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User Name dnedved
Member Since 2005-04-30
Total number of Feedback Posts: 12
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Vuze BitTorrent Client 3.1.1.0 (Mac OS X)
took bloated program and exploded it MUCH further 
I've got to start by saying I've never been a fan of Azureus. Bloated slow java code, confusing interface, difficult to use. Rtorrent on the command line and transmission as a gui are both light years ahead and much better in general. Every now and then though you get a tracker that won't talk to anything but one of the "popular" torrent clients, so you have to break out something like Azureus. It's gotten MUCH more painful than it used to be. Now instead of a torrent client, it's a mess of multimedia. To put it in terms of web browsers, Vuze is to Transmission, as AOL on dialup is to Safari on broadband. I suppose there might be a target audience out there for them. If you wanted to install one piece of bloated java code on your grandmother's computer, and if she had enough hardware to run it, and didn't have an epileptic seizure from all the distracting content everywhere, this might be some sort of all-in-one program where you can search for and download video all in one app. For anyone that can use a web browser themselves though (including absolutely everyone smart enough to find this review on Versiontracker) just stick to downloading torrents yourself and using a simple torrent client. I can't say that I went crazy clicking on the overwhelming content it threw up on my screen but I did give the search a whirl. A torrent that I had originally downloaded from mininova couldn't be found in their search. Oh well, so it's a bad idea and it doesn't even work. [alert admin]
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Friday, July 25 2008 @ 05:30 AM PDT
Transmission 0.81 (Mac OS X)
great program, stick to older version for now
Prior versions of Transmission have been the best torrent program on the planet. There have been a few hiccups in the past, but usually by the time a .1 version comes out things are right again. The 0.8 series added a LOT of features, and they are nice, but reliability has gone for now. 0.80 was unusable, and 0.81 did seem to fix a lot of the issues but is still very buggy. The biggest problems are outright crashes, and mysterious freezes when attempting to add multiple torrents within a few minute time span. Stick with the 0.7 series for now. This program is under fairly active development again, and I bet they will have the 0.8 series reliable within a month or two. [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 08 2007 @ 01:16 AM PDT
RBrowser 4.3.6 (Mac OS X)
I needed a quick utility to do a recursive FTP of my website off my old provider. I love FUGU for SSH based transfers but needed something to handle just plain FTP. Tried this tool out. Granted I have several thousand small files to transfer, but copying an entire tree down is something other users say they use this utility for so I wouldn't have expected it to choke. It gets a few hundred files into the transfer and randomly hangs every time on a different small file. With crippleware where the portion they let you use for free doesn't even work properly, makes you wonder about all the fancy features they save for registered customers. Not going to find out though! [alert admin]
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Sunday, July 30 2006 @ 05:36 AM PDT
Transmission 0.5 (Mac OS X)
Version 0.5 adds many features users have been asking for on the forums. Still the best, fastest, most reliable torrent client I've used. Now with "pause all" and "resume all" buttons, indication of ratio when switching to seeding mode, and torrent info in the context menu. Thanks guys, another great release! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 11:58 AM PST
Bits on Wheels 1.0.6 (Mac OS X)
very cool visualizations, but lacking day-to-day usability
This is a very neat bit torrent client... the 3d visual representation of the swarm and the packets flying around is one of the neatest network tools I've ever seen! It also has some very nice features not to be found on the standard clients. With all that being said though, it's sort of a one-trick pony, and the interface quirkiness makes it extremely diffiicult to use all the time if you're an active torrent user. Pluses: - awesome visualization - ability to set which port it runs on - ALL TORRENT CLIENTS SHOULD HAVE THIS!!!!! - very rich set of options (aforementioned port, maximum # of uploads, max rate per upload, max overall rate) Minuses: - prompts you for where to say the torrent for each and every torrent you click on (no option for folder to save to) - apple-comma doesn't bring up options, you have to find them in the menus - managing torrents is very confusing, there is a delete button but after finding that the other buttons don't do what I'd expect them to do, I'm afraid to push it - no documentation, and interface isn't straightforward enough to get away with this This is a very cool client, and you really ought to run it a few times to see the packets flying around, but I highly recommend transmission as the easiest-to-use, fastest, and best overall torrent client for the Mac. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, January 25 2006 @ 09:08 AM PST
HandBrake 0.7.0 (Mac OS X)
good program - works well - lots of options
Does what it's supposed to do. Nice to have so many options (so many Mac apps are dumbed down to the point where you don't get any meaningful options) but not being an expert on what's hot on video codecs, I found the options a bit overwhelming. A few presets for the most popular option sets would be very helpful, such as: - preset to encode it for the video iPod - preset to encode a movie down to 1.37 GB (don't know what settings they are, but everyone seems to encode movies the same way so that they end up 1.37 gb with decent quality) - preset to encode a movie at near DVD quality Something along those lines would go a long way to making it more user friendly for non video codec geeks. Thanks for a great application! [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 04 2006 @ 05:13 AM PST
Transmission 0.4 (Mac OS X)
best torrent client - blows away BT, forget azareus
