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User Name macfan2004
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Dropbox 0.6.507 (Mac OS X)
The automatic sync across multiple computers is insanely great 
I have three Macs and a Linux box all automatically synced up, using Dropbox. It really is "set it and forget it". The web interface is really nice, too. And you can even access the revision history of each file! My only concern is that they might go out of business, because the free 2Gb of storage works so well that I'm not sure if many users will end up opting for the larger-capacity paid storage options. Hopefully Google or someone will buy them, so that the service never goes away. [alert admin]
Monday, June 29 2009 @ 03:24 PM PDT
Bean 2.3.1 (Mac OS X)
Great app. I recommended it to a friend, but lack of track-changes compatibility was a problem
The fullscreen editing option is particularly nice. I recommended Bean to a friend, but it turned out that the show-stopper was Bean's inability to read "track-changes" edits in Word. I hardly ever use Word, so I hadn't noticed this. I guess that track-changes may be one of the very few extra features in Word that is actually useful, so adding this into Bean would significantly expand its appeal. [alert admin]
Monday, June 29 2009 @ 03:09 PM PDT
AlphaX 8.0.2 (Mac OS X)
8.02 works on Leopard and Intel Mac (for me, at least)
Although there hasn't been a new release in a while, and the supported OS and platform is listed as 10.4 PPC, I've been using AlphaX on Leopard on an Intel Mac, and it seems fine. I mostly just use it for LaTeX, but all the code rests on the same Tcl layer, so I'm guessing that if some parts of it work fine, then the rest should be fine too. [alert admin]
Thursday, May 08 2008 @ 05:04 AM PDT
Firefox 1.5 (Mac OS X)
Firefox 1.5 works well, but only if you trash old extensions from 1.0.7
I had a lot of extensions in version 1.0.7 that I wouldn't want to live without (Adblock, SessionSaver, BugMeNot etc.). I downloaded 1.5, updated the extensions, and tried browsing. It was awful --- 100% CPU usage, crashes, you name it. Then I read somewhere that most of the problems are from incompatible extensions. I backed up my old Library/ApplicationSupport/FireFox folder, deleted it, and started afresh. It takes a few minutes to reinstall new versions of the extensions you want from addons.mozilla.org, but it's worth it. With a fresh start, 1.5 really does seem to be faster and more stable than 1.0.7. Somehow using an old profile gunks it up. Maybe Mozilla should put some advice to this effect on their download page. [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 15 2005 @ 09:38 AM PST
AlphaX 8.0b16 (Mac OS X)
A newer version is available than listed by VersionTracker
VersionTracker is listing 8.0b16, which is an old version.
Quoting from: http://alphatcl.sourceforge.net/wikit/
"Looking for a new version of AlphaX ?
The first final, public release of AlphaX 8.0 is in the final stage of testing; you can to download and install the
final-release candidate for a test run.
AlphaX now comes in three different flavors, for Mac OS X versions 10.2.x, 10.3.x, and 10.4.x:
* Mac OS X 10.2.x : http://rutherglen.ics.mq.edu.au/~steffen/Alpha/AlphaX-8.0fc2_Jaguar.dmg
* Mac OS X 10.3.x : http://rutherglen.ics.mq.edu.au/~steffen/Alpha/AlphaX-8.0fc2_Panther.dmg
* Mac OS X 10.4.x : http://rutherglen.ics.mq.edu.au/~steffen/Alpha/AlphaX-8.0fc2_Tiger.dmg
Unlike previous beta versions of AlphaX, there is no need to download and install the "Tcl" software library. "
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Sunday, October 02 2005 @ 08:41 PM PDT
YMail.app 0.4.2 (Mac OS X)
Addendum: Developer plans to add secure login after Tiger comes out
To add a note to my previous one, the developer e.mailed me and said that he plans to add secure login after Tiger comes out. Apparently Tiger will offer a new webkit framework. [alert admin]
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Monday, March 28 2005 @ 01:13 PM PST
YMail.app 0.4.2 (Mac OS X)
Can it send login/password securely?
This looks like a great app! My only question is: can it send the Yahoo login/password securely, as happens when you click on "Secure" at the Yahoo Mail entry page. If it can do that, it's perfect. I tried setting the mail site in YMail.app's preferences to https://mail.yahoo.com, but I don't know if this did the trick. I have Little Snitch active, but it never brought up any message saying "YMail wants to connect to...", so I'm puzzled about how YMail.app connects. It's all open source, but sadly I don't know enough to figure it out from perusing the code. Any answers/explanations would be much appreciated! [alert admin]
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Saturday, March 26 2005 @ 08:08 PM PST
AlphaX 8.0b13 (Mac OS X)
Note to previous poster: make sure to install Tcl/Tk Aqua first
Re the post from "aggro", I had the same quit-immediately-upon-startup problem until I realised that I needed to install Tcl/Tk Aqua first. VersionTracker points to that in the "Product Requirements" above, but it's easy to miss. I did! :-) After installing TclTkAquaBI, AlphaX worked fine. The package you need is TclTkAquaBI ("BI" means "batteries included"), from here: http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/TclTkAqua/ AlphaX my favorite LaTeX editor. There are still some bugs compared to the OS9 7.x version, but it's a great program. The $30 shareware fee isn't forced on you by any reminders or inactive features, but the developers definitely deserve it, and 50% goes to the EFF.org, a worthy cause. Also (some may view this as a minus, but I like it) the text smoothing is old-style QuickDraw, not the overly fuzzy Quartz style. Looks great in reverse-video Monaco 18pt. :-) [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 11 2004 @ 05:50 PM PST
Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Good for displaying old LaTeX docs containing bitmapped Type 3 fonts
A lot of older online LaTeX PDFs have nasty pixely bitmapped Type 3 fonts. These would print fine, but look awful onscreen. From 6.0 onwards, Acrobat Reader finally displays them nicely. Before that, the best hope was to try to replace the embedded fonts using progs like pkfix or fixfont, but that was a pain and often didn't work. If Acrobat Reader 6.0 is good for only one thing, it's viewing these files. If you only have the old PS file, you can ps2pdf it, e.g. via opening it in iTexMac, then view it in Acrobat Reader. Re the slow start-up, the comments from others about turning off most plug-ins are spot on. A useful how-to is here: http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000222.html [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 11 2004 @ 05:31 PM PST
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Re: "desktop" comment from i9natz
Make sure you have the Jaguar version. The Panther version seems at first to work, as the GUI shows up. However, it doesn't put any pictures on the desktop of Jaguar, just like you are experiencing. To get the Jaguar version, go to http://otte.ucsc.edu/~gabriel/osxplanet.html since the VT link seems to go straight to the Panther version. By the way, the kid who wrote this is only 15 years old! Amazing!
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Tuesday, June 01 2004 @ 08:48 PM PDT
