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VirtualSafari 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Aside from the fact that it doesn't actually work at all (I'm using Safari 2.0.1/WebKit 412.7 with Mac OS X 10.4.2 Tiger), the implementation leaves much to be desired:
- There's a Perl script that has to talk to a separate OS X application, which it calls to the front on every request.
- The "integration" between the script and the application is nothing more than the script's assumption that, 10 seconds after asking the application to make a JPEG of the web page, it will have done so. If the page already loads after 1 second, the user waits around for 9 unnecessary seconds; if the page loads in 11, the user gets a broken image.
- The software leaves temporary files on your hard drive without attempting to clean them up.
- Paths must be edited in the Perl script before it will "work" at all.
- There are mistakes in the included HTML files, which will be apparent by observing your server's error log while attempting to access a page.
It's a nice idea, but really needs to be done quite differently.
[alert admin]Saturday, October 29 2005 @ 02:47 PM PDT
Fireworks FX Screen Saver 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Neat. Seems to work fine on 10.3.9 on my PowerBook. [alert admin]
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Monday, June 06 2005 @ 08:34 AM PDT
Jedit X 4.2.3 (Mac OS X)
I've only taken a quick glance at this program, but it's already clear that this is a Mac OS 8 program in all-too-revealing Mac OS X clothing. This is not an Aqua app. Its interface does not match my expectations of software running in Mac OS X. It may have all sorts of fantastic features, but being a Mac user, I have to care about how it looks, and so, I'll delete Jedit and move on to some of the other titles I'm evaluating (Tag, skEdit, Smultron)... [alert admin]
Friday, November 26 2004 @ 04:32 PM PST
X-ColorZ 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I was confused that there was nothing called X-ColorZ in my Applications folder after installing. I had to use the Find utility to discover that the installer had put it at the root of the hard drive. But you can move it to the Applications folder yourself and it seems to work just fine there. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 16 2004 @ 10:26 AM PST
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Good PTHClock replacement, but not perfect 
Unlike PTHClock in Panther, wClock happily does pin itself to the right side of the menubar. And wClock's calendar is fine. wClock has fewer options for specifying the format of the date and time, but the options that it has are sufficient for most people, and easier to select than in PTHClock. Unfortunately, wClock seems to have no option to also show the time in another timezone, a PTHClock feature I used daily. [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 04 2004 @ 05:11 AM PST
Abyss Web Server X1 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
It might help if you explain why you think people should use Abyss Web Server X1 instead of Apache -- what you see its advantages as, for example, and also where you recognize that Apache would be the better choice. As it is, I use Apache, and without knowing how or whether this server is supposed to be better, I have no incentive to even download and try it. [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 11 2003 @ 09:27 AM PST
QuickASCII Movie Player 1.0.5 (Mac OS X)
Oh boy, that's quite silly. I love it. It can get a bit slow and the color option doesn't clean up after itself. (Has a tendency to leave the text and background colors the same.) But I love it. [alert admin]
Tuesday, November 25 2003 @ 01:10 AM PST
Traktor DJ Studio 2.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
The complains of other users here are probably valid, but I for one have been having a really great time with the demo of Traktor DJ Studio. It runs for an hour before quitting, plenty of time to learn how it works. And its feature set is very good. It does automatic tempo matching and beat detection; you can create multiple beat-precise loops within tracks -- on-the-fly even; you can set markers to indicate where within this track the next one should automatically start playing.... Anyone who thinks they want to be a DJ should give this a try. There's no extra hardware to buy! All you need is your Mac and a library of MP3s. (Keeping my fingers crossed for AAC support soon....) This program is so much fun. [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 17 2003 @ 03:24 AM PDT
MacModPlay 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I just had occasion to play a .MOD file, and MacModPlay came to the rescue. It can't convert .MODs to other formats, but it does a fine job of just playing them. Thanks! [alert admin]
Wednesday, June 25 2003 @ 07:18 AM PDT
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1. Open IE. 2. Open Preferences. 3. Click Cookies. 4. Double-click any cookie to see its contents. 5. Press Escape. 6. IE crashes. I reported this 18 months ago. They just keep ignoring it. [alert admin]
Friday, June 20 2003 @ 02:08 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by ryandesign [ Search for All ]
Agree; Widgets in 10.3.9 with Amnesty
Agree that 10.3.9 was actually pretty good, and that 10.4.0 broke a lot of stuff that'll probably take until 10.4.5 to get sorted out.
You can, of course, have widgets in 10.3.9 already: try Amnesty.
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Wednesday, July 13 2005 @ 02:08 AM PDT
Still doesn't play some things that MPlayer does
Bla bla bla. VLC plays everything I've ever thrown at it and always has. Never ever used MPlayer. Left and Right arrows go to previous and next item in playlist, respectively. Command-Shift-Left and -Right arrows go backward or forward about 1 minute. Command-Option-Left and -Right arrows go backward forward about 10 seconds. Good enough for me.
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Monday, June 27 2005 @ 02:52 AM PDT
Of course it still has something to do with Firefox -- Deer Park will be Firefox 1.1. RTFM: "Deer Park Alpha 1 is not an official mozilla.org final release, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with [Firefox 1.0.4]." http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
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Saturday, June 04 2005 @ 04:42 AM PDT
Yes. It's a normal and accepted software-development practice to fix not just one but a number of problems before releasing a new version. Releasing too many updates too frequently has the effect that customers do not download every version. Allowing a little time to pass between fixing a problem and releasing the version with this fix also enables internal testing to discover possible problems with the fix. This is better than releasing a possibly-broken fix…
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Wednesday, June 01 2005 @ 01:43 AM PDT
Yes. It's a normal and accepted software-development practice to fix not just one but a number of problems before releasing a new version. Releasing too many updates too frequently has the effect that customers do not download every version. Allowing a little time to pass between fixing a problem and releasing the version with this fix also enables internal testing to discover possible problems with the fix. This is better than releasing a possibly-broken fix…
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Wednesday, June 01 2005 @ 01:37 AM PDT
Ah, however, the product's correct name is "Tex-Edit Plus", not "TexEdit".
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Thursday, February 24 2005 @ 02:31 AM PST
iStumbler is not related to MacStumbler. It's a completely separate product, made by different developers. The only similarity is that they both find networks. Apparently this product, iStumbler, was originally called MacStumbler, but the author changed its name very early on, probably after realizing that a different product named MacStumbler already existed.
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Tuesday, January 25 2005 @ 06:58 AM PST
Don't know what kind of fantasy land you live in, but out here in the real world (web design shop), we need to see invisible files, so that we can edit .htaccess and .htpasswd files. The PC users screamed bloody murder when I (the only Mac user) joined the company and started littering the server with crap files. A program like this most certainly has its uses.
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Tuesday, November 30 2004 @ 04:46 PM PST
This is a translation of the review by erniewebdotcom: If you want a simple but effective program that reminds you every year about birthdays, anniversaries or similar important dates, WITHOUT the need to constantly feed iCal, look no further -- this is the best one for OS X. Just create a list ONCE (with Geburtstagschecker or as a text file) of all the important dates in a year (of course you can always edit it again later)…
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Sunday, November 21 2004 @ 02:11 PM PST
IMPORTANT: mlnet stopped automatic updates
It is extremely unclear how to update mlnet for mlMac from http://wiki.macdk.com/DownloadsPage since the page is not in English and once you get the disk image downloaded its contents to not match up with what mlMac already installed. What do I put where? How do I tell that the update worked?
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Thursday, October 28 2004 @ 01:41 PM PDT
