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Simple, easy to use -- but it rejected two files as having corrupted or unrecognizable formats, which the old Visual Hub dealt with, no problem. I wish Visual Hub was still being tended. It's the best file conversion software yet.
Installed the application, but could not get it to run by clicking the icon in ~/Applications/Airparrot.app. Finally, I clicked the icon in the disk image. AirParrot asked me for my registration key. Of course, I didn't have one, having just downloaded the demo. AirParrot then told me my trial time was up and shut itself down.
Not a problem, only a question: has anyone successfully synched up Apple Mail across two machines. To do this, I tried simply synching ~/Library/Mail, but that seems not to work even with Mail turned off. Must I synch individual folders, everything except IMAP accounts? That would mean absolutely duplicating everything and their order from my MBP to my MBA and vice versa. Seems a lot of work liable to multiple errors. Your advice welcome.
Mikself, I don't keep my mail in my IMAP Inbox. My ISP has limits and my amount of mail would violate them. I keep my email in folders. I would like to know if there is a way more successful than I've attempted to synch up the mail in mailboxes across machines. Nothing has screwed up, but not much has been solved, either.
Just upgrade to Pro after using SnD for a couple of years. I like it's ease of use. However, two optional features I'd like to see:
1. Entire webpage saved, not just what appears on the screen.
2. Easier way to save files from the interface. Perhaps I'm not doing it right, but capturing the image and then having to use the regular "Save As" command, locating a folder into which the image is to be saved, seems a big convoluted.
Bummer. As I write, Yellow Mug has reduced the price of SnD sold via the Apple Store by half, to $2.99 per copy. Darn. I just paid full by working off of the SnD Preferences. Wish there was some way for SnD to inform customers when a sale is in process! (I own FileChute, too. It's already registered.)
One of the best software investments I've ever made. It's reliable, flexible, and always compatible with Apple Mail. In fact, if an Apple executive is reading this, I suggest you hire Adam, the developer, to redo Apple Mail entirely. That would be cool.
Perfect. Been waiting for this ever since I got my G4 Powerbook with the tinny little speakers. People said that playing them too loudly would overdrive and damage the speakers, even cause them to break into flame. Apple was doing us a favor providing too-small speakers.
Now that I have a Pro and an Air, with slightly better speakers, I wanted to give the theory a test. So I found Boom (by accident), installed it, and ... Voila!
Fantastic sound, good equalizer, easy to use and easy to put away -- when I want to go to headset, for example. Worth every penny. And it didn't take too many to buy it, either! Thanks, Global Delight.
No apparent damage to my speakers, either. Another hoax of the We-know-what's-good-for-you design philosophy. Lighten up, Apple, we're the customers, not you.
Briefly, I like Singlemizer but I'm suing Singlemizer 2, not 3, because I refuse to install Lion on my Macs. It works fine, but the logic explained in the well-written instructions doesn't quite translate over to the set-up controls, thus breeding perhaps unnecessary caution in the user. Finally I just let Singlemizer do its thing. Great.
One unresolved question is what to do when Singlemizer doesn't move files to the trash because "you don't have necessary permissions." Permissions for what? I believe I had proper permissions for all of the files that remained (most of which were Mail documents), but resorted to deleting them one by one. A strange anomaly.
I'm sorry we non-Lion users can benefit by the most recent upgrade. I hope it's the last time.
Singlemizer regained 6 GB in duplicate files removed from my Home directory. However, I had to mess with the permissions of the files to make them removable. Rather than go one by one -- which would take me as much time as removing the files one by one -- I resorted to BatChmod to set the same permissions for all folders and files (except root files).
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/6440/batchmod
This created a new set of problems, not unmanageable but tedious to fix. There should be a way to deal with permissions in Singlemizer or with a third-party app like BatChmod that meets the application's needs without redoing hundreds of files (or more).
I've only tested this once, after first using Singlemizer, to cleanse various files in one folder. It seems to me that Araxis found additional duplicates and removed them successfully without removing originals. However, I didn't monkey with the Singlemizer tuners and perhaps didn't have the resolution turned as high as Araxis' default. I'm happy enough with both, although simpler interfaces for Araxis would be cool.
My rating doesn't begin to measure my disgust with this piece of .... First, I discern no major advantages to working with Lion. The interface changes are trivial and if anything, retrograde. No color? Crazy little changes to selection buttons during search? A poor interaction design decision. Unnecessary gestures. And on and on.
Snow Leopard, by comparison, gave us a truly lightweight, small footprint OS that nevertheless delivered unprecedented power, not a reason for developing tortured workarounds. Remember efficiency?
