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RealPlayer
Oct 9 2009

MR.ASH  Same problem here, RP11 crashes on my MacBook and iMac (OSX 10.6.1) after each start. Is ther a possibility to switch back to RP10?  
(Version 11.1)

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RealPlayer
Oct 9 2009

ANON BUD  If you'll check the link above, you can access version 10.5. I'm going back to 11.01 with my Time Machine.  
(Version 11.1)

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PS3 Media Server
May 22 2009
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MR.ASH  Very good mediaserver software indeed (and for free) but it has some annoying behaviour:

1.

Transcoding of .mkv videos won't work at all. Mencoder always crashes when i try to trancode a .mkv video with my PS3. I'm using OSX 10.5.7.

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No iTunes/iPhoto intergration. PMS dosen't offer any iTunes, iPhoto or iLive integration. This way it's impossible to access my media in iTunes, iPhoto or Aperture libraries.

Except ot the transcoding feature (which is not working at all) Nullriver MediaLink offers full iTunes, iPhoto and Aperture integration and is worth the 20$ for license.  
(Version 1.10.5)

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XQuartz
Jan 11 2009

MR.ASH  Since installing the new version 2.3.2.1 GIMP won't work correctly anymore. After starting X11 the screen turns black/white and als fonts in the windows and menu bars are too big. I don't even see the OSX menubar anymore, so the only solution to is to force quit X11 so i can return to the desktop. This release is very buggy!  
(Version 2.3.2.1)

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XQuartz
Jul 7 2009

ANONYMOUS  You need to hit cmd-opt-a to leave fullscreen mode. If you want to turn it off, disable it in X11's preferences.

What is "buggy" that you are seeing? Please file a bug report if you find issues: http://xquartz.macosforge.org  
(Version 2.3.3.2)

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CleanApp
Sep 10 2008
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MR.ASH  Will CleanApp 3 ever leave the beta state?

Also the logging deamon often still uses 90% CPU for hours.

Despite of these annoying facts CleanApp is the only Mac uninstaller witch can delet 100% of all files witch are written by a program/installer (thanks to the logging service).

All other uninstallers just search for similar file names of the application. So there's a great risk that not all files will be deleted or a importend system file could be deleted.

But to be honest, even so the other uninstallers work very well.  
(Version 3.0b10)

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iPSP
Aug 22 2008
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MR.ASH  iPSP seems to be a very promissing tool. However it realy dosen't work at all.

The program runs extremly unstable and crashe ofte without any real reason. Converting movies is a gamble from the begining and it's absolutly impossible to install Homebrew tools or convert a PSX game for the PSP.

At the moment absolutly not worth the oney.  
(Version 4.0.1)

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Microsoft Office 2008
Aug 13 2008

MR.ASH  If you have troubles with this update like the installer won't find your current office 2008 installation please refer to:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080813052404365

This way you can patch the installer. At least this worked perfectly for me.  
(Version 12.1.2)

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Renamer
Jul 27 2008

MR.ASH  Why pay for this software when Apples Automator does the same job for free?  
(Version 3.4)

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Jun 19 2008
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MR.ASH  Great idea and it would be a great software if it would wor :-(

Websites created with iWeb still won't be displayed correct in Firefox 3.0  
(Version 1.0)

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Transmit
May 3 2008
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MR.ASH  Transmit gives you a very nice GUI and iss very easy in use. However data transfer is very slow and unstable. I've tried to copy 250 GB of date to my NAS and i got only a max. 5 MB/s transfer speed. On top of that Transmit always got files witch could not be transferred and terminated the connection completly giving you no feedback what has been already copied and what not. Not worth it's money at all.

I've tried the same thing using FileZila and it works like a charm. Of course there is still data witch can't be transferred but FileZila doesn't quit the connection and continues copying the other files moving the not copied files to a seperate window. GUI is not very nice but compared to Transmit it works.  
(Version 3.6.6)

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EyeConnect
Mar 28 2008
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MR.ASH  EyeConnect is a easy to use MediaCenter for OSX. It supports many diffrent devices like Sony's PS3. Unfortunatly PS3 support is not very stable at the moment.

The only issue here is the price 49,95$ is way too expensive and absolutly not worth the software. If you're looking for a better MediaCenter then try MediaLink witch is only 20$.

An an alternativ you can also try Twonky Media.  
(Version 1.5.3)

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TwonkyMedia Server
Mar 28 2008
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MR.ASH  As for now i've tested three diffrent Mediaservers for OSX and my PS3. Twonky Media scores third behind EyeConnect and the winner MediaLink.

Twonky Media is not very easy to use (compared with the other tow) an still costs 29,95$. MediaLink's only 20$). Twonky has many features indeed, but no full integration in iLife (except iTunes). Also starting up or spting the server is very fishy and far from user friendly.

