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Real Name:Rafael Miranda 
Posts:364
Last Login:8 Apr 2008 20:44
Recent Downloads:
  1. avc1Decoder
  2. mp4vDecoder
  3. SeaMonkey
  4. VueScan
  5. Surf Canyon for Firefox
  6. Growl
  7. Chipmunk BASIC
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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Jun 2008 16:08

Shareware? Chipmunk BASIC is freeware! =) I know what you mean. I was working in BASIC on an original Mac doing Calculus in high school... *cough* *cough* years ago. ;)

PEACE

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Type: Comments
Date: 4 May 2008 05:18

You might want to consider FileZilla, too.

I prefer CyberDuck on my home OS X system but I had to use a PC at my last job and resorted to FileZilla for FTP requirements without a hitch.

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Type: Comments
Date: 3 May 2008 17:26

It's just ten bucks. I can't be the only person that has to pay rent and utilities... I can't cry over someone charging ten bucks. Please have some compassion.

Peace.

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Type: Comments
Date: 16 Apr 2008 16:03

Odd. Usually if I make a post like this here they update the listing along with deleting my post! lol

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 10 Apr 2008 16:54

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox#Version_4.0

"On October 13, 2006, Brendan Eich, Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer, wrote about the plans for Mozilla 2, the platform on which Firefox 4.0 is likely to be based. These changes include improving and removing XPCOM APIs, switching to standard C++ features, just-in-time compilation with JavaScript 2 (known as the Tamarin project), tool-time and runtime security checks. It has also been announced that support for the Gopher protocol will be removed by default."

I've tried Firefox 3.0b5 and 4.0 seems just as stable. The only oddity on Wind0ze is that Firefox must be uninstalled for the Minefield betas to work correctly otherwise 3.0 and 4.0 appears to be running fine on my old MDD G4... this being my only litmus test for speed I'm quite happy that it runs faster than 2.0 even with the extensions forced on it via the about:config "hack" and I've been using 4.0 since I ran into it and found out I COULD use the 2.0 extensions successfully.

PEACE

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Apr 2008 09:15

Worked fine via Firefox 4.0a1 (aka "Minefield"). MDD G4 10.4.11

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 3 Apr 2008 14:10

Making old add-ons work;

Type "about:config" in the address bar, right-click to create a new Boolean variable "extensions.checkCompatibility" and set to "False".

I haven't many add-ons but they all seem to work!

PEACE!

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 2 Apr 2008 00:28

Hey guys! I was perusing Mozilla's public download FTP directories and ran across Firefox 4.0 alpha 1. I apologize if it's old news to you but I'm using it right now and it seems fast and stable albeit incompatible with Firefox 2.x add-ons.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2008-04-01-14-mozilla-central/firefox-4.0a1pre.en-US.mac.dmg

I'm looking for some way I heard of to enable the add-ons although they may still act weird if they work at all because I LOVE my adblock... otherwise it's FASTER than 2.x even with adblock, the interface seems like the love-child of Safari and IE7 and I am NOT complaining. You can also search for add-ons without leaving the add-ons window and also has a "Smart Bookmarks" which is a collection of the most visited sites. Anyway, try to back up your prefs first and have it a go!

PEACE!

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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Mar 2008 00:54

Thanks for the heads up!

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Mar 2008 12:45

Java? I don't remember NeoOffice ever requiring Java... it's not in any of the requirements nor is it "sold" as a Java app...

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 19 Mar 2008 16:58

MP3 file format doesn't support embedded cover artwork.

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Jan 2008 01:39

I think this assertion is correct given that this program is listed under the general term of "Religion" rather than "Humor". No doubt a laughable subject to many but absolutely not also to many. Factoring in the "What would The Absolutely All Mighty think about this?" to the 'equation' I'd say that if its utility is relatively educational and the purpose peaceful then there must be no harm in it.

It's a tool (IMHO).

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Type: Comments
Date: 3 Jan 2008 18:25

ProPinball series was the best—personal favorite; ProPinball: Timeshock!

