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User Name Adreitz
Member Since 2001-11-05
Total number of Feedback Posts: 94
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hubblescreensavermac 1.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
The unzipped file starts with "Joy!peffpwpc", a PowerPC signature. Text visible inside the file also contains references to Balloon Help, which only ever existed in OS 9 and earlier. So, I'm guessing that this won't work in OS X (not that it's just missing an extension or something). [alert admin]
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Friday, March 20 2009 @ 02:41 PM PDT
Electric Sheep 2.6.9 (Mac OS X)
This version is not new. It's been out for over a year. I don't know why it just showed up here now. Anyway, the concept is cool, and the visuals can be interesting to the point that you'd rather watch the screensaver than do something useful. The fact that this is video-based causes problems, though. It requires a lot of bandwidth and HD space to get a decent assortment of sheep, and the sheep are getting kind of low-res by today's standards. It would be cool if they had H.264 High Def. versions of the sheep for download. I agree that it's completely ridiculous that the downloading is so slow and that the torrent downloading isn't built-in, and that will end up turning a lot of people away. If you have Vuze (Azureus) or another torrent client that supports RSS subscriptions, though, you can easily use that for your downloads. [alert admin]
Sunday, January 11 2009 @ 11:21 AM PST
x264Encoder 0.9.1 (Mac OS X)
I've been using various versions of this plugin off and on for over a year. I don't do much video encoding, but this implementation seems to give very nice results. My digital camera outputs lightly compressed MJPEG 640x480 video at 30fps, and this plugin can cut the file size by 7 times with very little quality loss. There are a lot of fun features and settings to play around with in order to get the quality and compatibility that you want. You can even turn on diagnostic output to the Console that will let you see the inner workings of the codec and which gives you an estimate of the quality (SSIM, which is more appropriate than PSNR). With newer versions of QuickTime (above 7.5, I believe) you can turn on all of the features, including the high profile h.264 features, and it'll still play natively. For older versions of QT, you'll either need to lessen the features or get Perian (a good choice anyway). It's good stuff: updated often, can take advantage of as many cores as you can throw at it, and produces higher quality and more configurable output than QT's built-in h.264 implementation. I don't know why people still use DivX! PS There's not much built-in documentation about what all of the options mean. You can go here for a summary of most of the current options: http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/pub/x264/. It's written for a piece of Windows software, but most of it is still applicable. [alert admin]
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Monday, October 06 2008 @ 07:15 PM PDT
DiscoBrick 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Rebuilt version of Eyephedrine 
This is just the old Eyephedrine plugin by GioFX with a new control interface and a couple new visualizers. The variety is nice, though the visualizers don't wow me as much as they did a few years ago. I'd like to see some (perhaps optional) visualizers that look better and are built for computers with more horsepower. Anyway, I hope the author has more success with this version than with Eyephedrine (which fizzled due to piracy and overall lack of registration). [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 10 2008 @ 05:04 PM PDT
OpenGL Extensions Viewer 3.02 (Mac OS X)
I just wanted to note that my Mac Pro 8x2.8 with GeForce 8800 GT passes all the tests, but the OpenGL 2.1 test doesn't display correctly. Instead of the sides of the cube being textured with moving fractals, the textures just appear as grayscale lines that move around. I'm running 10.5.2 with all the latest updates. Aaron [alert admin]
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Monday, April 07 2008 @ 03:38 AM PDT
GraphicConverter X 6.0 (Mac OS X)
GC is a great program, and I definitely think Thorsten should be compensated for his work. That said, you are never warned before you install and try to run the new version of GC that **it requires the purchase of a new license**. So, if you're already a registered user, you might want to wait if you don't want to spend the $20 for an upgrade license right now. [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 26 2007 @ 08:46 AM PDT
Apple Safari 3.0b (Mac OS X)
I don't know what's going on with you guys...
