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User Name Dr. Teeth
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Apple Fibre Channel Utility 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)
Actually the Read Me says that it requires Mac OS X 10.3.6. It's probably safe to assume that means Mac OS X 10.3.6 or Mac OS X Server 10.3.6. And of course it doesn't do you much good without a fibre channel card, don't know if you need the Apple one or not. But it's not "for OS X Server 10.3.5" at any rate. [alert admin]
Wednesday, November 10 2004 @ 10:46 PM PST
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne 1.17 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
You almost can't play games on the Mac and not love Blizzard. They've shown nothing but devotion for our platform for 10 years when almost everyone else jumped ship. This game is no exception; every version has been a simultaneous release with exact parity and compatibility with Windows. That and it's just a fun game which they continuously improve. My only gripe is that the sound engine does crash occasionaly but I've gotten my money's worth without a doubt. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 22 2004 @ 11:38 PM PDT
Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio 9.4 (Mac OS X)
He means that the headers are precompiled for 10.2 instead of 10.3. Which is a somewhat arbitrary decision since CW supports 10.2 and 10.3 as the development environment. It's really not a big deal since it's trivial to recompile all of your libraries and precomps. I suppose they could just ship several precomps made on a bunch of different versions of the OS (i.e. by using the SDKs) but that's not really something I need. [alert admin]
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Saturday, August 21 2004 @ 10:10 AM PDT
Apple iSync 1.5 (Mac OS X)
On the one hand I'm pretty happy that iSync supports my Motorola V600 (the website hasn't been updated but it obviously does given that it sees the phone and has its icon). BUT IT'S ONLY SUPPORTED OVER USB!!!!! Geez I can't believe how aggravating that is!! This phone has only been out since April 1, it baffles me why it isn't fully supported yet. Especially given the recent Apple/Motorola iTunes deal. And seriously, if the OnSync guy can figure this phone out, why can't the iSync *team* get it going? So it looks like I can either buy OnSync, buy a REALLY expensive USB cable from Motorola, or buy a Sony/Ericsson or Nokia phone (maybe Steve Jobs bought one of those and that's why they work with iSync). <grumble grumble> [alert admin]
Wednesday, August 11 2004 @ 12:32 AM PDT
Eudora X 6.0b18 (Mac OS X)
Cheeky developer notes notwithstanding, I really want to like Eudora. I just can't. Eudora never made a very graceful transition to Mac OS 8.5, and it seems clunkier and clunkier as the Mac OS progresses. I'm sad to say that after using Eudora since version 1.5 Light, I've switched over to Mail. Here is my laundry list of complaints against Eudora (most of them old).
- Poor attachment handling: Unless I'm mistaken, Eudora STILL types attached files based on a proprietary database stored in the application's resource fork as EuIM resources. (I'm assuming that "Under OSX, use system helpers by default" means protocol helpers and not file helpers). I begged and pleaded with them to use Internet Config/Internet control panel in Mac OS 8.5 but they decided not to. In Mac OS X it might be more appropriate to use Launch Services, but IC would still be better than the current system.
- Limited IMAP support: Deleting IMAP messages has always been weird. Unless I'm doing something wrong, you get one of the two behaviors. You either just get a delete icon next to the message, or it goes into a Trash mailbox folder in the server which ONLY gets emptied if it's the frontmost window when you select Empty Trash. Also, you can only use incomming mailboxes on the IMAP server. Outgoing and sent mail still must be stored locally in the global Out mailbox. That's not very useful to me. (I haven't gotten to test this behavior out yet; my IMAP server is behind and firewall and I'm not; maybe I'll test this tomorrow. I don't see anything in the Read Me to indicate that IMAP functionality has changed though).
- No system Address Book support: I know this is a new thing in Mac OS X 10.2, but it would be wonderful if Eudora (and other similar apps) would have an option to use the system address book instead of its own customized address book.
- Poor directory support: Yes you can do directory searches (Finger, Ph, LDAP) in Eudora, but you have to bring up a whole new window to do so. I like the way Apple Mail automatically searches preconfigured LDAP servers for you and autocomplets the entries as you type in the To or CC name and/or address in a new message. Furthermore, I think Eudora only supports one LDAP server at a time, and the format you have to specify your server in is a little raw for me. Not to mention the search results aren't the prettiest.
