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Real Name:Robert 
Homepage:http://osx.iusethis.com/iconbonanza/dreamcore 
Last Login:29 Dec 2008 13:05
Posts:69
Reviews:9
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OnMyCommand
Oct 22 2009

ROBERT  http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/macosx_10_6_snow_leopard_and_contextual_menu_plugins.html  
(Version 2.1)

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AIM for Mac
Jul 30 2009

ROBERT  Despite all the vitriol here, I'm seeing huge improvements in the official Mac client.

Can this one format spaces in your screen name?

Or do we still need to keep 4.7 around for that?

I'm not going to lie; like many, I don't actually use the official client, but it's great to have a decent one, anyhow--even if you personally only use it to set up various small features of your account before switching to Adium.   
(Version 2.0b2)

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Xslimmer
Jul 29 2009

ROBERT  Would your contempt for the purpose of this program preclude you from contributing to my SSD fund?  
(Version 1.6.5)

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Xslimmer
Jul 29 2009

ROBERT  I don't know why this is modded down. This is a correct observation.  
(Version 1.6.5)

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BlueHarvest
Mar 3 2009

ROBERT  System Preferences throws up a sheet saying that this pref pane cannot be installed.

10.4.11 on a G3 PPC  
(Version 2.0.5)

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PassportPicture
Feb 8 2009

ROBERT  U.S. nationals can submit their own photos, or with any photographer they like, as long as the photos meet the physical, and somewhat more subjective image requirements. When applying for the U.S. passport, officials will look at the photos, and the person or other evidence and determine if they are acceptable--detailed guidelines for photographers are at the travel.state.gov site mentioned above.

When I did mine last year, I did look at this app, tried an online site, as well as a command-line app (passportpicture). I ended up opting for laying out the shots in Photoshop, then using the kodakgallery.com to send it to a pharmacy across the street to print 4x6s to cut up. I had the results I wanted.

If you don't want to play with this, and wish to get it done very cheaply and quickly, I'd recommend getting just getting it done at Costco as well.   
(Version 1.4b1)

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Google Earth
Feb 3 2009

ROBERT  No, they really mean it. Doesn't run on G3.

Failed to load "/Applications/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGGfx.dylib" because "dlopen(/Applications/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGGfx.dylib, 9): no suitable image found. Did find:

/Applications/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGGfx.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper"  
(Version 5.0.11337.1968 )

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Google Earth
Feb 3 2009

ROBERT  @HARRISTYPE

Why be surprised it runs at all, when his only deviation from the stated requirements is a slower clock?

While Apple is currently linking and referring to v5.0, I found they are still listing it with v4.3 system requirements, which I reproduce here:

System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later

500MHz PowerPC G3 processor or higher

400MB hard disk space

16MB video RAM

1024 x 768 screen resolution (32-bit color)

Broadband Internet connection

Significant jump in the CPU requirement for v5.0.

I found v4.3 usable in a pinch, but far from silky smooth on a 900MHz G3 iBook.

Google Updater isn't seeing the Google Earth v4.3 on it at all, so it isn't recommending an upgrade. Google Earth itself, however, reports that there is an "Optional Update" to 5.0.11337.1968, which, with a version number like that, I may just have to try.  
(Version 5.0.11337.1968 )

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Quicksilver
Jan 12 2009
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ROBERT  I'm rediscovering Quicksilver after using it for years mostly as a launcher and Address Book interface. Doing more things immediately on the keyboard in its Bezel interface that I used to do by switching applications and to a mouse and back.

And I'm still amazed by it and finding out what I can do. Best interface contribution to computing since the mouse.

To answer some questions here, Quicksilver went open-source about a year ago. There is continued maintenance of Quicksilver b5X, and the start of something new (Google Code braintree-alchemy). This version on MacUpdate may still be what you want to use for the time being, if you're not having troubles.

For more info, google last year's interview on lifehacker. To improve performance, google Quicksilver Performance Issues on the Mac. To learn how to use QS better, check Dan Dickinson's intermediate Quicksilver tutorial.  
(Version 1.0b54)

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Quicksilver
Jan 12 2009

ROBERT  In any case, now it's a single normal Cocoa app on a DMG.

