User Profile for ragboo

Little Snitch 2.0.3 (Mac OS X)

version 2 is great  

I recently upgraded to version 2 and was greatly pleased with new features and general elegance. Highly recommended. I now keep the new connection tracking window open and watch the connections. My main use is to block phone home connections and cross-site flash advertisements or other connections. After a little research I am more confident that this application is trustworthy and doesn't have secret backdoors or other nasty features (tho, never 100% sure). See objective development forum discussion about whether anyone can bypass little snitch. Consensus is that almost nobody can bypass little snitch. However, there is still some concern that Flexnet software that Adobe uses may have some really sneaky low level hack into OS X kernel in order to catch adobe sw pirates. But nobody claims to have seen anything with a packet sniffer. All in all, little snitch seems to have pretty tight security. And certainly quality at the visible level. [alert admin]

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Friday, April 04 2008 @ 10:05 AM PDT

RadioLover 1.6 build 82 (Mac OS X)

getting started  

Even tho the interface is quirky, radiolover works effeciently once you get the hang of it. The main draw of this application is the fact that you can record lots of stations concurrently. If you are doing one thing at a time you can get better control with the other two apps - audio hijack and wiretap. 1. drag a few radio stations from itunes onto the main window. This is what hung me up for awhile. 2. click the listen icon on a station to determine when you want to start recording. 3. click the start recording to begin recording a station. Radio lover then tells itunes to open a stream. This stream will work independent of what you may be listening to in itunes. 4. Start as many recording streams as you want up the limit of six or whatever it is. 5. Listen in to the stations you are recording either from Radio lover's interface or from itunes. The listen icon is a toggle and seems to get confused, but it works fine dispite it's appearance I have a folder of radio stations in itunes that I use so I can switch between itunes and radio lover to keep track of what's going on. Radio lover is pretty good at spliting tracks if the radio station sends the data. Some stations don't so with those you end up with one long recording. I use mp3 trimmer to go clean them up as well as the DJ and commercial junk that gets added to split tracks. [alert admin]

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Thursday, December 14 2006 @ 09:57 AM PST

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