Jamie Genet
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I am a Free member Gender: Male
Frog blast the vent core! Marathon forever!
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uTorrent
Wizardling reviewed on 27 Dec 2008
Unfortunately (and understandably for a beta of a brand new Mac port) the UI needs work, features are limited, and there are many bugs - including one particularly annoying one where you cannot selectively download part of a multi-file torrent even if you've more than enough space for just that part. Right clicking also does not select an item so I'm constantly bringing up a contextual menu for the wrong item.
Still, µTorrent shows great promise and is an excellent effort for an app so new to the Mac. Once the bugs are ironed out I can see it replacing Transmission as my main BitTorrent client.
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Transmission
Wizardling reviewed on 27 Dec 2008
Approx. a month ago I tried out the brand new Mac port of µTorrent. Even being very beta quality software it is on average 10x faster than Transmission at getting torrents downloaded. I switched back and forth for several weeks between the two clients using the exact same torrents - it's no fluke. I even tried the old official BitTorrent client and the ageing Tomato Torrent - both were MUCH faster than Transmission and on par with µTorrent.
Now if it was just speed I might even stick with Transmission while µTorrent's bugs are ironed out. Transmission's UI and feature set are so much better, and Tomato Torrent - which works well - cannot selectively download part of a multi-file torrent. That feature is also buggy in µTorrent.
But sadly Transmission began a couple months ago to allocate all it's upload bandwidth to just one torrent 95% of the time, with predictable negative performance results for the neglected torrents. This has made Transmission almost impossible to use, and the refusal by the developers to even continue to discuss the issue does not inspire confidence in an eventual resolution.
As a result my recommendation has to be to avoid Transmission for the foreseeable future - and that's a damn shame :-(
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As for Tomato Torrent - it may be old and light on features, but it certainly works well, even on old G3 Macs running 10.3.9 :-) It's just a shame it doesn't support partial download of multi-file torrents. If it did I'd say the hell with Transmission and µTorrent, even if they've better and more modern UIs.
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As for routers - preaching to the converted :-) Unfortunately I think it's only us geeks who bother configuring things like bandwidth management. Witness the sheer number of unsecured WiFi access points - people just plug their router in and if it works, they never touch it again. I've some friends in the US who - no joke - have never paid for their own internet connection in over three years now... Amazing :-D
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Oh, and my review IS of the stable version of 1.42 released 24/12/08, thank you very much.
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Boy do I regret visiting MacUpdate again *disgustedly wanders off to friendlier and far saner parts of the 'net, where - don't worry - I plan to STAY this time*
Yahoo! Widget Engine
Wizardling reviewed on 11 Oct 2005
Well, I thought I'd give Konfabulator another try now it's owned by Yahoo. Last time I tried it I was unimpressed with it's slow speed on my G3 iMacs, and the CPU meter, rather ironically, had a memory leak
This time around bad things began happening from the word go. The Digital Clock widget refused to display, and if I tried accessing it's prefs from the Konfab menu I got a dialogue box saying no prefs were available. Worse - that dialogue refused to accept input - it would not close till I quit the Konfabulator app from it's menu.
Then I tried seeing what the simple background pref looked like when I pressed F8. After setting that Konfabulator no longer responded to F8. Not until I quit and restarted it, and set it back to the default background would F8 show the Konfabulator screen.
Then I tried accessing the PIM widget (which I _thought_ I'd seen pop up briefly the first time I ran Konfabulator after installing it). Nada - nothing. No preference access either. Not even a dialogue that wouldn't close. Nothing.
Still, just in case I thought things couldn't get any worse I tried accessing iChat Bezel widget's prefs. Once again - nada, nothing, no response.
I next tried setting the Weather widget to my closest town - Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand. Miracle of miracles it worked… until I later quit and restarted Konfabulator. Now it refuses to show my weather, yet Palo Alto and another city(that's NOT close to me) in NZ - Auckland - displays fine, weather wise.
Lastly the CPU meter's LED style red numbers show nothing. But as there's ZERO useful documentation or info I have no clue what might usually display there, anyway.
In short, Konfabulator used to work a year ago on this G3 iMac. Now it's so broken I'm put off trying any third party widgets. I can't believe there was so little testing done
Oh, and maybe some user out there can help me with a query of mine (cause there's ZERO help provided with Konfabulator): with utterly useless broken widgets like PIM - how can I quit them? I know I can quit the non-functional Digital Clock with a control click of it's name in the gear menu, but that doesn't work with the useless PIM. As it doesn't display, and won't respond, how the heck can I quit the damn thing? Do I need to delete my prefs EVERY time I run into a poorly written and poorly tested widget? I suppose I could just delete it from my HD, but given how poorly Konfabulator is doing so far, I'm not sure I want to add to it's troubles.
BTW - this absurd trial took place on a 500MHz G3 with 512MB RAM.
KoolClip
Wizardling reviewed on 10 Sep 2005
Please fix this awful bug so I can use this lovely piece of freeware. I'd even pay a shareware fee if only it WORKED! *sigh*
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