 | Jul 15 2006 |
SONICDEVIANT Forget all the negative reviews listed below. These folks either have unstable systems or, more likely, they don't know what they're doing. Yes, you can hurt your system, so if you're clueless about the underpinnings of the Dock and Spotlight (and other settings this utility affects), use the app at your own peril. Treat it like a simplified Terminal shell...you can do MORE damage in the Terminal than with this app if you're unedu-mac-ated.
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| Mar 15 2006 |
M2ATMAC this is a very nice tool. tiger tamer gave me the ability to easily change some hidden tiger settings which were responsible for low system performance. however, if you are one of those who doesn't care about reading documentation simply do not run this app. although you'll find some useful information hitting the pink question mark button, some settings are not well documented. nothing you can't find more about googling it. all in all, this is a two thumbs up app for experienced users. thanks a lot for the time and effort that the developer has put on this tool.
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 | Jan 24 2006 |
MIKEKIRBY This hammer sucks. I brought it home and started hitting things with it, and it wrecked my house! Folks: software is a TOOL. You have to know how to use it or you're just going to break things... that's not the software's fault, it's yours. This is not a program for newbies. Yes, it will happily allow you to hose your system if you're not careful. That's because it works very well. So if you don't know exactly how to use it, DON'T. On the other hand, if you've been looking for access to the system options that it offers, and have the understanding to use it properly and with caution, you'll probably find, as I did, that it works exactly as advertised. I found it very handy. Nice freeware.
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| Aug 5 2005 |
BRANDON At first glance, I thought Tiger Tamer would be pretty useless to me. After fooling around with some of the settings, I found it to be exactly the opposite! Wow, Spotlight is finally usable for me! Speed is greatly increased, I was really disappointed before.
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| Jul 16 2005 |
STRATAMAN It screw up my computer also. Now trying to get back the default feature of the system seen a bit impossible even i uncheck the button in tiger tamer, it just don't work at all. If anyone know how to get back to the default feature do let me know my email is chris@artbox23.com This software suck.
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| Jul 6 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Let me see if I can be cool like one of the below reviewers. "OMFG IT TOTALLY SCREWED UP MY COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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| Jul 2 2005 |
RONALD PRICE Tiger Tamer hasn't caused any problems here. The options I tried all seem to work as advertised.
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| Jul 2 2005 |
LEO OF BORG Funny. None of what the other reviewers wrote has happened to my machines. Unlike some other -free- apps, this one does what it says -- and is the perfect thing if you happen to be running a Tiger Server [who needs Spotlight and Dashboard running on a -Server-]?? All this guy goes is set flags and kill services. Example; if your SystemUI Server doesn't start right back up [and your MenuExtras, that Apple does not support] don't either, then you need to look to other problems on your machines. I have tried -other- AS Studio type apps that have done far worse to my machines than this one [like NOT setting the right permissions on the /etc/hosts file].
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| Jul 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Just to counter all the negative criticism below, I have found this program to be stable and good at what it does. I have used it to disable all animations and dashboard on my G3 PowerBook. I suggest those people who are having problems with this program had their system in an unstable state before using it.
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| Jul 16 2005 |
~FLIPPER I installed this little app, for one reason: the 'Cut' feature. It moves the 'cut' item to trash, sends the item to the Clipboard, but the tiger OS, even though it will show the item on the Clipboard, won't enable 'paste'... what a shame. (Tiger 10.4.2) Otherwise, it's a nice deal. Apple should have had the "cut" feature many years ago....
(Version 1.2) | |
| Jul 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS OMG this program caused my hard drive to crash.
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 | Jul 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I have to assume your drive, if it really crashed, was going down anyway. There is nothing done by Tamer that could affect a hard drive, except maybe causing excessive logging.
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| Jul 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Sense-of-humor-failure alert!
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| Jun 27 2005 |
ANONYMOUS the cut feature doesn't quite work properly -- until after you've fished your cut items from the trash. hope to see this convenient feature fixed.
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| Jul 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS The cut feature, and its bugs, are in the Finder. Tamer just enables them. The problem with cut on a file is that if you cut/copy something else the file is lost. I assume that is why apple never made it a feature. And because it is not a supported feature it was not well tested and may be buggy. I used it before tiger without problems. Most of the things tamer lets you set are like that. Fun, maybe useful, but not well tested and often buggy.
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| Jun 23 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This app totally screwed up my finder. I had to create a new user account. DO NOT INSTALL THIS CRAP ON YOUR SYSTEM.
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| Jun 23 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Killed my MenuBar extras too...thanks developer! You have a bright future working at Apple...as a janitor.
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 | Jun 23 2005 |
NIMBUS3 MenuExtra/Spotlight glitch can be solved by deleting systemuiserver plist from your user home's preferences folder and then restarting systemuiserver. You have to re-register all those MenuExtras that you want to keep on the menubar though. $ rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist;sudo killall SystemUIServer Then in the Finder, Cmd+Shift+G and type "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/" (or in the Terminal, $ cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/), then launch whichever Menu Extras you want. Note, if you want to have the KeychainAccess MenuExtra, it's not in there. Launch Keychain Access.app in the /Applications/Utilities and then check the preference for it. | |
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| Jun 23 2005 |
NIMBUS3 MenuExtra/Spotlight glitch can be solved by deleting systemuiserver plist from your user home's preferences folder and then restarting systemuiserver. You have to re-register all those MenuExtras that you want to keep on the menubar though. $ rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist;sudo killall SystemUIServer Then in the Finder, Cmd+Shift+G and type "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/" (or in the Terminal, $ cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/), then launch whichever Menu Extras you want. Note, if you want to have the KeychainAccess MenuExtra, it's not in there. Launch Keychain Access.app in the /Applications/Utilities and then check the preference for it. | |
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| Jun 22 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Yup, same thing here, killed all my Apple, including spotlight... RUN away from this app.
