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User Name rayjay
Member Since 2005-01-05
Total number of Feedback Posts: 25
Total number of comments: 12
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Notes 1.3.4 (Mac OS X)
Apple, please include this in the next OS release
This is a near-perfect program: it's small, fast, efficient, and does everything you might ask for note-recording. It handles formatted text, images, audio files, quicktime videos, weblocs - and probably others I haven't tried. It's much more straightforward than any commercial or shareware notepad programs I've used, some of which are more than ten times its size. It hasn't been updated for years, which of itself is no problem since there's really nothing that needs changing. However, Richard Schreyer's website appears to have died in the last month or so. This might suggest that if Notes is not compatible with some future version of Mac OS, then it will die too. It really is good enough, and such a valuable tool, that Apple should license it and incorporate it into the OS. [alert admin]
Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 01:44 PM PDT
Safe Eyes 3.2 (Mac OS X)
. . . Intego's ContentBarrier. I don't think any of the parental control programs are perfect, but ContentBarrier is very flexible, reasonably effective, and fairly unobtrusive. Our grandchildren have easy access to their user account on one of our Macs: I control ContentBarrier from my admin account to which they do not have access. I can monitor what they've been looking at and what ContentBarrier has denied them access to, and I can adjust the filters accordingly. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 18 2008 @ 05:56 AM PDT
Apple Safari 3.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Previous correspondence in Feedback discussed the failure of Javascript links that many people were experiencing with v3.1 of Safari. I've eventually tracked down my problems to the SafariStand plug-in. The latest version (3.1T161 if you use Tiger) has resolved themp. [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 10 2008 @ 02:19 AM PDT
ScratchPad 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Or you might like to try . . .
This is quick and simple. But I prefer "Notes" - not easy to find with such a basic name: it's at www.ayanamichan.com/richard/notes/ or www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/9605. It has the advantages that each page can be named and listed in a sidebar, making it very easy to manage: for example, I have a category called "Computing" with subsections for online access details, serial numbers, jottings from MacFixit, etc. [alert admin]
Sunday, June 08 2008 @ 04:09 AM PDT
FileSync 2.0 (Mac OS X)
I've only just downloaded this so I wouldn't want to rate it yet, but at first sight it looks fine. No download problems, quick to set up, trial syncs ran fast and smoothly. I'm looking for an alternative to my present sync program (Synk) so I'm going to give this a more extended trial. [alert admin]
Monday, June 02 2008 @ 03:57 AM PDT
iOrganize 6.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Here's a better solution - and free!
As I indicated in a previous post I was thinking of switching away from iOrganize - now I've done so, and very happily. For unencrypted notes the not very imaginatively named "Notes" seems excellent <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/9605>. For encryption try Base! <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/18579>. Both programs are simple, elegant, efficient - and both are free. [alert admin]
Saturday, May 17 2008 @ 01:12 PM PDT
MiniFonts Base! 1.1f (Mac OS X)
Just what I've been looking for 
It's nearly two years since this was updated - but then, what's the point in changing something that is nearly perfect. I had been intending to use the encryption facility of iOrganize to secure bank account and credit card details and suchlike - until I discovered how easy it is in that program to lose the data for ever. So I searched for a simple way of encrypting notes and found this: I wish I'd come across it sooner. It's simple, versatile, powerful, secure: behaves exactly as described - and free!. [alert admin]
Thursday, May 15 2008 @ 11:23 AM PDT
Mac Notepad '08 (Mac OS X)
If you're looking for a simple notepad try "Notes" - not easy to find with such a basic name: it's at <www.ayanamichan.com/richard/notes/> or <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/9605> . Simple, small (about 300 K instead of Mac Notepad's 24 Meg), seems to do pretty much anything Mac Notepad does and then some. And it's free. [alert admin]
Tuesday, May 13 2008 @ 04:08 AM PDT
iOrganize 6.2.1 (Mac OS X)
I have to agree with WonderJ. This is a very dangerous feature of iOrganize - enough to downgrade it to one-star in my opinion, though in most other respects I'd give it four. I've been using iOrganize on an almost daily basis for several years through various versions but I'm thinking of switching to something else for just this reason. Until recently I'd not wanted to use the encryption facility: now I do, but I realised - fortunately in time - how risky it is. To encrypt a note you enter the password only once: it would be so easy to make a simple typo and not even notice. Then your note is gone for good - unless you try to work your way through all the possible typos you might have made and happen to strike it lucky. And. as others have reported, BB doesn't respond to contact messages: one of those developers who's happy to take your money but then washes his hands of further help. [alert admin]
Sunday, May 11 2008 @ 12:51 AM PDT
Differences Examiner 3.0 (Mac OS X)
TextWrangler is a powerful text editor from the BBEdit stable. It's free and it includes an efficient and versatile document comparison feature. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 12 2008 @ 12:05 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by rayjay [ Search for All ]
"I only stopped by to add a comment." If the comment's as pointless as that, you shouldn't have wasted your time.
