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Toby Boyd

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Lyn 1.2b3
(Shareware)

Tembo 1.7.1
(Demo)

Skype 5.5.0.2340
(Free)

X Lossless Decoder 20120120
(Free)

Quicksilver 64
(Free)

Dropbox 1.2.51
(Free)

TarPit 1.43
(Free)

Bean 3.0.6
(Free)

Adobe Reader 10.1.2
(Free)

Firefox 10.0.1
(Free)

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197
(Free)

OnyX 2.4.4
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VirtualBox

Blacksmith_tb commented on 17 May 2011

The screenshot shown appears to predate Sun's acquistion of VirtualBox. There's a more recent screenshot on their site: http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots/mac_os_x.png

[Version 4.0.8]

Decibel

Blacksmith_tb commented on 24 Apr 2011

As the screenshot shows, audiophiles are always listening to Taylor Swift...

[Version 1.1]

Chicken

Blacksmith_tb reviewed on 13 Jan 2011

It's great to see a an actively-maintained branch of CotVNC. It has some nice improvements over the original (while keeping the unbeatable price).

[Version 2.1]

iStat Menus

Blacksmith_tb commented on 13 Dec 2010

Oddly, when downloading what's labelled as 3.11 from Bjango's site, what I get when I install is 3.12...

[Version 3.11]

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MailMate

Blacksmith_tb commented on 20 Aug 2010

Doesn't import account info from where? Mail.app?

As for price, obviously software authors can charge whatever they think their work is worth, but for forty bucks, I can't see how this will challenge Postbox (which does have POP3 and RSS, etc.).

And the name and icon are strangely reminiscent of Textmate, to me...

[Version 0.9.1]

Google Chrome

Blacksmith_tb commented on 11 Aug 2010

I'm a happy Firefox user myself (now on 4.0b3), but I think you're overlooking some of the things that make Chrome different. Most obvious is running each tab in a separate process, so that a plugin crashing one tab doesn't take the whole browser down. Firefox is now doing a more limited version of this, but there's no doubt that Chrome's implementation of this feature is well thought out. There are some nice small touches, too - the extensions manager is a tab (FF 4 has adopted this approach), the status bar disappears if there's nothing going on down there, etc. I would certainly recommend Chrome (or Opera) over Safari, if I had a friend who didn't want to use Firefox.

[Version 5.0.375.126]

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Blacksmith_tb replied on 11 Aug 2010

Yes, of course, and Chrome doesn't have extensions to rival Better Privacy, Beef Taco, Ghostery, NoScript, etc. But I would guess that most users of other browsers, FF included, make plenty of visits to google.com... And just watch the traffic on a LAN to 1e100.net subdomains - every google app sends massive amounts of traffic to them, not just Chrome.

fuse-ext2

Blacksmith_tb commented on 30 Jul 2010

Working nicely for me on 10.6, but not happy with the latest MacFuse (2.1.5) on 10.5. I'm not sure why 0.0.7 is being shown as new, as it was released Dec. 24, 2009...

[Version 0.0.7]

SRWare Iron

Blacksmith_tb tipped on 29 Jun 2010

Well, most of the tracking that Chrome does involves traffic to various subdomains of 1e100.net, and Iron still seems to be doing quite a bit of that, so I'd say they need to do a little more work on sanitizing the codebase...

[Version 5.0.381.0]