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User Name Tolga
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FileZ 6.8.3 (Palm OS)
This program has saved my bacon many times over the years. Intuitive and easy to use! Can't recommend it enough. [alert admin]
Friday, August 21 2009 @ 03:31 PM PDT
ChangeShortName 1.3 (Mac OS X)
A very handy little program that does what it says in a simple, straightforward fashion. Until this appeared changing a users shortname was a trying process at best via terminal and NetInfoManager and rarely was it done as completely. Kudos to Dan Frakes and co. for a handy little resource! He's been an asset to the Mac community for as long as I can recall (going way back to the classic InformInit)! NOTE: If you are on 10.5 aka Leopard you shouldn't use this! Similar functionality is built into the Users Pref Pane (right click on your user to edit the short name, etc). [alert admin]
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Monday, October 27 2008 @ 12:32 PM PDT
SoftRAID 3.6.7 (Mac OS X)
Apple's RAID offerings are limited at best... 
Yes, Apple does have built-in software RAID support. However having used it extensively I can say that SoftRAID is far better and far more intuitive than Apple's offering. There are two main problems with Apple's software RAID. The first is notification. It doesn't have any bells, alarms, email, etc. alerts to say "hey, your RAID slices are out of sync!" you have to periodically run Apple's Disk Utility software to see, oh, the RAID went out of sync a week ago, a drive failed, etc. In addition when attempting to rebuild a RAID set Disk Utility is as rudimentary and counter-intuitive as it gets. The biggest shortcoming of the Apple software RAID is that when rebuilding you have no idea which slice has the most current data and which fell out of sync, hence I lost a month of work on a set due to a disconnected drive, which Apple's RAID software never warned me about. SoftRAID on the otherhand, while not perfect, notifies you in the Finder as soon as there is a sync or drive problem within a RAID set. I'm still waiting for them to implement out of the box SMS or email alerts but it still trounces Apple in this regard. The software is also much more intuitive (though the interface is still a throwback to OS 9 and could also be improved for clarity). All in all there is no comparison between the two. SoftRAID is inexpensive enough that you'd have to be crazy or broke to use Apple's implementation. [alert admin]
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Thursday, September 25 2008 @ 09:27 AM PDT
BitPim 1.0.5 (Mac OS X)
I've been using BitPim for several years and while it is by no means pretty it does what it says it will. It has allowed me to back up my Sanyo MM-8300 (and an MM-8200 before it) cell phone with no hassles. It looks like it was laid out by a PC or Unix person but it works well. Doesn't have the most intuitive user interface either but it gets the job done. Without it you're basically stuck on a Mac as Sprint centers will tell you that you can't (or *they* can't) back up the phone to a computer. pshaw! No more re-typing contact numbers again. Also have never had issues with BitPim crashing. [alert admin]
Monday, January 28 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
CUPS-PDF 2.4.6.1 (Mac OS X)
Went to use Adobe's PDF 7.0 Virtual Printer on my MacBook today for the first time and it didn't work, returning all sorts of odd errors. As best I can see from them it's an issue with running on Intel vs PPC. My version of Creative Suite (CS2) pre-dates the Intel machines and with several other things in CS2, like Version Cue, it seems it no longer works. Enter this handy dandy freeware driver! A breeze to install, easy to use (just select it from the printer pull-down in your print window), works great...might add a way to designate the folder but otherwise perfect! I'd highly recommend it! Thanks!! [alert admin]
Monday, January 14 2008 @ 02:19 PM PST
Nanosaur 2 Hatchling 2.0.5 (Mac OS X)
There are a lot of really rude posters on here. If you have a problem with the software at least make an attempt to contact the developer before trashing them. In addition a *lot* of Pangea's games are free or were bundled OEM on Macs straight from Apple. This goes all the way back to my first Pangea game Power Pete, which was great and included on early Performas. It wasn't a *full* version but I got a lot of enjoyment out of it none-the-less. I also have Otto Matic and Nanosaur all of which I got from Apple bundles and I'm guessing a lot of other reviewers do too. Show a little appreciation for all their hard work, continuous efforts to update and patch games years after most developers would abandon them, and in my experience responsive support. So there is an ad, everyone's gotta pay the bills somehow. I'm paying for VersionTracker and this page is covered in ads. I don't see you complaining about that... [alert admin]
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Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 08:58 PM PST
SilverFast Ai (Epson) 6.5.5r1 (Mac OS X)
SilverFast=Decent, SilverFast Support=Crap 
Silverfast is a very powerful and useful scanning software package, however their support leaves much to be desired. I recently 'registered' my copy of SilverFast AI that I got with my Epson V750 Pro so I could access the software updates on their site. A day later the registration hasn't registered on their servers yet. After emailing them about the problem/waiting a day I have yet to hear anything. I went to their contact page to try and find a tech support phone number to get things moving but it says "our telephone support hotline in the USA is no longer available." and goes on to suggest I try their contact form, which I already did. If I had a more involved question I wouldn't mind the wait but if your website is having issues then I expect a prompt response. If is frustrating when companies attempt to prevent unauthorized users from getting updates by using all kinds of Draconian methods, meanwhile making it a pain in the ass for everyone else. [alert admin]
Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 10:05 AM PST
PodUtil 3.0.3 (Mac OS X)
Looks pretty but functionality limited...
