Existing users, 
Advanced Search
User Name mkupietz
Member Since 2002-09-21
Total number of Feedback Posts: 33
Total number of comments: 10
Last 10 Feedback Posts by mkupietz [ Search for All ]
DivX for Mac 6.7 (Mac OS X)
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS BUGGY JUNK 
I have just spent an hour and a half trying to watch a video over the web. This piece of junk crashes every browser I try to use it on. And since it doesn't cache anything, if you're watching a long video, you have to restart from the beginning. Every time. And you can't save to disk until it's done buffering the whole thing. Totally inefficient and unusable. Infuriating garbage. Stay far away. They don't provide uninstall instructions, either, so you're stuck with it once you install. The features look nice, for the two minutes it runs before my browser quits. Other than that, I'd give this negative stars if I could. [alert admin]
Read Comments (1) | More Info | 3 of 7 users found this helpful
Saturday, September 01 2007 @ 04:53 AM PDT
VLC media player 0.8.6b (Mac OS X)
This is a great little player for masochists or other people who want to fill their time with obscure error messages, hear stuttering audio with dropouts every other second, deal with highly technical dialog boxes full of poorly-explained options, and waste time creating rips and captures from DVDs that then always refuse to play. Also, it can take screen shots from DVDs, which is about the only thing it's got going for it. [alert admin]
Read Comments (1) | More Info | 3 of 9 users found this helpful
Tuesday, June 12 2007 @ 03:32 AM PDT
MP3Bar 1.05 (Mac OS X)
Starts iTunes every time I open it!
What's the point of this? Every time I open it, it hogs my cpu by automatically starting iTunes. If I wanted to use iTunes, I wouldn't have downloaded MP3bar. Absurd. I'll stick with Mac Amp Lite. [alert admin]
Monday, June 04 2007 @ 12:22 AM PDT
PhotoInfo 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Worked for 5 minutes, then died
Worked nicely for the first 5 minutes, until the "Batch edit" died on me. Now I select a folder of jpgs, and nothing happens. Great. [alert admin]
Read Comments (1) | More Info | 0 of 1 users found this helpful
Saturday, June 02 2007 @ 09:25 PM PDT
Reveal 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Can't batch-edit data, just one file at a time. No thanks. [alert admin]
Post a comment | More Info | 0 of 1 users found this helpful
Saturday, June 02 2007 @ 09:03 PM PDT
soulseeX 1.0b6 (Mac OS X)
"Stable"? "Reliable"? NO WAY!! Buggy & annoying.
I wish I had whatever "ssX" the other reviewers seem to be so happy with - because the one I have is buggy and unstable. What do I hate about this program? First of all: the mother of all memory leaks. Whenever I leave this thing open, gigabyte after gigabyte of my hard drive's free space slowly disappear as more and more swapfiles are written. Opening this program is a great way to use up all your hard drive's free space in a few short hours, and I don't mean with downloads. Then: once it's consumed your hard drive, you start getting errors that say "Connection failed". Nothing of the sort is happening - it just can't write to your hard drive. So you quit & restart the program. SURPRISE! IT HAS FORGOTTEN ALL YOUR IN-PROGRESS DOWNLOADS! Hope you remember what you had in progress, because your download screen is now empty, empty, empty and you'll have to search for everything you were downloading, find it all over again, and re-queue it all by hand! Nice, huh? Of course, that's assuming the people you were downloading from even still show up in the search results. Because it doesn't find people who are clearly on line because they turn up in other searches, and then if I open their share files I can see that they are sharing the files I was looking for, it just didn't show them in the search results no matter how many times I tell it to search again. It seems pretty random who it finds and who it doesn't. The reason I'm writing this review is because all of the above just happened to me in the last 20 minutes. There is no soulseek client for OS X. [alert admin]
Read Comments (1) | More Info | 0 of 1 users found this helpful
Thursday, May 10 2007 @ 12:29 AM PDT
ffmpegX 0.0.9x r2 (Mac OS X)
Oh, and I forgot to mention...
The URLs given for the binaries you need to download lead to files that Safari doesn't know how to handle, and instead of downloading it displays a bunch of junk on your screen. Nice work. [alert admin]
Read Comments (4) | More Info | 1 of 2 users found this helpful
Wednesday, May 09 2007 @ 04:00 PM PDT
ffmpegX 0.0.9x r2 (Mac OS X)
...to have to re-download and re-install the needed binaries EVERY SINGLE TIME I try to use this program. This si inexucasble. Oncve I go through the hassle of re-installing the binaries EVERY SINGLE TIME, the program works as advertised, until the next time I open it and I have to go through the annoying routing again. [alert admin]
Post a comment | More Info | 0 of 2 users found this helpful
Wednesday, May 09 2007 @ 03:58 PM PDT
NicePlayer 0.95 (Mac OS X)
Borderless window. Why didn't anyone else think of this?
