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Inspiration 8.0b (Mac OS X)
For some reason, this version, which is actually over a year old, has been flagged as new as of 2/12/08. Like other comments, I love Inspiration. It works fine with Leopard. But it is a pity that the text rendering is trapped in an ugly QuickDraw limbo, with no signs of a Cocoa update. [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Unity 2.0 (Mac OS X)
2.0 seriously lowers the barrier to entry to Indie game developers 
We've now used 2.0 for 9 months during the development process. The new features are major and really serve to make this an incredible solution for Indie game developers of all levels. Plus the developer community, including Unity Technologies people, is stellar -- someone will answer a question very quickly. Add PhotoShop and Cheetah 3D and you have a full game production studio. [alert admin]
Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 07:57 PM PDT
Sorenson Squeeze 4.5.3 (Mac OS X)
ON2 VP6 2-pass VBR encoding still broken in 4.5.5 
Squeeze is supposed to be more powerful, flexible, etc., than the Flash 8 Video encoder that came with Flash 8. Guess what? It is the buggiest, most poorly documented, hard to understand piece of garbage software I've ever tried to use in a production environment. And if you pay the $150 for a license for the magical ON2 VP6 codec that is supposed to blow your socks off, the 2-Pass VBR still doesn't work after 2 releases (exports as audio only with no video). Just say no to Squeeze. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 20 2007 @ 09:28 PM PDT
TimeSlice 3.3.3 (Mac OS X)
Works well if you have another reporting tool
I used TimeSlice back in OS9 and found it to be a comprehensive time tracking tool. However, there are two problems I have with TimeSlice 3: 1. If you havea timer running, it hogs 5% of your CPU, even when it's in the background. If you're just running Word or something in the foreground, not a big deal. But if you run CPU intensive apps at the same time, that's an awful lot of overhead to give a timer. Minuteur uses about 1.5% CPU when a timer is running. 2. More seriously, the built-in summary (report) window is not very useful because it won't list tasks by project. It just shows all time for a given project, and then all time for a given task (even if it is across several projets). If you use a spreadsheet or something else to actually generate your invoices or do your project management from the TimeSlice data file, then you probably won't find this a limitation. Finally, the developer is helpful in some ways-- issued an upgrade coupon to upgrade from the old 1.x version to 3.x. But when i tried asking about the summary format on the forum, I got several "You're posting in the wrong section" replies instead of some actual effort to understand the issue and suggest a solution. So I was rather disappointed by that. [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 05 2006 @ 08:22 PM PST
Unity 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Deceptively powerful game engine
We bought Torque before Unity 1.5 was released and I started to try working with it. It is a game engine for a coder. The Torque IDE is built using the game engine itself, so it does not have the polish or ease of use Unity does, which is a native OSX app all the way. And the Torque Shader Engine, which does all the cool visual stuff, publishes only to Windows. Unity looks fantastic and has stunning performance on a wide range of hardware. We have been working closely the developers to add new features we need to the engine, and they are incredibly helpful, knowledgable, passionate, and responsive. If you have wanted to create a full-on 3D video game, but were scared away by all the start from scratch coding, this is the tool for you. If you want to create a massive, commercial-quality game, this is the tool for you. The only limit is your artistic ability and coding ability. RIght now Unity does not do networked/multiplayer out of the box, but it is in the works. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 27 2006 @ 08:09 PM PDT
UNO 1.3.1 (Mac OS X)
Could Uno bring Aqua widgets back to iTunes?