Allthough it's a good Media Center software but there are better and cheaper solutions on the sofware market. In my oppinion Twonky must be freeware.  
(Version 4.4.4)

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MediaLink
Mar 23 2008
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MR.ASH  Well worth it's money. Works perfectly with my PS3 and gives complete access to my iTunes, iPhoto and movie libraries.

What's still missing are some trancoding functions for movies that aren't nativly supported by the PS3 (like MKV for example). A funktion like "Automagic transcoding" (like in connect360, also from Nullriver) witch converts a movie on the fly to a compatible PS3 format would be great, so i can stream even unsupported media to my PS3.

For those who have problems:

If your PS3 and Mac are connectet to a non uPnP capable router you have to forward TCP port 51413 to the IP of your Mac where MediaLink is installed. To uninstall you just have to stop MediaLink and delete the preferencePane in /library/preferencePanes, that's it.  
(Version 1.3)

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Microsoft Office 2008
Mar 11 2008
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MR.ASH  I realy like the new look and feel of Office 2008. It's more Mac like than before and there are many functions, templates and compatibility present. Also the installation went quite good without any problems.

Unfortunatly Office 2008 is slow, very slow! I thougt with the new UB architecture it will run like hell on intel Macs. But in fact it's slower than Office 2004 under rosetta and also much slower than NeoOffice or OpenOffice. Also Office 2007 on Windows runs much faster.

I'm using a 24 inch iMac with 2,8GHz Core2extreme CPU and 4GB RAM and Office 2008 is still slower than any other office suite on my 1st generation MacBook with 2GHz CoreDuo CPU and 2GB RAM.  
(Version 12.0.1)

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OnyX
Jan 26 2008

MR.ASH  @HUBBERBUBMAN

Reading improves intelligence. This issue seems only regard to version 1.9.1.

If you still think it's a joke then read this in the developer Titanium Software forum:

http://www.titanium.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=564  
(Version 1.9.2)

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OnyX
Jan 26 2008

MR.ASH  Today i used Onyx 1.9.1 and the program deleted the all the contets of my home folder! Pictures, movies, everything gone!

Onyx can't damage your system? Don't ake me laugh!  
(Version 1.9.1)

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Exces
Jan 11 2008
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MR.ASH  Another useless app. The in OSX integrated DiskUtility tool does the same job out of the box for free and even more.

If you don't wanna waste your money but still use another tool than DiskUtility, there are DropDMG and DMG Converter witch are way better than this junk.  
(Version 1.5)

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Macaroni
Jan 8 2008
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MR.ASH  Why pay 10$ for this software while Onyx does the same job (and even much more) for free?  
(Version 2.1.1)

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Macaroni
Jan 8 2008

NEUTRALZONE  Because Onyx does not do the same job.  
(Version 2.1.1)

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Macaroni
Jun 5 2008

BRADSMITH74  First, please don't give a star rating to a product if you're only going to make a comment about the cost/value. It's misleading to people who actually want to know about software. Instead us "Review Type" of "Comment". Second, unless I'm mistaken Onyx doesn't do the same thing- specifically when it comes to automating a large number of tasks/crons and running them on a periodic basis. In addition to all of the predefined tasks, Macaroni allows you to create an run your own cron tasks via its simple interface. I've been a very happy user of Macaroni for years and find that it's well worth $10.  
(Version 2.1.1)

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Macaroni
Nov 4 2009

DOUG ENGELBART  Hi; is there a tool to change the point of time at which Leopard automatically runs its maintenance cron scripts? Sometimes I'm still working at 03:15 am, so it would be better if the crons run at 06:00 am, for example.   
(Version 2.1.1)

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Videobox
Dec 4 2007
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MR.ASH  Try to use the new RealPlayer 11 for OSX. It does the same job and it's free.  
(Version 2.3b)

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NTFS for Mac OS X
Nov 19 2007

MR.ASH  NTFS-3G does the same job and is for free

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24481/ntfs-3g  
(Version 6.0)

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NTFS for Mac OS X
Nov 19 2007

INDIEKIDUK  The free one is apparently slow and buggy. I think Paragon's solution is worth a try the flash demo on their site looks impressive.   
(Version 6.0)

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NTFS for Mac OS X
Nov 20 2007

TRONDAH  Isn't NTFS-3G dog slow? I haven't really tried it myself, but that's what I heard. Any comments?  
(Version 6.0)

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NTFS for Mac OS X
Nov 25 2007

MATTHEW GREEN  just a word of warning

if your using a non admin account it will require you to enter an admin password to be able to write anything to an ntfs volume.

the reason escapes me and technical support still haven't replied to my question. their website also sucks for documentation and actually working in general. there's supposed to be a support system on there but every time i log in there i just get a white screen.

