Yellow Button 1.0.5

Although most software developers may have moved towards more modern archive formats some time ago, it seems Carnation Software has bucked the trend—sloughed off that parasitic veering mentality, I dare say—and resurrected the venerated .sea.hqx software packaging technique. Proceeding with our thrill-packed exploration of the software distribution methods of yesteryear, we find a VISE Installer, icon disguised as an alias, ready to install Yellow Button for us. Thankfully it installs in the proper location by default: the Applications folder. How nice, don’t forget to tip.

The installer then launches the application for us, displays the read-me, and then opens a folder full of gigantic overlapping Internet Explorer URL shortcut icons, and a plague on your family if you’ve changed your default browser.

This sublime disrespect for system settings continues, when the application opens its only window underneath my existing left-aligned Dock. Delightfully simple in appearance, yet utterly otiose, I cannot imagine why a plain window with empty squares to receive your drag-and-drop ministrations would be considered useful.

Once you’ve succeeded in adding an item to this window of repugnance, the item you were previously dragging slides back to its origin, presumably to indicate—Oh hell, I can’t excuse this one. Despite already having violated numerous Mac OS interface standards, the author of this festering pile of severed warts clearly could not resist making the control-click (right-click to us elite-mousers) reveal the item’s location in the Finder, despite the standard command-click already established by our friend, the real Dock.

Even the most ardent of Dock-haters cannot fail to come crawling back after attempting to use this washable-permanent-marker of an application. With its sheeted preferences, and disgustingly designed main window, this is without a doubt uglier than a turd in a salad dressing bottle, unless it happens to be Newman’s dressing, whose bottles make anything look good.

Carnation Software for naming yourself after a flower, and creating software that works about as well as a sick snail in molasses, I award you an 8.2, since lessening hatred for the real Dock might be considered a use.

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