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Ubuntu (The Breezy Badger) 5.1.0 (Mac OS X)
link is dead [alert admin]
Monday, June 30 2008 @ 09:10 PM PDT
Firefox 3.0 (Mac OS X)
Welp, I've had some time to run this across various sites that work perfectly fine in all other browser on Windows and Mac (including Firefox 2) and they are falling apart in Firefox 3. Not handling background images properly, loading up Flash improperly, etc. and basically wrecking website appearances. I cringe that so many people are downloading Firefox 3 right now and are going to sites that have been properly developed but now will appear "broken" to these unwitting web users. The problem is, this is not a beta release (even though it really, really should be) and average web users are going to download this and experience broken sites. This will hurt developers who are trying to get in sales for development work and have web users find that their sites are "broken" and not hire them. This is a disaster, they should pull the plug on this NOW and go back into beta and fully resolve these issues or I smell potential lawsuits on the horizon. I thought wrecking developers work was the domain of Microsoft, I guess times are changing. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 18 2008 @ 07:11 PM PDT
Firefox 3.0 (Mac OS X)
For some Firefox 3 is having buggy problems with WindowShade X. For me, it's worse... Firefox 3 isn't working with my version of WindowShade X (4.1.1) at all. Everything else on my entire system works fine with 4.1.1 so I'm not updating WindowShade, they need to fix Firefox 3. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 17 2008 @ 08:23 PM PDT
FinderPop 2.1.2 (Mac OS X)
I was dissapointed with the earlier OS X versions being a bit sluggish. Now with 2.x the thing seems to be just as fast as it was in OS 9 days! All these years it's been a tried and true killer app that I've added to every Mac I touch. Now that the speed issues are taken care of, it's back and back in a big way. Amazing work, Dev. [alert admin]
Wednesday, May 28 2008 @ 10:57 PM PDT
Web2 Delight 1.1.85 (Mac OS X)
First of all, I really think this app is a great idea and if the following issues are taken care of, it would be a great, timesaving app! While the interface is slick the implementation of it is clunky and frustrating. I click on images and wham... I'm suddenly looking at them in full screen (whether I want to be or not!). This should be a double-click to make this happen!! ...and, better yet, there should be options in the preferences to alter this behavior for how YOU want it to work, but there isn't. There should also be an option in the preferences for when you double-click a photo that it opens up immediately in Preview (instead of having to right-click for that option every time). I don't like power struggles with my productivity apps and this is how this one feels at least in this version. Very little customization allowed in the preferences at all. Also, I tried dragging and dropping photos to the trash and nothing happens, not very Mac like. I had to highlight it and hit the delete key instead. And, when just one was left, I clicked it to highlight it (not realizing it already "self highlighted itself") to delete it and it (guess what?) decided to show it full screen again. Argghh... not again.... where's that damn escape key.. If the dev takes care of the clunky problems, I would buy this. Without the clunk, it really would be a time saver when going through photos. A feature request would definitely be for it to show licensing for each photo if available too (Creative Commons, specifically). And, more advanced boolean searching, etc., etc. would be a huge plus. I should also mention it squawked at me when it loaded up saying it couldn't find either iTunes, iPhoto or Qucktime or the versions weren't high enough. It didn't say which one and all those apps are in the places they are supposed to be in my Applications folder and are not renamed in any way and they are within the version range as well. Not great to start off the experience with a bug. This was on Mac OS 10.4.9 with iPhoto 6.0.3, iTunes 7.2 and Quicktime 7.3.x, so YMMV, of course. [alert admin]
Thursday, May 15 2008 @ 03:52 PM PDT
DrawBerry 0.5 (Mac OS X)
The dev's site isn't working in Safari 2.0.4, so that made me nervous off the bat. I couldn't get any info, manual, etc. and when I downloaded the app... that was it.. no manual. I launch it and can't find a clear bezier tool to use, also every time I grabbed a menu to move it, it doesn't repond till you try it the 2nd time. I was exicited to try this because of the glowing reviews below, but I've found that this needs to come long way before it's a quick practical alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Yes, yes... I know, I know... it's free and all, but I just hope with this review udders won't get their hopes up like I did and waste time with it. If this gets closer to what Pixelmator is compared to Photoshop (a quick, snappy less powerful alternative for when you just need the basics) then I would love it. Illustrator has become a bloated monster and I'll love a basic alternative, but as of 0. 5 this isn't it, yet. That said, thanks go out to the dev for at least trying! [alert admin]
