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Your program seems to do exactly what spectroscopists need. As you state,
so far none of the commercially available packages was satisfactory.
U.S. 12/1994
First of all I must congratulate you for the quality of your program.
It is impressive what you can do with it. I have been testing it and it
works great. I found the software easy to learn, easy to use and extremely
fast. Of course, I have appreciated that your software is far superior to
Bruker's WIN-NMR.
F.J.S. 8/1995
We have been using SwaN-MR with a lot of pleasure these last 3 months,
and I must say more and more people are using it.
A.G. 10/1995
I am enjoying using SwaN-MR. We also have Bruker's WINNMR, which costs
quite a lot of money, but I find your program to be much better. The WINNMR
has the annoying habit of freezing the computer in an apparently arbitrary
way.
N.R. 10/1995
Your program looks very powerful.
N.Å.F. 11/1995
Our first impression is excellent.
D.N. 11/1995
My immediate impression was that of a very useful and comprehensive program.
D.F. 11/1995
I found it very useful.
S.M. 12/1995
I was delighted to read about and download the latest version of your
excellent SwaN-MR program. On behalf of the chemistry community, a grateful
thanks for all your hard work.
T.C.J. 1/1996
Congratulandomi per l'utilita' e la facilita' d'uso...
L.C. 1/1996
I have been examining the demonstration version, and believe that it
could be quite useful in my teaching and research. Thank you for a marvelous
contribution to the chemistry community.
D.W.B. 1/1996
I believe that utilizing your program would enhance the efficiency of
NMR techniques.
A.M. 1/1996
It is wonderful that you are supplying the program for free.
G.S.&A.B. 2/1996
I am pleased to find important software.
R.J.P. 3/1996
Keep up the good work!
D.D. 3/1996
I have just had the pleasure of examining your program SwaN-MR and I
was very impressed.
A.L. 3/1996
After briefly reviewing the software my first impressions are that it
is an excellent package.
M.K. 3/1996
I am delighted to find that someone has written such quality NMR processing
software for the Mac. It is very useful to process data on low cost computers,
thus leaving the spectrometer for running experiments.
D.M. 3/1996
We need some sort of freeware alternatives to the vendor programs, if
for no other reason to keep them trying to improve their own products.
E.E. 4/1996
I tested the demo Snail-MR and I really like to work with it. Would you
please license me for SwaN-MR so I can work with your terrific program at
full speed.
K.L. 6/1996
I find it hard to believe that a program this useful is floating around
there for free. I have only just started to play with the software at the
moment but it is fulfilling all my expectations and even surpassing some.
P.M. 6/1996
I would like to send my compliments regarding your decision in making
this software accessible to the scientific community, specially for those
in developing countries that cannot afford paying the astronomic prices
of the commercial softwares.
C.L.Z. 6/1996
SwaN-MR is probably the best NMR package for the Mac. Although we are
using Nuts on a PC here with good success, the port for the Mac does not
look too healthy, crashing frequently and slower.
G.P. 6/1997
I have really to say, it is very comfortable and it became a very useful
tool.
M.P. 7/1996
You have written a very impressive program.
M.S. 8/1996
I am truly amazed at its capabilities and speed This is a great program!
Are you sure you do not want to charge any shareware fee for it? I was pleasantly
surprised...
M.W.G. 8/1996
Today I have tested your program and it seemed very suitable for what
we are used to measure. Also it looks very user friendly.
J.S. ?/1997?
Me ha sido de mucha utilidad.
A.M.I. 1/1997
Ho avuto modo di constatare personalmente la versatilita' di tale programma
che risulta essere piu' accurato, piu' completo e molto piu' agevole da
usare di altri programmi analoghi disponibili sul mercato.
G.N. 2/1997
You have produced an excellent program and you are giving it away for
free! I am glad that the Mac community has people like you as members. I
only wish our department or my advisor would buy some PPC's so that I could
use Swan at work as well as at home.
C.J.M 4/1997
During our search for an ideal software for nmr data processing we found
your offer of SwaN-MR.
L.Z. 6/1997
This is a marvelous piece of work and we appreciate it very much. So
we installed it on our Macintosh systems in the lab (10) and use it all
the time for our 1D and 2D NMR data reduction. We are currently working
on NMR methodologies using liquid crystal solvents.
Many thanks to place this very efficient software at the scientific community's
disposal and we will make any effort to cite your work along our papers.
