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SOHO Notes 7.0 (Mac OS X)
What are the actual requirements
The VT listing says 10.4.9 and up. The company's product web page says 10.5.2 and up. Which is it? [alert admin]
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Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 01:56 AM PDT
Compost 1.8.9 (Mac OS X)
Problem in 1.8.9. Please ignore this version.
Please do not download Compost 1.8.9. There's an issue with license code validation that causes an annoying message box to pop up when it shouldn't. A fixed build will be available shortly. [alert admin]
Friday, January 04 2008 @ 12:03 AM PST
SaverDesktop 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Doesn't support all screen savers
Someone has pointed out to me that 1.0 doesn't work with qtz or slideSaver screen saver formats. I've got qtz support ready for 1.1, but getting slideSavers to look right has been eluding me so far. Hope to have it tonight. [alert admin]
Sunday, November 18 2007 @ 05:41 AM PST
FileCutter 1.3.2 (Mac OS X)
Nothing harmful. It just doesn't work because Apple changed the structure of the context information passed along to plugins in a way that isn't compatible with how I was extracting it. I've got a new version working here and should post it in a day or so after I've had more chance to revalidate it on pre-10.5 systems. [alert admin]
Friday, October 26 2007 @ 06:18 PM PDT
DockArt 1.0.4u (Mac OS X)
At about 4:20PM (eastern US) I found out I had put up the wrong zip file and corrected it. Sorry about the inconvenience. [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 19 2006 @ 01:23 PM PST
TrimTheFat 0.6 (Mac OS X)
The comment below about Speed Download is a worthwhile warning. Speed Download is one of the relative handful of programs mentioned in the included read-me which include code to determine whether the executable file (not the code, but the file itself) has been modified and then refuse to perform their normal function if any change is detected. I'll restate for clarification: The corrupted executable message you'll see is coming from SD itself. It's not the OS reporting that there's actually anything damaged about the program; it's SD acting exactly as the developer designed it to act. This behavior has never been recommended or supported by Apple because there are circumstances under which the OS itself will modify an executable and any app doing this will "break" even for that. Version 0.6 added a "safe trim" mode which is enabled by default precisely because of applications like this. Version 0.7 will include a "blacklist" feature that prevents it from trying to trim apps that are known to do this. In the particular case of Speed Download, it should be noted that the developer has made a PPC-only build available for download at http://yazsoft.com/files/sd3018ppc.zip. There's no native-only option for Intel users at this point. [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 22 2006 @ 05:49 AM PST
BOOM 1.5.6 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
I get: An error has occurred while expanding the file "boom-156.sitx" (Format error). Error #17540 Anyone else having better luck? [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 08 2006 @ 10:11 AM PST
Atlantis 1.6 (Mac OS X)
Fun game. Disappointing user experience. 
I've found the actually game to be a fairly enjoyable way to pass any amount of time you like - as much of a time committment as you want for any given session. Unfortunately, lengthy play is almost guaranteed to end in a crash and the developer, while claiming "a company has no excuse for not providing great support" doesn't appear to respond or react to feedback. [alert admin]
Saturday, January 14 2006 @ 08:10 PM PST
Comics 1.5 (Mac OS X)
I suppose it's good enough as a simple list of information, but I'm having trouble getting past how poorly-behaved it seems to be. A couple of big no-nos right up front include the silent creation of new files right in the user's home directory, and an incorrectly-named preferences file - one that could easily be destroyed if another author were to use the same shortcut. [alert admin]
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Friday, November 18 2005 @ 02:49 PM PST
Silica 1.1 (Mac OS X)
0-for-2 now on making sure the demo code is out of the release. The download of 1.1 is fixed now. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 25 2005 @ 08:33 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Greg_Weston_572 [ Search for All ]
Allow Click Throughs menu option
Not actually a bug as I described to the user when he subsequently wrote to me directly. The method for regaining control of the clock is explained in the readme and, the first time you enable click-through, on screen.
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Monday, March 17 2008 @ 04:53 PM PDT
Fixed in v1.5.2, available from the link above (even if it still says 1.5.1 as you're reading this). A helpful tip: This would have been fixed in 5 minutes instead of 7 hours if I had gotten e-mail telling me about it; it's only insomnia that got me to see it this soon. I don't think I'm atypical of developers in not spending significant time looking over web sites for bug reports. There's just too much…
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Monday, March 10 2008 @ 01:53 AM PDT
I can only look into it if you could contact me directly so we can figure out what's going on on your machine. The 'S' in SFC is not just for a simple display; the code itself is quite small and straightforward. There's nothing magical or borderline about it; the interactions you're apparently seeing shouldn't be possible and I can't reproduce anything like them on any machine to which I have access (specifically including one…
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Wednesday, November 28 2007 @ 08:43 AM PST
That was kind of the point. It's why it's called a "floating" clock and it mimics the behavior of the stock pre-Leopard clock that it was intended to stand in for. I'll look into adding non-floating behavior if people want it, but initially this was a 10-minute hack to functionally replace a specific feature from previous versions of Mac OS X.
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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 02:00 PM PDT
I like the suggestions and will look into them. The only reason I can think of that you might not have been able to get the context menu to come up is that you had turned the opacity all the way to zero, in which case the OS thinks there's nothing there for you to click on - only the hands and pips.
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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 01:58 PM PDT
It might have been interesting if this user had actually contacted me at the support address so we could determine what was going wrong on their machine, but they didn't. The short answer is: TTF isn't capable of causing the behavior described. Period. What <b>could</b> happen is that a program could be coded to detect that its binary has been modified and thereafter refuse to work. It could even crash if that code was written poorly.…
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Tuesday, September 25 2007 @ 10:16 AM PDT
I'm trying to figure out how the blacklist is a con, but I guess it's implied in the phrasing ... "borked by" That's not the reality. The reality is that there are a relative handful of apps that are designed to check at launch time to see if they've been modified and refuse to run if they detect any changes. The apps are not broken by Xslimmer or TTF or Downsizer or whatever. They continue to…
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Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 05:45 AM PDT
What is the real utility of this software?
Some people running OS X have hard drives that are smaller than what the strictly need and not simple to replace (consider, for example, notebook users). For them, being able to recover even a single GB is a great win. There is absolutely nothing to the idea that a trimmed app will run faster than the original. It's entirely placebo. For fat/thin binaries, the difference is literally a few cycles at launch and for single vs.…
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Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 05:33 AM PDT
That would likely be because the the (currently) green button has never meant "expand" in the history of the Mac. It's supposed to be a switch between distinct states. For most windows, the control is a toggle between the size the user has made the window and the "natural" size of the window, whatever that means to the application author.
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Thursday, July 26 2007 @ 04:13 AM PDT
Unfortunately, it _does_ apply. Spotlight has no concept with finer granularity than a file, and it only invokes indexing plugins on a per-file basis. What Entourage is doing is making a directory full of stub files to represent each record. That may be handy for small tables, but your space consumption will explode as the table grows. Every record, no matter how large, is taking not only its space in the host app _and_ in…
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Wednesday, July 11 2007 @ 05:56 AM PDT