NOT GOOD! other than that it works fine and as fast as Mac native fat32   
(Version 6.0)

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BitClamp
Nov 18 2007
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MR.ASH  Good app but useless.

You can use the OSX disk utility to create a 256bit encrypted disk image for free. In combination with automater it's also possible to create a program witch does the same job (also with drag & drop) for free.

It's up to you to pay 20$ or do it for free with OSX disk utility.  
(Version 1.0.5)

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BitClamp
Nov 28 2007

BLAZEDRAGON555  Why is it useless? You definitely don't get 448 bit encryption with disk utility, nor do you get transferability and the ability to cloak your files.

You cannot open .dmg's in Windows, and you definitely cannot save the .dmg you create as a .png to hide its true contents, can you?

You might want to try the app out more, to see what it can really do.  
(Version 1.1)

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RealPlayer
Nov 16 2007
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MR.ASH  This update is realy very good. Especialy the function to download flash videos directly from the webbrowser is very nice. Unfortunatly this doesen't work for me very well. I can download flv file without a problem but it's impossible to play them afterwards. Absolutly every app hangs forever when trying to play a flv video witch is downloaded with RealDownloader. Hopefully this is only due to the beta status.  
(Version 11.0 Beta (build 631))

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DMGConverter
Nov 8 2007

MR.ASH  Doesen't work with Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. After droping a file into the app nothing hapens at all no matte witch options you chose. Please fix this.  
(Version 3.7.2)

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Parallels Desktop
Nov 5 2007
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MR.ASH  The actual version 5540 doesen't work at all on OSX 10.5 !

From one moment to the other Parallels stoped working and only had errors during program startup.

Also it's impossible to install Parallels again, the installer allways hangs up immediatly. Fixing file permission or deleting related files by hand doesen't work either.

So at the moment Paralles is usless with leopard, it simply doesen't work!  
(Version 3.0.5540)

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Carbon Copy Cloner
Sep 18 2007
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MR.ASH  Disk image creation doesen't work anymore in v3.0 !

In the former beta v.3.0b5 this feature works without a problem. I always get filesystem errors or the disk cannot be found (witch is defenitly there and with enough free space on it).

Unfortunatly this version is no use for me :-(  
(Version 3.0)

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Carbon Copy Cloner
Sep 19 2007

MITCH_DE  Same for me.

Always error at start of image creation mode.  
(Version 3.0)

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Carbon Copy Cloner
Sep 19 2007

SGUITTON  exactly the same prob…  
(Version 3.0)

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Carbon Copy Cloner
Sep 20 2007

KIEGUY  Same issues with me...it does not create a disk image, nor does it open one (created via Apple's Disk Utility) that I point it to manually. I have tried several times; I am pointing directly to the disk image.

Error:

"The target volume is not available, or is not available at the same path as when originally chosen.

Please attach the target volume or recreate the scheduled task."

I really want to use this...hopefully there will be a quick point update fixing these issues.  
(Version 3.0)

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Carbon Copy Cloner
Sep 20 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  The developer is aware of this issue. See the developer's website, there is a forum for CCC.  
(Version 3.0)

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DesInstaller
May 26 2007
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MR.ASH  The idea behind Desinstaller quite good but the actual tool realy has an very annoying behaviors. It often crashes, does not respond anymore and gets may authorisation errors for what's ever.

But sometimes it realy works and deletes all files assosiated with the installer.   
(Version 3.0b3)

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Flash Video Downloader
May 15 2007
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MR.ASH  Doesen't work for me. Tested with a lot of sites including flash video but nothing can be downloaded. Always getting the error "invalid site" >:-(

Good idea, bad app.  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Flash Video Downloader
May 15 2007

TESSERACT SOFTWARE  Mr. Ash, if you are having trouble downloading a video you should try emailing me or posting a "trouble" not a "review" because it is possible that you did something wrong, that there is something wrong with the site you are trying to get the videos from, that the site you tried is not supported, etc.

Also, the error message is not "invalid site", its "Error: The url is either invalid or not supported". My guess is that the website that you were trying to download videos from is not supported.

Please email me (tesseractsoftware[at]gmail.com) or reply to this post with the url's that you are having trouble with and I'll try to figure out what went wrong.   
(Version 1.3.2)

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Feb 14 2007
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MR.ASH  Doesen't the Interface looks ecxactly the same as HandBrake? Very bad copy with less features.  
(Version 0.8.0b1)

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Feb 14 2007

THEMORIOLES  Mediafork is an update to Handbrake, not a copy of handbrake so it makes sense that the user interface would be similar.

Most of the work is under the hood, adding 640xXXX h264 for the iPod, multiple disk images at one time, etc. The update libraries should result in better encoding.

