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Aaron Reitz
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GraphicConverter 8.0
(Shareware)
Gimp 2.8.0
(Free)
Dropbox 1.4.7
(Free)
RealPlayer SP 12.0.0
(Free)
Lottery 1.1.0
(Free)
Sophos Anti-Virus fo... 8.0.1
(Free)
OnyX 2.4.6b3
(Free)
HandBrake 0.9.6
(Free)
Kinemac 1.9.0
(Demo)
FLV Spider 3.0.7
(Shareware)
FLV Spider 3.0.7
(Shareware)
Trash It! 5.0
(Free)
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Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition
Adreitz commented on 05 Apr 2012
Here's the changelog for v.8, from the Sophos forums.

This release includes a number of new enhancements including:
Scheduled Scans: Now, in addition to On-Access and On-Demand Custom Scans, you can also create Scheduled Scans to run automatically on a pre-defined schedule
Live Protection: Gives you a direct connection to the very latest information we have about new Mac threats. Using our global intelligence network, we can identify new threats quickly and make sure your Mac is protected—immediately. Live Anti-Virus has been available in our Windows products for a while now and I'm really excited that our Mac customers will now be able to benefit.
Enhanced user-interface: We’ve improved the user-interface and made the product even easier to use
[Version 8.0.1 ]



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FLV Spider
Adreitz commented on 10 Jan 2012
Capturing RTMP streams isn't working for me. I followed all of the documentation and can see a stream building in Packet Peeper which has the features described in the help file (destination port 1935, source being my computer, etc.) but PP never shows the save dialog title of "Save RTMP Stream As...". It only ever says "Save Stream As...".

But even if I did get a valid stream saved, there seems to be no way for FLV Spider to open it. The menu option in the File menu is completely absent. Is this a Pro-only feature? There is nothing to indicate this in the help file and it looks like the Pro features are normally indicated by a grayed-out menu item.

Has anyone else tried it successfully?
[Version 3.0.5]



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iTunes-BPM Inspector
Adreitz commented on 21 Jul 2011
Since I upgraded to Lion, this software no longer works (PowerPC only). Blacktree, it would be great if you could update this little gem for Intel! I haven't been able to find any other recent software that's as simple as this. Auto-bpm detectors often give incorrect results, especially if the bpm changes during the song or if the song has many beat subdivisions or unusual time signatures (e.g. 6/8).
[Version 1.0.2]



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YouTube Downloader

Adreitz reviewed on 14 Apr 2011
This doesn't work as advertised. v.2.0 instead downloads a program called "Free File Downloader". The only capability of this seems to be pasting in a web link and downloading whatever that link points to -- very pointless when you could do exactly the same thing easier with a browser.

I navigated in Sourceforge to find v.1.9, that was actually called "YouTube Downloader". I opened it and gave it a YouTube link, but it didn't download anything. It just placed an HTML format "report" in the download directory that said the download was "cancelled".

I don't give many one star reviews, but I generally want my software to do something.
[Version 2.0]


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+14
Adreitz replied on 23 Jun 2011
Dgerzeeboy: Really? I find that hard to believe, as I just tried it again by hitting "Download Now" up above and I again got Free File Downloader -- several months later and with a different browser than I used before.
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Change Desktop

Adreitz reviewed on 19 Nov 2010
See here for the changelist: http://www.bergstrand.org/brian/software/ChangeDesktop/notes.html

This is the only desktop changing program that I have seen that has the set of features that I want: parse an entire directory tree for images, change images on a schedule (e.g. every five minutes for me), provide many options for display sizes of the images, limit the minimum size of images that will display (e.g. no images smaller than 1024x768), etc. It also has lots of other features, like transitions and display of the EXIF tags of images.

Unfortunately, it isn't updated very often and it has tended to have memory leaks that limit my ability to use it. I keep my computer on 24/7, but after a couple days of running CD its memory footprint bloats to the point that it slows down the rest of the computer (I have a Mac Pro with 6 GB of memory). The author stated that he fixed some memory leaks in 3.1, so hopefully that will take care of things.

One other thing that bugs me is a feature change that was made in the transition to v. 3.0. The author removed the ability to go directly to the currently displayed image in the Finder. The menu option “Now Showing -> [Image Name]” looks like it should take you there, but it instead shows a QuickLook-style window of the full image. Not very useful, in my opinion.
[Version 3.1.0]


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Adreitz replied on 20 Nov 2010
Sweet, thanks. That works.
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Apple Mac OS X
Adreitz commented on 10 Nov 2010
I tried that combo updater and it also didn't really work for me. It's over 700 MB, but About This Mac only shows 10.6.4 after applying it, build 10F569. On restart, I saw that error message about Helvetica Neue being changed, and having been replaced with the original version. Weird. Also, I'm having the additional problem that CUPS is in a continuous crashing cycle. Every 10 seconds it tries to start and crashes again. I tried a fix that I saw on Apple's forum, but it didn't work. I am now downloading the incremental 10.6.5 update through SW Update (which shows, interestingly) and see if that fixes things.
[Version 10.6.5]


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Adreitz replied on 10 Nov 2010
Applying the SW Update download over the borked combo install doesn't work. It still says 10.6.4 and the incremental update still shows in SW Update. I'm now downloading the real combo 10.6.4 update to try to revert all of the changes.
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Adreitz replied on 10 Nov 2010
After reapplying the 10.6.4 combo updater, my CUPS crashing is fixed. I saw the Helvetica Neue error dialog again, though. Now going to try downloading the 10.6.5 update through SW Update.
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Adreitz replied on 10 Nov 2010
This worked for me! If you applied the fake combo updater, revert to 10.6.4 with that combo updater from Apple's download page. Then download the 10.6.5 incremental update through SW Update.
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