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Software strike-out
Sep. 3rd, 2009 08:21 amI had high hopes for Deep-Sky Planner, but when I received and installed it last night, it really doesn't do much. It's a simple object picker and logging software. Really not much for $60, and not much that I couldn't just get off of various websites.
I feel kind of bad because the author is trying hard, and it sounds like a lot of what I want from it is stuff that she has planned. Much as I'd like to support her, I simply won't be using the software, because in order to get the rest of what I need, I'd have to use other software, and that other software provides everything her software does.
Apparently I'm about to be her first case of someone who's actually returned her software.
As much as I dislike its user interface, I'm moving back to SkyTools. I really haven't seen any other software that comes close to what it does, and that's with version 2.x. They have a new major version out which adds another ton of features, and I went ahead and upgraded to that. They have upgrade prices which give me almost full credit for what I paid for the old version, so it's just a little more than what I paid out for DSP.
I feel kind of bad because the author is trying hard, and it sounds like a lot of what I want from it is stuff that she has planned. Much as I'd like to support her, I simply won't be using the software, because in order to get the rest of what I need, I'd have to use other software, and that other software provides everything her software does.
Apparently I'm about to be her first case of someone who's actually returned her software.
As much as I dislike its user interface, I'm moving back to SkyTools. I really haven't seen any other software that comes close to what it does, and that's with version 2.x. They have a new major version out which adds another ton of features, and I went ahead and upgraded to that. They have upgrade prices which give me almost full credit for what I paid for the old version, so it's just a little more than what I paid out for DSP.