PEACE!

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 13 Dec 2007 22:20

To double check version open Terminal.app and type; "java -version"

PEACE!

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Dec 2007 19:59

There's only a version 1.0.3 demo but no 1.0.3 update? :P

Definitely a fun game for every kid at heart, my little brother and nephew love playing this for hours together (taking turns) and they definitely don't mind waiting for me to reinstall it every time they visit! lol PEACE.

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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 4 Nov 2007 13:55

MU admin: clicking the Download now link only seems to reload this page. Problem doesn't persist when downloading from developer's site.

Thanks for your time and attention. :)

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 17 Oct 2007 15:32

Have you attempted Recalibrating to create a new color profile? Maybe messing with those gamma, hue and saturation settings a tiny bit could be it... :P

Another idea is to try aticcelerator to lower the clock speeds of the VRAM and GPU, I think it works with the X1900 XT—dblchk.

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Type: Review
Date: 30 Aug 2007 19:28
Features:2 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:3 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Not too many options (only BG color can be changed) but nice and simple, not really a complaint I hope. One thing I noticed after trying to figure this out for awhile is that there seems to be an error in kerning/spacing between sets of time displays; the seconds, further displayed into the thousandths it seems, overlap on every other set so as every two sets of time displays look like an even longer string of changing digits.

Although it delivers in the "cool" factor arena, its utility is further hindered by the speed of rotation—I couldn't really take a passing glance or even sit still for few moments and tell immediately what time it is—this, compounded with the spacing error noted above.

Thanks!

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Type: Review
Date: 14 Aug 2007 09:58
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I'd originally tried this a very long time ago and wasn't completely pleased with it but decided to give it another go a few months ago and after giving myself time to figure out its utility I've trashed every other messenger app on my computer—save for iChatAV.

The interface is very smooth, seems more polished to me than iChat with options that make this app like the VLC of messenger applications, albeit not as complicated. 'Gone Dark' with the 'Mutation' variant is one of my little brothers' favorite setups. Considering all the options available I have to still give a 5 for Ease-of-Use because a lot is fairly straight forward.

So far I've only used this with my regular AIM and Yahoo! IM accounts as I was never fervent when it came to MSN Messenger or ICQ but I'd recommend this app to anyone looking for a solid IM experience, especially with multiple protocol-using accounts.

Given the dearth of really good software for the Mac in the 90s this app is in a class all on its own! ...and FREE?!

FREE! =) ...please consider donating, though!

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Jun 2007 21:35

I concur...!

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 7 Jun 2007 20:10

Try completely re-downloading or downloading from the developer's site directly, either way the present .DMG seems corrupt/incomplete...

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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 7 Jun 2007 20:08

Stellarium 0.9.0, Universal

2007-06-06, r2229+macosx support

This is the really final release build of Stellarium 0.9.0.

INSTALLATION

1. You need to be running Macosx 10.4, preferably not 10.4.7. Drag the Stellarium.app icon from this .dmg window to your mac, and double click on it there to run it.

2. You don't need anything else for this build, it is all bundled inside.

3. If you had an earlier version of Stellarium set to start in full-screen mode, you want to remove your earlier configuration file. As listed in the Known Issues section, this version of Stellarium does not run very well when started in full-screen mode. Simply move the file:

~/Library/Preferences/Stellarium/config.ini

(That is: in your home directory, the Library directory, then the Preferences directory, then the Stellarium directory, the file called "config.ini")

to another location, or to the trash. Stellarium will copy a new config.ini file that starts in windowed mode.

4. An issue with mis-directed shared libraries discovered for the Intel architecture has been resolved.

ADDITIONAL STARS

There are four star catalogs included with the build, and additional star catalogs available from the Stellarium website, the "Extra-data-files" package. Each star catalog file listed there you wish to add to the stars available can be placed in:

~/Library/Preferences/Stellarium/stars/default

Up to catalog 6 has been tested on a PPC iBook with 750mb RAM, and there was something of a performance hit. The more RAM and the faster processor you have, the more stars catalogs you will be able to load.

