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SMART Utility 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)

SMART Utility was better than Smart Reporter  

I had 2 new Seagate 7200.11 1TB drives. Smart Reporter showed all to be okay. SMART Utility showed one of the drives to be failing with a bad sector. Also, I was puzzled by the SoftRaid mirror volumes on the 2 drives constantly needing to be rebuilt as well. I returned the failing drive for an exchange since it was within the 30 day exchange period, thanks to SMART Utility. With the new replacement drive SMART Utility shows all to be well, AND no more rebuilds. I bought the program immediately. I too feel that something like $15 would be more appropriate, but $20 is cheap to find such a basic and important problem right away. When you consider that the seller paid for the shipping both ways to replace the bad drive, $20 isn't so bad. It appears that Smart Reporter does not do as good a job as SMART Utility. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, March 12 2008 @ 09:44 AM PDT

1Passwd 1.5.3509 (Mac OS X)

The best password manager I've tried, by far.  

2 or 3 times over the last year and a half I gathered all of the password manager programs I could find to find one that worked for me. There were one or two that came close in one way or another, but none that I wanted to use. Within 10 minutes of trying 1Passwd I knew I'd found what I was looking for and happily paid my money. Tellem covers the details of the program very well in his comments below from 10/30/06. This is by far the easiest, and the best password program I've seen, and the developers responsiveness is outstanding as well. [alert admin]

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Sunday, November 05 2006 @ 12:54 PM PST

Debtinator 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)

Great program to help with your finances.  

Have you ever tried to figure out if opening one more 0% credit card will really help with your finances over given periods of time? This program makes it easy to see how changes in payments over given periods of time affect totals paid. It's easy to use and has saved me a lot of time and money. As the author says, "it's only $10, it'll save you more than that . . ." and it does. I recomment it. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, August 01 2006 @ 08:07 AM PDT

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