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Total number of Feedback Posts: 22
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Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Mac OS X)
When it's bad, it's REALLY bad! 
Inevitably there will be some argument about the new elements and features in Leopard. For my money it's all good, sometimes great...EXCEPT for the decisions (if that's the right word) Apple have made about the Finder and Dock... The Finder's wilful stupidity is unforgivable - it's been coded to deliberately NOT remember your view settings unless you tell it to repeatedly. One word...WHY? The Dock is basically illegible at any size significantly smaller than maximum - there's a reason Apple always show it that way in promo-shots. And finally, Stacks stink! Beginning to end, the current implementation is a joke. The main problem is that you have no choice, but why anyone would choose them even if they could is beyond me. The deliberately misleading ever-changing icons are stupid beyond stupid. I'd love to have been in the meeting that approved this, one can only imagine the substance-abuse required to see the logic in Stacks... I've been a Mac-user for about 15 years and this is the worst UI decision Apple ever made - and it sits there, right under your nose, in the Dock....stinking. What were they thinking? Leopard is still a worthy upgrade - but Stacks have to go (optional at least). [alert admin]
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Monday, October 29 2007 @ 08:07 AM PDT
TigerDock 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Great, that got rid of that nonsense. Now anyone got a utility to kill Stacks or at least make them optional or at the very least make the icons display what you choose and not a seemingly arbitrary and changing selection from their contents? Usually I'm the first to defend Apple's UI design decisions but an illegible Dock, illegible Stacks icons, illegible Stacks fan contents and no ability to just put a folder into the Dock without it turning into a Stack? What are they on and shouldn't we reduce the dose? :) [alert admin]
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Friday, October 26 2007 @ 03:12 PM PDT
Second Life 1.17.1.0 (Mac OS X)
There are widespread reports of this version being even more unstable than normal - when you try to edit any prim there is a very high chance of the client crashing. It seems, judging by Mac-using friends inworld, to be affecting intel Mac users the most but it may be more widespread. At the very least, if you decide to update, keep the version you currently have too so you can switch back if necessary! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 26 2007 @ 04:18 AM PDT
Parallels Desktop 2.5 Build 3188.0 (Mac OS X)
Firstly, I'm not a mac-noob or an idiot and I have no axe to grind...but... This piece of **** just trashed my entire iMac internal hard-drive, corrupting it beyond repair, cost me $99 for a copy of DiskWarrior to salvage my files and forced me to spend about 8 hours putiing things back together. The drive itself seems fine, altho' at first I figured it was a hardware failure, but the volume header etc were so damaged even DiskWarrior couldn't repair them - altho' it did let me rescue my files from the Mac partition, thankfully! I appreciate this app works great for a lot of people but the question has to be...how lucky do you feel? If it goes wrong it takes EVERYTHING down with it, be warned! [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 21 2007 @ 05:04 AM PDT
Sony Ericsson Themes Creator 2.54 (Mac OS X)
Might just be me but this won't even launch on my iMacIntel. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, August 23 2006 @ 05:46 AM PDT
CoverFlow 0.1990 (Mac OS X)
No doubt, this should absolutely be the default way Apple's Front Row presents your music collection and allows you to make selections. Imagine the crowd's gasp when Steve Jobs demoes it during a future keynote - and the murmurings when Apple try to pass it off as their own idea... :-) [alert admin]
Friday, March 31 2006 @ 04:49 AM PST
Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 3.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Just discovered there's a new version of the SpeedTouch driver for 10.4 Tiger now available. I can't tell you if it works, I was looking on behalf of a relative, but get it here : http://www.speedtouch.com/download/drivers/WebUpgrade_MacOSX(TIGER)_USB_R3.0.2.2.6.zip More info here too: http://www.speedtouch.com/supuser.htm Hope this helps [alert admin]
Friday, September 02 2005 @ 08:14 AM PDT
USB Overdrive 10.3.9 (Mac OS X)
Totally agree that USB Overdrive is indispensable - but altho the recent update fixed the modifier keys problem for most app's I'm still getting unpredictable results within the Finder. It seems the Finder will not receive 'modifier-clicks' as expected - for example Option-clicking a folder icon to open the folder and close the containing window in a single action - it just doesn't work most of the time within the Finder. Weird, since the equivalent modifier-click now works again within all my other app's (and still occasionally within the Finder). Is this just me? [alert admin]
Monday, May 23 2005 @ 06:48 AM PDT
OSS 3D 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Great sound, bit heavy on the CPU
This gives you access to an amazing amount of tweaks and enhancements but it is a bit hard on your CPU. On my (ageing) Mac the CPU usage of iTunes quadruples with OSS 3D running so maybe it's best (for me) to use only for specific music listening and not while I'm trying to render video in the background for a deadline? :-) Still, it's capable of amazing sound enhancements, check it out! [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 19 2005 @ 06:25 AM PDT
Virex 7 DAT 050511 (Mac OS X)
If you still want to have Virex running on your Mac you could try downgrading to version 7.2.1 which appears to work fine in Tiger and still uses the most up-to-date virus definition files. It seems 7.5 was a waste of time from beginning to end.... [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 14 2005 @ 05:31 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by markyboymac [ Search for All ]
Lol, 2 secs later - i'm now getting 1.3!
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Thursday, June 07 2007 @ 12:16 PM PDT
Yup, getting 1.2 not 1.3 here too.
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Thursday, June 07 2007 @ 12:16 PM PDT
Switch off Little Snitch (or equivalent) if you have it running and VisualHub will download the necessary extras. If you don't want to use opensource or shareware - then don't. Little point in moaning about the licensing restrictions. This is a great piece of software, quit complaining...
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Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 04:07 AM PDT
Not sure about the current version but with earlier ones - click on the Widget and then move your cursor off the Widget slowly, at the top-left (at about 11 o'clock) and they keep dancing...this is probably a bug, but it worked.
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Monday, May 30 2005 @ 06:41 AM PDT
