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November 22, 2001 at 3:41 pm #102996Jeff HesterKeymasterQuote:quote:
Sorry Jeff. First I heard of that kind of problem intalling Magi. (Maybe Groove ruined your machine for Magi)LOL – Yeah, I’m sure.
Quote:quote:Certainly, judging by the Groove forums, that software is far from trouble-free, including on installation.You are correct, Groove is not perfect. But my personal experience with Groove has been much more positive. Groove comes across as an application that a lot of time and money has gone into, while Magi comes across more like something some guy has been working on in his spare time.
Quote:quote:In any case, you’re correct that this is a Groove forum and I won’t intrude re Magi. (And, no, I don’t work for them. Just a satisfied user.)No problem! Just hit the “New Topic” button and start a topic on Maji!
Quote:quote:In that respect, how is Groove working for you?Good question! I haven’t used it for a real-world project, but in the testing I’ve done all the features worked as expected with one exception. When you send a message to another Groove user, you get a status popup near the system tray. It still shows messages in the queue from when I originally sent them, even though I know the other person received them.
Also, Groove seems to be a memory hog. It has a “quiet” mode where it sits in the system tray, but I choose to close it down except when I really want to run it.
It has a very clean user interface, and a helluva lot of features.
Jeff Hester
BigBlueBall.comNovember 28, 2001 at 1:02 am #103007chaspleenMemberJeff,
Looks like you have company on the Groove side – I guess the $150 mill thrown at Groove doesn’t make it work for everybody (and patrick is not alone). From the Groove forums today (link below):
From: patrick.costello
Posted: Nov/27/2001 3:39 PM
Too bad, Groove is a great app… but it just keeps crashing on my machine.Perhaps it’s a result of Windows Me – what a dog!
Anyway… I’ve reinstalled, uninstalled, created new identities too many times.
I give up.
http://www.groove.net/support/forums/messageview.gtml?catid=11&threadid=3676
December 2, 2001 at 4:49 pm #103003rustedtightMemberQuote:quote:Too bad, Groove is a great app… but it just keeps crashing on my machine.Surely thats an oxymoron.
I’ve seen enough…. personal, here and on forums to conclude that both pruducts are not yet mature enough to be ‘in the wild’
Its a damn good thing they are free. Now back to cleaning up the mess on my system left by these ‘great’ apps. -
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