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Drag-N-Scale

Cowicide reviewed on 14 May 2012

New review for new update. 2.6 seems much improved since my last review. The image now updates in size in realtime which is great. Now if it just had a crop tool like EasyCrop, we'd be in business since it's also 4 bucks cheaper than EasyCrop. Also, It'd be great if you could also make images bigger.

But, for now, if you only need to scale images smaller and don't need to crop them, this seems like a great app for that.

[Version 2.6]

Leopard Security Update 2012-003

Cowicide commented on 14 May 2012

Wow, an update for 10.5? I'm impressed.

[Version 1.0]

Adobe Encore CS6

Cowicide commented on 13 May 2012

Er, MacUpdate, this CS 6 is now 6.0 not 5.0 as of 05-13-2012

[Version 5.0]

Smart Scroll

Cowicide reviewed on 13 May 2012

Smart Scroll is on a very short list of apps that I own that I would not update to a newer Mac OS without it. It's that good, it's that vital. The developer is amazingly responsive to suggestions and you would do yourself an injustice to not closely look at all the options available including hover scroll, etc.

[Version 3.9.4]

Radi

Cowicide commented on 11 May 2012

How does this compare with Hype, etc.?

[Version 0.8.1]

1 Reply

+339

Cowicide replied on 21 May 2012

Thanks!

Eye Candy

Cowicide commented on 07 May 2012

WARNING: This software installs Digital Rights Management software that will always run on your system and it can cause conflicts or worse. This is called Nalpeiron and has caused sleep issues with Macs in the past and can be difficult to remove even after uninstalling the applications that use it. I'm not sure if this newer version of Eye Candy still installs this DRMcrapware as well unless the developer can assure they've ditched this draconian approach to DRM.

More info on how to remove Nalpeiron from your system from another bad developer that installs this crapware, Mask Pro:

http://trick77.com/2010/08/08/mac-doesnt-auto-sleep-anymore-hard-disks/

[Version 6.1.1.1137]

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+339

Cowicide replied on 19 May 2012

Weasel-Boy, are you sure? Did you check the installer or something? I really had hoped the developers would have stopped it by now.

+339

Cowicide replied on 19 May 2012

Wow, I wonder how many people wasted time and/or money trying to fix their Macs when it was just some DRMcrapware like Nalpeiron running on their computers? Such a shame to hear that Alien Skin stoops to this.

+339

Cowicide replied on 20 May 2012

> PID: 137 Nalpeirond6

That's a shame...

Well, I guess just keep fingers crossed it doesn't still cause any wake from sleep issues (or other problems) that developers who use this DRMcrapware won't probably help anyone with.

Guitar Rig

Cowicide commented on 07 May 2012

One of these days maybe MacUpdate will have a little notification button right next to the version number to allow us to EASILY let them know when their listings need to be updated. You know, make it quick and simple to have others help them stay current.

Until then, I'll just say that Guitar Rig has been at version 5 for a long time now and it's up to 5.1.x now as well.

[Version 4.0.8]

Adobe Flash Player

Cowicide commented on 04 May 2012

Does anyone know what's new in 11.2.202.235? I really don't like blindly upgrading things like Flash.

[Version 11.2.202.235]

Adobe InDesign CS6

Cowicide commented on 03 May 2012

Wow, these version numbers are stupid. Adobe InDesign CS5.5 7.5.3? What a great way to unnecessarily confuse and confound your customers.

[Version 7.5.3]

Acid Cam

Cowicide commented on 28 Apr 2012

The website says it's for 10.6, MacUpdate say 10.7 or later... which is it?

[Version 1.5]

DockView

Cowicide had trouble on 09 Dec 2011

Found an issue with Snapz Pro 2.3.2 and DockView 1.5.5. When I have a window in another Space and move over the application that harbors the window in the Dock in another space and then highlight the window with the preview image generated by Dockview, (which makes the window preview screenshot show up in my current space) Console repeatedly says "12/8/11 11:20:37 PM [0x0-0x10010].com.ambrosiasw.snapz[236] Thu Dec 8 23:20:37 MacBook-Pro-4.local Snapz Pro X[236] : kCGErrorInvalidOperation: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID 2319"

It's says this over and over again until I stop hovering over the window and the preview image is gone from my current space.

Snapz also seems to interfere with DockView in other ways but I'm still investigating that.

