Picasa | Nov 4 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Better RAW Support than Apple Aperture!!! WoW!!!!
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VirtualBox | Oct 29 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Ya This Apps is Great, But Has a Huge Fail! Don't Drag and Drop between the Guest OS and the native one!!!!!!
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VirtualBox | Oct 31 2009 |
SCOTTISHWILDCAT Hardly a "huge fail", I've been using VirtualBox for years and never missed this feature.
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Picasa | Sep 23 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Picasa IS A Killer App! It's Free!!! And even open my Raw Files that iPhoto and Apple Aperture CAN NOT! It's quite easy to use even if it can get better in that category, but it's amazingly powerfull for the price, FREE, not even iPhoto gets on it, if Picasa gets more integrated with the Mac OS X, Address Book integration and interface polish, it will certainly start to fight with some so called pro apps...
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ClamXav | Aug 29 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT With those known bugs, maybe Java was better choice...!
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Snow | Aug 28 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Very easy to use, full of options. Santa spirit is in it! ;)
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VLC Media Player | May 31 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Apple Menu -> About This Mac -> More Info-> Graphics/Displays-> QuartzExtreme: Supported or Not Supported
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iAntiVirus | May 17 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Well, then this software is completely useless! Just say at loud the new virus for mac, humm, well, can't remember any, and don't tell me that a program that asks your admin password is a virus!
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Microsoft Office 2008 | Apr 19 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT BAD BAD BAD BAD, I mean, when Microsoft Office 2008 came out was one of the most buggy apps I ever experienced, then after several updates it became ok, now, I had to uninstall and install all over again to make this update, but guess what, excel works power point also, but word crashes on launch. Since thereīs Neo Office that there's no point to buy Microsoft Office anymore! And Apple has Keynote that's lot lot lot lot better than PowerPoint. If you want to keep using this mess, and have important works to be done, be careful and do NOT update to 12.1.7 until urgent works are done! Microsoft should pay for work hours damage it makes!!!!
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Microsoft Office 2008 | Apr 22 2009 |
DAVID PELTON SurfSpirit, could you please give some more details to your issue? I have seen two reports of crashes after install, and I would like to track it down. Are you using the Trial version that is downloadable? Would you be willing to send me a file or work offline (outside this forum) to track down the issue, and then we can report back to everyone what we found? Microsoft, MacBU
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Silverlight | Apr 12 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT One more "protocol", as if aren't already enough of them, anyway, it crashes safari a few seconds after using it in a web page. I just can't understand how Microsoft is such a big company with so bad software!
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Amigo | Apr 11 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT 20$ for this crap? You must be crazy! Thereīs lot of similiar apps for free, what use does this have than an rss, it just shows a number of new messages but don't say anything about what it is, just a number so i have to check in my browser, for that thereīs plenty of apps and for free!!!
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AlertThingy | Apr 10 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT What this app can achieve is really amazing, in theses of multi multi social networks an app that connects them all is something blessed. Ok, it uses Adobe Air and has memory problems because of that, but is fast and is free and very well developed so far. Can't wait to see future versions, I also found out an amazing site because of this app, is Ping.FM, a must have subscription!!
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BOINC | Apr 8 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT OK, let's face it, the idea of using our cpu cycles to help find cures to diseases or get better understanding of science and nature, searching for better world etc etc, is very altruistic and kind. But yes, the interface is as bad as it can be, but what worries me most in these recent Boinc days is security, I mean, why the hell can't I have control of the program, now it has special permissions that I canīt move it to another partition or make a ram disk of it, Boinc is having too much control of the app in our own computer! There excuse is to protect us from bad project to not run malware programs and so on, but I would like to decide what to do with apps in my own machine! Keep that in mind! And about bad projects and so on, it's always a case of trust, who guarantees that Seti is really seti...?
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iConcertCal | Apr 4 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Excellent idea! And the integration with iTunes is very clever, but needs support for international tours and countries. Also the interface needs a more mac os style/integration. But here's a product with great future! Congratulations!
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Amnesia | Apr 2 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Actually lots of good apps do the same and even better, and even for free, the best in my opinion is AppCleaner, free and fast, and you donīt even have to open it, because it can work quite well with the garbage, when your send an app to the trash it will appear an window asking if you want to delete similiar named files in preferences and so on. It's better to get your developer efforts in other kind of stuff or offer some unseen feature!
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Amnesia | Apr 3 2009 |
ROBOTANK Actually, I prefer something that doesn't work by dragging to the trash. The only other app deleter I've seen (except CleanApp) that has a real edge on Amnesia is AppDelete--it has the ability to scan for invisible files (i.e. the caches that some apps bury inside the /usr directory). However, AppDelete costs money, even if it is only 5 bucks, and since I own the Koingo Utility Bundle, Amnesia costs me nothing additionally. Really, it's a matter of personal preference with these utilities. The only one I recommend against is AppZapper.
