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Something is very different or possibly "wrong" with 10.4.5 or LCC... or both. TCC used to perform, Repair Permissions, Run Maintenance Scripts and Clean System Log Archives in about 20 minutes on my Dual 2 GHz PPC G5... LCC takes 3 hours to perform the exact same tasks on the same computer. |
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Much worse than the last version. I get constant BeachBalls, complete stalls, and crashes all day long... I'm using APE/Windowshade... maybe that's the trouble... but no other version of Safari has worked this bad on my machine. 10.5 in general has been slower and more rife with problems than 10.4. Any ideas you guys? Dual 2 GHz PPC G5 |
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I agree with TIM27 ... Almost everything on 10.5.4 is slower than on 10.5.3... and 10.5.3 is so much slower than 10.4.11. I get Beachballs and a frozen desktop constantly... Safari and Word and Yahoo IM crash or freeze more than just a few times a day. Dictionary is ridiculously slow... and it persistently gives me it's silly Intro/ad page for a few seconds every time it starts up. I figured all my problems were stemming from using APE/WindowShade (which I blame on Apple for having in OS 9 and then dropping from OS X), but from a lot of the reviews I've read on the net, it seems a lot of people are having similar problems. It's also very annoying to me that you can't lose the sidebar in 10.5, and still keep the very useful buttons at the top of the window (Path etc.) The 1.5 inch sidebar loses lots of real estate on a desktop. Dual 2 GHz PPC G5 |
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I've been using this with 10.4.11 for a while... no probs... a little slow, which is usually cured by a restart. (I have been told it's because of the logging all the chats). I installed 10.5.3... The ap is so slow now... after a few minutes in a chat room, the letters type in interminably slow... one... at... a ... time... |
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I've always loved this client... but... I installed Leopard 10.5.3 last night... for some reason when I start up LCC it doesn't show up in the dock... and when I start it up, it just runs endlessly for hours just to do "Repair Permissions," "Run Maintenance Scripts" and "Clean System Log Archives." It never finishes. I also noticed in 10.4.11 that it behaved the same way if you did "Command H" to hide the app, it just ran forever too. |
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The nice folks over at iSquint have a Temporary Fix to the videos that were transcoded last year before the newest QuickTime decided not to play them! Just change the suffix from .mp4 to to .3gp and they play fine. I have no idea of the ramifications of this, but at least these vids will play in QuickTime again! isquint . org/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=15;t=5447 |
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I think Comical is BETTER than ComicBookLover. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that ComicBookLover has, but it's FREE and works great. FYI: The .cbr and .cbz files are just .rar (cbR) and .zip (cbZ) files that anyone can easily read by decompressing them into .jpg. More info here: http://www.sketchyorigins.com/comics/showthread.php?t=424 http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/45.html |
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Too costly for what it is. Comical is BETTER!!! http://comical.sourceforge.net/ It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that ComicBookLover has, but it's FREE and works great for me!!! FYI: The .cbr and .cbz files are just .rar (cbR) and .zip (cbZ) files that anyone can easily read by decompressing them into .jpg. More info here: http://www.sketchyorigins.com/comics/showthread.php?t=424 http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/45.html |
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Hey Hugh: Thanx for the great advise. Almost as good as the "helpful" folks from the Transmission Forum... or... waitaminute... Are you one of the smarties from the Transmission Forum of super-smart macaroons? Some advise for you. If you have no advise... keep it to yourself. |
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It's nice to have a developer make a few cursory comments in here... but... Big Deal. 5 months and this Crap App is still a beta? This "new" version has less features than the 3 YEAR old last version!!! Sheeeesh... talk about feeling like a second class citizen... |
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I've had nothing but trouble with Transmission. I've had files that Transmission said were complete, and then Toast said they weren't audio files. Then I noticed they had no size at all. And Transmission's forum pages were no help. No real "experts" offered any real advise... however I did get a lot of bad advise and tech-knowledge-posturing from a few know-it-alls who were obviously vacant of any real tech knowledge. |
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This is very disappointing. Another example where Macs are ignored by major applications. Why release something with so many bugs, and less features than the previous version? In all fairness, BitTorrent does call this a "beta" version on their d/l page... but this app seems as badly designed and as impotent as Yahoo's new IM app. In regards to Transmission: I've had nothing but trouble with it. I've had files that Transmission said were complete, and then Toast said they weren't audio files. Then I noticed they had no size at all. And Transmission's forum pages were no help. No real "experts" offered any real advise... however I did get a lot of bad advise and tech-knowledge-posturing from a few know-it-alls who were obviously vacant of any real tech knowledge. |
