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Matt Ruben

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Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197
(Free)

iFileX 1.2.2
(Free)

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197
(Free)

MacTubes 3.1
(Free)

Microsoft Office 200... 12.3.2
(Updater)

Microsoft Office 201... 14.1.4
(Updater)

Vox 0.3 beta 1
(Free)

TinkerTool 4.7.1
(Free)

OnyX 2.4.3
(Free)

Progressive Download... 0.8.14
(Free)

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197
(Free)

PPCtoTrash 1.02
(Free)

Matt Ruben's Posts

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Adobe Flash Player

Mruben reviewed on 11 Nov 2011

Lots of spinning beach balls in Safari since upgrading to this version. Sigh.

[Version 11.1.102.55]

BitTorrent

Mruben reviewed on 18 Oct 2011

One word: Transmission.

[Version 7.2.2]

X Lossless Decoder

Mruben reviewed on 17 Oct 2011

This is a great program - does so many things, does them properly, frequently updated, and free! Can't ask for anything more.

[Version 20111015]

X Lossless Decoder

Mruben reviewed on 25 Sep 2011

Agree with others - fantastic app, does exactly what it says, no problems, just does it. Thanks!

[Version 20110924]

X Lossless Decoder

Mruben reviewed on 15 May 2011

I can't believe this fantastic utility is still free. It's frequently updated and does a terrific job of ripping and converting files in a high-quality manner.

Highly recommend - and a big THANK YOU to the developer!

[Version 20110515]

Adobe Flash Player

Mruben reviewed on 17 Nov 2009

Wow - CPU usage is about 15-25%, down from 70-110%. It's night and day - flash videos play much more smoothly.

[Version 10.1.51.45]

Apple Mac OS X

mruben reviewed on 28 May 2008

I too just updated to 10.5.3. It did the usual double-restart after installation. It did NOT mess up any file permissions.

No problems or issues so far. All seems well on my system (Aluminum iMac 24"/2.4GHz).

[Version 10.5.3]

Microsoft Office 2008

mruben reviewed on 14 May 2008

Still a piece of junk after 12.1 update.

Two main problems:

(1) STILL doesn't play well with Spaces; splash screen AND your document open in the current space, and then only after the document is open does Word switch to its proper space. And even then, the formatting palette is blank until you click on it. Also, when Word is already open and you open a new document from a different Space, sometimes Word loses track of the documents and you can't see one of them.

(2) STILL ridiculously slow upon startup. Actual startup of the app is a little slower now, but once it's supposedly already started up, the interface is unresponsive for the first minute or two, with constant spinning beachballs.

Remember the infamous Office 4.2.1 (with Word 6) for the Classic Mac OS? Well, Office 2008 is shaping up to be the WORST MS office produce since that.

[Version 12.1]

Microsoft Office 2008

mruben commented on 12 Mar 2008

POS. Installer is dog-slow. Word is still launches slowly, and has the spinning beach ball immediately after launch.

And Office STILL doesn't play nice with Spaces!!!

Get it together Microsoft - if you're going to be a rapacious, monopolistic company with a CEO devoid of ideas, at least you could still write some decent code.

Ugh.

[Version 12.0.1]

TechTool Deluxe

mruben commented on 08 Feb 2008

Finally was able to connect to Micromat's FTP server, BUT...

... I'm on a 6+ Mbps broadband connection, and the file is downloading at only 10kB/sec - that's dial-up speeds.

C'mon Micromat, this isn't 1997 - can you at least have a mirror for your files. Sheesh!

[Version 3.1.2]

Caffeine

Mruben had trouble on 29 Jul 2011

Seems not to work anymore under 10.7 Lion. Any news of a pending update?

[Version 1.1.1]

X Lossless Decoder

Mruben had trouble on 07 Nov 2010

Fantastic program in all respects.

One question, though - the "check for updates" and auto-update feature seems to be broken in the last couple of releases. Anyone else seeing this?

[Version 20101107]

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