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User Name leoofborg
Member Since 2001-09-27
Total number of Feedback Posts: 116
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RealPlayer 10.0.0.352 (Mac OS X)
They still make this? I'm surprised Real has not miffed off all of their 'customers' ... Well, if you still insist on using this? Go for the free version or the BBC Version [google for it] that strips out all of the crud that 'Real' insists on putting in their 'Gold' player. And here I thought Real died with the rest of the dot bombs. Hm, you learn something new every day. [alert admin]
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Sunday, February 26 2006 @ 12:49 AM PST
StuffIt Deluxe 10.0 (Mac OS X)
Hmm, lemme see: 1/ Windoze is cheaper than Mac? What? 2/ Zip is the de-facto compession and builtin to both Mac and win32 [extraction] 3/ Encryption and burning are also builtin to Mac via disc burn and diskutil. So, why am I upgrading for $29? Automator? Spotlight? Answer: I'm not, until there's a special $9.95 offer. This is release on the heels of a Finder Crashing bug with Quicktime 7..02 caused by.. surprise! Stuffit Archive via Rename kext. No thanks. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, September 13 2005 @ 07:55 AM PDT
cocoAspell 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Solution for Dictionary problem..
I posted this over in MU, but looks like it's needed here. The prefPane has a bug where it won't compile dicts. You have to compile manually via the terminal: 0/ cd to the Dict folder. 1/ ./configure 2/ make 3/ make install If memory serves me right. Please see my comments in MU or read the readme that comes with the dicts... [alert admin]
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Monday, May 09 2005 @ 06:49 PM PDT
MacPhoneHome 3.0 (Mac OS X)
Now that a number of ISPs are blocking SMTP traffic (except to their own servers) due to spam concerns, how can this program work? I can tell you that with SBC, these 'stealth mails' will be blocked 100% of the time. The developers are going to have to find another way to register location, perhaps using port 80 (www) and a database on their side. From an -enduser- standpoint, while they mean well, I don't think this program is effective if it only uses SMTP mailed to an account that a user may not have access to (because mail's on their stolen powerbook). It would be much better to have the vendor set up a website that the user can log into with a database of IPs where the powerbook 'was'. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 11:23 AM PDT
Compression Master 3.0 (Mac OS X)
For those concerned with price.
Try FFMPEGX. It does everything this app does. I guess some people have to pay for convenience --or are too scared to install Unix binaries. FFMPEGX takes care of this for you and also does 3GP encoding. It reads Real, but doesn't encode. I suppose if you REALLY need that codec you're going to have to pay. I threw out Cleaner LONG AGO -- there's no need to pay $395 dollars for MPEG or DIVX related codec compression, let alone mobile formats either. Luckily my firm paid for this stuff... [alert admin]
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Thursday, November 11 2004 @ 11:30 AM PST
TinnitusTamerX 2.0 (Mac OS X)
Well, the revised download link from the author is- http://www.vavsoft.com/TinnitusTamerX.dmg.zip however, I'm getting the same run errors as the previous user. Guess I'll have to revisit this in a couple weeks. Can't run, so cannot recommend. [alert admin]
Friday, August 27 2004 @ 02:00 AM PDT
TinnitusTamerX 2.0 (Mac OS X)
I emailed the author, no reply as of yet. And you can't run the PPC version under Classic either. [alert admin]
Thursday, August 26 2004 @ 10:02 AM PDT
MenuCalendarClock 1.0.0 (Mac OS X)
Another version, another return back to the older freeware. 
Y'know, I keep revisiting MCC versus CalendarClock 1.0 Free, and y'know what? CC's UI is still cleaner. Try again, ObjectPark. If you can. Please lose the jaggy buttons (meaning improperly sized). Peter Maurer is a stickler for detail, and it shows in the product that you acquired from him. The fact that you guys are slapping features and assets around shows in this lesser quality PAYware. Oh, and drop the price, please? High marks for Stability, Blah for Features/Ease and DoubleBlah for the price. (8/20/2004, Version: 1.0 [alert admin]
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Friday, August 20 2004 @ 11:30 AM PDT
AppleJack 1.3 (Mac OS X)
I don't use the Applejack installer because it's buggy, so, in the terminal by hand I do this: 1/ sudo root (root user is necessary! If not, try 'sudo' -- but if you use su root you don't have to chown or chmod) 2/ cp [applejack install path]/applejack.sh /sbin/ [If you put in /sbin you don't need to change root profile] 3/ cd /sbin; ln -s applejack.sh applejack [file linking is convenient] 4/ cp [applejack install path]/applejack.8 /usr/share/man/man8/ [the man page] Typing 'applejack' in single user then runs as expected, and you get the manpage. Not really that much more work, but well worth it to get this great script working. [alert admin]
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Thursday, August 12 2004 @ 04:32 AM PDT
Back@Home 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Not to diss this application, but if you have a 40 gig iPod or other External drive and FileVault ON you can log out of your user and into either root or some other Admin'd user, and copy the sparseimage to the 'pod. When you go into /Users/YOU/ you'll see the YOU.sparseimage, otherwise it's hidden in the ~/.YOU directory (but not as root, go figure). I keep 2-3 of these sparseimage 'snapshots' of my user directory sorted in named folders like user_bak20040701, 0802, etc To restore, just reverse the process above. Works like a charm. I have a bloated user directory and the sparseimages come in at just under 2 gig (meaning that 2 encrypted, secure images can be burned to DVD). Apple's solution gives you total, compressed, and most importantly secure backup, built into the OS. These images can also be mounted, so that you can recover files (I've done this too after throwing out something and then recovering it from 2 week old bak. [alert admin]
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Monday, August 02 2004 @ 10:45 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by leoofborg [ Search for All ]
Respectfully, I disagree with you. When Apple incorporates archive functionality into the Finder and diskutil, and then *drops* Expander from their shipping OS, then it ceases to be 'the standard.' Stuffit has gone the way of MSIE 5 for Mac, and Allume / SmithMicro know it. That's why there is all this hullybaloo about Jpeg compression and jargonese about mobile media. As a photographer I could care less, and the LAST thing I want to do is…
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Tuesday, September 13 2005 @ 02:52 PM PDT
Developing a good website takes time. Would you rather have Matterform developing Spamfire, or snazzing up their website?
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Thursday, April 01 2004 @ 07:22 AM PST
All I see with this app is a program in maintanence mode. Yahoo is taking a 'wait and see' approach and not adding any features to the Mac. 10.26 comes out, they fix a few more bugs. So, Yahoo, what are you waiting for? The other shoe to drop?
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Wednesday, May 14 2003 @ 12:20 AM PDT
