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User Name matsw
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EyeTV 2.0 (Mac OS X)
49€ for the upgrade, for an overpriced hardware product bought 6 months ago, is just not acceptable. Miglia is half the price. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 14 2006 @ 03:29 AM PST
NetStatInDock 0.5u (Mac OS X)
The best and simplest network monitor for Mac OS X. [alert admin]
Monday, February 06 2006 @ 03:42 AM PST
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Beware of Macromedia's anti-piracy mechanism
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 has an unacceptable anti-piracy mechanism, which writes hidden files into system directories such as /etc /var/db /var/db/netinfo /.Trashes and many others. These files then get modified, deleted and moved around every time you launch a Macromedia app. The big problem is that these directories are writable only by root, which means that Macromedia apps have to run as the superuser to do their mucking around on these files. So they probably need to be installed as setuid root, which is really bad from a security point of view. Ask any UNIX expert around you. It's OK to use some anti piracy mechanism involving hidden files, but it is not OK to do so in a way that requires root privileges or modifying directories that are crucial to the rest of the system's operation (/etc, /var/db/..., etc). And their installer is THE worst I have seen. I could never get Fireworks to launch. Why don't they simply user Apple's package mechanism, which is certainly not perfect but works ? [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 07 2004 @ 05:09 PM PST
Macromedia Fireworks MX 6.0 (Mac OS 9)
Beware of Macromedia's anti-piracy mechanism
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 has an unacceptable anti-piracy mechanism, which writes hidden files into system directories such as /etc /var/db /var/db/netinfo /.Trashes and many others. These files then get modified, deleted and moved around every time you launch a Macromedia app. The big problem is that these directories are writable only by root, which means that Macromedia apps have to run as the superuser to do their mucking around on these files. So they probably need to be installed as setuid root, which is really bad from a security point of view. Ask any UNIX expert around you. It's OK to use some anti piracy mechanism involving hidden files, but it is not OK to do so in a way that requires root privileges or modifying directories that are crucial to the rest of the system's operation (/etc, /var/db/..., etc). And their installer is THE worst I have seen. I could never get Fireworks to launch. Why don't they simply user Apple's package mechanism, which is certainly not perfect but works ? [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 07 2004 @ 05:05 PM PST
Apple iPhoto 4.0 (Mac OS X)
Automatic image rotation and lossless JPEG rotation ?
The two features I miss most in iPhoto are - automatic rotation of pictures when they are imported from a camera with an orientation sensor - lossless JPEG rotation (the ability to rotate JPEGs without losing quality: rotating them back restores the _exact_ original, which eliminates the need for keeping the original if the only modification is a rotation) are they in the new version ? [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 07 2004 @ 04:47 PM PST
Apple iPhoto 4.0 (Mac OS X)
Automatic image rotation and lossless JPEG rotation ?
The two features I miss most in iPhoto are - automatic rotation of pictures when they are imported from a camera with an orientation sensor - lossless JPEG rotation (the ability to rotate JPEGs without losing quality: rotating them back restores the _exact_ original, which eliminates the need for keeping the original if the only modification is a rotation) are they in the new version ? [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 07 2004 @ 04:45 PM PST
ThermographX 1.2.2 (Mac OS X)
Does not work on dual 2 GHz G5 
The only sensors that seem to work on the G5 are U3 heatsink and drivebay. The others do not vary at all, despite very variable CPU load. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, January 07 2004 @ 11:31 AM PST
Update Finder Front Window 1.0 (Mac OS X)
thing I forgot to mention: do NOT run the app by double-clicking its icon in a finder window, as this will acomplish nothing. Launch it from the dock or from the finder toolbar or, as another poster suggested, the Applescript menu. And yes, it does complain when launched on a window with no documents, but I see this as an AppleScript bug and I prefer to keep the app as simple as possible. [alert admin]
Thursday, December 19 2002 @ 06:29 AM PST
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