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User Name MacUser-4-ever
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iJailBreak 0.5.3 (Mac OS X)
Unbelievably easy for my 1.1.3 iPhone, now what about 1.1.4? 
Has anyone tested this yet with a 1.1.4 iPhone? [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 27 2008 @ 12:09 AM PST
PhoneValet 4.0.5 (Mac OS X)
I've been using this for a while now and really love it. It's great being able to keep all of your voicemail ever. One new thing I've been using it for is finding out the IP address of my home Mac when I'm on the road. All I need to do is call my home and PhoneValet sends an email. In the headers of the email is my IP address. Knowing the dynamic IP address allows me to Remote Access my Mac. There are like a billion things like this that the software allows. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 11 2006 @ 12:48 PM PDT
Parallels Workstation 2.1b2 (Mac OS X)
Wow, Beta 2 already...this has serious potential
So just when I was going to submit a review today, I noticed they came out with Beta 2. They've made some serious progress since the first Beta just a couple of days ago. Beta 1 was more of a preview/proof of concept, and a very promising one at that, but Beta 2 is now something that is functional and ready for actual use, albeit with some significant limitations that don't make it a suitable solution for everyone who needs to run Windows...mostly driver issues. At any rate, this is going to be a really sweet product and they're offering it at a very decent price. This will definitely grease the wheels of the great switcher masses. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 04:51 PM PDT
Apple Mac OS X Intel 10.4.6 (Mac OS X)
Needed to reload xom.efi (bootloader for running Windows XP) and logout of wifi
I needed to logout of my wifi network after rebooting and then log back in to get a proper ip address. I suppose a second reboot would've worked just as well. Also for anyone running Windows XP on their MacBook, I needed to reload the xom.efi. Before doing that, my Mac would automatically reboot in OS X without the option to boot into Windows. BTW: Windows XP runs friggin' awesome on the MacBook. There's no graphic hardware acceleration, but other than that, it's the fastest Windows PC I've ever had. [alert admin]
Monday, April 03 2006 @ 09:12 PM PDT
Saft 8.2.2 (Mac OS X)
What's with all the idiots who don't understand why Saft needs to be updated with each new Safari release *and* then give it multiple 1 star ratings here? It's pretty simple... Apple makes changes to Safari from time to time. When it does, any patch or extension that would be affected by this change would need to be upgraded. Saft is not alone in this regard. There's no way for the developer to foresee what changes Apple will make and when they will make them. All he can do is upgrade Saft after Apple has released the change *and* he has had time to code/test a new version. As a user of Saft, this means you need to do one of the following: 1) Wait on installing a Safari update until the Saft update is available, or 2) Go ahead and upgrade Safari and go without Saft until an update is available. The above is pretty simple, yes? If you don't like it, then either demand that Apple stop upgrading Safari, or recommend a *really* good fortune teller to the Saft developer. [alert admin]
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Monday, January 09 2006 @ 08:42 AM PST
CoMa X 7.3 (Mac OS X)
Ignore the idiots here, this software fills a need
Wow, what a bunch of idiots. What do you people do, search VT for apps you have no use for and then give them bad reviews? First of all, CoMa is more than just a fax app, it also is an answering machine. The price is pretty fair, though I prefer the more expensive Phone Valet for my needs. Still CoMa fills the need for one of my offices where I inevitably get people who try to send a fax to my voice line. Also in regards to DSL, WiFi, etc... You can't send or receive a fax using these, meaning you can connect straight from a DSL connection to a fax machine. Net services like Send2Fax are email to fax gateways. Net faxing services of course can seem silly as compared to simply emailing the document directly to the recipient. However, there are many instances where a person doesn't have a scanner, can't receive attachments, or whatever. In these cases, as well as being able to receive faxes sent to your voice line, software like this comes in handy...and avoids the spam and costs associated with net faxing services. [alert admin]
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Saturday, December 31 2005 @ 11:32 AM PST
Fetch Art for iTunes 1.2 (Mac OS X)
There are a lot of album art downloaders utilizing Amazon, but none of them seem to get it right. As a developer of an art downloader, what you should do is pretend the user has an infinite number of albums...not 10, not 100, not 1K, but *infinite*. This would mean three things: 1) The user would not have time to click, drag, view, or wait for each image for each album. The software should have a "trust me" setting where in the application can be launched and without *any* user action other than hitting the "start" button, album art is automatically downloaded and copied into iTunes. 2) Instead of grabbing the metadata for the entire library and batch processing, it should do one album at a time. Ideally it should read in the library and keep a list of what has been fetched so that it can quit (or crash) and then resume from where it left off. Libraries as big as mine might take weeks to complete, so it's really important that it can quit at any time and pick up from where it left off. Just to be clear, what I'm saying is that it should make a list of all of the albums, but then process them one at a time. 3) It should first check to see if there is already album art. There should be a preference setting to either (a) Replace all existing album art (b) Leave existing album art, or (c) Ask each time. Now I know that it's a problem that often Amazon returns multiple images for an album or gets an album completely wrong, but in my testing of fetchers, I've found that they get roughly 90% correct...which is better than nothing, and better than the 10 bazillion hours it would take to use any existing apps. For extra credit what one could do is have a log that you could *scroll* through and see the results...it's important to be able to scroll, and not have to click through each album. Think of it as a spreadsheet with tall rows showing artist, album name, jpg1, jpg2, ... all on the same row for the album. As one scrolls through, jpg1 would be the one that was copied to iTunes, but clicking on any of the other images in that row would copy that image over the one that had been chosen. For extra, extra credit...it would also combine lyric functionality. [alert admin]
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Friday, December 30 2005 @ 07:50 PM PST
iTunes Album Artwork Locator 2.0 (Mac OS X)