J.C. 6/1997
Alcuni degli improvements sono davvero comodi; e' l'impianto che e' buono,
comunque: quando lo faccio vedere ai neofiti riscuoti sempre successo.
S.A. 10/1997
I love the tool menu. The tools are very useful and there aren't too
many, so that the user isn't overwhelmed. I also like the phasing tool.
M.H.V. 1/1998
Thank-you for making this program available to us spectroscopist's still
using the MacOS system.
M.P.G. 4/1998
Mi hanno colpito in particolare la potenza e la velocita' di calcolo.
G.F. 7/1998
I and some other members of the group have found SwaN-MR to be a very
useful program.
O.F.W. 10/1998
We find it most useful for spin-simulations of the complex systems encountered
in fullerene hydrides.
H.P.S. 10/1998
I am the head of the NMR laboratory of the organic chemistry institute
at ETH Zürich and I write to you to register our institute as a regular
user of SwaN-MR. Our institute has ca. 150 scientific collaborators and
runs eight spectrometers (from 200 to 600 MHz, mixed Varian/Bruker). Since
we use mostly Macintoshs in the labs, we had the problem of finding a reasonable
program for remote processing of NMR data on Macs by the individual coworkers.
We do have a few licenses for WINNMR by Bruker, but as you certainly know,
this program is not developed any further and costs clearly too much for
what it does.
I was therefore happy to find your program on the net and started using
it for trials. I would like to congratulate you for your achievement! Although
SwaN-MR needs some "getting used to" (because it does not use
thousands of icons and really productive work starts once you remember the
keyboard shortcuts), it does its work reliably and fast.
Now that we have finally found a very nice solution of our problems thanks
to your program, we are afraid that you might have discontinued to develop
SwaN-MR! Please contact us and tell us about your plans. As a large institute
in a University with a longstanding NMR tradition we may be of help to you
as well.
B.J. 4/1999
This is exactly what I needed!
T.L. 4/1999
...a very nice processing for the Mac..., SwaN-MR has been around for
a number of years and has already found many users who like it.
R.K. 6/1999
I would like to express my admiration for your work with a nice product
and encourage you to continue your development. I've been using SwaN a number
of years by now and I think the program performs quite good and includes
a number of nice features.
The reason why I use SwaN-MR as a complement to other commercially available
software packages are mainly:
(i) The simulation module which I find very useful for teaching purposes
(it is really simple and straightforward to set up and simulate spin-systems
and exchange)
(ii) To have a NMR-processing package on the Mac where you can easily export
pictures to other Mac applications (very useful for publications, student
exams etc)
(iii) Thirdly and quite important, you being there and interested in improving
and adding things to the program.
I.S. 6/1999
I would like to know if you have planned to make a version of Swan MR
for Win 98, a platform that are used by a lot of researchers. It looks like
you have made a quite good program which I would be very happy to use.
S.B. 6/1999
Everyone is very pleased with the possibilities the program offers.
D.S.G. 7/1999
I am impressed with the utility and general flexibility of the program.
R.C.C. 9/1999
I would like to register because I think free software with contributions
from every user is a fabuluos thing.
N.M.N. 9/1999
We use SwaN-MR a lot in our lab and I find it to be a wonderful a very user-friendly program. You have done a tremendous and, I think, vastly under-estimated job in writing and updating this software. A.V.E. 11/1999
The more I learn NMR processing and programming, the more I get impressed
by your program. If Bruker WinNMR costs more than 6000$, SwaN-MR should
cost 10 times more. Actually 2D-WinNMR has nothing to do with SwaN-MR. It's
like to compare a Seat 600 with a Ferrari.
J.C.C. 11/1999
The only thing that I can say is that I tried other
softwares (free and demos) and what I did was put them in
the trash can, and gave the famous command [empty trash].
J.R.M.O. 2/2000
To be honest, I know my requests are somewhat demanding because
I am a strange character who can use almost all available processing
softwares pretty fluently (MacFID, RMN, Felix, nmrPipe, xwinnmr, vnmr).
Among them, now I rank yours as the "Number 1 processing software".
K.N. 2/2000
Thank you Dr. Balacco. Not only does your program finally get me out of
cold rooms down long corridors (where they keep SGI's) and back into my
office, where I have my Mac -and home too!- but also I can process 2D's in
fractions of a second! (compare to minutes occasionally on the latest
SGI's set up non-optimally).
M.F. 3/2000
Your program is still the fastest one going that I know about! This is
especially true of the linear prediction.
D.H.P. 3/2000
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