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It looks so much like MacPilot, but it's free. Awesome. Koingo Software's got a freeware competitor now… |
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Hm, that's a nice feature. Is this an app you place in the top bar of the Finder that acts on selected files, or is it a full app with a GUI that lets you browse through files? |
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What is better about this than using Cmd+click and then Cmd+Delete? I do that all the time. |
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ImagePlay is NOT freeware, it's shareware. How did that get in here? Great app, but I don't want something I need to pay for in a collection of software that's supposed to be free. |
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My Mac is a laptop, and it plays a huge part in my life. On occasion, I need to leave my Mac for just a moment and don't want anybody messing with it. This app is perfect for those moments. ^_^ |
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I love Twitter, and when I found this app it looked really cool, so I gave it a try. It's very sleek and has a nice interface, however: I have found Twitterrific to be extremely hit-and-miss when it comes to connecting to Twitter and getting tweets. About 5/6 of the time, I have to use Twitter's web interface instead, because Twitterrific is complaining about various server errors and things about the server complaining that I sent a bad request when I quite clearly have not sent ANY requests in the last hour– I just turned on my Mac; it's not possible. Yes, it's a great Twitter app, and I'm perfectly fine with the hourly ads. But the connectivity issues themselves can on occasion make this app a real hassle to use. |
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And still others (me) are perfectly happy running Leopard on their PPC iBook G4s they got a while before the Macbooks even existed. |
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The old version of WriteRoom is still up for free on the developer's site. This might be worth my while if it had various settings that made it useful for everyone (such as say, vim, nano, and emacs modes that let users familiar with those programs get around with keyboard shortcuts). I find that running vim fullscreen will solve the problem nicely for me– if you can learn vim (I was able to learn a good deal of vim in 30 minutes), it'll help you for more than just coding. You can write faster and make lists with ease. |
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Graphic symbols? As in ☂ ☕ ☢? |
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A couple minor glitches in the UI? Yeah. Do they decrease the quality or usefulness of this application? Nope. This has got to be in the top five free video converters for Mac. The test video– a short animation about Mamegoma– converts from .mov to .mp4 in about 53.9 seconds. The settings do require some tweaking, as annoying graphical anomalies will appear in your video if not configured properly. Alas, I have yet to find the perfect video converter for OS X. I know that Exporter has earned its place in my toolbox, at least for a while. I also have a little hint to share: in the box resulting from clicking the Export… button, make sure to press the down arrow so that you can get a working set of controls (since they appear to be behind the field in which one types the filename). The Options button will be there, though you can't see it– click to the right of the first menu and it will appear. |
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XD I've done that in the past, I think. Logical fallacies are amusing… |
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As an extremely geeky person, I understand your point– but I'd like to spend more time doing geek things within the program, rather than within the scope of creating it– but that's my opinion, which is by no means what everyone else thinks. |
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I'm perfectly capable of doing all of these things with Terminal and such (I've done it on occasion before), but this is a bit much. Mac users expect working binaries, and source code should be an aside. |
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Never mind, the dev has it up for download in a (rather obscure) part of his site. |
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ISO 9317-5 Moose-y Goodness. |
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I think they did a marvellous job; I'm happy with Leopard's look. |
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I too run on a PPC Mac. I got Leopard at the premier and it actually has made my Mac a little speedier. It's an iBook G4, last model ever produced (got it a few months before the MacBooks came out). I don't have an iPhone or plan on developing iPhone apps right now, but it's nice to know that there's a solution. |
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I don't have any use for this, but I can't help but say that the name instantly brought to mind ‘Se quel guerrier io fossi’ from Aida, and the phrase ‘celeste Aida’ is stuck in my head. |
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I needed this quite badly, as my desktop is constantly cluttered with icons that I never get around to cleaning away. Now, SmartShuno can help me remove them. I like the Japanese-sounding name of ‘shuno’, as well as the use of GPL smilies in the interface (screenshot included). Very nice, thanks much! |
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You might want to update the poll to include Leopard, as I cannot vote. |
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Any chance of hosting the old free version like MU did with Textpander? I don't have $25 for this, I'm 13. |
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Two words: Snapz Pro. More flexibility and features, and at a price people can afford. Non-obtrusive, runs in the back and is available with a simple hotkey. If you got Snapz Pro through the MacHeist bundle, it was even more affordable. Nice app I suppose, but not worth the money. |
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I love the icon! ^_^ Using the current icon instead of this one is like choosing Paint over Photoshop… which is probably similar to what happened, actually. |
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From what I see in the screenshot, it just provides quick access to things like archiving and labelling. While watching movies may be a daily task, I think it's simpler in the Finder. Additionally, if I'm watching a movie and developing an application at the same time, wouldn't I be less productive because of the movie? |
