Advanced SearchUser Name Ilgaz
Member Since 2002-03-12
Total number of Feedback Posts: 232
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Gimp.app 2.4.5r2 (Mac OS X)
Official Gimp 2.4.x available for PPC/Intel/10.4/10.5
Hi, I had a pleasant surprise when I checked gimp.org with Safari. They have linked to http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net/download.html which lists 4 versions. I tried the Leopard 10.5.2 PPC version and it was the most responsive/troublefree Gimp I have tested on OS X. There are binaries/installers (drag/drop) for 10.4 PPC/10.4 Intel, 10.5 PPC/10.5 Intel. The thing you should care about is: Update your X11 to latest from Apple (via Software update) OR if you are on Leopard, get the current version built by same team who provides Apple X11 for Leopard from http://xquartz.macosforge.org Glad to recommend Gimp. [alert admin]
Friday, May 09 2008 @ 02:38 AM PDT
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 (Mac OS X)
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_elements_mac&loc=en_us I have no clue why Mac users aren't redirected to that page when they click "trial". It will need a Adobe Account (free reg), download size is 1.2 GB, can buy inside application (no need for DVD purchase) [alert admin]
Monday, May 05 2008 @ 01:50 PM PDT
iDefrag 1.6.5 (Mac OS X)
I have a CD-R of another vendor in hand, as they patched the image, the tool itself got fragmented and if you remember CD-R (especially) or DVD-R has huge, bad access times, it is a problem. I made a backup image of the CD-R which got fragmented, in first shoot, iDefrag said "There isn't enough free space", as this tool cares about safety first, there aren't fast and dangerous tricks of using memory. I just remembered the "Compact" option, I compacted the virtual disk first. Now having enough free, contiguous space on my CD-R image, I could defragment it fully. The boot time from Firewire 800, external Pioneer 110D (Formac) of same tool decreased from 6 min to 4 min since there are much less random seeks and the files of same context (e.g. Frameworks) are now near each other. I will also try same trick with another vendors DVD and I know the results will be even more impressive since DVD was designed with DATA in mind unlike CD which is actually designed for music. This tool does fit to some home users, business users but if you are in Video/Pro DTP/Audio business or ship any commercial CD/DVD to customers, it could serve great to user experience. [alert admin]
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Sunday, May 04 2008 @ 03:37 AM PDT
EarthBrowser 3.0 (Mac OS X)
I believe this is the first commercial Application to use Adobe AIR framework. It actually uses comically less amounts of CPU compared to previous version and of course speed problems are gone. Another thing is the endless possibilities. Now it is running inside AIR Framework, when a Linux official AIR ships, Linux will run it too. Lets also think about the devices/PDAs which will have AIR. I said on their blog and saying once more, this is the first program upgrade that I didn't regret over 5-7 months of time. Keep up the good work. PS: As this is (naturally) a paid upgrade, you may want to archive your existing version or rename it to something like "Earthbrowser 2" to test the version 3. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 30 2008 @ 02:03 PM PDT
Apple Java for OS X 10.5 Update 1 1.6.0_05 (Mac OS X)
G5 64bit users can use Java 6 on Linux/PPC (Yellow Dog) or Windows
I couldn't stand not to make this bad joke but it is real. If you are desperate for a Java 6 application and that Application isn't too much aggressive about CPU , you can run Java 6 inside Windows XP running Microsoft Virtual PC 7 if you have it. Shame of this bad joke belongs to Apple, nobody else. Not really a joke, I actually did it to see how Java 6 looks. Another option: Java 6 for 64bit G5 running Linux exists for 18 months now, available from IBM. It is not a preview or beta, it is rock solid pure Java already running in their JS Blades. Not a option: I am not giving up a G5 Quad workstation which works perfectly to get "Java 6". In your dreams, whoever took that decision. If you have a 64bit Intel mac, don't hesitate to get this update. Java 6 performs great even on Virtual PC running Windows XP SP2. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 30 2008 @ 01:06 PM PDT
Apple iDVD 7.0.1 (Mac OS X)
While finding people unhelpful, make sure you use DVD-RW ;)
iDVD previous version (6.x) was un intuitive, slow, had a horrible mpeg 2 encoder but it could produce READABLE DVD discs. Guess what? I just wasted 3 DVD-R media trusting this programs DVD recording and ended up buying Toast 9 upgrade as this was the last event convincing me that Apple Inc. ripped me off with iLife 08 update. I am not joking or no sarcasm intended, make sure you test it with a DVD-RW. There are no hacks, unsupported drives here. I just trusted my DVD-R to built in DVD recorder coming inside Quad G5. BTW, it is not SMP aware too. Single CPU using. Must be the only one on industry. Roxio should thank to Apple. [alert admin]
Friday, April 25 2008 @ 03:11 PM PDT
VersionTracker Pro 4.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Serious issue with Netnewswire (current versions) download (hdiutil goes mad)
I have spotted it 3-4 times, always when Netnewswire beta updates. Their DMG somehow makes versiontracker pro application go nuts (600 MB real RAM usage) and take hdiutil with it. It should be easy to test at techtracker (not recommending to users!) , just install a earlier version of netnewswire, let versiontracker.app check updates (current version on Leopard) and click "Download" (not even install). You will spot the memory usage go higher and higher and hdiutil gets launched using 100% CPU (an entire core here) and the only way is kill -9 (yes, not ordinary) hdutil PID. It doesn't even respond to "Terminate" signal. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 05 2008 @ 02:36 PM PDT
RealPlayer 11 build 631 (Mac OS X)
