 | Dec 11 2009 |
E101 It should be noted that fruux is actually not an application but an online service which does not encrypt your very personal data on their servers (same as the apple mobileme service) readable for them and for any government entity/hacker. Quote from their "privacy" policy (emphasis mine): "Personal data will not be transferred to government bodies or public authorities EXCEPT in order to comply with mandatory national legislation or if the transfer of such data should be necessary in order to take legal action in cases of fraudulent access to our network infrastructure. Personal data will not be transferred to third parties for any other purpose."
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 | Oct 16 2009 |
ELEGRAPHY The minimum requirement on MU is wrong; on their website it says fruux is required Mac OS X 10.5.6, not 10.5.8. I am running 10.5.6, and fruux 0.9.6.4 works fine on it!
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| Sep 10 2009 |
PIRX I get a 403 forbidden error, when using the download link. This aplies to both, MacUpdate and the developers site.
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| Sep 10 2009 |
MISHA Fixed now.
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| Aug 17 2009 |
PENGUIRL MACLOVER1.1 Lets take exaggeration to the extreme why don't we? Leopard was released in October 2007, which means Tiger is 1 year 10 months "out of date" if you want to call it that, and the Mac Classic was discontinued in September 1992 making it 16 years and 11 months old. Don't be ridiculous, there will come a day when your OS of choice is less than two years old and support is rapidly being dropped and you are going to wonder why is a $130 OS out of date less than two years after the release of the "next big thing." Seriously, your lack of maturity is showing. Grow up.
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| Aug 19 2009 |
FENRISULF Tiger was released in 2005. (I stood in line for mine). It works on my PPC Mac to this day, as Leopard isn't all that "grand" on PPC's (being a dead architecture at this point...) I do not know what Fruux has that requires Leopard, but it most likely is something that the Tiger libraries do not have. Saying that Tiger's obsolete based on the date of Leopard's release is really not how to view it. Leopard is taking the spot from Tiger (faster/slower.. depends) and as Leopard becomes the dominant OS, Tiger loses "cutting edge" support. Tell the Windows 2000 people about XP's draining of life from their perfectly good OS (and 2000/XP were more similar than Tiger/Leopard are....) Time marches on... My PPC Mac G5 is 6(?) years old. My G4 is 11. They both work fine and will for many years to come... albeit my G4 runs Panther... I think I'll switch it to PPC linux one day soon. But I don't consider developers supporting Leopard only as "ready to abandon" a user when the "next big OS" comes out. It's not like the current version you may be running suddenly dies on you when the developer releases for 10.7. It's all about perspective.
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| Aug 26 2009 |
SESQUIPEDALIAN PENGUIRL "... OS of choice ..." Exactly. You've made your choice. You choose not to use the minimum level OS that is required for this software. That's fine, and godspeed to you. But choices have consequences. The consequence of your choice is that you can't run fruux. Those of use who choose to run 10.5 or higher can consequently run fruux. That's just how the world works. There's really nothing else to discuss.
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| Nov 24 2009 |
A_PROMPT Quite a realistic point of view. I suggest you tried SyncMate for synchronzation. It's free and possesses a number of useful features, supports Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard. This freeware may appear helpful.
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| Aug 17 2009 |
MACLOVER1.1 PENGUIRL... I have a Mac Classic with a tiny screen and I cannot seem to make bloatware Photoshop CS4 work on it ?!!! Damn they should support all computers and systems, forever and ever and ever.. actually they should even allow us to blow paint on cavewalls as page layout. E'd call "Quark my Cave". Hello, move on people, move on... or do not deal with computers... I'm wondering if Fruxx can backup my morse code ?! PS: No I do not have a Mac Classic ! lol
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| Jul 25 2009 |
RARUFU great app! just as simple and plain as they promise! quickly responding and continually developing!
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 | Jul 14 2009 |
âDAN Simple interface. Necessary Service. No bugs so far just uncomplicated reliable service. It doesn't get any better than that.
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| Apr 24 2009 |
PENGUIRL I would love to try fruux but cannot because it's Leopard only. Leopard is fine for some people, but for me it is bloatware that reduces the efficiency of my PPC Macs. Only supporting one OS version is not good IMO, are all the Leopard users going to be left behind when Snow Leopard comes out?
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| Jul 2 2009 |
SESQUIPEDALIAN Many of the forms of data fruux syncs is implemented completely differently in Leopard than it was in Tiger. The fruux team would have to write what would amount to an entirely new application in order to work with Tiger. So in effect what you are saying to the developers is "Hey, you guys should reduplicate all the many man-hours of work you've done so that you can cater to my refusal to meet the system requirements of your software. Clearly your time and energy are so worthless compared to mine that I think you should do thisfor freeso that I don't need to spend any money on anything."
