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Super Flexible File Synchronizer 4.0b5 (Mac OS X)
We need a good sync applcation on the X platform 
I’m using SFFS at work under winNT2000 to sync to my usb-stick and I have to say it is the best product around there. I’ve tried a lot of other applications, but the possibilities of configuration with SFFS are outstanding. Furthermore the soft is capable to detect *movements* of files/olders! I think everybody knows this prob: You rename a folder on one side and the stupid sync program will delete the folder on the other side and then recreate it with the new name. SFFS (if properly configured) detects this kind of change and in place of re-copying all it will adapt to the folder structure as needed. For syncing my usb-stick to the mac currently I’m using Synchronize! Pro X. It’s a good application and actually the only usable sync application for the mac. But it’s far from being perfect and it’s overpriced! So I hope that SFFS for mac will be developped to a win-level-comparable status and when this is true I will be the first user to buy it. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 05 2008 @ 01:33 AM PDT
BetterZip 1.5.6 (Mac OS X)
This is one of the best application I've used in the last 6 months! After 1 hour of evaluating I buyed it.It gives you - among others - zip, 7z, bz2, rar for compressing (most of them with several levels), and all this in one, stable(!) application with an absolutely Mac-like GUI! It lets you browse and extract virtually all kind of compressed stuff. Not to mention the BetterZip QuickLook component for Leopard ... Thanks! [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 12 2008 @ 11:04 AM PST
PhoneAgent 1.4.3 (Mac OS X)
this morning as I tried to update to vs143 my serial was refused by the online registration process (license fromm dec 06). I mailed my prob to macmedia and received the answer and solution within 3 hours! This is what I call SUPPORT on a saturaday morning (CET) The program, btw, is superb! [alert admin]
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Saturday, November 10 2007 @ 04:19 AM PST
Synchronize! Pro X 5.0.7 (Mac OS X)
OK now, after a couple of days: No bugs so far, very fast and it just works. I have tried all possible configurations and combinations within my 2 (sometimes 3) - devices via airport express and via cable. All the problems I encountered were due to a bad NW setup (my fault) and/or to the existing macbook pro airport connectivity problems (which are meanwhile wellknown, beside Apple, who continues to ignore it …). Synch pro is acting as good or even better as the finder (sometimes i had the impression that it was ways faster; but that, probably, was just an impression) . The price was a bit heavy, but there are no alternatives. (for backup-/archiving-only purposes I recommend Apple’s "Backup". It’s free and the last version (3...) is really OK. finally ;) [alert admin]
Saturday, September 22 2007 @ 07:58 PM PDT
Synk Pro 6.2 (Mac OS X)
Very promising product so far, BUT: - Appl silently crashes. IF still availaible, but no mouse , no keyboard hardly recognized. Think this should be fixed. Sooner or later. -Buttons unrepsonsive: In various cases the appl didn’t respond at all. This was positively the case when finder copies took place (Firewire) -Finally the appl refused to start at all. Never retried. Trashed. -Cancel button doesn’t work: Example: Trying to do do a backup. Starting. Looking at the BA process I see a huge file that is esentially obsolete. I hit "cancel". What happens? Nothing. The appl tells me that it will stop when the current task may be accomplished. Or something like that. But, the task I wished to stop was exactly the current task. Did anybody get it? "Cancel" means cancel. Point. OK. This is a very nice atempt. But full of bugs. Apperently plenty. This thing should be priced at max.10$ or donation ware. @the devellopper: don’t get me wrong. I tested your sw with various ba solutions. I’m in the process of changing completely ma ba strategy/HW (only 2 cpu’s and 4 external disks, 1 shared). Your SW failed. Neverteheless I will encourage you to kepp up the good work. As said before, it’s more than promising. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 16 2007 @ 05:06 AM PDT
Synk Pro 6.2 (Mac OS X)
Very promising product so far, BUT: - Appl silently crashes. IF still availaible, but no mouse , no keyboard hardly recognized. Think this should be fixed. Sooner or later. -Buttons unrepsonsive: In various cases the appl didn’t respond at all. This was positively the case when finder copies took place (Firewire) -Finally the appl refused to start at all. Never retried. Trashed. -Cancel button doesn’t work: Example: Trying to do do a backup. Starting. Looking at the BA process I see a huge file that is esentially obsolete. I hit "cancel". What happens? Nothing. The appl tells me that it will stop when the current task may be accomplished. Or something like that. But, the task I wished to stop was exactly the current task. Did anybody get it? "Cancel" means cancel. Point. OK. This is a very nice atempt. But full of bugs. Apperently plenty. This thing should be priced at max.10$ or donation ware. @the devellopper: don’t get me wrong. I tested your sw with various ba solutions. I’m in the process of changing completely ma ba strategy/HW (only 2 cpu’s and 4 external disks, 1 shared). Your SW failed. Neverteheless I will encourage you to kepp up the good work. As said before, it’s more than promising. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 16 2007 @ 05:01 AM PDT
Synchronize! Pro X 5.0.7 (Mac OS X)
Having played around with Synk Pro 6.2 from Decimus for a while, but too many spinning wheels, to many cancel buttons which don’t work and ways too slow. Finally the appl refused to start at all. So, now I’m back to good old Synchronize Pro, as in OS9 days. And it seems that it is still the only reliable synch/backup solution (once there was also retrospect, but …) Nevertheless I think it’s overpriced. Should be at around 60 or 70$. And the licensing/update policy … no comment. [alert admin]
Sunday, September 16 2007 @ 12:54 AM PDT
VisualHub 1.26 (Mac OS X)
