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User Name ross.porter_dotmac
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Flip4Mac Drive-in 1.0.1.1 (Mac OS X)
As a bull, this could have been a useful product. It is a steer. Avoid it. By design, it has two show-stopping defects. First, it will not deal with DVD images already on disk. To use Drive In, you must dig your precious, expensive DVDs out of storage and, one a a time, re-copy them to your hard drive using Drive In. Second, the software insists on a region code. Purchasers of region-free disks and users of software that eliminates Hollywood's region stupidity need not apply. Conclusion: Save your money. [alert admin]
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Thursday, September 25 2008 @ 01:00 AM PDT
VersionTracker Pro 4.5 (Mac OS X)
This could be such a fine service with just a little attention from the authors. Unfortunately, they don't see the worth. VT searches the disk (not just the Applications folder -- that's important) to locate and identify installed software by name and version. Then it searches an on-line database for current versions. It reports installed software that has been updated and offers to download and install new versions. Nice idea, but there are three show stoppers: 1. If the software is somewhere else than in Applications, the install goes to Applications most times. So if, for example, you create a subdirectory in Applications to hold a program and related documentation and program files, the update will be to Applications and not to your subdirectory. Then, the next time VT is run, it still finds the out-of-date version and offers to update the current version it installed in the wrong place. 2. The application identification logic is flawed. For example, with Parallels Desktop installed, VT finds the Parallels uninstaller, Uninstall.app. Good. Then it recommends updating it with the general shareware program Uninstall.app. Bad, even potentially disastrous. 3. In addition, sometimes it identifies software as being something completely different than it is. For example, I have the useful program SyncTwoFolders.app installed. VT identifies this as a game program, SMasterMind, and offers to "update" the folder sync application to the game. In summary, this is a potentially useful program that you cannot trust, but must check carefully every result reported before relying on it. [alert admin]
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Sunday, February 17 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Uninstaller 1.12 (Mac OS X)
Version Tracker Pro is proposing to replace the uninstaller for Missing Sync with this general purpose shareware uninstaller. No! Wrong! Version Tracker Pro must be watched very carefully. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 13 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
iSoundFile 0.5 (Mac OS X)
It's freewae. Thanks, It's too bad it doesn't deal with the audio formats I need -- Monkey's àudio (APE) primarily, but it also doesn't convert stone age formats like MS Wave (PCM and its family) to MP3 or OGG. If it did that, Almost everything else would be just quirky, and therefore acceptable in freeware. If you need this functionality in freeware for MAC, take a look at COG for playback and MAX for conversion. Booth free, and IMHO both better. [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 15 2007 @ 07:59 PM PDT
VLC media player 0.8.5 (Mac OS X)
VLC is my media player of choice. I tried every player I could find when I got my MacBook Pro, and settled on VLC. Imagine how stupid I felt when it took me six months to discover there is a Windows version too! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, September 05 2006 @ 03:01 AM PDT
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