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Better keep an eye on your ratios. Last time I used Transmission with a private tracker, it submitted bad stats, my ratio suddenly went from about 2.5 to negative 9 billion, and obviously my account got disabled. I learned my lesson, went back to Azureus, and even though it still drives me nuts how much of my CPU and memory it consumes, at least it doesn't get me kicked off any trackers. I really want to like Transmission, as it is such a dream to use compared to the bloated heap of Java (i.e. turd) that is Azureus, but I won't be trusting it with any torrents from private trackers (on which I've spent months or years building up my ratio) anytime soon. |
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Although the idea of an iTunes controller that looks like a 5G iPod is kind of cute, it would be impractical at best -- if it worked properly. I tried this out briefly, and found it is nearly impossible to control it with circular motions around the clickwheel, and couldn't get it to actually do anything. Even if it actually worked, this is the sort of thing I would delete within a few minutes, upon realizing that iTunes' default mini player window is far more practical and convenient. This is pretty bad. Good luck charging people $10 for it. You couldn't pay me to use this. |
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I understood the original comment; it was just worded badly. If you must insert "no doubt" into every sentence, put commas around it. ;) |
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35 bucks? Ha. Good luck. |
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Still the best. |
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This was a great idea for an app, but its future now seems uncertain. The company website is still up, and it looks like they have a new app called "Acrylic" on the horizon (presumably some sort of painting app?), so apparently they are still active, but iVideo hasn't been updated in two and a half years, and there is no sign that an Intel-native version is even under development -- and the company blog was last updated in 2006. I hope to see this product developed further, or a similar one introduced by another developer. |
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That probably will not work, as .plist files are usually binary now (not text, as they were back in 10.3 and earlier), so they would not be editable with something like TextWrangler. You have to use Apple's Property List Editor, part of the developer tools, or another tool that understands the binary .plist format. |
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People still use PINE? Wow. Why? |
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Useless. Doesn't work at all. Keeps telling me "file not found", when the file is very clearly there. |
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A handy little tool, but way overpriced. I would gladly pay $12.95 for this, but no more. I really only use a couple of the features, so it's just not worth it for me. |
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It's just like iTunes, except it's $25 instead of free, and sucks! Where do I sign up? By the way, nobody cares about WMA support. The whole world uses MP3s or AACs. For anything else that iTunes doesn't handle, there are plenty of freeware converters available (e.g. MacFLAC and XLD). |
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Songbird is a neat idea. I've been following its progress over the last couple of years. It's clearly not ready to be reviewed yet, as it has not even reached the beta-testing stage (this is still very much alpha software), so I would suggest that any ratings given to it on MacUpdate so far should be deleted. That said, from what I've seen, this software has not come very far from where it was two years ago, and doesn't look like it's going anywhere anytime soon. I doubt this will ever mature into a great product, but would be happy to be pleasantly surprised. |
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Gonna have to agree with the developer and jerrodho here. $10 is really not that steep; the software does provide a lot of features, and these days, a lot of other companies are charging much higher prices for simple little apps that do a lot less. |
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$20 for this? You've got to be kidding. TinkerTool is freeware and does most of the same stuff. |
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Thanks, it works! I recently found a "fix" to get the preference pane working in Leopard, but it didn't work for me. This "official" fix works great though. |
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Netscape 4 was the best browser in its day, but at this point I'm surprised they're still bothering to release new versions. I think it's time to stop beating this dead horse. Put a fork in it and let it die already; nobody has used this browser for years. |
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Twitter seemed really fun and cool at first, and Twitterific was a brilliant free program that made it that much better. And then they decided to start charging for it...which is fair enough, of course, as they spend time developing it, but $15 is simply a rip off for this very basic program. I would have gladly paid $5 or maybe even $7 for this, but $15 is just over the top for one little window that can't even remember its contents between launches and makes me keep marking the same messages read everytime I start it up. And to me, there's no point in even using Twitter if I have to keep going to a webpage to check it every time. Net result: I simply stopped using Twitter. I think it could have really taken off if this great client remained free and was cross platform, but I find the ads irritating, was annoyed that I had to keep marking the same messages read everytime, and found it surprisingly slow to start up for such a simple little app, adding that much more of a delay between when I log in to my computer, and when I can start actually doing anything (several other programs also launch at login, and Twitterific's surprisingly slow startup time added a not-insignificant extra delay to the process). At some point this client stopped being about bringing something new and cool to everyone, and the focus was shifted to making money rather than providing a quality product. That's when it started to go downhill. Granted, the actual Twitter service itself has not become commercial, but like I said, to me it's useless if I have to keep checking a webpage; it really needs a decent client, and sadly, Twitterific stopped being decent right around the same time it started costing way too much money. Quite frankly it's not that much of a disappointment anyway; over the year or so that I used Twitter, it slowly morphed from timely quotes and tidbits and links to cool things, to a boring play-by-play of the most mundane aspects of people's lives (e.g. "Just got out of bed. Time for coffee." or "Dropping the kids off at school." ... good lord, who cares?!). I think we lost the point of this somewhere. But this is just one person's experience. |
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Nice and clean? Are you sure you're talking about GraphicConverter? It's a disaster; just look at the preferences, for starters. At one time, the UI of GraphicConverter looked relatively "Mac-like", but that was long before the switch to OS X. If anything, it still looks very much like an old Classic app that has just been kludged to work in Apple's new OS (which is basically true). With OS X being out for over 6 years now, that's just unacceptable. This app is an old dinosaur; it has shown no improvement whatsoever in the UI department in the last 10 years. |
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Although I originally paid for this app, I hadn't used it in a couple years. Today I launched it, was notified of an update, and went to the site to download it, only to discover that my "free updates for life" have now been terminated, and now I have to pay again. I would complain about this incredibly dishonest behavior, but it's kind of a moot point, as the new version won't even start up. It just bounces in the Dock forever and ever. Deleted. |
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Haha. I love how "Create new website" is a single task. This is exactly why simple to-do lists don't work. They quickly turn into a landfill for abandoned projects whose steps were never clarified. Nice design though. I like the way you can grab and drag to reorder items. Would be nice to be able to select multiple items at once to move/delete them as a group, and it seems to me that it would be a lot more useful if it integrated with the to-do items created in Mail/iCal, but it's kind of a moot point as I really don't get any benefit out of lists like this anyway. Nonetheless, if anyone is just looking for a very simple to-do list and doesn't plan to use it very heavily, this might fit the bill. I don't have any use for it myself, but I always appreciate a well-designed widget. If nothing else, it got me to take a look at Magnetism's other widgets too (and the other ones look pretty nice too). |
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This is a great tool. It has a nice, clean interface, it works well, and it's freeware. I'm not a fan of the new name though. I suppose the old name didn't really give you an idea of what it does, but I've gotta say, the new one sucks! To "mangle" something means to damage or mutilate it in an unintended manner. Who would want that! That aside, I recommend this tool for all your batch file renaming needs. |
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This feature existed in Default Folder for many years before Apple copied it and added it to the Finder. I didn't realize this feature was available in Windows; I never noticed it before, and most likely it existed in Default Folder long before it was on Windows either. Doesn't hurt to actually have a look at the options when you install a new program, as there is a rather obvious setting to control this feature. |
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Any Mac user who knows anything about Japanese knows that this is the best Japanese-English dictionary for the Mac, period. I've been using it since 2004; I've tried every other one that has been released since then, and none of them come anywhere close to JEDict. Apple's Dictionary in OS X 10.5 actually has several Japanese-related dictionaries that are also quite excellent, and I recommend using those as well, but anyone who is at all serious about studying the language should really have JEDict too. I use both (and a handheld electronic one too), and they complement each other pretty well. By the way, the browser feature is actually extremely useful if you take the time to learn why it was included in a dictionary. Try loading up any Japanese web page, select some text on the page, and the sidebar pops out with translations and definitions. And it's hardly "bloat"; WebKit views (i.e. the Safari engine) are provided by the OS, and very easily added to any Mac OS X application. |
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This site is not live streaming TV channels as it suggests. It's just an archive of video clips taken from TV, some of which are months old. Totally useless. |