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iAntiVirus | Mar 11 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT BAD! OK, it was lot faster than ClamXav to scan files, but din't found any of the two virus ClamXav had made alert, I also run Kaspersky via Parallels to the same usb pen, and Kaspersky confirmed the two virus. All the antivirus used their most recente database. ClamXav seems better, you can even easy scan any file or folder by mouse click menus. I also run Sophos aclamed anti virus and the result was the same as iAntiVirus, a shame! Above of all this, I am completely sure my pen was infected because it was used to try to desinfect a friends pc that was full of virus and malware. So if you want an anti Virus for mac so you minimize your friends pcs nightmares, choose ClamXav!
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iAntiVirus | May 16 2009 |
FAHLMAN Because iAntiVirus only scans for Mac viruses it will not find Windows viruses.
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iAntiVirus | May 17 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Well, then this software is completely useless! Just say at loud the new virus for mac, humm, well, can't remember any, and don't tell me that a program that asks your admin password is a virus!
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Schoolhouse | Feb 28 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Definitely a great idea, but useless, it's full of bugs, so serious that make it impossible to use and trust. It deletes classes not selected, it has no integration with ical, so why bother to put the timetable info!?, I really like the concept, but it's not enough robust, it's more like a beta full of bugs than a final release! Ok itīs a free app, but anyway, it would be better if it was paid and works, than free and useless!
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Transmission | Feb 14 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Finally a Transmission version that makes my torrents as fast as utorrent! Now torrents start almost instantaneous and speed goes to the top of my connection limit, "Move Data File To..." is made in less than a second as always should be! 1.50 is a Must! Congratulations! I trashed uTorrent and start to use Transmission again! Hope not to change anymore!
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Video Purifier | Feb 6 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT It's easy to use, but the interface has useless eye candy than isn't even optimized with core animation etc. About the noise reduction, nothing special, I can get better results with JES Video Cleaner, and this last one is Free, Video Purifier is tooo much expensive for what it does!
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Chroma Player | Jan 18 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT If you have a faster computer, VLC, or Perian with Quicktime will do almost everything for free, but if you have a old g3 machine this app is a must. It's the only application that runs considerable well xvid movies in my old iMac G3 450 with correct running subtitles on it. It's very watchable and the most smooth of all apps I have tried in this machine! Great for PPC!
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Chroma Player | Mar 28 2009 |
DROPS It is to expensive, double its price and you can buy a complete G4 400 (or more) on eBay.
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MacFUSE | Jan 17 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Of all the great and positive reviews from macupdate users, I believe this is a good application, but it's buggy on my system, I am running a MacBook Core Duo with Mac OS X 10.5.6 and it fails to copy large files above 300MB to my network iMac DV and to pen drives, it was the first thing I uninstall after the problems started and problem solved. So it has some kind of bug in this file system extension. Don't what this messes with, I think I will wait for another releases before trying it again.
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Picasa | Jan 6 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Excelent, it's a secure iphoto replacer, easy to use and very fast, and with lots of free disk on the web unlike Mobile Me. For me that I don't use iPhoto I wonīt use it much, but one thing makes me wonder, how can google open easily my dng files, and iphoto DOESN'T! Neither Aperture!!! What the heck is going on in here!? Apple needs to make better support!
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Picasa | Jan 6 2009 |
M85 iPhoto 7.03 has no problem withmy dng's. Even converts them to jpg for output
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VMware Fusion | Jan 5 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Yes, you should try Parallels Desktop 4. You can download a demo from the site!
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uTorrent | Jan 1 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Actually uTorrent is faster, as I said, I really don't know why, my router is correctly port forwarded and even in my University where most of network ports are closed uTorrent finds lot more peers and is lot faster, I even confirmed both programs preferences so it could be as equal as possible, no ip filter or encryption obligation, and with all that in both programs uTorrent is lot faster, one thing that Transmission is lor better is robustness, uTorrent crashes pretty more often, but for a beta the pros are quite remarkable!
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uTorrent | Dec 29 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT ĩTorrent has a great start in mac world, I like the interface, but it needs work and some features, well, I tried with a torrent that were in my Transmission taking ages do download, I actually don't know why but, did a force check on the file so I could try it on ĩTorrent, and for my surprise it found lot more peers and way faster. But has some bad things, the force file check was lot more cpu/disk power consuming than Transmission and it did crash once. But it really is a great start for a beta! When a "stable" version come out, I will definitely think on it to replace Transmission.
