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User Name crypto7ogic

Member Since 2000-01-27

Total number of Feedback Posts: 104

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OnyX 1.7.4 (Mac OS X)

Awesome

*censored*tail? Sucks. Tiger Cache Cleaner? Sucks. Onyx is where it's at! Thanks again!! [alert admin]

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Tuesday, September 05 2006 @ 10:09 PM PDT

DiskWarrior 3.0.3 (Mac OS X)

I guess YMMV

This is the best disk utility I have ever used. I first purchased version 2.x when my PowerBook 1400c was booting slowly. It optimized my HD and then booted the fastest it ever had. Now 3.0.3 recognizes the extended formatting and ACLs in 10.4. I have been using iDefrag to optimize the metadata and thought I would never need DW again. But then iDefrag started throwing errors. Once again, DW to the rescue -- it just fixed a problem which Disk Utility could not fix (when booted from the Tiger disc) with my HFS+J volume. Tip: hold down Option key to enable "Rebuild" [alert admin]

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Saturday, December 10 2005 @ 01:05 PM PST

VLC media player 0.8.1 (Mac OS X)

saved my butt

An absolute must-have for those weird "AVI"s where no codec is found by QT and you don't want to dork around with converting/doctoring it. [alert admin]

Cocktail 3.5.2 (Mac OS X)

Of course you're open-minded, so maybe look at...

Way back in the day this was free... now thankfully there are free apps that do the same things, including terminal commands nobody seems to want to type. E.g., a review of ONYX: http://www.applelegal.com/software_comments.php?id=204_0_1_0_C I cant help but wonder if the developers are coming in here and puffing this thing up... Not worth $15. Maybe $5 would be more realistic IMHO. [alert admin]

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Monday, January 10 2005 @ 02:36 PM PST

Apple Mac OS X 10.3.7 (Mac OS X)

ATI Radeon 8500 retail AGP Raven Shield users shouldn't update

If you have an ATI Radeon 8500 retail AGP card and you play Tom Clancy's Raven Shield (with or w/out the Athena Sword mod) you might want to consider staying at 10.3.6. The ATI drivers suck. Significant frame tearing occurs only after the upgrade, esp. on maps like Peaks w/ the smoke grenades and thermal sights. Installing or removing ATI Displays makes no difference, at least not w/ the ATI displays version 4.4.2f5 (latest as of 1/05/05). But that has been there since 11/04, 1 mo. before 10.3.7 w/out issue. Vertical sync on or off does not effect Peaks, but does affect the custom U.W.A. map. Now if I can only figure out a way to extract the ATI .kexts and drivers from 10.3.6 pkg.... either that or I guess I'm going to try the version 224 ROM since it's included w/ 227 in the Oct 2004 universal ROM update. But again, ROM version 227 has also been present since way before the 12/04 intro of 10.3.7, and before 11/04 intro of ATI displays 4.4.2f5. Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell seem to work fine. [alert admin]

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Thursday, January 06 2005 @ 12:58 AM PST

StuffIt Deluxe 9.0 (Mac OS X)

8 better for my needs

Before this version, I could right click on .zip archives and decode one with BOMArchiveHelper (the standard built-in OS helper app). And I could right click on another and have it decode; it would appear in the same window like copy. Now stuffit expander has hijacked the .zip format, and all my zip archives are stuffit files, and expander and the contextual menu can only do one at a time, and what chaps my ass even more is that if you set one to launch in a serial manner b/c it cannot do it parallel like BOMArchiveHelper, it cannot even remember that event and launch it when the first one is finished! Try it -- it blows. I left a post at the Allume help forums -- no help. I'm going back to 8.0.x now. [alert admin]

Thucydides 1.1 (Mac OS X)

WYSIWYG

Nice - does what it claims. But resizeable window would be nice (even if only vertical :) [alert admin]

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Monday, September 06 2004 @ 02:58 PM PDT

Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3 (Mac OS X)

"Oh, it's-a very nice!"

CCC is the best thing to ever happen to Mac OS X - I used it to backup my 80 GB drive to my 200 GB drive. The 80 GB is only 25% full, so I can image it (running CCC FROM the 80 GB!) onto the 200 GB and have a ~20 GB .dmg, sitting there ready to go. Not only did I use this technique to move from my original 20 GB drive to a 40 GB then to the 80 GB - worked perfectly every time - but also to image the 80 GB, erase it completely, do a 10.3 clean install and then mount the old image and restore whatever I want. Just make sure you do a repair permissions after the restore. [alert admin]

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Saturday, June 12 2004 @ 02:53 PM PDT

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)

Where's Raven Shield?

Yes, it is very addictive...online play gets a bit tired w/ all the clan BS and what not... So I tried Raven Shield, which is HELLA fun - SAS-style hostage rescue and a butt-load of weapon types (more than GhR stock). So I have not played GhR in a long time now. But why can not I find RvS (or any other Tom Clancy) app when I look for Raven or "Tom Clancy"? It does not seem to be on here. And Splinter Cell is coming out soon.... [alert admin]

Cocktail 3.3 (Mac OS X)

whining

I think people are "wasting space", as you call it, b/c there are freeware alternatives that are as good as - or better than - cocktail... now. Back in the day it used to be free. OnyX is a freeware alternative that I now use b/c cocktail went $$$. They all perform pretty much the same terminal commands, and yes they are a pain to type in manually, but I think people have come to a realization that getting rid of that annoyance is not actually worth spending money. You are corect; I do not think it has anything to do with avarice on the part of the cocktail developer(s). So if you actually *reviewed the software*, maybe price would be taken into account...? Just a thought. Clearly opinions are like a**holes - everybody has one. If you got suckered into paying for an app that does the cron scripts or whatnot, just learn from it - don't take it out on others. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070 [alert admin]