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User Name Notary Sojac
Member Since 2003-09-26
Total number of Feedback Posts: 42
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IdentD 2.5.1 (Mac OS X)
I also found the ident problem with IRC in Leopard (tells you how long it's been since I used IRC...) and after trying to figure out how to get the service started I stumbled across this. It's simple works great. [alert admin]
Tuesday, April 14 2009 @ 08:14 AM PDT
Colloquy 2.2 (Mac OS X)
good looking but confusing for an irc newbie 
Colloquy really looks like an OS X application, but I am a bit confused by the interface. When notices come up they appear outside the application - as bubbles at the side of the screen - and the text in them (which is usually truncated) is not selectable. When you click on a bubble it closes, and the notices below it do not move up, so you wind up with an unknown number of bubbles that have opened below the screen's bottom edge. I will have to look at the ReadMe (shock! horror!) to see if there's a way to have those appear in the main window or in a secondary window so I can copy & paste their texts as my ad-hoc typing is atrocious. [alert admin]
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Sunday, April 12 2009 @ 12:02 PM PDT
Refresh Finder 1.2.2 (Mac OS X)
All links to downloads appear to be broken at the developer's now, so the Leopard-compatable 1.2.3 version is unavailable. Version 1.2.2 that I downloaded some time ago work great on our remaining Tiger machines. [alert admin]
Monday, November 24 2008 @ 04:41 PM PST
Delicious Library 2.0.5 (Mac OS X)
Great product but not yet for us
We've been using DL for years at home where we have copies on several machines all accessing one shared data folder via hard-links. We have to be careful to have one copy open at a time, but it's worked well with only one case of corruption at the beginning. It looked like one of the features in DL2 was going to be built-in sharing the database, so no more hard-link kludges. Turns out I misunderstood - not only is the "sharing" more like publishing a document in the System7 days of OpenDoc (and thus not what we're looking for), but the new faster "true database" back end does not like to be accessed as a shared volume, so we can't even use it like we use DL1. After several email exchanges at the height of DM's DL2 support flood, we finally mutually figured out that what we did with DL1, DL2 could not do so our purchase was immediately refunded and the network-share database feature was put into the wish-list. 'Till then we're happy with DL1, even though we had to split it up into several separate data folders - one for movies, one for books and one for audio. [alert admin]
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Thursday, October 23 2008 @ 10:27 AM PDT
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2.0b2 (Mac OS X)
does not work through BlueCoat VPN on Intel macs
When connected to our office network using our BlueCoat VPN RDC 2.00 does diddly on an Intel Mac with OS 10.4.10 or .11 (MacBook Pro C2D). If I try the same trick on a PPC Mac (1st gen G5 2x2) with the same version(s) of MacOS, RDC 2.00 connects to our office servers (Widows Server NT4, 2000 & 2003) just fine. [alert admin]
Monday, March 03 2008 @ 05:32 PM PST
Delicious Library 1.6.4 (Mac OS X)
We use DL almost every day and we love it, but we know it has its limitations. In particular once you have over 1000 items it gets slow, especially when the data file itself is on a network server (even over gigabit.) Version 2 is supposed to have a revamped database capable of real network access instead of the symbolic link kludge we thought of in v1.0.5 and had confirmed by the author as the the solution he would use. We cannot wait. Amazon has been fiddling with the fields again, and they are using drunken monkeys to type the data so there's really no way DL could be expected to sort out what is supposed to go in which field when the data entry goon at Amazon don't appear to care. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 08:22 PM PDT
DVD Snap 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
This is a great utility and a worthy successor the the previously good but unsupported for years "DVD Capture". We bought it before the free demo ran out. Love the ability to set the default filename and start the numbering where you wish. Like the capability to set what filetype to save in. It works as fast as I need it to on our 2.4Ghz MacBook Pro. [alert admin]
Sunday, July 15 2007 @ 10:43 AM PDT
SWF Movie Player 2.0.13.1878 (Mac OS X)
Listed as commercial license now
At least VT lists the license type as Commercial. This is purely a Demo of a commercial product. What we need is a free and decent swf/flv plugin for QuickTime. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 04:47 PM PST
VisualHub 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Ease of use is often worth the $$
Evidently the majority of VisualHub's conversion capabilities can be acomplished with free downloads and hours of fiddling with command-line applications. I do not have time for that c**p. I want to be able to view Windoze media files in something that offers more control than the defunct and not lamented Windoze Media Player. I want to be able to actually view & copy frames from those blasted Flash media files I managed to save from YouTube - not just use them to fill up my hard drives. And I want it with a simple drag&drop interface VisualHub is well named and so far suits our needs. We still need other esoteric utilities & plug-ins to capture streaming media in the first place, but now we can actually make use of it once we've used VH to convert it to QT-readable formats. Looking forward to VH being able to handle even more media types (current RealVideo, current Flash video) but that is probably dependent upon the developers of the codecs. Not sure if capturing streaming media is outside of VH's planned feature scope, but it would be nice to have. [alert admin]
