Aikousha
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YouSendIt Express
I don't trust this service, and suggest you test the service (not the app) extensively before going for this.
MacTheRipper
Why is the 4.0 capture and icon being used here? It certainly misrepresents the 2.6.6 version.
Are we being teased, or is this a hint that maybe the newer version will soon be available by normal means?
Album Art Widget
It looks to be a nice little dashboard app, and has a very good selection of sources. Hopefully the author will fix the breaks, and add the ability to search additional sources if the initial source fails.
+1
Yet Another NFO Viewer
Basically, since the Mac was invented, such files I have always read by dragging them to TextEdit (or before that, TeachText). I even do this on Windows with WordPad. And if you really want to make it easier, just associate ".nfo" with TextEdit (Get Info | Open With | Change All)
If it does anything fantastic, you need to mention that in the description.
iTunesFS
1. Unable to download the program from any links here or practically anywhere else, as links typically come up "denied" or "unable to find server." Eventually found a copy at Brothersoft.
2. Builds directories and stores files as per the tags/iTunes. In my collection this easily becomes messy, as a very large number of "artists" are unique (and I add files constantly in batches by their catalog number). Keeping original filenames in a single directory is much preferable. If something in the file scheme causes a duplicate name, simply adding a number to the end, like the Apple file system does, will work.
3. Seemed to work quite well until the failing iPod gave an I/O error, and then it just blew through all the remaining titles in a minute, copying blank folders and files to the destination directory.
This last needs to be corrected no matter what the source of error, as it makes the backup look valid, until you look at the file sizes. This is even more important when dealing with a failing iPod!
+3
The Unarchiver
Force-quitting also makes the program unworkable until after a reboot, so that isn't a valid work-around.
I tried to notify the author, but the site that takes comments does not have an obvious button to log the comment, there is one, but it doesn't work, and I wasted 30 minutes making a bug report that vanished in the ether ^_^
Hope this gets ironed out soon, this is one of the most useful programs for the Mac.
Readiris Pro
Again, I "suckered" a store to install this.
The Good:
Installed quickly and easily.
Didn't crash on the couple of pages I gave it (but didn't send it enough to test it, as it used to guarantee crash with 3 pages or more.
The interface is a little better than it used to be.
The Bad:
Accuracy is horrible (still), but a little better than v11.
The interface is clumsy and difficult to use if you need to alter anything... If you do everything automatically, it's good.
There is no learning for CJK languages... and out of about 800 characters on the first page, there were more than 150 significant errors. It mis-recognized OBVIOUS and simple (less than 8 stroke) characters, would blow punctuation constantly (there are about 30 different "parenthesis" types, it seemed to only recognize 5, and blew the rest, changing them to ").") Full-width and half-width spaces vanished. On a list where there were duplicate lines with just a number change at the end of the line, it would not recognize each line differently, even though it's a clean and well-defined scan with 0° rotation, and monochrome.
One thing it needs to be aware of, that it definitely doesn't, is that most Kanji is fixed-pitched... a space, exclamation point, em-dash, all characters, take up the same width... if it scans this way, you need to choose those full-width characters - not splitting multi-shape glyphs or using proportional Roman text, and if half-width characters are in the mix, it needs to generate those. It didn't do any of this.
While working for a printing company, I had access to a Win95 program called KanjiOCR, it barely ever missed a single character, got spacing correct, and was TINY. It only missed things that were smudged or mis-shaped (scratches, damaged printing plate, etc.) The only issue with that software is that it didn't use Unicode. Why, over 10 years, when tech has advanced (scanners, systems, and pattern recognition), a program that's 12 years old works better than one that's a year old, blows my mind.
It seems that, at least the Roman section of this works much better than it used to. Don't even bother wasting the enormous amount of cash on the Asian option, as you will still have to be HAND-ENTERING a very large amount of Kanji, just to correct it's errors and formatting.
Better yet, try ABBYY, and the unix OCR based free tools still seem to hold up well against the basic version of this software.
I'll try this again with version 13, on the assumption I still haven't found a good Mac Kanji OCR. But, since the Mac software section is vanishing from the only two computer stores in the area, and the Kanji versions don't have a trial version, that probably won't happen.