...but 3.0b is working fine for me. I've seen a few small bugs, but no show-stoppers. Yeah, it would have been nice for 2.x to persist alongside 3.0 (or to be able to dynamically switch between the two), but whatever. Rearranging tabs and expandable text boxes are nice features. The page loading also seems snappier for me. Good stuff. It breaks Pithhelmet again (and crashes if you hack the Pithhelmet info.plist file to get it to load even though it wasn't tested with 3.0), but I'm sure that'll get fixed eventually. 2x1.8 GHz G4 10.4.9 [alert admin]
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Monday, June 11 2007 @ 12:44 PM PDT
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I don't think I'm going to install this version. I already have 4.5.1 installed. I can understand that maybe they'd want you to pay for the encoder (DivX does the same), but I can't believe that they want you to pay for the decoder as well! Especially when it doesn't play any filetypes that you can't play with another free solution, such as the DivX decoder or Perian. [alert admin]
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Friday, June 08 2007 @ 09:13 AM PDT
Adobe Reader 8.1.0 (Mac OS X)
Adobe's update servers are having problems today, but I didn't have any issues installing the new version. AR has some bloat, but it's a much better PDF viewer than Preview. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 05 2007 @ 04:42 PM PDT
FLV Viewer 0.41 (Mac OS X)
The Perian plugin for QuickTime enables QT Player to open .FLV files, and it works great. Plus, it provides support for DivX, XviD, AC3 audio, and (in the 1.0 betas, matroska files), eliminating the need for several other plugins. No need for another player application. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 26 2007 @ 10:19 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Adreitz [ Search for All ]
The demo version is the same thing as the update. The app simply detects the presence of the X-Plane CD/DVD in the optical drive and enables the full version. If you want beta versions, you need to specifically enable that in the installer or it won't pick them up.
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Thursday, March 05 2009 @ 03:18 AM PST
I think you're misunderstanding this. The group that makes this widget is not affiliated with Apple, but the *info* they use is directly from the Apple store "Special Deals" page. If you go there in your browser, you will see it plainly stated that these are refurbished products. There are a couple pages for clearance and promo products as well (both new), but I don't think the widget lists these.
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Monday, June 11 2007 @ 12:21 PM PDT
G-Force has maximum pixel values for the width and the height in its preferences, for speed reasons. They are set by default to a letterbox aspect ratio. You can change this by changing the values for the variables "MaxX" and "MaxY" in ~/Library/Preferences/SoundSpectrum/G-Force/Preferences (iTunes).txt
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Friday, March 16 2007 @ 09:43 AM PDT
Go to Preferences -> Open -> Formats -> PSD and choose "Import with QuickTime". Otherwise, GC will try to import it itself and will miss things like adjustment layers and effects. Please don't give one-star ratings to good software just because you can't figure something out.
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Thursday, February 15 2007 @ 12:37 PM PST
Thanks for the technical terms. :) Might want to create some sort of readme to go along with the game, so people who aren't good at learning by fiddling will be able to do this (and so people can find your web site, etc.)
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Tuesday, February 13 2007 @ 09:07 PM PST
The game is totally controlled by mouse movement. No keys, no clicking. If you move the mouse, the three-circle "snake" will follow the cursor. Things will happen when the snake touches objects. You navigate the menus by touching the snake to the circles next to the menu options. In-game, the object is to move the several circles by hitting them, in order to burst the stationary "bases", that usually have small circles rotating around them.…
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Tuesday, February 13 2007 @ 08:27 AM PST
Have you ever heard of MacBreak, the Mac video podcast that's filmed in HD? I recommend watching the podcast for 7-25-06, which is all about Quicksilver. Demonstrates it in use and the power it has. I hadn't heard of it before seeing the podcast, so I've downloaded it and tried it out. I guess its major power is to initiate fairly complex commands quickly, with a "noun - verb - object" construction. Or you can just…
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Wednesday, July 26 2006 @ 05:52 AM PDT
Something probably got corrupted due to the initial freeze. You should try re-downloading the update and installing it. I bet it'll work. Especially since you reinstalled OS X. I once had an Apple software update install something incorrectly, causing me to be unable to boot to the Finder. I had to boot up on my other drive, tracked the problem down to a bad framework, replaced it, and restarted. That fixed it, and when I reapplied…
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Wednesday, May 31 2006 @ 09:48 PM PDT
Download vlc-0.8.5-test4.dmg. The other is an internet plugin. Please don't give a bad rating to a piece of software just because there's something you don't understand. There's a reason you have an option to simply give a comment, instead of a rating.
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Friday, May 05 2006 @ 09:09 AM PDT
Well, I'm not talking about occasionally. On my machine, it looks like lightning, the way the brightness changes.
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Tuesday, March 07 2006 @ 10:01 PM PST