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Saturday, August 05 2006 @ 07:02 PM PDT
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5 (Mac OS X)
This rev still has the problem that was introduced in 1.5 where intermittantly you cannot type in any text field in the window (address field, search field, text fields in the displayed page, etc) unless you switch to any other application then back to Firefox. Then you can again type. We have this on all Macs with Firefox 1.5x, but none with pre-1.5 versions. Does not depend on if the Mac is running Panther or Tiger and does not depend on what Extensions are installed in Firefox - my copy here at the office has only the stock current DOM inspector and Talkback and it still has this issue. [alert admin]
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Friday, July 28 2006 @ 07:37 AM PDT
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I think the user is complaining that it takes several seconds to complete the cycle for a single screen capture. He/she is probably expecting it to do its work in a fraction of a second with no fade-out of the controls & dialogues and no countdown warning - just bang, bang, bang with minimal feedback on where it is in the process and if it was successful or not. I personally like the feedback and window…
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Sunday, July 15 2007 @ 10:30 AM PDT
A great app, with a few issues
Probably should not have tried the Export. Just drag the Delicious Library folder in your desktop's Application Support folder to your laptop's matching folder and you're done.
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Saturday, June 10 2006 @ 09:16 AM PDT
Keyboard scrolling doesn't work
Just so you don't feel like you're getting singled out, Denny, for us Firefox lost keyboard navigation on both of our PowerBooks when we updated to 1.5. The spacebar does nothing, Fn-arrow keys do nothing and the only extension we have installed on our 'Books is AdBlock Plus. I was ticked enough when the Firefox team on purpose removed the ability for up & down arrow to take you to the start and end of a…
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Monday, April 17 2006 @ 07:29 AM PDT
Could be an extension problem?
The only Firefox extension installed on that Mac is AdBlock Plus and it's current. I just had the very same thing happen here at work and I have no added extensions at all (just the standard DOM Inspector and blasted TalkBack.) I just now found that if I switched to another application for about a minute, when I returned to Firefox the text fields were again accessable.
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Friday, April 14 2006 @ 11:04 AM PDT
I was using FontBook (with its little Guttenberg-style printing press icon) extensively between '90 & '93 so I think it may have been on my IIci with System 6.x.
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Wednesday, March 29 2006 @ 11:27 AM PST
Really far too expensive! Try IPSecuritas.
VPNTracker is indeed way overpriced (especially for the Pro version which I need) and their upgrade pricing policy is atrocious (4.0 was released two weeks after I upgraded to version 3 and they would not give a price break if I then upgraded to 4) but it took only a couple of minutes to get my Mac connected to our company's Symantec Enterprise Firewall/VPN, and 3 still does what I need it to do even…
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Tuesday, September 20 2005 @ 10:43 AM PDT
Followup: NOT worth it for one reason...
I (and everyone else I've asked) prefer the old click-selects-full-address convention that we have had for years in every browser except Safari. I think even Mozaic behaved this way back in '94. Apple-arrows for line end & beginning is fine if you are a both hands on the keyboard sort of user, but a pain if you normally have one hand on the mouse or drawing tablet. Incidentally, the Home & End keys on a…
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Tuesday, September 13 2005 @ 06:24 AM PDT
Followup: NOT worth it for one reason...
Okay, I just downloaded and installed this Beta and found exactly the opposite of what the original poster stated to be true. Clicking in the Address bar now DOES NOT select its contents - it just sticks a cursor where you clicked just like frikkin' Safari does. If I can't figure out how to return to the previous Firefox behaviour of "click in Address Bar selects contents" then this is getting tossed.
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Friday, September 09 2005 @ 08:05 AM PDT
Hasn't Firefox always done this (as opposed to Safari's annoying behaivior)? It certainly does it an all my Macs. The problem I've always had with Firefox is the up & down arrows do not get you to the start & end of the text in a single-line text field (like the Address) as they do in virtually every other browser and app. Infuriating.
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Friday, September 09 2005 @ 06:26 AM PDT
I had sort of the reverse of this and reported it directly to the DL crew. I opened a copy of our DL 1.1 library in DL 1.5 and all looked well. I selected several DVDs and asked it to get more info from Amazon. Additional info fleshed out most of the entries but one of the special edition DVDs disappeared. Eventually I noticed that I now had 357 DVDs and 1 CD where previously I…
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Monday, May 16 2005 @ 01:41 PM PDT
