Robert Burke
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Firefox
Apple Safari
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Flip4Mac WMV Player
HEY WMV-Developers, that isn't called automatically update, that's called an user harassment and involves an Admin-Password... every time an update comes out.
ClickToPlugin
Oyac reviewed on 09 Jan 2012
Oh!!!
+2
uTorrent
-5
CleanGenius Free
-4
Sandvox
SandVox is still... 32-bit. It does not know anything about the new Lion Stuff like Fullscreen, Versions and so on--it's even a bit worse.
This is another Money-Making-Product like RapidWeaver or RealBasic (Studio4Dummies) which does not fulfill it's great promises. HTML5-Media Player? You have to buy it for another 7 bucks. Drag a mp4-Podcast Episode on it and it says: this can only be played with QuickTime and not with IE...
Tables? Not with this app. Sophisticated Plug-In's? Nothing there to buy. Just silly overpriced dumb eye-washing junk. Ayyyyyy.
It has some nice templates also the photo-site is very nice but the template browser brings the app to a crash and therefore the app-code has some flaws which gives me the impression the people working on this app are not real professionals. Sorry2u. I have very high expectations for an app that costs more than 5 bucks--silly me but that's just the way it is. Sorry again.
Can't recommend it. iWeb does the job better and cheaper and you won't feel cheated all the time--
BTW: I purchased this app via AppStore for 48 CHF (half price) but after two weeks I was so frustrated I decided I don't wanna use this anymore and deleted everything related to this app and wrote a mail to the AppStore-Supoort which was so kind and gave me the money back, probably because of the crashing-thing. Nice!!!! Txs Apple.
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To have Plug-Ins and stuff is a nice touch but is misused by SandVox, RapidWeaver and RealStudio. The lack of functionality is a calculated thing and after paying for the app you start to pay for plug-ins and stuff which is kinda crazy because all the apps costs very much ... ... ... it's just another way to milk the cow.
Muuhh :)
Amadeus Pro
Oyac reviewed on 05 Nov 2011
Oh and we could use the "old" Amadeus for about 3 Years and in that time we produced exactly 101 Podcast Episodes. edited with Amadeus. Thanks Amadeus Developer!!!
The upgrade price is just fair. All in all we invested like total 50$ for an amazing audio-tool that does update constantly... ??? Where do you see that in the wild? Tell me.
Thank You, Amadeus :)
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VLC Media Player
Oyac reviewed on 22 Oct 2011
< < Everything works very good >>
Side-Note : After playing a file with a digital audio track,
VLC resets the audio volume to zero which is probably a good thing (safety), and there is no need to restart or relaunch anything, just use the volume-slider :)
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Apple OS X Lion
The newest Safari is still leaking essential data. Apple, that is very unprofessional. Or is it?
teleport
-> Sometimes, the mouse cursor stays visible on the controlling machine
Everything else is just ... perfect and very useful. TXS
Apple Xcode
Hope it will work later. The other stuff downloaded ok so it can't be a wrong user/pass as the alert states).
VLC Media Player
+5
Apple Mac OS X
-8
Apple Mac OS X
©Apple®, that is very disappointing®.
You - always - find a way to kill something in my workflow.
It's like your going "Windows".
Disappointing
Disappointing
Disappointing
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Transmission
It does the job very good, but to often, at a high incoming bit-rate, it blocks the Finder which is VERY annoying. Also, it shows the rainbow-cursor a awful lot which is also a very annoying experience.
Sorry, this is not professional work, because you shouldn't give your users a GUI and than let the app block the GUI all the time. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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Another thing: when you quit Transmission, it does mostly not quit right away, even with no torrents it can take quite a while before the app quits. If you have active torrents and you quit the app, it allocates the files before it quits (if it hasn't that done already). This can take a very long time because if you have a torrent with a 8 GB file in it, it will allocate(write) that to your disk before quitting. This concept is clearly wrong. I understand that "Quitting an application" should quit an application and NOT start some time-consuming hard work. You can't do much while Transmission is quitting because it slows down everything else.
...Vuze has an option which let's you allocate the hard-disk-space BEFORE starting the download which reduces fragmentation and hard-disk-reading. It is also much safer this way, because if the app crashes, more of the already downloaded data will be valid.
Anyway, I tried Vuze today, it crashed while configuring. Vuze even installed a funny invisible folder (without telling me) in the install directory. Gnargh. I hate that.
Currently, no Bit-Torrent Application for the Mac will have my blessings.
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I'm still using Transmission and I hope my comments are kinda helping.
It would be so nice if the GUI- and the QUIT-Situation would grow mature.
Okay, this little "Java-Executer" is still the best out in the macworld.
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I mostly use it with higher settings but to get 200 connections per torrent is rather seldom.
The higher settings are ok for my hardware.
- I believe you about the tracker thing while quitting. Txs for this info.
- Allocation
If you start a 1 GB - torrent and let it download some bytes - so at least one item is created by Transmission - and you quit Transmission - you can watch the heavy hard-disk writing with "Activity Monitor".
No Mystery here, my friend.
== MAIN CONCLUSION ==
Whatever job has to be done it should never block the main thread of an application.
Mainly, if an application does so, OS X uses the rainbow-cursor to inform you that you, the user of this computer and software, are currently degraded to a powerless puppet which has to wait until the software comes back to the main thread but, of course, there is no guarantee that this will ever happen because the app could just have crashed.. you just have to wait ...
That's why programmers use "Tasks" or "Threads" or whatever sophisticated it is they do
for that kind of intense work without disturbing the user's experience and control.