This is a BETA version, the stable version which works perfectly with Leopard can be downloaded by single click. So far I am all happy with the beta. We finally get windows features like "Live pause" (DVR like) and it integrates perfectly with Safari to "rip" flash video which is a life saver for people with unstable connections. Software vendors post their betas to versiontracker since this site has a special "beta" category and they expect users to report issues rather than posting "1 star" reviews. Don't make companies regret it please. [alert admin]
Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 09:58 AM PDT
avast! Home Edition 4.7.1098 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
I got Microsoft Virtual PC 7 here which tries to emulate a Pentium 3 500 Mhz with 512 MB of RAM. I have installed Avast! to it and besides it didn't take machine (virtual) down to its knees, it actually busted a spyware dll which somehow managed to get into that virtual machine. A firewall, heuristical antivirus (spyware is unknown) running on a Mac PC emulator. Gotta respect. [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 26 2008 @ 02:25 PM PDT
FAXstf Pro 10.9 (Mac OS X)
Apple somehow managed to make one of the most stable fax tools on market (efax) unstable on 10.5.2 update (or security update). As fax is a "realtime" thing with no excuse of offline time, I am trialing this product and most likely buying it. At least I would know some company actually makes money from selling it will care. It is still cheaper than $60 "ink" toners in some cheap home fax devices :) [alert admin]
Monday, March 24 2008 @ 05:50 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Ilgaz [ Search for All ]
Wow, what a bug really. (must be CNN webmaster)
I am almost sure it is CNN Webmaster teams bug, especially media section but it is definitely worth a bug report.
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Saturday, May 17 2008 @ 01:22 PM PDT
Unrestricted Access exaggerated
It doesn't get "root access" or any kind of thing like that. To write anything to /Applications under OS X, you need Administrator access. Adobe AIR as a 2007/08 Framework is way paranoid and the Framework it races. It is racing with Java which runs things under their own sandbox. Nevertheless if Earthbrowser 3 was a Java application, it (Java Webstart) would still ask your permission to integrate it to desktop (read as: Put to applications) It…
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Friday, May 09 2008 @ 02:50 AM PDT
It is a developer oriented release which _will_ break Java applets if it is made as default Applet (browser thing) handler since it is 64bit while Safari is 32bit. If you aren't a developer or you don't absolutely need Java 6, you better wait for a more sane release from Apple.
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Sunday, May 04 2008 @ 06:21 AM PDT
This is what Peter Norton SpeedDisk would be
It always feels like, if Peter Norton didn't sell his business and code (to be raped by Symantec) and kept coding Mac/Windows utilities, it would be "Norton SpeedDisk for Leopard". Unfortunately he gave up and sold everything to Symantec who are famous for acquiring some great utilities and making them worthless. I used defragmenters both on Windows and Mac. Let me tell one thing, if there are some real pointless discussions about "How defragment is needless"…
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Sunday, May 04 2008 @ 03:47 AM PDT
No, not because Vista is a better OS or there is anything Windows/PC combination can offer better suit for my needs. That would be the time I finally decide Apple is a iPod/iPhone manufacturer and NOT a serious computer company.
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Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 04:50 AM PDT
Well, thanks to Mr. Landon for his great work (and free!) as usual but as it is a Redhat x86/Sun JDK conversion, it is Intel only too. Of course it is single, polite developers work for free. It doesn't apply to Apple which makes $1billion profit a year. I wonder how much (already non existent) credibility they lost in Enterprise World with this Intel poster child decision. I don't know (seriously) ANY OS which is stuck to Java…
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Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 04:45 AM PDT
They run because they are professionally coded and in case of Cyberduck, they are prisoned
Azureus runs with Java 5, it is fine since it is professionally coded and transforms lots of things to Java 5 compliant if it figures it is running on the only OS on planet having Java 5 as only option. Ask Windows Azureus users about insane amount of speed/memory usage improvements when they upgraded to Java 6. Hope you can find one who remembers Java 5 since it is like 2 years or so since every…
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Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 04:40 AM PDT
Just click Top Downloads tab on this site. Azureus (Vuze), Limewire, Cyberduck Aren't they for average consumer? Who runs them? NASA?
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Wednesday, April 30 2008 @ 02:53 PM PDT
I wonder what will people having G5 say, it even includes iMac G5. Apple is the only company capable of releasing a 64bit Desktop 1-2 years before it is mainstream and abandoning their paid users. They do the both. Only possible with Apple. Also G5 64bit CPU isn't a hacked mess like Intel, it is pure/real 64bit from the start. No "licensed arch from AMD", no "extra registers", just pure 64bit instructions.
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Wednesday, April 30 2008 @ 01:12 PM PDT
iPhoto: Slow iDVD: Can't produce readable disks iMovie 08: Complete joke iMovie HD: Not very compatible with Leopard What else? Garageband. It seems to run OK, its developers must make sure nobody touches their source.
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Friday, April 25 2008 @ 03:14 PM PDT
