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Spirited Away
Nov 4 2009

FVDG  Dead link...  
(Version 0.7.2)

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Logitech Control Center
Sep 29 2009

FVDG  For some reason it screws up the way tabs are drawn in Safari, they all have the same grey color until you click on one, it is hard to see which tab it is you are viewing (I'm in 64 mode, kernel)  
(Version 3.1)

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Path Finder
Sep 28 2009

FVDG  Just ONE thing missing...

It now remembers a per window setting for icon setting etc... BUT it STILL can not remember a window position (size or second display etc).

If this feature is added it will be my new finder.  
(Version 5.5.2)

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Apple Safari
Jun 8 2009

FVDG  Funny, crashes everytime I try the Apple store!  
(Version 4.0)

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Apple iTunes
Jun 2 2009

FVDG  Takes up my free memory... if iTunes 8.2 is open I see the reserved memory go up and up and up.Quiting iTunes does not release this however  
(Version 8.2)

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Boinx FotoMagico
May 12 2009
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FVDG  3.01 solves the main crashes on my Mac, makes me happy! Now, support for the NVIDIA seems to be Apples's problem: waiting for 10.5.7

So, I change my opnion based on this update: it works fine now it seems!  
(Version 3.0.1)

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Boinx FotoMagico
May 6 2009

FVDG  As version 3 crashes the moment I add something to the timeline, I got an older version 2 to test: works perfectly on my Mac, any configuration.

So: for some reason version 3 broke something that was fine in version 2...(!)  
(Version 3.0)

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Boinx FotoMagico
May 6 2009
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FVDG  After many many crashes I can conclude this:

I jave a dual display setup on my Mac Pro 2009: one on a ATI 4870 card, one on the standrad NVIDIA GT 120 card:

On the main display with the ATI card Quicktime movies are not displayed in FotoMagico (You can add them to the timeline and they export OK but you can not preview them);

Dragging FotoMagico to the second display will result in a crash as soon as you add an item to the timeline.

In short: will NOT work on the new Mac Pro 2009 macs!  
(Version 3.0)

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Boinx FotoMagico
May 5 2009
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FVDG  Crashes, crashes and blank display!

Won'y work on the NEW Mac Pro 2009. I have two cards, one ATI Radeon 4870 wich has my main monitor, second display is on the second card, NVIDIA GFORCE GT 120 (standard).

Didplaying on my main monitor movies (advertized as the main new great feature!) won't display, it leaves a blank white screen, pictures show OK.

Dragging Fotomagico to my second display with the NVIDIA card shows the movies... but crashes everytime making a new file as soon as I add a Quictime movie!

Not ready for final release!!  
(Version 3.0)

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Path Finder
Mar 26 2009

FVDG  Still can't remember a per window setting... dealbreaker  
(Version 5.1)

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Path Finder
Mar 26 2009

MOOGAN  Do you mean the specific view options for a particular window? These are working fine on my Macs (10.5.6).  
(Version 5.1)

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SiteMap
Feb 19 2009
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FVDG  Very nice! Simple to use, adss a nice sitemap.  
(Version 1.72)

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Fontcase
Jan 26 2009
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FVDG  Oh, wait a minute!

I got a dialog warning that was from.. Apples own type utility!!

Then I took a closer look at my folders with fonts...

Fontcase does nothing else then copying the fonts you want to your users library!!

It is NO real font manager, it is an interface to Apples own build in Font cataloque.

Well, I feel mislead.

Money back I should say.

This is a LOT of money for a simple copy/replace programm!!!  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Fontcase
Jan 26 2009

AVETENEBRAE  What is your problem with the way Apple activate/deactivate fonts?

If it works for Fontbook, why wouldn't it work for another font manager?

If you think the ability to tag, rate, preview, print preview, copy characters entities, sharing your library over Bonjour and much more, doesn't worth more than just copying your fonts in ~/Library/Fonts by hand, don't use the software. Rating the software 1 star just by the way it handle font activation doesn't sound fair for me :-/  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Fontcase
Mar 26 2009

TIM27  The problem with Apple's Fontbook is that it doesn't let you keep fonts where you want to keep them. Apple seems to take this approach with iPhoto and other iapps as well.

Designers want to keep fonts organized and where they want them. Especially with thousands of them.

Apple's auto-activation aslo doesn't work in Adobe's apps. You have to quit out of the app and then open it again for the font to be active in that app.

That said, I have not used Fontcase because I am happy with FontExplorer X, so I cannot comment on it's performance. If it is using the same organization methods as Fontbook, then I would not even bother using it.  
(Version 1.1)

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Fontcase
Jan 26 2009

FVDG  Nah, NEVER use auto activation. In my opinion no professional should. The firms I do training for with font servers also forbid auto activation. Activate sets, that's where sets are for. You need control over what is activated and deactivated.

One remark however: I found that (the same case in Suitcase Fusion 2 and the new commercial FontExplorer X), if you have sets that have fonts in it that are also in your user libary, and you deactivate that set, this user library fonts get deactivated also!

I want my fonts in (system/user) to be left alone...

Fontagent Pro is the only one that does this the correct way  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Fontcase
Jan 26 2009

KINGADROCK  I don't know where you're training but that's not the way it works in the real world. If a client comes in with a print job and it has 10 fonts in it, and it takes 2 minutes to find and activate each one, that's 20 minutes wasted. Using Collections sounds like a wonderful idea, but you can't have Collections set up for jobs created elsewhere.  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Fontcase
Jan 26 2009

COOKIE08  Sounds like you are not using suitcase properly. it will only only activate sets in certain folders when you tell it to. I have no fonts in the fonts folders of library or the user font library. I just let suitcase load the start up fonts I need at boot time another others are auto activated as needed or any new ones i manually activate through suitcase. this gives the minimum needed to run the computer. The system library fonts are never touched.  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Fontcase
Jan 27 2009

KINGADROCK  COOKIE08, Actually FVDG is right. FontAgent Pro is the only (of the major) Font Managers that handles system fonts the way it does. There is an option to not handle them at all which is the safest way to go since they are never accidentally overwritten, deactivated or removed.  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Fontcase
Jan 27 2009

COOKIE08  True all. Suitcase has the option not to touch any font folder you chose. It will leave the fonts in the place ie user/library/fonts if this is the way you prefer to work.

Cheers  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Fontcase
Jan 21 2009

FVDG  Simple, elegant. Love the preview options (text vs. waterfall).

I NEVER use auto-activation, so this programm is all I need. Works like a charm here on my Mac Pro.

Only wish: auto de-activate when quiting the programm!  
(Version 1.0)

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Parallels Desktop
Nov 11 2008

FVDG  Problems problems...

Got an error on my Windows XP convert... and that was it, won't start XP anymore

will NOT install Parallels tools under Vista either, how many times you choose the install tools command it does NOTHING

Nor ready for prime time this release. Stay away!!  
(Version 4.0.3522)

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Suitcase Fusion 2
Oct 24 2008

FVDG  Deactivates system fonts without warning! If you have a set that contains fonts that are also in your home library or in the system library, you do NO longer het a warning. And if you deactivate the set it deactivates your library and/or system fonts! BAD!  
(Version 2.0)

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Path Finder
Oct 23 2008

FVDG  Still can not remember a by window setting like the finder (position of different windows and list settings)!  
(Version 5.0)

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RapidWeaver
May 29 2008

FVDG  In version 3.6 you could mark all pages as changed or as UNchanged. The latter was very useful to upload only changed pages after working a while with RW. In Version 4 this option is gone! Why oh Why?!  
(Version 4.0)

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Microsoft Office 2008
May 13 2008

FVDG  I reinstalled version 12.0, the updated again. Now it works...  
(Version 12.1)

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Microsoft Office 2008
May 13 2008

FVDG  Everytime I start Word or Excel or whatever application after this 12.1 update, the configuration assistant starts! When I hit the complete button... nothig happens. Again and again.

