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Summary: Poor Product for OS X
Review: I was bitterly disappointed with MacLinkPlus Deluxe v13.0. This might be adequate for the translation of an occassional file, but if you have switched from a PC to a Mac and you want to translate, for example, many MS Word files for use with AppleWorks this software is frustrating and inadequate. Despite the "Built for Mac OS X" logo on the package, many convenience features that are apparently available for earlier Mac OS verions don't work under OS X. I found the translation and save process to be needlessly cumbersome. Complex formatting is poorly translated. If you have many MS Office documents to translate you may need to look for an alternative that will save you time and aggravation. Consider downloading OpenOffice for Mac or even (yuck!) buying a copy of the vastly overpriced MS Office for Mac. Shame on Apple for not supplying decent translators with Appleworks as they apparently used to do. Shame on DataViz for not making their product user friendly for OS X and delivering better value for this overpriced, underperfoming software.
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Summary: The Mac user's Swiss Army Knife.
Review: I've been using the Macintosh as my "platform of choice" almost since its original introduction (when the original "Fat Mac" having a whopping 512K of memory was offered). At some point in time (probably in the late 80's), Apple realized that "the computer for the rest of us" needed a little help if it was to coexist, peacefully or otherwise, with Windoze systems. And so the ability to read PC diskettes and translate PC files into Mac-readable equivalents was born, with the introduction of two Mac OS "helpers": Macintosh Easy Open and PC Exchange. MacLinkPlus is a major enhancement to the capabilities of these two Mac OS system files, providing a number of capabilities and features not otherwise available. And, as "MacLinkPlus Deluxe V. 13," it is more powerful and versatile than ever, containing nearly 90 file translators that permit opening and translating virtually all Windoze-origin files into their Mac equivalents (or into equivalents of one's personal choice in many instances). But this brief narrative only begins to describe the power and versatility of MacLinkPlus. Here is a short list of some additional features that the application has: 1. The ability to decompress files compressed by a variety of third-party applications. 2. The ability to open (and translate) e-mail attachments encoded in a variety of ways. 3. The ability to translate Mac application files INTO their Windoze equivalents, if only to keep M.I.S. and I.T. managers happy. 4. One of my all-time favorites, the ability to write and save word-processing files using "lean-and-mean" applications such as WriteNow, thereby saving considerable disk storage space, and then later translating them into MS Word files (for Mac or Windoze) for the benefit of those not having such useful (but unfortunately discontinued) applications. Beginning with Macintosh Easy Open and PC Exchange, Mac users were first able to read PC diskettes and files. Now, with MacLinkPlus Deluxe, they can pretty much do as they wish with the files. Highly recommended - and absolutely necessary - for Mac users surviving in a Windoze-controlled world.
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Summary: The Mac user's Swiss Army Knife.
Review: I've been using the Macintosh as my "platform of choice" almost since its original introduction (when the original "Fat Mac" having a whopping 512K of memory was offered). At some point in time (probably in the late 80's), Apple realized that "the computer for the rest of us" needed a little help if it was to coexist, peacefully or otherwise, with Windoze systems. And so the ability to read PC diskettes and translate PC files into Mac-readable equivalents was born, with the introduction of two Mac OS "helpers": Macintosh Easy Open and PC Exchange. MacLinkPlus is a major enhancement to the capabilities of these two Mac OS system files, providing a number of capabilities and features not otherwise available. And, as "MacLinkPlus Deluxe V. 13," it is more powerful and versatile than ever, containing nearly 90 file translators that permit opening and translating virtually all Windoze-origin files into their Mac equivalents (or into equivalents of one's personal choice in many instances). But this brief narrative only begins to describe the power and versatility of MacLinkPlus. Here is a short list of some additional features that the application has: 1. The ability to decompress files compressed by a variety of third-party applications. 2. The ability to open (and translate) e-mail attachments encoded in a variety of ways. 3. The ability to translate Mac application files INTO their Windoze equivalents, if only to keep M.I.S. and I.T. managers happy. 4. One of my all-time favorites, the ability to write and save word-processing files using "lean-and-mean" applications such as WriteNow, thereby saving considerable disk storage space, and then later translating them into MS Word files (for Mac or Windoze) for the benefit of those not having such useful (but unfortunately discontinued) applications. Beginning with Macintosh Easy Open and PC Exchange, Mac users were first able to read PC diskettes and files. Now, with MacLinkPlus Deluxe, they can pretty much do as they wish with the files. Highly recommended - and absolutely necessary - for Mac users surviving in a Windoze-controlled world.
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Summary: Poor Product for OS X
Review: If you can't avoid being around windows media, this software does all it promises to do. And it does it very well. What more can you say about a piece of software? Oh yeah! It's easy to install, and use.
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Summary: Hey! Mac users!
Review: If you can't avoid being around windows media, this software does all it promises to do. And it does it very well. What more can you say about a piece of software? Oh yeah! It's easy to install, and use.
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