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Free YouTube Downloader 1.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Firstly, the system requirements state Java 1.5 is required. That eliminates several of the OSes that are listed in the VT listing; Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.0 for starters. Secondly, the download is a .jar file, and users are expected to launch it into the GUI by running a command in the Terminal. Apple includes a tool to wrap jar files into double-clickable Mac applications. Consider investigating that, please. (By all means, write a .bat file for Windows users.) [alert admin]
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Sunday, April 20 2008 @ 07:35 PM PDT
Hydra 1.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Just one note, not actually about the software itself... The kids from Coding Monkeys originally called their product Hydra, but ran into legal issues, which resulted in it becoming SubEthaEdit. Unless the landscape has changed, I can see this happening to this Hydra as well. http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18956&vid=114342&mode=info [alert admin]
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Monday, February 04 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
fseventer 2.1 (Mac OS X)
This tool is invaluable for sysadmins, particularly those who deal with software deployment. It will save you a LOT of time, and is well worth a donation of (at least) a few dollars. [alert admin]
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Sunday, January 13 2008 @ 04:33 PM PST
Miro 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Tried downloading it three times, and still getting version 1.0, dated Nov 13. [alert admin]
Thursday, January 10 2008 @ 09:43 PM PST
Fluid 0.4 (Mac OS X)
OMG, such a good idea. A while ago a program called "Gcal.app" appeared on VT which was basically just an SSB for calendar.google.com. They included the source code as well. I really wanted to play with it and figure out how to do my own apps (eg: our web-based corporate calendar), because really only a few things need to change (URL, some labelling, etc), but I couldn't figure it out. Eventually gave up.
And yet, here is the same idea again, but in an actually usable form. A little disappointed that it's 10.5-specific, as I'd love to deploy SSB apps to my users, none of whom are on 10.5 yet (or shouldn't be; if they are I'll be annoyed - it's supposed to be an SOE environment...). At the moment we deploy a few fake apps (AppleScripts with icons on them - they just simply launch browsers to particular addresses, intended to add to the Dock for easy access to certain web-based corporate apps). But with Fluid now, I'm hoping to migrate them over to SSBs. Still fake apps, but less obviously fake, and with the benefit of crash protection. =)
I am curious what the license will be over time. Whether it will remain free once it hits 1.0 or whether it will change. I'm not adverse to giving money for this great idea (I know it's inspired by Prism, but Fluid is here today), just wondering for the future, particularly in terms of whether corporate use might attract different license conditions than personal use?
In any case, I've been tinkering with Fluid for a while and it's got a lot of potential, very exciting tool to play with and come up with new ways to use it. Two thumbs up.
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Wednesday, January 02 2008 @ 11:11 PM PST
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2.0b1 (Mac OS X)
One step forward, one step back.
This fully does not warrant an Installer package. It's one item; it should just be drag-and-drop. Supposedly supports multiple connections, but try as I might, I can't get any more than one open at a time; not by the connect dialog, and not by the "open connection file" option. This also seems to be confirmed by the application automatically quitting when I close the last RDC window. The contents of the Preferences panel seems inappropriate. Preferences should be for the whole application, and it currently contains the settings for a particular connection; eg: username/password, things to launch at login, display and keyboard settings - none of those should be application-wide (and if they're not, they don't belong in Preferences). The GUI is kind of glitchy; specifying a fully qualified domain name results in the green badge on the Dock icon not fitting (eg: connecting to server1.blah.microsoft.com, the badge icon says "icrosoft.com"). If they're really determined to show the server name in the Dock, it should show the host part of the name (eg: server1 for server1.blah.microsoft.com). Other UI issues include the window shrinking down to a tiny postage-stamp sized window down in the bottom left corner of my screen when I clicked the Zoom button. I would have thought the dynamic resizing thing would cause the window and the Windows desktop to resize to fill my screen. Apparently not. It seems to completely hang quite easily. Seems to be a choice between hanging periodically in the 2.0b, or crashing periodically in 1.0.3. Six of one, half a dozen of the other... I'm glad they're working on this, but at the moment it's not very compelling. It would be nice if they're going to release a preview version, if it had the features they're touting (ie: multiple simultaneous connects). I understand that the feature might not be ready yet, but don't say it's there when it's not (or say it's "coming soon"). [alert admin]
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Wednesday, August 01 2007 @ 12:56 AM PDT
Perian 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Be aware that there is an installation issue with Perian. As installed by the 1.0 PrefPane, both Perian.component and AC3MovieImport.component will be owned by a user that is unlikely to be on your system. The uid is set to 303307112, while the gid is 2456673755, which seem to be from a directory system (eg: Active Directory). The ownership is not necessarily an issue for the software's functionality, but it is certainly an oversight by the Perian guys, and was interfering with my ability to build a deployment kit for my users. If you are having troubles with Perian, you should replace those permissions. Either use the Get Info panel to select a new user (and then copy the ownership to the contents), or use chown/chgrp from the Terminal. Disk Utility's permissions fixer does not correct this. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, July 31 2007 @ 07:27 PM PDT
