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iAntiVirus 1.0b3 (Mac OS X)
This product also works great as a repellent for wild wombats! It will protect your Mac from all known viruses for Mac: none. [alert admin]
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Friday, September 19 2008 @ 07:29 AM PDT
360Works ScriptMaster 1.0 (Mac OS X)
After the site gave errors, I got an email with a link to the download. This free plugin allows you to run Groovy (a Java derivative) code in FileMaker. You can do things that are not possible without a plugin. Many examples are included. One is a color picker far better than FileMaker has with examples of white text over the color, black text over the color, text in the color over white and grey, etc. It then returns variables r, g, and b with the values for the color chosen. I won't review until I have done more with it, but it is an interesting idea, and the price is right. [alert admin]
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Thursday, January 03 2008 @ 09:37 AM PST
360Works ScriptMaster 1.0 (Mac OS X)
The site requires registration and a valid email address for receiving the serial number. Then the site times out. [alert admin]
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Thursday, January 03 2008 @ 05:53 AM PST
Xbox Browser 2.1.5f (Mac OS X)
The previous reviews were so old, I had to try it. The download works. This is for Xboxes that have a "mod chip". (If you don't know what that is, you don't have one. It is a piece of hardware soldered into the Xbox to let you take control.) When you launch the first time it loads a help page in Safari. The interface is slightly off from Apple standard: In the main window "Xbox Browser", click the button at the bottom, "Open/Close Panel". This reveals a slide out panel with the controls. (That is not logical, since you can't do much with it closed.) Then click the Preferences tab. (That should be in the menu.) Enter the IP of your Xbox, the games directory, and name and password, and where you want the .iso files to be created. The default is your user folder. Change it to the desktop. Then in the left side click Refresh and you should see your games stored on your drive. Select one or more, and click Download Now! (on the right side under the Commands tab). If you get an error, switch the Preferences to Basic Commands. [alert admin]
Thursday, December 27 2007 @ 08:20 AM PST
Smoke 20070607 (Mac OS X)
On a G4 MDD, 10.4.9, it shows up in the Screen Saver list, and I can select it, but the prefpane then ignores it: If I get options, I get the options of the last saver selected. Preview does the same. [alert admin]
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Friday, June 08 2007 @ 06:20 AM PDT
cscreen 1.4 (Mac OS X)
It is now available for download here: http://www.macosxguru.net/downloads/CScreen.zip [alert admin]
Friday, April 13 2007 @ 05:36 AM PDT
Cadmover 5.5.14 (Mac OS 9)
Intel based Macs do not have Classic. CADmover will not run. The price is now $329, and there is a lite version for $199 that converts the most common CAD formats. CADMover opens and saves CAD files. It is not a CAD program, but a coversion program. We use it to translate CAD files of cutting dies for product packages so we can fit the graphics to the die in Adobe Illustrator. Some limitations are not with CADMover, but with the input file format. DXF does not have units in the file. CGM comes in as 1 layer. IGS is good, with the size accurate and layers. There is nothing else like CADmover, so I can't say the price is unreasonable. [alert admin]
Friday, January 19 2007 @ 06:13 AM PST
Library ISBN Barcoder 2.5 (Mac OS X)
There is no book with that ISBN number 
I used a barcode scanner on several books, and I got the message, "There is no title with the ISBN number entered." for each one. Maybe Amazon can't find it, but the book exists. The URL provided shows that the problem is with the Amazon service used. It can't find the book. If you got to Amazon.com and search for the same number, it finds the book. Without that service, the database is fairly usable, but not worth much. [alert admin]
Tuesday, December 05 2006 @ 07:24 AM PST
FileMaker Pro Server 8.0v2 (Mac OS X)
The Schedules feature lets you have an automatic backup. It even closes the file briefly as it does the backup. What it does not tell you is that you can't backup to a remote volume. If you search a while on the support section of FileMaker.com, you can find this. I think the application should tell you. The solution is to backup the FileMaker Server's backup folder with your choice of software. That way you have nicely closed files. [alert admin]
Friday, March 17 2006 @ 11:06 AM PST
StuffIt Expander 10.0.2 (Mac OS X)
The download link redirects to this: http://homepage.mac.com/allume/.Public/StuffIt/For_MacOS_10.3_and_later/stuffit_exp_1002_install. I find it odd that Allume would host its latest download on some other website. The domian is blocked by my corpoarte firewall. Maybe they are valid: The ftp links below are no longer valid, but you can navigate to Archive and find older versions but not the newest 10.0.2. After the recent trojan news, I am suspicious of software coming from the wrong site. [alert admin]
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Friday, March 10 2006 @ 08:03 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by Kent Durvin [ Search for All ]
I use ClickRepair for cleaning. It is shareware, but it does a much better job compared to Audacity. Remember Bobby McFerrin, "Don't worry, Be Happy"? At the default setting, ClickRepair removes the finger snaps. With a little adjustment it does it right, but I was amazed. Each program has its good features. Final Vinyl detects tracks on normal albums, Click Repair removes noise, and Audacity does effects and EQ well.
