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User Name Saichology
Member Since 2003-02-12
Total number of Feedback Posts: 27
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Xtorrent 1.1 (53) (Mac OS X)
Awful, ethically questionable software which no-one should buy 
I would advise prospective purchasers of this software to ignore the obviously fake positive reviews on this site and others and consider these facts:
1. This software is little more than a wrapper for the totally free open source bittorrent software, Transmission, available at http://www.transmissionbt.com/. While the developer is able to use this open source software under its permissive MIT license, he never credits them for doing most of the work for him, and certainly does not pass any portion of sales profits to them. Highly unethical.
2. Transmission is superior in almost every way, and due to the fact that xtorrent is nothing but a rip-off of it, will always be ahead of xtorrent in features and performance. Needless to say, Transmission is in very common use, is stable and secure, has no spyware or any other questionable functions (xtorrent is closed source and sends regular updates to the developer's servers, of unknown content), has free automatic updates, and is compatible with all other BT clients.
3. This software's sole feature beyond Transmission is a built-in search function. This does nothing you can't do yourself at Mininova or similar. This function is also prone to breakage and blocking by the site owners, who do not appreciate the developer's misuse of their services. Which leads to:
4. Because of the unethical practises of the developer, many other clients will block you if you use this product, myself included. Users of xtorrent will see lower speeds and possible tracker bans. Technically competent users such as myself, who block xtorrent, also tend to have the highest upload speeds and seed to keep the community alive - a community the developer of this software has abused time and time again.
Please think about all of this before rewarding this unethical developer with your money - money which, rest assured, will never go to the real developers at Transmission. If you simply must pay for a bittorrent program, consider donating to the Transmission project and helping the community as a whole, not an unethical developer who does nothing but take.
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Monday, March 03 2008 @ 07:43 PM PST
TuneTagger 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Nice interface, but fails every search
This looks promising - I've been looking for something that can edit tags directly inside iTunes, so I installed the demo and went to some songs I know need better tags. Unfortunately, although I like the interface and the concept, the 1.0 version fails to find all the songs I tried it with. I know they're in CDDB and the free databases. Some thoughts for the developer: If the tags are wrong, how do you expect a search based on them to work? Maybe give the user the ability to modify the search? Maybe do albums all-at-once? Looks good though, if and when it can be made to work as promised. I will definitely keep an eye on it. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 20 2007 @ 04:55 AM PDT
SRS iWOW 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Yeah man, gotta love this snake oil
Boy, what are all those producers thinking, spending those tens of thousands of dollars having their CDs professionally mastered, when this $20 plugin makes everything sound better? If only they knew! That's sarcasm, by the way. If you really are the type of person who is so gullible to believe that some simple software like this will actually improve the sound beyond what the producers of the CD were able to achieve with their million dollar studios, maybe it's better if you have as little money as possible. What does it do? Sounds like it applies a mild phase shift, increases the stereo separation, and applies some mild compression and EQ. Basically makes your music sound more like a radio, they apply those kind of effects as well. Great, paying money to reduce the quality of your signal. What a sterling idea! So yeah, if you're the type of person who would pay $20 for a "loudness" button, then by all means buy this app. Better than spending the money on ammo at wal-mart I guess. Of course, if you have any desire at all to, you know, hear a nice accurate reproduction of the music the way it was meant to be - steer well clear of this and anything like it, because there's no magic bullet and you're just wasting your money on snake oil. [alert admin]
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Saturday, December 30 2006 @ 03:50 PM PST
Hogwasher 4.3 (Mac OS X)
No update in over two years, everyone assumed it was dead .. and now, Bam! New Version, UB and everything. I'm surprised and happy to see it. Well done developer : ) [alert admin]
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Saturday, December 23 2006 @ 12:41 AM PST
Xtorrent Beta 2 (v24) (Mac OS X)
Be very careful about using or recommending an app like this. - the developer WILL expire the betas at some point, forcing you to pay. check his other apps, this is his modus operandi - although, as one reviewer pointed out, it does shield you from needing to learn about how bittorrent works - maybe you SHOULD learn how bittorrent works? If not, you'll be learning all about it in a real hurry when you get your first DMCA notice from your ISP, including how you could have protected yourself if you used a proper app - doesn't allow you to create torrents, only leech, which is extremely selfish - doesn't work with many trackers, who actively block this kind of closed, for-profit software Obviously it's a free world and you can do whatever you want. However, I think that anyone who uses this over, say, a respected Open Source project like Azureus is crazy. It may look a little better but in terms of trust, respect in the community, proper participation and your own safety as a user, you can't beat Azureus. And recommending someone who has no idea how BT works to run this software is extremely negligent. Don't tell me that someone who doesn't even know what BitTorrent is, or how to use it, is using this program to download Linux ISOs - it'll be copyrighted content, and when they get sued by the MPAA, what are you going to say? "Well, sure you're being sued, but boy it was convenient!" [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 21 2006 @ 04:12 AM PST
VisualHub 1.17 (Mac OS X)
Simply the best video conversion program in its class. Pays for itself in time saved again and again and again. A no brainer, buy this! [alert admin]
