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Gregory Weston

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MacFUSE 2.0
(Free)

iTunesFS 1.3.0
(Free)

DockArt 2.1
(Free)

Myth II: Soulblighte... 1.7.2
(Updater)

Compost 1.9.5
(Shareware)

Atlantis 1.6
(Demo)

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DockArt

Greg Weston (developer) commented on 04 Aug 2011

DockArt 2.0, supporting iTunes 10.4, has just been submitted and I expect it will be available shortly. A faithful troupe of more than a dozen testers have put in a lot of time for me over the last week getting it ready.

[Version 1.3]

FileCutter

Greg Weston (developer) commented on 21 Sep 2009

Follow-up on FileCutter and Snow Leopard.

After hammering at this (along with some other projects) for a couple of weeks I've determined that FileCutter cannot be reimplemented using Snow Leopard's "replacement" for the context menu plugin mechanism. I will be making available for registered users a package that restores a small subset of FC's functionality under 10.6. I think it will still be useful. But please do not register FileCutter if you have Snow Leopard or expect to upgrade in the near future.

[Version 1.3.4]

Compost

Greg Weston (developer) commented on 30 Aug 2009

Compost on Snow Leopard works fine with 2 exceptions. The preference pane, like almost every preference pane that exists today, requires System Preferences to relaunch itself in 32-bit mode. I'm working on a new build that will eliminate that.

The other, more serious problem, is with the context menu plugin. Mac OS X 10.6 does not load traditional context menu plugins into 64-bit apps (such as Finder, for example). The recommended fix is to recreate the plugin's functionality as entries in the Services menu, which as conversions go is not small. I am working on it, but it'll be a few days.

[Version 1.9.5]

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Greg Weston (developer) replied on 11 Apr 2010

Still hammering out solutions with my beta testers for the issues that 10.6 raised for Compost's context menu plugin. As before, the main automated trash purging continues to work fine, as does the pref pane with the exception of causing System Preferences to relaunch itself.

Greg Weston (developer) replied on 16 Dec 2010

This is going to sound really stupid, I know, but at this point the biggest stumbling block I'm having is getting the new installation package maker to do what I need it to do. It was overhauled a lot in 10.6 in the name of security - and that's perfectly understandable - but installers exist explicitly because some software has complex installation requirements and getting it to do Compost correctly and consistently has been a challenge.

FileCutter

Greg Weston (developer) commented on 30 Aug 2009

FileCutter, like every other context menu plugin written for Mac OS X in the last decade, does not work in Mac OS X 10.6. Apple does not load context menu plugins into 64-bit hosts. The recommended workaround is to recreate the CM functionality as a service and I am working on that. Existing license codes will, of course, be honored by the new version.

[Version 1.3.4]

Simple Floating Clock

Greg Weston (developer) commented on 17 Jan 2008

Apparently 7 people downloaded SFC 1.4.1 before I caught and fixed a tiny issue with desktop clocks on OS X 10.4. If you're seeing the Clocks on Desktop command dimmed, please re-download.

[Version 1.4.1]

TrimTheFat

Greg Weston (developer) commented on 16 May 2006

The blacklist has been updated to include Audio Hijack Pro 2 and Linotype Font Explorer X. Users can grab the latest version of the list by launching TTF, opening the preferences window and clicking the update button.

[Version 0.7]

DockArt

Greg Weston (developer) commented on 19 Mar 2006

At about 4:20PM (eastern US) on March 19, I found out I had put up the wrong zip file that morning, and immediately corrected it. Sorry about the inconvenience.

[Version 1.0.4u]

TrimTheFat

Greg Weston (developer) commented on 18 Feb 2006

"This is not a bug with Speed Download or TrimTheFat."

I didn't mean to indicate that it was. A bug, in my book, is unintended behavior. As far as I can tell, Speed Download's behavior after trimming was quite intentional.

"While some application work well; not all applications work well after they've been trimmed."

In this case, the application apparently detects that the executable file (not code but file) has been modified and presents a message to the user asserting that it has been corrupted. There's no way eliminating code which is never even loaded into memory from the executable container should have any impact on the reliability of an app.

[Version 0.6]

TrimTheFat

Greg Weston (developer) commented on 30 Jan 2006

Update on the issue with Speed Download. I'm not posting this as a reply to the original message because I don't want it lost in the background.

It appears to be Speed Download's fault. Not a problem with TTF or the command-line utility it wraps, but an intentional behavior of SD to detect that the executable has been modified and refuse to run if that's the case. There are several reasons a developer might choose to do that, boiling down to protecting the user from malware or more pragmatically shielding themselves from liability, but it has never been a supported practice on OS X given that under some circumstances even the OS may modify an executable.

I've contacted SD's developer.

[Version 0.5]

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