This is a fine piece of software. Basically its just some kind of a gui for h264, but a very good one. Sadly the developpers are not ready to give any more info on the codecs implemented. Here my mail traffic with one of them, since yesterday unanswered. I know, one could say that it is not a goood thing to drag this problem over here to VT, but I think that this is 1) a manner to accellerate things, and 2) to share information. The interesting thing is that the guy from VH has made 1 question, and he never answered to my detailled explanation. I think, support could be better. <<quote beginning here>> ok. once payed and you are fine so far, aren’t you? I guess that’s the american(yankee) way … Bueno, métate mi dinero a donde te quede mas comodamente, y muchas gracias, heh. Saludos/Greetings_____________________________ [my address here] Am 29.07.2007 um 17:55 schrieb [me] OK. Still waiting for answers. but meanwhile I have registred for VH. (Why I have payed? Mostly because of the fact that my mails are treated:-) Greetings _____________________________ [my address here] Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: [me] Datum: 29. Juli 2007 17:36:53 GMT+02:00 An: Techspansion <techspansion@mac.com> Betreff: Fwd: VirtualHub licensing vs x264 Even if you encode with h264 via quicktime X264 (not h)!! of course only when qt supplied with the x codec. But then the option is there. If I remember well. Trying not to mess things up .... _____________________________ [my address here] Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: [me] Datum: 29. Juli 2007 17:24:15 GMT+02:00 An: Techspansion <techspansion@mac.com> Betreff: Re: VirtualHub licensing vs x264 1.: Whichever you enter in the qmin field: it wont be respected (according to the log) 2.: the crop dosnt work correctly: it seems that the autocrop makes its decisions upon a runtime < 2min, ie where it is impossible to make a crop decision (movies normally doesn't show their true aspect < 2 min, intro screens etc. etc.) 3.: Where's the VB option for audio? I think there's an option for this, normally. Even if you encode with h264 via quicktime. However ffmpepX has it implemented (I dont know truely if it works) 4.: Several commands seem to have no effect at all (se also the qmin thing above): :cabac=0:(1), b-pyramid=1: (0), :8x8dct=1:(0) 5.: Please supply more detailled docu: Is cabac enabled? is trelis enabled? etc... Nobody nows ......... tired of inspecting the log everyday just for getting this elemental kind of info. _____________________________ [my address here] Am 29.07.2007 um 16:42 schrieb Techspansion: x264 which source? One of the good things of x264 over h264 is that is updated very frequently. And there *are* major improvements. Once again: where is your so called (x)codec from?? For me your 264 codec acts as as h264, not as a recent x264. http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html r650 How does it "act" differently? -Tyler Loch Techspansion LLC http://www.techspansion.com <<quote ends here>> [alert admin]
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Monday, July 30 2007 @ 02:56 PM PDT
Drive Genius 1.5.3 (Mac OS X)
This is a good argument. Support is very important. I really don't know if the people behind iDefrag, iPartition, SuperDuper and Apple’s Disk Utility grant a good customer support/helpline/live-support. I have no experience. Till now I avoided this situation by maintaining my system with competent tools. Knock on wood … But I suppose that you have verified that all of these companies don't have a good support(??) As I can see no argumentation from your part against my more technical points of the comparison of the above mentioned software and drive genius, may I be right if I think you agree with me??! I.e. drive genius compared to the above mentioned tools offers nothing but a rudimentary "demo" of their possibilities. Greetings [[Thanks Apple for safari3 having a spellchecker for the english language ;-)]] [alert admin]
Wednesday, July 18 2007 @ 09:44 AM PDT
Keyboard Cleaner 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Wow! This is the first application that really works 100%! Very stable and easy to use, and it's UB, too! Well, the functionality is a bit limited, compared to Indesign e.g., but – considering the different scope – I can live with this. Finally I can place my coffee cup on my MacBook's keyboard without any concern. Thanks. My only complaint: Where is the f. manual???! [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 12 2007 @ 01:21 AM PDT
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Pro-active support & product worked like a charm
I think it's very good that the people at ProSoft helped you out so easily. But, did you ever have considerd using a software, a mature software, that does not require any support from the base the first time you run it???? We (mac-users) have already some good tools ("disk repair")and some which are even better ("idefrag, ipartion, diskwarrior etc.) . For the moment no need for overpriced double solutions who pretend to to do basic stuff…
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Sunday, October 07 2007 @ 09:53 AM PDT
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Tuesday, July 31 2007 @ 11:13 AM PDT
Sorry, the first wo lines of my commentary below shouldn’t have to be displayed. My fault. Please sb delete it …
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Monday, July 30 2007 @ 03:07 PM PDT
This is a good argument. Support is very important. I really don't know if the people behind iDefrag, iPartition, SuperDuper and Apple’s Disk Utility grant a good customer support/helpline/live-support. I have no experience. Till now I avoided this situation by maintaining my system with competent tools. Knock on wood … But I suppose that you have verified that these companies don't have a good support(??) As I can see no argumentation from your part against my more…
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Wednesday, July 18 2007 @ 09:39 AM PDT
Use the AZCVS Updater plugin http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_list.php
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Wednesday, June 20 2007 @ 11:18 AM PDT
