User Profile for Gulliver64

User Name Gulliver64

Member Since 2000-12-10

Total number of Feedback Posts: 62

Total number of comments: 8

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StuffIt Expander 13.0 (Mac OS X)

What is this good for? I still use version 11 and have not hit any file that it could not open. So, why should I upgrade other than taking the risk of finding some incompatibilities like with Norton AntiVirus? [alert admin]

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Wednesday, September 17 2008 @ 08:12 AM PDT

Leopard Cache Cleaner 4.0.15 (Mac OS X)

Stop it!

Stop adding stupid features that nobody needs and try instead to make this a stable program!!! 15 releases in just 9 months is too much! Even Limewire does better by now. [alert admin]

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Friday, August 22 2008 @ 02:40 PM PDT

TechTool Pro 4.6.1 (Mac OS X)

Excellent utility, but ....

Tech Tool Pro saved me from computing desaster more than once! It is very reliable and it's features to prevent problems or at least warn early work perfectly. However, there is one major drawback: Tech Tool Pro is extremely slow when defragmenting the hard disk. Even on my 8-Core-3-GHz MacPro it took more than 2 hours to defrag the internal hard disk which is less than 25% full. Tech Tool Pro uses only less than 20% of the available CPU-power (according to Apple activity monitor) and uses only 64 MB of physical RAM. Since defragmentation has a lot to do with reading data from the hard disk to RAM and write them back to hard disk this seems to be one of the bottle-necks for performance. In a time when even the cheapest consumer level computers are sold with at least 1 GB of RAM this strategy is completely outdated! For 10 years now every single Macintosh comuter was sold with at least 256 MB RAM and Tech Tool Pro does not even run in these machines since it requires at MacOS 10.4 which itself requires at least a G4 computer (which shipped with a minimum of 512 MB RAM). [alert admin]

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Friday, July 11 2008 @ 03:13 AM PDT

Firefox 3.0 (Mac OS X)

Very nice

Works fine with just minor glitches with special web-pages. Very fast! [alert admin]

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Wednesday, June 18 2008 @ 03:51 PM PDT

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Most important Add-On ever!

This is the most important Add-On for MacOS X since the initial launch of X! [alert admin]

EarthBrowser 3.0 (Mac OS X)

Bye, bye Earthbrowser

Does not work properly (blinking icon in Dock as if an application tries to start but can't). Slow. Probably nice features for the US but useless for the rest of the world. [alert admin]

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Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 03:06 AM PDT

iSync phone plugins 6.0 (Mac OS X)

Ridiculous!

This is ridiculous! They add a few new phones and make a full version-jump to 6.x just to ask for some cash. No new functionality, not even a bug-fix release. It does not even work when you also use MissingSync for a second PDA/Smart-phone. Keep your fingers away from this company, they are even worse than Adobe. [alert admin]

MacFamilyTree 5.0.9 (Mac OS X)

Upgrade does not work

Just bought the upgrade license. When I try to register it does accept the v.5 license code, however it does NOT except the old license. Sent an E-Mail to dureg.com for help, but they redirected me to synium.de. I did enclose the original E-Mail from the v.1 license but have not received an answer yet (the upgrade option states: "Update MacStammbaum ≥1.x --> 5.x Synium Software GmbH", so it should work). Let's wait and see... [alert admin]

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Monday, January 21 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Logitech Control Center 2.4.0 (Mac OS X)

Update: Logitech Control Center - 2.4.0 kills network access

Update to my previous report about Logitech Control Center - 2.4.0 killing access to Microsoft networks through ADmitMac: After uninstalling LCC access to the network is back to normal. Here is the solution Logitech support offered: "In order to settle this problem please follow the troubleshooting steps given bellow. Set your computer to clean boot. Answer Title: Tutorial: Booting Clean in Windows 98, ME, XP and Vista Answer Link: http://logitech-en-amr.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/logitech_en_amr.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=228 after doing the above then please try installing the LCC software again." Very usefull Tip for a user of MacOS X :~< [alert admin]

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Friday, December 14 2007 @ 05:01 AM PST