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CoolIris
Nov 14 2008
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ROOSTER  I used this when it was called PicLens on the PC. I really liked it and never had any problems with it. Along with their other product CoolPreviews it was great. I tried them both out in FireFox on a couple of my Macs and found them to be OK but I really wanted to use Safari and development/stability seemed to be a bit off in Safari. The last version of CoolIris (aka PicLens) was right on in Safari...it beat the heck out of browsing through pages of Google thumbnails looking for pictures and having to wait for another page to load and have a look at the picture. This is a great add-on to any browser and OS combo. it could use a little more user control/configuration but the concept is solid and a real improvement from an end-ser experience perspective. I have read of few of the other comments and I agree that i don't like the fact that it relies on input managers...for Safari...but is that the fault of the developer or the lack of an integrated plugin system in Safari to allow for feature expansion? I don't know! I think it fairly good and petty stable. blah...blah...blah :-)  
(Version 1.8.5.15841)

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servebox
Oct 15 2008

ROOSTER  I agree that this should come in an installer package instead of a download applet that doesn't give you a clue as to where things are going to be put and what it's going to do to your system.

It took me several tries and I kept getting errors similar to the ones posted earlier. Eventually it installed for no apparent reason...I hadn't done anything different other than double-click and cross my fingers.

On a positive note...I really like the idea of having this type of control in the GUI. This developer has a good idea and I hope to see further developments.

Please consider a standalone packages installer for the distribution and deployment of this solution. Also consider making this a single Preference Pane which i my opinion is where control panel like stuff belongs.

Thanks for the effort and a great idea!  
(Version 1.0)

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SyncMate
Sep 28 2008

ROOSTER  Has anyone ever been able to get his to work? Every version I have tried did absolutly nothing. The app would launch just fine but it would not see neither iPaq model i have.  
(Version 1.4.0.365)

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NTFS-3G
Sep 20 2008

ROOSTER  It takes a long time to copy files in all the versions. About twice as long for large monolithic files and even more time if its a folder with lots of smaller files. Its probably because this is an implementation of an older NT version. The current NTFS 6 version is a pretty good with all the bells and whistles you would expect from a modern file system (to bad WinFS), but I doubt the NTFS-3G dev could get to that NTFS 6 level without grief from M$. Anyway, The site is not informative enough and says it allows you to use 4G+ USB sticks. Big deal...FAT32 will do it and you will get decent performance. The issue is really,,,really large files...say you want to save a big 7GB ISO of a movie/game/etc....You need Apple's HFS or you have to use NTFS...If you go the NTFS route be prepared for long file transfer times and some occasional stability issues. For me it is worth it because I have several external FW and USB drives that contain common data and must be accessed from both Mac and Win depending on the situation. I like the idea of this driver but there are some pitfalls...be prepared to accept lower speed and occasional weirdness.  
(Version 1.2918)

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PocketMac Pro
Nov 1 2004

DAROOSTER  Yup! I too have had a good experience with this product. I tried MissingSync and PockMac 2 way back and decided that PocketMac was the lesser of two evils. I have a PB G4 17inch and a Palm Tungsten T3 which I don't like so I bought an iPaq 1340...wow what a cool little device. Now to make it play with my Mac. After some trial and error with both apps i found that both provided the same amounts of headaches but the PacketMac had way better feature set and interface...for me. I pretty much figured out everything on my own except for email. I contacted support and they responed promptly.  
(Version 3.43)

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Ittec
Oct 19 2002
****½

DAROOSTER  This rocks... it is exactly what I have been waiting for. I was a FinderPop user under Mac OS 9 and found that I missed the functionality of the so called "pintware) as the developer called it :-)

With this context menu item I can do things far more efficiently than with Apple's standard navigation features. In fact, I have hidden all my desktop volumes and the Dock... now I just use Ittec to go where ever and do whatever I need. Add to it customisable command like Copy To and Move To with a target area dialogue box and this will be a 5 start tool.  
(Version 1.4.2)

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MUMenu
Oct 19 2002
*****

DAROOSTER  This little menu bar item rocks. I am not fond of all the menu bar items that have been cropping up lately, but this gets its place on my menu. There seems to be this epidemic of stuff out now for the menu bar, but developers don't realise that the menu bar is finite and has to compete with application menu items.

Anyway, this one gets my thumbs up :-) The only thing I found lacking was in features like more advanced preferences.  
(Version 1.1)

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