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Tuesday, June 03 2008 @ 03:44 AM PDT
There certainly is some sort of problem but I can't get to the bottom of it. For example, the scripts that should take me to sub-folders on my (Mac specialist) ISP's webmail site refuse to work with Safari 3.1 or 3.1.1, though they're fine with 3.0.4. Does anyone have any constructive suggestions - as opposed to snide asininities like Brass Hammer's? (And I've been a Mac user since 1984, and Apple II before that, so I…
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Thursday, April 17 2008 @ 04:53 AM PDT
... but see all the recurring warnings in MacFixit about problems with Software Update and the desirability of using direct downloads.
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Wednesday, April 09 2008 @ 03:29 AM PDT
I agree. I upgraded to Synk Standard when it first appeared and quickly went back to 5.2.3 which seemed both more powerful and more reliable. I've checked out several of the updates to v6 but haven't seen any that make me want to move up.
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Thursday, December 20 2007 @ 09:40 AM PST
. . . and it doesn't make your coffee for you either! Why SCREAM IN CAPITAL LETTERS at a program because it doesn't do something it's never intended to do? It does its job very efficiently: an excellent adjunct to Audio Hijack and very useful as a standalone.
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Friday, October 19 2007 @ 06:58 AM PDT
Just switch to PTHPasteboard: I didn't like it at first but since I found how easy it is to customize I think it's better than iSnip. I won't be switching back.
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Saturday, June 09 2007 @ 02:07 PM PDT
If you look at the feedback on Reunion, you'll find someone recommending that you use MacFamilyTree instead. In fact any of the three main "fancy" programs - Reunion, MacFT, Heredis - are fine if you want to play around with smallish trees and draw lots of pretty pictures. If you want to provide a framework for serious genealogical work you need to use GEDitCOM. It's not as pretty, it doesn't draw as many trees, and…
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Sunday, March 18 2007 @ 04:31 AM PDT
But MacFamilyTree is also seriously flawed: just look at some of the users' comments about it. I gave up on it a couple of years ago: I've kept an eye on later versions but the changes have been largely superficial. All the "fancy" Mac genealogy programs - Reunion, MacFT, Heredis - are fine if you have small trees and want to draw lots of pretty pictures. But if you want to record serious genealogical research…
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Sunday, March 04 2007 @ 01:38 AM PST
. . . having said which, I have since found a minor glitch in Mail Unread Menu and I've switched, very happily, to this program. I'd like to be able to colour the number in the menu bar, but if that's my biggest gripe there can't be much wrong, can there?
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Monday, November 27 2006 @ 12:52 PM PST
Sorry, someone may be being stupid but I don't think it's the developer. If you're not at the Mac when the mail comes you don't hear the sound, and - perhaps this was Apple being stupid - the Dock icon only shows new mail in the Inbox, not any that's been filtered into other mailboxes. I actually prefer "Mail Unread Menu" to this program, but the idea is fine.
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Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 04:39 AM PST