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uTorrent | Jan 1 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Actually uTorrent is faster, as I said, I really don't know why, my router is correctly port forwarded and even in my University where most of network ports are closed uTorrent finds lot more peers and is lot faster, I even confirmed both programs preferences so it could be as equal as possible, no ip filter or encryption obligation, and with all that in both programs uTorrent is lot faster, one thing that Transmission is lor better is robustness, uTorrent crashes pretty more often, but for a beta the pros are quite remarkable!
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uTorrent | Jan 2 2009 |
KKNOPP You mean faster on your computer. I certainly didn't get that outcome on mine. On mine both of them were equally as fast. But then again I am not on a crappy college network. Being that both let me max out my bandwidth, I would then have to go with the one that is less buggy and crashes less. That wouldn't be uTorrent. If any application is a PITA when crashing it's a bit torrent client.
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Find File | Dec 29 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT It seems a rip off of the Easy Find, even the icon used to be the Easy Find icon, even way, Easy Find is lot better, with boolean searches and is also FREE!
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SideTrack | Dec 13 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT Very nice application, unfortunately it can't do two finger gestures, so bye bye two finger scrolling in installed MacBooks. Actually the best of this software in my opinion is touch pad corners shortcuts, you can make a corner to activate dashboard and so on, Apple should update the drivers in older macs, I bet a lot of multiple gestures found in the new MacBook Aluminum can be made in the old MacBook also! Overall itīs great if you are ready to loose two ginger scrolling!
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TextTranslator | Dec 6 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT Excellent! Fast, easy and I CAN COPY AND PASTE! Also, lot's of language support! A must have widget!
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TextTranslator | Dec 6 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT In my system I CAN COPY AND PASTE! It's better to verify this things before claiming such stupid comments!
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iChm | Nov 30 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT Fast and the following feature is a must for me "Save whole file to PDF" Great App! :)
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DjVuLibre | Nov 25 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT Excelent DjVu reader and converter to PS and PDF, simple and fast!
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MacDjView | Nov 25 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT Here you can find a free DJVU Reader and DJVU2PS and DJVU2PDF converter! http://djvu.sourceforge.net/
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Readiris Pro | Nov 22 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT Readirirs Pro is Slow and outdated, it mostly find text as images not doing any ocr, so is very trouble to work with it. I have found Adobe Acrobat Pro that does OCR very well, so to every mac user that is searching for an OCR App, try Adobe Acrobat Pro, OCR is very accurate and fast! One big advantage from Adobe Acrobat Pro is that the original image is always shown, when you do a text selection it pastes the OCR copy, so even if the OCR has some mistakes you can see whatīs the mistake when looking to the screen original image.
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Parallels Desktop | Nov 15 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT Well, you should give more information. Try to check if the Network Adapter configuration in the Parallels Virtual Machine Configuration is crorect. In parallels -> Menu "Virtual Machine" -> "Configure..." -> "Network Adaptar 1" It must be enabled and you must choose "Connected" and "Shared Networking" Try to see if it is correct!
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VMware Fusion | Nov 15 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT I give 4 of 5 starts to Fusion because it's a good app and used to use it, but not since Parallels released version 4 that is so much better! About OS integration, it really is a must! I don't use Windows to chat on MSN, I used it because I need to. Some apps just don't exist in Mac OS X, like ArcView or Swish etc, and since there's no apps remotely similar or as good in Mac OS X, then I use windows, so it's really is a time saver to actually can browse trough windows desktop folder or documents folders etc and see the exactly same content as in the Mac OS X Desktop folder, and Documents folder etc! For all the rest Mac OS X is the best of course, that's why we choose to buy a mac!
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Parallels Desktop | Nov 15 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT I tried VMWare Fusion, Parallels Desktop and VirtualBox. I went from Parallels to Fusion because Fusion was faster, but well I must say, not so well Mac OS Integrated as Parallels. Then I changed again to VirtualBox, which is free and very fast and robust, but well It really misses the Mac OS X integration! Then Parallels released Version 4, I was reluctant to try it again, so much work for nothing, but I donwload the Parallels Version 4 tryout and it really beats all the competition. Itīs very very fast! The Mac OS X integration is absolutely the best I have seen and CPU cycles and the overall CPU need is the lowest of all the virtual machines I ever tested. It's great that now the virtual windows don't waste cpu cycles when not using it, I don't even have to pause the virtual machine. And with Parallels 4 your desktop folder, documents folder, is the same as the one in Mac OS making it really easy to use! It uses all the CPU cores that you want, and it really has graphic 3d acceleration.! Virtual Machines finally got mature, and the first one to get into this stage is Parallels Desktop 4!
