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Doug Stewart

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OnyX 2.4.6b3
(Free)

HandBrake 0.9.6
(Free)

Delivery Status 5.7.1
(Free)

OnyX 2.4.6b3
(Free)

Apple iTunes 10.6.1
(Free)

OnyX 2.4.6b3
(Free)

Adium 1.5.1b1
(Free)

Apple Xcode 4.3.2
(Free)

Firefox 12.0
(Free)

Fluid 1.4
(Free)

Firefox 12.0
(Free)

MindNode Pro 1.7.6
(Shareware)

Doug Stewart's Posts

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NoSleep

Doug S. reviewed on 16 Apr 2012

Does exactly what it says it will. Which is odd... Because it's the only one I've tried that does.

[Version 1.3.0]

-2

Caffeine

Doug S. reviewed on 14 Apr 2012

Stability and features are just fine. Assuming it worked and even a free app is still a bad value if it doesn't do anything.

[Version 1.1.1]

2 Replies

+126

Doug S. replied on 16 Apr 2012

Yep, I played with the options, tweaked settings... It seemed as if it was semi-functional in that the screen did not appear to go to sleep but it wouldn't show up as another computer on my network, but would the second I woke it up properly.

In the end I settled on using NoSleep, which might not be as feature-rich as this app bug actually works for me.

+126

Doug S. replied on 16 Apr 2012

Essentially, that's what I intended. Luckily, NoSleep appears to work just fine for my purposes. It was getting to the point where I was just going to install Ubuntu's server edition over Lion and just run that as it doesn't have sleep functionality.

So for anyone who wants to stop their Mac from falling asleep, this might do that but if you want to run it in clamshell mode without an external display this won't help you.

Boxee

Doug S. commented on 21 Feb 2012

Wait... So they are or they aren't doing desktop versions of this anymore? Because the official word was Boxee on the desktop was dead. And yet... Here this is.

[Version 1.5.0]

Flaex

Doug S. reviewed on 20 Jan 2012

Crashed on me every time I tried to use it. Sorry, 0.5.

[Version 0.4.3]

Fontcase

Doug S. reviewed on 17 Jan 2012

Fontcase 1.0 was great. It was easy to use, had a clean, clear UI, was relative quick and stable. It wasn't perfect, but it was by far the best font app for Mac by a long shot.

Then 2.0 arrived. Stability and performance dropped. The UI, while pretty, is convoluted and actively gets in my way. It's unintuitive, it's slow, and it actually removed features. Removed! Who removes features?

Do not buy this. I can't tell you what to buy instead as it's been so long since I've used another app. What I can tell you is that instead of using Fontcase I've taken to manually adding and removing fonts as necessary.

Because it's easier. Maybe 3.0 will get this app back on the right track but it has fallen so far I'm not sure that's possible.

[Version 2.0.1]

cocoon

Doug S. reviewed on 29 Dec 2011

Works as advertised. Allows you to do MSN through iChat. Not entirely sure why they're hinting this might become paid (if they do, good on them, someone will do a free one).

The one issue I'm having is that I keep having to re-enter my password every time I load up iChat. I'm not sure why that is and it may be fixed in the next release but for now I had to take some points away for that.

Beyond that, click an installer, a file goes into place, suddenly MSN is a selectable account type in iChat. Done.

[Version 1.0]

-4

Adium

Doug S. reviewed on 12 Sep 2011

There are so many areas in which Adium works great. You can customize it so easily, it supports so many different clients...

But there is a very specific reason it's getting a star of one: I was on my laptop, about to switch to my desktop and saw a friend I had online. I haven't talked to her in ages because I never see her on. So I shut my laptop, hopped on my iMac and... She's gone. That sucks. So I text her because now I want to chat. She says she's still on. No she's not... I check on my laptop. Yep, there she is. Desktop? No. Same account, same settings. I literally cloned my desktop to my laptop when I installed Lion.

Adium has been uninstalled. Given the other fiddly issues with stability and the fact that it ALWAYS asks me to double-check my passwords when I sign in... Never again. I've given them so much time to work out the bugs and they never do. They worry about new, pointless features instead.

[Version 1.4.3]

MKVtoolnix

Doug S. commented on 13 Jun 2011

Download link no longer works?

[Version 4.8.0_2011-05-23-1cda]

Pulp

Doug S. commented on 01 Jun 2011

Unique and innovative like Times.

[Version 2.0]

1 Reply

+126

Doug S. replied on 01 Jun 2011

Oooo... I did not. Will my Times license carry across or will I have to re-purchase. I've been a Reeder convert since the public betas but I'd switch to something else if I thought it was better.

SubliMessages

Doug S. commented on 25 Feb 2011

Just a little forewarning: While people think subliminal messages have an almost mythical ability to control the human mind, whether or not they have any effect has never been scientifically proven.

The truth of the matter is there's not much evidence to support there being any substantive influence on the brain and what evidence does exist implies a fleeting effect at most.

I'm not saying this software does not work as I have not tried it. I'm only commenting on the science behind it.

[Version 1.1.1]

1 Reply

+126

Doug S. replied on 07 Mar 2011

No, they were 'proven' in the 50's and people were in an uproar. However, later the studies were generally disproven.

