William Cerniuk
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PGP Desktop
Cerniuk reviewed on 16 Jan 2012
On a 15" MacBook Pro (unibody, 2010) and on a MacBook Air 13" (thunderbolt, SSD) we attempted to encrypt a fresh install of Lion 10.7.2). The encryption kicked off fine and everything looked normal. According to the documentation PGP 10.2 MP 1 should work and we expected the typical reboot after the disk was "instrumented" and clear sailing.
In both cases the reboot after the disk was encrypted ended up with an unbootable disk.
No attempt at recovery worked whether it was booting from another disk and attempt at decrypting nor attempting to use an older recovery tool built specifically by PGP for this sort of problem.
We are 2 for 2 and have no reason to expect anything but failure.
Ref
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/resources/sites/BUSINESS/content/live/DOCUMENTATION/4000/DOC4554/en_US/pgpDesktopMac_102MP1_releasenotes_en.pdf
Money
Davtri HTTP Fingerprinting Scanner
RipIt
Cerniuk reviewed on 05 Nov 2011
Has the insert, rip, eject feature of iTunes so Dads like me can convert our DVD library and put the DVD's away.
If it had a modest AppleScriptable capability to trigger EVOM or HandBrake after a rip was done, it would be pretty close to perfect.
RipIt
Cerniuk reviewed on 05 Nov 2011
+4
+70
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Mail Designer
At $20 yep. At $35, maybe. At $70, I just can't justify.
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+70
Equiinix Store - $69.95
Apple Store - $74.99
http://www.equinux.com/us/products/maildesigner/macappstore.html
In theory the MacApp Store brings more sales and the 30 percent back to Apple is easily worth the sales revenue. For example Pixelmator sold $1M in the first 20 days if its sales on the MacApp store.
So which is a better deal, a Photoshop clone app that is faster, edits all graphics formats, has a prettier interface than PhotoShop and does 80% of what Photoshop does for $59 or an app that can build HTML email stationary.
But wait, since Pixelmator's sales went through the roof after being on the MacApp Store, they dropped the price to $29. Pixelmater was a steal at $59 from the Pixelmator web site. Now they only use the Mac App Store and the price is $29.99. Quite the opposite to gouging on price and crippling the software on the App Store...
Some perspective:
Pixelmator - $29.99 (replaces Photoshop at $800)
Pages - $19.99 (superb word processor, replaces MS Word)
Keynote - $19.99 (Powerpoint crusher, replaces easily)
Numbers - $19.99 (replaces MS Excel for 90% of us)
Mac OS X Lion - $29.95
and then there is the $75 Mail Designer
Something tells me that at $9.99 they would make more money on the Mac App Store ;-) if their software was any good...
+2
Silverlight
Cerniuk reviewed on 06 Sep 2011
Someone explain why we need another proprietary "me too" sub standard technology from the Microsoft hegemony factory?
ACL Fix
Cerniuk reviewed on 14 Aug 2011
The file system is UNIX's achilles heal and ALCs are like walking on hot coals for UNIX. This utility easily fixes them.
The only problem I have found is that the interface permits multiple items to be drug into it but will only process one item at a time. It processes entire folders recursively so the problem is not a show stopper but I do need to drag 12 items in and have it process 12 items ;-) not just one.
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Hands Off!
Cerniuk reviewed on 30 Jul 2011
Citrix ICA Client
Cerniuk reviewed on 06 Jun 2011
TextExpander
for example:
Putting an insertion point into a web page field and initiating this TextExpander expansion:
firsttext%key:tab%secondtext%key:return%
will enter both firsttext and second text into the second safari field
+70
Chax
Otherwise it works rather nicely.
Process: iChat [258]
Path: /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat
Identifier: com.apple.iChat
Version: 5.0.3 (745)
Build Info: iChat-7450300~8
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [135]
PlugIn Path: /Users/WmCerniuk/Library/ScriptingAdditions/ChaxAddition.osax/Contents/Resources/ChaxLib.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ChaxLib
PlugIn Identifier: com.ksuther.chax.lib
PlugIn Version: 3.0.2 (15)
Date/Time: 2011-02-28 08:27:03.135 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567)
Report Version: 6
[snip]
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000d, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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Cisco VPN Client
In plain english, if the Cisco VPN is used and your TimeMachine backup starts to your TimeCapsule (across the network), you will likely experience a KP in the near future.
if the Cisco VPN is used and you open up the Apple AirPort utility and access your Airport settings (transfer data across IPv6) you will eventually experience a KP (sleep and unsleep your Mac a couple of times usually does it)
If you turn IPv6 off the problems go away... And so do a number of capabilities of your system. Not really an option. So I put my TimeMachine backups on manual and if I am not diligent, will lose data some day thank you Cisco.
So where is MSLogon as a setting for the Apple 'ciscoish' client in the system and on iOS?!? It will be the coup de grace for Cisco VPNClient.
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iTunesFS
iPodDisk
Cisco VPN Client
This file can be found on the torrents but does raise the question, can it be trusted?
The problem is that since Cisco does not provide this software freely and IT shops are typically Mac-ignorant or Mac-hostile in the enterprise, users are relegated to creating security issues by going after these downloads from unknown and untrusted sources. Cisco actually creates the security problem with their approach to software distribution.
Ironically, the software is awful (poor interface, poor performance, buggy and causes kernel panics) and not something that anyone would want short of needing to connect to proprietary Cisco VPN concentrators (servers).