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First, it doesn't have anything I want. Why would I download it, then? Second, why do I need a purple background? Trash the colour thing. Third, why is the toolbar floating around in the purple sea of colour? Integrate it. Let's see a real app, not just a joke. |
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Very fun, very easy to use. This makes mapping an enjoyable activity, something you might do for the fun of it. In fact, I have done some maps with this for the fun of it. MindNode is something you want to take out every day and make something interesting with it. Organise thoughts, collect information– MindNode does it all in a convenient, sleek package that captures the essence of the Mac– extra little bits and pieces that you don't need aren't present, and the user interface is intuitive, simple, and powerful. Very nicely done, fives all around for a pwnage app. |
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Very fun, very difficult. Great piece of freeware, keep up the good work! You'll play this on and off throughout the whole day, because it's one of those things where it frustrates you to be very close to winning, only to find that you went one square too far… |
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YES YES YES! I used HyperDither when it first came out and I've been waiting and waiting for an update, thanks much! |
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onoez, dead link! Couldn't find it on Google, either. |
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Most people don't have anything 100MB and smaller to test this on. Useless demo, boo. |
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Does anyone still have the old free version? I don't have $15 for this, and I don't care if it's out of date, either. |
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Dead link, onoez! Any chance that i can has mirror? |
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Heh, thanks. I don't know why it never occurred to me to try that… *slaps self* |
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No, Esperanto uses ŝ for the /ʃ/ sound, so it can't be. |
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Actually, that system is still used by OS X. |
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I don't understand this at all, but the name is squishy and fun to say! Seafoid. |
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Whee! Love the "tech" setting, that's my kind of haiku. Here are some phrases I've received:
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Hm, well, it's nice to see that its behaviour has been improved– I just think it would be nice if the app would be a little bit more up-front about what it was doing– is there really any need for this? |
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Wow, I have all the reasons I need to not install this now. Let's talk about the average user. Sure, they won't know that any of this is going on– but it seems that's the point, so why is all this hidden? Good Mac developers ought to put their frameworks into an appropriate Library area (Application Support might not be a bad idea, if it's just for this suite). Then, that code can hook right into the app without spawning processes or wasting CPU. It certainly doesn't need to run at startup (and root, no less). If you need this once a week maybe, then why are we running every day? Having a daemon or other process open like that for just a version check is ludicrous– use Sparkle to check for updates when the user launches. If you're that strict about licenses, write a framework or class for that too– this would belong in appname.app/Contents/Frameworks , since it's not tied into anything else (and if it is, store the license info in a plist file). In short, this app doesn't play nice with the system. |
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Love it, just love it. One of my gripes with Leopard's Font Book is that when you delete a font before removing it from a collection, its entry stays in the collection if you view it from the font panel and the only way I've found to fix this is removing and re-creating the collection, a major inconvenience. Those of us who collect and use large numbers of fonts (me and some other posters) will find that Font Book just won't cut it. That's when it's time to bring in Linotype, who knows how to do fonts and how people want to do fonts. |
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Eh, I tried it myself, but it didn't work. If you've a hexadecimal editor, you could try searching the binary for the paths to the music and editing them… I might try that, hehe. |
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Here's a tip: Open GarageBand (new project) and drag the MIDI file in. You will be able to change each MIDI instrument to any GarageBand instrument you desire, remove it entirely, add more, add loops, etc. Make an MP3 by the same name and stick it where the original goes. |
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I did that one time, it was strange at first, but then I thought “Whoops, turned VoiceOver on” and disabled it (and its key shortcut, since I don't need it). |
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Alright, thanks! I love how the MacUpdate staff is always quick to respond to users' questions, very helpful. By far my favourite Mac software site. ^_^ |
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Dead link. Can somebody get a link up? |
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Looks like an AppZapper knockoff. Nice, but I like AppZapper's interface (and genie) more. Besides, the creators were really understanding about the fact that I can't buy it and gave me a license. :D |
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I have, what, two KDE icon sets in Pixadex. They're really nice, and they cover such a wide variety of situations– it's a good thing to have on tap. |
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But App Stop is shareware now… I found 0.9 but it doesn't work on Leopard. Anyone have 1.1 or something else that will? |