So in effect I lost my complete office suite as it can get beyond the configuration assistant...  
(Version 12.1)

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Microsoft Office 2008
May 13 2008

TRONDAH  Same problem here, Word is now refusing to start. Great.  
(Version 12.1)

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Microsoft Office 2008
May 13 2008

TIROGER  Same problem... Had to revert back to 12.0.1 through time machine. Can this company do anything right anymore?  
(Version 12.1)

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Microsoft Office 2008
May 13 2008

FVDG  I reinstalled version 12.0, the updated again. Now it works...  
(Version 12.1)

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Microsoft Office 2008
May 13 2008

GENGHISCOHEN  Yup, I'm also stuck at the eternal Configuration ASSistant. Way to go, MicroSUCK!  
(Version 12.1)

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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Firmware Updater
Mar 10 2008

FVDG  Indeed: does not update the card if it is in an 'old' Mac Pro (quad 2.66 Ghz)!!!  
(Version )

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Winclone
Mar 4 2008

FVDG  Doe not work yet with the new MacBooks!

'API Applescript' error...?  
(Version 1.6.6)

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FontCard
Feb 26 2008

FVDG  Could not resist trying it: simply does not work on other languages except English...  
(Version 1.5.1b1)

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FontCard
Feb 26 2008

FVDG  Installs APE... again... trouble ahead!  
(Version 1.5.1b1)

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FontCard
Feb 27 2008

JTHEISS  um, when has it not?  
(Version 1.5.1b1)

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VirusBarrier X5
Jan 24 2008

FVDG  Crashes Adobe Bridge CS3...

For some reason Bridge CS3 hangs when trying to contact Stock photos. Turning aut-scan off and all is well again. I guess this has to do with the 'scripts' Bridge CS3 tries to load...  
(Version 10.5)

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CoverFlow
Jan 21 2008

FVDG  Needs a lot of work...

Many display bugs  
(Version 0.31)

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FontAgent Pro
Jan 14 2008

FVDG  Not ready for release yet. Many display bugs in the Fontagent panel itself when you use more then one library  
(Version 4.0)

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Camouflage
Dec 25 2007

FVDG  >this would be great if it left the hard drive icons alone..

Second that! (Deskshade also has the option to only hide a second display.)  
(Version 1.18)

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Camouflage
Dec 25 2007

KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM  it's not possible to leave the hard drives visible. but if you (double-)click on the desktop to open a finder window you'll have the icons on the source-panel anyway...

hiding only one desktop doesn't make much sense... Camouflage is made to hide the icons when they're too messy...i really don't see the point in hiding the icons on one monitor and not on the second.

Karsten  
(Version 1.18)

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Radioshift
Dec 15 2007

FVDG  Everytime when I start my Mac, the Mac OS X firewall dialog pops-up for Radio Shift heleper, no matter how many times I choose 'allow'. It did not so on versions before 10.4...  
(Version 1.0.4)

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HierarchicalDock
Dec 4 2007

FVDG  Still, keeps wanting to mount shared volumes. Maybe shared volumes are remembered? There is NO alias or such to any shared volume in the folder I make a context-menu for in the Dock.

???  
(Version 1.1)

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Acquisition
Nov 29 2007
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FVDG  Simply stops all my other network connections. Quit Acquisition and there back again. Poor  
(Version 2.0v205)

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Parallels Desktop
Oct 30 2007

FVDG  XP: 'Config_list failed' Blue screen everytime. Vista: won't even start...  
(Version 3.0.5540)

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Oct 29 2007

FVDG  Works now! If it does not, check to see if any old versions are left. remove all by hand, then reinstall.  
(Version 1.4.11)

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Oct 29 2007

KATLADY81  I like Concierge, but I'm always hesitant to update it. Do you have to buy the updates if you already paid for a previous version? Concierge updates often enough, so paying for each update (which are bug/compatibility fixes only, and not feature additions/improvements) seems a little crappy to me.  
(Version 1.4.11)

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Oct 27 2007

FVDG  Nope, 1.4.10 does nothing here on 10.5... :-(  
(Version 1.4.10)

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Path Finder
Oct 2 2007

FVDG  Still does NOT remember the POSITION of windows...

