ARVIDTP  Yeah - many DXF exporters produce models with HUGE numbers of entities - was just dealing with this today at work (I shouted "a 217MB 2D vector image???"). Almost any program would slow down with that file as input. SketchUp is great, even with fairly complex models, IF you drew your model in SketchUp. If you drew it in other software, maybe not so much.  
(Version 7.1.5803)

ARVIDTP  Maybe he does landscaping on the side.  
(Version 1.0.8)

ARVIDTP  Well, a good place to take a color palette from! I looked at some of the other algorithms at http://www.complexification.net/ and some are quite astonishing.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ARVIDTP  This is beautiful!

Especially when you turn up the density. Emergent complexity from simple rules…

Would like to see a Config option for crack/bg/sand colors/color ranges.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ARVIDTP  Exactly - I use CCC to keep a bootable clone of my startup drive and up-to-date 2nd copies of my archive drives, then use Time Machine to backup all my active data drives as I work. The two softwares complement each other very nicely.

CCC if fantastic software - and getting better all the time. It has saved my hide a few times - once the day before a big performance (I do live computer music). Donated (and it was easy to find the button to remove the banners - thanks for trusting me with it!)  
(Version 3.3)

ARVIDTP  Excellent software! the algorithm seems to do a much better job than the Sinc (lanczos3) algorithm in GIMP - i just did a comparison. Smilla also takes out jpeg artifacts pretty darn well!

The interface could use a little better organization, to make it more obvious, but it is quite usable. And I did find a way to drag-and-drop images from iPhoto - see my reply to one of the previous comments.  
(Version 0.8.9)

ARVIDTP  Actually you can drag and drop from iPhoto because SmillaEnlarger uses the native file open dialog. Just do Cmd-O and then drag your image from iphoto onto the open dialog box. Then hit return. I use this little known technique for all kinds of apps that otherwise don't support drag-and-drop. (It's also really handy if you want to save something in a folder that is already open in a finder window)  
(Version 0.8.9)

ARVIDTP  if only i could sell the problems on MY screen… :)  
(Version 1.1.3)

ARVIDTP  yeah - it installs a virtual audio device, not an app. Soundflowerbed is an app that provides some control over the virtual audio device.  
(Version 1.4.3)

ARVIDTP  Awesome! I love playing with time and seeing the motion of the plates. I just used GPlates to show friends how Baja California was ripped northward, how the alps were created, and how India really beat it northward, only to collide with the rest of Asia and create that 40-car pileup we call the Himalayas. Pretty cool for geology enthusiasts. I'll have to lean how to do more with it than just load in the sample data sets.

Some may say the data is incomplete (ie Cuba crosses through Mexico ~67 million years ago) but having studied geology, the actual data is pretty spotty and its fantastic that geologists have been able to reconstruct what they have. I know how hard it is to figure stuff out in the field, having done some of it - and that data represented here is a testament to the detective-work done by those studying plate tectonics.  
(Version 0.9.5.1)

ARVIDTP  actually, there is good free software for this, now that FrameByFrame can properly import and make movies from images captured from digital cameras (it used to work properly only with iSight/webcam input)  
(Version 1.3)

ARVIDTP  Great - it can now properly make movies from imported images!

But - Drag and Drop seems to have stopped working for importing images. Thankfully "Edit > Import Images" still works, so no big deal.

I wish there was a way to save a quicktime reference move from FrameByFrame, but its not a deal-breaker, especially at the price of free!  
(Version 1.10)

ARVIDTP  Yes! this is fixed! thank you!  
(Version 1.10)

ARVIDTP  jack is not a hack... and its very stable in my experience - never has caused me problems at all. Yes, occasionally once in a blue moon jack will have a hiccup, but it doesn't break anything else when it does.  
(Version 2.8.2)

ARVIDTP  "Fullscreen window level on second screen when JFVNC is not active is now normal (did go to the back before)."

