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Total number of Feedback Posts: 219
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Movie Jukebox 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Strangly, the download link here at VT is broken. Go to the developer's site, and you're redirected here: http://www.mindjar.com/download.html At the top of the page, it says, "Movie Jukebox is free!" The download link is: http://www.mindjar.com/movie_jukebox.zip I'm downloading now, looking forward to trying this out. $15 is a bit steep for my needs, but if it's free or $5, I'll probably use it. [alert admin]
Friday, May 26 2006 @ 12:12 AM PDT
Envoy 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Envoy captures the state of stand-alone downloading managers circa 1995. Features are limited, settings are buried in new windows rather than being given toolbar status, and integration with browsers is poor. The final insult is that the developer expects $18 for such crapware. Unbelievable. For full-featured, cutting edge download managers, $25 will get you iGetter or Speed Download. I prefer iGetter for its simplicity and free upgrades, but both are fine choices. Gnutella? There are myriad Gnutella clients which are vastly more powerful than Envoy. They are also free. Acqlite, Poisoned, Cabos are just a few. [alert admin]
Thursday, April 20 2006 @ 09:44 PM PDT
Xfactor 0.92 (Mac OS X)
Charging money for an application designed to facilitate software piracy? I split a gut laughing so hard when I saw this! Acquisition also costs bucks for enabling piracy. The developer is a real snotty snob who enforces his serial keys with an iron fist. LMAO! New Rule: If you shareware application is designed for the express intent of stealing other shareware, or music, then don't enforce a payware software key scheme! [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 20 2006 @ 02:47 AM PDT
Firefox 1.5.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Am I the only bad speller on Earth? 
These folks at Firefox/Camino need to pull their heads outta their anuses and incorporate Apple's FREE spelling service. For the LOVE OF GOD, what is it with you people! Are you totally insane? How the h4LL am I supposed to use a web browser for posting at discussion fora and the like without a spell checker? Or is it maybe that Firefox developers are all 199 IQ freaks who memorized Webster's dictionary when they were still in diapers? C'mon, it's FREE! Use it! I'll bet Apple would love to show you the docs on how to incorporate their free spelling service. If they won't, then you guys are bright: FIGURE IT OUT!!! [alert admin]
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Monday, April 17 2006 @ 10:02 PM PDT
Show Desktop 1.6.4 (Mac OS X)
From its inception, OS X had one, glaring problem - the desktop was useless. To be sure, it could be used, but one could never see it while working with more than a single window open. Show Desktop seamlessly fixed OS X. One mouse-click, and the desktop is fully visible and usable! Amazing! Apple should add this functionality to OS X. Uhhhh, then I got Panther, and Apple finally did add this functionality to OS X, but in a more elegant and far more useful implementation. So there is no reason at all for Show Desktop to exist. But the author deserves accolades for offering such great freeware back when it was needed. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 12:58 AM PDT
Camino 1.0 (Mac OS X)
WTF doesn't Camino take advantage of OS X's free spelling service? Are these developers INSANE or are they all just perfect spellers? I'm not a perfect speller, which means I have to use Safari or Omniweb if I want to post at a discussion forum without coming off as an illiterate 'tard. A web browser needs a spell checker, period. Based on my talks with a few OS X developers, adding OS X's spelling service is easy, Easy, EASY! Do it! I'm angry. Angry because I want to use Camino, because I feel it is a superior browser to Safari, but Safari keeps pulling me back in with its spell checking capability. Thanks for listening to my rant - hopefully Camino developers read this stuff. Not to worry, next I'm off to submit a feature request to the Camino group for spelling services, and a bug report on broken spelling services! Heh. [alert admin]
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Sunday, April 09 2006 @ 03:00 AM PDT
Camino 1.0 (Mac OS X)
WTF doesn't Camino take advantage of OS X's free spelling service? Are these developers INSANE or are they all just perfect spellers? I'm not a perfect speller, which means I have to use Safari or Omniweb if I want to post at a discussion forum without coming off as an illiterate 'tard. A web browser needs a spell checker, period. Based on my talks with a few OS X developers, adding OS X's spelling service is easy, Easy, EASY! Do it! I'm angry. Angry because I want to use Camino, because I feel it is a superior browser to Safari, but Safari keeps pulling me back in with its spell checking capability. Thanks for listening to my rant - hopefully Camino developers read this stuff. Not to worry, next I'm off to submit a feature request to the Camino group for spelling services, and a bug report on broken spelling services! Heh. [alert admin]
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Sunday, April 09 2006 @ 02:59 AM PDT
Exces 1.0.5 (Mac OS X)
I just drop a file on DropDMG, and it creates a disk image, compressed or not, of an appropriate size to fit the folder. I was also able to get Disk Utility to do the same (Images ->New ->Image from folder. Select for compression, encryption, and image type (read only, read/write, sparse). So what's the point of Exces? I cannot fathom what it's good for. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 01:27 AM PDT