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| Jul 2 2009 |
PENGUIRL No that is not what I'm saying, that is what you choose to see. What I'm saying is that if a developer chooses to support only one version of an OS, then it's very possible that someone could come to rely on your product only to get left behind when the next OS upgrade comes out 18 months later. It has nothing to do with refusing to meet the system requirements of your software. I freely choose not to run Leopard because it is bloated, inefficient compared to Tiger, and I am in the exact reverse scenario I just described with CS 2 Premium. If I could go straight to Snow Leopard I would but CS 2 Premium runs poorly in Rosetta, if it would run on 10.6 at all. If you choose not to support Tiger, that's your free choice. However it makes me leery of ever using any of your products, free or not. If you have an issue with that, so be it. I really don't care.
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| Jul 15 2009 |
SESQUIPEDALIAN It's not my software. I have nothing to do with it. Heck, I've never even used it. Under no circumstances should my comments be in any way attributed to the developers of fruux. Now, in full recognition that I am just some random person whose views are semi-educated but authoritative for nothing: I doubt fruux will face major problems regarding forward compatibility any time soon. 10.6 continues with the same system used in 10.5. If 10.7 introduces any changes, the fruux team will have access to developer betas of it long before end users, and will therefore have time to implement compatible changes as necessary. The only way to kill fruux going forward would be if Apple removed the Sync Services API, thereby cutting off all third party access to syncing. The chances of that are close to zero. If changes to, say, the iCal format are introduced in 10.7 or later, fruux may have to be updated to deal with the new formatting. That would not be trivial, but it would be doable. And there would be motivation to do it, because the new format would be adopted by many. Going back to support obsolete formats, on the other hand, is not very worthwhile, since they have a dwindling user base. Your own comment, for example, would seem to indicate that you are likely to upgrade once 10.6 comes out, or if not, 10.7.
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| Aug 17 2009 |
VEGGIEDUDE "if a developer chooses to support only one version of an OS, then it's very possible that someone could come to rely on your product only to get left behind when the next OS upgrade comes out 18 months later" This software was developed when Leopard was the current OS. There is no indication to think they will leave behind Leopard users 18 months from now.
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| Mar 27 2009 |
JOELLEVIN Needs an iPhone app! :)
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| Mar 24 2009 |
BABYFETT This program looks very interesting, but how do we know that other, more sensitive, information isn't being broadcast to the cloud?
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 | Mar 26 2009 |
ANONYMOUS http://fruux.com/privacy Get in touch if you have further questions: http://fruux.com/contact/
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| Apr 24 2009 |
PENGUIRL Use Little Snitch, which is a good idea in any case.
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| Feb 24 2009 |
MURRYFAX Not only is fruux a very nice little applications which works seamlessly - until it doesn't. But then this company has something else to offer which is very rare, support which is rapid and to the point
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| Feb 23 2009 |
MACLOVER1.1 I'd love for this to work.. but when I try synching my computers I get this error message "Cannot deserialize response dicitonary: Conversion". Whatever that means, I tried reinstalling a few times, I can usually get one synch done then the subsequent ones give me the error. SO I am giving up on Fruux, too bad it seemed to be what I was looking for... As for all the other backup stuff (Sugarsync, Oakspider, Mozy etc....) are way more than I need so I guess I'll get it all done thru various little gizmos that let me use Google as a centralized base... though I find all this a little cumbersome... beyond that no matter what one says.. MobileMe, which is too expensive for me at this point, is the only one that truly does things right and simple.
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| Jan 20 2009 |
GREGR Great stuff. Address Book group syncing lets me get starting on testing this program. It looks exactly like what I need. Simple. I want to keep the AB and iCal on my two laptops in sync. Bookmark syncing isn't super necessary but I'll enjoy the bonus.
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| Jan 20 2009 |
ZEUS1 Does not work behind an http proxy server. I contacted support, received an answer within minutes...They promised to look into it and try to remedy this omission.
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| Jan 20 2009 |
M.T. ...and SELECTIVE Syncing????????? (see Roadmap fruux)
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| Jan 20 2009 |
SHANE C SMITH Yes what about Selective syncing? I would love to use this if this was available.
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| Mar 21 2009 |
ANONYMOUS Coming soon: http://blog.fruux.com/2009/03/19/selective-syncing-sneak-preview/
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| Nov 21 2008 |
ERUNNO Great app, also also for people who want to backup their bookmarks and calendars online and don't use Time Machine or just need to sync data between several Macs. After reinstalling my OS X it restored my bookmarks and calendar entries without a hitch. There are still some interface issues which I hope will be resolved in the upcoming versions. An auto updater is still missing so you have to manually check out Macupdate occasionally. I also haven't been able to find a way to change the password after the account has been created. Anyway, thanks to the developers for offering this service for free!
