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Freelancer and software engineer. In a former, quieter life, an HCI researcher.
Real Name:John 
Last Login:8 Jun 2009 01:38
Posts:10
Reviews:1
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Word Browser Plugin
Jun 3 2009

VALENTINIAN  3.0 works great. The interface is polished & elegant, and it works on Intel now! Thanks for updating the product.  
(Version 3.0)

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Microsoft Office 2008
Apr 14 2009

VALENTINIAN  Why is it that every update includes "fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory"? How many buffer overflows can you have in a single office suite?

Where are the real release notes?  
(Version 12.1.7)

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XML View Plugin
Mar 4 2009

VALENTINIAN  This is awesome. Just what I wanted to have -- now I don't have to open up Firefox every time I want to debug a remote API call. Overriding Cmd-F to open up a Find panel is a nice touch, too.  
(Version 1.5)

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Word Browser Plugin
Feb 24 2009

VALENTINIAN  Unfortunately this plug-in no longer works on Intel machines, since it's not a universal binary. If you google for DocPreview, there is a universal binary Safari plug-in on Intel machines. But it doesn't work for Firefox, only for Safari.

Can the developer just recompile this thing as a universal binary? I miss being able to open up Word docs in Firefox.  
(Version 2.0.1)

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StuffIt Expander 2010
Jan 7 2009

VALENTINIAN  Because as a developer and designer, you are to adhere to the human interface guidelines of the host operating system. UI and interaction design isn't an afterthought, to be papered onto your app whenever you feel like it. An operating system has a distinct set of UI and interaction metaphors, and if you don't follow it, it breaks user expectation. Ultimately, as a Mac developer, you are not creating apps for "Windows switchers". You are creating an app for -Mac users-, to conform to the expectations of Mac users.

The fundamental design of Mac OS X makes the installer gratuitous, except when you specifically need to execute some non-obvious, non-file copy task. On Windows, this is precisely the case -- any software installer must write Windows Registry entries to be registered as an application. On the Mac, there is no such thing, and thus the installer metaphor is restricted. The implication of a Mac installer is that you are going do other things behind my back that isn't a straightforward file copy (put something in /Library, install a framework, install a kernel extension, write a configuration file, etc...). Violating this expectation means a Mac user will wonder what you intend to do behind their backs to install a simple decompression app.

Follow the UI and interaction standards of the host OS -- any UI designer worth his pay will tell you this. As an UI engineer, I dare say that single-click "drag-and-drop" is a much easier concept for a user to understand than the overused and multi-click, multi-step installation wizard.  
(Version 13.0.3)

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Vuze
Oct 25 2008

VALENTINIAN  An installer? Really? Why does a Bittorrent client require an installer? It's a pretty cut-and-dry application that should stand alone in a drag-and-drop .app file. Do you intend to install random packages into hidden locations on my system? Oh right, it's for the toolbar and other strange third-party things, which I had to explicitly opt-out of.

And of course, it's not a standard Apple installer package, so I can't even figure out what exactly you did to my system, even though I unchecked all the boxes I could to just get the application.

What happened to you, Azureus / Vuze? You used to be cool.  
(Version 4.0.0.2)

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Vuze
Oct 25 2008

MVHAUS  Just so you know

It installs an invisible folder (a dot before the name) called .install4j at the root of the folder where the program sits.

(for instance, the Applications folder if you chose it)

The folder contains a bunch of files like a log and .dll program files, and even a .exe Windows file.

Don't know what is this all for.

Invisible folder manually removed...  
(Version 4.0.0.2)

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Vuze
Nov 2 2008

MSWFUJOWDFFYC  After installing this VUZE-Thing without looking at the license/dialogs/whatsoever, my iMac w/Tiger couldn't sleep anymore! Before VUZE, the iMac was sleeping very well :( so I took a look at the comments here and removed this UNUSUAL invisible folder .install4j (was in the Application Folder). After a restart: my iMac sleep's again. It's confusing because I didn't found any running process or startup items, but I'm sure this annoying folder has something to do with it. Strange.  
(Version 4.0.0.2)

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Sequel Pro
Oct 21 2008

VALENTINIAN  'preciate it, guys. I've been looking for a fork of CocoaMySQL, ever since the dev stopped working on it. This is looking to be pretty good.  
(Version 0.9.2)

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CopyCatX
Sep 16 2008

VALENTINIAN  Duplicate mode clones the full volume, Boot Camp partition and all, without excessive hacking of the partition maps and MBR and such. Downside of this is that both Mac and Win partitions need to be restored at the same time - but small price to pay for data integrity and peace of mind.

Unfortunately not well updated.  
(Version 4.0)

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Winclone
Mar 26 2008

VALENTINIAN  Disk Utility doesn't seem to work for NTFS-formatted drives, since it can't write to the partition on Restore.  
(Version 1.6.6)

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Apple Safari
Jun 11 2007

VALENTINIAN  You should probably turn off all InputManagers first ( a la Menu Extra Enabler , etc ). These things indiscriminately inject code into every Cocoa application, which can destabilize Cocoa programs.  
(Version 3.0b)

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