ILGAZ  The reality is, HTML5 Video died before it could took off because of zealotry and insisting of "non patented" formats by some camp. Nobody will switch to VP3 format, some decade old format from H264 or even MPEG4 SP especially while there are no "hardware chips" for it.

So, Opera/Mozilla insists on VP3, Apple says "Use the damn Quicktime framework" (they are right), MS completely ignored it and Flash has 92% of global reach.

Adobe is just lazy and also must do some insane amount of backwards compatibility work to ship 10.1 64bit with hardware h264 acceleration. Don't look for it, 10.1 is under NDA and only shared to some very big partners of Adobe.  
(Version 11.5.2r602)

ILGAZ  They didn't add colorsync support even while Apple could help them, for years. They never figured the concept of font rendering is different under OS X and even a single-double pixel glyph/hint issue bothers this userbase...

Whatever, their fans will bite me now, no need...  
(Version 3.5.5)

ILGAZ  Hello,

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19879/lingon

Lingon seems finely working.   
(Version 1.5.1)

ILGAZ  VB is a real Mac heuristic antivirus, they focus on Mac security threats and they only include "in the wild" Windows virus definitions in their Mac product. That is why they shipped "dual protection" which is basically Mac+Top of the line Windows AV which will run under Windows.  
(Version 11.0.1)

ILGAZ  I posted a positive feedback on another download site: "If you have really rewritten it and it really does scans for web threats too, why not provide a free trial so people who have your bad image in mind may change their minds after testing?"

Sounds simple yes? Believe or not, some official guy, very high official replied and he said it makes sense and they will try to provide a trial. 1-2 YEARS ago.

Yes, Mac security threats are becoming very big deal, the simple trojan stuff already out there. Issue is, do you want to pay $43 to test a product? Every single Antivirus has a trial because of a basic reason: They won't work perfectly on every system out there. It is a technical issue based on the "ring" they run and the low level routines they use.

Even "Intego" who ships equally expensive products with expensive updates has decency to provide free trials for their every single product. If you have a specific threat, for example some "click on everything and run" type of user, I suggest every other product which has some testing ability.  
(Version 11.0.1)

ILGAZ  Well, I am not defending Adobe but iPhone/Flash thing is rather political/commercial issue. It has nothing to do with battery use or any similar thing, even including Adobe's mismanagement.

Flash Lite 3 and recently, actual desktop Flash absolutely runs fine under Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile. While I am a Symbian user, I can't claim coding such thing for Symbian is easier than iPhone/iPod. Symbian coding is awfully hard since you have to support 100s of different devices even from different brands.

So, simply Apple does not WANT Flash on iPhone. It is just like the Opera issue.  
(Version 11.5.2r602)

ILGAZ  While casual gaming and Mac market share is on amazing rise, they don't even bother to compile it 64bit or write 10 lines of text to release notes. I bet they didn't bother to submit new file, Mac update admins found it themselves.

Basically shows what is wrong with Adobe, in all kinds of senses.  
(Version 11.5.2r602)

ILGAZ  silverkeeper has different purpose, time machine has different purpose. Also the "speed" of time machine has some bad reasons like apple have chosen to do block level copy rather than file level copy so it has potential to carry problems with files to backup identically.

I don't see why wouldn't one use BOTH , TM and Silverkeeper. Silverkeeper for one time in a week offsite backups for example.  
(Version 2.0.2)

ILGAZ  If you think about it, it also provides a great security for free. No need to keep multiple ports open while the application needing them is not in use. Also, ability to manually enable/disable the ports like SSH to outside World.  
(Version 1.2.7)

ILGAZ  So, a single Developer/Packager can make a 10.4/PPC compatible Application which is also 10.6 64bit.

You should notify multi billion dollar companies about this... They keep dropping 10.4 and even 10.5 /ppc support using Apple as excuse. See, with stock XCode, one can do this kind of support, backwards compatibility.

Long live open source and caring developers really.  
(Version rev12)

ILGAZ  iPhoto is a great photo catalog/database and putting its functions to Photoshop Elements is not an upgrade.  
(Version 8.0)

ILGAZ  @MISHA this is OS X, iPhoto can do all the stuff it does in regards to Library. IMHO there is absolutely zero need to duplicate Photo library of iPhoto. If it was the case, I would go for Kodak's free software which does great job in regards to Print and online sharing.

One feature I mention is "group photo". Now, that is a new feature but did they have to abandon PPC users for that single feature? This is the same company shipping Flash 10 with same features to PPC owners.  
(Version 8.0)

ILGAZ  After 5 "resellers" of Adobe tried to sell me Photoshop CS4 (!!!) while I clearly asked the price of Elements and 10 of them ignored me, I simply rm'ed the Trial disk image after running its Uninstall and moved to Pixelmator too.

At least guy(s) cares for their product and their users.  
(Version 8.0)

ILGAZ  If you code for multiple operating systems in distributed environment, Eclipse and/or console could fit better. I also think they suggest the GUI/Environment rather than the actual compile tools/headers. You can even use KDevelop on OS X that way, there is nothing stopping you.