KNOWN ISSUES

0.9.0 right now cannot *start* in full-screen mode. It can start in windowed mode and toggle back and forth to fullscreen mode. This seems to have to do with OpenGL and Qt, and it will be investigated in future releases.

The video mode list of the config screen has no options in it, the switch to Qt has made that display obsolete. It will be resolved later.

About half the time when quitting, Stellarium will crash on glDeleteTextures. It will show a "The application Stellarium quit unexpectedly" dialog. This does not seem to hurt anything, but there is an order of destruction that needs to be corrected in future releases.

ATI cards in Macs are known to not support point sprites properly. If you run Stellarium, but don't see any starts whatsoever, edit ~/Library/Preferences/Stellarium/config.ini, add this line:

flag_use_gl_point_sprite = false

to the [projection] section.

This build does not include all possible star catalogs. Details about how to download additional star catalogs separately and make the available to Stellarium will be forthcoming.

There is no audio support in this build.

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Type: Review
Date: 18 Apr 2007 19:25

DEFINITELY the best media player since, ummm, sliced bread? Okay, bad metaphor, but you get the point. This thing handles almost anything thrown at it and is highly configurable.

Please use MacUpdate's provided links for the Intel or PPC-native versions respectively... it'll trim about 7MB off your download!

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 18 Apr 2007 19:20

Just right/Cntrl-click the file and choose Open With... and choose VLC. OR You can Get Info on the file and set VLC to be the default app for Flash Video Files–it'll leave the icon blank but work all the time.

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Type: Comments
Date: 14 Feb 2007 10:53

Can the output files be used on a PSP? Thanks.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Jan 2007 00:01

"...and you only need to use one or two lightweight Windows apps..."

Why bother if said "lightweight app" most likely has an OS X-native equivalent?

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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Jan 2007 20:27

Isn't Windows Media Player still REQUIRED if you want to view DRM/"protected" WMV content anyway? I don't think Flip4Mac or VLC can successfully play DRM content... I've been searching Flip4Mac's and MS's sites for assurance but I'd like to be corrected if I'm wrong, thanks.

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Type: Review
Date: 29 Nov 2006 21:50
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I've used a handful of (note: free) GUI'd FTP programs here 'n' there (including *NIX shell), windoze and Mac and I feel this is the most elegant and easy-to-approach program I presently use or would recommend to anyone who happens to own a Mac... if they don't own a Mac I'd suggest buying one because, amongst the thousands of others improve-one's-life reasons, there's nothing representing such relative ease with similar value on the wintel side.

Thank you for your efforts for the Mac community... if you owned a Mac during the 90s you know where I'm coming from! ;)

PEACE!

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Nov 2006 01:13

BTW, my bro's on the peecee... I'm on the mac... of course! =)

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Type: Review
Date: 23 Nov 2006 01:11
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

In toe-to-toe comparisons, this has come out above and beyond the professional antivirus programs in detection, new-virus response times and in detection ( http://www.clamav.net/press.html#pagestart ).

There's no beating the price and there's no subscription fee to worry about (yet?). My brother had gotten a laptop about a week ago and I'd, after having to update several "required" components of Windoze, finally got Norton Anti-Virus installed. Then there was the extra headache of finding/downloading/restarting SEVERAL times and quickly noticed how LONNNG it took his laptop to become responsive after boot/reboot with Norton installed... I downloaded ClamAV and it was ready to use after installation and virus def updating-I didn't even have to reboot!

Clam, IMHO, makes other anti-virus programs look more akin to cripple-ware... definitely 5-stars for Features, Ease of Use, Value AND Stability...!!!

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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Oct 2006 02:58

Launch the installed Vidalia GUI which should be in the /Applications folder... once launched you can right/control-click it's dock icon to activate/deactivate Tor on the fly... much easier than the afore-mentioned tip. ;)

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Jul 2006 11:58

My little brother works in a movie theatre, I only really liked it because I saw it for free... I'd not like it so much if I'd paid the usual NYC price of around $11, either.