(build 3815)  
(Version 1.0b54)

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Quicksilver
Jan 12 2009

ROBERT  Are you bored?  
(Version 1.0b54)

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ChocoFlop
Jan 12 2009

ROBERT  And Cocoa, and FLOating Point operations (Core Image). What'd you think it meant?  
(Version 0.903)

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MacIrssi
Dec 29 2008

ROBERT  Crashes on launch, on my iBook 900:

Thread: Unknown

Link (dyld) error:

incompatible cpu-subtype

Ironically, a major reason I choose irssi over other irc clients is because of its low cpu usage and system requirements.  
(Version 0.8.5.8)

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MacIrssi
Jan 7 2009

DAAGAAK  MacIrssi only supports G4 or newer processors at the moment. Though I do concede that I don't mention that on the website.  
(Version 0.8.5.8)

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CoolIris
Dec 26 2008

ROBERT  Yeah, does look me that Cooliris, with this new version, is pre-empting your install onto Safari 3.2.0, so you can avoid just the sort of mayhem described in the last several reviews below...   
(Version 1.9.1.17582)

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CoolIris
Dec 26 2008
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ROBERT  I'm pretty amazed at the performance of this on my iBook (900MHz G3, 10.4.11).

Developers of any eye-candy sort of app are quick to drop support for 10.4... but G3? Wow. It is totally usable and useful on it, it actually saves time if you do Google image searches and the like.

(I, too, had tried PicLens, and wasn't so impressed with it at that time.)  
(Version 1.9.1.17582)

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CoolIris
Dec 26 2008

ROBERT  I don't know -- but you really should update that Safari to 3.2.1.

3.2 had all sorts of problems, particularly with third-party plugins and whatnot.  
(Version 1.9.1.17582)

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AddressBookSync
Dec 5 2008
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ROBERT  Reading the changelog for 1.1, it appears that the author is incorporating much of what I imagined was lacking in 1.0, to make an app as powerful as FacebookSync, but in an easier-to-use Mac-like interface.

There's one more feature that is new for 1.1, however. Crash on launch. (G3, 10.4.11)  
(Version 1.1)

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HakoreSMS
Dec 3 2008

ROBERT  The widget seems to be truncating phone numbers, rather than parsing out spaces, etc.

i.e. my numbers in Address Book are formatted like: +48 6xx xx xx xx

but the widget just cuts it off to something like: +48 6xx xx x  
(Version 1.7)

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HakoreSMS
Jul 1 2009

ANONYMOUS  this is fixed in 2.x version  
(Version 2.0)

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Menu Extra Enabler
Dec 3 2008

ROBERT  MenuCracker is open source, and generally doesn't require a separate install by the end-user. (A copy is inside the package of the menu extra you are running.)  
(Version 1.0.4)

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PersonalBrain
Nov 28 2008

ROBERT  I'm guessing he meant MindNode Pro...  
(Version 5.0.0.8b)

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Apple Safari
Nov 24 2008

ROBERT  (I'm on the 10.4 version.)  
(Version 3.2.1)

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Apple Safari
Nov 24 2008

ROBERT  Well, this one works, as long as you get your copy of PithHelmet 2.8.3a out of the way. (Dig it out of the SIMBL plug-ins and put it aside.)

SafariStand works, opening multiple tabs works, turning on the anti-phishing feature seems to work, too.   
(Version 3.2.1)

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Apple Safari
Nov 24 2008

ROBERT  (I'm on the 10.4 version.)  
(Version 3.2.1)

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Apple Safari
Nov 18 2008

ROBERT  Apple should take as longer to release 4.0 if they can avoid it rolling out like this did.  
(Version 3.2)

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Camino
Nov 18 2008

ROBERT  Well... Camino 2.0 should be a major update, as it finally gets the page layout, js, and graphics backend that's in Firefox 3.x.  
(Version 1.6.5)

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Darwine
Jul 2 2008

ROBERT  If you had an Intel Mac and Darwine, you could run some Windows applications under OS X, without running a licensed (or pirated) copy of Windows.

This app just isn't for you.  
(Version 1.0)

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Erroneous
Nov 7 2007
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ROBERT  The keyboard controls are bizarre and counterintuitive. Once you figure them out, you'll find the app doesn't actually work.

Perhaps it did once, but not anymore. OS X 10.4.10  
(Version 2.2b1)

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btpd-front
Sep 10 2007

ROBERT  Besides being funny, I recognize the icon just fine. Topping Azerus, with a BSD daemon. Sort of obvious really.

