I stuck with BananaTV for a while, because it was more reliable, but AirServer 3 is rock solid. I run it on my home theater Mac Mini, so it works just like an AppleTV. Sweet!
Now, with the Media Center Safari Extension, I can be surfing, find an interesting video on YouTube, Vimeo etc., and with a click, put it up on the big screen to share.
What I don't get is, why doesn't Apple bake this functionality right into Safari/QTPlug/QTPlayer/iTunes? They tout the technology, but don't give you even basic tools to use it on OS X, whereas you can send *any* media from your iPhone/iPad to an AirPlay device. Doesn't make sense.
µTorrent just added it's own RSS tracker, so you don't need a separate program to auto-torrent your favorite TV shows f'rinstance. It'd be REAL nice if Transmission had that feature!
I dunno 'bout this "rapid release" crap. One of Firefox's strengths is the wealth of extensions available, but they generally only function in the current *stable* version, not the betas; and with these rapid releases, the extension devs barely have time to get compatible with the current release before a *new* release comes around. It's getting ridiculous.
Could the natural language parser be extended to handle Tasks or To Dos? If so, I might never need to launch iCal ever again. ;{)
Let's see, how would it recognize a task? Maybe if you don't specify a date or time: "Go to the bank". Right now, that sort of text is translated into an event at 9:00am today, which isn't terribly useful, so it could work for tasks.
But then, you might need to specify a due date and/or time; maybe use keywords like "by" and/or "before"? Like this: "Go to the bank by tomorrow at 5pm".
Well, the competition (QuickCal) has added Tasks. I still think Fantastical is far more elegant, but it's now falling behind on features. C'mon guys, I had faith in you when I bought this, don't disappoint me!
Any chance you could add AirPlay support? MPlayerX is a great player on my MacBook Pro, but the option to stream video to an tv or other AirPlay receiver would make it head-and-shoulders better than the competition!
Lovin' the new 2.9.x betas, except for one thing: why oh WHY did you drop support for plain text??
I always have Bean open, and used to use it for both rich text and for quick, simple TXT editing, but now I have to keep open TextEdit (with its more limited find & replace) or a "heavier" text editor like TextWrangler. I miss having one capable editor to handle both.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I can slap any icon I want on it. Just curious why Google changed to such a boring one. Even their own page still shows the older, better icon: http://www.google.com/chrome
I've been using Adium since forever, but this is the first time a full update caused me a problem. In this case, since installing 1.4.2, I can no longer create hyperlinks. When I right-click, the "Add Link" item is there, but doesn't do anything. Ditto the main menu item.
Checking the console, I'm seeing this, twice, fer every attempt to create a link:
6/17/11 10:37:02 AM Adium[30127] +[AHHyperlinkScanner isStringValidURI:usingStrict:fromIndex:withStatus:schemeLength:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x21e5140
Gonna see if I have a copy of 1.4.1 laying around, and roll back.
I've tried MacUpdate Desktop several times over it's history; I never cared for the early versions, VersionTracker's app always was more stable and reliable. But with VT gone, and AppFresh chronically incomplete and out of date, I thought I'd give this one another try.
All in all, it's a huge improvement over those early versions. The latest 5.0.8 version is blazing fast at scanning and finding updates. Even the installation feature — which I've never entirely trusted in previous versions — works very well. I like the way you can archive the old version, too, just to be safe.
However, I think I've found a bug: while it lists the apps in ~/Applications, every one is grayed out, and shown as "Information Unavailable". Since I like to keep my non-Apple apps there, this severely limits the app's usefulness.
XMas Lights
AirServer
Gryffin reviewed on 21 Oct 2011
Now, with the Media Center Safari Extension, I can be surfing, find an interesting video on YouTube, Vimeo etc., and with a click, put it up on the big screen to share.
What I don't get is, why doesn't Apple bake this functionality right into Safari/QTPlug/QTPlayer/iTunes? They tout the technology, but don't give you even basic tools to use it on OS X, whereas you can send *any* media from your iPhone/iPad to an AirPlay device. Doesn't make sense.
+1
Transmission
+10
Firefox
+5
Loginox
Gryffin reviewed on 06 Jul 2011
(Five stars mostly to offset the half-brained half-star review from Soo-Soo.)
Fantastical
Let's see, how would it recognize a task? Maybe if you don't specify a date or time: "Go to the bank". Right now, that sort of text is translated into an event at 9:00am today, which isn't terribly useful, so it could work for tasks.
But then, you might need to specify a due date and/or time; maybe use keywords like "by" and/or "before"? Like this: "Go to the bank by tomorrow at 5pm".
+122
+2
VLC Media Player
MPlayerX
+8
Bean
I always have Bean open, and used to use it for both rich text and for quick, simple TXT editing, but now I have to keep open TextEdit (with its more limited find & replace) or a "heavier" text editor like TextWrangler. I miss having one capable editor to handle both.
+4
Google Chrome
+122
Adium
Checking the console, I'm seeing this, twice, fer every attempt to create a link:
6/17/11 10:37:02 AM Adium[30127] +[AHHyperlinkScanner isStringValidURI:usingStrict:fromIndex:withStatus:schemeLength:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x21e5140
Gonna see if I have a copy of 1.4.1 laying around, and roll back.
MacUpdate Desktop
All in all, it's a huge improvement over those early versions. The latest 5.0.8 version is blazing fast at scanning and finding updates. Even the installation feature — which I've never entirely trusted in previous versions — works very well. I like the way you can archive the old version, too, just to be safe.
However, I think I've found a bug: while it lists the apps in ~/Applications, every one is grayed out, and shown as "Information Unavailable". Since I like to keep my non-Apple apps there, this severely limits the app's usefulness.
+122
+122