Thank you!  
(Version 0.98.30)

ARVIDTP  Great little app. Sometimes reduces the filesize of small PNGs saved from Preview by about 45%! Whenever I develop a wordpress theme, I just drop the folder on this before uploading to the web - couldn't be simpler.  
(Version 1.0.10)

ARVIDTP  fantastic little utility!  
(Version 1.2.1)

ARVIDTP  crashes Final Cut Express 4.0.1 when used for export on OS X 10.5.6  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  thanks for looking into it.  
(Version 1.2)

ARVIDTP  RightZoom seems to cause a problem with the Quicktime Plugin in Safari (probably only Safari because Safari the only browser was on my list of supported apps for RightZoom). Any action you take (button press, etc) on a quicktime plugin window causes the computer to become completely unresponsive for 3-5 seconds and the quicktime movie choppy. Additionally, any left click within the quicktime movie brings up the menu you normally get when right-clicking, instead of its normal function of stopping playback.

This is on 10.5.6 Intel, Safari 3

This behavior also seemed to have started affecting the finder, but that was solved by a reinstall of quicktime. The safari problem was not.

So I'm stopping using RightZoom for now.  
(Version 1.2)

ARVIDTP  This is great on a laptop! However I'd ideally like to have the Mac OS 9 solution: Option-Click to force the window to enlarge to fill the whole screen, but auto-size as OS X normally does otherwise.  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  Works great on my macbook pro, but bounces in dock and crashes on launch on my powerbook G4 - the one that actually has the insomnia problem. But that's OK - the description on macupdate was enough to let me write an applescript to do it myself on startup for that old powerbook.  
(Version 1.0)

ARVIDTP  cool! I like it. It works!

I might have to change the icon though it its going to stay in my dock…  
(Version 0.9.1)

ARVIDTP  quite useful. One thing I like about windoze is the constant display of the size of the selected items in the explorer status bar. This brings that same sort of thing to OS X.  
(Version 1.3)

ARVIDTP  seems to have helped!

My compressor, Qmaster and Qadmin were all crashing at launch. Once I ran this with prefs-delete, then restarted sharing from the qmaster prefpane, all was well!  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  This program just helped me fix a months old problem with iDVD by locating for me every file with iDVD in the name - so I found iDVD's cache files in /Library/Caches, trashed them, and now buttons in iDVD work correctly! This utility now has a place in my finder window toolbar right next to the spotlight search field.  
(Version 0.3)

ARVIDTP  Excellent little app! Great for finding files in /Library or ~/Library.  
(Version 0.2)

ARVIDTP  This program would be great except for one small issue: the resulting movies are all in 8-bit color - 256 colors. Why??? That makes it mostly unusable. If it produced actual 24-bit color images, I would be using it all the time! There is NO good free program to do what this program does.  
(Version 1.3)

ARVIDTP  by VRAM i meant virtual memory on disk - not VRAM on the graphics card. Got my terminology mixed up.  
(Version 2.1.3)

ARVIDTP  it also, by erasing all my contacts, removed all my friends from the g-chat list...  
(Version 1.01)

ARVIDTP  I did a "replace contacts in Google with Address Book". It faithfully erased my contact from google, then I got a great big red FAILED message when it tried to upload them. However, my contacts are now all there. But it emptied the groups i had set up in gmail, so that is annoying - but I guess i should have expected that. Oh well - I guess it is back to "A to G"  
(Version 1.01)

ARVIDTP  useful. Not as useful for me because i own Max/MSP, but certainly useful for people who dont! I like it.  
(Version 0.3d)

ARVIDTP  great start! great idea! My only complaints are that everything is too small vertically and buttons are too small for use live. Also the play/pause buttons move with the playheads - its interesting idea, but i dont feel in control of it. Other ideas for improvement are waveform overviews and the ability to move the preview playhead while it it playing.