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The icon is the first thing a user sees; you don't even have to open an application to see its icon. Application icons should generally be as suited and descriptive as possible; this causes users to recognise things quickly and creates a stronger link in the mind. If you tried to remember to buy peaches at the store by writing the word "Venice" on your list, you probably wouldn't remember that you wanted peaches. Likewise, if you write a travel itinerary and it says "peaches" where Venice belongs, you probably will have a hard time figuring out where you meant to go next. I, personally, think it helps to have a suited and recognisable icon (such as TextEdit having a pen and paper, iTunes having a CD and notes, iPhoto with a picture and a camera, Address Book with an address book, Numbers with a spreadsheet and graphs, or iCal with a calendar. They just, well, make sense and fit.) Next time you're customising icons, try placing the MetaX icon on your favourite app, put that app in the Dock, and see how long it takes before you get used to it. I don't have a problem with the software, I think it's strange to have a cow, of all things, on a music tag app. |
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Hm… mine only ever had Installer.app requesting whichever right it was (system.root.user.install I think), but I had fseventer open and nothing about Installer.app was changed. Odd… |
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No, no… Installer.app is requesting root privileges to install something. The package isn't an app in itself, so it can't request root privileges, no less to modify an open application. |
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Not to be a bother, but mind sending it to me? I can't find it anywhere after FWM pulled it. |
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WHY HAVE I NOT FOUND THIS BEFORE?! :twitch: |
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I used PithHelmet until it broke on Leopard, now I use SafariBlock, which is a bit better and more flexible than this IMO. |
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I use Quick Look. ^_^ Being at the Leopard premier and standing in line outside the store for two hours was one of the BEST THINGS I'VE EVER DONE. |
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I used Ukelele to make a layout for Telugu, when I reopened it the whole thing appeared garbled in Ukelele but continued to work normally on my system. I'd try this app out, but it appears to be a dead link… |
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Would be really cool if it supported those other strange encodings like TSCII (for Tamil), etc… |
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I've been looking for something like this for a while, tiling backgrounds can be useful but difficult to make. What's more, the Engrish description is great! (no offence to the developer or other Japanese; I'm actually a Japanophile)… I'll make sure to enjoy the haphazardness. BTW, I dig vector graphics. ^_^ |
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Precisely. The app doesn't do anything, the person who holds down power does. |
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I wish I had this yesterday… would've saved me dragging upwards of 120 images manually… Would like to see wildcard and regular expression support in the future. |
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Peep Attack Pro + screensaver = perfection |
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I've always liked this app. Now… The developer needs to include fiesta bulbs– chiles, salsa, chips, maracas, etc. This could be something totally great if it worked for every single holiday and the days in between! I want to see huge packs of bulbs for this. |
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It's a great game, through and through! I absolutely LOVE this game. I don't have a way to buy it though, so I use the "cost-effective" method: delete the invisible files and your time to play is reset to 60 minutes as you continue to enjoy your game from where you left off. 5s all around, well done! |
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Somewhere along the line, there became one too many apps to accomplish this. Personally, I like Orator best. |
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It would be even better if I could choose filetypes (something simple: choice between mov, mp4, and avi would be decent). Overall, I like it! |
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A friend of mine (who is a geek like me) said something about Silverlight once. Intrigued, I asked him "What's Silverlight?" His reply called it yet another "MS crap product". I agree. |
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In Terminal: sudo killall Dock Type admin password, voilà. Of course, this is great for the majority of Mac users, who probably don't do UNIX. |
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Straight from the Oxford dictionary: buy
I don't want to continue this any further, here's my last comment (mouse over to view): I certainly don't agree with your use of "donation", nor do I find business analysis any consolation. I'm sorry if we don't see eye-to-eye here; it's just the way I look at things. |
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I'm sure there are quite a few people (such as myself) that can't pay for anything online because they're not 17 years of age or older. I don't want to engage in a flamewar, but consider: there are still more people in this world who are 17 years of age or older, but don't have $10 to spend on a piece of software. They barely have enough money for food, let alone something like this. Don't spit the words "they wouldn't have a computer" at me because they could've gotten one for Christmas, or they might've been financially secure at one time, and had bought a computer. |
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The Christmas icon looks great, I might download it just because it looks so funny. |
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Now with Leopard, just use Spaces. If you don't have a tidy desktop, use the basic version of Desktopple (most people will be fine without the pro version anyway). It's what I do for my school work, and it works just fine. Pages and Desktopple in one space, music and anything else in the other three. |
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Better yet, use iSwiff: |
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The listing appears to read PPC only. As it was written entirely using AppleScript (not even Xcode was involved), it should work on Intel systems as well. |