Yours looks like a Terminal.app aid. At a stretch, maybe an icon for Macports or fink. Or a script for wget or curl.  
(Version 0.13b0185)

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3ivx MPEG-4
Sep 2 2007

ROBERT  report it to the developers, I'm sure they'll be interested  
(Version 5.0.1)

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RealPlayer
Aug 28 2007

ROBERT  It's just embedded WebKit, like any number of Mac apps that use it...  
(Version 10.1 (503))

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GreaseKit
Jul 23 2007

ROBERT  In the meantime, some scripts that have been tested to work in Creammonkey are here:

http://userscripts.org/tag/creammonkey  
(Version 1.0)

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GreaseKit
Jul 22 2007

ROBERT  My problem has apparently since been fixed in new versions.  
(Version 1.0)

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GreaseKit
Jul 22 2007

ROBERT  "As advertised"? Ohhhh that's not fair. He's clear about some stuff not working due to Safari's javascript implementation. But Safari is improving, and so is Creammonkey.

Check that the author of a script advertises Creammonkey compatibility, e.g. Greased Lightbox.  
(Version 1.0)

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Firefox
Jul 19 2007

ROBERT  Incidentally, if it's any help to anyone:

I "replaced" Web Developer Extension with shareware apps like CSSEdit,

replaced FireGPG with the existing OS X Services of Gpg Tools combined with ICeCoffEE, which gets me to GPG commands in the Services menu with a right-click,

and (partially) replaced the SU toolbar with some bookmarklets I put together at su.is.dreaming.org  
(Version 2.0.0.5)

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Firefox
Jul 19 2007

ROBERT  I'm a long time user of Stumbleupon, too. As much I like it and the Web Developer Extension, FireGPG, and others. I've had to switch to Safari and Camino, and find other solutions.

I have a slower Macs, and these XUL browsers (Firefox, SeaMonkey, Flock, etc) are intolerably clunky on them once they accumulate a few bookmarks and extensions.

It's not just the slowness, the several seconds it takes to open new windows, or the sometimes-they-work-sometimes-they-don't key commands, it's the poor matching to the Mac UI. The little things. You're editing a URL in the location bar, and the up-arrow does not go to the beginning of the field, nor does the down-arrow go to the end of the field, as it would in a real Mac application.

Of course, extension developers have less respect (and awareness) of the Mac UI, leading to all sorts of bizarre behavior, from sheets and dialogs with no visible means of dismissal, to key command conflicts with OS X.  
(Version 2.0.0.5)

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Netscape Navigator
Jul 14 2007

ROBERT  Accumulated bookmarks, history, and extensions bog down all of these browsers. In Firefox, create a new profile by launching Firefox with the Profile Manager before doing a comparison.  
(Version 9.0b2)

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Intaglio
Jul 9 2007
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ROBERT  I find it unstable and kind of sketchy. Ha ha. But really, in this range, it looks like Lineform > Intaglio.

It depends on what you want to do, and what formats you want to output to. For the best SVG compatibility, it's still all about Inkscape, even though it's an X11 app.   
(Version 2.9.5)

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Intaglio
Jul 11 2007

PURGATORY DESIGN  We're not aware of any stability issues with Intaglio but if you encounter a problem please send a report to Intaglio@PurgatoryDesign.com and we'll do our best to get it fixed.  
(Version 2.9.5)

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Intaglio
Jul 16 2007

APPLEDOGX  I have been a Lineform user since January. I just got Intaglio, but so far I love it. The bezier editing in Intaglio is much more intuitive and complete than in Lineform. They could learn a BIG lesson on that from Intaglio. Lineform's quirky and disappearing bezier handles are frustrating and have been one of the greatest reasons I rarely use it, but Intaglio seems to model its bezier behavior on Illustrator, which is quite logical and makes them easy to deal with. I find some features like option-dragging in Intaglio to be much more standard Mac-like behavior. So far I have no stability issues and I think Intaglio is a first-class gem of a very Mac-like application.  
(Version 2.9.5a)

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Nocturne
May 13 2007

ROBERT  You may also want to check out the AmunRaa Recording Studios' ShapeShifter themes, versions 1.1 and 1.2.  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Nocturne
May 13 2007

ROBERT  If you're on a CRT, possibly. On an LCD or flat screen, it depends on the particular technology...it can actually consume more energy.  
(Version 1.0.3)

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SuperPop
Apr 8 2007

ROBERT  The Orphan Preferences feature is ridiculous. I have 1476 such "orphaned" preferences on my system, and any cursory glance of them shows many preferences that are definitely not orphaned.