Busy 1.0 (Mac OS X)
The biggest problem I have with these fake-busy programs is that in the year 2006, there are not a lot of apps that will lock up an entire computer (Mac or Windows) and make you have to wait until they're done before you can do anything. And I think most people know that, so they're not particularly convincing. It's hard to be certain from the screenshot for this program, but I'm guessing that it hides everything else including the desktop while the fake task is running? (Just because, the desktop is plain blue, per boot-up, not even the Aqua Blue picture.) That would be a more successful strategy. The other question is that if the computer is busy doing something, what is the person doing? You still have to look fake-busy yourself. You're just sitting there, picking your nose, waiting for the computer? In my experience, it's better to keep at least one of your real programs open, and get in the habit of moving around a lot in it. Remember the window and app switching (and tab switching in a browser) commands, and use them. If you're playing a game in the background and jump to your "work" when someone comes along, keep switching around to other programs/windows, so that it looks like you're hunting for something or trying to consolidate info or something, rather than that you quickly switched from something else when the person came along. And for gawd sake, move your fingers back to the touch-typing home keys; don't keep them on the arrow buttons/numeric keypad/fire buttons/whatever. [alert admin]
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Sunday, October 01 2006 @ 07:40 PM PDT
VLC media player 0.8.5 (Mac OS X)
Fantastic program, at times a little finicky, but one thing it does very well is look inside a file for content it can play, unlike QuickTime which pretty much just checks the suffix. Only one bad thing: they made separate Intel and PowerPC versions, where I would have hoped that they'd release a combined "Universal" version. Oh well, I guess if I change architectures, I can download the alternate version. [alert admin]
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Sunday, May 07 2006 @ 07:37 PM PDT
VLC media player 0.8.5-test3 (Mac OS X)
Version 0.8.5-test4 is out now, as is a test browser plugin for PowerPC:
http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/testing/vlc-0.8.5-test4/
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Friday, May 05 2006 @ 12:09 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Tyaris Major [ Search for All ]
Precisely. A broad, sweeping generalization like "sites that invoke Java" is easily dismissed, or proved incorrect by the fact that many people use Java in Safari on a daily basis with no problems. Indeed, I highly doubt that EVERY site you go to with Java in it doesn't work. Identify actual replicatable examples and provide them, either here or directly to Apple, because there's nothing anyone can tell you or do until you do.
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Wednesday, April 16 2008 @ 06:10 PM PDT
Mozilla with its own personality
OmniWeb is WebKit-based.
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Wednesday, February 20 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Only from those zany folks of Microsoft...
In the immortal words of Orson Welles, "you exaggerate".
While it is true that you need to keep applying updates, the 11.3.5 update is a combo one, that will update anything from the original Microsoft Office 2004 11.0.0 onwards. From there, yes, you do need to apply 11.3.6, 11.3.7, 11.3.8 and 11.3.9.
It would be nice if they would merge their updates into combo ones periodically, however Adobe and Apple do the same thing, particularly with…
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Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
The original comment was written 4 months ago, and was in relation to version 1.3.1, not 2.1.5. You might want to read a little more closely next time.
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Tuesday, January 15 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
VersionTracker doesn't store any software, they just link to the developer's site. It looks like HyperNext's developer's site is on a slow link is all. Probably fairly in-demand. They might want to look at mirroring the software in other locations, eg: Google Pages, .Mac.
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Sunday, January 13 2008 @ 05:17 PM PST
Sloppy beta testers should be fired!
*Yawn*
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Thursday, November 15 2007 @ 04:23 PM PST
"Well for those having problems with your version of office on the mac. What did you expect?" "Wake up mac users....microsoft does not care about us and wants little to do with mac users needs." Wow, you truly are the Seinfeld of Mac comedy. You post inflamatory comments like these two little gems, and then claim to be a "laugh" or "humor", when nothing in your original post suggests that you actually intended it to be light-hearted. Particularly…
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Tuesday, November 06 2007 @ 04:33 PM PST
What exactly is it about iTunes that gives you the impression that they "do not seem to care about us and the long term Users"? iTunes is free. Something has to pay for it. There are obviously ties into iTunes Store, and it is designed to be the hub for the iPods. But there isn't anything in there that actually compels you to use or buy either. You can turn off the Store completely, you can not…
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Monday, November 05 2007 @ 05:35 PM PST
Some weaknesses remain, but a credible alternative for small businesses
Wow, that review was one of the most even-handed and articulate that I've ever read on VT. It wasn't a fan boi's one-eyed flag-waving tribute, and it wasn't a hater's crazy rant. It gave specifics and was realistic about where NeoOffice excels (pardon the pun), where it's lacking, and how it compares in these areas to its competitors. More useful than the "NeoOffice/iWork is flawless/does absolutely everything/will save the world!" style of review. Others may not…
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Tuesday, October 09 2007 @ 08:49 PM PDT
Then you also implicitly accept all the limitations, reduced features/functionality and security holes in the older version, and renounce all rights to complain about bugs. Enjoy.
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Wednesday, September 26 2007 @ 07:31 PM PDT
