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User Name WiFiRules
Member Since 2004-04-19
Total number of Feedback Posts: 43
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DansGuardian 1.0 (Mac OS X)
There seems to be one small problem with using a web proxy server like this... since it's hitting your router or DNS server directly, unless the machine you're looking to for DNS is Rendezvous-enabled, Rendezvous no longer works for web connections. For example, I have a machine on my network called FileServer. Its Rendezvous name is fileserver.local, and until I installed Dansguardian, I could use fileserver.local as its domain name in Safari. Now I need to use its' IP. Does anyone know a workaround for this? [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 29 2005 @ 05:17 PM PST
Library Books 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Right, but the menu extra simply doesn't show up. When I opened the application resources and ran the starter script for Library Books manually, the star temporarily appeared in the menu bar with the number 0, and the following was logged to my console.log: 2005-01-25 23:27:31.362 Library Books[3343] MainController: awakeFromNib 2005-01-25 23:27:31.863 Library Books[3343] StatusMenu: updateMenu 2005-01-25 23:27:31.922 Library Books[3343] StatusMenu: updateMenu 2005-01-25 23:27:31.965 Library Books[3343] Displaying preferences window 2005-01-25 23:27:32.517 Library Books[3343] *** Assertion failure in -[NSSecureTextFieldCell _objectValue:forString:], AppKit.subproj/NSCell.m:1131 2005-01-25 23:27:32.520 Library Books[3343] An uncaught exception was raised 2005-01-25 23:27:32.521 Library Books[3343] Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil 2005-01-25 23:27:32.524 Library Books[3343] *** Uncaught exception: <NSInternalInconsistencyException> Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil 2005-01-25 23:27:32.531 Library Books[3343] Catalogue URL [http://catalogue.yprl.vic.gov.au] The terminal process ended with: Trace/BPT trap logout No big deal though, my library doesn't use a SIRSI system so I wouldn't use it, I just wanted to take a look at it as I was thinking about doing something like it to work with my local library system. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 25 2005 @ 09:20 PM PST
Library Books 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I wanted to try this app out to see if it worked with my local library system, but it won't start at all... when I open Library Books.app, Activity Monitor shows a quick spike where it uses about 80% CPU, then there's a small network spike, then it just disappears. At no point does it actually show up on the Dock. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 25 2005 @ 08:10 PM PST
MacJournal 3.0.1b2 (Mac OS X)
Before Apple released the Macintosh, computers were a lot harder to use. Instead of the friendly office-based layout of files, folders, and desktops; you'd end up using DOS or a similar command-line interface. Not that I have anything *against* command-line interfaces, it's just that the Mac OS is a lot friendlier. I think MacJournal did a similar thing for simple data management. Just like the "Office" theme makes computers a lot easier to use, MacJournal's "Journal" theme makes organizing some files a lot easier. Everyone has a collection of "scrap" files lying around... for me, it was the "Jokes" folder, the "Passwords" folder, and the "Bass Tabs" folder in Safari's bookmarks. These were things I wanted to keep but didn't need cluttering up my Documents folder; so I made "journals" for them in MacJournal. This works *so* much better because I can search the contents seamlessly, and add to the journal when I find something new by just pressing Command-Shift-M in any other app. Now, for the 3.0 review... Personally, I think it's worth the money. 3.0 adds the following highly useful features: * NESTED JOURNALS. This feature is *so* useful for anyone who uses MacJournal for anything more than a simple diary. For example, it's a lot easier to sort my Bass Tabs file by artist than just willy-nilly in a journal. * WIKI LINKS. This feature is good for people who are working on full-fledged research projects in MacJournal. With them, you can link on-the-fly to another entry, just by typing in CamelCase. (For example, you could say "sudo is used instead of su (see SudoOrSu) where "Sudo Or Su" is a different entry.) Save, and it turns into a link. * FULL SCREEN MODE. This is another handy feature... if you tend to get distracted when you write, you can make MacJournal take over the whole screen, so there's no UI elements to get on your nerves. It's also nice if you read music from MacJournal, as not only can you make that full-screen, but you can make it automatically scroll, which is great if you use it while playing an instrument. There are also hundreds of small improvements and probably more to come, so I'd say that it's worth the steep $30 price. Also, remember that people who used MacJournal in the past can buy it for only $15. If you're just using it for a simple journal, you could just download 2.6 for free, but I'd suggest buying it to support the author. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 22 2005 @ 10:05 AM PST
