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Member Since 2008-02-29
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Yahoo! Messenger 3.0b3.98855 (Mac OS X)
Regularly chews up to 80-90% of my CPU time; seen in Activity Monitor. The fans in my laptop spin loudly. Quitting YM restores system load level and the fans switch off. I'm just running it in the background - no video, no audio, not even any chat running - just signed in and doing nothing. [alert admin]
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Friday, April 11 2008 @ 10:36 AM PDT
Sparkle 1.08 (Mac OS X)
You are of course aware that Sparkle is the name of the auto-updating framework used in such Mac applications as Adium and Transmission? And I believe it was here first. http://tc.versiontracker.com/product/redir?lid=788711 [alert admin]
Thursday, April 10 2008 @ 12:42 PM PDT
Miro 1.2 (Mac OS X)
The biggest problem I have with Miro...
The biggest problem I have with Miro is how easy it is to get video into it compared to how hard it is to get video out of it. Even files downloaded as torrents are downloaded into Miro's library folder by default, and you have to go rooting through there to find them. There's no easy way to just grab them out and shove them somewhere else. To say nothing of downloaded Flash videos. Sure, you can download and save a YouTube video for offline watching. But only if you're content to keep it within Miro and have no desire or intention to sync it to your iPod or whatever. Again, you can go rooting through the Miro library and try and figure out what file it is, then have to convert it somehow (hint: TubeTV both downloads and converts, so can do the whole thing for you). Even iTunes lets you drag stuff out to the Finder, and that's the app that gets the most accusations of "lock-in". Dare I suggest that the "Democracy Player" isn't as democratic as it should be? Miro is good in theory, but it feels like they stopped about 2/3 of the way there. I like the inclusion of BitTorrent and RSS support; they work well. And if you're content to have Miro be the center of your video world, then it might be the app for you. But I'm not. I want my stuff to go, to sync it to iPod, watch it on AppleTV, burn it to DVD, etc. With Miro, it's just too hard, so I tossed it out and went back to the manual stuff (Transmission, iTunes, QuickTime Player, VLC, etc). [alert admin]
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Friday, March 21 2008 @ 04:16 AM PDT
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No, but there's also no reason NOT to update. iTunes (actually QuickTime) has had Apple's FairPlay DRM in it ever since the iTunes Store opened. It only applies to music and video purchased from the Store; it does not apply to content you add yourself, or even podcasts subscribed via iTunes. Again, it's been the same way from the beginning, including the version you're currently using.
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Wednesday, April 02 2008 @ 06:44 PM PDT
Why Silverlight is a good thing...
Let me address these one at a time: * Much smaller run-time and pug-in size with fewer memory leaks and a cleaner code base. The Flash download is 4.4MB. The Silverlight 2.0 download is 7.7MB, and that's not even a Universal download. Nuff said. * H.264 and other HD codec support built right in. This means you can have DVD quality YouTube streams with a fraction of the Flash 9 file size. Flash supports H.264. Unless they do something…
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Sunday, March 09 2008 @ 08:57 AM PDT
Cos, you know, shrinks and therapists all do it for free too.
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Saturday, March 08 2008 @ 01:03 AM PST
WARNING: NO UPGRADE TO ACADEMIC LICENSES!
You state up front that it was your fault for not reading the fine print and then go on to blame them for "punish"ing you and not "build(ing) loyalty". So much for being responsible for your own stuff. Geez. Why would they offer cheap complete products (academic versions) and then offer even cheaper upgrades on those already discounted products? Like, a half-price product for half-price? Because they can't throw money away fast enough? Academic products almost…
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Monday, March 03 2008 @ 02:49 PM PST
I also wish the developer would update it as it doesn't work in 10.5.2 either.
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Saturday, March 01 2008 @ 07:58 AM PST
