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QuoteFiler 1.51 (Mac OS X)
Using it on Leopard 10.5.2, it works fine, downloaded two years of the entire S&P 500 (once I gave it the list of stocks) from Yahoo in under five minutes, and saved the information without problem. A nice alternative to all the cripple-ware masquerading as shareware out there these days. [alert admin]
Sunday, May 11 2008 @ 07:18 PM PDT
Proxy On/Off 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
I'd like to use this for a PAC-based proxy, with a PAC file url. As it is, this is incredibly annoying to turn on and off when I want to use the university servers to access ejournals, etc. Is there any way to add this type of proxy to your toggler? [alert admin]
Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 04:22 PM PDT
Google Earth 4.1.7076.4458 (Mac OS X)
I upgraded my Google Earth to 4.1.7076.4458 as it recommended, and now all flying tours/directions stutter terribly, with abrupt jumps in altitude and jumps forward. I'm running it on a MacBook 10.4.9, so there shouldn't be any hardware problems, and indeed there weren't in the previous version. Silly me for overwriting it...now to search for an older version to revert to... [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 29 2007 @ 01:44 PM PDT
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 RC 1 (Mac OS X)
It works fine, and feels quicker than Safari (though I'm not sure it actually is). My main objection--and this has kept me from Firefox for many months now--is quite minor, but very annoying: the text flickers ever so slightly when using smooth scrolling. It doesn't do that in Safari, but for some reason, the Firefox folks can't get it to work right: it doesn't look like text sliding up the screen, but like a flickery movie of text moving up. It moves fast, and smoothly--there's nothing wrong with my computer--but it does flicker. And that makes it too annoying for me to use. I know, just a personal quirk, but I wish they'd fix it. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 27 2006 @ 01:01 PM PDT
Azureus BitTorrent Client 2.4.0.0 (Mac OS X)
First, a few revisions ago it started having problems quitting, and no windows would close until I quit the program. Now with this new version it just finished downloading a file, but somehow failed to update the file in the finder (the finder claimed the file hadn't be changed for two hours, since the download began, and claimed the file was still just 2mb; "force re-check" did nothing), and then somehow during fiddling the date and size updated, but apparently corrupt since I can't actually open it. In general, they seem to be adding stuff--so they say, I haven't seen much different--faster than they debug, with the thing going from overweight to necrotic. It's still the only real choice, but I'm starting to no longer trust it. [alert admin]
Thursday, February 16 2006 @ 12:27 AM PST
MusicMagic Mixer 1.1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Excellent product; it produces much better shuffle sets than itunes. 
We used to plug the ipod in and just put it on shuffle, but our music covers too many different genres: sometimes it's fun to get hard rock followed by Chopin followed by depressed alt, etc, but often you want songs in whatever mood you're in the mood for. That's what MusicMagic Mixer does, and quite well. We now almost never do random shuffle, as rarely as we do just a straight album. I only wish they made it for the ipod (though you can of course export the playlists to the ipod). [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 25 2006 @ 11:59 PM PST
ffmpegX 0.0.9u (Mac OS X)
Trouble with iPod H264 setting 
Using the h.264 ipod default setting, the resultant video (totally fine beforehand) came out a) stretched from 16:9 to 4:3 (ie, everyone skinny) and, more oddly, the video was going at least 1.5x speed, while the sound was at a normal rate. I don't think I was doing anything wrong, since I was testing the defaults, but I'm no expert. Also, manually doing the settings using MP4 xvid for the ipod, whenever I batch-process a bunch of videos (ie, they are queued up), the first few are okay, but the later ones become progressively out-of-synch between the sound and the video. Otherwise, this is a great product, one I have used for ages. [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 01 2005 @ 07:04 PM PST
iSquint 0.5 (Mac OS X)
Unlike the other simple converters out there so far, this one uses ffmpeg, which allows it to read many more types of video files than quicktime. It basically doesn't do anything more than ffmpegx can do, but it does it much more simply. Alas, like ffmpegx (as of Oct 31, 05), it can't output the particular type of H.264 videos that ipods demand ("Baseline," as I understand it), so it only outputs in MPEG4--which iSquint claims is superior anyway, for what that's worth. Quibbles/additions I'd like to see: I'd like to be able to see somewhere exactly what the parameters for the output file are going to be. I'd like an estimated time remaining countdown, like Podner. I'd like H.264, of course (I know ffmpeg can be compiled to do Baseline, the guys at Handbrake have--unofficially--done it). It would be nice to have it automatically determine the aspect ratio of the videos, especially since you can't specify different settings for different videos when converting a whole folder. It seems to have trouble encoding a video on a mounted volume--it repeated says it can't find one of the components in the application folder itself (this may be a 10.3.9 issue; I haven't checked on my 10.4 machine). It doesn't play quite right with the menu bar--when I switch from other apps to iSquint, it sometimes leaves the other app's menubar in place. That all said, it's right now my video converter of choice--beats out all contenders (except for the modified Handbrake for going direct from DVDs). [alert admin]
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Monday, October 31 2005 @ 01:10 PM PST
SubRosaSoft ImageMounter 1.01 (Mac OS X)
This is atrocious--a link back to their website, but the product is nowhere to be seen. I can't find it anywhere, and they must be aware that they have deep-sixed their most popular freeware app. Pretty sleazy. [alert admin]
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Thursday, October 20 2005 @ 06:13 PM PDT
Booxter 1.8 (Mac OS X)
This an excellent product--simple, elegant, speedy. The only shareware I've ever bought, I think. My one desire is that it be able to look up books by title. I have a barcode scanner that I use quite happily with all my modern books, but I have many oldish books that lack ISBNs but are still in print in other editions. A by-name lookup that presented you for each book with a short list of possibilities found on amazon, allowing you to choose the most appropriate (kind of like the book search on addall.com), would be extremely useful. Having the wrong edition in my booklist, with all the attendant information, is still much better than just a bare title and author that I typed in. [alert admin]
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Monday, July 25 2005 @ 11:32 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Milford [ Search for All ]
An application that inadvertently causes the OS to hard-crash every time reveals a serious weakness in the OS, regardless of what else may also be wrong with the application. Furthermore, as I understand it, Azureus did not introduce any non-standard behavior with the introduction of Leopard -- clearly, something was changed in Leopard that causes it to react so poorly. The discussion above indicates that it has something to do with the airport protocol, since…
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Saturday, December 22 2007 @ 10:27 PM PST
Same problem. I see that it is rife on the Apple discussion board linked above. Frankly, I blame this more on Apple than Azureus -- no way should they let this sort of thing happen. Leopard is the worst Mac OS I've seen since the early system 7 days.
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Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 10:05 PM PST
A bit of confusion over there about versioning. The developer link you give at https://developer.skype.com/MacSkype/ReleaseNotes says 2.6.0.63 on the page. The link you give to the beta download says 2.5.0.63 on the page, but the url is http://share.skype.com/sites/garage/2006/12/skype_for_mac_26_beta_update.html where the 26 means someone who made the url also thought it was 2.6. Odd. 2.5.0.63 seems to be the truth though, as far as I can tell.
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Thursday, December 14 2006 @ 07:56 PM PST