+20
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Vuze
Aikousha reviewed on 24 Mar 2011
Though the interface was never really Mac, it suited what it did... no more. It's even uglier, non-intuitive, and NOTHING in it works when I updated. It killed ALL of my running torrents and the tracker I was running. This is probably because of their install method, but I can't tell, because it zero'd out all of it's log files, so I cannot tell what it actually did.
It installs via a "Windows style" install program, so that, in itself creates a massive vector for errors and bad installs. And what it installs hooks into things all over, many of which it shouldn't, without express permission.
It inherited NONE of the prefs from the previous version, but since so many of them aren't even there anymore (I was used to tweaking this at the most basic levels). Again, I can't tell if this is normal behavior, but repeated attempts to install, do not change anything.
Even though it won't even display the classic window, nothing in the sidebar was useful or intuitive, either. There is no way I have found to get to the classic grid... nothing I could reach through the sidebar, preference, options, etc., would bring up a set of columns that matched the proper interface. I got "statistics" to show, but with everything wiped out, it had nothing to track, if it even could.
And more so, than anything else, without it running ANY torrents whatsoever, it caused my 2.5Ghz Dual core to practically stop in it's tracks. With the tracker operating, over 100 active torrents, and a combined u/d of over 2MB, the previous version I was using made no dent whatsoever in speed, except on large http uploads (thats an ISP issue). With this new version running, it takes over 2 seconds to recognize a click in the apple menu-bar, and I can watch windows draw themselves in slow motion (well, stutters), many taking over 6 seconds to complete. This behavior stops as soon as Vuze finishes quitting.
It also goes to several locations, sending information, and it does not notify you it's doing this. It also constantly opens browser windows to various locations of it's own site (But none are to help with the catastrophe this version brings... Most is adware). A few were to forum pages, but none could easily supply a means to download the whole package, so I could attempt to install locally.
It also tries to sneak in Microsoft spyware bloat on install... Read ALL the install windows very carefully, as part of the install IS NOT Vuze.
The first install was over the previous, the second was to the Applications folder, and the third and fourth attempts were to the desktop. All had identical results...
A few of the "features" might have been nice, but on the incessant adware pages, most that were mentioned were useless to power-users and those who knew what they were doing, effectively adding REAL BLOAT to the app. Why would you want a less useful disc burning software, virus checker, and video player, when you've paid for and use better programs? Especially since there are better FREE versions. If you don't want these, why would you want them to sit wasting valuable space in the sidebar (and on your disc -- this is especially an issue for airbook users), with no way to get rid of them... or the sidebar? And what use is a "Play Now" button that really can't play video or music, until you actually get enough of the file (VLC used to do this very well)... you still can't play what isn't there.
It seems that I will have to perform a disc restore on both my main and torrent drives, because of this, and then reinstall 4.5 or earlier. And this is why the low rating. An install that not only won't work, from a "company" that has changed their practices to become fairly untrustworthy (most of this type of thing is why Mac users hated Windows/Microsoft), that killed the existing version AND it's files. The features don't work, thereby it can't be used, it's obviously not stable, this means no value.
When the adware goes away, the install practices return to Mac normal, and the new bloat subsides, I'll try again... but this really ruined, in one go, all the respect I had for Azureus/Vuze.
Though this will probably tick off a few users, it's my experience from this version, of what used to be the ultimate Mac Torrent tool. It's too bad, since none of the other clients are even close to what Vuze was 2 years ago. Transmission, at the moment, is your best alternative. As their forum showed me, a very large number of people are having issues with 4.6, more over other install issues, not matching my results, but obviously many people are having no trouble at all, so definitely, your "mileage may vary."
Unless you are ABSOLUTELY SURE you have to have something in the new version, DO NOT UPDATE... or find another client.
+20
And by the response you didn't either read it, or read it with blinders on.
Movie Conversion Tools
-1
Max
Waveform output shows the main reason -- at very rapid frequency, the waveform zeros out, then returns.
Hope this gets ironed out soon... It's a nice little app.