That's why a few years ago when a politician was accused of using subliminal messages there were half a dozen experts from the advertising world who stood up and said, "actually, it wouldn't even matter if he did because it doesn't really work, not like people think at the very least."

AnyToISO Lite

Doug S. had trouble on 12 Sep 2009

Doesn't seem to mount on 10.6.1. Any thoughts?

[Version 2.5]

NTFS-3G

Doug S. had trouble on 29 Aug 2009

You can no longer format a Boot Camp partition to NTFS with version 4.4 in Snow Leopard (10.6) with Disk Utility. Not sure why, looking into it more.

[Version 2009.4.4]

MKVtoolnix

Doug S. had trouble on 09 Mar 2009

MKVtoolnix 2.5.3 does not launch on OS X 10.5.6 (Intel). At least, not at this time.

[Version 2.5.3]

Inquisitor

Doug S. had trouble on 24 Feb 2009

As of this moment Inquisitor is not compatible with the latest version of Safari 4 (the public beta).

[Version 3.2v58]

DNS Flusher

Doug S. had trouble on 03 Sep 2008

Download link no longer works, home page cannot be found.

[Version 1.1]

Logitech Control Center

Doug S. had trouble on 23 Jun 2008

Note to Logitech: Saying you have fixed the Growl incompatibility issue is not the same as having fixed it.

It's really too bad, I love my mouse, I just HATE the software I need to run it. And so far none of the alternatives seem to be worth the money.

At least it's stable now... If nothing else it's stable. I can live without Growl until the people over at Growl figure out a way to fix Logitech's problems. How sad is that? One of the biggest input device companies is repeatedly shown up by an open source project.

OS: Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard
Computer: MacBook Pro 2,2
Mouse: Logitech VX Nano
LCC ver.: 2.6
Growl ver.: 1.1.4

Once my Logitech mouse dies I won't be buying another one, not unless some major changes happen with Logitech and their support for Mac. I'll probably go back to my Mighty Mouse. It's not perfect, but at least it's supported on both Mac and PC.

[Version 2.6]

Adium

Doug S. had trouble on 30 Apr 2008

I downloaded the most recent version and three time since then I've had to quit the app because it was eating up resources like nobodies business.

I have a 2.33Ghz processor and it was using between 130-160% of it! I'd love to know what an IM client needs with all that power. I don't really even get that with Photoshop!

Leopard 10.5.2, all updates.

[Version 1.2.5]

2 Replies

+126

Doug S. commented on 01 May 2008

More information:
It seems to do it mostly when I am unable to connect to GoogleTalk.

My router is extremely fragile at the best of times so my connection constantly goes down or becomes otherwise unstable.

Whenever this happens is when Adium seems to have the most trouble. More that the issue only occurs when it seems to be having a hard time re-establishing a connection.

Also, at the same time my MSN account is logged in which might be why there's an issue? Maybe it's unable to send a connection failed message because one service is working even though another isn't.

+126

Doug S. replied on 10 May 2008

Not really. The way iStat Pro works 100% is one core, 200% for both cores.

Simply put it uses up every last available resource my processor has to offer. I'm guessing some bad code that is causing a repetitive loop that just keeps building on itself.

I down-graded to 1.2.4 and it doesn't happen anymore. I guess I'll have to wait for 1.2.6...

Awaken

Doug S. had trouble on 07 Mar 2008

For some reason my backup alarms have stopped working. I don't know if it's an issue with the latest iTunes or what, but if iTunes fails to play I no longer get a backup alarm.

All my music is on my external hard drive so iTunes can load but no music will play as the song will be "missing" and thus I am left with silence.

Unfortunately as I tend to be plugged into my external most of the time I haven't noticed when this stopped working. What I do know is that it was working once upon a time.

iTunes 7.6.1, Awaken 4.0.11, OS X 10.5.2

[Version 4.0.11]

Awaken

Doug S. had trouble on 13 Feb 2008

Awaken doesn't revert to backup alarm if iTunes doesn't play a song. My music is on an external drive and when it's not plugged in Awaken still acts like iTunes is going to play a song so it doesn't revert to the backup alarm.

Itunes 7.6, OS X 10.5.2, Awaken 4.0.11.

[Version 4.0.11]

TotalTunes Control

Doug S. had trouble on 13 Jan 2008

there is a bug that's related to secondary displays in Leopard (might be Tiger as well, I can't test that) where if you have TotalTunes Controller on the secondary display when you disconnect the controller window might be partially off the screen. When this happens, and the top-bar is obscure, it becomes impossible to drag the player fully into view.

The only solution I've found for this, when it happens, is to either plug the monitor back in, which isn't always possible, or to close the program, delete it's preferences, and start it up again.

[Version 2.0b21]

1 Reply

+126

Doug S. replied on 14 Jan 2008

You could fix it either by:

1. Not logging default positions (or at least making this an option that can be disabled).

2. Detecting display configurations and having a preference for each configuration.

3. Always having the controller appear on the main screen at a certain position.

At least that's how I'd do it. Then again I'm a Flash developer, not an app developer.

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