
SpamCop Tool | Jun 22 2009 |
BLUESTAR It doesn't accept a paste from Safari or Mail when I want to copy the spam reporting email address from Spamcop's website. Does the developer really expect people to type this in? Doesn't allow me to select the Junk mail folder when in preferences AT ALL. NO explanation on how to do this except click on the help button below which does nothing when I click on it. This is cr...p software and clearly needs work! (Version 2.02) | |
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SpamCop Tool | Jun 22 2009 |
KLAUS BERKLING The normal Edit menu doesn't work, nor the command short cuts is a bit odd. However, you can right-click or control click in the field and past in the email address that way. I'm not sure I understand your other comment. Do you not have a list of accounts next to the folder listing? Or is the pop-up button disabled/grayed-out? (Version 2.02) | |

Microsoft Office 2004 | Jun 9 2009 |
BLUESTAR Downloaded stand-alone updater DMG. Updated everything fine and all seems well. Excel opened even faster than before (WOW!) 10.5.7 Leopard (Version 11.5.5) | |
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Apple Safari | Jun 8 2009 |
BLUESTAR Love the new Safari. Fast as hell and slick. Like the new tab bar arrangement better than the "tabs on top" BS and I also like the "loading" dark blue mini indicator instead of the light blue progress going across the entire URL field. so 80's looking, so 20th Century... :-) (Version 4.0) | |
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VLC Media Player | Jun 5 2009 |
BLUESTAR Seems to play vids OK but I'm unable to define a folder for snapshots in prefs, therefore doesn't take snapshots. Back to 0.9.9a... :-( (Version 1.0rc2) | |
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QuicKeys X | May 22 2009 |
BLUESTAR Quickeys makes my life easier. I've been using it for a lot of years. So far no problems converting my version 3 shortcuts into v.4 and the beta holds steady. (Version 4.0b4) | |
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FontExplorer X Pro | May 8 2009 |
BLUESTAR I switched from Suitcase. Got too annoyed. Great all around and seems much better than Suitcase. BUT! I don't get auto-activation.... It only works if I have the application open. Then you also have a background application running separately. What's the point of that if the auto-activation doesn't work? You also have a CS4 Photoshop plug-in AND a background app running YET when I open Photoshop file and it asks for a font it doesn't activate! So what's the point of it all? If this is the way it works just have the requirement to have the main application open for auto-activation to work OR fix the situation and have it REALLY work with the background app and the plug-in (just like it works in Suitcase.) Also, it still opens on its own occasionally when I simply open a file in Photoshop for no apparent reason, so this has NOT been 100% fixed. cheers (Version 2.0.1) | |
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CopyPaste Pro | Mar 22 2009 |
BLUESTAR "checks whether LaunchBar is running and recommends to change incompatible LaunchBar settings. " - there is a problem with this. An annoying warning comes up every time I restart the Mac from CopyPaste that says to change the prefernec setting in Launchbar. There are no preference settings for "ClipMerge" in Launchbar! (Version 2.0.4) | |
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CopyPaste Pro | Mar 22 2009 |
ROBOTANK I think that LaunchBar's multiple clipboard functionality is only available in the version 5 betas. In any case, it looks like version 2.0.5 will stop that warning from popping up if you're still using LaunchBar 4. (Version 2.0.5) | |

Firefox | Mar 14 2009 |
BLUESTAR Much faster - works with Netflix, Bank of America, Paypal.. other online banking sites. Facebook etc haven't come across a "broken site" yet. The only thing is the wait until the real deal comes out and some of the extensions that have been disabled will come back again. (Version 3.1b3) | |
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BBEdit | Jan 18 2009 |
BLUESTAR It has got to be the worst FTP implementation ever. Cryptic numbers, no folders, if I double click on a file it doesn't open, if I double click on a folder (which looks like a file but I know it's a folder) it doesn't open. What gives guys - this is god awful stuff! (Version 9.1) | |
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Microsoft Office 2008 | Dec 10 2008 |
BLUESTAR Autoupdate looks on a diff server and clearly MSOFT people are fast asleep - it will prob take a couple of days (Version 12.1.5) | |
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RealPlayer | Oct 30 2008 |
BLUESTAR Isn't Realplayer kinda becoming irrelevant? With Flash and iTunes I don't think I ever open it... (Version 11.0.1 build 949) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | Sep 12 2008 |
BLUESTAR That's ridiculous. I'm still using version 4 because of that. If a version 8 or 9 updates back can do it why can't the latest version? Welcome to developer BS. (Version 5.1 beta 2) | |
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Leopard Cache Cleaner | Aug 22 2008 |
ALBABE I wouldn't worry... I've had occasional problems with LCC... but it's always been a good app for me. (Version 4.0.15) | |

Leopard Cache Cleaner | Aug 23 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Been around for years now, this app is the original, the very first of its kind for OS X. The author is, as far as the coding of the app and the updating of it, beyond reproach. (Version 4.0.15) | |

Microsoft Office 2008 | Aug 15 2008 |
BLUESTAR I hate Microsoth as much as anybody else. But this update actually installed for me and all apps are running fine and no crashes so far. I trashed my old app folder from "Applications". There was a brief tutorial on this on MacFixit. Now it's in the archives for paid subscribers only. FU Macfixit. Reinstalled Office 2008 from original installer (this was the Home & Student Edition). Didn't start any of the applications yet! Downloaded all updater "dmg" files, standalone installers. Applied them one-by-one and all's well. (Version 12.1.2) | |
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DVD2oneX | Aug 4 2008 |
BLUESTAR "World's fastest video compression engine..." with the world's ugliest and most un-user-friendly interface :-) (Version 2.2.2) | |
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DVD2oneX | Aug 24 2008 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y It has the most basic interface I've ever seen. How is it not user-friendly? It's ugly yes, but it's easy as pie to use. (Version 2.2.2) | |

OmniGraffle Pro | Jul 29 2008 |
BLUESTAR This is generally a nice app. BUT! A small thing really annoys the hell out of me and the developers are not listening. I still don't see a fix in the list of issues fixed that corrects the survival of a window's size setting after a quit and re-launch. i.e., if one sets the window's size to be larger that the document (which I prefer for working with docs) upon relaunch and re-open the window boundaries revert to a default, which is the document's boundaries. This is still working in 4.1.2 and NOT after that. (Version 5.0.1) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | Aug 19 2008 |
NILS3000 I have the same problem here and support told me, that is caused by a two monitors setup. Not only for that reason I am quite disappointed and I am definitively not going to upgrade to 5 (pro). (Version 5.0.2 rc 1) | |

OmniGraffle Pro | Nov 14 2008 |
GUNTIS I just tried to save my OmniGraffle Pro (OGP) 5.1rc1 (v.137.6.0.106738) document with window resized bigger than the actual document, about 1 inch to each side, then I quit OGP application, re-opened saved document and it opened with the same window size as it was saved in the previous session. No problems. My system: MacBook Pro 17" 2.33GHz, Mac OS X 10.5.5. (Version 5.1rc1) | |

MultiFirefox | Jul 15 2008 |
BLUESTAR On first launch stuck at initial warning dialog that I need to create a 2nd profile for Firefox 3. Hitting the OK button 10,000 times does nothing and can't go any further - have to Force Quit. So, in summary it's pretty useless. (Version 2.0) | |
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FontAgent Pro | Jul 8 2008 |
BLUESTAR Actually font-auto activation often crashes Photoshop CS3 even with the latest 4.0.2 version.. just a comment on the last person's review (Version 4.0.2) | |
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Adobe Acrobat | Jul 5 2008 |
BLUESTAR Ladies and Gents. We have finally broken new records now with ONE silly application taking up 1 GB of space on your drive! Note that Adobe owns several hard drive manufacturers and they're filling up your drive with junk just so you go out and buy bigger drives with more storage! (Version 9) | |
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Microsoft Office 2008 | Jun 28 2008 |
BLUESTAR I would advise everyone to back up with Time Machine before the update, or just the "Microsoft Office 2008" folder in your Applications folder. After I got highly unstable applications from an update that professes to "improve stability" I restored my entire Office folder with my old apps in it and everything works fine again. Thanks to you Microsloth! (Version 12.1.1) | |
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Microsoft Office 2008 | Aug 12 2008 |
your previous comment about 'funky graphics' got me thinking...have you updated the version of Quicktime on that machine? If not, Office might not display its internal graphics properly. I know this happened to me with 10.4.11...once I updated to QT 7.5, everything was fine. qmedpaul (Version 12.1.2) | |

