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Ian Andolina

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Transmission 2.50b1
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ForkLift 2.5 Alpha 8
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Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197
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Skype 5.5.0.2340
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ForkLift 2.5 Alpha 8
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Pacifist 3.0.1
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Skype 5.5.0.2340
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OnyX 2.4.3
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FreeMemory 1.5.1
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X Lossless Decoder 20120120
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FreeMemory Pro

Nontroppo reviewed on 13 Jan 2012

See my review for the free version. This software is not honest about what it is doing -- converting INACTIVE RAM to FREE RAM is not actually giving you more memory, it is just damaging the data the OS X kernel has organised in case it is needed. One can justifiably say memory optimisation is a hoax, because it uses a users gullibility (you see "more" FREE memory and a bigger slice of green in the memory pie) and assume you've got more memory, without understanding what has just happened...

[Version 1.5]

Scrivener

Nontroppo reviewed on 01 Dec 2011

Amazing update as usual. I have to mention that the developer is super responsive to input from users, I suspect many of the changes and additions in each update are directly driven by these interactions. He also has a strong idea of where Scrivener is going, and if he disagrees with a suggestion will give a clear explanation why.

[Version 2.2]

ImageOptim

Nontroppo reviewed on 19 Nov 2011

My last review for this was in 2008, and this is still an essential go-to tool. The perfect minimal UI and an excellent set of options for compression. This fully deserves 5 stars, then and now!

[Version 1.3.2]

SSHTunnel

Nontroppo reviewed on 05 Nov 2011

This app still works perfectly well in Lion. It has a great UI, handles all the tunnel methods I need and is free!

[Version 1.6]

Growl

Nontroppo reviewed on 03 Nov 2011

Yay, the menubar icon is gone (well removable). We can run it silently and just run the app when needing to set prefs, perfect!

And, I think the new roll-up and notification history do make 1.3x a significant upgrade to 1.2x. Still have to see if the discrete GPU problem is fixed (hm, should be able to find the commit log somewhere for this?)

[Version 1.3.1]

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+236

Nontroppo replied on 04 Nov 2011

@Corpsecorps: yes, but V1.3 moved to being an app, and V1.3.0 didn't have that option which caused lots of upset users. V1.3.1 fixes that, so we are back to the same invisible mode as V1.2x except we now have nice new features like the history list of V1.3x etc.

Quicksilver

Nontroppo commented on 31 Oct 2011

Yay, we can finally donate to this utterly excellent project:

http://qsapp.com/donate.php

For me a massive thanks to keeping QS alive, whatever the future may bring. Even if the current devs stop here, I really appreciate their hardwork to keep such an essential ninja meets swiss-army tool working. The excellent blog and plugin updates are just icing on the cake!!!

[Version 61]

Marked

Nontroppo reviewed on 29 Oct 2011

Great way to easily view multimarkdown, can be automated for many apps (I use it with ever awesome Scrivener and Multimarkdown Composer), though I'd like a way to do this without fiddling for Brett's other app, nvAlt!

But I *hate* the damn app store! Currently though I've bought Marked and use it at work I cannot download it on my home machine, it always silently fails...

[Version 1.3.1]

Dropbox

Nontroppo reviewed on 25 Oct 2011

Dropbox is simply amazing. I had dismissed these cloud sync services for quite some time, using my own SFTP server and droplets / terminal etc. for sync. However, the transparency of dropbox client, and the elegant link to finder info and then web versioning makes this so smooth to make even a cranky DIYer like me use it with pleasure. It is very Apple inspired design, minimalist UI and works without needing to fuss over it!

[Version 1.1.45]

Quicksilver

Nontroppo reviewed on 23 Oct 2011

ß61 is a fantastic update. The major problems with the plugin database is solved, which means plugins can now be cleanly updated and maintained. And a huge changelog of workflow improvements and fixes, plus some minor Lion fixes (ß60 was working fine for me already) is just rich icing on this mercurial wonder. A big thanks to the devs!

See here for the juicy details:
http://lovequicksilver.com/post/11814325098/quicksilver-roars
http://lovequicksilver.com/post/11814320389/quicksilver-ss61-changes

[Version 61]

SmartRam

Nontroppo reviewed on 20 Oct 2011

Memory 'optimisers' were a fad on windows many years ago, and they were junk. Now they are popping up on the App store!Countless man-hours of hard work by computer scientists have honed the virtual memory systems of modern operating system kernels like Darwin, and this app just junks those caches to make it look like you have more free RAM.

Inactive RAM *is* usable RAM, so flushing your inactive RAM into "free" RAM doesn't give you "more" memory, it just makes more green in the pie chart in activity monitor. *BUT* inactive RAM does store information the OS X kernel may need again, so flushing it will slow down your kernel if it needs that info. Please google and read "The Memory-Optimization Hoax", an article written by the very well respected Sysinternals engineer Mark Russinovich.

[Version 1.0]

Opera

Nontroppo had trouble on 24 Nov 2009

Note there have been problems with the auto-update function from previous 10.1 snapshots to this final release. You need to delete your ~/Library/Caches/Opera/ directory then do a manual upgrade to get it working, see this article:

http://my.opera.com/danaleks/blog/2009/11/24/problems-running-1010

[Version 10.10.6790]

xGestures

nontroppo had trouble on 26 Nov 2007

Noraa: try deleting what.xgestures.plist in your /Library/Preferences/

[Version 1.7.3]

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