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User Name t.spoon
Member Since 2002-09-17
Total number of Feedback Posts: 40
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Redline 1.0.4 (Mac OS X)
I just downloaded this game for the first time, and got it directly from the Ambrosia website. Thus I took is as a bad sign when it said I've had the game for 540 days when I launched it- at least it new that it was the first time I'd ran it. Has this game even been out for 540 days? The first time, I could navigate the menus and such OK, but the first time I got into a game, the steering wouldn't work. I was using the correct buttons, and I could accelerate, brake, and shift, the steering just wouldn't do anything. I left and messed around with it and couldn't get it to work. I tried quitting and restarting, and the program crashed on launch. I tried restarting again, and it crashed again and this time brought down the whole system so I had to go to the hard power button. So I deleted it. It was unusable. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 07 2008 @ 07:14 PM PDT
Transmission 0.82 (Mac OS X)
I had been using Tomato torrent, but I had a torrent that got most of the way downloaded, then locked up- and any time I'd try to re-open that torrent, after checking the existing download, Tomato had some error that would prevent any other application from launching on my computer, and I couldn't even restart- OSX was totally borked. This was repeatable. Anyway, I wasn't looking for another client, but thought maybe I could salvage that downloaded data and finish getting the torrent if I tried another client. Well, I'm not going back. I did like Tomato, but Transmission has everything I ever wished Tomato had- one convenient window with all the info I need instead of windows all over the place, caps on total upload and download rather than just per torrent, a watch folder. It's even intelligent about checking existing downloads one at a time, which is faster than doing them all simultaneously and having the hard drive head zipping back and forth between files all over the place. It's great. I've experienced one small bug with it trying to notify me when a download was finished, but overall, it's great. [alert admin]
Saturday, October 13 2007 @ 08:04 AM PDT
iSwipe 1.7.9 (Mac OS X)
Most recent version has already expired 
I haven't tried iSwipe for sometime, but was one of those who sometimes got it to work so decided to give it a try. The most recent version available for download, here or directly from the developer's site, says that the version has expired, and to download a more recent version for free, then quits. A new level of failure. [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 10 2007 @ 10:56 AM PDT
SudokuDan 0.2.2 (Mac OS X)
Very nice, except I can't believe there's no way to set the difficulty of the puzzle it generates! Also, it seems that there's no way to scale the puzzle when you use the "booklet" feature. It is too small on a high resolution screen, and since the program scales individual puzzles so nicely, it's odd that it doesn't scale the books. Also, it would be good if it could print more than one or two puzzles per page- ideally letting one choose 1, 2, 4, or 9 puzzles per page for printing. It would be great to be able to print the booklets this way. And when you do print one puzzle, the scaling of the print is based on the size the current window is, which can be confusing. Still, it's simple and has good features and a good game-play interface. Great price. The most important thing is to add a difficulty selector- ever puzzle it generates is too easy! [alert admin]
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Monday, June 26 2006 @ 04:14 PM PDT
CiphSafe 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Does exactly what it says, does it well. Very handy. [alert admin]
Monday, June 12 2006 @ 09:57 PM PDT
Yum 0.7.12 (Mac OS X)
This is a great recipe organizer. Has all the most important features. It's not perfect, but it's come a long way. Look at the version history! It's under very active development. It incorporated spotlight almost instantly, and it already has a fat binary for Intel macs when they aren't even really available yet. There are some bugs. The potentially extremely useful "email recipe" feature ends up with an email formatting disaster under Entourage. But under OSX I just use "print recipe" and then print to "email PDF," which comes out with nice formatting. I also would love to see a Palm conduit and Palm reader app, but how much can you expect from free software? Maybe if we're lucky another user would want to whip one up, or whip up an export filter from Yum that translates it to the database format for an existing Palm recipe application? Anyway, great application, and many thanks. [alert admin]
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Sunday, January 22 2006 @ 11:14 AM PST
ShakesPeer 0.8.1 (Mac OS X)
