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Ron L

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Lion Tweaks 1.4.3
(Free)

Dropbox 1.4.7
(Free)

OnyX 2.4.6b3
(Free)

Spot-O-Meter 1.1
(Free)

Scrutiny 1.6.2
(Shareware)

Integrity 3.8.4
(Free)

SwapMenu 1.1
(Free)

Lion Tweaks 1.4.3
(Free)

Lion Designer 3.0
(Free)

IP Address and Domai... 2.2
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TextWrangler 4.0.1
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Galaxy On Fire 2 1.0.3
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Ron L's Posts

Average Rating from Ron:

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EasyFind

Ronl reviewed on 10 May 2012

Excellent! Love the hierarchical view.

[Version 4.9]

-1

Adobe Flash Player

Ronl reviewed on 05 May 2012

I just installed version 11.2.202.235 from the Adobe site and it didn't even mention that it was a beta! Assuming MU is correct... this is again incompetence on Adobe's part to list it as the newest update without informing its users that it is a beta.

[Version 11.2.202.235]

1 Reply

+32

Ronl replied on 05 May 2012

My bad and my apology. I misread the MU info at the top. Never the less... Adobe only deserves 2 stars. Love Adobe Suite... just not Flash.

-1

Spotify

Ronl reviewed on 04 May 2012

Excellent!

[Version 0.8.3.222]

ClamXav

Ronl reviewed on 20 Apr 2012

Excellent!

Thanks for all of your work!

[Version 2.2.5]

-3

FOX News Widget

Ronl reviewed on 15 Apr 2012

Great!

[Version 1.0.0]

Default Folder X

Ronl reviewed on 13 Apr 2012

An absolute must have!

[Version 4.4.10]

Skype

Ronl reviewed on 12 Apr 2012

It's been good to me... and since I don't have a landline... when my cellphone provider screwed up badly... Skype was there.

I don't know why some people give it such horrible reviews... especially when they don't give details. And giving it 1/2 star because the link didn't work... pathetic. It's not like the link was broke for a long time or there would have been many others who would have also mentioned it.

Can anyone say "Entitlement Nation".

This is free... and it works!

Wow... maybe it's not perfect... I'm an AppleSeeder and you don't even want to deal with what we put up with if a slightly too large window bothers you so you give it a horrible review.

Again... "Entitlement Nation."

[Version 5.7.60.1037]

Hear

Ronl reviewed on 12 Apr 2012

Great app!

Works system wide too.

I especially like being able to use the curves instead of sliders.

I had thought there was a problem with the app but it was actually simply allowing me to hear how badly some of my iTunes track were (i.e. I hadn't noticed it before because the iTunes Equalizer had muffled some of the digital noise).

A caveat... don't give up on this app because it takes some trial-and-error to achieve the best possible setting for your personal taste. It's worth the time... especially since you have 30 days to demo it (unlike the $%^$#% App Store's no demo policy).

I highly recommend this app.

[Version 1.1.3]

Adobe Acrobat Pro

Ronl reviewed on 11 Apr 2012

I use Adobe Acrobat professionally and love it BUT... WT_ is Adobe doing making such a pathetic installer? This is BY FAR the worse installer for a major app that I have seen in many years (personally for me... ever). I just had to do an uninstall and reinstall to get it to update and Acrobat ended up in an INVISIBLE folder with a self created path consisting of many empty folders! WT_ F?!

[Version 10.1.3]

1 Reply

+32

Ronl replied on 11 Apr 2012

Also.... what other app can you think of lists so many updates for one product on a single MacUpdate page? Answer... none! Why? Because anyone that's used Acrobat for years knows that sometimes you have to 'step' the updates. (i.e. unlike a combo installer to take you through numerous updates... if you've missed an update... you MAY have to install one at a time. Pathetic.

Again... Acrobat is an excellent app... it's just that the installers suck.

Apple Java for Mac OS X 10.6

Ronl reviewed on 04 Apr 2012

Pathetic... requirements says Mac OS X 10.6.4 but it won't work on 10.6.7... but it will work on 10.6.8... again pathetic for an update to skip versions like that.

Apple really hates Java.