Microsoft Office 2008 | Jun 27 2008 |
BLUESTAR This update was supposed to be making applications more stable. I have Myday not even launch but crash upon launching. Word crashes every time I simply quit the app. Office Rminders come up with funky graphics. Microsloth is unbelievable! Just shows you what a nasty monopoly can do to software products. Leave Office alone and go for something else and generally avoid ANY Microsoft product in the future. Do not buy anything from them. They should NOT be charging us for this cr.p that simply DOES NOT WORK and you can't get your act together Microsoft! They deserve what's coming to them. (Version 12.1.1) | |
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Microsoft Office 2008 | May 19 2008 |
BLUESTAR Let's face it folks, Microsoft is a WINDOWS universe god. They own the WINDOWS OS for god's sake! As usual MICROSLOTH is giving Mac users a major headache. They do NOT Give a hoot and in return I urge every mac user to STAY AWAY from Microsoft products for the Mac! I VERY carefully updated my Office 2008 with this after reading many reviews and troubleshooting stuff on boards. I was brave and wet ahead, BUT not before backing up with Time-machine and thank god for that! Why? Because of course this update has made my previously perfectly fine Word unusable - it crashed every time I opened a doc. In Microsloth's own words: this update is for "stability improvements" - ha, now that's a good laugh! I reverted back to my previous version from mt Time Machine backup. (Version 12.1) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | May 10 2008 |
BLUESTAR I still don't see a fix in the list of issues fixed that corrects the survival of a window's size setting after a quit and re-launch. i.e., if one sets the window's size to be larger that the document (which I prefer for working with docs) upon relaunch and re-open the window boundaries revert to a default, which is the document's boundaries. This is still working in 4.1.2 and NOT after that. Let me know if this has been fixed. Otherwise I'm not even going to bother testing this one... (Version 5.0.1 beta 1) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | May 11 2008 |
JONO I hear you! I have emailed them about this a couple of times. For a professional application, it is highly distressing to have to resize all of your open windows when you quite the app and start it again. Unacceptable. (Version 5.0.1 beta 1) | |

Apple BootCamp | Apr 26 2008 |
BLUESTAR First of all: all of these people seeing nothing happening for a while when launching the update: Be patient - it will install, it needs to unpack the installation bits which take some time. Just hold on and do not cancel the process. I worked for me... I have a Mac Pro Quad Core 2.7 Ghz Mac. I had Windows XP (SP2) running with the original Bootcamp 2.0 drivers that came with the Mac on the install disks just fine. I installed Bootcamp 2.1 from a stand-alone download under XP (SP2). When I restarted I was greeted by a horrible 640x480 4-bit color screen telling me my drivers are out of date and were made for a previous version of Windows (?!?!) (the default VGA driver was loaded) I am unable to get my display set up properly all settings are greyed out. I have a dual monitor setup with an ATI x1900 PCIe card and a ATI Radeon HD 2600 PCIe card. Neither of them work now. I had to restore my system via System Restore to a state 2 weeks earlier to get my Windows XP back. (Version 2.1) | |
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Apple BootCamp | Apr 26 2008 |
JETFIREDX I think leaving the system for a half an hour is plenty of time to unpack. Also, how can it be unpacking when there is no process for it running (System Idle Process hanging out around 99%)? I also figured it could be trying to unpack something so I made sure I have a couple gigs of space open to unpack to just incase it wasn't handling an error for running out of space well. (Version 2.1) | |

