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Pseudo 1.2.3

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Launch apps in OS X under admin or root privileges. Shareware ($15)

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Pseudo is a drag-and-drop application that allows you to launch other applications in the OSX Desktop as the System Administrator or 'root'. To use: drop an application icon onto the Pseudo icon, or into the Drop Target window of an already running copy of Pseudo. You will be asked for your password, and the program will be launched with their administrative privileges. Recently 'Pseudo-ed' applications can be launched from the 'Open Recent' menu. Pseudo also provides it's functionality through a service

What's New

Version 1.2.3 is modified to work on OS X 10.2.

Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.1 or later.

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chewei.chen reviewed on 27 Dec 2011

Good

[Version 1.2.3]

pswandi reviewed on 26 Sep 2011

How can I download the pseudo?

[Version 1.2.3]

JessiJON reviewed on 15 Sep 2011

will there be an update for compatibility with OSX 10.7+

[Version 1.2.3]

kakisei123 reviewed on 03 Sep 2011

[Version 1.2.3]

Arizonaloco reviewed on 08 Jul 2011

It is currently not working on basic OS X 10.7 Lion.

[Version 1.2.3]

Omich reviewed on 07 Jun 2011

Pseudo V1.2.3 is still PPC only and needs Rosetta. Any replacement in sight?

[Version 1.2.3]

Laptopleon commented on 20 Jan 2009

This still works fine with 10.5 - for example using a text editor to edit /private/etc/apache2/php.ini

[Version 1.2.3]

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danco replied on 17 Feb 2009

Sooner or later Rosetta will cease to work. We need an Intel or Universal program that works like Pseudo.

Danco replied on 01 Mar 2011

It looks as though Lion is going to drop Rosetta.

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Laptopleon replied on 01 Mar 2011

@Danco I don't think I have Rosetta installed. You don't need it to run Pseudo, I think Pseudo is a 'fat binary'.

Of course this is no guarantee it will work with Lion / 10.7 but Rosetta won't be the problem.

Omich replied on 07 Jun 2011

@Laptopleon: wrong, Pseudo is PPC only and needs Rosetta!

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Laptopleon replied on 07 Jun 2011

@Omich Have you tried it or are you just hollering? I'm using a Mac Pro early 2008 / OS X 10.6.7 now. I just opened TextEditor by dragging it on the 'open apps by dragging it to this window' window of Pseudo. Works fine. Also, I can then get into folders of others user accounts on my machine. (I created those myself for testing)

When I use TextEditor as a normal user, without Pseudo, I can as usual, NOT look into other accounts' folders. Not sure if it works perfectly in all possible scenarios of course, after just this short test, but it seems to work fine with 10.5 eh.. and 10.6 now. It's certainly not a PPC only app.

Omich replied on 07 Jun 2011

@laptopleon: just installed the latest version on a new, slimmed down MBP with SSD and no Rosetta installed. Upon launch, the System alerts me to install Rosetta first. So just don't post guesses or speculation, try it by hard.

For those who are looking for a solution:
http://www.limit-point.com/Utilities/LaunchAsRoot.html
is a universal binary and has a nice cm entry to launch an app as root, sadly no keychain support.

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Laptopleon replied on 07 Jun 2011

Hmm… First you post asking for a Pseudo replacement and a moment later you answer yourself by linking to a competitor. This is beginning to smell like an advertisement.

Why would anybody de-install Rosetta first? It won't make any difference on the performance of your new MBP. Besides, I don't think people who know how to do that need either Pseudo or your app.

Omich replied on 07 Jun 2011

@laptopleon: are you really that narrow minded and blind? "with SSD" was meant to be an indication why HD space is limited for me hence I did not and never will install Rosetta. You have only speculated ("I don't think...") that Pseudo is universal and I can prove you wrong but you are unable to confess. Now you are offending me that I gave another tip for those who like to have a solution? Are you nuts? I am in no way affiliate or in contact with anybody mentioned here, in fact I bought Pseudo long time ago and installed it just today only to find out it was not updated for a long time and went further to find a solution which might help somebody.
ps.: Rosetta is not part of the default installation on current systems anymore.

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Laptopleon replied on 07 Jun 2011

Maybe I am that narrow minded and blind. Keep your pants on. I just note that it works on my Mac. There might be Pseudo users interested. If it were just about you, we wouldn't need to post about it here. By labeling it 'PPC only' you're suggesting it won't work on any Intel Mac. Well, it does. Maybe you need to install Rosetta, if you started with a clean system 10.6 install.

Obviously, most Mac users run updated former 10.4 or 10.5 systems and have Rosetta already installed. Or will just install Rosetta, because they don't need to compensate for a small SSD 'disk'.

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Drdul reviewed on 14 Jul 2007

I thought I should add a review here, as the previous one is two years old. Even though Pseudo is apparently a PPC app and nota Universal app, I use it on a brand-new Mac Pro with OS X10.4.10 with no problem at all. It's a handy app that save me from having to log out of my day-to-day account and log in to my admin account just to do some minor task.

[Version 1.2.3]