Bruce Young
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Trash Compactor
Bruce_y rated on 14 Jul 2011
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AlienDestroyer
The Gutmann method of 35 passes was designed primarily for hard drives of a type which has not been manufactured for over ten years (MFM). Peter Gutmann himself has written that it is really not needed on modern hard drives and that a few passes with random data is sufficient. Especially given that it would take serious drive disassembly and custom minute examination to even attempt recovery of overwritten drives.
'course, its your drive and if you want to spend the time for 35 passes over, guess its your choice. And it does take rather a while on large files.
But for me, I now use tools and methods that are much less time-consuming because they require only a few passes of overwriting.
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Audio Hijack
The MacUpdate link no longer works.
It is available from Rogue Ameoba on their 'Legacy' page: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/legacy/
Rogue Amoeba lists it as compatible with 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Apple Mac OS X
Can someone post what the true difference/new of v1.1 over the original 10.6.3 is?
Of course, Apple's page doesn't show the difference between 10.6.3 and 10.6.3v1.1. (my link to original page returns a "No results found.") Sigh.
(Shades of the old Apple OS 7, 8 days when there were several of the quick follow-up patch releases with various v1.x and even a "dot" [opt-8] named releases.)
+29
(well, maybe a stopping of their 'erase and rewrite history' policy too ;) )
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FireWire Saver
Maybe next ver of FireWire Saver could have it send a message to Steve-Oh periodically requesting reinstatement of FireWire. (just kidding! ;-)
Or maybe an unobtrusive display on some part of the screen a suggested reminder to the user to send an email to them, or to post a feedback to hopefully reinstate Firewire.
And last tongue-in-cheek: have a special version which displays "I really love Firewire and will bring it back" installed onto Apple designers/developers/mgrs Macs...
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BetterZip Quick Look Generator
Bruce_Y reviewed on 17 Sep 2008
Fabulously handy to see quickly what files are inside the zip (etc) without having to actually decompress the whole archive.
Apple should license this from developer! (with appropriate compensation)
. (Now if only Apple would provide similar quicklook into pkg files...)
One suggestion for BZQLG (minor): allow column width adjustment, if possible.
I had already been a registered user of BetterZip, but had been on Tiger/PPC so never had a chance till recently to even check this out.
IMO it's a must-have for any who work with lots of downloads or archiving data in zip format. Well, at least for major-geek-types (like moi) ;-)
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VLC Media Player
But they broke/removed one feature I used a lot in 08.x:
No longer able to stretch window wide and have a black border around the unused screen area.
Now the display resizing works exactly like QuickTIme (not a good thing to emulate in this case), in that you can only drag corner to resize window to exactly proportional size.
Guess I will report it to them when they re-open the forums... and till then, will have to get one of the desktop/background hide apps to lower distraction. (I know, there is a 'full screen' mode, but sometimes I wish to play at specific view size and hide some desktop distraction as well... picky picky me ;-)
TrailRunner
Last version of it that I had downloaded about a month ago (June) was Tiger version, now it requires Leopard -- to what purpose are Tiger users left behind?
Unhappy about this, sigh :(
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iDefrag
It is quite disengenuous of the developer to (a) pass of an old demo version on a new update page -- the demo is version 1.6.4 from 2007; (b) allow you to only test if drive volume is 100 MB or less.
My smallest volume partition is 39 GB, on a physical 250GB, so no way to test this product, even with their sneaky older version.
Go to any store or HD vendor, pretty much any disk you buy today or within last year is going to be 100GB or larger for desktop computer.
Therefore their true evaluation policy is: pay full price and then you can see if it works for you.
Toast Titanium
BUT, now writing to my external Buslink GCE-8320B (LG), I get an error at end of disk writing. (I did not get any errors in the days preceding, with Toast version 7.0.1)
Error is "sense key = medium error" "sense code = 0x72, 0x02" "session fixation error writing lead-out"
I will be forwarding to Roxio, but I have not been able to get much response out of them in the past on a support issue.
Anyone else have an older external CD RW start giving errors with the 7.0.2 update?