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Jul 2006 11:56

A copy resides in my Applications folder... it's named "Democracy".

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Type: Review
Date: 27 Jun 2006 03:00
Features:3 Stars
Playability:5 Stars
Graphics & Sound:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

No way! This is really cool! I'm getting further now than when I first played this game on my old Performa 630CD! lol

The only drawback is that switching to full screen mode screwed up the colors.

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Jun 2006 02:21

...a very humble thanks!

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Jun 2006 17:31

Thanks for the reply... I guess I'll check again later tonight. :)

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Jun 2006 17:10

ALL mirrors give the following message:

Error

Invalid mirror selected

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Jun 2006 05:47

Definitely reminds me why I hate computer Othello... the computer trounces me and I've no board to flip over and no one to beat up... :p

Ugh, me Tarzan!

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jun 2006 23:11

Hahaha... sorry, that was a funny reply. :p

hue maa baarif

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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Jun 2006 07:54

Very cool-now supports 16:10 ratio resolutions in configuration window by default–before this version I had to "Show Package Contents..." and find the INI file to place the specific parameters for 1680x1050 because changing the setting in the program to 1600x1200 within the program's configuration window would cause a blank screen to appear the next time I'd launch.

Thanks!

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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Jun 2006 13:38

This version comes with a cool Vidalia GUI for TOR, please post feedback on it. i think the last version of TOR I used did not have this and was a pain to setup, etc.

Thanks!

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Jun 2006 19:32

Thanks.

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Jun 2006 17:03

It installs a daemon program?!

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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Jun 2006 04:57

I must humbly apologize again.

After allowing the video player to download a file completely I found that changing the *.gvi extension to *.avi allowed it to open in VLC (my preferred player) just fine. Getting Info on it revealed that the file is divx encoded... but I'm still not thrilled over Google's forced "middle man" approach... :p

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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Jun 2006 02:42

I apologize, it does... only the LOW RES version can be directly downloaded though!

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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Jun 2006 02:41

video.google.com now no longer allows downloads without having to download their video player... big, fat, disgustipated THUMBS DOWN, Google!

haha, almost wrote "giggle"

Umm, yeah, Im upset. :p

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 May 2006 03:14

...for every time I'd have "Office" appear without prefix I mean and part or version of any "Office" product whose discretion of usership as protected by law is in the hands of the behemoth company, The Microsoft Corporation.

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Type: Review
Date: 23 May 2006 03:06
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:4 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Best version by far! MUCH more useful than OpenOffice X11 is especially because of font compatibilities with OS X! For the first time, in any version, have I opened a certain document up and even the tabbed bulletpoints were where I last left them— no editing and ready-to-print!

Three thumbs up!

Could use some Printing Setup GUI enhancements... but that's not enough to make me purchase Office.

If you're on a budget, want Office-like-usability to compliment your deftness in working around obstacles, and you'd much prefer not having an illegal copy (of Office) I can only *highly* recommend this!

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 May 2006 02:37

I pre-ordered for $38 :P

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Type: Comments
Date: 18 May 2006 13:27

I don't think any of Apple's major apps have been updated for running natively on Intel Macs (and they complained about Adobe not switching to OS X fast enough)... but they should be able to run via Rosetta... albeit noticeably slower due to the runtime emulation.

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Type: Comments
Date: 16 May 2006 00:00

You could skip some of those steps simply by popping the CD in your drive, restarting and holding "C" while booting until the OS starts booting from the CD.

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Type: Comments
Date: 15 May 2006 23:58

Thanks, the help's always appreciated. I booted my system with Drive 10 1.1.5 instead of Apple's Tiger disc and, after hours and hours and hours, it returned an Error -90 and repaired... for hours and hours (nearly took 2 days!). Finally, it was done, I rebooted, ran Disk Utility and Repaired Permissions in my admin/501 account and root to no avail.