I love Uno (like the other comments, OS X looks strange to me with pinstripes now)! But since it is intended as a "unified" theme, I would think in that spirit it would be nice to bring the standard Aqua (blue and graphite) interface widgets back to iTunes. I'm not sure why Apple is proliferating new scrollbar thumbs and such. Maybe Leopard will use all of that?! Anyway, that would be a nice addition to Uno (maybe as an option?) Thanks for keeping it updated! [alert admin]
Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 02:48 PM PDT
UNO 1.3 (Mac OS X)
Fantastic way to get rid of pinstripes
I've used Uno since it was introduced and love it. When I sit down to a Mac without Uno, I wonder where all those distracting pinstripes came from. An unobtrusive theme that makes Aqua beautiful and subtle. Nice to be able to use without a haxie (like ShapeShifter). Install and forget. Fantastic. [alert admin]
Wednesday, September 13 2006 @ 01:38 PM PDT
Apple Mac OS X PPC 10.4.7 (Mac OS X)
appears to fixed garbled text in Safari
I often saw problems with text rendering of Italics on some pages in Safari, Wikipedia in particular. This update seems have fixed that. [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 27 2006 @ 10:11 PM PDT
Parallels Workstation 2.1b (Mac OS X)
Their Web site says that the VM is running emulation of a Pentium II instruction set and a particular motherboard configuration. Is there any reason why this will cause problems or performance issues? [alert admin]
Friday, April 07 2006 @ 10:44 AM PDT
Microsoft Office 2004 11.2 (Mac OS X)
Make sure that the database deamon is not running before you install this update! Go to your login items in your accounts prefs and remove the database deamon. Then restart. Then install the update. Otherwise, Entourage will stop responding to keyboard shortcuts. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, September 20 2005 @ 01:13 PM PDT
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Same problem here with a MacBook Pro and an nVidia 8600M GT. 10.5.2 and the latest video update installed. Apple still hasn't fixed the nVidia drivers apparently.
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Monday, April 07 2008 @ 06:36 AM PDT
Many Unity developers are using very high quality textures and models for their games, and that can create a fairly high payload of assets. Also, if the runtime is a Universal Binary build, it has to have two sets of executables. It is quite possible that the games mentioned were not highly optimized, which is less the fault of the engine than the individual game developers. Finally, nowdays with a 100 GB hard drive, 50 MB for…
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Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 07:52 PM PDT
This update is for Intel MacBooks
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Friday, April 27 2007 @ 09:18 PM PDT
ON2 VP6 2-pass VBR encoding still broken in 4.5.5
And to boot, 2 pass CBR also broken. So one pass encoding is all you get.
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Wednesday, March 21 2007 @ 08:42 AM PDT
No new features in terms of functionality. But a completely new virtual machine for new content written in ActionScript 3.0 (Produced by Flex right now--the Flash IDE has NOT been updated). See: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/actionscript3_overview.html.
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Friday, June 30 2006 @ 02:29 PM PDT
No new features in terms of functionality. But a completely new virtual machine for new content written in ActionScript 3.0 (Produced by Flex right now--the Flash IDE has NOT been updated).
See: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/actionscript3_overview.html.
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Friday, June 30 2006 @ 02:26 PM PDT
No new features in terms of functionality. But a completely new virtual machine for new content written in ActionScript 3.0 (Produced by Flex right now--the Flash IDE has NOT been updated).
See: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/actionscript3_overview.html.
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Friday, June 30 2006 @ 02:24 PM PDT
Still no Flash 8 font activation or plugin!
I've been wishing for Flash font activation for a long time, too. But I would blame Macromedia for that. It's obvious from the Font substition panel in Flash that the program isn't capable of building a font list except at the launch of the program. Font Reserve couldn't auto-activate fonts for Flash either. Heck even Word can update its font menus without a plug-in. Hopefully this is something Adobe will fix.
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Friday, April 07 2006 @ 09:25 AM PDT
The leftmost button of the group of three buttons is the stopwatch button. This is certainly not obvious. Nonetheless, I've found Minteur to be the most compact timer/stopwatch tool that's free.
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Friday, March 03 2006 @ 02:46 PM PST
It's a front-end for Citrix connection to Windoze
It's not a scratch-built app. It just connects you to the Gov't's Windows system via Citrix. It does what it does. No points for beauty.
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Wednesday, February 22 2006 @ 10:30 AM PST