Backup Simplicity 3.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I tried 'Simplicity out, but went back to SuperDuper!. There's just no comparison, and SuperDuper! is only $30. I had been using CarbonCopyCloner, but since it is no longer under devlopment, I don't trust it for critical backups. I also tried out iBackup, but found the interface annoying and it wasn't very configurable. Since I own a tower, price is very important to me. If I'm going to spend $50 on backup software, why not just slip in a RAID card for true backup simplicity? [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 06 2006 @ 08:19 PM PDT
TextLightning 3.1 (Mac OS X)
Useless crapware, use Adobe Reader for accurate conversion
TextLightning works...sometimes. If you've got a PDF with simple formatting TextLightning will churn out a respectable rtf file. Feed TextLightning a slightly complex PDF file, and you get a useless rtf document filled with word fragments and line breaks every few words. But it still beats manually copying and pasting text from PDF files, right? Oh, but imagine my surprise when I downloaded the latest version of Adobe Reader (v7.0.7), opened a complex PDF document on which TextLightning had choked, and saw a curious item in the File menu: "Save As Text..." In a few minutes I'd converted all of my most complex PDF files to txt files, and the results were PERFECT! Adobe Reader does this for FREE, and it does it well. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 05 2006 @ 09:17 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Xeater [ Search for All ]
I get a blank white space in place of the icon pasted on to the folder. Looks like CCI is abandonware. What a shame. This was the perfect icon combining app, no other came close in ease of use and quality.
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Thursday, August 24 2006 @ 12:36 AM PDT
Onyx, and other "optimizers," simply run OS X's optimizer. You can do this from the terminal as well (sorry, I forget the command). So you cannot have had problems with any of these, since they all use Apple's optimization utility.
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Wednesday, August 23 2006 @ 06:31 PM PDT
Apple should have postponed the release of Intel iMacs until you had owned your iMac G5 for a while longer. I'm sure that would have pleased everyone!
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Tuesday, June 20 2006 @ 06:38 PM PDT
It's awful. GC is edging towards bloatware when the developer should be concentrating on refining the GUI. There are some tasks, like batch processing images, that simply take far too many clicks. One click to turn the batch processing on. One click to select the type and dozens to edit the parameters. Missing checkboxes for resetting values or linking values. Even more clicks to finally batch process. The app itself is…
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Thursday, April 20 2006 @ 07:21 PM PDT
Firefox makes you a better speller
by making you drag out your four inch thick Webster's dictionary and look up word spellings. Yeah, isn't that the bomb? A web browser that doesn't even use Apple's FREE spelling service. What the hell do these Firefox developers smoke all day long?
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Monday, April 17 2006 @ 10:05 PM PDT
Do you mean that CipherDisk has a data shredding feature, and you accidentaly activated it? How is this CipherDisk's fault? It takes a long time for the data on a HD to be "shredded," which I assume is a way of saying "secure delete". I'm sorry about your data, but it sounds like you were at fault here. You apparently activated the secure delete by accident, and then you waited around…
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Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 02:12 AM PDT
Run activity monitor. Determine which process is hogging the CPU, and kill it. Now it's time to eradicate the process from your Mac. Go to startup items, in the accounts preference pane. Look for the process that you just found in Activity Monitor. Usually apps like PGP sneak a few startup items in while smearing it's feces all over your system. That's a start anyways. You probably knew this already,…
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Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 01:57 AM PDT
CiphSafe looks dead in the water. As for alternatives, I've been searching and found a couple worth further testing: Password Retriever, my favorite so far; Pastor, a bit limited but free; Steel has got promise, but there's a few GUI oversights that make it hard to use.
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Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 12:51 AM PDT
Right on! OS X defrags file fragments under 20 MB in size. Fragments larger than 20 MB just don't measurably slow modern drives and operating systems down. File fragmentation really was a problem back when HD size was measured in MBs, and Windows was the OS. Due to a design flaw in Windows, the file system fragmented to a nearly unusable state over time. I remember seeing Windows systems with over 98%…
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Friday, April 07 2006 @ 12:26 PM PDT
I think you mean "peace" of mind. "Peace" as in smoking a joint.
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Thursday, April 06 2006 @ 08:09 PM PDT
