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HandBrake 0.9.3 (Mac OS X)

Bad Forum Issues  

I downloaded HandBrake. It requires you to have VLC in /Applications. Since Apple kindly makes that folder too full to begin with, I went to the HandBrake forums and looked for something relevant and found nothing. I signed up for an account and posted a request. I received a reply that my post had been disapproved with the note that the question has been asked many times before and that I needed to search the forums. I searched the forums _twice_ more for just the letters VLC. Both times it came up with no results found. I tried to reply to the moderator email (there was no indication that the mailbox wasn't monitored) to explain what I'd found. My email bounce with a message from (presumably) their mail server that relay access is denied. This may or may not be a good product but it's pretty clear they have zero respect for their users. [alert admin]

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Monday, January 26 2009 @ 07:58 PM PST

You Control: Desktops 1.3 b5 (Mac OS X)

I can finally go to 10.5  

I've used Macs for a long time and there are a lot of reasons I generally prefer them. Spaces is not one. For the first time since I started using macs (a '85 vintage Mac 512K): a removed an OS upgrade. Spaces is not a virtual desktop manager; it's an application manager. Virtual Desktop applications --when done right-- allow you to organize things not by application but by project or task. If I need to have a browser window open for general browsing on one virtual desktop and another open to test what I'm developing on that virtual desktop, a good virtual desktop manager can handle that. Virtual Desktoop Managers don't force you to switch to another desktop just because you clicked on an icon in the dock (hey... where'd I go?!? I just want the app in front so I can open a new window you stupid OS). If you like Spaces fine, but it's not a virtual desktop manager. It's in a special category of its own. If someone can figure out how to hack Spaces it can be reconfigured to run as a virtual desktop manager, great. Until then, this product seems to work great (granted I'm testing it under 10.4), allows me to do what I want _and_ allows me to re-upgrade to 10.5. [alert admin]

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Sunday, May 11 2008 @ 11:07 AM PDT

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Latest Version...  

The company that produced this product is out of business, but their old site links to a .org site with the latest professional version (3.0) and a Thesaurus (ArsLexis Thesuarus) for free: http://noahpro.org/ While I'm downloading to try later, I have not tested either product. Caveat Emptor. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, November 28 2007 @ 07:20 PM PST

Second Life 1.18.4.3 (Mac OS X)

Revising my comments  

I tried an earlier version and it crashed repeatedly and crashes happened very quickly. Although I swore I'd never try it again, based on some reports I read online, I tried the latest release candidate (1.18.4.2) and found it was actually stable and usable. I'm using a MacBook Pro 2Ghz Intel Core Duo (I) with 2Gigs Ram and OS X 10.4.10. I've just installed the current release (1.18.4.3) and it seems to be stable on my machine. The list of bug fixes was very long (at around 50 items I stopped skimming), so they _seem_ to be moving fast on improvements. The bottom lines seem to be: 1) Second Life stability is very dependent on your hardware combination. 2) If the current release causes problems, try the release candidate: http://secondlife.com/community/downloads-optional.php If you do decide to try it, take the time to go through all the tutorials. They're well worth the time. [alert admin]

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Thursday, November 15 2007 @ 11:50 AM PST

Second Life 1.18.3.5 (Mac OS X)

Run away _NOW_  

The positive is that this is a pretty incredible virtual world and some great enabling technology that I'd find very helpful. The UI is great and it's visually impressive. Well... until I try and click/touch something. SecondLife locked up my MacBook Pro twice in about five minutes. It's not a full kernel panic, but everything grinds to a halt. My machine is a MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo (I), 2Ghz, 2Gigs Ram. For the last 3 months, the vast majority of my reboots have been because of Apple updates (update iTunes, force reboot... grrr). Anyway, Second Life sounds phenomenal but the Mac version needs some _serious_ loving by Linden. The application does not seem to record its existance in /Library/Receipts so an uninstall is a very manual process. Searching on SecondLife, "Second Life" and Linden seems to be the key. Remember the quotes on "Second Life" or you'll come back with everything that has the words second and life anywhere. If you actually happen to get anywhere, it will probably cache things somewhere in your user folder, too. [alert admin]

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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 12:47 PM PDT

Bad Forum Issues  

As a follow-up to my previous post, I should note that I also posted in the HandBrake forums about the problems I had encountered with my attempt to follow their directions, etc., I received a reply disallowing my post like this: