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Type: Review
Date: 24 Sep 2007 18:18
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:4 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Runs fine on Intel Macs, currently running 10.4.10.

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Type: Review
Date: 20 Feb 2007 23:06
Features:4 Stars
Playability:5 Stars
Graphics & Sound:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

From the Aspyr page:

Requirements

• Video Card (ATI): Radeon 9600

• Video Card (NVidia): GeForce 6600

NOTICE: Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported.

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Just wanted to let anyone with a MacBook know that the full game runs fine with the settings turned down a bit.

Intel integrated graphics chipsets are not locked out in any way. The game does not refuse to run, even with the integrated graphics.

It's got an interesting storyline, and some great ideas and effects. There's no reason not to at least try the demo.

I'm hoping multiplayer is just as fun.

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Type: Review
Date: 13 Feb 2007 00:34
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Sweet, works fine on my Intel MacBook.

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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Feb 2007 22:55

Butler: 10MB Real Memory

401MB Virtual

QuickSilver:

17MB Real

397MB Virtual

Lots of custom Butler stuff, a few QS plugins

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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Jan 2007 14:47

Yes, and as I posted, it does nothing else unique except for the feature that costs money.

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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Jan 2007 14:40

It's possible the menu item is just disappearing due to lack of screen space in Firefox.

Butler seems to support Firefox 1.5, haven't tested 2 yet.

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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Jan 2007 14:38

I run both Butler and Quicksilver. They play well together.

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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Jan 2007 14:38

18MB of RAM in use here by Butler on my first-gen MacBook.

Nothing to suggest, just wanted to let you know it isn't an Intel-specific thing.

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Type: Comments
Date: 3 Jul 2006 16:06

Who would be stupid enough to pay for a Kazaa-type P2P program?

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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Jun 2006 03:29

So does it keep resource forks intact?

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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Jun 2006 14:30

Just so people aren't fooled by this being listed under Freeware. It's not free to use the Shrook.com syncing feature, which costs a monthly subscription fee.

Still doesn't read an OPML file with group folders properly, and the dev hasn't responded to an email from three weeks ago.

I wouldn't bother with it since the only feature that set it apart (able to sync feeds with shrook server) now costs a subscription fee.

Back to Vienna for me.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 May 2006 20:11

Developer must be hosted on Dreamhost. The site is down.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 May 2006 19:44

The update brought a dialog that asks if you want to Trash the item completely, like itunes' option-delete.

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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Mar 2006 22:14

In case anyone else has the same problem, remove 'InterView.component' from your Library->QuickTime folder. This may fix the issue.

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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Mar 2006 22:11

Release an uninstall program please, or provide instructions on your web site on how to remove the software.

Thanks for nothing!

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Type: Review
Date: 19 Mar 2006 22:10
Features:1 Star
Ease of Use:1 Star
Value:1 Star
Stability:1 Star

Borked my QuickTime install. Every time I start up iChat, Yahoo Messenger, or anything else (iMovie) that uses a video source, there is a popup complaining that the 'Interview software was not installed correctly'

Switched to a different user, same problem.

Try to uninstall, but there's no uninstall option.

Means a reinstall of my system is in order.

Thanks a lot, EchoFX.

Again, THIS SOFTWARE WILL BREAK YOUR QUICKTIME CAPTURE AND THERE IS NO KNOWN WAY TO REMOVE IT.

Not only that, but you need a serial number to run this program, which you can get from their web site. Pure crap.

No support help on their site either, just an email address.

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Type: Comments
Date: 14 Mar 2006 19:57

I have them installed and they both work fine together.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Feb 2006 08:52

If you set the finder option to 'show invisible and system files', work with some files, then turn it off again, it seems to make whole folders full of files disappear.

3 folders, each with between 8-30 jpg files in them. They all showed up as folders with 'No Items' in the Finder with hidden files turned off, but when I re-enabled hidden files with TinkerTool, they showed the files I knew were there.

These files were not modified in any way, other than being moved between partitions.

This has me very worried now, as I have to leave hidden files enabled or else possibly trash files that I didn't know were there.

How would they get the 'hidden' property on their own?

The filenames didn't have a dot in front or anything, and I have not run setfile on any of them.

Help!

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Type: Review
Date: 20 Feb 2006 05:04
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:4 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:4 Stars

Forget about FileMatic, it costs money.

The point of this is to be free.

Hopefully the author releases the source soon. It's been 3 years since he said, "Soon.."