There are a lot of album art downloaders utilizing Amazon, but none of them seem to get it right. As a developer of an art downloader, what you should do is pretend the user has an infinite number of albums...not 10, not 100, not 1K, but *infinite*. This would mean three things: 1) The user would not have time to click, drag, view, or wait for each image for each album. The software should have a "trust me" setting where in the application can be launched and without *any* user action other than hitting the "start" button, album art is automatically downloaded and copied into iTunes. 2) Instead of grabbing the metadata for the entire library and batch processing, it should do one album at a time. Ideally it should read in the library and keep a list of what has been fetched so that it can quit (or crash) and then resume from where it left off. Libraries as big as mine might take weeks to complete, so it's really important that it can quit at any time and pick up from where it left off. Just to be clear, what I'm saying is that it should make a list of all of the albums, but then process them one at a time. 3) It should first check to see if there is already album art. There should be a preference setting to either (a) Replace all existing album art (b) Leave existing album art, or (c) Ask each time. Now I know that it's a problem that often Amazon returns multiple images for an album or gets an album completely wrong, but in my testing of fetchers, I've found that they get roughly 90% correct...which is better than nothing, and better than the 10 bazillion hours it would take to use any existing apps. For extra credit what one could do is have a log that you could *scroll* through and see the results...it's important to be able to scroll, and not have to click through each album. Think of it as a spreadsheet with tall rows showing artist, album name, jpg1, jpg2, ... all on the same row for the album. As one scrolls through, jpg1 would be the one that was copied to iTunes, but clicking on any of the other images in that row would copy that image over the one that had been chosen. For extra, extra credit...it would also combine lyric functionality. [alert admin]
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Friday, December 30 2005 @ 01:04 AM PST
Amazon Album Art widget 1.3 (Mac OS X)
Fast, simple, free, effective. The only way it could be improved is if it did what PearLyrics (the .app) did but with artwork. That is to say that PearLyrics has an auto-mode for the app that lets you let it run and fetch all the lyrics for all of your songs without any user intervention. This would be a big leap for artwork...no app currently does this for art. For auto-mode to be efficient, it would need to be smart enough to fetch artwork and populate the album so that it doesn't download artwork for each song. Regardless, this, as a widget, is best in class. [alert admin]
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Saturday, December 17 2005 @ 06:26 PM PST
Amazon Album Art widget 1.1 (Mac OS X)
It would really improve things if it could automatically detect what song was playing in iTunes and then retrieve the artwork. It would be great to have an auto-mode that just did it on best guessed match, and then another manual mode where you could select from a list of returned results. [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 15 2005 @ 06:47 PM PST
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Snow Leopard (interim) Tip - Also add/edit searches 
Thanks for the tip thmghtd! I did a new/virgin install of Glims and found that it works with the defaults and the default searches. I also found that going to /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/Glims/, I could edit the plist files and add/edit searches. The easiest way to do this would be to install Glims on a Leopard machine, edit the preferences, and then copy the Glims folder over, but if you don't have access to another Mac to…
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Friday, September 11 2009 @ 01:49 PM PDT
I understand where you're coming from, but I think you're wrong here. There's some unwritten history with this app. When VisualHub terminated, there became huge void in this type of app. It seems like they're rushing development and doing an amazing job of it, so the developers are faced with a choice...holding off on offering new features and fixes or make them available as they develop. You always have the ability…
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Sunday, August 09 2009 @ 08:35 PM PDT
grh-akl, In OS X, your Applications folder is not supposed to be on a separate partition. If you have 121 GB of apps, I'm surprised you don't have a lot more problems. Many apps won't run like that...many *Apple* apps won't run like that. It's a bad idea to hack around this. No you can blame Apple for this, or realize that putting all of your apps where they belong is not…
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Wednesday, September 24 2008 @ 02:49 PM PDT
As of yet, the SDK isn't public. That means either you're breaking an NDA with Apple or you don't know what you're talking about. There's a really good chance that the SDK won't allow for all of the flexibility that jailbreaking your iPhone does. I'm not talking about SIM unlocking or any kind of theft of service, just some of the cool native apps that are available and involve greater system modification than what…
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Wednesday, February 27 2008 @ 12:14 AM PST
That was a really poor review. As bad as saying Microsoft Excel really sucks at video editing. People want to hear how Parallels works as intended. It's very clear that you would not use Parallels for gaming, let along hardcore gaming. This is an unbelievably great app for those of us needing to use it as intended.
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Friday, December 01 2006 @ 08:46 PM PST
That's got to be the worst excuse for using an installer that I've ever heard. If the app is in a .dmg, then that can be dragged into the applications folder and the Read Me files can stay in the .dmg. I love OnyX even if it does use an installer, but I'd prefer it didn't. At least it comes with an uninstaller.
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Thursday, March 23 2006 @ 09:03 PM PST
For future reference, and in case anyone else has this problem: Always Quit out of your application first, then delete the preference file. If you do it the other way around, you might find the app re-writing the bad preference file before it quits.
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Saturday, March 18 2006 @ 11:36 AM PST
It's still working fine for me with 10.4.3.
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Monday, October 31 2005 @ 08:20 PM PST
"One of the handy new hidden 'features' of version 7 is the inability to burn encrypted dvds." How is that any different from how Toast has always been from day #1 with DVD burning? And why would you expect anything else from legitimate commercial software? I'm not passing judgement on whether it's morally right or wrong, but legally, there is the DMCA which has always required the developers of Toast to keep it from being able…
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Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 01:46 AM PDT
Huh?
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Tuesday, May 10 2005 @ 10:16 PM PDT