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Default Folder has not been around since the 80s. I believe the first version was released in 1996. Anyway, I agree; Default Folder still rocks! I've been using it since the System 7 days too, and it has remained one of my essential add-ons over the years. |
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Well, it's not looking good so far... When ScrobblePod is "scrobbling" (submitting played tracks to Last.fm), iTunes completely locks up, and its CPU usage shoots up to 100%. Scrobbling *one song* usually takes 30 seconds or longer; in the meantime, while iTunes continues to play, you cannot control it at all, and its display does not update; it's spinning beachball time until ScrobblePod is finished. This happes after every song and becomes frustrating very quickly. Needs work. I don't recommend using it until the massive CPU spike and total iTunes lockup after EVERY song gets fixed. |
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Nice to see a new alternative to the official Last.fm bloatware, and iScrobbler. I hope this one works out, as I'm looking to get rid of iScrobbler (which has also turned into bloatware, and hasn't really worked properly since 1.1). |
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Just tried version 2.0. When I launch the program, it crashes immediately. Tried it twice, then deleted it. |
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I've been using this for about a year and a half now. It's much better than running the whole bloated Last.fm software (which I have to say is really awful), but lately iScrobbler is going downhill too. I've been having a problem where it keeps queueing tracks for submission, but it won't actually send them until I quit iScrobbler and relaunch it. That's been happening since the last 1.x version; now we have "2.0" with a useless new "local lists" feature that seems like it will take a week of CPU time to finish computing its stats, and meanwhile that submission bug is still not fixed. Now in the last couple of betas, we have lost the "Statistics" menu item, so now I can't even tell how many tracks have not been submitted anymore. Meanwhile, the "loved/banned" feature has never really worked properly. After you add 10 songs to either of those lists, it stops letting you add any more. The UI has some major problems in that area too. iScrobbler seems to be getting worse with every release. I hope they turn it around soon. It used to at least be a good, lightweight tool for submitting tracks in the background, until that stopped working reliably too. |
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Garbage. I tried to use iBiz 2 (starting when it was still called iWork), and experienced nothing but frustration with its endless stream of bugs and problems that were either replaced with new ones or never resolved. Eventually iBiz 3 appeared, and sure enough, many of the problems I had reported with iBiz 2 were STILL not fixed. I paid nearly $40 CAD for this junk; I thought it was overpriced, but needed something like this for my business, and at first glance it seemed nicer than the alternatives. But soon I discovered it had serious problems, such as miscalculations and data loss. One would be "fixed" and another one would turn up. No one could trust its numbers enough to actually use it for tracking time and billing clients (in other words, it's completely useless). What a waste of time and money. I find it hilarious that the price has actually gone UP as the quality of the software remains consistently poor. Billings is vastly superior, and even Studiometry (which I don't particularly like) is at least reliable and does what it's supposed to do. This developer has proven himself incompetent and incapable of creating a quality, reliable application. iBank is even worse; you know you're in the wrong business when you can't even write software that does math properly, despite the fact that a computer doing all the actual computation. Do yourself a BIG favor and steer clear of IGG's terrible software. |
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Don't review software you have never used. Your comments are valid, but your ratings are not. |
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Obviously you have no idea what DragThing does. |
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Insignificant update, hardly worthy of the "6.0" moniker. An obvious cash grab. Once upon a time, this program was great, but it's been a disorganized mess for many years now. It has never felt like an OS X app, and the developer is either unaware of how awful and outdated the user interface has become, or simply unable to fix it himself. Lemke needs to either hire a great UI designer, stat, or put this old dog to sleep. It's not that it's useless -- it's just that it's no more useful now than it was 5 years ago, and no less ugly. And seriously...what's with the ripoff upgrades? I'll give you money when you deliver an upgrade that's actually worth paying for. |
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Absolutely hideous. |
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This latest update seems to have broken support for the NHL radio streams. They always worked perfectly fine until I installed 2.1.1.70; now the browser plugin locks up everytime the ad at the beginning is played. No longer works in any browser, so it's definitely the browser plugin that's broken. |
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Why do they even bother releasing new versions of this garbage? I bought an MX Revolution a few months ago, and NO versions of LCC worked. At ALL. It's completely worthless -- do yourself a favor, don't even bother trying to install it. Just grab SteerMouse and save yourself hours of headaches. |