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Sunday, May 11 2008 @ 06:37 PM PDT
Parallels Desktop 3.0 Build 5600.0 (Mac OS X)
Unacceptable Quality Control Issues
The Dev takes a shoot first ask questions later approach to quality control. They need to do far more testing before they release stuff that causes widespread kernel panics!!! Until they get it together I will continue to utilize safer alternatives. Throwing out crap code that crashes Macs will eventually put them out of business unless they get a handle on things and quick. Unacceptable. [alert admin]
Sunday, May 11 2008 @ 07:13 AM PDT
Pixelmator 1.1.4 (Mac OS X)
Still keep going back to photoshop
I'm rooting for this app, I really am... but it needs at least some basic layer effects like dropshadows, etc. before I can really use this more often and justify the (granted, small) expense. [alert admin]
Thursday, May 08 2008 @ 08:35 PM PDT
Meteorologist 1.4.8 (Mac OS X)
Tried all the others and this one is the best. It uses very little CPU and fits perfectly up in the menubar looking just like it was meant to be there (put there by Apple itself). The preference interface is pretty clunky and there could definitely be improvments made there and in the dropdown menu gui. But, this is the only one I use anymore. Love the radar image (which the dev of weatherdock REFUSES to add) and once again, stable... doesn't use up CPU. The best. [alert admin]
Tuesday, April 29 2008 @ 10:06 AM PDT
HotBox 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Maybe it has issues with multiple monitors? I have a total of 3 monitors. 2 (including my menu bar screen) on 1 video card and 1 on another card. Also, I'm using 10.4.9 When I active HotBox with the keystroke everything goes fine and I draw the box, but then it just makes everything go dark around the box without blowing it up full screen. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? [alert admin]
Wednesday, April 23 2008 @ 11:35 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Cowicide [ Search for All ]
RTFM (you need to be running at least Security Update 2008-002 or later or it won't run)
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Sunday, June 22 2008 @ 06:44 PM PDT
should have not been released out of beta yet! between the poor rendering and crashes... I'm so dissapointed, I expected much more from them. On the plus site it IS faster I think.
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Friday, June 20 2008 @ 07:21 PM PDT
> children will STARVE, we'll get hit by ASTEROIDS > and DARKNESS WILL RULE THE UNIVERSE! Or maybe sites will break because they didn't beta test the thing well enough and then went with pushing for a world record in amount of downloads to get it in a ton of people's hands half-baked. No, it won't kill any children, but it still really is quite a blunder. > check your input managers folder and pull out all…
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Friday, June 20 2008 @ 01:19 AM PDT
Hey, speak for yourself, I'm still using Tiger and it's rock solid compared to OS 9. I'm sure once Leapord gets to 10.5.5 or higher it'll get rock solid too. Not to mention 10.6 is going to be solely all about speed and stability. Overall, OS X destroys OS 9 in stability, security and just about every other thing I can think of (with some minor exceptions).
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Friday, June 13 2008 @ 03:15 PM PDT
Every copy of VLC comes with an applescript called "Delete_Preferences" that does this for you. Just double-click the applescript in the VLC folder and it all goes into the trash. Unfortunately, that's what I do with every VLC upgrade, but even so, the last two versions have been a disaster anyway.
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Tuesday, May 13 2008 @ 10:21 PM PDT
> I don't recall ever seeing a .pkg installer ever > say exactly where it installs things anyway It's called a Read Me file. See it very often. Maybe you are a newbie, I dunno.
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Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 07:04 PM PDT
Uh, the "suckers" I'm referring to is anyone who installs this sh*t on their Mac.
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Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 07:00 PM PDT
Loads all kinds of crap and slows down your computer instead of just letting you download/upload. What a waste of my time!
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Wednesday, November 28 2007 @ 11:50 PM PST
ImageReady CS2 gone forever? Adobe starting to SUCK?
Anybody tried ImageReady and Photoshop CS2 with 10.5? Since Adobe so "wonderfully" ditched ImageReady in CS3 and I (like many others) vastly prefer ImageReady CS2 over Fireworks CS3 for important tasks ... I cannot upgrade to 10.5 until I'm sure CS2 (PS & IR) work OK. Adobe... you, %^@&#$!!! -- thanks for downgrading your Suite by removing ImageReady and causing Leopard upgrade issues while you are at it!!! Either, add ALL the ImageReady CS2…
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Tuesday, October 30 2007 @ 09:23 AM PDT
SuperDuper Dev did not find this post "useful" - Haha...
Gawd, stubborn to the bitter end....
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Thursday, September 20 2007 @ 02:21 PM PDT