Even the first screenful of them reveals Mac OS X's own .GlobalPreferences as "orphaned" and invites you to delete it.

CleanApp is better than other apps in this category, but even with that one, it's best if you know what you're doing.  
(Version 1.0b2)

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Subliminal Message Pro
Apr 8 2007
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ROBERT  With which CPU and graphics cards do the timing selections test as accurate for pictures?

Every setting seems the same--actually the shorter settings seems longer, though this may be because of my expectation that they be less noticeable. I find every image readily recognizable and quite superliminal. Images are even more intrusive by the white background that is flashed around them to fill the entire screen.

Oddly, pictures must be kept in a fixed subfolder of ~/Documents instead of a selectable folder or even a subfolder in... ~/Pictures. To make your images available to the program, you can make an alias to your folder of images, move it under ~/Documents, and rename it to "SMPictures".  
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Subliminal Message Pro
May 6 2007

CHRIS REDDEN  Open up system preferences, go to displays and check the refresh rate your monitor is running at. Divide 1000 by your refresh rate. This number is the smallest increment, in milliseconds, that your monitor is capable of displaying a message for.

For example, a refresh rate of 60 Hz gives an increment of 16.7ms. This means the shortest amount of time the message can be displayed for is 16.7ms. The next increment up would be 33.3ms. The next would be 50ms. The slider in this application gives you the illusion that you have much finer control over the timing than you actually do, because your monitor only refreshes itself a fixed number of times per second (usually in the 50-100 range).  
(Version 4.6.1)

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btpd-front
Mar 29 2007

ROBERT  Thanks for replying: I'm using the updated version happily.

As for the locale problem, it was caused by losing the path setup with a recent fink update.  
(Version 0.12b0162)

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btpd-front
Mar 28 2007

ROBERT  Hi, I've installed btpd versions many times in the past -- I do a full install each time with OS X installer since internal updating mechanism failed for me when I tried it. In the last two or three builds, the lower buttons in the GUI sidebar for starting/stopping the daemon are gone. Yesterday, I installed 160, and since then I've been getting perl locale errors in bash... ??  
(Version 0.12b0160)

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btpd-front
Mar 29 2007

BARONE ROSSO  just uploaded 0162; sorry, it was a stupid bug in English vesion.

Perl locale errors; btpd-front doesn't use perl and btpd too and its installer doesn't move, replace or update any original system file.  
(Version 0.12b0160)

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btpd-front
Mar 29 2007

ROBERT  Thanks for replying: I'm using the updated version happily.

As for the locale problem, it was caused by losing the path setup with a recent fink update.  
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Videobox
Mar 21 2007

ROBERT  Yep, that's what I use. For a while I didn't know it was SafariStand that provided the ⌘-clicking ability, and I figured it was an undocumented feature of Safari.

Perian is great, too. A lot of people were waiting for Apple to do what that provides.  
(Version 0.9b3)

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Apple iTunes
Mar 7 2007

ROBERT  A reminder: Older versions of iTunes will likely fail to authorize any iTunes Store protected items...  
(Version 7.1)

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Mar 5 2007

ROBERT  Wow, really? I recommend SuperCal.

For me the real legibility problem isn't the dark motif at all, but his choice of Courier and a very wide fixed column of text. Then there's the weak English. You'd think someone --and particularly now, a company-- making a translation product would want to nail that.  
(Version 6.0)

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SeaMonkey
Feb 28 2007

ROBERT  Firefox is getting slower and slower due to accumulated bookmarks and add-ons. Start a fresh profile in Firefox and you'll see what I mean.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#Mac_OS_X  
(Version 1.1.1)

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Amaya
Feb 28 2007

ROBERT  More like the litter box.  
(Version 9.54)

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iScrobbler
Feb 28 2007

ROBERT  Same thing happens with me every time.

v1.5 test 2 and test 3, too.

The menu item appears, it drops a single menu, but nothing on it works at all, including Quit.