Never seen any actual developer calling others "noobs" in my life.  
(Version 3.2.1)

ILGAZ  Better fix the system requirement to: 10.6 (check rel. notes). Better write in caps: THIS IS NOT 10.5.x compatible version (3.2.1)

You didn't think Apple will be decent enough to fix 10.5 developer tools with updates did you? :)  
(Version 3.2.1)

ILGAZ  Why don't you ask multi billion, nearing trillion company Microsoft to ship a SDK for video chat or better, ship a MSN client that supports video along with specs?

Microsoft: 93.000 people

Adium/Pidgin: 10-20

Do the math.  
(Version 1.3.7)

ILGAZ  If one uses Apple's standard installer, it is his job to "workaround" some issue (!) which is in fact the built in functionality of OS X since 10.3 or .4.

No need to apologize, they should care about such issues more than sneaking silverlight and remotely pulling images from MS servers in success screens.  
(Version 2.3.0.14)

ILGAZ  You could have easily missed it since it defaults to ON and carefully buried under "customize" which no OS X user uses. They really know nobody will click Customize and that is why they default to ON rather than OFF.

Another issue with installer is, it "phones home" by needlessly embedding remote images from MS web server in "success" screen. When I got some time, I will sure alert Apple about this potential abuse of Installer/Webkit integration. If we had REAL security experts and non snake oil AV companies, it is their job to alert their customers and Apple about such ABUSE of Installer.app.  
(Version 2.3.0.14)

ILGAZ  I wonder what will happen when Silverlight, part of MS culture gets some "remote execution" security issue.

Will the team at MS who still have face to ship that performance/security disaster named MS Windows Media Player to Intel macs give up all work in hand and ship a security update for OS X which shows their every attempt as joke?

This is a company who managed to ship MS Office latest version installed as user 502, traditionally no power, secondary account on OS X and people pay huge amount of money to them for it. Silverlight on the other hand, is "free".

Not a political thing, rather a technical thing since I know how MS works (like most do), I would opt out of Silverlight even if my Mac was supported. I don't allow it even to my Windows machines/managed clients since it is a really needless failed attempt to kill Adobe flash and nothing else. Even MS joint ventures doesn't use it.  
(Version 2.3.0.14)

ILGAZ  Good thing about still having Mac PPC is, MS didn't have decency and/or capability to code Silverlight 2 for PPC so PPC owners doesn't get Silverlight installed with this thing.

Still flaming Adobe? At least they can and will maintain Flash with PPC code no matter how hard it is.  
(Version 2.3.0.14)

ILGAZ  What I don't understand is why don't they use "patching" as unlike OS X, iPhone/iPod (non jail broken) is not modified by user by any chance.

Game developers like Blizzard use patching for years without any issues. OK, on OS X , we change icons, modify plist files etc. but not on iPhone OS. This could be a 5-10 mb update instead.  
(Version 3.1.2)

ILGAZ  This must be something to do with the "refresh internet plugin" step as if a browser is open while you run freshly installed application, it doesn't crash.

I think the CPU (Intel vs. PPC) could be involved too.

I did my best as reporting it to them in official bug report form, posting to their forums and I believe they must have a good developer account enough to gather thousands of crash reports. I don't know if there is anything I can do. The real amazing thing is, it isn't some "one in million" crash, it can be reproduced very easily. How could they ship this major upgrade without testing is beyond me.  
(Version 11.1)

ILGAZ  I have no interest in your political rather than technical issues with Realplayer. It was always a Cocoa/native application which works just when needed and a nice shell for Quicktime Framework and an option to play mp3 radios (.pls) without launching iTunes.

If you don't like Realplayer for some reason or your windows past, OK, fine but please stop spamming macupdate. Real did nothing to Mac users and they kept releasing current software even before SJobs came back to Apple and everyone in industry were abandoning Mac users.  
(Version 11.1)

ILGAZ  The crash at launch happened on my Mac Mini G4 running current Leopard too. It is a thread 0 crash which doesn't have anything to do with prefs etc. Sorry I misunderstood the crash reported before.

I guess it would be better if Macupdate pulled off this update until they come up with a point fix like 11.1.01 etc.

This is the crash below:

Thread 0 Crashed:

0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9054a948 strlen + 8

1 com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer 0x0001928c 0x1000 + 98956

2 com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer 0x0001946c 0x1000 + 99436

3 com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer 0x00017cbc 0x1000 + 93372

4 com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer 0x00016d70 0x1000 + 89456

5 com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer 0x000159c4 0x1000 + 84420

6 com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer 0x0000f074 0x1000 + 57460

7 com.apple.Foundation 0x9138c6e4 __NSThreadPerformPerform + 340

8 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x924dc0d0 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1104

9 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x90fe2b14 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264

10 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x90fe28a0 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 260

11 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x90fe2778 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 84

12 com.apple.AppKit 0x960f7244 _DPSNextEvent + 596

13 com.apple.AppKit 0x960f6bfc -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 112

14 com.apple.AppKit 0x960f089c -[NSApplication run] + 744

15 com.apple.AppKit 0x960c1298 NSApplicationMain + 440

16 com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer 0x0000304c 0x1000 + 8268

17 com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer 0x00002d5c 0x1000 + 7516  
(Version 11.1)

ILGAZ  Wonder if it will fix anything if you use "Reset realplayer" in help menu which basically fresh reinstalls realplayer.