I'm going to attempt using Apple's boot disc to see if anything else can be done before attempting an archive and install... I hate having to do Archive & Installs... but it's better than an entire reinstall... or waiting for another Security Update :p

Thanks again...

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Type: Comments
Date: 15 May 2006 20:33

That URL isn't helpful- the QuickTime movie remains black... is that where the info's supposed to be? I'll assume you're offering something besides the Archive & install tips...

thanks

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Type: Review
Date: 12 May 2006 15:48
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:3 Stars
Value:3 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I sincerely believe this is the best visualizer for iTunes, whether it's worth $20 for the Gold edition or $30 for the Platinum edition to anyone is relative.

The demo now has advertising and has for awhile now–nothing new there. The installer also doesn't respect browser preference launches Safari no matter what– no prob if that's ur fav browser though... other than that, awesome visualizer!

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 May 2006 15:31

MacUpdate admins have included a link not requiring a login and/or sign-up... kudos!

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Type: Review
Date: 12 May 2006 06:25
Features:3 Stars
Ease of Use:4 Stars
Value:2 Stars
Stability:2 Stars

The playback is plagued with decoding artifacts that leaves little green squares in a grid pattern acorss the video while the eye is completely strained to try to visualize what's being shown behind the bright green fence... two thumbs down.

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 9 May 2006 03:43

According to "http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/public_beta/", no.

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Type: Review
Date: 6 May 2006 03:41
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:4 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I've been using my DMR for a few years now and have had my fare share of use out of it: my nephew, little brothers, sister, father, mother and myself have enjoyed, at one time or another, movies, music and videos on my 16:10 20.1" using, mostly, Apple DVD Player, iTunes and VLC and have enjoyed the basic/added functionality of my system as an entertainment center—especially the DMR.

I have to give "Ease of Use" the full five stars because, even upon first configuring the mapping interface, you realize that most of the buttons are preset to be immediately used in most of the widely used audio/video end-user applications. While the same can't be said of the button assignment [process] when adding a new set for a new program, I think it goes without saying that the programs usable vary quite widely in relative design so, having said that, the interface, while seemingly unintuitive at a glance, is actually quite useful insofar as the wide range of uses for the DMR. The up side of this is that you'll rarely interface with this aspect of the software's GUI.

All-in-all; a straight-forward program/software suite(?).

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Type: Comments
Date: 2 May 2006 14:38

Try searching MacUpdate... you may be confused about the SQL version installed...

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Type: Comments
Date: 2 May 2006 02:40

You da man! TANX!

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 1 May 2006 14:43

Did you do the updates in order (update-1 then update-2)?

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Apr 2006 04:38

Very cool/informative link! Thanks admin! =) my lil bro's gonna love to check that out...

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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Apr 2006 11:16

Perhaps adding the addendum of "(Intel)" on the side of the main software listing (on the MacUpdate main page) would help clarify that MOST Mac users should not bother with the direct download provided...

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Type: Review
Date: 16 Apr 2006 23:20
Features:3 Stars
Playability:4 Stars
Graphics & Sound:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Alright, I just HAD to give this a "3" in the features department.

First of all, with some CFG editing, I was able to get this running as fast as Doom 3 runs on my 1GHz MDD G4/1GB RAM/Radeon 9800Pro GPU. Please note that without that GPU I would NOT attempt to buy/run this game OR Doom 3!

Second, whether unfortunately or not, I had to compare this to Doom 3 as well as Quake 2 (from which the storyline continues). Insofar as the Quake series goes it's not that much more exciting than Quake 2 was on my old BlueG3 (which ran rather well with the Rage128 but better with a flashed Voodoo3 5500 PCI, albeit with banded lightmapping) but the graphics have been upgraded to take advantage of the latest technologies. This is where Features falls short: it's not memorably better than Quake 2 (especially with its online playability and awesome old MODs like Action Quake 2!) and Doom 3 does a much better job in setting the player in an environment where he/she feels that great attention has been paid to detail to the point where one may actually feel startled or frightened and otherwise enveloped in the game— Quake 4 falls a bit short of this. Sure there are things that you may see that may be described as looking technologically "awesome"... but I still feel a bit detached from the game.

That being said, I can't say I'm not having fun playing it. The weaponry is varied but you'll have a difficult time deciding which is really your favorite as there is not one that does/gives(?) that maximum amount of damage with a short amount of burst rounds where I might say; "Oh crap! THIS is my gun!" The rail gun proves difficult to aim and having to reload after just three shots is quite annoying where only a few guys may need to be liquidated and you spend half the time reloading.

The play is pretty linear, more or less like its predecessor (in storyline), and getting stuck trying to find my way to procede can be frustrating as I soon discover that I was supposed to be looking for some well-placed rabbit hole... err, vent. This was done in Doom 3 as well but the placing seemed to be a bit more intuitive with where one had to go...

Okay, I'll sum it up: if you like shooters and already have 'em all, get Quake 4. If you want to show off the graphic capabilities of your new system and already have Doom 3, UT 2004 and Halo, get Quake 4. If you just feel like it, get it... if you're tight on money this is NOT a must-get.

Out of five, if there was an Overall rating, I'd give this a 3 1/2.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Apr 2006 16:21

For the .doc files I'd recommend the OS X-native NeoOffice.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Apr 2006 00:10

You could try using an Apple Firmware updater. :p

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Type: Comments
Date: 9 Apr 2006 14:24

Okayyyy... but the latest WMV codec is at version 9. I'm sure nothing's encoded with 1, 2 or 3 anymore.

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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Apr 2006 17:49

The retail price (from Intel online) is $649 for the Pro Edition, $499 for Standard.

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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Apr 2006 23:59

Pssst! It *states* minimum OS X 10.3

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Apr 2006 15:07

Yeah I'm showing this to my dad and bro– there's no way I'm letting them buy a peecee after this! My dad's last Gateway is sitting uselessly next to my MDD G4...!

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Type: Review
Date: 5 Apr 2006 04:52
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Very cool, very configurable (for its simplicity) and very smooth. This is better than just about every virtual desktop software I've tried– Linux (KDE), Windoze or Mac.

Quite honestly, if I were to compare it to its Wintel and linux counterparts I'd give it a four in the Features department but this being designed so solidly and Mac-like I don't think it'd be fair.

THREE-THUMBS-UP!!! ;)

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Apr 2006 04:48

LOL!

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Type: Comments
Date: 3 Apr 2006 23:31

After the 10.4.6 update AppleJack goes into an inifinite loop when repairing permissions... hopeful for an update soon.

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Type: Comments
Date: 3 Apr 2006 18:33

You can try it... but you'll be saddened with the results...

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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Mar 2006 01:37

I don't want to give this a review based on what I've been experiencing but I'm having serious font display problems with this application.

For one: anti-aliasing does not enable no matter what I do.

Second: The fonts that display correctly (including antialiasing) in NeoOffice revert to another font [in OpenOffice 1.x/2.x) even though font replacement is not enabled. I have a fine serif font and it's replaced with what looks like Helvetica which makes the document look even more disgusting.

I'd love to use this application because it's more responsive than NeoOffice (2.x not 1.x) but if my documents look this disgusting no matter how I change the settings then, quite unfortunately, I have to trash OpenOffice. <:(

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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Mar 2006 05:23

...any plans for a widget??? =)

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Type: Review
Date: 16 Mar 2006 17:13
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

What I really like about this widget is that it's very polished and comes across as a "Why didn't I think of that?!" design. This is excellent for those with short attention spans– like half the population today– or those that absolutely must be reminded of something very important.

The timings for the reminder can be set in minutes, hours, days, weeks or for an exact time– really cool, check it out!

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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Mar 2006 08:52

This looks to be a solid application for what it claims to do [for the end user] and for not too bad a price.

FreeMind (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19325), though, offers much of the same functionality at the unbeatable price of free.

