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Stormchild
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AirRadar 2.2.2
(Shareware)
Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197
(Free)
Hex Fiend 2.1.2
(Free)
Cappuccino 1.2
(Free)
Lion Tweaks 1.4
(Free)
UltraMixer 4.0.0
(Demo)
Skype 5.5.0.2340
(Free)
VideoSpec 0.9.4
(Free)
Glims 1.0
(Free)
Pacifist 3.0.1
(Shareware)
Flip4Mac WMV Player 2.4.1.4
(Free)
Dropbox 1.2.51
(Free)
Stormchild's Posts
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Lion Tweaks
Stormchild commented on 04 Feb 2012
The button to disable iTunes Dock "animations" (pop-up notification that displays the artist and song name whenever the current track changes) doesn't work for me. It enables them successfully, but does not disable it when you click the (badly-named) "No" button.

(Lion Tweaks 1.4, OS X 10.7.3, iTunes, 10.5.3)

Fortunately, you can disable them yourself with this Terminal command (this is all one line; copy and paste it as a whole):

defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool FALSE; killall Dock
[Version 1.4]



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Glyphs
Stormchild commented on 19 Jan 2012
$300? Good luck with that.
[Version 1.2]



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Apple MainStage
Stormchild commented on 09 Dec 2011
I've got 2.1.3 installed, but the 2.2 update doesn't show up in Software Update for me. Perhaps the new update is only available for people who bought the standalone version on the App Store. Seems a bit unreasonable to cut off existing users for a minor update though. Maybe it's just not in Software Update yet.
[Version 2.2]


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Stormchild replied on 09 Dec 2011
…Nope. Turns out you don't get 2.2 if you got MainStage as part of Logic Studio. The latest version is now only available for people who bought the standalone version on the App Store.

Bit of a dick move on Apple's part. MainStage was a nice bonus in Logic, but I'm not paying $30 for it.
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TweetDeck

Stormchild reviewed on 09 Dec 2011
This is some spectacularly bad software, but the upside is that it doesn't do anything all that useful anyway. Even my favorite Twitter app for iPhone — Tweetbot — is far better at managing multiple accounts than this giant mess of an app. Can't see why anyone would use this.
[Version 1.0]



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Apple Aperture
Stormchild commented on 08 Dec 2011
These seem like the exact same release notes from 3.2.1. Probably not an accurate list of what's new in 3.2.2.
[Version 3.2.2]


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Stormchild replied on 08 Dec 2011
Those are in fact the release notes from Aperture 3.2. The 3.2.2 update only lists one change:

This update resolves an issue that could prevent auto-imported Photo Stream images from being displayed in the library after your Photo Stream hits 1,000 images.
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Blu-ray Player
Stormchild commented on 29 Nov 2011
Strongly recommend next time hire native English speaker for write description. It make product sound lot less sketchy. Also, 60 dollar for media player? Oracle say: no one buys.
[Version 1.9.4.0695]



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ReCycle
Stormchild commented on 23 Nov 2011
Wrong screenshot. That's Reason, not ReCycle.
[Version 2.2]



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SixtyFour
Stormchild commented on 20 Oct 2011
"An application opened in 64-bit mode uses approximately 2x the memory that the same application uses when opened in 32-bit mode."

This claim seems exaggerated and probably untrue. Is there any real evidence to support it? It just doesn't make sense. There may be some additional overhead for longer memory address strings, but that doesn't increase the size of the actual information and resources stored in memory.
[Version 1.0.2]



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MPlayer OSX Extended
Stormchild commented on 04 Oct 2011
Doesn't seem to support the Apple Remote anymore…at least not in Lion (I'm currently running 10.7.1).
[Version rev14]



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MPlayerX

Stormchild reviewed on 28 Sep 2011
As of 1.0.9, MPlayerX now forces you to use "Lion-style" full screen mode, wherein the full screen 'window' now opens in a new space, rendering all other displays useless. It's no longer possible to watch video in full screen on one display while working on the other, and now we have no control over which display is used for full screen mode (it will only go full screen on the 'main' display with the menubar).

No thanks. I'll be sticking with 1.0.8 until it's possible to disable this very stupid 'feature'.
[Version 1.0.9]


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Stormchild replied on 29 Sep 2011
Nah. Wrecking full screen mode makes it completely useless to me, so 1 star accurately reflects the value it now has. MPlayer OSX Extended is almost identical to this version (exact same playback 'engine', just slightly different UI), so it's now the clear winner between the two.
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Default Folder X
Stormchild had trouble on 22 Jul 2011
4.4.3 works correctly in Lion, with the exception of any apps that are now "sandboxed" (find out which ones are by enabling the Sandboxed column in Activity Monitor), because those apps don't present their own open/save dialogs. Another process handles that on behalf of the app (it's a system security measure).

