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Avoid. Unsanity APE is an unsupported hack that accesses Mac OS X processes that Apple has delcared off limits. All too often, I've identified APE as a cause of system instability or application weirdness when troubleshooting Macs. Any potential user of APE needs to ask themselves if they really need the functionality it enables, and if so, can they afford extra system down time as the price for this functionality? |
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Two words: C O C K T A I L Heh, actually one word. |
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LOL, well, DUH!!! Do you complain that your car is useless for the one purpose you bought it for...transatlantic flights? If you want to copy a CSS-protected DVD, use MacTheRipper. It will extract VOBs from a DVD, resulting in a Video_TS folder that you can then burn using Toast or a number of other shareware apps (IMO Toast is easiest and always is rock solid for me). BTW I hope you own the DVDs you intend to copy, and that the copies are intended solely for personal backups to guard against damage to the original DVDs. Stealing DVD content is a crime and even if it wasn't, it is still immoral. |
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Useless. I tried doing a traceroute, and OTTool told me OS X requires me to log in as root to do a traceroute. WTF? I use OS X's Network Utility to do traceroutes all the time without logging in as root. |
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How is this better than simply going to System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy and adding HD's, Volumes, or folders to the Do Not Index list? $20 seems pretty steep for an app that just gives a shortcut to a preexisting System Preferences feature. |
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LMAO! Well said, dude. |
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Some of v4.3's new features are nice, but on my dual 1.42 GHz G4, the performance boost is the most welcome improvement. Navigating in the 3D viewer is now fluid and instantaneous, and the overall experience is far more enjoyable. Unfortunately, GE still has a ways to go. A few low points: 1. The following note appears far too often in Google Earth's manual: "Currently, this feature is not supported for Mac versions of Google Earth." Apple's market share is growing in leaps and bounds, so there is no excuse for a major company like Google to cripple the Mac version. What's most insulting is that Google keeps the Linux version up to speed with the Windows version. WTF? 2. Stability. v4.1 was rock solid on my system, so Google will hopefully address the bugs in v4.3 momentarily. 3. Lame integration with Google Maps. Google Earth is just screaming out for a feature that would turn off the satellite view for a simple road map view. It's almost there, and 3rd party solutions are available, but if Google implements such a feature it will undoubtedly be cleaner and faster. Despite it's flaws, Google Earth is of course a must-have application. What we really need are more competitors to force Google to quicken the pace of development. |
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Fast and responsive developer. This is the first time I've griped about an app on MacUpdate, only to see my gripes fixed on the next version! I'd still like a widget in Safari's toolbar which will save flash movies to disk. Perhaps it could open a window or pane with a list of flash movies the user can select for downloading. Since Safari's Activity Viewer already gives this info, it seems like it would be easy to add such a widget. I know it's possible to double-click the flash movie address in the Activity Viewer to open it in a new window, and then copy the address from the address bar in the new window, and paste it into a downloading app, but it's a tedious solution. My only other request for TubeTV would be for a more fully-featured download manager, but that's really outside the realm of freeware - although I wouldn't hesitate to pay for TubeTV if updates continue to rock as hard as the last one. |
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Nice, but $30 for a utility that changes my desktop picture? $30? Really? In the same price range, we've got workhorses like: GraphicConverter $35 Amadeus II $30 Audio Hijack Pro $30 Compositor $30 ViewIt $20 Is changing the desktop picture comparable in scope to any of the these shareware titles? Has the developer of Picture Switcher invested time and effort similar to that required to develop these workhorses? IMO $5-$8 is a fair price for a full-featured desktop picture utility, and I bet the higher volume of sales would end up being more profitable. |
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Seems pretty good, but all I can find on the developer's website is a beta version, which appears to have been in development since March 2007 and still costs $15. Why would I pay the developer to test his software for him? As other reviewers noted, there's little documentation and the app isn't entirely intuitive. For payware, I'd recommend MyCoverCD or CD Labeler as inexpensive apps that get the job done; I've tried both and prefer MyCoverCD's GUI and feature set. For a bit more cash, my favorite is Disc Cover - I've been using it for years and it absolutely rocks. Its got a rich feature set, a wonderfully intuitive function, rock solid stability, and the developer updates it regularly to keep pace with OS X. Another benefit of Disc Cover when compared to the cheaper shareware labelers is that a lite version ships with Toast Titanium, so it has a broad user base as insurance against it becoming abandonware. |
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$30 for a clipboard manager? LOL, I don't think so. |
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Sorry, I prefer shareware that doesn't "plung" into my system. |
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Use Max - it's free and will do a CD Paranoia extraction, the gold standard for audio file extraction. Music Man is nonsense, it's just an alternate interface for standard OS X functionality. |
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Fair enough. If you can sucker people into paying for this, then more power to you. |
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Right on! A good citizen willfully submits to propaganda and does his patriotic duty to go forth and buy stuff! |
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You're actually charging money for this? Besides using OS X's myriad short-cuts to access files, and then simply dragging and dropping the Video_TS folder on the DVD player, there's also this: PlayVideoTS, http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20141/playvideots PlayVideoTS just happens to coincidentally do exactly the same thing as Virtual DVDs, except it's free and was released first. I suspect its author would be interested to know that someone else is charging money for his idea. Of course, besides PlayVideoTS, there are many other free apps that catalog Video_TS folders and launch them. To name a few: Mezzanine, DVD Juggler, Videopicker. There are also some excellent payware apps that will launch video_TS folders, such as Matinee. It's $10, but it has a refined interface and avoids cludges like adding a new file type to your system. Note to developer: if your fiance refuses to support your hobbies unless they turn a profit, maybe you should take that as a warning sign...
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For those with trouble viewing flv files, Perian lets you view flv files using Quicktime. Props to realplayer for adding a downloader feature. So far it works very well, maybe a bit easier to use than some of the freeware flv file downloaders available. I'll post a more comprehensive review after using it more. |
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Effing Brilliant! Ever since upgrading to Tiger, I've been desperate for a solution to finding files and stuff on my computer. It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack using OS X. Finally, Google comes to the rescue with a simple app I can quickly launch and leave running in the background. Google Desktop just finds stuff. Period. Perhaps for a future release, Google could somehow tie this into the file system so it works faster. Or maybe Apple could buy it from Google and incorporate it into OS X somehow, so it worked like a searchlight. Thanks for filling a gaping hole in Mac OS X, Google! |
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It's great to be able to save flash video to my Mac, and it's a nice touch that TubeTV can automatically convert the video to mpeg4 after downloading. Unfortunately, I found a few problems with TubeTV. First, the web browser is redundant. Why include it when I can use a real browser without any browsing limitations? And the search field for YouTube is also unnecessary, since I can just go to the YouTube website using my browser and search for videos (and open multiple videos in multiple browser tabs). A far better solution would be either a Safari add-on or standalone app that simply grabs flash videos from Safari and saves them on the local HD. The real flaw with TubeTV is that it cannot "grab" flash video from the browser cache, not from Safari and not even from it's own browser! If I load a flash video in TubeTV's browser, view it, and decide I want to save it, TubeTV must download the entire video again. This is a waste of time and bandwidth, especially for dial-up users. All in all, a nice little app. If it were shareware, I'd consider it's shortcomings a deal-breaker, but as freeware it's a welcome addition to my hard drive. Thanks! |
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