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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Mar 2006 17:05

Perhaps you've version 1.x?

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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Mar 2006 13:24

...unless you've DRM-encoded files... then you still need WindowsMediaPlayer... unfortunately.

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 27 Feb 2006 11:31

Right-click on the link and choose "Save as..." The developer's ISP does not appear to have correctly set metatag data for the filetype so you'll get a page full of gibberish.

Alternatively, you could just let it all load and then save the document as-is (yes, this works, too).

:P

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Type: Review
Date: 26 Feb 2006 08:24
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:4 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I've been using this for a few days now and after getting over the small hump of a learning curve (I've never used an app like this, either, but I've recent need of one) I've found this to be fairly straight forward and intuitive.

I don't know what else I'd suggest that might end up making this bloatware... but I'm sure I can't be the only person that'd benefit from LARGER ICONS.

Thanks!

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 25 Feb 2006 04:35

No need to reply, but thanks. I was able to find the planes as available downloads from third-party sites. Really good to know... there are hundreds of planes available for download that aren't available on the CD! Good to consider for a purchase...

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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Feb 2006 16:54

I apologize for posting this here but I find this information difficult to locate on Laminar's website; Are the F-16 Falcon and F-22 Raptor on the X-Plane CD?

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Feb 2006 03:06

It does what it claims to do, albeit not very well; an exact, universal resolution must be assigned in the setup (no resolution detection) so most images will be stretched, images must be in a specific location to be loaded rather than the ability to choose your own directory.

Definitely looking foward to version 1.1

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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Feb 2006 22:09

Thank you very much! I love when the Mac community jumps in to help the Mac community— I wouldn't give my Mac up for anything, and the community makes owning one always that much better!

You may also want to check out clamxav (search MacUpdate) and install it to keep on constant lookout for these things that are almost inevitable... it's already been updated to detect/remove Leap-A/Oompa-Loompa as well.

PEACE!

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Feb 2006 15:36

It is always appreciated— although and albeit many times not publicly voiced— when developers show support to those whom feel they've possibly been forgotten— as if something beautiful we use teeters on the edge of non-existance...

—A Looooong-time Mac user

(I'm here with ya, man! ;)

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Feb 2006 08:16

This is a really cool widget! I just replaced my accuweather.com-linked Weather widget with this; it offers more information and is linked to locations within a smaller proximity to my location than any other weather widget or app I've come across (free or not).

Thanks.

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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 10 Feb 2006 01:35

I would not recommend this as putting the G4 in nap mode was eliminated because it caused system-wide freezes and kernel panicks.

A safer option is to edit Apple's CPU fan kernel extension's Property List fan table to speed up to higher RPMs at lower temperatures— CHUD tools or not I never run above 119°F with my settings.

Here's more info (it's a Google-cached page since the original doesn't seem to be up anymore):

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:FrNbfQyBy1YJ:homepage.mac.com/paul74/MDDFanExtensionMod.htm+fan-speed-table&hl=en&client=firefox-a%20target=nw

BTW- I've a MDD G4 as well and this works perfectly...

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 7 Feb 2006 12:48

Have you attempted reinstalling it? All Adobe CS/CS2 apps along with QuarkXPress (as far as I know) require a plugin for third party font management (I use LinotypeFontXplorer).

Give it a try and I hope it works.

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 7 Feb 2006 03:11

Thanks for posting the update, MacUpdate.

NWN players, please see here for more details regarding the Mac patch and for direct downloads for those with the add-on packs:

http://nwn.bioware.com/support/mac_client_beta.html

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Feb 2006 13:06

Try disabling Tor if you have it installed/enabled.

If you see the page, for some reason it doesn't download, click one of these .

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Jan 2006 06:26

Really? THREE DAYS? No wonder it never seemed to work for me!

Maybe the files should be made available as a separate download or available via P2P...

