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User Name bughunter69
Member Since 2004-12-06
Total number of Feedback Posts: 7
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OSXplanet 2.0b02 (Mac OS X)
OSX Planet has earned a spot on my list of "essential" third-party software, along with things like Thunderbird and Flip4Mac. And now that v2.0 is finally out, I can enjoy it on my Leopard systems. Try these settings (Under "OSX Planet Preferences..." General tab) for a practical, eyepopping desktop: - View Planet: Earth - With projection: Orthographic - Centered On: Custom Coordinates Latitude: 24 Longitude: -90 - Zoom: 50% (for a 1440x900 display) - Rotate Axis: 23 degrees - Image Quality: High This puts the POV above the Gulf of Mexico, giving a nice view of North America. Be sure to enable Clouds and Cloud Data Retrieval under the Visuals tab. [alert admin]
Tuesday, September 09 2008 @ 09:24 PM PDT
Flip4Mac Drive-in 1.0.0.89 (Mac OS X)
Don't Understand The Benefit to the Consumer
Why would any consumer be motivated to use this instead of something like Mac The Ripper or Handbrake? Using any of these, I am merely making an archive of a Disc I own, which gives me a license to view each copyrighted work serially and not for public exhibition. Whether I accomplish this using a DRM protected copy or not is not a legal, moral, or ethical dilemma for me. I am clearly following the spirit of the law, and the letter of the law continues to evolve. And by using this tool, which is free (as in beer), as well as free of restriction, I am truly adding convenience to my experience. While there may be some small proportion of the market who will be motivated by a sense of principle to suffer some limitations or inconveniences to preserve or reinstate some sort of protection on their archives, this fraction is not sufficiently large to make for a plausible business model. Most people will either carry their physical media around with them, or rip these to an unprotected archive on a large volume. I like Flip4Mac wmv codec for Mac. It's essential. But Drive-in? Superfluous. [alert admin]
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Friday, September 05 2008 @ 10:55 PM PDT
Osirus 1.1.5 (Mac OS X)
Simple, attractive, and light on CPU 
Exactly what a screensaver should be. It has a very light CPU burden, isn't intrusive but is attractive enough to be watchable, and it is configurable to the user's taste. I'd recommend this for anyone looking for a colorful, abstract screensaver for their laptop. [alert admin]
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Monday, June 16 2008 @ 09:32 PM PDT
DiscRotate 0.4 (Mac OS X)
Can I use this utility to prevent the optical drive from spinning down while I have a DVD paused? If not, that would be a desirable feature for me. [alert admin]
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Friday, March 28 2008 @ 09:52 AM PDT
ishizume 1.51 (Mac OS X)
My wife is not a computer gamer, but she was hooked on a console version of Klax many years ago, and was thrilled that I found this for her (v1.0). However, within a week or so she soon hit the limit of playability because the game just got too fast. I suggest a logarithmic difficulty progression rather than a linear one, or if it's already nonlinear, lower the knee in the curve. This will extend its replay appeal. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 30 2007 @ 06:20 PM PST
Scrabbler 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Is there a reason for no support of Panther systems? [alert admin]
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Monday, January 30 2006 @ 09:25 PM PST
Kensington MouseWorks 2.6r2 (Mac OS X)
Kensington Mouseworks Killed My Hard Drive
One of the first things I did when I took my new iMac G5 out of the box was connect and install a new Kensington optical scroll mouse. My only complaint about my new iMac was that it frequently froze up, or went into kernel panic, forcing a hard restart with the power button held down. USB ports also stopped working, causing the mouse to be unresponsive, also forcing hard restarts. This repeated abuse to my hard drive led to a series of file system corruptions and eventually caused the drive to fail. After replacing the midplane assy, and replacing the hard drive (and reinstalling Panther), the problem remained. I finally uninstalled Kensington Mouseworks and installed USB Overdrive. My cursor lockups and kernel panics both disappeared. I do NOT recommend Kensington Mouseworks driver until they specifically address this failure mode. The mice are fine examples of computer rodents, but the driver will kill your hard drive. [alert admin]
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Friday, March 18 2005 @ 07:10 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by bughunter69 [ Search for All ]
Because first, I didn't make a statement about the letter of the law, except to say it's in flux. The spirit of the law, one assumes, is its intent to prevent piracy. If I make a non-CSS copy of a DVD I purchased legally, and choose to view that while not making the original DVD available to anyone else, I am not violating the spirit of the law because I am not pirating…
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Sunday, September 07 2008 @ 10:49 PM PDT
While EyeTV does have its own solutions to some of your needs, I have to agree that Elgato's customer support is not up to par. I have been unable to get any version of this software after 2.4 to run stably on either an iMac G5 or an iMac Core2Duo. I paid for the 3.0 upgrade thinking it would solve the stability problems... I was wrong. Attempting to use their customer support proved useless…
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Friday, August 01 2008 @ 10:23 PM PDT