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Type: Comments
Date: 16 Feb 2006 23:53

Why does it phone home, attempting to connect to perfora.net when run?

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Feb 2006 03:06

Was fun for a while, but requires too much team organization to get anywhere. You can't advance by yourself. As well, too little development goes on to warrant the monthly fee.

Thank God for Animal Crossing.

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Jan 2006 22:18

Combined with way over-the-top memory and CPU usage, frequent crashes and the inability to completely replace the Finder in some application's usage renders it useless for me.

The fact that it installs another product (one that modifies every Cocoa app I run on my system via an InputManager hack) is just rude. It doesn't matter what the payload is, it's the action behind it.

Not to mention the CPU/memory bloat

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Type: Review
Date: 23 Jan 2006 14:59
Features:1 Star
Ease of Use:1 Star
Value:1 Star
Stability:1 Star

Silently installs 3rd-party software.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2006/january#mon-16-path_finder_4

Read the linked article if you don't know about it. You might learn something.

Don't let companies install software without you agreeing to it!

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jan 2006 19:45

"aMSN". look for it on this site.

The beta, available at the developer's forums, supports webcam.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jan 2006 19:45

The best MSN program for the Mac is "aMSN". look for it on this site.

The beta, available at the developer's forums, supports webcam, works with my IceCam fine, and supports a lot more of the features that we would see if MS actually decided to make a decent Mac MSN client.

They don't, so aMSN it is.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jan 2006 19:38

it's so frustrating seeing people still suffer with this app.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jan 2006 19:34

Too bad it installs software without letting you know.

See here for details:

http://www.friday.com/bbum/2006/01/20/sandvox-hidden-feature/

A real shame, I was hoping they would kick iBlog and iWeb's butts, since iBlog sucks so much and iWeb doesn't do all it claims without a .mac account.

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Jan 2006 22:17

I see they never updated the Jaguar version, effectively screwing anyone that bought and paid for this app and stayed with Jaguar.

Too many problems with files the Finder just accepts (pdfs mainly) and crashes a lot.

Looking very forward to FileRun. Found their site from TUAW:

http://www.filerun.info/

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Type: Review
Date: 17 Jan 2006 22:42
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Using this to convert text files for reading on my first Palm, a Z22.

Works beautifully, I usually leave it open in the background with an alias in DragThing and FinderPop for quick conversions. My machine's a dual 450 G4 running 10.4.4.

I've converted RTFs and text files with no issues, haven't had a need to try HTML as of yet.

Would like it to convert PDFs and recover and convert the text from Safari .webarchive files.

Freeware rocks. Thanks for sharing.

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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Jan 2006 04:14

it's okay, I'm the same way about Macromedia Director. No affiliation, just mad about the app.

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Type: Review
Date: 11 Dec 2005 08:09
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

works great on a Dual 450 G4 w/2GB RAM, though a bit chunky. Tons of potential.

I really need a romeo plugin for this app.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Dec 2005 19:18

if you need help with Wordpress, go to wordpress.org and search.

if you want a desktop app you can blog with, use ecto. It's a ton better than iBlog and will let you blog to almost any blog service out there.

Good luck converting your posts, though. iBlog makes a mess of things.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Dec 2005 19:17
Features:2 Stars
Ease of Use:3 Stars
Value:1 Star
Stability:4 Stars

Stupidly, I paid for this app about a year ago, found that it doesn't handle most of the things that Wordpress (free web-based alternative) does (built-in RSS, Atom, podcasting feeds, feeds for separate topics, ability to post to blog from the web or an application, etc.)

Now I go to the site and find this:

"All 1.x updates are free to registered users and users of the dot mac version of iBlog."

So I assume this means that version 2 will cost current users to upgrade. What a joke. This guy had such a big chance from Apple, getting distributed on iDisk and publicity on .mac, but he never took advantage of it, instead choosing to let the program rot while other free alternatives pass it by.

What a load of crap, there's no way I'll be paying for another version of this dog of a program. Version 2 should be a free upgrade, just to somewhat make up for all the crap that iBlog users have had to deal with up till now.

As far as managing a blog, it fails miserably, with cryptic titles/file names for everything, making it impossible to take care of unless you do everything through the app's interface. Limited customizability, no built-in comments, I could go on, but I'd rather point you to wordpress.org or b2evolution.net and hope that other power users become aware of just how limited this app really is.

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