Ian Andolina
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iDefrag
Nontroppo reviewed on 16 May 2012
Defragging has been rock solid and noticeably improves disk performance on my system partition (~6500 fragmented files). Not worth defragging too often but once every few months seems the right balance, especially if you work with files >20MB regularly...
+4
Adobe Flash Player
11.2.202.235 New Features:
N/A
Security Enhancements:
Adobe Flash Player Desktop 11.2.202.235, Flash Player Android 4.0: 11.1.115.9 and Flash Player Android 2.x,3.x: 11.1.111.8 includes security fixes described in Security Bulletin APSB12-09
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-09.html
Fixed Issues:
N/A
Known Issues:
Mac OS: The mouse cursor does not change to hand pointer when mousing over TLF links(3060839)
Mac OS: Adobe AIR crashes with late model Apple computers running 10.7.2 (check workaround here)
MouseLock and FullscreenSourceRect does not update the display when in fullscreen(3006724)
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Working fine here. I often wonder, as I never have any problems with Flash, and use Opera's ad blocker, that basically ad-riddled web pages are the problem, not flash. Wait till adverts are HTML5 which will be harder to block, and use just as much CPU...
+266
Currently all benchmarks point to HTML5 being slower for multimedia animation, and will take a lot of optimisation; in the meantime you'll have a less performant advert delivery system that is coded in the very same language as the page you are viewing.
Now politically I *much* prefer HTML5 - non-proprietary open tech built on a robust parseable markup language. But those who rail against Flash are really railing against lots of multimedia apps (aka advertising) running simultaneously in their browser (few here raise the political aversion to Flash). HTML5 will do nothing practically for those end users, and possibly reduce their ability to opt-out...
+3
Hands Off!
Octopus
+3
VLC Media Player
Nontroppo reviewed on 19 Mar 2012
http://feepk.net/vlc-20-qa
for those who are updating from the old interface, very useful read...
It it great that so much work is being done for OS X users, there was a time no so long back when there was no active maintainer for OS X, the OS X release just trailed the other platforms. This has completely changed for the better, lots of active development.
The full changelog is here:
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/query?status=assigned&status=closed&status=new&status=reopened&milestone=2.0.1&group=status&order=priority
VLC Media Player
Nontroppo reviewed on 28 Feb 2012
For those people having problems, there is a Q&A doc from VLC outlining the differences and the upgrade path for those of you who are confused by the interface differences: http://feepk.net/vlc-20-qa
+3
Skype
The single window interface is slowly being refined in each release. And the best feature (the pop-up video when the main window loses focus), still makes this better than the V2.8 window jamboree. Neither V2.8 nor V5.5x are well designed, but at least V5.5x gets out of my way.
Still hoping for a solid competitor to take this space, but neither iChat, Google Voice nor the plethora of skype wannabes have made a compelling alternative (and lets face it, the quality bar skype sets ain't too high)...
+8
Apple OS X Mountain Lion
A notes app???
This is the first time I've looked at a 10.x jump and been sympathetic to windows users who scoff at us and say they are service packs. This is not even a service pack, it is a macupdate bundle of apps...
This is when our GPU support is worst-in-class compared to other OSes (which is galling when we want to use it as a professional system; honestly even XP workstations have better support for Quadro and Fire pro GPUs -- CAD / 3D / special effects / post production work which the Mac Pro once excelled in). I am a research scientist, and a few years ago OS X was the best platform for human psychophysics research (check the Psychophysics toolbox). Now, we are being recommended to move to Linux because of substantial bugs that remain unfixed in the Apple drivers.
Where we have a filesystem (HFS+) that is limping along so far behind contemporary file systems, at a time that we desperately need a filesystem that scales across drives and abstracts them from physical hardware. Professionals in every discipline (photographers, medical, scientists, lawyers, you name it) are working with larger and larger data sets and we need a post-RAID mentality to be being pioneered by Apple, not a to-do list app!
Even the one UI innovation that could be useful, voice navigation done with Apple attention to detail for the desktop(have you tried Dragon Dictate?), is painfully absent.
Sure, if you use your well-built expensive Mac hardware to write to-do lists and cookery notes, and chat to your buddies, Mountain lion is going to be an excellent app bundle upgrade...
+266
+266
+1
Apple OS X Mountain Lion
I can't believe Apple is touting a %$£& TO-DO list as a major feature of a new desktop OS. Internet synced to-do lists have been standards for years! Still speechless... :-o
+2
Apple OS X Mountain Lion
I am speechless, what happened to professional desktop user?
Where is the 10bit monitor support photographers and videographers are clamouring for (and Windows has supported for years!)?
What about GPU drivers that support a current version of OpenGL, can scale to new GPUs and are not 50% slower than Windows and even Linux graphics systems?
What good is a game center when desktop games market is still dominated by windows because Apple have never fixed their poor drivers!?!?!?!?!
How about re-architecting multi-monitor support so Lion fullscreen doesn't cripple users with external displays!?
Will Apple convince anyone to use OpenCL -- CUDA is still the dominant compute solution in the real world, Apple should be pushing forward with this, yet another nice idea, no market penetration because Apple jump to the next shiny iThing.
What ever happened to the metadata revolution that died a still birth after Leopard, where tags and metadata incrementally makes foldered hierarchies irrelevant (read John Siracusa on Ars Technica for more)?
Speechless...
Opera
http://my.opera.com/danaleks/blog/2009/11/24/problems-running-1010
+1
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