Great except for memory-speed issues, which are serious
I don't know if other people are experiencing this, but the program slows and slows the longer it's open until it bogs the whole system down to being nearly unusable. Restarting the program fixes it. I should probably say that the problem seems to correlate most directly with how many other users shares I browse, more than how long the program's been open. Watching Activity Monitor, I've concluded the slow down comes from some RAM problem, possibly a RAM leak, or maybe coding something so that it uses recursive rather than iterative algorithms when working with the XML files ofr other user's shares. At any rate, when I launch the program, it uses under 100 MB of RAM and about 100 MB of virtual RAM. After having it open for several hours, it's now using, between Shakespeare itself and its spawned processes (sphubd & sphashd) 700 MB of real RAM and another 1.5 GB of virtual memory. The slow downs, I'm pretty sure, are due to RAM cache swaps. The processors hardly get used at all, but the disk drive and RAM go nuts. This slows the machine down more than running any other 10 I/O intensive apps at once; I've never seen anything bog down my G5 like this does. Otherwise, it's very well laid out, and user friendly. Nice program. I guess my only other complaint is that I sometimes end up disconnected from a hub without the program telling me, which is annoying. [alert admin]
Wednesday, October 05 2005 @ 07:25 AM PDT
HandBrake 0.7.0-beta2 (Mac OS X)
A very useful Tool. Pretty fast, although slower than moleasses when ripping to h.264, but hey, at least it does h.264. Unfortunately, the h.264 files it produces don't work with Quicktime, so I have to use VLC for them. Doesn't work with some videos. No provision for adding subtitles. Still, a very handy program, especially for free. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 14 2005 @ 03:36 PM PDT
Friday Night Poker 1.1.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Every time I choose "new game," it just crashes. Unusable. Doesn't matter which game I have selected. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 22 2004 @ 08:41 PM PDT
Mozilla -> Safari Bookmark Exporter 1.0 (Mac OS X)
This works very well- thanks very much for making it available.
However, it only runs through the terminal, and the directions aren't any good for someone who's not at least somewhat used to the terminal.
To that extent, I'm writing alternate directions here:
1. Download the file for this program and expand the archive so you have a file called "MozSafBookmarks.pl"
2. Open a finder window that shows the folder containing this file.
3. Open another finder window that shows the icon for your Mozilla Bookmarks File, the file path (to find it) should be something like this: Users/[YourUsername]/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default/15jbitmt.slt/bookmarks.html
4. Open another Finder window that shows your Safari Bookmarks File, the path should be something like this: Users/[Your Username]/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
5. Open the application “Terminal” from the “Utilities” folder in your “Applications” folder.
6. At the prompt in the terminal window, do the following:
- Type “cd ” (do type the [SPACE] after the letters “CD.”
- Drag the folder containing the downloaded file ("MozSafBookmarks.pl") to the terminal window. The path to the folder should appear, so it should read something like “cd /Users/[YourUsername]/Documents/Downloads”
- Hit return
7. At the prompt in the terminal window, do the following:
- Type “perl MozSafBookmarks.pl “ (including a space at the end again).
- Drag the Mozilla Bookmarks file to the terminal.
- Drag the Safari bookmarks file to the terminal.
At this point, after the command prompt, it should read something like this:
perl MozSafBookmarks.pl /Users/[YourUsername]/ Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default/4p3abcpw.slt/bookmarks.html /Users/[YourUsername]/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
- Hit Return
The terminal should return the line “Completed”
Now you should be able to launch Safari and see your Mozilla bookmarks in a new folder called “Mozilla” in the Bookmarks window. [alert admin]
Friday, June 04 2004 @ 10:49 AM PDT
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Just to follow up- the developer immediately fixed the Entourage problem after my post. Excellent support.
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Friday, July 28 2006 @ 01:01 PM PDT
I'm about try this software, but I just wanted to add this comment to let people on the forum know: there is another full-featured DC client for OSX in active development- Valknut. http://dcgui.berlios.de/ It's interface betrays every Apple guideline (hint: you have to right-click to do anything) but it seems to work.
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Monday, October 03 2005 @ 02:34 PM PDT
