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CD Stack 1.0.2 (Mac OS X)

Good Product Overall  

I was looking for a product to handle some encoding I do on a regular basis and to replace a free ripper I was using. I have a one hour long church service that needs to be converted from cd to mp3 for use on our website. Most mp3 rippers do use the L.A.M.E engine but non of them seperate the encoding and writing process like this does. The real selling point here is time. It takes 3-5 minutes to enclode the entire 1 hour long service then the writing is done in the background so I can put in another cd to rip. At first I must say I thought $14.95 for a bit high for a product that several free applications can do. However the time it saves me is well worth the money. I also have to say the support for the product is very good. At first CD Stack created a couple of files that did not work. I wrote to the authors and they responded quickly and eger to help. I was not able to get CD Stack to reproduce the problem however it's been a few months and it still hasn't happened again. I upgraded to v1.0.2 today without any trouble everything is working great. [alert admin]

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Sunday, June 18 2006 @ 08:39 PM PDT

SwitchResX 3.7.2 (Mac OS X)

Excellent Product With a Variety of Uses  

I had been looking for a dual monitor solution for my mac mini. As everyone knows by now you just can't do it. Or can you?. I found an article on the DualHead2go from Matrox that claimed someone got it to work for the mini but the company says it is only support by pc. Well I just got the same set up working on my mac mini but only with the help of SwitchResX and the Author Stephane who replied to my emails quickly providing insight to what was happening and helped me to correct it. Thank you Stephane. I agree with one of the other comments here you need to know a little about your monitors and about resolution timing before you go setting your system to use timing it can't handle. Furthermore there is no need to bash a product you don't know how to use. My monitors could not handle above 76hz and the DualHead2go (not switchresx) was putting out 85hz on reboot. However because switchresx works so well I was able to vnc to my mini from another computer and select the new resolution that I had saved before rebooting. Now the system boots to the correct resolution every time unlike a another similar product I had read about where they had to create an apple script to reset the the resolution on boot. [alert admin]

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Friday, March 24 2006 @ 06:48 AM PST

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