I downloaded this for a specific problem. I accidentally deleted a playlist from iTunes and wanted to restore it from my iPod. Seems simple, this program is supposed to be able to do this, so I gave it a shot. Well the documentation is really intended for people looking to restore their whole libraries from their iPod, music and all, which is fine. However don't thrown in a few meager bits about restoring a Playlist and then say this thing can "restore" a playlist. From much trying and mucking about with this program I could only get the playlist I wanted back by allowing the app to re-copy all the songs to my library. Fair enough, following the help files I would just tell it to 'skip' all my files (since they are all still in my library) and simply allow it to re-create the one playlist I wanted out of about 25 I have. Well unlike the docs it didn't offer to skip, it appended a 1 to each filename and copied all the songs back to my library. It also copied all my other *unselected* playlists so that I now had 2 of all of them. There was no way to link the playlist to my *old* files so when I deleted the new copies of songs it cleared my playlist. Long story short, not the util forrestoring playlists unless they improve the docs, make steps more clear and straighten out functionality of this app. It is a nice looking program that seems capable but if it can't do things you are offering it for maybe spend more time on the basics. Also good luck finding the contact email for the programmer. [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 12 2006 @ 10:19 PM PST
VueScan 8.3.77 (Mac OS X)
I've been using VueScan for several years with a long list of scanners that are SCSI, Firewire, USB, etc. Not only is it handy for using scanners long since abandoned by the vendors (shame on them) but it's also *much* better than most of the software provided by the vendors for currently supported scanners. I would highly recommend it. I have had to contact Hamrick numerous times over the years and his responses have always been prompt and helpful -- most recently in getting a Canon D1230U scanner running with VueScan on an Intel Mac that is unsupported by the maker. He revised the app and emailed it to me all in the same day, a real lifesaver! Note to others with the D1230U: Besides the Vuescan issues I was having, you *must* manually install the Canon driver on your Intel machine as the Canon 4.1.3 installer craps out without installing all the needed pieces in the Library folder. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 08 2006 @ 06:00 PM PST
Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3 (Mac OS X)
This is a wonderful program and a great asset to Mac Admins. That isn't to say it doesn't have any problems, but they are fairly minor. I am an Admin at a large University and we use CCC for cloning disk images to all our Macs every semester, hundreds of machines, without issue. Some issues do exist but most are 'rough around the edges' type things. It doesn't return the clearest errors at times and attempting to cancel a clone is usually futile, requiring a force-quit. Otherwise it is very handy. I hope it is updated for the new Intel machines, Leopard, etc. To the previous two reviewers give me a break. If you don't know that your target drive is too small to fit your data then perhaps you shouldn't be tinkering with your Mac....get a professional to do it for you. This program does serious stuff and is *not* for the clueless as you could royally screw up a system using it without knowing what you're doing. [alert admin]
Wednesday, August 16 2006 @ 04:59 PM PDT
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