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Adobe Reader 9.0 (Mac OS X)
Do you really need this program on a Mac?
The one thing I have not really understood is since you can "print" a PDF from a Mac since at least 10.3 just what use is Acrobat pro; especially as Adobe seems to treat its customers as a cross between a red headed stepchild and a whipping boy. As far as a reader is concerned take a look at Skim, an open source PDF reader, which seems to do everything Adobe Reader does and does it a LOT better. [alert admin]
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Monday, July 14 2008 @ 04:21 PM PDT
StuffIt Deluxe 10.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I stopped updating Stuffit Deluxe when I upgraded to 10.3.0 and stopped using it about a 18 months ago as fewer and fewer mac developers use the .sit or sitx formats anymore preferring instead tar.gz, zip or dmg as their formats of choice. Why spend money or a program that doesn't do all that much when there are freeware alternatives like The Unarchiver and shareware ones like iArchiver around? Non/little improvement of this utility has basically dried this up as a cash cow. Time to put it out of its and our misery. Your wallet with thank you. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 12 2008 @ 06:31 AM PDT
Nisus Writer Express 3.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Is there really a need for this?
After I discovered OpenOffice and Neooffice I started using Nisus Writer Express less and less to the point I forgot I even had it. At least until I upgraded to an iMac and version tracker showed me every piece of software I still had (unused or not) in need of an update. Coming back I have to ask does this program even have a purpose anymore? OpenOffice and Neooffice offer so much more for far less of a price. IMHO time has passed this program by. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 06 2008 @ 05:05 PM PDT
iDefrag 1.6.3 (Mac OS X)
The MacOS from 10.3 (Panther) on does a little defrag at startup. Also being Unix based MacOS X does thing differently than classic or Windows does <http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/41743.html> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668> If anything Unix has less problems with fragmentation than other OSes and with externals now getting in the TB range it is next to worthless. [alert admin]
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Monday, December 03 2007 @ 10:40 AM PST
StuffIt Deluxe 10.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Stuffit is the old standby compression/decompression utility and for good reason. Complaining about the old .sit format not working under MacOS X is like complaining about method 1 zip formats not working correctly under Windows Me - a nonissue as nobody reasonable would use either format as they are simply too old to worked correctly under those systems. 99% of the problems I have had with '.sit' files is that they are really renamed .sitx files. It is akin to changing the .zip extension to .arc and expecting everything to work correctly. [alert admin]
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Saturday, March 11 2006 @ 08:31 AM PST
Link Checker X 1.3 (Mac OS X)
The W3C link checker is free and I am not particually thrilled with how updates are handled. The Check for updates of 1.2.2 doesn't even tell you that 1.3 is available. Also unlike W3C link checker this program has not been update in a over year. [alert admin]
Wednesday, September 28 2005 @ 05:40 AM PDT
Nisus Writer Express 2.5b2 (Mac OS X)
Powerful little program that still needs to play catch up 
Nisus Writer Express is a powerful program that is still in the shadow of its Classic percurser mainly because the classic version made use of Claris' XTND translators giving it a huge number inport and export options. Unfortunitly by not allowing you to select an imput tranlator you are at the mercy of the program to make the right choice and it is pretty dumb. For example instead of turning HMTL into WYSIWYG which AppleWorks 6.x does halfway reasonablly it imports the file as straight text. Which means it you want to use Nisus for HTML authoring you are basicly out of luck unless you really know your HMTL. However the program defaults to RTF as its save format which contrary to what other have said works perfectly on the Intel chip (it is an option under MS Word for Windows). Also the program reads Nisus Writer 6.x classic files fine. [alert admin]
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Monday, August 08 2005 @ 05:05 PM PDT
StuffIt Deluxe 9.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I still have 9.0.1 and everything seemed to still be working fine. As for using zip vs sitx as much as it pains me to say this zip thanks to windows is pretty much the standard in compression these days though in many ways sitx is superior. On decompressing files I have noticed that Tiger unlike previous MaxOS is very tempormentral on how it uses extensions. Far too many Stuffit users have used .sit or .stx for .sitx files and this is what seems to cause the problems. Tiger bacily tells Stuffit 'hey there is this file format coming your way.' And Stuffit goes 'Ok I believe you and will handle it like this' at which point things go haywire. As long as you have the correct extension things seem to behave themselves. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 02 2005 @ 05:10 PM PDT
Apple QuickTime 6.5.2 (Mac OS X)
Best multimedia format out there
Quicktime is a true multimedia format rather than something that has been clobered and kludged together and it is open rather than proprietary. This is why Quicktime has problems with some formats - a few like AVI are such a kludgefest that they do not even play correctly on different versions of Windows and other like wma are proprietary and require licening to use. In fact on MacOS X Indio formated AVIs are a royal pain as the codecs only exist for MacOS 9.x so you have to do a maor kludge to get them to play. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 26 2004 @ 10:10 PM PDT
Simodifier 2.4 (Mac OS X)
The reason people are whining is the author keeps charging for updates that really should be free. On the matter of the Millennium Sims' Magic Mirror, version 2.0 is totally compatable with Makin Magic (I use it regularly), however Simodifier version 2.2 cannot even find the Sims folder for Makin Magic! Besides if for some reason you do have problems with Magic Mirror under Makin Magic there is always livin-it-up.net's Magic Vase which is also free. Let's face with all these free in game tools available why should we be paying for bugfixes? In fact shouldn't we be asking ourselves if this program even serves a purpose anymore. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 18 2004 @ 09:57 AM PDT
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"Unarchiver only decompresses. It does not compress." It doesn't need to as dmg compression has been around for ages, zip compression has been built into the MacOS since 10.3, and if you feel like messing with .tar and .z there is always the terminal for older MacOS versions and Archive Utility for 105 and higher. Sure there are some formats the MacOS can't compress right out of the box but ask yourself 1) how often do you…
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Tuesday, August 12 2008 @ 06:39 AM PDT
Can't Register or Visit THOTH website
Brian Clark announce years ago that he had stopped development and taking payments. IMHO given his treatment of YA-Newswatcher it was not surprising. Personally I feel it is time to forget about this program and look for something else.
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Tuesday, August 12 2008 @ 06:23 AM PDT
It is not "abuse" of the ratings to complain about beta software that is effectively ALPHA in quality.
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Friday, June 13 2008 @ 06:29 AM PDT
Be skeptical. Be very skeptical.
RTFM is little help when at best many file you run into have a three letter extension. How are you supposed to know that .doc is not a format this program supports? Also OpenOffice will open more formats than this will and is free.
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Tuesday, March 07 2006 @ 04:18 PM PST
Given the speed that Spotlight can find things the claim that is will take a 'long' time to find something if they move it is deonstrately false. It is simply a cast of lazy programming that the updates are so dumb.
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Sunday, September 25 2005 @ 08:03 AM PDT
The long file name problem is not Aspyr's fault - it is a limitation of the fact the program is written in Carbon. Carbon programs even though they run under X still have the 31 character file name limitation. Also it is not Aspyr's fault that the PC side make files with ridculously long names to begin with.
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Wednesday, March 31 2004 @ 07:33 PM PST
Right archive format, wrong extension
It should be very simple to have 10.1 IE download .sitx files correctly: add the format to the File helper settings by duplicating .sit for SE and change the clone to the .sitx extension. Besides as more and more mac programs with .sitx extensions come out anyone still using IE (I went to Safari) is going to have to address this problem anyhow.
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Sunday, November 30 2003 @ 09:55 AM PST
