Detto
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xACT
Detto reviewed on 09 Nov 2011
I always used shntool on Linux and OS X but stumbled upon this GUI for it, lucky me.
It can decode and encode from/to almost any file and has many useful tools on board, just check it out.
Basically I only use it for decoding FLAC files to WAV so I can import them into iTunes and convert them there into iTunes Plus AAC.
Try it out, it's free!
Decoded nearly 2000 songs with this application and never crashed on me or produced an error or faulty files.
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XBMC
Detto rated on 01 Sep 2011
[Version 11.0.pre]
Trillian
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Seashore
Detto reviewed on 20 Aug 2011
Excellent work! Highly recommended!
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Transmission
Detto reviewed on 12 Aug 2011
(This is on a clean install of Snow Leopard with all updates and manually copied backup files, no migration.
Clean system.)
The UI looks still elegant and important elements seem well placed. The preferences seem pretty tidy but rich at the same time.
Its features are pretty good like grouping and overall it gives a good native OS X feel.
Now to the negativ point: it's just miserable at downloading.
Every time I download a file or a folder with many files or just one big file I receive the error "Result too large".
I then have to manually resume the download, only to recognize some minutes later it has stopped again with the same error message.
This is a known problem and discussed in the official forums. Take a look here: https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10985&start=30
Therefore I have to ditch Transmission, even though I'd really like to use it because of forementioned positive points. But at the moment its just plain unusable piece of software.
For now I'm using uTorrent which is not that feature rich but allows to simplify the UI and therefore let it look clean, downloads pretty fast and... downloads without stopping my torrent files. So long..
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I booted from the DVD, unmounted my system partition and checked it with the following terminal command:
fsck_hfs -ry /dev/disk0s2
It may be another disk number, one can check (and unmount) it with the Disk Utility.
After a reboot into my system and starting many torrents with big files and so on, no error popped up for now pretty much an hour. Excellent. Welcome back Transmission. :)
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Jusr the internal drive. Rarely restart (most of the time standby), never forced restart. My HDD works flawless besides that. No other program has problems with the filesystem (and that are quite a few), only Transmission. Heck even version 1.x worked. I already tried with a blank HDD and a clean install. Don't know what to do to make this torrennt app work, so in the meantime im using uTorrent and I like it. It works. No IO or HDD or filesystem hickups. Of course a backup is there. Thanks for the help though.
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Transmission
Still...as long as the caching feature isn't available in a stable release I'll stick to uTorrent. I don't like its UI, but it just works and is damn fast. Transmission for me feels pretty stubborn as soon as there are more than 3 torrents downloading relatively fast. Again, this is just the problem with the caching. Will keep an eye on Transmission though.
LimeChat
I only use IRC and ICQ, but Limechat and the Limelight theme are just extremely satisfying to use. With bitlbee server I can message all my ICQ contacts in this nice interface too.
Was kinda surprised to see a youtube preview pic of a YT-link someone sent me. :)
Keep up your great work!
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Safari AdBlocker
I deactivated the plugin, did the same test again and it worked flawlessly and fast again. Activated the plugin: slow again.
I installed SIMBL first (0.9.7a from SIMBL official page) and afterwards the Adblocker (and checked that the SIMBL is not going to get installed (again)).
I don't know...but to me seems like a bug. Friend of mine can reproduce the same behaviour.
One Objective Feed
Font size wasn't changeable on all feeds I tried.
But on the positive side it's very straightforward use with minimal inteface that doesn't get in your way and saves screen real estate.
Something I'm really looking forward to concerning my RSS behaviour. NetNewWire and mostly all the others are just ridicilously over the top to me.
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AppCleaner
detto reviewed on 17 Jun 2009
Just downloaded this tool again to check its work.
Well, I'm a bit dissapointed.
First, the "AppCleaner Helper" only works if you are logged in as an admin. For a normal user account it doesn't work.
Second, .. well just take a look: http://img3.abload.de/img/bild10cku.png
Maybe it was a bad accident, but to be honest: I installed AppCleaner, temporarily removed one application to see AppCleaner working, and on the first application removal one gets such a result?
Getting tired of using my saved spotlight search for application removals I was seaching (again) for such a tool to ease the task a little bit.
AppZapper is not really better, + it's shareware.