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Monday, November 27 2006 @ 09:25 AM PST
Xtorrent Beta 2 (v22) (Mac OS X)
Still far from ready for prime time on my Mac Pro. [alert admin]
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Saturday, November 25 2006 @ 09:37 PM PST
Xtorrent Beta 2 (v21) (Mac OS X)
Look developer you don't need to announce EVERY SINGLE BUILD on versiontracker OK? I'm getting sick of seeing your program on here every single day, build number incremented by one. I know it's all part of your plan to stay on the front page but gee, give it a rest OK? I'm actually beginning to dislike your product just based on your ridiculous overdoing of the updates. I also have a problem with charging money for software whose sole use is piracy. Free software - OK, at least it has principles. But trying to charge money to facilitate piracy is just one step down from theft IMO. Better not annoy too many users, who knows, someone might make a little phone call to the MPAA Legal Department ... [alert admin]
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Thursday, November 23 2006 @ 05:30 PM PST
Flip4Mac WMV 2.1.0.33 (Mac OS X)
.. but guaranteed to not flow as smoothly. This crapware is guaranteed to run like an absolute pig on anything you throw at it. My old 800MHz P3 laptop can playback WMV9 better than this. Total junk. And a nice insidious "poisoning" technique by Microsoft as well. "Look at how bad video is on a Mac!" Great to see they found some more work for the "geniuses" responsible for the wonderful MSN Messenger. Your average donkey can write a better video codec than Flip4Mac and would certainly be more fun to watch than this jerky horror. So yeah great work guys, keep up the excellent optimisation work, how about we shoot for 10fps on a Core 2 Duo 2Ghz next time? Crazy I know but hey, gotta dream big!! [alert admin]
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Friday, November 10 2006 @ 06:34 AM PST
Media Rage 2.6.1 (Mac OS X)
Still doesn't support international characters
I have heaps of songs with asian characters in the tags. I'd love to use this program to retag them, the albums are all in FreeDB (i've checked) but MediaRage can't display them. When it can, instant sale, but I told them about this a year ago and it still can't. Sorry guys, no sale. [alert admin]
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Thursday, November 09 2006 @ 03:15 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by Saichology [ Search for All ]
can the clowns calling for a name change please stop now
OK OK. Whatever. It seems that an unrelated software package named "synergy" did exist for a couple of months before this product was released. FIVE YEARS AGO. The developer is NOT going to change the name, and he would be stupid to. All you people claiming that you're "confused" by this - I can't imagine how you managed to even put your socks on, let alone some found your way to this website to complain - but…
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Tuesday, March 27 2007 @ 06:43 AM PDT
in fact you are demonstrably wrong
see: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=59275&package_id=58013 there is no file release before 2003. THIS synergy has a download history into 2002. You're wrong. Go home, and stop your whining.
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Monday, March 26 2007 @ 07:25 AM PDT
oh, just give up OK. No-one cares. The apps are in two completely different categories, and it's clearly labelled as an iTunes controller. If you can't handle a little bit of complexity, stop using computers. 99.999% of us don't seem to be bothered at all. And furthermore, the other Synergy was originally called CosmoSynergy. It was *much* later remade as "Synergy". If you're going to claim that project is older, at least prove it - I…
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Monday, March 26 2007 @ 07:22 AM PDT
Still doesn't support international characters
I've sent an email to that exact address detailing this problem every year for the last 3 years. The last one, a week ago, was particularly detailed, with explicit instructions on how to reproduce the problem, including screenshots of the results on my system. No reponse at all. Not even telling me to get lost. I am not impressed - if you intend to completely ignore the resulting reports, why ask people to send you mail?…
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Thursday, March 15 2007 @ 12:58 AM PDT
Still doesn't support international characters
I've sent an email to that exact address detailing this problem every year for the last 3 years. The last one, a week ago, was particularly detailed, with explicit instructions on how to reproduce the problem, including screenshots of the results on my system. No reponse at all. Not even telling me to get lost. I am not impressed - if you intend to completely ignore the resulting reports, why ask people to send you mail?…
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Thursday, March 15 2007 @ 12:56 AM PDT
1. Heard of auto-update? This developer is not trying to "let you know a new build is ready", he is trying to keep his product on the front page of VT for purely commercial reasons. This is an abuse. Can you imagine if every product did this? 2. I am well aware of the legitimate uses of torrents, I run a tracker myself. This product could not even accept a .torrent file when i tested it,…
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Saturday, November 25 2006 @ 09:31 PM PST
You are living proof of the old adage, "a fool and his money are easily parted". No-one here is saying you should not buy high quality software. They are saying that this application is so trivially easy that no self-respecting developer would ever charge for it, and they don't - see the EIGHT freeware implementations, all basically identical, all taking the developer less than half an hour. To me, trying to take money for something like…
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Saturday, November 04 2006 @ 03:37 AM PST
He makes perfect sense to me .. guess you're just a bit stupid?
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Monday, June 12 2006 @ 04:03 AM PDT
"What's the deal with the *nix crowd and their program names?" I've got a suggestion for you, dickhead, when YOU write your own full-featured video decoder and player and release it free to the world, spending tens of thousands of dollars worth of your own time getting it right and then just giving it all away for the good of everyone, when you've done that, you can give it just whatever the hell name you…
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Monday, June 21 2004 @ 06:45 AM PDT