Simple, efficient, and does one trick no other players do... I miss some of the features of VLC (saving screen grabs, anyone?) but really like the implementation of the borderless player. I do a lot of watching video files or DVD in the corner of my screen while consumed with writing or checking my email, so it's nice that it doesn't waste real estate on anything but presenting the image. Well done, too, you can push it almost off the screen but it still always lats you grab a handle to move or resize it. I'd like to see a transparency setting as well. But once this has been in development a while it will be a very nice player... they're off to a good start. [alert admin]
Post a comment | More Info | 1 of 1 users found this helpful
Monday, April 30 2007 @ 10:35 PM PDT
Saft 8.3.11 (Mac OS X)
"Anti-phishing" warnings need to be easier to turn off
Saft's anti-phishing warnings make it impossible to do my online banking... There is no easy way to turn them off. I can't even enter my password to login, every single character I type into the password box brings up the anti-phishing warning. I have to clear the warning dialog 15-20 times just to get past the login page of my bank's website.This is a dealkiller, I can't use saft if it does this. I saw somewhere that if you type 'defaults write com.apple.Safari "Saft No Checking Phishing Attacks" -boolean true' into terminal it will disable them - you should not have to go into terminal to turn this very annoying feature off. (Assuming the terminal command actually works, which I haven't confirmed yet.) Other than this, it's great. I will click "recommend saft" below on the assumption this very annoying "feature" will be fixed in the next version. [alert admin]
Monday, April 30 2007 @ 02:51 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by mkupietz [ Search for All ]
Prefpane doesn't = trojan. App that installs prefpanes (and who knows what else) without warning you=trojan. Seems pretty strraightforward to me.
Original feedback item : Read More
Saturday, September 01 2007 @ 05:20 AM PDT
This buggy, nonfunctional version overwrites your old plugin, and the installer for the previous version is not available anymore, so if you don't have an old installer already so you can roll back to a working version, you are completely disabling your ability to play divx movies in your browser by installing this version. You probably want to just stay awayuntil they come out with another working version.
Original feedback item : Read More
Saturday, September 01 2007 @ 05:16 AM PDT
Worked for 5 minutes, then died
UPDATE: It doesn't do nothing. It waits about 5 minutes, giving no indication that anything is going on in the background, then opens a window that displays maybe half the files in the folder you selected, and doesn't allow you to select, change, edit or otherwise do anything at all exept quit the program.
Original feedback item : Read More
Saturday, June 02 2007 @ 09:35 PM PDT
You're totally right! Now, do something about it!
Yes! Absolutely right! Now please go around to everybody who has uploaded music to the internet, ask them to take it down and re-encode it in those formats & re-post it. Let me know when you're done. Thanks!
Original feedback item : Read More
Wednesday, August 02 2006 @ 02:28 PM PDT
...also, doesn't do anything in Firefox
I just discovered that even choosing the menu options to use the saved passwords doesn't actually do anything. Zero stars.
Original feedback item : Read More
Friday, July 21 2006 @ 12:42 PM PDT
...also, doesn't do anything in Firefox
I justdiscovered that even choosing the menu options to use the saved passwords doesn't actually do anything. Zero stars.
Original feedback item : Read More
Friday, July 21 2006 @ 12:39 PM PDT
This DESPERATELY needs some sort of progress meter, and start/stop buttons... while it's running you can't scroll the list to see how far it's gotten, and it starts running as soon as you open it!
Original feedback item : Read More
Wednesday, July 19 2006 @ 08:55 PM PDT
I would defintely not spend time on any programs that I didn't have a need for. Sounds like you should give this one a miss.
Original feedback item : Read More
Sunday, May 14 2006 @ 09:20 PM PDT
I can't immediately see how to select an MP3 file from the result list without it suddenly starting playing. I don't want to listen to it, I just want to see what folder it's in! This should not happen.
Original feedback item : Read More
Sunday, May 14 2006 @ 09:13 PM PDT
Can't make it cap my upload rates.
Not exactly true. Bittorrent has an option to cap upload rates of individual torrents only, which doesn't always work so well anyway... it usually caps them at 1k-2k higher than you tell it to. There is no option in Bittorrent to cap your overall upload rate.
Original feedback item : Read More
Sunday, December 05 2004 @ 09:45 PM PST
