Advanced SearchUser Name Westside guy
Member Since 2004-04-17
Total number of Feedback Posts: 21
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Microsoft Office 2008 12.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Some people think they need Office 2008 to open the latest Office file types. I've found Pages handles .docx just fine. I bet Numbers will read .xlsx without problems as well (I haven't needed to test this yet). After purchasing Office 2008 and being rather dissatisfied, I decided to try using iWork '08 100% of the time to see how it goes. So far I haven't had any issues that've required me to fire up Word or Excel. Keynote hasn't always perfectly rendered Powerpoint for Windows documents; but when I've subsequently loaded those into Mac Powerpoint it hasn't done any better; so there was no advantage to using it. I've been using Office for a LONG time, starting with the old DOS versions. I had the first version of Word for Windows, purchased Office 95 (which was great for its time, actually) when it came around, and after switching to Mac have bought Office v.X, 2004, and 2008 - fortunately for educational prices. But I don't think I'll buy it in the future - its time is past. Mature free alternatives abound (e.g. AbiWord, NeoOffice/StarOffice); and iWork is faster and BETTER for my purposes, yet costs significantly less. Microsoft Office was a great tool in its heyday, but it's time to close the book. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 13 2008 @ 10:40 AM PDT
Netscape X 9.0rc1 (Mac OS X)
... because they've been done for several years now. As far as I can tell, there is nothing a user should care about with this release. [alert admin]
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Monday, October 01 2007 @ 06:31 PM PDT
Parallels Desktop 2.5 Build 3120.0 (Mac OS X)
Lotta Boot Camp love, but serious video regressions
They're calling build 3120 a Release Candidate, and putting a lot of work into coexistence with Boot Camp; while apparently ignoring a serious regression in full screen video. In full screen mode, a program that attempts to change the screen resolution will fail to do so regardless of Parallel's video preferences. The last version in which this worked correctly was beta 3036 (and of course the released 1970). So if you run full-screen Windows apps that need to change the video resolution, stay away from 3120. [alert admin]
Thursday, January 11 2007 @ 10:50 AM PST
TiVo Decoder 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I was thinking about writing one of these myself - now I don't have to. :-D [alert admin]
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Wednesday, December 06 2006 @ 10:20 AM PST
VirtueDesktops 0.53r212 (Mac OS X)
Of the various virtual desktop implementations available on OS X, I like VirtueDesktops the most. There are a few hiccups, most notably the way it doesn't handle screen resizing particularly well; but I haven't run into any of the significant issues other people have mentioned with this (or previous) builds. I am hoping the pager will provide actual screen snapshots at some point, and being able to drag windows from desktop to desktop really needs to be available. Unfortunately all OS X virtual desktop managers seem to be a step or two behind what's available on Linux, especially if you compare them to Enlightenment's pager. But all in all VirtueDesktops does the job and does it well. [alert admin]
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Sunday, August 20 2006 @ 12:20 AM PDT
Netflix Freak 2.4.2 (Mac OS X)
Perfect companion for a killer service 
I absolutely LOVE this app - I hardly ever use the Netflix website anymore (and it's really a decent website). Simple, intuitive, and very well thought out interface! [alert admin]
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Monday, July 31 2006 @ 10:20 AM PDT
Hyperspace 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Previous commenters should actually do some checking before spouting off. This developer released three screensavers on the same day - two are universal binaries. So it should be obvious there is some other issue with building this for PPC. Making a universal/fat binary is often much more problematic than just "putting a checkmark in a box" - I don't know why people have trouble grasping that fact. I do wish this one ran on ppc, though, since it is pretty cool on Windows. [alert admin]
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Monday, February 20 2006 @ 10:53 AM PST
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This recent post-1.0.4 update has made this game quite playable again. At first I noticed some slight sluggishness in the keystroke responsiveness, but it's nothing you can't adjust to. This is a very fun, addictive game that improves on the original arcade Pac Man while keeping true to the original's concept. If you like retro games, or just want to waste a few minutes (or a few hours), give this a try. I wish I could give it 4.5 stars; but since that's not a possibility I'll give it 5. [alert admin]
Monday, January 16 2006 @ 04:05 PM PST
Pac the Man 2 1.0.4 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Signifcantly worse than precursor 
Pac the Man X just is not consistently responsive to keystrokes, which is suprising - Pac the Man 2 had no such troubles. It pretty much ruins the game. Pac the Man 2 doesn't have some of the nice new touches, but it is very playable and very addictive. Grab that version, not this latest one (note that both are from the same developer, but are listed separately here on Versiontracker). [alert admin]
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Wednesday, January 11 2006 @ 12:25 AM PST
Mine Swept 1.3 (Mac OS X)
Minesweeper is a simple yet fun game almost all of us have played at one time or another. Mine Swept gets it right - it works pretty much exactly like the Windows game that inspired it, and doesn't try to "improve" on the fundamentals of the game we all know. [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 04 2005 @ 11:15 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by Westside guy [ Search for All ]
This isn't a TrueCrypt problem per se, though, since OS X doesn't have NTFS write support built into it. However I'd think you could use MacFuse and the NTFS filesystem support to "fix" this problem, in any case.
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Sunday, February 10 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
I take it you're unaware that Mac OS X has a built-in secure Keychain for exactly this purpose? And, as another comment noted, the OS also has the ability to create encrypted disk images on a small or large scale. I could see the usefulness of, say, TrueCrypt if it were available on OS X - it has some significant advantages over using the built-in tools. But this just looks like it's reinventing the wheel. Am I…
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Saturday, July 22 2006 @ 11:36 AM PDT
All I get is a screen full of data
No, actually, this is due to an incorrect mime.types entry on the developer's webserver. If your browser does not honor the mime type that the server declares (meaning you got the file just fine), then your browser is doing things the IE way - which has been proven to be a security problem.
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Monday, May 08 2006 @ 12:49 PM PDT
Signifcantly worse than precursor
You're right, I should have - my apologies. (Normally I do; not sure why I didn't this time)
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Monday, January 16 2006 @ 04:26 PM PST