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You guys need to make up your mind, seriously. Softpedia lists it as freeware, which is how I came across it (my MU filters are set to freeware only, which is why I never saw it here). I opened it up and… "Your demo expires in 11 days." Well, that really turned me off to it already. Now, I go to Limit Point's site and see that I need to "make a donation" in order to unlock all the utilities on the page. Am I buying it or am I just making a donation? I found a link that says purchase, so it seems that donate has become a more pleasant-sounding word for buy. I really don't even know what to say. |
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Yes! I'm so glad to see a feature for adjusting really high and low notes, if you ever try to listen to an icon, you'll see why… It'd be nice to see a feature for transparent parts of an image to not be counted at all. A row of transparent pixels with just one opaque pixel would then cause the opaque pixel to be played as if it were the entire line. |
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And some of us (like me) are using Leopard. Some of us (like me) got it on the premier, too. |
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Oh. My. God. I've always enjoyed file management shells like this, I bet I'll use this every day. The only things I might like to see would be: 1. Option+F opens file menu regardless of which pane you're in (currently opens only if user is in top pane) 2. Capability to preview images without opening them in some way. Managing font files has never been easier! |
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Adobe Flash Player is already installed… and you can watch your videos in Jing using the history feature. When I said 'get rid of RealPlayer', I meant that because it is a terrible app, not because of compatibility. |
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Get rid of RealPlayer, for one. Second, don't open it with QT– open it with Safari. If you can't figure out how, hold Command and Option, then drag it to the Safari icon in your Dock or wherever. |
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In search of a good MP4 converter, I went straight to MacUpdate and downloaded both QTAmateur and iSquint to see which one was the best. Neither of them are perfect, but one did come out on top. Here are the tests I did: I used a video downloaded from YouTube and converted to .m4v by TubeTV for testing each converter. First, I tried iSquint. Using all defaults except for video size, I converted the file. The video's size remained unchanged, because I didn't want it made smaller. When I opened iSquint, I was greeted not by a nice welcome screen, but by a sheet urging me desperately to buy VisualHub instead, before I'd even tried iSquint! A row of arrows pointing to the 'Try VisualHub' button encouraged me. To quote the app, "No thanks, I'll suffer with iSquint". OK, so now that that's over, I changed my settings for the movie size to the current size. I had to open QuickTime in order to find the size of the movie first. The conversion was fast and clean. At the end of the conversion, I received a message informing me that the conversion was finished. The OK button wasn't the only one in the window; another one encouraging me to use VisualHub was there. I already said no once, isn't that enough?! So now, in regard to the actual conversion… The quality was excellent! The file size was the same as that returned by QTAmateur, though the video returned by QTAmateur looked somewhat like JPEG compression was used, which isn't what I wanted to see. Overall, iSquint is the winner, though the advertisements are a bit obnoxious… two points off for that. |
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The only major drawback to this is that you must quit and reopen it to remove any files from the list (that is, to make an entirely new archive). Other than that, I love it! |
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Really? I'm glad the developer hasn't pulled it off the figurative shelves yet, it's a nice app. It's only a matter of time, the same thing happened to App Stop some time ago, and I didn't grab it quickly enough. |
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On freewaremac.net, a copy of the old, free Textpander is still available. Because it works with Universal Access, you can use it system-wide. There are no limitations as to where it works, and it's a bit more flexible. Trust me, I switched to Textpander from RapidoWrite and found it a bit better. |
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Yum, I always love chess. This one appears to have quite a bit of useful features, and it looks nice! |
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Works perfectly on my iBook G4 running Leopard. Great utility, I'll use this often. |
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Charging $20 for something you can do in the Finder is pretty silly. |
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Mmm, I like this thing. Lots of options make it very useful, and it's nice to be able to save to PDF (you can do this very quickly via the Print dialog). |
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Ohh first comment! This quiz software is very snazzy, and it, well, is just awesome. Now, if only I could buy it. |
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Uh… just use Front Row or a free alternative that you can find here on MacUpdate. It's entirely possible to get this stuff done with some free software, just look around. |
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Oh, my, God. This may be the most amazing software EVER. I've made some shaky clips in my time when I have to walk quickly with a camera, this thing is awesome. |
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I think the most common is "did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did" well, you get the point. |
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Mmm… yummy interface, yummy features, yummy app! |
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It's not a forum at all, actually. |
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Ohhh… looks excessively geekish, just the way I like it. :-) |
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Good old sudo to the rescue! Tried the first command from Corpsecorpse, worked marvellously. Thanks! |
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Alas, even with the help of this tool I could not get my beloved SafariBlock to run again. Looks like it's back to banners while surfing once more… or will this be fixed in a future release? |
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Yech, and I always found those annoying. :-) I'm glad to see them gone, quite frankly. |