Microsoft Office 2008 | Mar 12 2008 |
BLUESTAR Seems pretty stable with all applications so far. They even fixed a sound notification issue with Entourage. (Version 12.0.1) | |
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Microsoft Office 2008 | Mar 12 2008 |
BLUESTAR 1st off: why isn't this update in the automatic update built into Office 2008? I just checked for updates this morning. 2nd. There is an annoying thing (amongst many) in Word and Excel: Application Preferences are not available unless I have a document open? - ridiculous. I would like an option to NOT have a blank document open every time I start up Word or Excel. Why isn't this in the preferences? Very annoying. Another annoying thing, connected to the comment above about a blank document opening when I start up Excel: if I switch to another app while I wait for the looooong startup of Excel it will pop the window of it's blank document in front of whatever I'm using (another application) - two VERY annoying things. Computers and software were supposed to do what I ask them to do not have a mind of their own and force the user to accept whatever it is programmed to do. (Version 12.0.1) | |
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Adobe Illustrator CS4 | Feb 27 2008 |
BLUESTAR Because Adobe is in bed with storage device makers ! They make applications now close to 1GB big, I mean that's insane! Just so you eat up hard drive space and soon you will run out of space and go out and buy a bigger hard drive to store useless application data such as 12 other language packs that come with the app that you will NEVER use. (Version 13.0.3) | |
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DiskTracker X | Feb 1 2008 |
BLUESTAR I've been using this great little app for a number of years now and find it indispensable for cataloging my backup disks. Used to be CDs and now DVDs. Also catalog my off-line hard drives with it that I use for backup such as Firewire drives. Very stable program as well. Highly recommended. -- Note to PHALARON (another reviewer below) It takes a only few second to launch this app to scan disks. You let me know if you come across a computer that I don't have to start up to do my computing please. (Version 2.4b7) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | Jan 26 2008 |
BLUESTAR What does it take?... This latest beta version still doesn't remember window position on re-opening documents. Try it: open doc, resize window to a larger window than doc boundaries, save, quit. Open again, the doc window will default back to just the doc boundaries. Bummer! Version 4.1.2 does. Come on you dev guys why is this so hard to fix?! (Version 5.0 beta 6) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | Jan 13 2008 |
BLUESTAR Again! This beta version still doesn't remember window position on re-opening documents. Try it: open doc, resize window to a larger window than doc boundaries, save, quit. Open again, the doc window will default back to just the doc boundaries. Bummer! Version 4.1.2 does. Come on you dev guys! (Version 5.0 beta 5) | |
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TopCalculette Pro | Jan 2 2008 |
BLUESTAR Numbers don't appear on the tape as I type and perform calculations. Seems to work in Tiger (10.4.11) but NOT on Leopard (10.5.1). I'm running a Mac Pro Quad Core 3 Ghz with 7 GB of RAM and Leopard (10.5.1) Also, the developer support form on the website doesn't work when submitting a support email with Firefox (so what do we expect from this developer then as far as a software?...): The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, jbjovelet@wanadoo.fr and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) Server at www.rubensoft.com Port 80 (Version 7.0) | |
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TechTool Pro | Dec 27 2007 |
BLUESTAR The Protection Setup doesn't work for me on Leopard 10.5.1 -- Nothing happens when I try to copy the directory from one hard drive to another for "Protection" -- I'm amazed at a small utility DVD taking up 1.9 GB of a DVD. What for? What on earth is on this disc? I'm sick and tired of all these developers robbing me of storage space. Why does a simple application take up 100-200 MB of space? That's ridiculous! On a side-note: Why can't a simple thing be done in this day and age where if I'm on an English-USA Mac, the application installed on this Mac should only contain "English.lproj" files within the package of the application and not 12 other foreign language versions which bloat it up to 200 MB? I think it's application developers laziness and we who already shell out money for the software pay additionally for it in eaten up drive space, bc we have to get bigger and bigger drives to hold their bloated applications! (Version 4.6.1) | |
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TechTool Pro | Dec 30 2007 |
BUMBLEB I agree. And maybe Micromats slow webservers would rejoice after a thorough cleanup of TechTool;-) (Version 4.6.1) | |

OmniGraffle Pro | Aug 16 2007 |
BLUESTAR Still doesn't remember window position on re-opening documents. Bummer! Version 4.1.2 does. Come on you dev guys! (Version 4.2.1 beta 2) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | Aug 16 2007 |
BLUESTAR Still doesn't remember window position on re-opening documents. Bummer! Version 4.1.2 does. Come on you dev guys! (Version 4.2.1 beta 2) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | Jul 21 2007 |
BLUESTAR This is truly a great app for a lot of things. But the new version (4.2) doesn't remember window positions for me as the regular 4.1.2 version does. Open document, set window position, save, close document, quit app. Upon reopen the doc window is slimmed down to the document boundaries, i.e. this new version does NOT remember teh window pos. Anybody else encounter this issue? Version 4.1.2 correctly remembers the window position set upon re-open. (Version 4.2) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | Aug 16 2007 |
BLUESTAR Still doesn't remember window position on re-opening documents. Bummer! Version 4.1.2 does. Come on you dev guys! (Version 4.2.1 beta 2) | |

