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TimeMachinePerspective

someone commented on 21 Mar 2008

Please compile this program as an universal binary. Also, to comply with the GPL, you have to include the modified source code.

[Version 0.9.10]

Transmission

someone commented on 18 Apr 2007

Does Transmission 0.7 support Azureus' and µTorrent's Message stream encryption?

[Version 0.70]

Vuze

someone commented on 25 Jan 2007

Regarding native interface: Unlike most Java applications, Azureus uses SWT (rather than Swing), which is just a thin layer on top of Carbon. This means its interface is fully native and there is no emulation at all.

[Version 2.5.04]

ATI NVIDIA GET VRAM

someone commented on 06 Nov 2006

I don't think there is a file size limitation for MU hosting.

This being said, OS X supports segmented disk images. Just man hdiutil and search for "segment". Since the application is Tiger-only, you can also make use of the new UDBZ image format, which uses bzip2 compression.

[Version 0.91]

Firefox

someone reviewed on 29 Oct 2006

In this latest incarnation of Firefox, the "Mac" theme has taken a nosedive. In fact, the new visuals will look ugly on every platform except Vista (It looks awful even on Windows XP).

Personally, I believe the Mozilla Visual Identity team must be mad to release this kind of work to the Mac platform where users have a much higher expectations about HIG compliance.

To solve this problem, Mac users have two options:

- Switch to Camino, which features a Cocoa UI and integration with system spellchecking service in version 1.1 alpha 1

- Use the updated Pinstripe theme: http://kmgerich.com/2006/09/27/pinstripe-for-firefox-now-with-20-more-macintosh/

[Version 2.0]

Vuze

someone reviewed on 21 Aug 2006

With the release of Azureus 2.5, a number of OS X-specific bug fixes and enhancements were added.

The most notable of these would be .torrent file association. Now you can double-click the torrent file to open it in Azureus.

Another important feature addition would be NAT-PMP support, which enables automatic port mapping in Airport wireless routers.

Finally, Azureus 2.5 uses SWT 3.2, which makes use of Quartz for drawing. This means GUI redraw performance is vastly improved.

[Version 2.5]

VLC Media Player

someone commented on 08 Apr 2006

This release is able to decode the cook audio codec, which is the most widely used real audio codec for streaming. However, note that VLC still doesn't have support for the ACELP.net codec used in real audio 4 and 5 as well as the ATRAC3 codec used in real audio 8.

This release still does not have a decoder for recent versions of real video codecs.

[Version 0.8.5a2]

Tofu

someone commented on 29 Mar 2006

Under version 2.0 alpha, the system wide service no longer works and remembering text position doesn't work at all for PDf files.

[Version 2.0a2]

Google Notifier

someone reviewed on 24 Mar 2006

Works as advertised: checks your gmail account every 2 minutes, can act as your default email program and has Applescript and plugin support!

While version 1.8.2 brings new icons and update notification, it now uses plain http access instead of https (encrypted) access. The new icons also fail to blend in with the other menu bar icons.

[Version 1.8.2]

Vuze

someone commented on 11 Feb 2006

Azureus does have a few bugs. The most obvious one is the file assocation problem (double click won't open .torrent files). The developers have known this problem for a long time now and apparantly it has something to do with Apple's Java implementation.

A second bug is the taskbar icon, which sometimes switch to an ugly low res icon. This is actually due to the ratings plugin. If you ever open the ratings dialogue, then the taskbar icon will be switched. To fix this, you can either avoid opening the dialogue or just uninstall the plugin if you have no use for it.

[Version 2.4]

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someone replied on 11 Feb 2006

I haven't confirmed the file association bug yet (on 2.4). However, the icon problem is present in the *latest version* (2.4). You can try it yourself by opening up the ratings dialogue and check your dock icon. I am sure this is just a slip-up on the developer's part since there used to be a related bug that was fixed a long time ago.

As for the resource-hogging, it actually became quite resonable lately. Running on Java 5 allowed me to get the memory footprint down to 30-40mb. This is quite light compared to most web browsers. Also, I have never seen the CPU-cycle hogging as reported by the previous posters and I only have a G4! However, Azureus does hog CPU and Disk IO during hashing, but that only lasts a few minutes and you can turn on a slower version that is not so hard on your machine.

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