bitShifter | Nov 8 2007 |
GEE4ORCE Leopard's Disk Utility will create AES-256 disk images. Considering that AES-128 is regarded by the NSA as good for 'Secret' or lower data, is currently uncrackable, and AES-256 is much more than twice as hard to crack - well, this is probably sufficient for most people ;)
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Knox | Jul 16 2007 |
GEE4ORCE 1.5 adds backup features, and full volume vaults. This last feature works really well - the volume mounts just like any other on your Mac, even though what's really going on is that it's a sparse image on the disk (I think !). In any case, this goes some way towards answering the criticism that most of these features are in the OS already - Sure, but Knox makes using them easy. Whatever - I got Knox in a bundle with PathFinder, so I'm happy :) !
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Wallsaver | Jun 4 2007 |
SIMICHAVEL SaverLab certainly does more things, but I've noticed that when screensavers are activated as wallpaper, they don't run smoothly, but rather have "bumps" or "hiccups" along the way. Wallsaver doesn't have this problem at all.
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Xtorrent | May 24 2007 |
GEE4ORCE Some people seem to have a problem with this developer - not me. I find his software elegant and intuitive, and XTorrent is no different. It's got to be the fastest way to download stuff you want - open Xtorrent, start to type what you're looking for (it auto-completes/guesses what you're saying), and there are your torrents, easily identified by quality. If you download TV shows weekly like me, Xtorrent is a must as it has support for torrent RSS feeds.
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CSSEdit | Apr 23 2007 |
GEE4ORCE The best just keeps getting better. Try dragging the tabs in the preview window - it's just so slick it's sick !
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Adobe Lightroom | Jan 29 2007 |
GEE4ORCE Wow - $200 ? Aperture has way more features and power, and only costs an extra $100. I might have bought this at $100 - but they've overpriced it.
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Adobe Lightroom | Jan 29 2007 |
CHEALION If it's $200, I'd buy it for $100. If it's $100, I'd buy it for $50, if it's $50, I'd buy it for $25, if it's $25, I'd buy it for $10, if it's $10, I wouldn't pay for it unless it was free since it's under $20 it can't be worth anything. Welcome to pricing software.
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Calico | Dec 20 2006 |
GEE4ORCE First impressions were not great - the interface is very modal, I wasn't able to drag and drop images out of iPhoto (you have to use the Load command, which is not even in the File menu), the preview loupe is just a blurred enlargement, you can't manually arrange the images - you're just left at the mercy of the automatic alignment. The results are astounding ! I threw some of my most difficult panorama source images at it and it produced output that's better than I currently have (made with the excellent DoubleTake). You don't need to manually adjust anything, it just works. It takes quite a long time to work it's magic, but I suppose that's because it's doing quite in-depth analysis. It's a bit unstable (still beta though), and the interface is not Mac like enough - but I would still consider buying this because the results are so good.
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iSightCam | Dec 7 2006 |
GEE4ORCE I have a 2K Quicktime movie that does this. (http://www.josephcrawford.com/2006/11/11/scary-isight-trick/)
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Locomotive | Oct 9 2006 |
GEE4ORCE Although Locomotive is an excellent, on-click way to get a working Rails system on your Mac, I just found that mine was eating up over 600Mb of real memory, and over 3.5Gb of VM ! There must be a memory leak in one of the components somewhere, so beware.
(Version 2.0.8) | |
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SmartSVN | Aug 17 2006 |
GEE4ORCE Please don't post Windows UI screenshots here. Argh, my eyes !
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Undercover | May 19 2006 |
GEE4ORCE Innovative software that 'just works' - it stays out of the way so completely that it's actually hard to tell if it's running or not. Personal tech support from the developer is first rate - very prompt, concise and helpful. Recommended !
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Undercover | Jul 24 2006 |
CKPCW Undercover is just the thing I needed! As a college student, laptop theft is always a concern. Locks can help prevent theft, but once it's gone, you're out of luck. I use both: a physical lock for prevention, and Undercover for recovery. The peace of mind afforded by Undercover is great. The software (as advertised) takes up practically no resources whatsoever, and the support is extremely fast and friendly. For $25 or $30 (with a money-back guarantee!), this is a no-brainer! Undercover is something no Mac laptop owner should be without!
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WinSwitch | Mar 10 2006 |
GEE4ORCE Feature suggestion: It would be great if the menu could show the number of unread emails in Mail; that way I can avoid switching accounts just to 'check my email'. ...a hack to display this on the login screen would be fantastic too !
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| Aug 23 2005 |
GEE4ORCE I'd love to try it, but it crashes every time I open it. Tried trashing old prefs, tried each of the 3 options presented on startup, but within 2 seconds of the main window appearing, the thing quits....
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| Aug 23 2005 |
THINKMAC SUPPORT If you could possibly send the crash log to bugs@thinkmac.co.uk we can try and work out what's going wrong. The crash log can be found at Home > Library > Logs > CrashReporter > NewsMac Pro.crash.log | |
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