[Version 1.55]

1 Reply

+339

Cowicide replied on 09 Dec 2011

I've investigated this further and it doesn't require the image being in another space to get this these errors. You can actually make console fill up with those same Snapz errors by just hovering over anything in the Dock with a window and moving your mouse.

And then hundreds of these error will fill the the console:

[0x0-0x11011].com.ambrosiasw.snapz[237] Fri Dec 9 03:25:14 MacBook-Pro-4.local Snapz Pro X[237] : kCGErrorInvalidOperation: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID 28

Snapz Pro X

Cowicide had trouble on 09 Dec 2011

Found an issue with Snapz Pro 2.3.2 and DockView 1.5.5. When I have a window in another Space and move over the application the harbors the window in the Dock in another space and then highlight the window with the preview image generated by Dockview, (which makes the window preview screenshot show up in my current space) Console repeatedly says "12/8/11 11:20:37 PM [0x0-0x10010].com.ambrosiasw.snapz[236] Thu Dec 8 23:20:37 MacBook-Pro-4.local Snapz Pro X[236] : kCGErrorInvalidOperation: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID 2319"

It's says this over and over again until I stop hovering over the window and the preview image is gone from my current space.

This also seems to interfere with DockView in other ways but I'm still investigating that.

[Version 2.3.2]

1 Reply

+339

Cowicide replied on 09 Dec 2011

1Password

Cowicide had trouble on 01 Dec 2011

Does this have any issues with Safari 5.1.2 that just came out or does the extension run fine like it did with 5.1.1?

[Version 3.8.10]

1 Reply

+339

Cowicide replied on 03 Dec 2011

brenty, 1Password seems to work fine especially with the latest 3.8.8 version of the extension.

Overall, I'm very happy I upgraded to 5.1.2. But then again, I'm not not using Lion either.

1Password

Cowicide had trouble on 21 Nov 2011

Just a head's up that you guys should really change the command-K shortcut for logins. It conflicts with command-k in textedit to insert links and command-k for several other apps including the Finder for connecting to servers and QuickTime 7 for pulling up A/V controls.

I cleared it out of 1Password in the preferences, but I had to look at my console to figure out what was causing me to lose command-K in all these apps.

Others who might not know to look in their console would just be stuck. You should change the default to something else and/or make it not conflict with other apps.

1Password 3.9.10
Mac OS 10.6.8

[Version 3.8.10]

1 Reply

+339

Cowicide replied on 22 Nov 2011

Sorry about that, brenty. I should have check first. I must have done that a very long time ago and forgot. It's weird how it didn't seem to conflict until more recently though. Ah well.

Warp

Cowicide had trouble on 30 Jan 2011

Version 1.2.2 has been turning itself off randomly by unchecking "Enable Warp". I got my old copy of 1.2.1 and it's working again, but then I have to manually turn it off again when I play the Angry Birds.

[Version 1.2.2]

Apple QuickTime Broadcaster

Cowicide had trouble on 27 Jan 2011

After updating from 10.5 to 10.6.6, Broadcaster 1.5.3 simply dissapeared from my computer. All the settings were still there, but no app... poof!

So I reinstalled it and it now works but the icon was invisible, so I dragged it out of the Dock and then did "killall Dock" in Terminal (without the quotes) and all seems well and all the previous settings are in tact.

Just thought I'd put this in here so if it happens to anyone else.

[Version 1.5.3]

VLC Remote Interface Widget

Cowicide had trouble on 22 Apr 2010

I can't get it to work, my web interface works fine, but not this. Does anyone have this working with OS 10.5 or higher? The fact that this hasn't been updated for Intel chips is a bad sign I guess that it's abandonware?

[Version 0.2]

PithHelmet

Cowicide had trouble on 30 Nov 2009

Does anyone have PithHelmet 2.8.5 (85) working ok with the new Safari 4.0.4 update? I'm running OS 10.5.8

Or does anyone have newer versions of PithHelmet (I guess the betas?) working ok with Safari 4.0.4?

[Version 3.0b2]

Smart Scroll

Cowicide had trouble on 20 May 2009

I wish the dev would explain things like sync scrolling to display and such in the help files. I mean, what is this and why should I use it?

[Version 3.0]

Vanilla FTP

Cowicide had trouble on 14 Jan 2004

Tried to use this to upload files to my CrushFTP server, keeps getting errors... too bad, this would have been a nice thing to send to my clients for file uploads to my server.

[Version 0.4]

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