[Version Update 7]

3 Replies

+32

Ronl replied on 04 Apr 2012

I'm running 10.6.7, 10.6.8, 10.7.3, 10.74, 10.8 so I know a little about what I'm talking.

10.6.8 has major wake-from-sleep issues... and has been reported widely (Apple forums, etc.).

For me it has regularly not awakened and required me to do hard restarts.

This is not true for everyone I realize.

ONLY 10.6.8 has given me that problem in recent years. Before that it was all the way back when OSX 10 was first launched.

+32

Ronl replied on 04 Apr 2012

Cowicide... thanks for the info.

+32

Ronl replied on 04 Apr 2012

Myst... to see if anything had changed... I erased one of my 10.6.8 partitions and copied 10.6.7 on to it. Then I did a fresh update online update. So far no wake-from-sleep problem.

Normally I like to use Combo updaters (for 10.6.8 also) and I had even went so far (after 10.6.8 came out) to do a virgin installation (starting from my original SL DVD and then updating to 10.6.8). I finally just got so fed up I stopped working on it. So... maybe it is now fine. I hope so (Rosetta, etc.) Thanks for the input.
However... now I have a very large number of permissions that refuse to be repaired after this Java update.

Oh well. You'd think I'd get used to this...

ClickToFlash

Ronl had trouble on 04 Sep 2011

I often end up with videos that won't play and are just black when clicked on.

Any solutions?

[Version 1.6b9]

Cookie Stumbler

Ronl had trouble on 16 Mar 2011

Support page here:

http://www.writeitstudios.com/contact/contact.php

[Version 0.9b]

SIMBL

Ronl had trouble on 23 Jun 2010

WARNING: MacFixIt has an article on this today (6-23-10) that this can cause Safari 5 to crash.

[Version 0.9.7a]

Dropbox

Ronl had trouble on 10 Jun 2010

If Dropbox hangs or crashes your Finder (it did for me and there are posts that it has done this for other users)... especially when Control-clicking for contextual menus... substitute a locked textedit file for the DropboxPlugin.plugin (~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/DropboxPlugin.plugin) with the exact same name.

It would be much better, of course, if the authors simply allowed the user to either disable the plugin or trash it, but there is no preference setting that will disable it and the plugin recreates itself if it is deleted.

Console will show you that it is this plugin if your Finder is crashing...
Console > Log Files > CrashReporter

Hope this helps.

[Version 0.7.110]

Adobe Flash Player

Ronl had trouble on 08 Feb 2010

Absolutely do NOT install this BETA if you watch Hulu or use Click-to-Flash.
It WILL break them!

[Version 10.1.51.66]

Google Chrome

Ronl had trouble on 24 Jan 2010

Safari is one of the VERY few browsers to be ICC version 4 compliant.

Go to this URL in Chrome, Firefox, etc. to see what I mean...

http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

[Version 4.0.249.49]

Firefox

Ronl had trouble on 24 Jan 2010

Still not ICC version 4 compliant!!!

Go to this URL to see what I mean...
http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

[Version 3.6]

-3

TVShows.prefPane

Ronl had trouble on 16 Jan 2010

Does NOT work.

[Version 0.4.5]

-4

InkLevel

Ronl had trouble on 16 Jan 2010

I went to purchase this through PayPal and the price is $7.49 instead of $5.00!!!

What gives?

Makes me very concerned about buying this. Fifty percent more than is listed? NOT GOOD!

[Version 1.25]

DragThing

Ronl had trouble on 10 Nov 2009

First off... this is a great app!
Unfortunately version 5.9.5 broke the ability to scroll the layers of a Dock.
Also simply reverting to 5.9.4 would not allow this feature either UNTIL I had trashed all of the DragThing preference files.
Just a heads-up.
FWIW... I have never had this problem before with any of DT's updates.

[Version 5.9.5]

1 Reply

+32

Ronl replied on 12 Dec 2009

No surprise to anyone that has used this app for any time at all is the fact that the developer very quickly emailed me as to how, with a couple clicks and an Apple script that he provided, I could restore the ability to scroll to change Dock layers in DragThing.

Great app and superb tech support!!

Thanks James.

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