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User Name koelpien
Member Since 2002-05-10
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USB Overdrive 10.3 (Mac OS X)
I recently bought a USB wireless optical mouse at Aldi's in hopes of using it with my iBook. I bought it despite not mentioning OS X support on the packaging, due to my confidence in OS X working with it anyway. When it did indeed fail to work out of the box, I downloaded USB Overdrive. This nifty program did indeed recognize the mouse and made it functional, except for the fact that after the iBook wakes from sleep, the mouse isn't recognized unless I "retrain" the dongle and mouse by pushing the little buttons on each. Not a big deal, except the button on the mouse is recessed, requiring something pointy to push it in. Too much trouble. I can't really blame the mouse, as they don't specify OS X compatibility, but unless I can use the mouse without retraining it each time the iBook wakes up, I really can't justify supporting USB Overdrive with my $$$. Oh, well. [alert admin]
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Monday, August 30 2004 @ 09:31 AM PDT
DisplayConfigX 0.96 (Mac OS X)
The stated purpose of the program is to unlock new combinations of screen resolutions & refresh rates. So without a verify/revert step, you can hose your system if your monitor accepts parameters outside of its range, and it goes dark despite the efforts of the program to only give you useable choices. [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 29 2004 @ 06:43 AM PDT
DisplayConfigX 0.96 (Mac OS X)
Beware! No safety confirmation of unusable resolutions 
I can't believe I am the first to get burned. While this program may do what it says, and does exactly what all of the other suspiciously-similiar glowing reviews claim, it just switches to the new resolution automatically without confirming if it actually works. Apple makes you confirm a resolution change, so if you choose a setting your monitor doesn't support, you can hit "esc" to revert back to your old setting. This program does not, and if your monitor goes blank due to using an out-of-range setting in OS X, you're pretty hosed with no easy way of resetting to a default resolution. I had to do an entire OS reinstall. Not for the faint of heart! [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 26 2004 @ 08:01 PM PDT
Ovolab AAChoo 1.2 (Mac OS X)
iTunes built-in conversion would be fine, other than you then have two copies of each song, the original and converted. This program is nice in that it removes the original and automatically updates iTunes to point to the new file. Of course, converting from one lossy format to another (MP3 to AAC) isn't ideal for great fidelity, but if you have a large collection of audio books on your hard drive, where fidelity isn't as critical, this is a great way to crunch them down to 50 percent of iTunes default settings. [alert admin]
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Saturday, November 15 2003 @ 06:05 PM PST
MemoryPro 1.0 (Mac OS 9)
This program needs to scan your hard drive for applications automatically, and present you with a list. This is not a huge time saver as it is now... [alert admin]
Friday, May 10 2002 @ 01:52 PM PDT
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