And: if you have a few windows all in list mode and you set one window to, say from Date to Name sort ALL open list windows get the same sort view...  
(Version 4.8)

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Path Finder
Oct 2 2007

THEODORE LEE  You're right - that sort issue looks like a bug. You should report it to CocoaTech. I'm sure they'll tackle it in no time at all.  
(Version 4.8)

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Path Finder
Oct 3 2007

ROY VAN DER WONING  I'm assuming that FvdG's "still" means that they do not fix bugs in "no time at all", which matches my personal experience.

While some issues may take longer than average to squash, things such as remembering a window's position and keeping an accurate item tally does not seem like brain surgery to me.  
(Version 4.8)

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Path Finder
Oct 3 2007

THEODORE LEE  For bugs to get fixed, you have to report them. I reported the sort bug last night, so we'll see how long it takes for a resolution.  
(Version 4.8)

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Path Finder
Oct 3 2007

ROY VAN DER WONING  The file count bug has been reported through Cocoatech's support forums several times, as far back as a year ago. The issue has been confirmed by a staff member and said to have been put on "the todo list".  
(Version 4.8)

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Carbon Copy Cloner
Sep 21 2007

FVDG  I can see my Windows/Boot camp disk as an source! Does it mean I can do I blocklevel copy of a Bootcamp partition? This would be great...  
(Version 3.0)

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FontExplorer X Pro
Jul 9 2007

FVDG  As the auto activation plug-in is installed in InDesign CS3 the Export function in InDesign CS3 is blocked (greyed out). Removing the plug-in enables Export again!

Now that IS strange!  
(Version 1.2)

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Logitech Control Center
Jul 9 2007

FVDG  Does this still install the Haxie (Application enhancer, ape) if so: BAD!  
(Version 2.2.2)

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QuarkXPress
Apr 5 2007

FVDG  Who cares...

Give me CS3!  
(Version 7.2)

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DesktopSweeper
Jan 17 2007

FVDG  Does not work when more than one display is connected...  
(Version 1.3)

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Second Life
Jan 6 2007

FVDG  latest version and it doesn't matter if it is started in Rosetta or in Intel. crashes occur. But I've read that this is a fault in the NVIDIA drivers on the Mac Pro...  
(Version 1.12.1.13)

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Logitech Control Center
Dec 29 2006

FVDG  Same her: no device found (Mx mouse), previous version works fine however...  
(Version 2.1.2)

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Second Life
Dec 26 2006

FVDG  Kernel Panics on Mac Pro Xeon 2.66 with standard NVIDIA card...  
(Version 1.12.1.13)

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Second Life
Jan 5 2007

SIXTYK  Are you running the PPC version in Rosetta or the Universal version (which I believe is still in beta)?  
(Version 1.12.1.13)

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Second Life
Jan 6 2007

FVDG  latest version and it doesn't matter if it is started in Rosetta or in Intel. crashes occur. But I've read that this is a fault in the NVIDIA drivers on the Mac Pro...  
(Version 1.12.1.13)

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Second Life
Feb 12 2007

MACGURUTECH  Try putting all your ram on the same card as originally was shipped with your mac IF you have upgraded ram with 3rd party ram, as that is how to properly upgrade your ram on that model Mac. That said, after the ram is properly installed the dual core 2.66 xeon with NVIDIA 7300GT and OS X 10.4.8 will freeze n SL. EVEN with the firmware update for the video card currently available.Hopefully 10.4.9 will fix that but more than likely its SL's failure to properly code their software. Thats a shame.  
(Version 1.13.3.2)

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Path Finder
Dec 1 2006

FVDG  Still can't remember view and position of windows. If a window is closed, a new window does not have the tabs/tabset visible, just one tab, you have to select the tabset again. After getting your tabs back, it looses the view by date/name you had set for each tab (although it remembers icon/list etc view now)  
(Version 4.6)

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RapidCal
Oct 29 2006
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FVDG  After e-mails with the maker of this, I now know where things went worong: you have to export the agenda with the SAME name as it has in ical. For .mac you can export an agenda callled 'private' as' Toms agenda' to .mac or webdav. For this plug-in to work it has to be called private as the agenda itself, only then it works.

