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User Name rampancy
Member Since 2006-12-07
Total number of Feedback Posts: 26
Total number of comments: 4
Last 10 Feedback Posts by rampancy [ Search for All ]
Radioshift 1.0.5 (Mac OS X)
Like the situation with Browseback and SmileOnMyMac, Radioshift is a terribly disappointing product from a really good company with an excellent reputation. Much like with Browseback, I've found that Radioshift simply ignores the settings I've set for it. For example, I'm very particular about recording specific shows on specific stations at specific times (i.e. CBC Radio 2's The Signal) and I maybe I just want to record that show for a few days. Instead I find that the recordings are either for a completely different time/show, or on a completely different station, and further more, instead of the three or four days I told it to record, Radioshift would just keep on recording, regardless of the date that I told it to *stop*. I found that left unattended, Radioshift gleefully ate up over 1 GB of space on my boot drive without me knowing it. I had to essentially disable Radioshift's scheduling function...which is sad, since scheduling is pretty much one of the main selling points of Radioshift in the first place. I want to like this app, so much - it's an amazing concept from a good company I want to support. But this app makes the egregious sin of simply ignoring whatever settings I put into it, instead doing whatever it wants to do. It's really too bad that Rogue Amoeba killed their user forums - at least I would have had some consolation that I wasn't alone in my frustration. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 09:13 AM PDT
browseback 1.5 (Mac OS X)
Refuses to do what I tell it to do... 
I got Browseback with a bundle last year, and dropped using it soon after I tried to make it part of my daily workflow. With 1.5 I decided I'd try it again... As with many others who've commented, Browseback, while a great idea in theory takes up a great deal of CPU and memory, especially while it's scanning in the background. While trying to adjust the preferences, it's crashed on me several times. However, what irks me the most about Browseback is that the options in the preferences window for how much disk space its cache should take up, how long it should retain its history, and from what date it should start importing simply aren't respected at all by Browseback. They'd might as well not be there at all. After setting it to use 50 MB of disk space, I've consistently seen its disk cache balloon to over three times that, thanks to entries dating back from December 2007 which it won't delete even though I told it to only keep entries for two days, starting from yesterday. I ended up just deleting it manually. This was an issue I had with it when I started using it at 1.4 and it's still behaviour I see now in 1.5. [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 09:01 AM PDT
Frictionless 2.0d18 (Mac OS X)
Both MacUpdate and VersionTracker should reflect the fact that Frictionless is now Leopard-only. [alert admin]
Thursday, June 26 2008 @ 03:49 PM PDT
Delicious Library 2.0 (Mac OS X)
DL2 is 10.5-only, and a paid update...
DL2 extensively uses technologies in Leopard, and it's a paid update (the upgrade cost is $20). Shipley's been talking about that for a while now - it's why DL1 was featured as part of MacHeist. (No one took into account Apple's last-minute manoeuvers with 10.5's release, which led to the lengthy delay.) Cue the whining in 3...2...1... [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 27 2008 @ 07:25 AM PDT
Freeciv 2.1.3 (Mac OS X)
At the freeciv homepage there's a link to an SDL-based version which doesn't need X11. It works pretty well for me, too. [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 05 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Point of View 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
This is must have for MacBook/MacBook Pro owners; it's a just a great game which you can easily pick up and play, with some great, just simply great background music to listen to. In fact, I'd say it almost helps you think better for the puzzles... [alert admin]
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Sunday, January 06 2008 @ 12:38 PM PST
Netscape X 9.0rc1 (Mac OS X)
This is probably because of what happened to their portal...
Netscape used to be tightly integrated with their Digg-like newspage/web portal - since that's effectively dead, this version probably is supposed to account for that. [alert admin]
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Monday, October 01 2007 @ 04:19 PM PDT
1Passwd 2.4.9 (Mac OS X)
I first got hooked on 1passwd when it the full version was given away for free during a MacHeist mission. It's a testament to both the Camino and Agile devs that it fully supported the nightly optimized trunk builds of Camino I often downloaded for months after I started using it. And not only that, but Agile had a visible presence on the MH forums, always welcoming comments, troubleshooting requests, and questions from myself and fellow MH members - in addition to that, they continued to include us in their upgrade cycle up until the last paid update, when they had no obligation to do so. Oh, and their software works pretty damn well, too. My only regret was that I didn't buy this earlier. [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 26 2007 @ 07:35 AM PDT
CrossWire 1.0b3 (Mac OS X)
Very, very unstable. I just clicked a few checkboxes in the preferences window (where movies, pictures, etc. download to) and it crashes repeatedly. Oh, and I'd much prefer a more "Mac-like" preferences window as opposed to the list-form that it has now. And, I can't customize the toolbar. [alert admin]
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Sunday, July 08 2007 @ 08:43 AM PDT
Aqua4iTunes 3.3.0 (Mac OS X)
Halleluja! It's finally come! [alert admin]
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Friday, July 06 2007 @ 11:14 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by rampancy [ Search for All ]
With apps like 1Password, Mailplane, and Cyberduck, and other apps using Andy Matuschak's Sparkle, you can tell them to either check for stable releases, or leading-edge betas. Which is the way it should be. Of course, with the exception of Camino, all of the Mozilla-derived browsers I've seen use Netscape's old backwards version checking scheme.
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Saturday, May 31 2008 @ 05:53 AM PDT
According to a comment on the developer's blog, 0.22 is Leopard-only.
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Tuesday, December 04 2007 @ 03:10 PM PST
Yes, I know they're all at Stage Plot, but the others in the series aren't universal yet....
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Sunday, April 08 2007 @ 08:04 PM PDT
Uh. They say right on the product page that it won't run on Intel Macs.
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Monday, March 19 2007 @ 05:14 AM PDT