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"Relax"? Don't presume... 1). "0 feedback?" Be serious. Every Mac user I deal with on Yahoo IM is annoyed about it. Most of them tried it for a short while and went back to the last crappy version (2.5.3). Of course you may be right in that you've got "0 feedback," however unlikely that may be. Maybe us Mac users have seen so little from you in so many years that we don't send feedback, assuming that since you've never really provided us with a decent app, that you really don't care. 2). So, what your saying is it's a pain in the arse to do... but that's okay because you folks don't spend near as much time working on a Mac app(?) 3). There is a "fix" to the older version (2.5.3) that changes the "command G" to a Show Profile... sorry... I'm used to it. It's much more useful than the annoying "BUZZ." 4). 5). Etc. etc. etc.... As for "sending feedback..." Shouldn't you just make a nice app that's at least somewhat similar in features to what's been available on a PC for years? Thanx for responding... I do appreciate it. And I certainly don't mean to offend you... But chastising me for your presuming that I'm not "relaxed" is just a defensive way of saying that Yahoo spends little time on it's Mac client. You want feedback? Go to versiontracker and read what MysticalOS (Adam Williams) has posted. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14474 xoxo, ~albabe |
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As jbohn has already reported... this is NOT a new version. It's been around for a few weeks in all it's pathetic inept glory. C'mon Yahoo, give us Mac users a break. MysticalOS (Adam Williams) below has an enormous list of crap that Yahoo has done nothing about. It's also got serious privacy flaws as younkint has already stated: http://www.macfixit.com/index.php?date=2006-08-10 and this: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/393195 While my problems aren't as lengthy as some... here's my major buggaboos: No "Ignore" Button No "Show Profile" Button No ability to "Save copy" And nothing like 2.5.3's "Command K" ... that used to show all that's been typed in conversation No Ability to Join Yahoo Chat Rooms No "See Others Cam" button or pull down |
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I actually didn't "fail to realize," anything. Like I said, "No offence..." but I don't care about him personally... I care about Yahoo Msngr... so I was directing my problems to him because "HE" is the one who tried to explain that it was just a beta and things like" ...archiving aren't implemented yet." I just care that Yahoo supports Macs... They barely do... and this new "beta" doesn't work as well as the 3 year old version... This new beta is almost completely ineffectual as an app. Any idea when it will be a "real" app, rather than a beta? |
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To "Developer": I always send problems to the feedback function in OS X, but if I were to assume that Yahoo actually read those and took them serious... I think you need to be serious. Yahoo's last involvement with Macs was in 2003. Not the best record for caring about the customers... but I realize that's certainly not your fault... I'm sure you are just a cog. But seeing as you saw my post and your site says that you work at Yahoo, then I assume you were also responsible and sent my problems to the other "Developers." On your site you are very excited to see this bastard son of Yahoo 2.5.3. No offence to you or your work on it, but it lacks the very usable functions (That I mentioned above) from the last build. I don't really give a rats azz what the app looks like, I care that it's functional. Everyone that I know on a Mac tried the new IM from anywhere for a few hours to a few days and decided that 2.5.3 was more functional than the new one. Again, no offence to you, and I'm sure you are proud of your work on it, but it would be nice to have a functional app rather than a pretty new build with less functionality that took 3 years to produce. |
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This is a beta... Yahoo took 3 years to support Mac since the last Yahoo Msngr and will probably change this from beta to an actual "real" application in, maybe... 3 years. This app is a piece of crap. No Yahoo Chat Room support!!! Most chat-friends can't invite you to their cam. My cam still won't work on Yahoo. When you get a message from someone, there is no button or "pull-down" to show their Yahoo Profile (Was "Command I" in last piece-o-crap version). No button to refresh the chat window, so as to get all of what has been typed before (in the last version it was "Command K." No button to IGNORE jerks who won't leave you alone (You can access an ignore menu from preferences... but it doesn't work!!!) Can't SAVE anything in a chat window any more (It did in last Mac version) |
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I have some problems with Unsanity. I purchased WindowShade from them and it had all sorts of problems starting up (basically it wouldn't) in OS X 10.4.4. Their support was snitty and not any help at all. I finally figured out what their problem was, and when I told them how I got around their bad programming, I never got a "thanx" or... So... this is why, as much as I'd like to get ShapeShifter, I'm very reticent. albabe |
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I have some problems with Unsanity. I purchased WindowShade from them and it had all sorts of problems starting up (basically it wouldn't) in OS X 10.4.4. Their support was snitty and not any help at all. I finally figured out what their problem was, and when I told them how I got around their bad programming, I never got a "thanx" or... So... this is why, as much as I'd like to get ShapeShifter, I'm very reticent. albabe |
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