I have used the software a couple of times and have great success.

I highly suggest this UPDATE to handbrake.  
(Version 0.8.0b1)

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Feb 14 2007

WGEER  Can you tell me how you uploaded this mp4 in to your itunes? I've tried the whole File, Add to Library thing and no luck.

Thanks,

Walt  
(Version 0.8.0b1)

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aMule
Dec 30 2006
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MR.ASH  At first a bit complicated use but way better then xMule, xDonkey & co.

Thanks to help on http:www.amule.org i could configure my Firefox browser so that ed2k links will be handeld directly ba amule, one klick and te download starts.

Keep up the good work.  
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VMware Fusion
Dec 26 2006
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MR.ASH  I expected much of VMWare and now i'm very disapointed. Compared to the PC/Linux version VMWare for OSX much less features.

I hoped that i could import and use my VM machines from Windows on my Mac, but it's impossible to import any of them. It's also impossible to open a windows installation witch was made with Bootcamp.

For now i can only recommend Parallels for OSX wich has all features you need.  
(Version Build 36932)

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DVD2oneX
Dec 16 2006
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MR.ASH  Great app but very ugly user interface. Unfortunatly a bit too expensive and when you have Toast 7 this app is usless cause Toast 7 does the same job.  
(Version 2.1.1)

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Dec 9 2006
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MR.ASH  Very good tool just like AppZapper but for free.

Uninstallation of most tools & legacy files like prefs etc works very good and saves you a lot of time.

Maybe other tools are doing a better job and can even uninstall more stuff but not for free!

For simple use uApp is the best.  
(Version 1.3)

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Dec 10 2006

EAGLELOUK  uApp can find more stuff than AppZapper.  
(Version 1.3)

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Dec 11 2006

MIKE RATT  Sorry, but that's not true at all.  
(Version 1.3)

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Subtitler
Nov 12 2006
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MR.ASH  Try Miyu witch is for free and much better than this piece of software junk.  
(Version 1.7.8)

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LiquidCD
Sep 16 2006
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MR.ASH  Good app but "Burn" is better ( http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21992 ).  
(Version 1.28)

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OpenOffice.org
Sep 2 2006
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MR.ASH  Very good software suite and it's free! Works hand in hand with most Micro$oft formats with a few little beauty faults.

Unfortunatlly OpenOffice is not very user friendly and uses the X11 window system. Especialy beginners have lots of problems with OpenOffice. Why isn't there a real OSX version like for Window$ or Linux?

I recommend to try NeoOffice. It bases on Java and OpenOffice and provides a much more user friendly interface. It's almost to have a real OSX app in front of you and it's free too.  
(Version 2.0.3)

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OpenOffice.org
Sep 3 2006

YOXI  Just to clarify, NeoOffice is not 'based on java' but uses some java calls on top of (almost entirely) C code and cocoa to draw windows etc. without needing X11 to run. This X11 version is therefore a little more speedy than NeoOffice, especially on older macs, but NeoOffice is better integrated with OSX. Speed/usability you can decide on for yourself, as you can install them side by side and try both - personally I find it useful to have both for that reason (e.g. on my old powerbook, running macros or a search/replace on a large doc is a lot faster in X11 but I prefer NeoOffice for pretty much everything else).  
(Version 2.0.3)

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OpenOffice.org
Sep 3 2006

ABRAHAM IRAWAN  thanks

well i heard openoffice is going to release w/o X11 req. going to wait...

right now i'm using neooffice  
(Version 2.0.3)

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CrossOver Mac
Sep 2 2006
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MR.ASH  This Software doesn't work for me. I tried the latest beta on my MacBook but it's impossible to install and launch any Windows app. The only thing that happens is, my CPU runs at 100% and nothing more, no installation and no running program, absolutly nothing!

Take an example from Parallels for Mac cause this software works perfectly.  
(Version 6.0b1a)

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MacMAME
Jan 11 2006
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MR.ASH  OK, as suggested i've updated all my ROM's (about 120) and still half of them won't run on MacMame 0.103u2. I could live with that issue cause most not running ROM's aren't too good games.

But why, please tell my why isn't it possible to configure USB joypads anymore? Without this function most games are absolutly unplayable. Using the Mac keyboard isn't an option either or have you ever tried to play "Metal Slug" with a keyboard? It's impossible.  
(Version 0.103u2)

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MacMAME
Dec 30 2005
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MR.ASH  Now that's the absolutly worst version of MacMame ever! Half of the ROM's won't work anymore, it's not possible to configure any USB joypads, and for some reasons (no matter what i do) the direction buttons down and right seem to hang, so in every game my character moves to thr lower-right corner of the screen without touching any button!

This version realy sucks! The last good working version was 0.77u2a  
(Version 0.103)

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