There's probably a way to work around it, but I don't know the details.
[Version 4.4.2]



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Hugin
Stormchild had trouble on 08 Dec 2010
Just ran into a weird issue with Hugin 2010.2. It turns out if you're loading images that have a single quote anywhere in their path, control point detection will always fail, no matter which detector or what settings. Something is not being escaped properly.

E.g., if you're loading images stored in:
/Users/you/Desktop/Friend's Birthday/…

When you click (Align), you'll get errors in the little console window that pops up while control point detection is happening. Unhelpfully, this window appears and disappears so quickly, you can't even read the details. It would be nice if those errors could be written to a log file or something. Very frustrating having the console window immediately vanish when you're trying to see WHAT the damn problem is.

Anyway, just make sure you don't have any single quotes in the path of any images you're loading.
[Version 2010.2.0]



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Safari AdBlocker
Stormchild had trouble on 23 Oct 2010
Manually-added filters are no longer working (in Safari 5.0.2).
[Version 1.9.8.6]



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Safari AdBlocker
Stormchild had trouble on 23 Oct 2010
Manually-added filters are no longer working (in Safari 5.0.2).
[Version 1.9.8.6]



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Plex
Stormchild had trouble on 11 May 2009
Still no fix for crash-on-quit behavior? This has been happening since the very first time I installed Plex, many versions ago. I've deleted the preferences and started fresh, but nothing helps. I have literally never seen this program exit cleanly. It has crashed 100% of the time when I've tried to quit, from day one. This was on a brand new MacBook Pro bought less than two months ago, and this behavior was happening within the first two days I had the new machine, before I had even installed or used much of anything else on it.

Bottom line: Plex is just not very well made software. I really wish it would work reliably, as it's a nice idea and clearly better than what Front Row has devolved into, but so far it just hasn't been worth the trouble.
[Version 0.8]



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iConquer
Stormchild had trouble on 30 Dec 2008
Anyone else having problems getting "Boss Mode" to work? The built-in help says to hit Command-E, but that doesn't do anything for me, and there's no menu item for it.

Not that I really care or anything. Just wanted to see what it looks like.
[Version 2.4.6]



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Transmission
Stormchild had trouble on 26 Sep 2008
Current version still doesn't reliably release files when removed from the list. I frequently have problems moving files, or deleting unwanted files, after torrents have been completed and removed from Transmission.

Would be nice if the Transmission developers could figure out how to close a file handle properly. This should have been fixed many releases ago.
[Version 1.34]



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Default Folder X
Stormchild had trouble on 06 Feb 2007
Hotkeys are broken in 3.0.3. I used to have F1 through F8 set as hotkeys to open my favorite folders, and these no longer work. It was broken in the 3.0.3 betas, so I reverted to 3.0.2, thinking it was a bug, but now the final 3.0.3 release is out and the feature is still broken. I don't know whether other hotkeys are still valid (and don't care, as I'm not willing to change the hotkeys I've been using for several years), but F keys definitely don't work anymore. It still accepts them in the "Set Hotkey" dialog sheet, but they don't appear in the hotkey column of the favorites list.

I've emailed St. Clair support about it; hopefully we'll see a fix for it soon. I'm surprised none of the beta testers noticed this; I should have filed a bug report about it when I encountered it before, but was busy and just wanted to get it working again, so I simply reverted to 3.0.2.
[Version 3.0.3]



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USB Overdrive X
Stormchild had trouble on 05 Feb 2007
Hoping to use this with my new MX Revolution, since LCC doesn't work at all. But so far this isn't working either. USB Overdrive doesn't recognize my Logitech mouse. I definitely removed every single file installed by LCC and have rebooted at least twice since then. No dice.
[Version 10.4.5]



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Logitech Control Center
Stormchild had trouble on 05 Feb 2007
Can't get the software to work. I bought an MX Revolution today, downloaded LCC 2.1.3, and installed it. The mouse worked immediately after I plugged in the USB dongle (before installing any software), and the tracking seems to be smooth.

The software, on the other hand, doesn't work at all. The LCC preference pane is there, but says the same thing everyone else has been complaining about: "No Logitech device found."

I've repeatedly installed, uninstalled and reinstalled 2.1.3, 2.1.1, and 2.1.0, and they all produce that same result. I also tried manually uninstalling it by removing each file mentioned in the readme (thinking that perhaps the uninstaller works about as well as the rest of the software). I'm now fed up and tired of rebooting, and going to try USB Overdrive instead.

The mouse itself is solid, feels and works beautifully. Logitech makes great hardware, but really should fire all of its Mac developers (if it even has dedicated ones) and just hire Alessandro Montalcini (USB Overdrive author, on which Microsoft Intellipoint is based). Oh, and do something about that fugly logo. Did someone's five year old daughter draw that in school? Seriously.
[Version 2.1.3]



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