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Note Keeper 1.0.4 (Mac OS X)
Is there some deep, technical reason this thing can only hold 50 notes? Why not 54? or 97? [alert admin]
Sunday, July 25 2004 @ 08:41 AM PDT
Internet Explorer Task Bar 1.8 (Mac OS X)
Coming Soon from AlphaOmega...
NCSA Mosaic Task Bar! [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 24 2004 @ 09:28 PM PDT
Aqua Collection 2.5 (Mac OS X)
Great as desktops, don't really work as a screen saver
The images look great, but most of them were designed as desktop backgrounds and are relatively 'flat' so they don't work very well when zooming in the screensaver. [alert admin]
Saturday, May 29 2004 @ 07:27 PM PDT
Apple Xcode 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Uhh... this was released about a month ago. Not sure why it's only showing up now. It's much better than 1.1 was in any case. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 25 2004 @ 10:05 AM PDT
XFactor 0.15 (Mac OS X)
The creator of this application has been banned from another update site for stealing code from the Poisoned project. I had downloaded this, and used it a couple times, but it's gone now. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 24 2004 @ 05:11 PM PDT
REALbasic 5.5.2 (Mac OS X)
Here's how the Pro vs. Con RB debate typically plays out. See the reviews below. Pro RB: It's so easy! C is HARD! RealBasic is EASY!! Anti RB: Feature X doesn't work, and hasn't since version x.x. My apps get slower with every update. I have to pay for updates that do nothing but fix bugs. You have to download (and possibly pay for) plugins from a dozen different sources in order to write any kind of fully featured application. You also have to hope the developers of those plugins continue to maintain them for future RB versions, or else you won't be able to build your project anymore. Pro RB: But it's so EASY! Anti RB: You can use Apple's tools, spend a day or so learning Objective-C or Java and get much better results, for FREE. Or get CodeWarrior and the ability to develop multi-platform apps for not much more than RealBasic. Pro RB: But RB lets me write programs so FAST! I don't want to learn yucky C or Java! They're HARD! RB is EASY! I think it's clear which class of developers has a deeper understanding of the product. The first may even be the second in time. I used RB since the early pre 1.0 versions were on the MacAddict CD, up to about RB 4.0. I eventually got tired of not being able to trust my development environment, of never knowing if something wasn't working because of *my* code, or if it just wasn't supposed to work in this particular version. The RB mailing list used to regularly feature discussions of which alpha had the best combination of features and bugs. "X is broken in a19, but a18 doesn't have Y, so use a19." Being forced to use prerelease builds of your IDE is not a very good way to develop software. Anyway, I wasted 15 minutes writing this review. Xcode is waiting. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 19 2004 @ 08:01 AM PDT
BBEdit 7.1.4 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Getting a bit long in the tooth 
This used to be the unchallenged champion of Mac text editors, but it hasn't changed much in a few years. That's a long time... still doesn't use sheets for saving files, still shows a system 7 style black & white beachball on startup, still no native toolbar, still uses floating palettes for everything, even when a drawer would make more sense... it just doesn't feel like a fully native OSX application. It feels like exactly what it is - a well done port from OS9. Like many old time powerhouse apps, most of its features are close to useless on OSX - the plugin API is effectively dead, for example, and the name is truly a misnomer - I wouldn't call a text editor with integrated HTML assistants, an ftp client, and an image viewer "bare bones" by any stretch. I bought this back when it was $75 or so, and the upgrade prices are usually around $40-50, so I'll probably buy the next one, but only if no decent native replacement has appeared in the meantime. Barebones should've redone this in Yellowbox/Cocoa back when everyone wanted them to; I've been using jEdit and SubEthaEdit more than this lately. I never thought I'd prefer a java app to BBEdit, but that's the way it is. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 29 2004 @ 05:09 PM PDT
C.L.A.P. 1.5 (Mac OS X)
You can use LaunchBar to launch any command line tool directly - just add it to your configuration. [alert admin]
Thursday, April 29 2004 @ 03:25 PM PDT
iCab X 2.9.8 (Mac OS X)
Was crappy but viable then, just crappy now
In the OS8 days, this was an interesting, if flawed browser. It crashed constantly though. And most pages looked like butt in it. Of course, under OSX, with Safari, Camino, Mozilla, OmniWeb, et al, this is pretty much the last browser anyone more interested in viewing web pages (as opposed to diddling with the preferences window) would run. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 20 2004 @ 06:44 PM PDT
Unix Utilities 3.0 (Mac OS X)
Normally I'd cry EVIL!! and brand anyone who paid for this a total moron, but then I saw it was put out by BSD Mall / Daemon News, who stuck their necks out a bit in supporting OSX as a full-fledged BSD early on, so they deserve support, IMO. If you're the type who would consider paying for free (speech) software in return for an easy installation and support, you'd only be a total moron if you didn't get it from here. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 13 2004 @ 09:42 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by sooloo [ Search for All ]
Just about the level of frustrated bitterness I'd expect from a red sox fan. Too bad they won, eh?
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Thursday, February 24 2005 @ 07:43 AM PST
Sorely lacking in all departments. But yes, it's free.
You need to read the HIG. The button wording is exactly how it's supposed to be done. 'OK/Cancel' is even demonstrated as wrong, IIRC. Verbs are <i>good</i>
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Thursday, February 24 2005 @ 07:31 AM PST
Poisoned is licenced under the GPL. The creator of Xfactor is NOT entitled to use it unless he makes the source code for his changes available.
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Sunday, July 25 2004 @ 06:14 AM PDT
the OSX default install includes a similar tool, curl, instead. if you want wget, just build it, or install it via fink.
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Wednesday, July 21 2004 @ 08:56 AM PDT
it's a gzipped cpio archive. you should just be able to dbl-click it in Finder.
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Monday, July 12 2004 @ 06:28 AM PDT
I'd like my computer to start up 0.5 seconds BEFORE I press the power button too.
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Friday, June 04 2004 @ 10:16 AM PDT
All you really need is an alias in your shells rc file: alias see open -a SubEthaEdit
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Tuesday, May 18 2004 @ 07:39 AM PDT
It's a menu extra thingie... it puts a screen icon in your menu bar. It seems pretty nice, but doesn't do anything you can do just by editing a desktop picture.
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Sunday, May 02 2004 @ 09:44 AM PDT
This is an example of this app trying to be too many things to too many people. If you were using Tex-Edit as a development editor, that would be the expected behavior. Anything else would be truly annoying.
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Friday, April 30 2004 @ 09:13 AM PDT
OS9. Icon view. A million windows on your screen.
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Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 08:41 AM PDT
