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DAZ Studio 3.0.1.135 (Mac OS X)
This is listed as Freeware, but the price is $149.95. So which is it? Maybe it is a demo, but if so, what is limited? Time, features, quality, watermarks? [alert admin]
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Tuesday, July 07 2009 @ 05:02 AM PDT
TrailRunner 2.0v384 (Mac OS X)
On launch, I get a message saying it does not run on this version of OS X. I am on a dual G5 PPC, running 10.4.11. The description shows that it should run. [alert admin]
Wednesday, June 24 2009 @ 08:52 PM PDT
Bean 2.2.0 (Mac OS X)
This is a simple word processor, with all the features we need for 99% of work. It is a step up from TextEdit (from OS X). The search and replace is more advanced. The best feature is that it launches very quickly, less than 1 dock bounce for me. I also use Tex-Edit Plus and TextWrangler for special situations, but Bean's instant launch is nice. [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 14 2009 @ 06:11 AM PDT
jalada's Spinball 1.0.3d (Mac OS X)
3D is overused. This is a pretty standard breakout game, except that the objects get larger as they go down the screen to give an illusion of depth. The graphics are poor, and the control is not smooth. It is a demo until you pay, and the limitation is about one minute of play. It was enough. This might be worth the money, if it was free. [alert admin]
Saturday, May 02 2009 @ 05:30 PM PDT
Sequoia 1.6 (Mac OS X)
I tried it on OS X 10.4.11, and it ran fine. Command Q quit. Keys worked as in the read me. It is a new Tetris descendant, with blocks coming from all four sides (one at a time) toward the center, where the object is to build blocks. Not bad if you like Tetris. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, March 25 2009 @ 07:37 PM PDT
IceClean 3.1 (Mac OS X)
The .pkg file seems corrupt. Installer quits with no message or log entry. Pacifist can read the contents but crashes when I try to extract. [alert admin]
Tuesday, December 30 2008 @ 12:47 PM PST
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
Last 10 Comments by Kent Durvin [ Search for All ]
Sorry, folks. It is early, and I did not read the whole description. I like the idea of a demo. It is much better than a box with a marketing blurb that essentially says, "Trust us, this is good!"
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Tuesday, July 07 2009 @ 05:05 AM PDT
Norton is $49.95. Don't you remember paying for it?
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Friday, May 15 2009 @ 04:37 AM PDT
If the document is .txt, the font and style will affect the whole document. If you save as Rich Text format, .rtf or .rtfd, the style will affect only what you select, as you would expect. Most word processors let you modify the style, and then tell you that if you save as text, you will lose all of the formatting. There are several ways this could be handled: 1. Let you format and then after…
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Thursday, May 14 2009 @ 05:57 AM PDT
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