But this definitely fills a niche that was wanting for djing - even for house parties.  
(Version 1.2)

ARVIDTP  Cool idea, but when i try to load into it a sequence of pics from a digital camera, each frame in the exported movie is either offset so the center of the pic is in the top left corner of the movie with the rest of the picture black, or is really pixelated (as if it were reading the image preview instead of the actual image). Images are 460x480, shot with a Canon G2. OS X 10.5.4.  
(Version 1.4)

ARVIDTP  Audio never starts on my macbook pro (10.5.4). I have a feeling I am just missing a setting that could be accessed through MaxMSP's standard DSP Status window. You should make that available from the standalone.

Also, using a buffer~ to hold the recorded/loaded sound is both dangerous (crash = your audio recording gone) and it is not suitable for long recordings (takes a loooong time to load/save large audio files as the whole thing must be loaded into or transferred from RAM/VRAM).

I for one do wish MaxMSP had a direct-to-disk audio file editor like the one for buffers. Then you could do all sorts of great things like this with it.  
(Version 2.1.3)

ARVIDTP  Great piece of software. I use it on stage while performing with other musicians - they can see the settings of their effects etc. running on my macbook pro wirelessly from the other side of the stage using another laptop. Much easier than bringing another display to gigs.  
(Version 1.18)

ARVIDTP  the previous version worked fine, but in this version when i try to launch a game I get an error:

"Dapplegrey have to quit because of an NilObjectExceptionErr (Object not found). Please tell the following line to the author: Subprogram: 'app.WriteConfChr'"  
(Version 2.0)

ARVIDTP  Cool! Just one thing that is a annoying for me - usually when I leave my macbook pro somewhere it is with an external audio interface connected, and often whatever speakers the interface goes to will not be turned on. So this app need a preference to for which audio device to use, it should not just use the default device, which is what it does now.

I guess if someone stole it then, they would have ot unplug the external audio device, but the audio might not re-engage in time to be useful...  
(Version 0.29b)

ARVIDTP  I use Cyberduck all the time. Good app. The only thing I dont like about the 3.0 beta versions is that usually the bookmarks will not be visible. I like to drag-and-drop things on them, rather than in the window so I dont get springloaded folders accidentally opening and stuff, and so i know exactly where the file will go. THe drawer was a nicer bookmark interface.  
(Version 3.0b2)

ARVIDTP  pretty cool! Could also be good for recording when you are trying to figure out where to place mics.  
(Version 1.0)

ARVIDTP  WARNING TO NEW USERS:

2.4.5r2 is NOT the stable version of Gimp. There are still some problems with this version. Most people would be better served by the official version that still runs under X11.

BTW - I cannot type anything into the save dialog box in this version to name the file I am going to save - the keyboard types through to the other windows and chooses tools instead of naming the file.  
(Version 2.4.5r2)

ARVIDTP  dont know, but the ardour supplies some packages of plugins that they compiled themselves - these installers should put the plugins in a place where Ardour will look for them. Also I think Audiounit support is in the cards for future development.  
(Version 2.3.1)

ARVIDTP  no. Ardour actually uses jack as its audio engine - not just as another core audio interface. Ardour wil not work without jack. On linux Jack is more than just a way to send audio around - it also is an audio engine and a way to send timecode around to sync applications simialr to rewire. Its just that there are not many mac apps that support jack natively. PD is one I can think of that can.  
(Version 2.3.1)

ARVIDTP  I a really excited about trying this, but it does not seem to be able to save anything - I just get "iCompta[10430] Invalid store URL: nil" in the console when I try to save...  
(Version 1.8)

ARVIDTP  had the same problem with v1.3 in Leopard, but upgrading to v1.6.1 fixed it  
(Version 1.6.1)

ARVIDTP  caused my finder to crash when I went into full screen mode  
(Version 0.4.1)

ARVIDTP  I just had the same thing happen to me with GlowWorm-1.5.3b4 on 10.5.2! Thankfully I had already read your post and removed the kext before force-restarting so I didn't have to go through safe mode. This program, while I'm sure it is good intentioned, needs some work.

best,

Arvid  
(Version 1.5.3b4)