Worth a try... I shows "Restore favorites" window too so nothing is lost.  
(Version 11.1)

ILGAZ  ***STAY AWAY***

They still keep this available for a simple reason: To keep Apple OS X installed Macs UNSTABLE if owners are tricked to install it.

This is a Carbon monster which can't even work fine on PowerPC Macs, I can't begin to imagine what would it do to Intel Macs especially after Leopard/ Snow Leopard release.

Do not install, it won't play any modern wmv file and wmv streaming is in fact depreciated even on MS puppet sites. Install flip4mac quicktime components but be careful, they slip silverlight to it.

Also you need to hunt its plugin files in /Library/Internet Plugins and move them to trash, just dragging application to trash won't fix a thing. Every single legitimate plugin in /Internet Plugins will be loaded by every browser which runs on your OS X. It may even force Safari&Others to "Rosetta" mode which you end up running a emulated browser right on your mac.

Oh BTW, this is the real face of Microsoft for you.  
(Version 9)

ILGAZ  what about giving all your secrets (real ones) to a Mac Developer who doesn't have a clue about Mac legend quicksilver author's freeware application while naming it?

some should care, really.  
(Version 1.1)

ILGAZ  So they added a single feature and abandoned all powerpc users and asking for $80. While it is not widely known for some reason, you don't have to abandon any powerPC user for "intel 64bit", you can even release full 64bit PPC/Intel application on 10.5 leopard.

IMHO time is coming for shareholders to take action against this kind of management.   
(Version 8.0)

ILGAZ  These things are sometimes used ONE TIME ONLY, so there is no way to make a full functional demo.

The other option would be a serious DRM, along with kernel components, hidden files, undocumented sector markings. Would you prefer that instead? It is done by Symantec on Windows land but they always exclude partitioning tools (partition magic) since they are really 1 time usable things. They are also a multi billion gigantic company who aren't too much hurt by piracy.  
(Version 3.1.4)

ILGAZ  It is stated in last paragraph, a common tactic to sneak into EULAs. The next step is, hiding it under "unseen" "never scrolled to" text, ask me I have seen all in Windows!  
(Version 2.3.0.11b)

ILGAZ  They forgot to post this to "What's new?' and IMHO they should be carefully watched by Macupdate admins in the future.

"This installer also includes a browser plug-in for Microsoft® Silverlight™, which allows you to play Smooth Streaming video content. This is installed by default. To disable its installation, click the Customize button on the Installation Type pane and uncheck the Microsoft Silverlight Plug-in option."

They should also add "We abuse Apple's installer.app architecture so each time final screen appears, our application phones home via pulling a remote webpage".

Guys, I come from Windows land and this is something we had to deal in 2001-2003 period. We should all raise our voices against this kind of treatment or, serious, OS X will be really really infested. Speaking from experience, these are first steps...  
(Version 2.3.0.11b)

ILGAZ  If you needed the update, it would appear in software update (run from Apple menu). I think Apple is holding the 7.6.x update for a reason and I don't think they forgot their own new OS. If you run SL "activity monitor", you will see 90% of processes are 64bit, especially Apple ones. The version advertised here is 32bit.

As I said, stick with software update if in doubt.  
(Version 7.6.4)

ILGAZ  Snow Leopard has been built on Leopard (10.5) and it has some special system requirements.

I don't think Apple won't maintain 10.5 for a while, at least with security and driver updates. Just look to PC land, these people were offered everything to upgrade to Vista and they rejected. There are still people using XP all fine, some super modern netbooks coming with it already.

So, not having the latest OS won't kill you or your machine. You should see what some professionals use, I have recently saw OS X 10.2.8 running G5 which is used for very high end (Hollywood) audio editing.

Snow Leopard was definately needed for Intel 64bit CPUs since there are some strange things like 2x more registers when they run in pure 64bit mode. OpenCL like technologies and GPU decoding acceleration existed for years on Windows, even on XP so Apple had to package them to a "new" OS since it was getting really emberassing.   
(Version 10.6.1)

ILGAZ  Did I claim piracy when someone "reviews" a commercial software and talks about some features doesn't work right on OS X 10.6 5-10 days _BEFORE_ the launch date?

Sure I did. It is way better than claiming someone being an absolute idiot and breaking Apple's industry known draconian NDA policies on purpose of whining on macupdate right?

OK, you had Snow Leopard beta seed, protected by Californian and International laws against disclosure of trade secrets and you leaked confidential Apple information for purpose of "this feature doesn't work" whining on Macupdate. Today, I took my pills it seems, have a nice day.  
(Version 5.1.3506.3999)

ILGAZ  Why would anyone have cinepak encoded videos? Same reason like why we video guys still have to keep U-Matic around. You can't transcode cinepak to a modern lossy format since it was already horribly lossy in original so it will end up really bad. You can't get rid of original video since content matters... That is the case for U-Matic. Couple of U-Matic to Digital Betacam converts are OK but when there are millions of hours, it is way more feasible to keep that dinosaur player around.  
(Version 7.6.4)

ILGAZ  I would suggest reading macupdate about new apple updates but sticking with "software update" control panel (check for updates) until this snow leopard dust settles down.

That is what will I do with the 2 snow leopard installed macs at this house, at least until I figure what is the position of Quicktime X (framework?application?) like core system parts. Will be a bit waste of bandwidth of course but it seems as only solution. Snow Leopard as it has "pure 64bit" has some special needs like that especially for deep level frameworks like quicktime and itunes (which has dev. drivers).  
(Version 7.6.4)

ILGAZ  They keep that updater, acting exact same way and making people nuts right?

This is it, they are really disconnected from actual users. They can't understand "homo sapiens", actual people uses their software and becomes bugged about it, regardless of how freaking open source it is!

They have no clue about human nature. They think being Google and software being open source and free grants them every right. Well, if we compare OS X and Linux desktop usage share, we can see it isn't the deal all the time and our OS/hardware vendor checks for updates WEEKLY by first asking us. Even MS shows 2-3 warning screens before enabling auto update. Ask yourself Google: Are you more important than kernel/OS vendors? Every 2 hours check eh? What are we doing? Heading to space with your freeware?

Well, I have seen a 5000 seat company ban every kind of Google software because of that update behavior since they thought they were under some kind of insider attack when that tiny junk was banned by their pro active security solution and kept trying and trying to connect causing more harm/load to network more than a network worm.

If we code a software which is open source and connects to google servers each 10 minutes, Google won't send the FBI right? As it is open source you know, they can look at the source!  
(Version 5.1.3506.3999)

ILGAZ  Apple has no reason to support FLAC. You should look for FLAC quicktime component and hope the drag drop of FLAC files works. There is a reason for iTunes linking to Quicktime framework you know.

Apple had to go with their own lossless codec for a simple reason: Patent troll companies. FLAC is currently worry free but if World's largest media reseller and music player maker supports it, be sure those evil trolls will have their new juicy target. As they know Apple won't really stand to their bullshit too long, they have some sort of settlement guarantee. So, money is really guaranteed.

Instead of 64bit support, I would question why wouldn't it link to Quicktime X instead of Quicktime and use (finally!) arrived GPU h264 acceleration under snow leopard. I don't see why everything and everything should be "pure" 133t 64bit while GPU gives some very important thing like, HD playback with 3-5% CPU usage.

I have seen on Windows myself, on a Nvidia based Mini. (media player classic) It doesn't have some top end GPU either.  
(Version 9.0)

ILGAZ  What they should do is, plug a Mac mini to a not so bad HD TV, like the ordinary people buying and try to browse iTunes store and iTunes library on such setup. It is really not good for the eyes, let me warn.

If those people could actually browse the store or their own library, they could enjoy huge Mac Mini sales and HD video sales. If they think about people going to buy Apple TV while they enjoy a real computer which they can use for general purpose, it won't happen. If you think I am being paranoid, consider this: It is still run by same management who asked 30 dollars for fullscreen playback, on a brand new G5 workstation or iMac you purchased just until recently.

All it needs is a real, working font size setting or a global zoom which Safari 4 already has code. Nothing else. The store is already sort of resolution independent. They could put 2 rows instead of 5 for example, it is not HTML you know.  
(Version 9.0)

ILGAZ  They could ship an 64bit version as early as Leopard. This one being not 64bit or Cocoa is not really poor 10.4 or 10.5 powerpc users fault, it is the iTunes/Quicktime department who excels creating shame for otherwise great company. At last resort, they could keep this carbon monster in version 9 ad release version X as early as tomorrow.

I am a bit tired about misunderstandings among new Intel mac owners about what happened and why it happened. Situation today has nothing to do with PowerPC at all let alone supporting 10.4.11 has anything to do with it. There are people who believes Apple shaving the IGNORED powerpc code is the reason why Snow Leopard is faster which of course should be a laughing matter. This is not Windows, there is no registry or DLL hell around. Intels ignored PPC portion since the day first Universal binary shipped.

Oh also, thanks to companies chickening, there is no meaningful competitor on OS X too. That also adds to the issue, I see only future Amarok 2 (native Mac) to become a serious alternative. Others are busy with copycatting iPod USB signatures to leech iTunes support you know.

I was just saying, by being too much trendy and dropping 10.4.11 support with no meaningful reason rather than "fashion" coding, some developers really lose their prestige. Even Apple giant keeps supporting 10.4.11 as of today. As you somehow blame powerpc users for it, I had to come up with this lengthy explanation. Sorry.  
(Version 9.0)

ILGAZ  Developers who thinks of abandoning 10.4 for no reason and even abandoning 10.5 in months: Take notice. It supports OS X as early as 10.4. iTunes/iPod is the original reason why we have Apple alive today and producing things.

Think about it, seriously.  
(Version 9.0)

ILGAZ  Chriscram: What bugs the most people and in fact, reason for instability issues is the stuff added to startup, always on kernel extensions, ''update checker'' and low quality of the outsourced software. It is not just HP, it is all scanners.

I had to restore my machine from time machine backup once since I stupidly decided I should have Canon Lide 25 software too. It crashed so early that I couldn't logon to Finder to fix things.

In good old times, there were no resident scanner apps. There was a goodly (by device vendor) written TWAIN driver which loads to memory and goes away when not needed. When they started adding this needless ''button manager'' etc. stuff, troubles has begun.

If I had a clue about Vuescan's existence on Windows, I would buy it back in 1990s.  
(Version 8.5.28)

ILGAZ  If this release included "signature updates for the unpatched java security hole on pre OS X 10.5 systems" as release note, I would run to Symantec store and buy it.

Of course, they are so busy with including Windows virus signatures and proof of concept junk rather than real threats, backdoors.

I don't want to spam this site so consider this comment for every single AV running under OS X, even including "free" ones. If you aren't protecting against an active threat, you don't deserve a single CPU cycle.  
(Version 9/4/09)

ILGAZ  Lets see now, Apple didn't release a major security update regarding Java for pre OS X 10.5.

Lets see if AV vendors will be watching for that specific security issue as they keep using our CPU for "heuristics".

Thanks to Apple (!), there is a benchmark now and I am not optimistic about it.  
(Version 10.5.9)

ILGAZ  Each time Apple does pull a trick like this to push people to Intel giving up their currently working setups, they lose another 1000-2000 seat potential enterprise customer since enterprise doesn't allow such childish games.

Look at IBM, they promise 40 years old code can run unmodified on their state of the art Z10 mainframe. MS dropped Win 3.1 support (yes, 3!) just a year ago.

IMHO Java developers already know what they deal with and Java games, some large ones still come in .exe form, for Windows. Can you blame them for staying away from OS X even while it is Intel?  
(Version Update 5)

ILGAZ  I bet they use hardcoded /tmp which this update will have problem with. They should keep an eye on Apple Java developer previews, Apple changes things all the time and no serious site/developer can write them up since they are under serious NDA (including rel. notes).  
(Version Update 5)

ILGAZ  Dear super progressed genius

Java is not some tiny shareware which Apple can abuse. It is now a product of Oracle which is second largest software company on planet, after MS.

They either maintain or remove it. It was decided in US court, Sun vs. Microsoft. Look it up. Also check how much MS had to pay to settle it.  
(Version Update 5)

ILGAZ  I think time has come for Oracle/Sun to either take over PPC Java security fixes or send Apple a court order to EXCLUDE Java from PPC machines via software update just like they did to Microsoft in JVM 1.1 ages.

10.4.11 users should disable "java applets" (disable Java in Safari and others) unless Apple ships an update.  
(Version Update 5)

ILGAZ  When you end up the updating, it clearly states "Please RETAIN YOUR ORIGINAL CD" (caps mine) on a Window that you have to click OK.

What else can they do? Shout over speakers?   
(Version 4.2)

ILGAZ  just saying poor Pro Soft after reading your comment.  
(Version 3.1.3)

ILGAZ  or people can be a little understanding and give it some patience until snow leopard "natural version", the 3.0 settles.

It is same deal for all such software, just look at updates in macupdate.com these days. It is not a bad thing, it is a good thing that software gets updates/fixes when such drastic upgrade of OS X ships. Move from 32/64 to pure 64bit is a big deal, real big deal for x86.

IMHO, be a little patient and keep up with updates as it is a password manager. Or use macupdate&other site "mail me when it gets updated" service and than disable the update checking so you can view if update matters to you.  
(Version 2.9.31)

ILGAZ  Just to say that I am not part of Path Finder team. Path Finder, being completely Cocoa and using OS X Frameworks will sure support Snow Leopard when released. Soon or later. You don't need to be part of some developer team to figure it out. That is the advantage of using truly native OS X/Cocoa software and it paid off multiple times, each OS X update.

If you aren't a pirate and using pre-release build of Leopard, openly giving "field reports" on a general download site comments, you must be nuts. Apple is really serious about NDA and it is half of the reason why developers knowing Apple won't claim Snow Leopard compatibility or progress reports until the boxed gold master hits the shelves.  
(Version 5.1.5)

ILGAZ  Snow Leopard hasn't been released yet and you expect something complex like Path Finder to support it?

What is up with you people? You pirate OS X pre release and give software a bad name since it didn't support your pre release OS which is almost a complete rewrite.

I call pirate since I don't believe anyone is stupid enough to break Apple NDA to whine about non compatible software and lose $1000 (minimum) account, getting black listed.  
(Version 5.1.5)

ILGAZ  Sony releasing a more open device than Amazon and ships its client/support application for OS X?

Hope they keep up this way, really.  
(Version 3.0.00.08240)

ILGAZ  You are releasing software for currently unreleased system which is only use by paying professional developers, you are way too much in hurry for donations.

The only end-users who runs Snow Leopard before official launch are people pirated its pre releases. Of course, pro developers who pays to Apple really knows if their OS runs in 64bit or not.  
(Version 1.1)

ILGAZ  Video/audio decompression relies heavily to Altivec/SSE. G3 lacks that unit. You should at least upgrade to G4 somehow. G3 is really really outdated and not suitable for that kind of use. I'd give a shot to mplayer, that is the only thing one can try on such configuration but no guarantees of magic.  
(Version 2.3.0.7b)

ILGAZ  You should never use 'sudo` for fink. Fink automatically asks your admin password if it needs it.

Also you can use fink rebuild fink, fink reinstall fink to reinstall it. fink index -f will force the re-indexing which takes care of what is installed or not (including system gcc)

Their community and developers are particularly helpful, you should go to irc://irc.freenode.net/#fink for help.  
(Version 0.9)

ILGAZ  Mac users who were running PowerPC/68K have never seen Virtual Machines like x86 users. All they had was MS infested (later) Virtual PC which was horribly slow because it was emulating a CPU.

So, be a little understanding when one is impressed by a hypervisor based virtual machine. Not everyone around are switchers you know.  
(Version 3.0.4)

ILGAZ  What if we don't like the built in functionality and use a free alternative instead? Just like millions of Windows users who uses Winzip or Winrar?  
(Version 13.0.3)

ILGAZ  It has nothing to do with Adium to begin with. It is a different concept, mostly for web-mobile-computer mixed usage.

IMHO they should release an Adobe Air version when it is mature enough to do these 'webcam` etc. tricks.  
(Version 0.95)

ILGAZ  It is Intel only, at least the current build inside DMG linked.

I hope it is a mistake since I can't understand why some company which can build on ARM processors won't be able to ship a powerpc binary.  
(Version 0.95)

ILGAZ  You don't need it on Tiger and Leopard if you never, ever shutdown your machine and put it to sleep instead of shutting down.

For many of desktop users, ''sleep'' is a convinience during daytime where they really don't use their computer. At night, most of them will shut it down since there is NO POINT of putting a desktop machine to sleep overnight just to save 10-20 secs. We don't use Windows, OS X has some amazing tricks which makes boot process faster than anything.

So if your machine was powered off every 3:15 AM instead of sleep, the maintenance scripts will never run. Install anacron if you don't want that situation.   
(Version 3.3)

ILGAZ  It is the problem of open source in general. People having nothing to do with the project declare themselves as "supporters" and act like they are the people who does code it giving bad name to the project itself.  
(Version 2.2.1(4132))

ILGAZ  I have the ancient version, the one built years ago and it can play h264 720P HDTV on a Mac Mini G4 1.42 Ghz. It is totally impossible using any player on that configuration. Even Apple's highly optimized h264 decoder fails.

Regardless of configuration you have, just try it once and you will be really surprised.

BTW, as you can notice, they didn't abandon 10.4 people too ;)  
(Version rev10)

ILGAZ  For Mplayer guys, every single build which is not SVN (in case you don't know, a version system), daily, compiled by user is outdated.

They have good reasons for that since people keep embedding outdated mplayer applications or run horribly outdated stuff and send bug reports.

It is not related to this one, I am sure people spending such time on a GUI would really know "cherry picking" good builds. For this title, just ignore that "outdated" thing.

BTW, for them, "build number" matters and this one has real new build.  
(Version rev10)

ILGAZ  Note for future.

1) Micromat isn't really known for providing free updates to products.

2) Snow Leopard seems to be a x86/64 operating system. It is nothing like PowerPC G5, Intel CPUs and the operating systems running on them are extremely "touchy" about such deep level running software/utilities being 32bit only.

IMHO this utility, as long as it works flawlessly, very good for preventive maintenance. The "work flawlessly" requires constant updates which shouldn't cost. I guess you understand my point.

(TTP 4 owner)  
(Version 5.0.4)

ILGAZ  To add more to his frustration, I think he confused terms. I think he tries to mean "5 GB". :))

Tech Tool protection does backup HFS B Trees etc. to make future fix easier and if we don't count last minute changes, almost lossless. He speaks about those files I guess. IMHO it is the only thing making this tool worth buying.  
(Version 5.0.4)

ILGAZ  Let me try using Windows terminology. Software update install process runs as "Administrator" and there is no way it will be hit by any wrong permissions. It can't and will not care who owns what file or if file is read only. If you have used Linux before, it is more like "Root" power, even higher than "Super User" in terms of access.

Also thanks to part of how files handled, deep down the system, even "open" files can be updated. They will get updated on disk but yet on not memory until they are closed. It is one of the major reasons why OS X doesn't need that much reboot (except such kernel etc. updates).

"Repair Permissions" is actually a "User level" fix and also a security proactive solution. It makes sure that critical system files aren't writable by normal users (and non authenciated admins), they aren't "world shared" and yet regular users can read/execute them. So, it really makes sense to repair permissions after OS X update as Apple may have changed couple of things and stupid companies like Adobe doesn't know the right permissions for plugins but that is all.

Apple miscalculated some kind of sync and/or prebinding timing so it would be better to "offline install" (from another boot disk or OS X boot DVD, if possible) for this update. This update only, 10.5.7. Not 10.5.8 or whatever ships later.  
(Version 10.5.7)

ILGAZ  (can be PPC only)

Guys, I think one should give it 10 mins or 15 mins before pressing "Restart" button on installer as there is something going on with spotlight syncing and/or kextcache process.

On 3 different powerpc macs (quad to mini), I have lived some sort of loginwindow endless loop and it was fixed if I gave it some time after "Installation Finished" and waited for mds/kextcache/mdworker processes do their jobs.

It shouldn't be needed, I know but I thought I better share this experience.  
(Version 10.5.7)

ILGAZ  It doesn't change how rude Google has become lately. Their insist of running a root owned application every 2 hours should give clue how unhealthy thinking, megalomaniac people runs there.

Even $1400 Adobe CS4 checks for updates if it is running, who the hell they think they are?  
(Version 5.0.11733.9347)

ILGAZ  Did you have any bugs fixed based on _your_ configuration on this release? That is the issue. If you are a professional (the real market of vuescan), you won't want to have downtime or risks associated with a bugfix release which has nothing to do with _your_ configuration and workflow.

Of course, times has changed and Leopard users may easily downgrade (via TM, if enabled) if problems occur but it would be real waste of bandwidth and downtime for a Canon user getting updates for a raw/pro camera etc.  
(Version 8.5.12)

ILGAZ  congrats on calling smart information and drive tests useless, you must be the first on planet.  
(Version 2.0.1)

ILGAZ  For some reason, when Universal binary shipped, Havok 3d scene, a very important framework/add in disappeared.

Guess why? Havok, which is PART OF INTEL, didn't care to code Intel version of their plugin. What makes me nuts is, we, PPC users got victim of this stupidity too. Upgrade to Shockwave 11, lose one of very important framework which makes shockwave games natively 3d etc.

As result, pool 3d like games won't work.  
(Version 11.5.0.596)

ILGAZ  Even if you are on 24/7 connection, running some process which has connection capabilities every 2 hours as "root" is a major security threat. It doesn't really matter if it is open source, Firefox is open source too, doesn't it have security issues?  
(Version 5.0.11729.1014)

ILGAZ  History repeats itself. AOL was at Google's size and popularity when they ignored their user's feedback and kept on pushing things nobody asked for.

We have all seen what happened later.  
(Version 5.0.11729.1014)

ILGAZ  Its slogan is "silence WAS golden" so what would you expect? ;)  
(Version 2.5)

ILGAZ  Isn't there a free developer to give hand to this great freeware and its author? I feel bad when I download 22 MB of data each time when something gets added/updated.

Can't be anything like rsync or plain patching (e.g. xdelta) implemented so users actually download 22 mb of data when they really need to replace the executable? I bet the actually changed data is far more less, compare the firefox "check for updates" updating and the old fashion full version downloading if you want to see how big difference patching would make.

I mean, even Blizzard does patching and as far as I know, there is no risk patching the data files.

Thanks to MPAA/RIAA, P2P doesn't really seem to be an option anymore. I mean evil ISPs out there filtering everything and sending letters to GNU/Linux downloaders. So, if anyone say "or he can ship a torrent", it is not the case.

ps: I don't know the author or the company behind it, I just feel bad wasting bandwidth for no reason.  
(Version 5.0.7)

ILGAZ  What a horrible way to enter Mac market Trend Micro... Really speechless about this one.

What kind of plus you provide compared to MCafee siteadvisor which is free?

http://www.siteadvisor.com/

Would it work in Safari? Is it the case? Well if yours works in Safari, you either plug into it via input manager (trouble) or run a local proxy which are both hacks.

Entering Mac market with $70 software which the trusted competitor (enough to gain trust of Yahoo) is freeware is beyond me to understand.

I actually like your business, on Windows and enterprise side, just providing housecall.antivirus.com for free, for years and even cleaning viruses for free inside browser is beyond any company out there... That is why I feel like frustrated when I see this offer, treating Mac users like... You know, rich and dumb people.

You don't need to enter Mac market this way and you don't need $70 of couple paranoid people you can abuse. Because of offers like this, security anxious users are treated like phobic morons on mac scene.

About the Web 2.0 threats and drive by downloads? Well, Symantec has a solution which has half price (or less) and they are still flamed by users.   
(Version 1.0)

ILGAZ  There is no way that it can crash Firefox. It is the point of multi tasking, multi user operating system which Apple spent years to develop.

I don't know if you don't have any clue or simply part of a campaign to bad mouth Adobe air but please, stop suggesting ridicolous things like ordinary application crashing other application. Besides "hacks" or "input managers", there is NO software capable of doing such thing.  
(Version 1.7)

ILGAZ  There is nothing wrong about Adobe Air or this goodly coded application.

It is the DESIGN which is horrible. There is no point releasing this software if you can't make idiotic content providers SERVE to places outside USA.

So, guy clicks on Comedy Central content and instead of watching, he sees "not available". Completely idiotic and I don't understand comedy central people either. Why filter? They won't block the ads, "leech" flash content to keep on their HD, they are just people who wants a convenient way to watch media. There is no "extension" or whatever is available for media player unlike the browsers.

Go get Miro instead or stick with iTunes podcasts. Miro, by nature has no geographic censoring and iTunes podcasts are global.  
(Version 1.7)

ILGAZ  It is like early alert service. If I had only Intel macs, release of "Intel only" binary of such software (not a game) would give me questions about the development qualities and scalability of their products.

It also seems DivX completely gave up their professional plans as you can see, even the most professional use codecs (e.g. sheer video) are still maintained and even enhanced on PPC macs even if they require significant work.

Let me suggest... If you want to stay on plain MPEG4-SP or ASP, the best commercially supported software coming with professional option is 3ivx , for less cost, of course xvid (which competes head to head) can be used. Both uses the Quicktime Framework of course.

For H264? Apple's H264 is _not_ bad. Especially as it has multiple core support (for PPC too!) and of course, it is free. X264 on the other hand is an excellent option if you want an advanced codec which you can even build with hand, for your CPU only.

After this move, DivX is no more relevant for me. In fact, this explains why Roxio (Adaptec) didn't add DivX support to Toast 10 which we all flamed. They didn't want to do a comical thing as releasing their bundle as "Intel only".

I pass this one, forever.  
(Version 7.0)

ILGAZ  It is how they waste that great server anyway. Not just locking it to single hardware, they lock it to single OS.  
(Version 10.5.6 v1.1)

ILGAZ  IMHO as a Developer, you should think if it is only Realbasic forced you to upgrade to Intel and Leopard and make your own mind about it.

Even users (not developers) of certain products had to upgrade to Leopard for running the latest version of application. E.g. if Developer choose Objective C 2 instead of version 1, there is no way to support Tiger. I personally use some of these apps and I don't put blame on them.  
(Version R2)

ILGAZ  Are the files/strings existent on the installation of this commercial antivirus? If so, it is a serious breach of GPL license and it needs serious review.  
(Version 1.0.5)

ILGAZ  Trust me, if I trolled, you wouldn't even notice it. Using OS X and relying on some open source player application which can't be plugged to anywhere is one thing, calling a 3 year old platform "dead" while G5 is still used in editing the HD Movies you watch is another thing.

They choose to ship for this OS which is called "Mecca of multimedia" even in worst days of Apple so people will really compare it to other players as Quicktime which is there since 1991, same basic principles used today.

Fact: VLC does single core h264 decoding while Apple h264 decoder does 2 (I suppose software limited to 2)

Fact: Quicktime is deep down in system, integrated with everything and it is a gigantic framework which can even save light system data in movies and yet the company gave up powerpc keeps releasing updates and even enhancing them. Is it up to some open source team to decide whether it is dead or not?

PowerPC for CONSUMER (not pro) can be called half dead when Apple doesn't release "iLife 10" or "iLife 11" for it. When it stops getting all kinds of updates including security, it can be called "EOL", still not dead since you can run some BSD on it. You can happily compile KDE 4 whatever and use multimedia stuff coming with it.

I have serious questions about VLC project now if it can't run on PPC. If I was a iPhone user, I would still have questions. As you claim I trolled, I was stating a basic thing, i386 specific code is dead end.  
(Version 0.9.9a)

ILGAZ  It is not up to you to decide or even them unless they REJECT donations from PowerPC community and help from IBM.

You got some manners there to call a 3 years old platform diminished.

This is exactly why I stay away from open source and its so-called community. What will you tell when Apple releases upcoming Quicktime X for Leopard/PPC?  
(Version 0.9.9a)

ILGAZ  There is another "endian" issue having processor. ARM. If they think like planet will be i386 only just because Apple gave up PPC for very rightful reasons such as portable, they are wrong.

In coming years, people will expect to have same applications as their Desktop on their mobile/PDA/Netbook. Guess what they run? ARM.

Doing anything bound to single CPU arch is wrong, it was always wrong no matter what architecture you code for.

As a side note, VLC could be running horrible on PPC not because the gcc version they use, if it uses single core/CPU no matter how many cpus user has (e.g. dual g4, g5, quad G5), it will sure run horribly. Even on a 8x Xeon, it will matter compared to other apps like Apple Quicktime (Framework).  
(Version 0.9.9)

ILGAZ  Instead of posting apologies for VLC and how it is impossible (!) for them to build G5 binary, check the official site, they now have PPC binary and universal.

World's biggest media player producers keep posting PPC binaries, Apple, Microsoft (through flip4mac), Real Networks. I don't really care if some open source team is incapable of powerpc building. I just give it up, basic as that. I am not on Linux or Windows and desperate for a good media player, I already have something like Quicktime Framework which is most advanced media framework ever built.  
(Version 0.9.9)

ILGAZ  http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/free_upgrade_to_vuescan_85_to_celebrate_10_year_anniversary/

Vuescan 8.5 is a free upgrade for non pro license holders regardless of when you bought it. Mr. Hamrick does it to celebrate its 10th birthday.

Don't forget to thank him ;)  
(Version 8.5)

ILGAZ  Requires MS Office. Ever seen a worse abuse of "Open"?  
(Version 1.0.2)

ILGAZ  Nokia people shouldn't be surprised by non thanking Mac users. I had to buy MS Virtual PC and Windows XP to run in that junk just to backup my phone and update firmware once.

Sometimes it takes too long to convince people that you support them.

All Nokia needed was a Mac Mini and XCode installed in it and hire a Cocoa/OS X coder. Yes, multi billion company.  
(Version 1.1)

ILGAZ  I think this could be the best and optimal interface for ClamAV across any other OS.  
(Version 1.1.1e942)