But more to the point: having loaded Lion on my MPA the same day it became available, I discovered the next day that it was overdriving my CPU which in turn torched my logic board and then my SSDs. My Apple-certified tech shop warned me that I was not alone: the tech grapevine was hearing lots of complaints about Lion. Two weeks after mailing my Air to Austin, Apple replaced all of my burnt components without a peep. I then spent a day and a half exorcising Lion and reinstalling Snow Leopard. Fortunately, I hadn't rushed to install Lion on my MBP. This omission saved me another day of unnecessary labor.
I'm been studying the situation ever since and although I'm not a Lion user, I can see well enough that 10.7.1 and 10.7.2 are losers too. You can't fix a one-legged cat. Better to put it to sleep and find another.
People want to believe that Apple can do no wrong, but it was wrong of Apple in the first place to try and foist a dumbed-down iOS wannabe interface on Mac users -- and wrong again to make its greater feature iCloud, without first thoroughly testing iCloud. The numerous snafus that have subsequently occurred are embarrassing and off-putting.
A new Apple management is in place and "maximizing shareholder value" seems to be its new mantra, not "Insanely Good" or "Serve the Customer." Here's hoping Lion is a sport, a mutant, a deviant, and that a successful OS 10.8 or 11.0 will soon emerge.
Araxis Find Duplicate Files
Bob.jacobson rated on 20 Apr 2012
[Version 2012.374]
+1
iFFmpeg
Bob.jacobson reviewed on 24 Mar 2012
+40
-2
AirParrot
Bob.jacobson reviewed on 24 Feb 2012
A very unsatisfying experience.
+40
Synk Pro
Bob.jacobson reviewed on 22 Feb 2012
+40
SnapNDrag
Bob.jacobson reviewed on 20 Feb 2012
1. Entire webpage saved, not just what appears on the screen.
2. Easier way to save files from the interface. Perhaps I'm not doing it right, but capturing the image and then having to use the regular "Save As" command, locating a folder into which the image is to be saved, seems a big convoluted.
Nevertheless, SnD gets my vote.
+40
Attachment Tamer
Bob.jacobson reviewed on 19 Jan 2012
Boom
Bob.jacobson reviewed on 02 Jan 2012
Now that I have a Pro and an Air, with slightly better speakers, I wanted to give the theory a test. So I found Boom (by accident), installed it, and ... Voila!
Fantastic sound, good equalizer, easy to use and easy to put away -- when I want to go to headset, for example. Worth every penny. And it didn't take too many to buy it, either! Thanks, Global Delight.
+1
+40
+1
Singlemizer
Bob.jacobson reviewed on 02 Jan 2012
One unresolved question is what to do when Singlemizer doesn't move files to the trash because "you don't have necessary permissions." Permissions for what? I believe I had proper permissions for all of the files that remained (most of which were Mail documents), but resorted to deleting them one by one. A strange anomaly.
I'm sorry we non-Lion users can benefit by the most recent upgrade. I hope it's the last time.
+1
+40
+40
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/6440/batchmod
This created a new set of problems, not unmanageable but tedious to fix. There should be a way to deal with permissions in Singlemizer or with a third-party app like BatChmod that meets the application's needs without redoing hundreds of files (or more).
Araxis Find Duplicate Files
Bob.jacobson reviewed on 02 Jan 2012
-1
Apple OS X Lion
Bob.jacobson reviewed on 02 Jan 2012
Snow Leopard, by comparison, gave us a truly lightweight, small footprint OS that nevertheless delivered unprecedented power, not a reason for developing tortured workarounds. Remember efficiency?
But more to the point: having loaded Lion on my MPA the same day it became available, I discovered the next day that it was overdriving my CPU which in turn torched my logic board and then my SSDs. My Apple-certified tech shop warned me that I was not alone: the tech grapevine was hearing lots of complaints about Lion. Two weeks after mailing my Air to Austin, Apple replaced all of my burnt components without a peep. I then spent a day and a half exorcising Lion and reinstalling Snow Leopard. Fortunately, I hadn't rushed to install Lion on my MBP. This omission saved me another day of unnecessary labor.
I'm been studying the situation ever since and although I'm not a Lion user, I can see well enough that 10.7.1 and 10.7.2 are losers too. You can't fix a one-legged cat. Better to put it to sleep and find another.
People want to believe that Apple can do no wrong, but it was wrong of Apple in the first place to try and foist a dumbed-down iOS wannabe interface on Mac users -- and wrong again to make its greater feature iCloud, without first thoroughly testing iCloud. The numerous snafus that have subsequently occurred are embarrassing and off-putting.
A new Apple management is in place and "maximizing shareholder value" seems to be its new mantra, not "Insanely Good" or "Serve the Customer." Here's hoping Lion is a sport, a mutant, a deviant, and that a successful OS 10.8 or 11.0 will soon emerge.
+1
+40
+1
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