ARVIDTP  You only ever need to install the last major version on the last patch - they include all previous patches in the current one. So its not a big deal... I love NeoOffice. It's a tad slow on my powerbook G4... but it always gets the job done! And due to openoffice's stability and good auto-saving/recovery features, I've only once lost more than a sentence worth of work from a crash in more than 4 years of using openoffice/neooffice.  
(Version 2.2.2 patch 10)

ARVIDTP  This looks really cool... I just wish php documents would also update as you type like html documents do. I guess it would have to have its own access to the php engine like Taco HTML Edit does.  
(Version 4.0.1)

ARVIDTP  OK - feel free to download this version... pahhh I will be more careful next time - sorry!  
(Version 0.42b)

ARVIDTP  As I said, please DO NOT DOWNLOAD VERSION 0.41. It is broken (stupid me). The proper file can be found here:

http://arvidtp.net/sw/maestro_frankenstein.html

Thanks!  
(Version 0.41b)

ARVIDTP  Hi, please dont download this version - I just made a big mistake. I'll have a new version in and hour!

--Thanks!  
(Version 0.41b)

ARVIDTP  hangs when trying to connect to a server. useless. I was hoping to be able to use its sync feature - there are no free ftp programs with a sync feature that i know of for mac.  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  Excellent.  
(Version 1.3.1)

ARVIDTP  editing files with non .css extensions was just what I wanted to edit blogger templates. Well done on the latest release!  
(Version 2.6)

ARVIDTP  I thought I would give it another try, but sure enough - system hosed again - had to force reboot.  
(Version 1.2b3)

ARVIDTP  i take that bacl - Cashbox has been opensourced, but, yes, seems to be proceeding slowly.  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  nice looking! doesn't have a cross-account transfer feature yet, but otherwise promising - I'll watch this one to see if it ever gets better than the no longer developed (or so it seems) Cashbox  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  this looks like a DOPE upgrade! And its cheaper now. Wheeee!  
(Version 1.0)

ARVIDTP  I want to like this app, but so far all it does when I try to connect to an FTP server is beachball ALL my apps for upwards of 5 minutes (I can't do anything at all with the mac, in any app!) then says unmounted next to the FTP account in the MacFUSE list when it is finally done with this.

OS X 10.4.10, Powerbook G4 1.25GHz  
(Version 1.2b3)

ARVIDTP  hmm - too mousy for me. A valiant effort, but takes too long to use. You should be able to edit transactions as soon as you have selected them, not have to click a button. Category lists should be bigger so you can see more than 6 categories at once when scrolling, Return key should enter the transaction, etc.

Feature-wise I would like to see a way to add notes/titles to splits in a transaction.  
(Version 2.4.7)

ARVIDTP  ahhh... much better!  
(Version 2.4.7)

ARVIDTP  Looks like a really cool little program - I was considering giving it a trial run, except that the preferences are not accessible - preferences does ot appear in any of the menus or at a button anywhere. Also the app has quite the name in the menubar (com.pipocaware.ezmoney.ApplicationLauncher)!

But looks really promising!

MacOS X 10.4.10, PPC  
(Version 2.4.8)

ARVIDTP  Awesome. So useful and nice and quick - once i figured out how to use the keyboard shortcuts - was trying to copy and paste, but Cmd-C was taken, etc etc - but now I get it and like it!  
(Version 1.01)

ARVIDTP  Yeah - I think the first public version of Skim DID open maximized - at least of one pagewidth. But since that first release that feature seems to have been broken. I have tried all the settings in the preferences, and even trashed my prefs...  
(Version 0.6.1)

ARVIDTP  This software is freakin' awesome! It must cut my time for layout experimenting about in half. Great investment.  
(Version 2.5.2)

ARVIDTP  Smultron is great!!!

Just a suggestion for advanced find: It would be fantastic to have a column of check-boxes (default is ON) along with the find results so that you could set some results to not be replaced when you click the replace button.  
(Version 3.1)

ARVIDTP  Tansparency! Notes appear in the middle of the screen! The best PDF reader ever keeps getting better!