The Road Trip Effect 1.0 (Mac OS X)
This is a very interesting app... all it does is create animated QuickTime movies of an animated car, boat, or plane, traveling from one waypoint on a map (one of several included images or one you provide) to another, to another, to another. But this is actually highly useful... in my vacation footage, I don't take a lot of movie in the car, so animated movies of a little car moving from my town to where I'm traveling would be highly useful as cutscenes in between "Leaving" and "Arriving." And if I take footage at stops inbetween, I can work this in seamlessly by making the *stop* the waypoint, then doing another animation from the stop on to the destination... this would look great in iMovie, and would cut out my repetitive use of titles. The app is very stable and didn't crash during testing. The exported image quality seems to be quite good, but it's hard to tell as the app is "crippled..." all exported movies have text to the effect of "UNREGISTERED - BUY THIS PROGRAM" over top of them. I know crippleware is almost necessary now, but it might be better to allow 1 or 2 free exports for evaluation. All in all, a great app for anyone who does a lot of vacation video in iMovie. Give it a try, it's pretty good. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 22 2005 @ 09:40 AM PST
DansGuardian 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Very good and intelligent port of Squid and Dansguardian to Mac OS X without sacrificing 3rd-party compaitibility. Basically this is a cute GUI installer for the Squid proxy server and Dansguardian. It even works well in Panther. All you need to do to have the filtering working is to install it, configure your proxy settings (System Preferences / Network / Proxies) to use 127.0.0.1 as your web proxy on Port 8080. Want to tinker with the filtering? Go into the terminal and cd to /usr/local/etc/dansguardian and pico any of the text files in the directory. Most configuration is in dansguardian.conf, but some other handy files include the self-explanatory bannedsitelist, bannedurllist, exceptionphraselist, exceptionurllist. [alert admin]
Saturday, November 13 2004 @ 04:54 PM PST
SizzlingKeys 1.4 (Mac OS X)
This a very nice app... it does so much more than the other iTunes controllers, and it's FREE too! Just a quick note... after updating to Mac OS 10.3.6, I had to remove SizzlingKeys by removing SizzlingKeys.app from the Startup Items, removing the SizzlingKeys.prefpane from System Preferences, manually stopping SizzlingKeys with Activity Monitor, and reinstalling. Now it works fine. [alert admin]
Monday, November 08 2004 @ 12:49 PM PST
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With all the talk of the Opener malware possibly being spread through software, the last thing I'm going to do is download a new app from VersionTracker with a description of "store & login eBay site" and no screenshots. "What does it do?" is my question. [alert admin]
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Monday, November 01 2004 @ 01:32 PM PST
ComStats 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Maybe my iChat is just weird, but it saves my logs to: ~/Documents/iChats/ With titles in the format of: Anna Johnson on 2004-04-10 at 08:20 ComStats reads every chat log title as an individual person, as in: Anna Johnson on 2004-04-10 at 08:20 and Anna Johnson on 2004-03-12 at 07:12 are different people. This makes graphing impossible. [alert admin]
Saturday, October 30 2004 @ 05:59 PM PDT
HenWen 2.0.4 (Mac OS X)
Great implementation of Snort for OS X. But how do you turn on autoblocking by IP? [alert admin]
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Saturday, October 30 2004 @ 12:42 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by WiFiRules [ Search for All ]
Version 2.6.1 is still not there 
My guess is that Dan is probably pretty busy on 3.0. Why don't you email him, or Mariner Software and ask?
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Tuesday, January 25 2005 @ 09:03 AM PST
When it was freeware it was a nice little app
It's not that hard to remove.... delete /Applications/MacJournal.app, ~/Library/Preferences/com.danschimpf.macjournal.plist, ~/Library/Application Support/MacJournal/*, and you're done.
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Saturday, January 22 2005 @ 10:07 AM PST
The best freeware OS X application ever
I took a look at it, but I'm not a big fan of the "notebook" layout... it seems like the sort of thing that some people would love but others wouldn't be a big fan of.
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Sunday, January 02 2005 @ 05:59 PM PST
Unneeded features aren't part of interface design. I still like the interface. :D
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Thursday, September 23 2004 @ 05:19 PM PDT