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 | Jun 22 2005 |
NIMBUS3 This app killed all my Apple genuine MenuExtras. They simply vanished from MenuBar and cannot be brought back although ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist does indeed still list all those MenuExtras (thus, they should be shown on the Menu Bar). Hovering over Spotlight icon at the far right on the Menu Bar gives me a rainbow cursor, making Spotlight unusable. Reading other persons' comments/replies here, there are other people suffering from the same symptoms. Command+Option+Comma suggested by the developer did not help. The developer implies that we need a root level password to rectify this, but without giving any detailed info for the solution whatsoever. Visiting the Developer site reveals no contact information. Pitty. Sigh...
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| Jun 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS command-option-comma (Clear Defaults in Tiger Tamer menu when option key is down) will unset all defaults, restoring the system to normal. The Disable checkboxes in the spotlight tab, and lock login items, are not defaults. Click the little ? in the top right for more details about what things do.
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| Jun 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS @Developer: I found the '?' too late for using it ... ;) But thanks for the help!
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| Jun 22 2005 |
ANONYMOUS if only what you suggest actually worked...
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| Jun 20 2005 |
MARK Yikes! My little brother downloaded this and managed to screw up my system. He did somthing under the finder tab and now spotlight is broken and all of the icons in my system bar are gone. Does anyone know how to contact the developer so I can find out what kinds of things were modified there and see if I can hack it back together? He remembers playing around with the finder tab to "tweak my powerbook" but nothing else :( mark.macupdate@sparktography.com
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| Jun 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS command-option-comma will unset all defaults, reverting to system normal. this does not affect Spotlight, which must be manually restored but requires a root password to affect.
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| Jun 21 2005 |
D I had the same problem, i tossed the finder.plist and all was better.
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| Jun 21 2005 |
NIMBUS3 I second that. My MenuExtras are all gone and relaunching SystemUIServer does not load any MenuExtras (Apple genuine). Spotlight is also halted with rainbow cursor when mouse pointer hovers over at the spotlight icon far right in the menu bar. Other user accounts are not affected, though.
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| Jun 22 2005 |
MATT None of the suggestions here have worked and I have similar problems after using Tiger Tamer. Finder menu on the app is non selectable. Spotlight and clock in menu bar are simply gone. How do I "restore spotlight" per the developer. Are there any other suggestions for resolving this?
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| Jun 22 2005 |
MATT Well, I checkedthe dev site and while command-option-comma did not work, the command while in the Tiger Tamer menu did work to reset the default. I could then get into the finder menu in Tiger Tamer and reset the UIServer and viola, the clock and spotlight were restored. Not sure how software that seems to have such serious flaws could be released, but it is safe to say its no longer running on my system...
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| Jun 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS My SystemUIServer crashed (and is still inactive and crashing ...) after I tried the Finder-Hacks, but now all windows hide if I click on another window, and the Finder-Tab in the app doesn't react ...
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| Jun 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS [...]after I've tried[...] Sorry, it's too late in Germany for good, clean English ... -_-
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| Jun 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Same problem here, AVOID this app. All the "apple" menu items are also gone, no airport status, etc., the third party ones are fine.
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| Jun 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS It's "Tiger" Tamer and it works with OS X 10.3?!?
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| Jun 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS roflmfao at above comment. It's funny cos its true!
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| Jun 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS What makes it dangerous is lack of "Apply" and "Restore default OSX settings" functions. Seems that one you launch the app it applies it's own defaults and there is no way of restoring system to default settings, unless you know for sure what this little app changed. Dangerous is a very polite description.
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| Jun 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS command-option-comma will unset all defaults, reverting to system normal. this does not affect Spotlight, which must be manually restored but requires a root password to affect. The menu item appears in the Tiger Tamer menu when the option key is down.
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| Jun 20 2005 |
MARIUS_TH It's a very decent app, and most importantly free =) might want to add a restart instead of a quit for the finder and dock
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| Jun 20 2005 |
JEDIK Cool. Lots of hidden preferences, and even a drawer with the setting explanation. Haven't used it yet, so I hope it's safe to use. Other than that, thanks for making it free (and for the other host on .Mac). ;)
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| Jun 20 2005 |
MARIUS_TH Geocities has too limited bandwith, and freewebs is too slow... if you consider making it open source, you can host it on sourceforge.net for free also, i would like it if you could mail this to me, i'd really love trying it out ^^
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| Jun 20 2005 |
MARIUS_TH MariusTh86@gmail.com
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| Jun 20 2005 |
SCHMELDING Site unavailable. Blargh.
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| Jun 20 2005 |
SCHMELDING Screenshot?
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