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DiskCatalogMaker X 5.0 (Mac OS X)

Trusty application for years  

It's true that 4.2.2 had a few quirks and it's also true that this app is often updated, but 'daily' is a little exaggerated.. usually about once every 3 or 4 months and you can always choose to ignore updates or even opt not to check at all for updates. The basics of DiskCatalogMaker havn't changed for years, but every now and then there is something extra added, like the iTunesque 'CoverFlow' feature, which really makes it nice to look at what already is a fast and stable tool. I've used it for ages and it is still fast when you throw 250+ disks at it. It still opens in seconds, while it contains over 1.500.000 items. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 05:28 PM PDT

CrashPlan 2008-6-10 (Mac OS X)

Great idea - lame application  

The idea behind CrashPlan is great: backing up to and from other computers, no matter what OS they run, Mac or Windows and no matter where they are, in the background, encrypted and smart. Great - if it would work that is. I tried CrashPlan for 3 weeks and found it takes ages (more than 2 weeks) to back up even a relatively small home dir of 20 GB on the DSL line I used. Also, backing up only worked reasonable one way. The other way never got ready; CrashPlan's indicators changed radically from day to day. Finally nothing worked any more. I spend a whole day de-installing, re-installing, restarting, trying a new account, trying local and internet backups, trying to back up at a 'friend' account.. nothing worked. Very frustrating. Their help desk asks for log files, but when you send them, they say they can't help you.. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 05:09 PM PDT

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