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Chipmunk 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)
For years I have looked for the prefect duplicate finder for the Mac and I have tried many. All of them struggled to find the right metaphor for displaying and handling duplicates in an intuitive way. I don't think Chipmunk has it "perfect", but it is the best I've seen. Once you understand what "inside" and "outside" duplicates are it is very quick to scan through your files and move dups to the trash. It took about 2 hours to scan a nearly full 500Gb FireWire drive where I had backed up several drives more than once. I highly recommend this little app. [alert admin]
Saturday, April 12 2008 @ 05:30 AM PDT
Chipmunk 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)
For years I have looked for the prefect duplicate finder for the Mac and I have tried many. All of them struggled to find the right metaphor for displaying and handling duplicates in an intuitive way. I don't think Chipmunk has it "perfect", but it is the best I've seen. Once you understand what "inside" and "outside" duplicates are it is very quick to scan through your files and move dups to the trash. It took about 2 hours to scan a nearly full 500Gb FireWire drive where I had backed up several drives more than once. I highly recommend this little app. [alert admin]
Saturday, April 12 2008 @ 05:29 AM PDT
NetworkLocation 2.0 (Mac OS X)
Since adopting Mac OS X I have missed my location manager control panel, especially since I am much more mobile that I was then (imagine carrying my Performa home on the weekends!). I have been on the lookout for a replacement, but have found none until NetworkLocation. If you move between many networks, each with its own settings and printers, you should find NetworkLocation a very helpful utility. 2.0 introduced auto-sensing of the network and it switches your settings for you. Now that I have set up most of my and my clients locations, when I open my MacBook Pro I know that it will auto-sense the network and choose the correct printer. IMHO, very much worth the $25 (especially since the 2.0 upgrade was free to 1.0 users). I give it 4 starts rather than 5 because I think the programmers could add some other features to make this even more "location specific", like triggering of scripts or events (say, to open applications) based on the network sensed. [alert admin]
Friday, August 03 2007 @ 06:20 AM PDT
VersionTracker Pro X 3.0b16 (Mac OS X)
This new version, 3.0b16, opens at startup, starts to scan my drive then crashes within a minute or two, before the ticker populates with data. It crahsed once when I tried to hide it using command-H. I love the product and rely on it as an IT professional so I hope they fix the problem soon. [alert admin]
Thursday, November 20 2003 @ 09:24 AM PST
HeckleWorks Pro 3.1 (Mac OS X)
This is an odd little program. Funny for a few minutes but pretty useless - exactly what the author intended so it gets a FIVE! "It menaces the world with nuclear weapons like a bad, bad, bad quadragast!" (I had it insult itself.) [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 28 2003 @ 08:34 AM PST
Vicomsoft InterGate 8.5 (Mac OS X)
I have used InterGate since version 3 and have found it invaluable in our network strategy. It provides one interface to manage everyone's connection to the Internet, firewall settings, routing outside users to our web site, VNC connection to one server and Timbuktu to another. The filtering software has saved us many an HR headache by restricting access to undesirable web sites. Vicomsoft's technical support is among the best I've ever dealt with in my eleven years as an IT professional. Version 8.5 seems to be working very well on my new Xserve. Version 8 had some issues with OS X Server 10.2 but these seem to have been fixed in this version. I enthusiastically recommend this software and its developer. [alert admin]
Monday, July 28 2003 @ 07:53 AM PDT
VueScan 7.5.6 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
of software. I wanted to use my old Poloroid SprintScan 35 on my laptop running OS X. I simply plugged in an Orange Micro FireWire/SCSI adapter with the scanner connected to it, fired up VueScan and away it went scanning slides! No configuation, no drivers to load. [alert admin]
Thursday, August 29 2002 @ 10:20 AM PDT
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