SOFTWARE:Suggestion to MARSEDIT, a blog posting client, for improving a great product

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

I’d like MARSEDIT (4? as opposed to 3.4.4 4949) to:

(1) Parse the message for tag suggestions.

(2) Have all the blog’s used tags in a right hand scroll bar like categories.

(3) On the change date, have choice for now.

(4) On the post to blog function, display the post date, allow a change, and say confirm. Like when I have no tags or categories.

(5) Support stationary for blog posts. Not colors, but predefined format with text.

(6) Make me thin, young, and handsome.

When can I have it?

At no extra cost, of course.

Thanks,
fjohn
“Customer F. John Reinke”

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And, shortly after I send it, I remembered: “And add the date to the individual post screen by where choose the blog it goes to.”

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SOFTWARE: MARSEDIT3 is the blog content creation tool that I’m now using

Saturday, January 28, 2012

http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/

MarsEdit 3
Desktop blog editing for the Mac.The best way to write, preview, and publish your blog.

Browser-based interfaces are slow, clumsy, and require you to be connected to the internet just to use them. Browsers are perfect for reading web content, but not so great for creating it.

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Note: They gave a thirty day trial and it worked flawlessly. Unlike what I was using ECTO.

Soooo:

RECOMMENDED MARSEDIT3

NOTRECOMMENDED ECTO

… … if anyone cares.

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SOFTWARE: Browser war; FIREFOX

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Firefox: LastPass OK; not as fast as Opera

Chrome: LastPass OK; seems to have slow downs.

Opera: LastPass OK; seems faster; doesn’t do a toolbar of bookmarks. Doesn’t display gmail header correctly all the time.

Safari: LastPass doesn’t show up anywhere. NG!

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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX has space management issues

Sunday, November 27, 2011

From: Postbox Support <noreply@postbox.zendesk.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Subject: Archive messages under subfolders named after year received

There is a new comment in topic Archive messages under subfolders named after year received

Jeff Gehlhaar

I agree with James. On the Mac, where Time Machine does my backups, this is a big issue. These per year mailboxes quickly get HUGE. This is a feature which is already part of the Thunderbird base code and it would seem straightforward to port the core logic. In talking with customer support, they said this feature is not on the roadmap as it runs counter to the direction they want to move the product.

For my part, if this feature were on board and some of my favorite plugins were supported (or their functionality supported natively), I’d probably jump in and buy postbox, but for now, I’m going to stick to Thunderbird.

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This is what I experienced with POSTBOX. Almost immediately after installing and using it I had space problems. Since almost all of my email accounts were defined as IMAP, I was at a loss as to why I was always “out of space”.

I bet this software was making hidden backups.

Argh!

I’m gonna eventually have to wipe and upgrade to Lion.

WINDOZE has the same problems that require a clean reinstall to restart with a clean slate. This was the exact problem that I was hoping to avoid with the MACBOOKAIR.

Clearly there’s still much improvement need in computing appliances needed.

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SOFTWARE: TextExpander ON THE IPAD NG

Monday, August 29, 2011

From: TextExpander Support <textexpander@smileonmymac.com>
Date: August 20, 2011 21:57:05 EDT
To: reinkefj
Subject: Re: Maybe I don’t understand …

Hello,

Unfortunately TextExpander touch lives within the limitations of the iOS platform, and cannot expand system-wide like it can on a Mac. Because of that we offer an SDK to iOS app developers, and over 120 apps include TextExpander touch support, including most of the popular Twitter, note, and to-do apps:

http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/touch/apps

So, on your iPad you are only able to use TextExpander within these applications, or its own editor, but not Apple’s apps such as Mail, Safari or Pages.

Thanks for using TextExpander from Smile!

Regards,
Jordan
TextExpander Support
textexpander@smilesoftware.com
http://www.smilesoftware.com/textexpander

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Smile. Software that’s just right.

PDFpen, DiscLabel, TextExpander, TextExpander touch, PageSender

Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SmileSoftware

Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SmileSoftware

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ARGH! DIDN’T EXPLAIN THAT BEFORE THEY SOLD IT.

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SOFTWARE: My first FORTRAN primer was his

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/08/some-thoughts-on-the-passing-o.php

Some Thoughts on the Passing of Dan McCracken (1930 – 2011)
By Scott M. Fulton, III / August 15, 2011 2:03 PM / 0 Comments

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What Daniel D. McCracken managed to accomplish as early as 1957 was to give a knowledgeable layperson a strong, sensible foundation for understanding the terribly foreign concept of describing business processes with procedural mathematics. As a young author decades ago, I studied McCracken’s methods and I attempted to take his lessons to heart. In some of my first books on Visual Basic, I was inspired by McCracken to demonstrate a relatively simple concept using a substantively more complex tool: I demonstrated program control using sort algorithms.