Microsoft Office 2004 | Jul 16 2007 |
BLUESTAR Installed without a hickup. All apps work fine. I don't know what these other guys are doing who complain about having all these problems... (Version 11.3.6) | |
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Apple Safari | Jun 18 2007 |
BLUESTAR Running smooth and fast with heavy pages that struggle on other browsers, and no crashes - BUT only once I removed Speed Download and some other "menu manager" from the Input Managers folders (under ~Library/ and ~User/Library/.) Do a search on Input Managers and remove any suspect stuff and restart - then try Safari again. (Version 3.0b) | |
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OmniGraffle Pro | May 26 2007 |
BLUESTAR Great product, but the Beta doesn't remember window positions for me as the regular 4.1.2 version does. I talked to the support guys about this but I guess they haven't fixed it in this release. Also when I opened some files it gave me a bunch of "font errors" - but, I'm using FontAgent Pro and autoactivation - this, again works well in the regular 4.1.2 (non-beta) version of OmniGraffle Pro. (Version 4.2 beta 5) | |
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Microsoft Office 2004 | May 20 2007 |
BLUESTAR Copying any text in WORD locks up computer for several seconds, the larger the text volume the longer the wait. Computer locks up with fans starting up loud to cool processor (G5 - MAC OSX 10.4.8) WHY? Incredibly annoying when trying to work on several pieces of text. (Version 11.3.5) | |
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Toast Titanium | Mar 17 2007 |
BLUESTAR There is still no option to NOT EJECT disk after erasing a re-writable disc. It has to be ejected after every erase and then put back in if you want to write to it. Idiotic. There is no way to "open" a disc image with a simple standard "open" command from the menu either in "Data" mode or "Copy" mode. Only in "Copy" mode can one select a disc image from the "select" button. Idiotic. Roxio people, invest some time in usability studies. (Version 8.0.1) | |
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MacTheRipper | Mar 17 2007 |
BLUESTAR Same troubel here with "Running with Scissors" I think the studios have wised up to this and introduced a deliberate bug to prevent people from ripping their DVDs. (Version 2.6.6) | |
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DVD2oneX | Dec 14 2006 |
BLUESTAR Great app with what must be the worst user interface design in history. (Version 2.1.1) | |
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Quicken 2007 | Dec 9 2006 |
BLUESTAR All these years Intuit has neglected the Mac market in a gigantic way and yet they expect us to shell out bucks for this miserable program. Minor, "window dressing" updates don't do anything. Even if it was given away as "shareware" I doubt anybody would use it... There are too numerous major annoyances that go on with this program to list here. Calculations are wrong, the impossibility of certain financial operations, the fact that you can't change the font face or size in registers, or general appearance of windows, columns, etc. Overall a big zero to Intuit for delivering a miserable app to us Mac users. (Version R5) | |
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Stuffit Deluxe | Mar 9 2006 |
BLUESTAR I totally hate Stuffit Expander not remembering window positions. It insist on expanding stuff smack in the center of my monitor - meaning the progress window. I move it, but it comes back to my main display into the center. If I'm downloading something in the background and working on something / reading a webpage... it will pop-up right in the center of my screen annoying the hell out of me. Come on!!! In previous versions it remembered the window position. Allume is LAME! (Version 10.0.2) | |
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Stuffit Deluxe | May 4 2006 |
STUFFIT I am unable to duplicate this behavior. If I move Expander's progress window. When I expand another file, the progress window appears in the new location. If I quit and relaunch Expander and try again, it still appears in the newly designated location. Perhaps your Expander preferences file, located here: /Users//Library/Preferences/com.stuffit.Expander.plist ..is damaged. Delete it and then try to duplicate the issue again. --Eric K (Version 10.0.2) | |

Apple Mac OS X | Feb 15 2006 |
BLUESTAR No idea what you're talking about... I have not experienced these problems. As far as file typing issues in the Findar you can always fix any issues with the "Get Info" command and assign any app to your liking to open a particular file with a certain extension ALWAYS with that app. (Version 10.4.5) | |
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Apple Mac OS X | Feb 14 2006 |
BLUESTAR So far no glitches, all's smooth. See no diff in Dashboard. Some apps will need to be updated that mess with the OS appearance such as TransparentDock (Version 10.4.5) | |
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