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VMware Fusion | Nov 15 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT I tried VMWare Fusion, Parallels Desktop and VirtualBox. I went from Parallels to Fusion because Fusion was faster, but well I must say, not so well Mac OS Integrated as Parallels. Then I changed again to VirtualBox, which is free and very fast and robust, but well It really misses the Mac OS X integration! Then Parallels released Version 4, I was reluctant to try it again, so much work for nothing, but I donwload the Parallels Version 4 tryout and it really beats all the competition. Itīs very very fast! The Mac OS X integration is absolutely the best I have seen and CPU cycles and the overall CPU need is the lowest of all the virtual machines I ever tested. It's great that now the virtual windows don't waste cpu cycles when not using it, I don't even have to pause the virtual machine. And with Parallels 4 your desktop folder, documents folder, is the same as the one in Mac OS making it really easy to use! It uses all the CPU cores that you want, and it really has graphic 3d acceleration.! Virtual Machines finally got mature, and the first one to get into this stage is Parallels Desktop 4!
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VMware Fusion | Nov 15 2008 |
WHYTOI I actually don't want excessive integration with my Windows virtual machine. As a minimum, I would hate to see virus and other Windows malwares affect my Mac files. I am happy to share one folder where files are transferred b/n the two OSs, but definitely not let Windows directly access my full folder hierarchy. It puzzles me why anyone would want to bypass one of the big benefit of running Mac OS X.
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VMware Fusion | Nov 15 2008 |
STAINER Why are you giving VMware Fusion 4 out of 5 stars when you're clearly reviewing Parallells Desktop?
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VMware Fusion | Nov 15 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT I give 4 of 5 starts to Fusion because it's a good app and used to use it, but not since Parallels released version 4 that is so much better! About OS integration, it really is a must! I don't use Windows to chat on MSN, I used it because I need to. Some apps just don't exist in Mac OS X, like ArcView or Swish etc, and since there's no apps remotely similar or as good in Mac OS X, then I use windows, so it's really is a time saver to actually can browse trough windows desktop folder or documents folders etc and see the exactly same content as in the Mac OS X Desktop folder, and Documents folder etc! For all the rest Mac OS X is the best of course, that's why we choose to buy a mac!
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VMware Fusion | Nov 15 2008 |
JOEL SCHMIDT sorry to burst your happy bubble, but VMWare Fusion beat Parallels to supporting DirectX 9.0c. To me, that means that Fusion was the first to mature.
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VMware Fusion | Nov 15 2008 |
JIMW I am a long time user of Parallels My experience with conversion from Parallels 3 to Parallels 4 was horrific. After spending a good deal of time in dealing with their confusing upgrade options and spending hours trying to get help with it I found out that that I really did not need to purchase the default opt-in 12 month download option that added $7 to each of my licenses - and neither do most users if they have a CD-Burner, which all machines that can run the product come with, except for the MacBook Air. I also made the unfortunate mistake of directly purchasing the product instead of using the trial license as historically the product had a good history of stability and support for me. I say mistake, because the first thing it did after the upgrade of a working image and authorized legal license of XP is require me to reauthorize my Windows license. Then my cursor went dead and would not function at all in the virtual environment. Additionally It was impossible to contact support by phone regarding this issue. After being put on hold after being told I would have a 10 minute wait, 30 minutes went by and then I was told by the automated system that support was too busy to take my call the system disconnected my call. I then was able to finally contact customer service who acknowledged my demand for a refund but seemed to care less that they might be permanently losing me as a customer. Promised followup calls from a supervisor never happened. After some difficulty I managed to resurrect my working copy of Parallels 3 and it is now working the same as before. I have tossed my Parallels 4 upgrade in the trash and am now considering its alternatives. Needless to say I am considering VMware Fusion. I would be very interested in feedback as to support experiences from VMware Fusion users. One thing a learned a long time ago is the only thing worse that not having a needed tool is having one that is broken and not being able to get it fixed. Good support is a critical issue for me. Based on my most recent experience with Parallels, they are no longer offering it.
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Parallels Desktop | Nov 12 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT Finally, very fast, and no cpu hog! Great Version! Recomended, I used VirtualBox because it was faster than VMWare and Parallels, but now Parallels 4 is the one, Mac OS integration is the best! It's truth that VirtualBox is free, but Parallels 4 is a good choice for the money at last!
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eBay Addict | Jan 31 2007 |
SURFSPIRIT Great Widget, does exacly what it says, clean, fast and very usefull, none of widgets registrations nonsense! Congratulations!
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