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| Oct 18 2008 |
JOSHP Their claim is NOT that it's a MobileMe alternative. Here is the claim from their site itself: "Just Sync, No-frills!"
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| Oct 18 2008 |
JOSHP Sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to TimTim. P.S. This program works as advertised and I am happy with it.
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| Oct 16 2008 |
ALJUK Leopard only? :o(
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| Oct 10 2008 |
Where did they claim that they offer a MobileMe replacement? They offer a replacement for the syncing stuff, their app is still in beta and even though it works already very stable. fruux is simply the most promising initiative related to syncing I have seen in a while. They get 5 stars from me, even they currently lack docs and the app has still some minor issues. It's free (at least at the moment) they reply in seconds to my mails and their app is still in beta. I am really looking forward for the future of this project. The only issue (for me) is, that it's currently not possible to select which data is synced, but they told me that this feature will be added soon. For a 0.8 version fruux is really great.
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| Oct 7 2008 |
LUMINOUS They say it is a MobileMe alternative, it's definitively NOT. - No Interface for syncs (Not online and not in the PrefPane). - Are you sure about WHAT you really "sync" if you click that button? No! - Anything for iPhone? No! - System integration? No! - Acceptable sharing? No! - 20GB storage they say, for iCal, Bookmarks and Address Book? Ha, ha, not funny! You would need 1 Billion Bookmarks/iCal- or Address Book-entries for
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| Oct 7 2008 |
ALGOS The people who develop Fruux don't mention anywhere this is an MobileMe alternative. So where did you get this info? For me it has worked great, since I don't need the storage or an email address of MobileMe. If you need only the syncing of the things that Fruux does, it's absolutely awesome. It has worked fine for me and I am very happy with it. Plus, it's developed totally free for us to use, so I find your rant here VERY rude. You should be thankful for free stuff, and if it doesn't fit your needs don't use it. If it doesn't work for you, that doesn't mean it won't work for others.
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| Mar 16 2009 |
I'd love for this to work.. but when I try synching my computers I get this error message "Cannot deserialize response dicitonary: Conversion". Multimedia Converter for Mac Whatever that means, I tried reinstalling a few times, I can usually get one synch done then the subsequent ones give me the error. SO I am giving up on Fruux, too bad it seemed to be what I was looking for... DVD Movie Ripper for Mac As for all the other backup stuff (Sugarsync, Oakspider, Mozy etc....) are way more than I need so I guess I'll get it all done thru various little gizmos that let me use Google as a centralized base... though I find all this a little cumbersome... Video Format Converter for Mac beyond that no matter what one says.. MobileMe, which is too expensive for me at this point, is the only one that truly does things right and simple.
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| Sep 20 2008 |
MACLOVER1.1 I wish someone would develop something like this as a hybrid ftp/synch software that would synch chosen my own chosen preferences, mails, calendars and so on but using my own domain/ftp.
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| Oct 7 2008 |
CROW Indeed - I would love to be able to sync to my own server...
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| Sep 13 2008 |
JOELES mobileme is nice, but damn expensive if you just use sync.
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| Sep 23 2008 |
BILLY THE BIKER I have MM and it just doesn't work right. I am going to be using a third party sync pretty soon also. The price is right on this one.
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| Sep 12 2008 |
JOELES Installation and setup was very easy, but there is zero documentation (thats the reason for just 4 stars). I guess the lack of documentation is okay, because the app is still in beta and their support is very responsive (they replied literally within seconds to my email). Installation and setup is like this: - unzip (doubleclick the zip file) - doubleclick the unzipped prefpane - select "install only for current user" (got this hint from their support) - the app/prefpane starts - enter your emailadress, a password and a password confirmation - after a few seconds you get an email with your activation link - click it - activate "always synchronize" in the prefpane - click "synchronize now" in the prefpane of course the app isn't very helpful if you don't install it on another computer. so do the same on another computer (i tried it on my imac and my macbook). of course you shouldn't create a second account, but use the one you created on the first computer. their support told me, that installation is easier if you decide which computer has your "master" addressbook and install on this system first, sync with the server, than delete the addressbook on the "slave" computer and install fruux there, too.
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| Sep 12 2008 |
TIM27 this sounds way more complicated than just copying the address book data file from one computer to another. i guess it would be helpful if you were doing this to more than one other computer, but still...
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| Sep 13 2008 |
JOELES Well, I suppose it's just because the beta does no "data-mingling" yet. So when initially setup, "John Doe" on mac1 might be not the same than "John Doe" on mac2 and thus you could end up with duplicates. When you managed this initial steps, it works like charm. I added a third mac to my sync set yesterday and whenever I add a contact, change a contact etc. it is synced to the other macs. Thats pretty nice.
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