If you understand statistics, this package will probably support your every need. If you understand the field just to a reasonable extent, you might be surprised at how much you can do and learn through this package with its graphical overlay. If you are a professional, you will probably wind up on the command line and writing scripts to exploit its enormous power. Sorry. If you are not, it is still practically worth the money just for its graphical capability. I am not a stats professional but speaking as a consultant with a strong interest in metrical analysis, this package has been enormously beneficial to me over many years. It and its manuals cost no more than they are worth. [alert admin]
Tuesday, January 30 2007 @ 01:09 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by dvk1 [ Search for All ]
Your machine is slow or your disk is badly fragmented. All the more reason to use it, not to pan it. iDefrag seems to be faster than pretty much anything else at the task.
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Thursday, June 07 2007 @ 04:42 AM PDT
Your comment relates to a version much older than those already reviewed by other people and is therefore pointless. If you want an Excel clone, you are welcome to ThinkFreeBloat. I have used Tables since v1.2 and find it more stable than Mesa.
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Saturday, March 31 2007 @ 09:00 PM PDT
Replying to myself, I found the solution on the Feisar web site. Other users have found the same problem and it is possible to disable Apple's native support, using the reliable Feisar product instead.
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Sunday, March 25 2007 @ 07:31 PM PDT
Has anyone actually used this yet?
I almost reviewed it but I was waiting for you to install it first.
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Saturday, February 10 2007 @ 04:19 PM PST
Has anyone actually used this yet?
I almost reviewed it but I was waiting for you to install it first.
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Saturday, February 10 2007 @ 04:15 PM PST