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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Jan 2006 15:12

I just picked this up for $9.99 from Amazon... and, by the way, version 1.0.2 is available.

http://www.aspyr.com/games.php/mac/raven/

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Type: Review
Date: 31 Dec 2005 07:44
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:4 Stars
Value:4 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Excellent drivers! Finally the Mouse Up/Down buttons on the right side can be reassigned!

These drivers offer on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment which can be viewed on-screen and configuration of your Razer Pro mouse well beyond those built in to OS X (it's specifically for the Razer|PRO mouse but works *perfectly* with my equivalently set up Razer Diamondback).

A couple of polished/clever design features are the little test areas for double click speed and scroll speed– the double click speed tester has a slight response delay, I believe, because of the audio that plays as well as the graphic animating.

The only drawback to these excellent and appreciated drivers, it seems, is that buttons left unassigned do not revert to their pre-destined OS X function– they're disabled unless assigned a keystroke. This can be cumbersome for applications where you may have to reassign/reconfigure all those controls (ie; games) and a bit more cumbersome for applications that simply rely on having a three-button mouse setup (ie; Maya, X Windows, etc.).

I'd like to find a workaround (there are no readme's included in the download) to this shortcoming... :P

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 30 Dec 2005 23:09

Run Disk Permission Repair (using Apple's Disk Utility in /Applications/Utilities/) then try again.

If this doesn't help, attempt to post a more detailed error report (what steps do you go through and where do you encounter errors?) either here or macfixitforums.com

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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Dec 2005 22:47

This is a very good prayer reminder and is a whole lot more useful for more than just RamaDaan. Everything you wish to change can be found in the Preferences...

wa3laykum asSalaam

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 30 Dec 2005 22:44

might this cover what you're looking for?

http://www.wundermoosen.com/ps-14-2-calendar-x.aspx

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 30 Dec 2005 19:27

As far as I remember you are NEVER supposed to unzip the ROMs...

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Dec 2005 17:40

FREE *cough* FREE

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19064

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Dec 2005 17:40

Nope... CCC is now shareware... has been for over a year.

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Dec 2005 03:49

DRM-compressed files do appear noted when doing searches... I just don't download them... they're usually WMV and WMA files, though.

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Dec 2005 00:45

Thanks for the heads up! That's VERY important for people to know.

Do you think it's a problem with the installer or the way the installer was utilized (ie; can the installer be configurated to recognize/work around symlinks)?

Thanks.

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 20 Dec 2005 21:14

Roxio states that Internet Explorer should not be used to download the update– I'm saying "Don't use Firefox, either." using Firefox you'll get a [VERY annoying] fowarding goosechase.

Safari works fine, though... :P

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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Dec 2005 12:10
Features:3 Stars
Ease of Use:4 Stars
Value:2 Stars
Stability:4 Stars

Dang! PCs get version 5... we get crumbs... oh well, to the trash.

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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Dec 2005 07:01

Dude, you're right. I clicked on the button to purchase it and saw the $24.95 price...

Thanks for the heads up!

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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Dec 2005 06:46
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Simply an excellent application! makes me want to invest in a barcode reader for my collection...

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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Dec 2005 02:42

Very cool... I just get annoyed by the design of the installer to launch Safari after the installation rather than respecting the user's browser preference.

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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Dec 2005 23:08
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

This thing is SOOOO cool! I didn't even know it was pulled! :P I can see my house from here...! haha

Flies on my 1GHz MDD G4/Radeon9800Pro/10.4.3/1GB RAM

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 15 Dec 2005 12:15

When registering WRITE DOWN or COPY your user NUMBER... it CANNOT be recovered later if you don't use an email address to register... like I did! lol

Peace

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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Dec 2005 09:21

You can get Virex for Mac from McAfee but, at least online, you can purchase no less than 5 seats (which costs over $200!)!

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Dec 2005 14:32

...and how might I inquire is that done...(packaging)?

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 9 Dec 2005 06:17

Edit the *.cfg files of most games and you can set the resolution to anything that supports 4:3, 16:9 or 16:10 ratios...

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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Dec 2005 20:30

Thanks for the tip!

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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Dec 2005 03:51