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Comictastic - dedicted comics reader for the Mac
by Jason Clarke Jun 4th 2007 at 12:00PM
If you're a fan of comics - both the old-school syndicated ones that appear in your local newspaper and the newschool web based comics - you may find it useful to have a dedicated reader for them. And Comictastic may well be the best tool for the job. Not only can it help to keep your feed reader clear of the silliness of comics, Comictastic has some dedicated comic functionality that you won't find anywhere else. Unfortunately, there are some comic publishers that have not see the light with respect to providing RSS feeds. For those comics that you would like to regularly read but don't have a super-convenient feed to subscribe to, Comictastic has a page scraping mechanism that will allow it to attempt to import each new comic image as it appears on the comic's site.
We should warn you that Comictastic is no longer being actively developed, however we've had no issues with the version that is currently available. Comictastic is free Mac application (if you can tolerate a nag screen every time you launch it), and while you can purchase a license to get the nag screen to go away, even the developer acknowledges that you may not wish to do that for an application that is no longer being developed.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rauglothgor said 7:06PM on 6-04-2007
We keep seeing reviews for very interesting Mac programs here at DS. How about listing a comparable Windows program alongside.
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nobody said 1:54PM on 6-05-2007
get rid of the nag screen: CT01-787-19883-JAPAN CT01-424-77901-FUROX
no need to buy if its own dev dosn't want you to.
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T Campbell said 5:54PM on 6-05-2007
Programs like this seem to spring up like weeds every few years. Comictastic is an old one that's been rediscovered, abandoned because it harms cartoonists. By ripping the comic strips off a website that contains the cartoonists' merchandise, donation drives and advertising, these programs remove almost any chance for the cartoonist to be compensated for their work. Do not use them.
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