Some awkward key commands for making markups, but you can remap them in System Preferences. I made them be Ctrl + a letter that corresponded to the markup type.  
(Version 0.3)

ARVIDTP  it is saved in the document metadata I think - anyhow you can find out in the good documentation they have provided.  
(Version 0.3)

ARVIDTP  I, as a soon to be Computer Music and Multimedia graduate from Brown and Max/MSP hacker, actually find this fun and interesting ---- so its not just for little kids!

Cool concept  
(Version 1.0.4)

ARVIDTP  a workaround, like in preview, is to hold option while selecting to select a rectangle of text.  
(Version 0.2)

ARVIDTP  HOLY CRAP! this is the best PDF reading and markup application I have ever come across, and free too! Amazing! I wish this had come out back when I was reading lots of geology papers...  
(Version 0.2)

ARVIDTP  the backup to disk image feature is just accessed differently in this version.  
(Version 3.0b5)

ARVIDTP  Wow this is fantastic!  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  Hmm - you need to remove the .bz2 suffix from the file to make it just a plain .dmg. To the dev: please do this. Thanks  
(Version 0.8.0b1)

ARVIDTP  Great little utility. It even expands .sit files without stuffit!  
(Version 1.5)

ARVIDTP  Please note that the main download is now a universal binary, despite what the page says. It should work on all macs running Tiger. Thanks!  
(Version 0.25b)

ARVIDTP  Is it just me, or does the download link script on adobe's site not work in Safari??  
(Version 8.0)

ARVIDTP  Great - except the icons come out looking a bit less sharp - a little blurry - when created from larger images.  
(Version 0.4)

ARVIDTP  Giving the average user the ability to create paths and polygons is great - I was excited - BUT they are somewhat useless if you cant get statistics on them (area, length, etc.) I was hoping to use paths to keep track of my runs and bike rides, but one still has to use the ruler tool to measure them, and I can't find a way to convert between a ruler path and a path path...  
(Version 4.0.2093b)

ARVIDTP  Did they fix the applescripting bugs they introduced yet? I'm not updating from 6.0.5 until they do!  
(Version 7.0.2)

ARVIDTP  wow this is great stuff! I really like it - and FAST too!

The only complaints i have are lack of a zoom feature and and that the bars at the top and bottom do not slide off the screen when not in use, like they do in iPhoto - as it is now they obscure part of the photo you are viewing.  
(Version b1)

ARVIDTP  yeah, this software is pretty bad --- and slow. I pitty the inexperienced mac users who install it and let it set itself as the default program for web and local pdf viewing without knowing there is a much better pdf viewer built into their OS...

I only download it because some improperly created pdf forms only work on Adobe Reader. Also, I've found a sneaky way to get around not being able to save a form with data in it (not re-editable of course - but like the way it can be done in preview).  
(Version 7.0.8)

ARVIDTP  I love this trackpad driver - been using since it came out. iScroll2 is fantastic and i get frustrated on mac laptops that dont have it - however I urge the developer to go back to whatever circular scrolling method was used in 0.25, because no matter what I do I cannot get circular scrolling in version 0.26 to be as sensitive and usable as in 0.25 (on an Alumn. Powerbook G4 15" 1.25GHz). It is just way to jumpy and fast in 0.26...  
(Version 0.26)

ARVIDTP  Great! WOrks much better now. However, all HTML messages come out with no text - just a few little angle backet characters...

I know this is a mail bug, not the developer's fault. I encountered the same thing when i tried to write a similar automator action a while back. But is there a workaround - like converting the message to plain text some other way before mail's conversion can get its hands on it?

best,

Vid  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  Yes! This is the best little utility! I hate having to enter my password manually into the terrible default CiscoVPN interface every time I want to connect to my university's network. Fantastic! Nice looking and unobtrusive software, too :)  
(Version 0.9)

ARVIDTP  This software keeps getting better! It is now better than what i was using before - the no-longer maintained TimeCard.