- Poor interface implementation: I like the DESIGN of Eudora's interface. A non-intrusive global toolbar with multiple windows is nice. But the implementation is just plain lousy. The various windows and dialogs are not spaced according to the new Aqua Human Interface Guidelines and look "funny". The graphics in the dialogs (especially the New Mail and No New Mail dialogs) are just terrible. The icons for the buttons and other in-program interface elements are a little flat. The application and file icons used in the Finder are very flat and (in my opinion) ugly. There are several drawing bugs in the interface. One of the most glaring bugs is in the Address Book. Try clicking on a different address book tab but releasing the mouse outside of that tab. It just makes a MESS out of all of the text on the screen.
- Poor MHTML support: MHTML messages don't render correctly in Eudora. Also I think Eudora produces some questionable tags in the MHTML messages it generates.
- Questionable assignemt of paid features: Mail gives you a LOT more features for free than Eudora does. While I won't argue with the ad-based/paid model that Eudora uses, I think they need to evaluate which features are free, and which ones should be paid for. In other words, only make people pay for "pro" features defined as features that other free mail clients (i.e. Apple Mail) don't have.
- Antiquated Help menu: Eudora would benefit from revamping their Help menu. It should have Help Center content like every other app. The PDF manual is quite good and very detailed though.
- Limited authentication methods: As far as I can tell, you cannot authenticate using the MD5 Challenge-Response or Kerberos 5 methods.
All and all I'm just disappointed in Eudora. It used to be so cool...
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Wednesday, May 07 2003 @ 03:12 PM PDT
Eudora X 5.2.1 (Mac OS X)
versions' release notes have been riddled with derogatory "Mac OS X sucks" type comments. That's really obnoxious. Even though I've used this program since version 1.4, reading these release notes makes me want to jump ship for Mail or Entourage or something. Furthermore, I haven't seen any significant changes since version 4.0 (which really was ahead of its time). The biggest change I actually notice is that the splash screen is different, it can have ads, and now the "you have mail" and "you don't have mail" dialogs are ugly, black & white, and totally nonsensical. My biggest pet peve about this program is that it's NEVER supported Internet Config. I don't know if it would be appropriate in Mac OS X to support IC or Launch Services, but this kludgy custom resource mapping system that you have to use a resource editor to customize is totally lame. The address book has a lot of draw problems, at least in Mac OS X, and I wish they would offer support for the system Address Book. That's why I loved Eudora 3 and 4 so much, each one of them jumped on nifty new OS features (like Appearance Manager) before almost any other programs did. I'll probably keep using Eudora for awhile longer but if they don't have a major overhaul of the program relatively soon I'm going to stop using it. [alert admin]
Wednesday, April 02 2003 @ 02:35 AM PST
Eudora X 5.2.1b6 (Mac OS X)
me, or do their Read Me's spend a LOT of time whining about Apple APIs missing in OS X, being changed, or not working quite right for them? [alert admin]
Saturday, March 15 2003 @ 04:52 PM PST
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you're referring to isn't a bug, it wasn't a programming error. Files and folders created by users have read-only group permissions by default because it's a privacy concern otherwise. Otherwise you could save files into your Public folder in your home folder and people could edit them when you wouldn't want them to (unless you manually changed group permissions). While this makes shared group work a bit of a manual process and a pain, what you're looking for is a feature change/addition, not a bug fix. [alert admin]
Tuesday, November 12 2002 @ 11:14 PM PST
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
lame about supporting OS features like mousewheel support. There are still System 7 smackings all over this program and pretty much every other Adobe program. I don't really care for the web installer either. Still they're great Mac supporters and I don't think it's fair for everyone to give them 1 star, especially for download size geez. [alert admin]
Monday, October 21 2002 @ 11:23 AM PDT
ICQ 3.1b12 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
I have not found Carbon apps to run slower than Cocoa ones. I think that's just an urban legend. [alert admin]
Thursday, October 17 2002 @ 10:57 AM PDT
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