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God, I've been looking for a simple utility like this for ages! Maybe I'll win this one, ought to be free. |
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Tangerine isn't freeware anymore… I'm not sure about the cost, but I prefer the interface of Tangerine. BeaTunes has more advanced features though. It's more of a power-user tool as far as music apps go. |
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Oh. My. Goodness. I've been Waiting For This For So Long! GhostReader is simply amazing. I'd love to have it. If Leopard's new Alex is so great (I'm using Leopard now) then what are these voices like?! |
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Yess! Leopard compatibility features! |
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Who would actually WANT that? I love my new dock, and the shiny little lights under open apps. |
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Retail $24? Good thing this is on MPromo. |
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Retail $24? Good thing this is on MPromo. |
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Oohh… I need this DESPERATELY for social studies. It looks like a very nice app, as always. |
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It's just amazing when a developer of games takes an old arcade hit and turns it into something fantastic like this. Again, great job Pangaea! |
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WOW. I like, I like! Too many pictures lay in giant folders on my hard drive. If only it were free… still, very nice, practical app. |
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Hmm, why do I think this was free a long time ago? Just a question… |
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Whoa, can you say Finder on steroids? Simply amazing. On the subject of Unix, I often use Unix for getting the full scoop on my files. Who knows, maybe I'll switch to FileXaminer some time. Looks very cool, nice interface too. |
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Nice, would like to see more of the original look and feel. The same window style, Ã la original, would be nice (no title bar, good ol' page flip animation). I like how you can keep track of the pages you have going, but at the same time still miss the page flip and overall interface, and I'd be willing to sacrifice the nice new features like backgrounds and a separator control to keep track of how many pages there are. Still, this took a good while to make and is high quality. In terms of bugs, I found just one: the minimum amount of pages is 8. Press the button to delete a page and choose to go ahead with this, then make a new page. The new page will be numbered 8 because the page count supposedly decreases, but the control doesn't remove the eighth section from it. Nonetheless, keep working on it! If you work hard enough, I'm sure the day will come when it's an exact reproduction, which I'd love :-) |
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Wow, I just lucked out! I read some more about this app on the developer's website and it soon may blow OmniGraffle right out of the water. Not only that, but I just won the raffle, it seems. Looking forward to this app, it's surprisingly well-rounded, powerful capabilities and features. |
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For that matter, some of the Nuvola or Crystal icons might be good. |
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The description isn't very detailed, so I'm going to assume that this app runs on several Macs, each with the same iTunes library. Then, it identifies where you are by checking for some Bluetooth-enabled object you're carrying such as a cellphone, and plays the exact same part of the music you were listening to on the next Mac that runs Music Follow Me as it detects said Bluetooth-enabled device. Very cool concept, I hear Bill Gates's house does this. Would be cool if you copied him by hooking Macs running Music Follow Me up to speakers and used some kind of Bluetooth device to track you around, Bill Gates will hate you— but that's a good thing! |
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Of all the free sudoku apps on here that claim to solve puzzles, this is the only one that does what it says. Nice, would like the feature to open sudokus in various formats. |
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Yup, whole website is dead, and gives a rather obscene message too. |
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Here's a tip that'll save you even more money: right-click, control-click, or click and hold the iTunes icon in the Dock. Voilà , iTunes controller. I don't get why so many people even bother with these little "iTunes controllers", I hate them with a passion. If you're that desperate, use the Docklet or push the Zoom button once or twice to get the MiniPlayer, which you can set to be always-on-top (à la floating window) in Preferences. |
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Nice, as something of a hobbyist photographer, a watermark feature is certainly useful. Wish I had one o' these, would be really helpful. |
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Expensive, but understandably! |
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Shame this isn't free anymore… good thing I still have the free one! |
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Transparent PNGs are flattened in a very ugly way if used as a watermark. |
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Mm, quite useful and very powerful app. Great features, a lot of people will buy this. Sleek interface and ease of use are always a plus, and this app is certainly no exception, you can tell just looking at the screenshot! |
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PERFECT! Downloads images from sites flawlessly, great for image galleries etc. Filter options are a must-have for avoiding extraneous files, performs better than any other app of its kind. I just AppZapped SiteSucker thanks to this. |
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Touché! |
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It's just so… out-of-place looking. For instance, Photoshop Elements has a picture of a camera, iTunes has a CD with eighth notes, OmniGraffle has a picture of some diagrams and a pen, and MetaX has… a cow? It's just not logical. |
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I like it overall, but it's got several drawbacks: First of all, it's horribly undocumented– wondering what kinds of features Bean has, and I get the "H |