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Wednesday, April 09 2008 @ 08:54 AM PDT
Of course, the numbers might win. There is the same chance of one of the predicted sets of numbers winning as any other set. To understand why it can't work, consider a simpler situation: flipping a coin. There are 2 sides to the coin, no matter how many times it has come up heads. The chances of flipping heads 30 times is 1 in 2^30, or 1,073,741,824. If you have already flipped heads 29 times, the…
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Monday, December 31 2007 @ 06:33 AM PST
One solution would be to buy the cheapest UPS with USB, and then connect the USB to your server. Don't use it for power to the server, and set Energy Saver to shut down after a few minutes on UPS power. Don't have it shut down based on expected time left, because it will be different with this UPS.
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Wednesday, October 18 2006 @ 10:07 AM PDT
2012: that's when Vista will be out.
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Friday, June 30 2006 @ 05:10 AM PDT
I had a similar problem. I have an antique engraver running DOS 6.2.1. The only way to get it to work was to open the share to all users, and connect as guest. It looks like the security was tightened i9n some way that made it hard for old clients to connect. I agree that Apple claiming it was "third party software" is irrelevant, because they claim that this server will work with those clients.
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Wednesday, June 28 2006 @ 05:26 AM PDT
Life is a "game" that happens on a grid. (There are no scores, no players, but what else can you call it?) A starting pattern of dots is set up on the grid of cells. Then a few very simple rules are applied to determnine which cells of the grid will have dots in the next generation. There are only a few rules, and yet the resulting patterns are very complex, and do some very…
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Friday, December 23 2005 @ 09:44 AM PST
Why? Because it is easier. It is nice to know the command line, but it is far easier to run an application. The double-click that opens the Terminal could also do this job. My brain is crammed with so much useless information that I don't want to remember these commands. (I deleted long division last week. I have a calculator.) I suggest you use your knowledge to help us lazy people. Find out why simple widgets suck…
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Tuesday, August 09 2005 @ 07:30 AM PDT
"Always remember to put the actual application inside your .sit file!"
I had the same problem. I used Stuffit Deluxe 9.0.1. When I unStuffed the folder, I looked inside and only saw the EULA and .webloc ifles. I re-opened the archive and opened the folder to see all four files there. I unstuffed the .app file into the same folder on my desktop, and it said the file already exists. I replaced it, and now it is visible. Using the Terminal, I can see that…
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Wednesday, July 13 2005 @ 08:25 AM PDT
NAV autoscan often causes problems in Adobe applications, like these Adobe tech notes:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331092.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/325152.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/11325578.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/330607.html
One of these caused corruption of files.
This is partly Adobe's fault, since no other software seems to be having this much trouble, but the cure (NAV) is causing more problems than non-existant viruses.
Windows users must run anti-virus. Macs are not the main source of infection. Therefore, Mac users should not need to run NAV to protect them.
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Thursday, May 19 2005 @ 05:44 AM PDT