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Sweet. I'm glad somebody stepped in to restore the intentionally-crippled functionality of iSync. Tiger was a big step *backward* for syncing. Who the hell cares about .Crap? I'd like to see all traces of that overpriced nonsense removed from my system. |
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This is such a great idea! I've been using it for a couple years; it works perfectly, and gets updated regularly. Can't beat the price either. |
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Yeah, this feature was added well over a year ago. |
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The cache disabling feature seems silly to me. The whole point of a cache is to increase performance, therefore disabling the cache will slow things down, if anything. Nobody is going to pay $8 for this. |
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Just wanted to mention that the hotkey problem I posted about earlier has been resolved. A change was made in 3.0.3 to prevent keyboard shortcuts without modifier keys, which inadvertently blocked using individual F keys as shortcuts. The developer had a fix for me within an hour of my support request -- impressive service! |
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Nice. The version for my phone (K510) doesn't look as good as the screenshots; I've got a striped background instead of the clean white style, and boxes instead of tabs (even though other K510 themes have tabs). Still nice though -- and it's hard to find decent Sony Ericsson themes. Most of them are ugly as all hell. This one I can actually use. |
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Hotkeys are broken in 3.0.3. I used to have F1 through F8 set as hotkeys to open my favorite folders, and these no longer work. It was broken in the 3.0.3 betas, so I reverted to 3.0.2, thinking it was a bug, but now the final 3.0.3 release is out and the feature is still broken. I don't know whether other hotkeys are still valid (and don't care, as I'm not willing to change the hotkeys I've been using for several years), but F keys definitely don't work anymore. It still accepts them in the "Set Hotkey" dialog sheet, but they don't appear in the hotkey column of the favorites list. I've emailed St. Clair support about it; hopefully we'll see a fix for it soon. I'm surprised none of the beta testers noticed this; I should have filed a bug report about it when I encountered it before, but was busy and just wanted to get it working again, so I simply reverted to 3.0.2. |
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Hoping to use this with my new MX Revolution, since LCC doesn't work at all. But so far this isn't working either. USB Overdrive doesn't recognize my Logitech mouse. I definitely removed every single file installed by LCC and have rebooted at least twice since then. No dice. |
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Can't get the software to work. I bought an MX Revolution today, downloaded LCC 2.1.3, and installed it. The mouse worked immediately after I plugged in the USB dongle (before installing any software), and the tracking seems to be smooth. The software, on the other hand, doesn't work at all. The LCC preference pane is there, but says the same thing everyone else has been complaining about: "No Logitech device found." I've repeatedly installed, uninstalled and reinstalled 2.1.3, 2.1.1, and 2.1.0, and they all produce that same result. I also tried manually uninstalling it by removing each file mentioned in the readme (thinking that perhaps the uninstaller works about as well as the rest of the software). I'm now fed up and tired of rebooting, and going to try USB Overdrive instead. The mouse itself is solid, feels and works beautifully. Logitech makes great hardware, but really should fire all of its Mac developers (if it even has dedicated ones) and just hire Alessandro Montalcini (USB Overdrive author, on which Microsoft Intellipoint is based). Oh, and do something about that fugly logo. Did someone's five year old daughter draw that in school? Seriously. |
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Smart Scroll was one of my essential add-ons in the classic Mac OS, adding proportional scroll thumbs, live scrolling and general scrollwheel support before it was built into the system. Mac OS X handles all of these things on its own, so there really isn't a need for Smart Scroll in OS X -- or so I thought, until I tried it. Smart Scroll X is really a different product altogether, and adds several very welcome features for scrolling in OS X apps. The $20 price tag seems a bit high for what it does, but this is quality software that works very well. The scrolling in OS X ain't broke, but I'm still glad someone fixed it. Try it; you might be surprised. |
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Looks like a useful tool, although it is still very basic. It's way overpriced for a specialized audio editor though. The only real strength it has compared to other editors is that it can do lossless editing of compressed audio files. In other words, it's an MP3/AAC trimmer/splitter/normalizer, and that's all it can do. Compared to Amadeus Pro -- a general audio editor that is far more capable and only costs $40 -- Fission should not cost any more than $20. The normalization feature added in 1.1 is welcome (in fact, the program was borderline useless without this very basic feature), but it doesn't work on AAC files yet. Trying to normalize an AAC file gives the error: "An error in packet decoding occurred." Even if this bug gets fixed, I still won't consider buying Fission until the price comes down. |
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