However, the server is SLOW to a crawl, so slow that you think your browser is finished or crashes and the agenda does not seem to load, only after 2 minutes or so...  
(Version 1.0)

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RapidCal
Oct 29 2006
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FVDG  Does not work

It makes a calnder but does NOT add the entries from iCal. You make an account (webdav) at rapidshare, something like

http://server.rapidcal.com/yourname

and then set iCal to export to that.

If you do, iCal reports that it has succesfully exported your agenda to that adress.

However, in rapidweaver (and in your browser) you do get your agenda as set (thus with your own added lines and options etc etc) but all days are empty, your activities and entries are NOT there, just an empty calender.

Besides: the server.rapidcal.com is SO VERY SLOW that any interesetd client would give up and would leave your site before it is loaded....  
(Version 1.0)

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Parallels Desktop
Oct 2 2006

FVDG  No Sound

I Have no sound and cannot choose any sounddevice. Any ideas?  
(Version 2.2.1922)

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Parallels Desktop
Sep 29 2006

FVDG  Ah! Now it works on the Mac Pro! Finaly!  
(Version 2.2.1922)

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Parallels Desktop
Sep 28 2006

FVDG  Crashes still on Mac Pro

New version crashes directly after startup on a Mac Pro. Crash log says:

Parallels Desktop 2.2 Release Candidate 2 for Mac OS X version 2.2 Build 1920.0 from 2006-09-28

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Received SIGBUS: Bus error

Access to fault address: 0xc7

unknown signal sender: 2

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So still a nog on on the Mac Pro  
(Version 2.2.1920)

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Mouseposé
Sep 27 2006

FVDG  This is great!

I'm a software trainer and the addition of showing keys is VERY nice indeed  
(Version 2.5)

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Parallels Desktop
Sep 19 2006

FVDG  When installed it will reduce memoru to less then 2gb! It says so but it does not give you an option to cancel!!

Further more: it says you can reclaim memory under the help menu... BUT THERE IS NO SUCH OPTION.

I've lsot all memory and Paralles does not answer the phone nor my email

DO NOT TOUCH!

Lawsuit will follow if my new Mac is ruined forever!  
(Version 2.2.1898)

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SheepShaver
Sep 19 2006
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FVDG  Works fine on my new Mac Pro!!!

Great.

However: more than 512 Mb gives a error (memoru settings)  
(Version 2.3)

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Parallels Desktop
Sep 17 2006

FVDG  Kenrnel Panics on Mac Pro 2.66...  
(Version 2.2.1884)

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NL Radio Widget
Aug 9 2006

FVDG  Uses processor time even when Dashboard is not active (makes sense: it needs to keep streaming, but be aware of this!)  
(Version 7.0)

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FontAgent Pro
Aug 7 2006

FVDG  Not universal...

Still only PPC. Fontexplorer X and even Suitcase fusion are intel native (Universal)  
(Version 3.2)

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SteerMouse
Jul 28 2006

FVDG  Does it support the new zoom screen function and the 360 degree scroll as in the standard Apple prefrence pane?  
(Version 3.4)

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WindowShade X
Jul 17 2005

FVDG  After installing version 4 I get an empty preference pane! I reinstalled 3.6, all is fine. Installed 4 again: no prefrence pane window!  
(Version 4.0)

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FontCard
Jun 14 2005

FVDG  Fontcard, or maybe just APE, crashes Photoshop so hard that it leads to a kernel panic!

Even excluding Fontcard or APE does not help.

Removing Fontcard/APE: everything is fine.

Bug can be repeated.  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Norton AntiVirus
May 20 2005
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FVDG  To be honest: I was no fan of NAV 9, but this new version 10 realy works fine! I used Virusbarrier before, but NAV correctly scans all mounted disks: CD's, ZIPS etc. As I get a lot from clients this way, I like an automated scan.  
(Version 10.0)

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