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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
Firefox 1.5.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Shortly after the update to 1.5.0.2 (no option to say no - just a dialogue that said "Firefox has been updated. You must restart it now. OK" while we had a bunch of tabs open...) frequently (a dozen times last night) single line text fields on multiple sites refused to accept input. Clicking within them or tabbing would not get the cursor to appear and no text appeared anywhere if we just started typing - hoping it was a cosmetic issue. Page reloads and emptying the cache did not work. Only quitting Firefox and re-opening the page would let us enter text once this happend. [alert admin]
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Friday, April 14 2006 @ 06:54 AM PDT
Delicious Library 1.6.1 (Mac OS X)
Love it despite its slowness. I will have to make a backup of our 800+ DVD database before I try this version. When I tested 1.5's enhanced "update info from Amazon.com" info-fetch capabilities it moved some DVDs into the CD division and updated some others with the text from Amazon.fr and Amazon.jp. What I would love for additions to this app: - improved data import from Amazon. Lately the genre and director fields have been getting filled in with the DVD title. - better network performance. We followed the author's suggestion and made a symbolic link between the folder DL maken in your Application Support folder and the actual database on our file server. This way all Macs in the household can see the same collection but only one at a time. If only it were faster. - ability to switch databases since 800 DVDs makes it pretty slow and we haven't even started to add the CDs or Books yet. We currently do this manually by moving various aliases (symbolic links actually) into and out of the Application Support folder. I tried to make AppleScripts to do this swap but the aliases/symbolic links didn't work once AS moved them. - auto-complete in some fields. It would be great if it would fill in 'anime binder 1' when I start typing in 'an'. Or I'd love to be able to define a set of locations that would then be a drop down menu. - I agree that there is excessive mousing around necessary. [alert admin]
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Friday, February 10 2006 @ 12:24 PM PST
MacTheRipper 2.6.6 (Mac OS X)
Finally encountered a DVD MtR couldn't fully rip
The DVD was authored with deliberate bad sectors according to MtR's alert. Per the manual I selected Pad the VOB since I want a duplicate of the original. Took most of the evening to get through extracting the DVD on our G5 2x2. When I tried to play the ripped files two chapters (probably the two with the deliberate bad sectors) would not play - just black screen. As I mentioned originally, this is the very first of our DVDs we are making backups of that MtR could not handle, and we've backed up quite a few so far. Shame their site is down again. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 28 2006 @ 08:43 PM PST
PSLogSearch 0.2 (Mac OS X)
Upon launch I am asked to locate my "Photoshop Edit log" in my Documents folder. I have no such file and I do have Photoshop CS. Is there some sort of switch in PSCS to enable logging that has to be activated first? The documentation should mention this if it is so. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 19 2005 @ 07:04 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