Best torrent client out there for OSX. Whoever posts having this client corrupt their downloads is doing something wrong. Pure user error. I've tried to get corruption and failed. My first experience was that I had about 15 torrent downloads going at the same time in the official BT client. I noticed that the more downloads I added, the slower the total download speed became. So I quit BT official, started up Transmission, and picked up all 15 downloads right where BT left off. If that won't corrupt a file (and it didn't) I don't know what will. Oh, and had a better than 10x speed increase right off the bat!!! Since then I've downloaded a few hundred torrents of all sizes, from all over the place, 10s of gigs in total. Transmission gives consistant high speed and has proven to be 100% reliable. Much more fully featured than official BT (unless you want to make your own torrents), and a much better program overall. Thanks to the multiple delete options, I find myself having to do a lot less manual file cleanup after downloads. I've deleted official BT client from my machine, and have never spent more than 30 seconds with azareus it's so bad. This is the client you want if you want your downloads to finish quickly. With that being said, the following features would be great: - ability to set max d/l rate (why only u/l rate?!?) - ability to "pause all" and "resume all" - show on the main screen total u/l and total d/l (so you can avoid being a leech easier) [alert admin]
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Monday, December 12 2005 @ 04:05 PM PST
BitTorrent 4.2.0 (Mac OS X)
After all this time, and with all the competition, you'd think the official client would be at the very least stable and have the basic features needed for usability. Guess I'll try it again in a few more months. Bugs: - SLOW with multiple downloads - every 24-48 hours it stops working, hogs 100% CPU, and needs to be restarted - I've NEVER had the program quit cleanly, it always bombs out with error messages when quitting Major features lacking: - Why no ability to select different directories for current and completed downloads? If you're downloading a bunch of stuff, it makes it really difficult to figure out what's completed and what's still in progress without bouncing back and forth between BT and finder. - Why the ability to cap upload speed but not download? On the rare occasions BT actually gets going at a good rate, I want the ability to hold back a little bit of bandwidth for surfing and for my VOIP phone. - How come it has the ability to autostart the next download when they're ALL finished, but not the ability to control how many it will keep going at once? (Actually, the answer to this is that the BT client can't keep up with more than one download at once, but it's still a majorly lacking feature). - Why not ability to auto-delete the torrent file when the download is complete? As it stands right now, it's way too much work to clean up after a download finished. First go find which file in the directory is actually finished, and move it out. Then go find the torrent and delete it. Then clear the entry out of BT. All three should be able to be automated. Can't complain about the price, but I expected a lot better after a year or so of waiting for them to fix bugs / add some usability. [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 27 2005 @ 04:29 AM PST
GarageSale 1.7 (Mac OS X)
Good solid product, does what I wanted it to.
I got my feedback up to around 200, and had never tried one of these listing proframs. I want back all the hours I spent manually writing up HTML and FTPing pictures up onto websites! This program does exactly what it's supposed to do, and goes beyond with a bunch of nice extras. The ability to capture photos from iPhoto, digital camera, or iSight is quite nice. As is the ability to work with ebay's own photo system, other popular third parties, or your own web site. Paypal tie-in as well. All of these things wouldn't have been required for me to register, but make the program an absolute snap to use. I found the paypal screen a little confusing, so emailed the author for support and had a quick, polite, and technically correct answer in my mailbox even though I was an unregistered user. I also appreciate the fact that this isn't cripple-ware. I took my first round of auctions all the way through completion with this product before deciding to register. Highly recommend. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 27 2005 @ 10:46 AM PDT
Amadeus II 3.8.4 (Mac OS X)
Exaxtly what I wanted. Perfect audio app.
I wanted an app to help me get audio from tapes and records into itunes. I read a few reviews of other apps that had issues with large files and tried this one first. It's absolutely perfect. - Hook up your line-in - Start recording with the timer set for 30 minutes (or however long your recording is) - Come back later and it's all there - Use built-in noise reduction to get rid of tape hiss - it works perfectly - Mark sections of the file if you want (songs, etc.) and use "cut to new file" to create a different file for each one - trim off empty space at the beginning and end if you want... - Save each section directly to MP3, choosing the bit rate, and setting the ID3 tags right in the app - voila - you've got an mp3 of your old analog audio, you've gotten rid of the tape hiss, and it took less than a minute of your time. Drag it onto itunes and you're done. Registering right now... this is exactly what I wanted. I rated the documentation as 5 stars because the app is so well written you don't need any. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 27 2005 @ 10:11 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by dnedved [ Search for All ]
Who's gonna write Uwatec download support?
Very cool looking app, but it only works with the "smart" Uwatec computers. These are a newer model, and based on my personal experience probably represent only around 1% of the Uwatec dive computers in the field. The other 99% are serial port based dive computers. Being a computer geek it's contrary to my nature in general, but the older line of Uwatec dive computers are the best and most reliable ever…
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Wednesday, January 04 2006 @ 04:37 AM PST
best torrent client - blows away BT, forget azareus
Pure Bullshit. In case of a system crash all data being downloaded at this time gets corrupted.
Wrong, you don't know what you're talking about. If you get corrupted data, it's user error on the part of the uploader, or something REALLY stupid on the part of the downloader. Any torrent client which conforms to spec will do its own error checking. See the bittorrent FAQ at http://www.bittorrent.com/FAQ.html:
How do I know the…
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Wednesday, January 04 2006 @ 04:27 AM PST
This guy obviously has no idea how software is writtten, maintained, developed, or even used. Blaming his computer's instability on one particular app because he reloaded his computer from media without that app and it worked is flawed logic at its worst. Mac apps don't work that way dude, there is no registry to get corrupted. A well written app like this could only hurt itself, not your entire computer. You did something…
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Wednesday, July 27 2005 @ 10:15 AM PDT
