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User Name Swift
Member Since 2000-03-30
Total number of Feedback Posts: 43
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Multimap for Address Book 2.1 (Mac OS X)
Except, this works well in Britain, but...
when will a developer come up with a way of looking up Google Maps in Address Book? I have a little script alteration in the Yellow Pages/Phone Book widget in Dashboard that looks things up in google. (MacOSXHints.com). Compared to Google Maps, the competitors suck wind. So, you Applescripters out there, or Google itself, we're waiting on you. Or Apple, please, enough of this lame Mapquest! Or give a choice as to which map to use -- although I'd enter maps.google.com. (This is not a free advertisement, and this endorsement is in no way intended to denigrate competitors. Except YOU SUCK.) [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 17 2005 @ 06:02 AM PDT
Fetch Art for iTunes 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)
This is no longer being developed because the author is busy with graduate school. He is asking for another developer to step in. Please, please, somebody do it! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 11 2005 @ 11:14 PM PDT
Application Enhancer 1.5 (Mac OS X)
I did an archive and install of Tiger, and for some reason, my Mail app wouldn't open the main window without a command, all the imported mailboxes were empty, and I had to force-quit each time. It baffled me. I could not figure it out. Then I temporarily disabled APE 1.5, and opened Mail for the umpteenth time. The import continued, and everything was perfect. I put Mail in my disabled list. I presume there will be a 1.5.1 soon. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 28 2005 @ 08:15 PM PDT
PDF Browser Plugin 2.2.2 (Mac OS X)
After Adobe updated to 7.0.1, you can no longer turn it off as the browser plugin of choice. You go to Adobe Reader's Preferences->Internet, and the check box for "use this as your internet plugin" is checked and dimmed out. Anybody figured a workaround? I'd rather use PDF Browser Plugin in Safari, and hand it off to Preview or Adobe depending on the file. [alert admin]
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Friday, April 08 2005 @ 01:27 PM PDT
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Is Update just to cripple Schubert?
I installed the 7.0.1 update, and then it occurred to me to make sure that its preferences were set so that Shubert-it's PDF Browser Plug-in was still my preferred PDF viewer in Safari. But now, the option is grayed out in Adobe Reader's preferences. Adobe: does not play fair with a plug-in that allows you to choose which app to open the pdf in? What other "improvements" are there in the new version? [alert admin]
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Friday, April 01 2005 @ 10:50 AM PST
Bits on Wheels 1.0 PR1.2 (Mac OS X)
Great app. Love the display, and it's consistently faster than Azureus. I can't figure out why, but on some torrents, it reports 100% finished long before it actually is. That is, it is switched over to seeding, but the file isn't anywhere near complete. I then take the torrent over to Azureus to finish it. But with most torrents, it's terrific. Any other people with this problem? [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 23 2005 @ 03:04 AM PST
Skype 1.0.0.15 (Mac OS X)
Add Video Support (iChat), and Windows and Linux versions. The next version of iChat will become the standard. Right now, only Mac users with Broadband can use iChat. Expand the market. Add multiple-OS text chat. Windows-Linux-Mac audio and video. SkypeOut. Please! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 15 2005 @ 08:15 AM PST
PangeaVR 1.0 (Mac OS X)
When it's this fast, it has a tremendous number of uses. It really does put you right there, after waiting about the time I wait for a Flash animation: on my G5, not very long. It's like HD-VR. Travel? A Swimsuit edition? Art lessons? Training? Porn? (Sorry, but I'm just free-associating here.) This technology has potential that QuickTime VR didn't have. It's interesting, on one of the test sites, to see the difference between software (QuickTime VR) and the Open GL hardware acceleration. The QTVR clip was jerky, and took much longer to load. There's a lag between the mouse and the scene. in PangeaVR, not at all. Yay, Pangea! [alert admin]
Saturday, March 12 2005 @ 05:41 PM PST
Bits on Wheels 1.0 PR1.2 (Mac OS X)