Launch Activity Manager, select iScrobbler and quit it there. Use Spotlight to trash iScrobbler and its support files.   
(Version 1.2.1t1)

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MP3-Info CMM
Feb 8 2007

ROBERT  But what would that have to do with mp3 info?  
(Version 1.4)

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Spyder
Jan 4 2007

ROBERT  I only have about 70 or 80 friends. I can still get a sense of how painfully slow and demanding this app would be if I had a lot.  
(Version 1.3.7)

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AddressBook Exporter
Jan 3 2007

ROBERT  The name of "AddressBook Exporter" (v1.0) is very easy to confuse with "Address Book Exporter" (v2.1.2)  
(Version 1.0)

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Ready-Set-Do!
Dec 29 2006

ROBERT  87MB for scripts? Wow!

"NOTE: OS X must be set to "English" language & formats to "U.S." or else scripts won't work."

Oh.

Is AppleScript necessarily like that?  
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iSafe
Dec 22 2006

ROBERT  Ah yes, a little program called Keychain Access seems to do something similar :)

Sometimes Keychain Access loses everything on a keychain though when it becomes corrupt, as my login keychain did recently.

There's a bunch of free and shareware general purpose notebook which feature strong encryption that will do, besides Yohimbo. Journler could do it, and it's free. A more flexible option, and if your records aren't stored in one-big-database, should be safer to use.

I personally find apps which feature encryption as well as misspellings or typos in the GUI elements to be too dodgy to use. Sorry, iSafe.  
(Version 1.8)

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Whamb
Dec 18 2006
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ROBERT  You're better off with Xiph and Perian for QT, and VLC.   
(Version 1.2)

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GreaseKit
Dec 16 2006

ROBERT  I wish I knew why this isn't working for me.

10.4.8, Safari 2.0.4, G3.

The GUI works, I have the :) menu and see the scripts checked, but none of the scripts I've loaded are actually affecting pages. JS is on, of course. Tried moving my other InputManagers out of the way and re-logging in. I've only loaded scripts that supposedly work in Creammmonkey (Greased Lightbox, and others tagged "creammonkey" at userscripts.org).  
(Version 0.8)

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GreaseKit
Jul 22 2007

ROBERT  My problem has apparently since been fixed in new versions.  
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Do It
Dec 10 2006

ROBERT  Has Omicron also "taken" X?  
(Version 1.7)

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Say
Dec 5 2006

ROBERT  Say what?  
(Version 0.3b)

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DRM Dumpster
Nov 18 2006

ROBERT  Heh. The way people are writing in this thread, someone reading might think the only things that played back standard MPEG-4 audio were iTunes Store licensed gear :p  
(Version 1.1)

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btpd-front
Nov 17 2006

ROBERT  Privoxy users: toggle Privoxy off to download btpd-front from here.  
(Version 0.12b064)

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DivX Pro
Nov 15 2006

ROBERT  Seriously.

For playback in QuickTime, consider Perian; outside QuickTime, VLC.

For DivX-compatible encoding in QuickTime, consider 3ivx and MPEG Streamclip; outside QuickTime, ffmpegX, VisualHub, or other mencoder/ffmpeg tools.  
(Version 6.5.2)

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DivX Pro
Nov 15 2006

BRUCE_Y  Excellent suggestions there, Robert, for alternative media players. I did not know about Perian - good one.

Thank you for the leads. 8-)  
(Version 6.5.2)

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GnuPG
Sep 7 2006

ROBERT  This package (GnuPG) is the main program, and--strictly speaking--all you need to use GnuPG encryption.

However, unless you work entirely in the command-line environment or are very fond of copy-and-paste, you'll like some additional software that will plug GnuPG into your GUI apps.

(PGP would release all this sort of stuff themselves as an integrated package, whereas with GnuPG you pick and choose the pieces you need.)

You'll likely want the GUI apps that the MacGPG project supplies.

Then you'll likely want a plug-in for your mail application:

e.g. If you use Mail.app, you'll also want GPGMail. If you use Thunderbird or SeaMonkey, you'll want Enigmail.

There's likely a plug-in for your app.

More info: http://fiatlux.zeitform.info/en/instructions/pgp_macosx.html

[The software that is only of concern to developers is GPGME.]  
(Version 1.4.5)

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Amendment
Aug 25 2006

ROBERT  Nah. It just leaves nagging parts behind.

As for the app when it's installed, my review in June on another site was as follows:

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I tried it.