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Sadly, I never knew the fellow, but he’s responsible for me knowing anything about FORTRAN.

As the typical fat old white guy injineer nerd I could make that language sing. All do to him.

For better or worse.

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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX not recommended

Thursday, July 28, 2011

(1) Crashing stopped

(2) Some accounts display nothing; other accounts headers only; others display normally.

(3) Attempt to send message from accounts says “settings wrong”.

Totally frustrated, and not willing to debug further.

I’ve lost a lot of time and emails that I’d have preferred to keep.

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Postbox Support wrote:

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Ticket #12986: Postbox seems to be not starting correctly; objects to this a…

Your request (#12986) has been updated.

To review the status of the request and add additional comments, follow the link below:

http://support.postbox-inc.com/tickets/12986

You can also add a comment by replying to this email.

Scott MacGregor, Jul-25 11:51 am (PDT):

Hi,

Can you try this special version of 2.5.0 that has symbols:

https://download.getpostbox.com.s3.amazonaws.com/experimental/2.5.0-symbols-d2e1689795a8108dfa03db67b16d1c99ad898120/postbox-2.5.0-symbols.mac64.dmg

and attach the crash report this symbols build generates?

Thanks!

-Scott

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Fedinand Reinke, Jul-21 07:36 pm (PDT):

Deleted half of the accounts. Try indexing. Try compacting. Keeps crashing.

Is there any way to export the archives or is it all just locked up.

fjohn

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Process: postbox-bin [22927]

Path: /Applications/Postbox.app/Contents/MacOS/postbox-bin

Identifier: com.postbox-inc.postbox

Version: 2.5.0 (2.5.0)

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: ??? [1]

Date/Time: 2011-07-21 22:33:07.013 -0400

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)

Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 565631 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 6

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 6377 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 3

Anonymous UUID: E6211619-FAFE-4714-9786-4FC5FC23B229

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SOFTWARE: Cloud update breaks app; flaw with the logic of the Cloud

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

NYT Update Breaks iPad App, Annoys Subscribers

by timothy

jbrodkin writes “The New York Times, which recently started charging iPad readers $20 a month, has a lot of angry digital subscribers after an update broke the NYTimes for iPad application. The update was designed to make it easier for readers to subscribe to the Times through iTunes (irony!) but instead left readers unable to access any articles. Worse, the Times didn’t bother to fix the app over the long weekend or reply to users who complained on Twitter. It’s not the first time developers have broken an iPad application with a poorly constructed update, but reader complaints noted that the size of the New York Times and the high price it charges make this gaffe particularly galling. Angry users have driven the app’s rating down to less than two out of five stars.”

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IT Pros know the problem. How do you run “production” when you have no change control process?

Answer: You don’t.

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SOFTWARE: LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download

Thursday, June 16, 2011

LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download

The Document Foundation announces the availability of LibreOffice 3.3.3, a new release of the most stable version of the free office suite for personal productivity, targetingcorporate users. LibreOffice 3.3.3 is already available for download at the following address: http://www.libreoffice.org/download.

According to Thorsten Behrens, a developer and member of the TDF Steering Committee, “LibreOffice 3.3.3 fixes several bugs and improves the security of the suite, to specifically address the needs of corporate deployments, where stability is more important than new features. This branch will be maintained until the end of the year, to allow a smooth and safe transition to LibreOffice 3.4.x.”

LibreOffice 3.3.3 is available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux (DEB and RPM), in over 100 different languages (more than twice the language coverage of comparable proprietary products). Users of LibreOffice 3.3.2 are invited to update their software.

Short link to blog post: http://wp.me/p1byPE-8E

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I use it. It’s “good enough”. And, the price is right.

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SOFTWARE: APPLE IPHOTO doesn’t allow you to …

Thursday, March 24, 2011

APPLE IPHOTO doesn’t allow you to …

… easily mange the size of the Photo Library.

And, the backup function is lame. There’s no way to do a backup to an external drive except by doing individual exports.

It would have been trivial to allow it, but they didn’t.

One can only imagine that the decision to implement this way was to drive sales to Time Machine or Mobile Me. Clearly, that might be speculation. But, it fits how I see APPLE. Exploitive. The software is designed and implemented in a way that’s best for APPLE; not the User. imho

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IPHOTO is unsuitable for use on the MACBOOKAIR due to limited hard disk space and the software’s inability to compensate for that.

When one imports pictures into IPHOTO from a camera, that is the easiest time to create the external backup.

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