For one thing, this thing is a LOT faster than Azureus. Java v. Cocoa, Java loses. It seems to control the download much better, and web browsing remains possible while it's working. True, with Azureus, you could control EVERYTHING, but who cares. The network visualization is well worth the price of admission. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 16 2005 @ 12:43 PM PST
Roxio Popcorn 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Will it do that? I recently had to copy a disk from a friend who was a mad fan of a Czech movie. He bought it from the Czech Republic, for $30, found it was Region 1 (?) but PAL. It took DVDBackup, DVD2one, then ffmpegX to start a two-part transformation: first to DivX from the TS_ file to burn in the subtitles, then to a PAL TS folder, once again using ffmpegX, using some custom settings. Tricky. How great would it be to have some software that could just turn a PAL NTSC to NTSC, or vice-versa, in one step, (By the way, the DVD I gave my friend turned out great -- eventually, but I had to remove the menus and such, because I couldn't figure out how to convert them.) [alert admin]
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Friday, November 26 2004 @ 06:41 AM PST
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Excuse me, Roxio's move has nothing to do with "intellectual property." You can burn these protected tunes with iTunes. Now, you just can't burn them with Toast. Have you ever used iTunes?
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Wednesday, June 15 2005 @ 04:06 PM PDT
Excuse me, Roxio's move has nothing to do with "intellectual property." You can burn these protected tunes with iTunes. Now, you just can't burn them with Toast. Have you ever used iTunes?
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Wednesday, June 15 2005 @ 04:05 PM PDT
Well, I read the agreement, and I think you're being paranoid. A two-way telephony application has to use your processor for someone else's voice. You can transfer files. Maybe video. It has to make your data available to a caller. The upside is, you You can control it, however. Ban all calls outside your calling list. There are no ads now, but I guess there might be. Well, you can cancel the subscription. But think of…
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Tuesday, March 15 2005 @ 08:43 AM PST
Well, having taught a lot of beginning Mac people, I'd say it's best to go light on the "bonehead" stuff. Sure people ask dumb questions at the beginning. That's why they call 'em "beginners." And I found something for a G3 to burn a DVD with: it's distributed by LaCie, and it's probably somewhere else. Go to the LaCie website, that'll give you more details.
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Tuesday, March 02 2004 @ 06:01 PM PST
Yeah, but there is a very good reason for DVD authoring programs not to work on a G3. The processor won't keep up to the DVD authoring unless you have the Altivec processor of a G4. Simple as that. I did see somewhere another solution that allows DVD authoring on a G3, but I can't remember the name, nor vouch for its practicality.
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Tuesday, March 02 2004 @ 03:43 PM PST
Why do we have to suffer version incompatibilities?
To be frank, VersionTracker has been having some server problems, and it has been a little wonky. But there's nothing in the VersionTracker site that is incompatible with Safari.
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Monday, February 02 2004 @ 02:46 PM PST
Well, it's a lot better after repairing the directory. It was up for 3 hours straight. But then, Norton Firewall notifies me that the various daemons have crashed and asks me to close the ports. This time, I didn't close them. When I switched to Poisoned, the app is still there, the lists are still there, and everything is still working. Before, the lists, at least, would collapse, and several time the app quit suddenly.
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Saturday, January 03 2004 @ 01:52 AM PST
I've Diskwarriored my disk, and we'll see from here. If things continue crashing, I'll reset.
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Friday, January 02 2004 @ 05:17 PM PST
What a thoughtful bit of software criticism. If you think that Expose is useless, I can't help you; but ColorSync is there, better than ever, just in a different place. Don't get insane with anger, figure things out.
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Wednesday, December 17 2003 @ 05:12 PM PST
The only thing I can think of is that the folder it says to install it in has its permissions set incorrectly. Maybe you're running out of space?? Don't know. It works great, always has.
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Friday, November 28 2003 @ 03:12 AM PST