The key-combo selection wasn't a problem, it's customizable and it seems to make a reasonable choice to begin with, depending on whether you're on 10.3 or 10.4, etc.

While the app is attractive and stylish in the Cocoa fashion, and smartly introduced as a preference pane, I found it to be almost hilariously intrusive. Really, you have to try it, it's much worse than you would imagine by reading the description.

You know how you'd be typing along and you make a typo and you FEEL it before you even see it, and you automatically backup a space and correct it? You can't do that anymore. Even if the error happens at the beginning of a word, even if you decided to use a different word. The grey pop-up appears, it's insisting, and it's modal. You must deal with it and its interface NOW, but it doesn't know what you want, and won't get out of your way.

I uninstalled it in record time.

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Or so I thought, lol.  
(Version 0.6)

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Amendment
Aug 22 2006
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ROBERT  I uninstalled this most ridiculous concept in software minutes after installing, months ago. I don't even want to review this thing now, the only way I can understand it is if it were a joke.

Now, several weeks (months?) after the fact, a dialog began popping up with every new app I launch...

It had left behind an input manager...go to /Library/InputManagers/ and remove the Amendment folder there. If anyone knows of other droppings it leaves, please add.   
(Version 0.5)

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Amendment
Aug 25 2006

AWILKINSON1  You must have had a weird issue. Remember this is still Beta. I use Amendment every day and absolutely love it.   
(Version 0.6)

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Amendment
Aug 25 2006

ROBERT  Nah. It just leaves nagging parts behind.

As for the app when it's installed, my review in June on another site was as follows:

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I tried it.

The key-combo selection wasn't a problem, it's customizable and it seems to make a reasonable choice to begin with, depending on whether you're on 10.3 or 10.4, etc.

While the app is attractive and stylish in the Cocoa fashion, and smartly introduced as a preference pane, I found it to be almost hilariously intrusive. Really, you have to try it, it's much worse than you would imagine by reading the description.

You know how you'd be typing along and you make a typo and you FEEL it before you even see it, and you automatically backup a space and correct it? You can't do that anymore. Even if the error happens at the beginning of a word, even if you decided to use a different word. The grey pop-up appears, it's insisting, and it's modal. You must deal with it and its interface NOW, but it doesn't know what you want, and won't get out of your way.

I uninstalled it in record time.

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Or so I thought, lol.  
(Version 0.6)

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Create
Aug 1 2006

ROBERT  Apparently the dev hasn't tried using Create on an iBook's display.  
(Version 12.5.5)

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Snowman
Jul 30 2006

ROBERT  Activity Monitor:

Real Memory Size: 17.86 MB

Virtual Memory Size: 82.34 MB

Shared Memory Size: 11.05 MB

Private Memory Size: 2.43 MB

Virtual Private Memory: 27.23 MB  
(Version 1.0)

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SeaMonkey
Jul 27 2006

ROBERT  You're too late. The current logo was the winner of an open contest last year with many entries. http://dev.seamonkey.at/

Perhaps you would have preferred the original icon? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/rollercoasting/icons/seamonkeyicon.png  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Flock
Jul 3 2006

ROBERT  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060620 Firefox/1.5.0.4 Flock/0.7.1

Flock is a Firefox variant. Flock's page rendering is identical to Firefox.

I'm not going to call the original poster a liar or a troll... though I suggest we don't waste much time wondering why anyone would claim to have used every development version of an app they have no use for...  
(Version 0.7.1)

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DivX Pro
May 26 2006
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ROBERT  If after you install, you're wondering where it installed the DivX Browser Plug-In—check the Trash. Really :)  
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DivX Pro
May 26 2006

TIMBO13  It moves a PPC only version of the plugin to the trash during installation. It also installs a universial version of the web plugin in /Library/Internet-Plugins/

I'm not 100% sure if the PPC only version existed before the install... I know for damn sure I never installed DivX before, though. I did a clean install of OS X Tiger just a week ago and I know I didn't install any DivX.

To find everything it installed just use spotlight to search for "divx" in the /Library directory. There is also a ".xpt" file in Internet-Plugins which spotlight doesn't find. There is also 2 apps installed in /Applications  
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Gmailto
Dec 4 2005

ROBERT  No longer seems to work. Only loads the GMail login page, even if you're already logged in...

Google has since released Gmail Notifier, however, which can be chosen as a mailto: app, and seems to work fine for one account.  
(Version 2.0)

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