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Mibrilane

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MidiKeys

Mibrilane commented on 22 Jan 2010

It says PPC only but download yields a Universal Binary.

[Version 1.8]

Xtorrent

Mibrilane commented on 09 Aug 2009

Paying for anything that allows you to get stuff that isn't free for free means you're paying the wrong person.

[Version 2.0v66]

Wyzo

Mibrilane commented on 26 May 2009

It says version 3.0.3 here and in the name of the DMG, but the version number in Get Info and in the About panel of the app itself says 3.0.2. Hmmm...

[Version 3.0.3]

SheerVideo Reader X

Mibrilane commented on 22 Mar 2009

Four plus years without comments, so I thought I'd weigh in. I can honestly say I have never encountered a video that actually required this codec. Then again, I'm not in any professional video field.

I have it installed nonetheless, just in case.

[Version 2.7.2.23]

iBackupforMac

Mibrilane commented on 13 Jan 2009

Isn't there already a backup utility called iBackup?

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17007/ibackup

[Version 1.1.2]

StuffIt Deluxe 2011

Mibrilane commented on 08 Jan 2009

Once again, there is no such thing as StuffIt Deluxe 13.x. This is StuffIt Deluxe 2009 and this update is SR4.

[Version 13.0.3]

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MacPilot

Mibrilane commented on 01 Jan 2009

Is it me or did like 20 features disappear from the Tools > Disk & Files area with the new version 3.2.3? Where is the button to delete ACLs?

[Version 3.2.3]

1 Reply

Mibrilane replied on 01 Jan 2009

Never mind this - it seems to have been moved to the System Tools widget in the General area.

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StuffIt Deluxe 2011

Mibrilane reviewed on 09 Nov 2008

StuffIt Deluxe is one of those "is it worth it" apps that many malign (see the other reviews here) as "obsolete" and unnecessary, as Mac OS X can now compress ZIP files directly without additional software.

Well, it does offer some features beyond that simple compression ability that I find useful. First, SITX files compress much smaller than ZIP does most of the time, and that's even without the extra file-type-specific compressors activated. I can also password protect archives, which the Mac OS X compression doesn't do.

Also, compressing and expanding with Magic Menu is easy and multi-threaded - up to four processes at a time - with queueing. I regularly compress twenty or thirty folders into archives at a time, and StuffIt Deluxe will compress them each into an individual archive, then delete the folder when it's done, and tell me it's done with each archive using Growl. Compressing via the Mac OS X compress function is a one-at-a-time affair and will compress everything selected into one archive.

Anyway, I find it useful and worth the upgrade price. I'm not sure I'd pay the retail price, though, but for those who have compression into archives as part of their backup workflow, it's worth having.

By the way, there is no StuffIt Deluxe 13.x version - it is now called StuffIt Deluxe 2009, and the current update is R3.

[Version 13.0.2]

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SoCal

Mibrilane reviewed on 01 Nov 2008

This tool is not quite ready for prime time. The app runs as a menu extra, and the Quit command is grayed out, making it impossible to quit from the app itself. Each successive click on the menu bar icon (a check mark) creates another duplicate section of menu commands above the previously displayed menu commands. Selecting the menu commands does nothing. Whoops.

Could be useful if it works the way it is supposed to (I'm guessing that it is a quick item entry tool for iCal), but looks extremely buggy and can't even perform it's base functionality. The developer should pull it and do more testing before release, or at least tag it as an alpha version, as that is what it is at the moment.

[Version 0.5]

Library Books

Mibrilane commented on 13 Oct 2008

Developer's website seems to be overloaded. Any mirrors?

[Version 2.6b135]

Glims

Mibrilane had trouble on 01 Dec 2011

Seems to be the culprit behind Safari 5.1.2 freezing going to beach ball at launch. Console messages show: "Glims Loader Warning: Unable to load additions into Safari" and another one for "into WebProcess".

[Version 1.0b31]

1 Reply

Mibrilane replied on 29 Dec 2011

To follow up - I went through and tossed all of the Safari extensions I had installed and then re-installed only the ones I really need. Now Glims is not crashing Safari on launch, so it must have been a conflict with one of those extensions that I trashed.

Saft

Mibrilane had trouble on 07 Aug 2009

Doesn't seem to work with the Safari 4.0.2 that is part of the Mac OS X 10.5.8 update.

[Version 11.0.1]

2 Replies

Mibrilane commented on 09 Aug 2009

It seems to work when Saft is used as a Safari launcher, but the input manager doesn't load.

Mibrilane commented on 09 Aug 2009

Ok, fixed it by trashing Saft and downloading it again. Strange. Seems to be working fine as an input manager now.

1Password

Mibrilane had trouble on 18 Mar 2008

No longer seems to load up in Safari 3.1. :-(

[Version 2.5.11]

Videobox

Mibrilane had trouble on 05 Nov 2007

I get a weird focus-flashing problem between VideoBox and Safari when downloading files - like Leopard can't seem to figure out which program should be given the focus "darkened window" foreground window.

Otherwise it works flawlessly. Good work!

[Version 2.1b]

SafariStand

Mibrilane had trouble on 20 Jun 2007

Developer's site says that the 3.0a1 version is for Safari 3.0 Beta only - it does not work with Safari 2.0.4 as stated here. If you're using Safari 2.x, the old version (2.0b17) is the one you want.

[Version 3.0a1]

1 Reply

Mibrilane commented on 20 Jun 2007

Get it here:

http://hetima.com/safari/stand2-e.html

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