However, when i choose either text or csv export, nothing happens! no file seems to be created (i was saving to the desktop).

Also on the exported file - 'wages' might not be the best word to use if the exported sheet is being used as an invoice… But it works.  
(Version 1.8)

ARVIDTP  ahhh… much better!  
(Version 1.0)

ARVIDTP  Ahhh! this looked so cool - but its website is gone from homepage.mac.com!  
(Version 1.2)

ARVIDTP  Great little utility! Combine with preview in 10.4 to easily change shades of existing icons too (for instance for multiple versions of the same app): drop app on fasticns, copy, do New From Clipboard in Preview, make "Image Corrections", copy, paste back onto FastIcns, save as resource fork file, copy and paste icon to app in the finder! Viola!  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  Great! I love it. The only complaint I have is with the bottom edges of finder and other windows - they just feel sorta unfinished - sorta square/flat. A slightly beveled edge appearance like in the standard metal would be nice maybe.  
(Version 1.2)

ARVIDTP  ouch - despite how much I like megazoomer's concept i had to remove it. i notice it causes problems with some apps - Lots of applescript-based utilities will either give me Applescript NS (4) errors, or something like that, or just quit without a warning or a crash report when megazoomer is installed. removing it from the SIMBL plugins folder solved the issues.  
(Version 0.3)

ARVIDTP  awesome! works so far for me in Mail, iPhoto 6, safari, iCal, addressbook, textedit... I like it - been wanting something like this ever since Option-clicking the window fit button stopped making the window fill the whole screen (this was one of those nice OS 9 features that was dropped in OS X...). I am using right now :)  
(Version 0.3)

ARVIDTP  Awesome! I just isolated a bad RAM module on my powerbook using this in Single User Mode. Now i know why it was kernel-panicing 3 times a day for the last week!

But how can a factory installed apple RAM chip just go bad like that... maybe it was dodgy from the start - the source of my powerbook's subtle directory damage malaise that crops up every few months? Lets hope so.  
(Version 4.13)

ARVIDTP  Agreed. Great little thingie. Its very handy. And it lets you see easily how much bandwidth you have left.  
(Version 1.3.3)

ARVIDTP  as i said before, great program… but:

version 2.1.2 breaks the history recall feature that was in vers 2.1.0 and before - and having the inspector as a separate window is not so hot... It should be a floating pallet if it must be a separate window…

I'm going back to 2.1.0 - its easier to use.  
(Version 2.1.2)

ARVIDTP  awesome! as a geologist and electronic musician who often finds that standard graphing software makes it difficult to represent simple but specific things, this is great! For simple displays to demonstrate concenpts in geology, or to do approximate frequency/musical activity or stereo-image graphs for studio techniques class… Great for graphing subjective things where the visual is more important than the numbers!

I just would like some way of making a curve - bezier?, or some other method? rather than just line segments. But otherwise excellent. Interface is clean and easy easy to learn.  
(Version 1.0b4)

ARVIDTP  sweet! FINALLY a free program the supports zooming and panning in full screen mode! And the scrolling through a directory of images with the mouse wheel is an excellent idea. Love the plethora of customizable key commands. (I switched zoom in to use "=" instead of "+" like other apps - less use of shift key).

Had one crash in 10.3.9 - when selecting color for window background for second time with the same color picker open. But other than that great!!  
(Version 1.2)

ARVIDTP  I used to like this great little software, but for the last few versions it has just beachballed after asking my password... (10.3.9, powerbook)  
(Version 1.1)

ARVIDTP  great little gadget - my dad uses it to blow up photos to immense proportions to work into his paintings ( http://jimpatersart.com ).

Could have a better zoom/resize source PDF feature... but other than that, great!  
(Version 2.0)

ARVIDTP  Gives me an applescript error on launch in 10.4.4 on a G5:

Can't get character 1 of "". (-1728)

previous versions worked great...  
(Version 1.5.4)