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User Name macnerd10
Member Since 2001-12-27
Total number of Feedback Posts: 7
Total number of comments: 19
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SuperDuper 2.6.2 (Mac OS X)
excellent but lacks Snow Leopard info on VersionTracker 
This is really the best cloning app for Mac OS X. I don't want to reiterate on this; it has been proved by many-many users. It is a pity that 2.6.2 designed with Snow Leopard in mind does not have any mention of it on this site. Actually, it works great with SL. [alert admin]
Wednesday, October 14 2009 @ 06:20 PM PDT
iCab 4.7 (Mac OS X)
iCab is a very small and very fast browser. It has outstanding security features, many different identities to optimize surfing, full control of all features, strong password memory and an unusual but extremely useful ability to save the page as pdf file (for bank statements, receipts, etc.). It also has superior text encoding allowing to correctly render foreign language files unreadable in several other browsers. It is constantly improving and can easily rival or beat many commercial browsers. iCab users enjoy personalized, fast, and professional customer support and Alexander actually listens to comments and improves the product constantly. My only suggestion would be to implement an option found so far only in Flock: treat attachments in webmail as links and have an option "save the link as". Highly recommend this browser. [alert admin]
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Sunday, October 11 2009 @ 01:52 AM PDT
VueScan 8.5.17 (Mac OS X)
I have an older Microtek ScanMaker 8700. The Microtek software makes scans slow and the file outputs are very big in size. After I got VueScan it became like a new scanner: fast, with much smaller file sizes with the same resolution. And it is very easy to use. Highly recommend, especially, for heavy users. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 18 2009 @ 02:52 PM PDT
VLC Media Player 1.0.0rc4 (Mac OS X)
VLC browser plugin has problems
I really like VLC: find it capable of playing more avi files than QuickTime player and it has a better sound output too. When playing video, you can easily go from part to part, which is not possible in QT player with streaming video. Recently, the downloads also offer a plugin. I have installed it on PPC and Intel Macs running 10.5.7 and it caused a weird behavior on downloads. I could no longer open or download pdf files from MS Web Outlook. Instead of opening a pdf when double clicked on the file name, the browser attempts to open a video and states that no video is found. Disabling the plugin reverts the behavior to normal. It seems to be either a bug in the plugin or some incompatibility with QT plugins (they do not hijack pdf files). I would stay out of the plugin. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 18 2009 @ 02:47 PM PDT
Apple 17" MacBook Pro Graphics Firmware 1.0 (Mac OS X)
There were some posts related to not-so-great brightness on new 17-inch MBPs. The rumor was that the firmware update would correct that. I updated firmware last night. It went on seamlessly but there was no change in the screen brightness. The Apple Knowledge Base article actually does not mention brightness, only some display problems that I did not have. The screen (I have a matte one) seems bright enough by itself and I did not compare it with 15-inch MBPs side by side. [alert admin]
Thursday, March 26 2009 @ 09:56 AM PDT
David's Backgammon 5.3.7 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Fully agree with previous posters. Very nice interface, easy controls, REALLY addictive. My favorite [alert admin]
Friday, October 20 2006 @ 03:18 PM PDT
Opera 9.0 (Mac OS X)
The browser is not easy to configure. Does not have the Go button, which is a hassle, because the back button does not work all the time and there is no automatic way to go back - you need to input the previouis URL. The wand is not practical for passwords. When you have one password for the site with several login options (like review materials), other browsers just input the login and password and wait for you to hit OK or other button. Wand automatically launches the site and it goes to the first (wrong in my case) option. I could not see a spinning ball showing activity. When loading, Opera does not seem to visibly function and then the page appears. Toolbar customization is a nightmare. The main bar bnuttons cannot be changed one by one (nice feature in Netscape and the likes) if you put an icon there by mistake - you can only reset it completely. Personal toolbar also does not allow for removing buttons - I just chose not to show it and put everything on the main bar. Besides, it has some buil-in search windows that are useless but cannot be removed - they just take up space on the bar. Page loading is usually significantly slower than in Mozilla browsers. All these features do not make Opera 9.0 a finished product. The upshots: it does not crash like Safari and seems to be stable; certain high security pages allow access on an Intel Mac where Mozilla browsers fail but Safari works (e.g., Microsoft Web Outlook access e-mailer). [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 21 2006 @ 07:41 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by macnerd10 [ Search for All ]
Beats me too. But I do scan in jpeg format. You may be right about the compression mechanism (there are several, which can be seen in Photoshop).
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Wednesday, August 05 2009 @ 12:59 AM PDT
Agree about the quality. However, updates are not forever unless you pay $79. The standard edition ($39) only has free updates for one year.
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Thursday, June 18 2009 @ 02:55 PM PDT
Excellent browser with many features 
I agree with you and also have it as default browser. One more thing: it allows you to save internet files (screen shots) as pdf - others would not simply do that. Concerning identity, the best one is custom. Hit user defined and paste this into the window: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.26.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2 Safari/525.26.12
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Saturday, March 07 2009 @ 10:28 AM PST
Fully agree. For years I've been creating PDF files from Office documents through the print-save as PDF function built in the Mac OS. Several times tried to do it through Acrobat and either failed (did not go through) or the output quality was much worse than Apple's. Alex
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Thursday, November 06 2008 @ 10:38 AM PST
This is a great idea but as far as I know, only Apple does combo updates. Adobe does not and neither do many other apps. We should be blessed that updating on a Mac does not require a restart like under Windows... Alex
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Wednesday, March 12 2008 @ 11:39 AM PDT
You are right - even Acrobat requires an image. It can get you a digital signature, which is essentially text stamp. I could never find out whether it is legal or not. Image looks more genuine. On another note, Skim allows easy highlighting. It is a nice hybrid between Preview and Adobe Reader, with extended capabilities. And it is free. Alex
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Monday, February 25 2008 @ 10:51 AM PST
I could not make it to work on Intel. Besides, the video quality after avi>mpeg conversion is unacceptable. The pictures on the web site are misleading - the actual player does not look like the one pictured. Support is sleeping...
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Monday, July 23 2007 @ 04:48 PM PDT
Very good review. I can also add that Opera seemed to be the least concerned among 5 browsers that I tested about the latest andf quite miserable update to QuickTime 7.2. Most pages were rendered correctly without any tweaking. What I cannot master in it is the back button. Very often it gets dimmed and I can no longer go back like in any other browser. Need to go to history, which also does not…
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Thursday, July 19 2007 @ 05:36 PM PDT
I agree. Certain aspects of this program are still not very good. I tried to convert an avi movie file to DVD. Result - no sound. Audio_TS folder was empty. Then I converted it to mpeg2 file, and from there, to DVD. This time, the same folder was empty again but I got the sound and DVD played in a regular player. Looks like it cannot extract the audio from movie files; aiff format is…
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Sunday, June 24 2007 @ 10:50 AM PDT
The new beta version displayed on this page (1.1b) has a spell checker. Took them longer than expected since introducing this in Firefox.
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Monday, February 26 2007 @ 06:02 PM PST
