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I've been a long time hand-coder, using BBEdit and Transmit as two of my core tools. But facing a long slog of debugging PHP code on the server side seemed kind of headachey without a good live preview, so I thought I'd give Coda a try. It is without a doubt a supremely polished piece of software--no crashes in 20 hours of (almost completely intuitive) use over the last two days. For those looking for a change from a multi-program workflow, or those stepping from Dreamweaver into more hand-coding, it's a great choice. I can certainly think of a few feature improvements and tweaks I'd love to see: the Convert to ASCII tool isn't smart at all the way BBEdit's is; the Clips window is trendy but kind of gets in the way (and Clips could use better keyboard shortcut support); it would be great to limit text line length while still providing a nice wide web preview window; file listings can't be sorted. But all in all, this is a terrific program that just helped me through a complicated project quite ably, even though I was using the demo (how awesome that it's totally not crippled). It might be hard to justify purchasing it since I already have a great FTP program and a great text editor, but I'm sure a few more upgrades and development cycles will make it irresistible |
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I'm pretty reliant on this little utility but it seems every time there's a system update it ceases to work for a while. I've never been able to figure out what gets it to kick back in again. It would be nice to see a quick maintenance update to address this. Otherwise, it's a great timesaver that I use just about every day! |
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I just upgraded from 2.5.0.0 to 2.5.04 and it hasn't been the smoothest version change. Clearly a lot of polish has gone into the interface, with new icons and lots of tidying done to the column widths (finally, I can fit all the columns I want to see on my PowerBook without 1/4" margins on the edge of each column!). However, the UI has become frighteningly unresponsive, taking upwards of 30 seconds to sort by a column and giving me 5 seconds of "rainbow beachball" every 5 seconds when I'm not doing anything other than watching the standard My Torrents window. Having the My Torrents window open also now pegs my CPU up around 70% when previous versions never went much above 20 or 30. Closing the tab drops CPU usage down around 9-10%. There must be some screen drawing bug in this version or something. If you've been holding off on an upgrade lately I recommend waiting another round or two until this gets sorted. |
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I launched TivoDecode Manager, entered my TiVo's IP address and media access key, and within 10 seconds I was backing up a recording of a news program I'd been saving since 2003! Excellent. This app is still rough around the edges, though--I'd rather see the IPs and media access keys stored in the keychain; the progress bar sometimes stalls and times out (I just occasionally Get Info on the ripped file to see when it has stopped getting larger); there's no frames-per-second or other useful metric to tell you how good your CPU's performance is--but overall, it's a sweet little utility that Just Works. Looking forward to future versions! (Note that I'm giving the app 3 stars for stability--it hasn't crashed on me, but that seemed to be the right place to downgrade it for the stalling progress bar and other rough interface issues.) |
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Lately I feel like Meteorologist has been stuck on its "endlessly searching for a connection" icon every time I look at it, even though the weather data looks up to date. I wish a little more maintenance development was going on to keep this great little menu bar item working well--many thanks to the commenters below who've linked to workarounds and patches, but this app needs more help! |
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If anyone is looking at the new screenshot for v2, please don't be scared away by the recipe display with the weird background and gold "frames" around each section. That thing looks like a Geocities page from 1997! MacGourmet also comes with several clean, modern stylesheets--I use one that makes it look a lot like NetNewsWire, for instance. And they're all customizable HTML templates so you can make your own, too. |
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I recently upgraded from a great, perfectly-working version that was almost 18 months old so I could get FLV support. VLC's definitely my Swiss Army knife playback app. The program remains robust and quick and makes it easy to float videos with a minimum of wasteful chrome. I use it constantly to play video on my TV while continuing to work in other programs on my PowerBook. One downside is the complexity of the preferences--yes, you can tweak the app to your heart's content, but turning off all the On Screen Display elements that were added somewhere between 0.8.2 and 0.8.6 meant trips to three different sections of the prefs for me--and I still haven't figured out how to get rid of the scrub overlay that comes up if I tap Step Forward or Step Backward! |
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I've tried a few times to abandon Eudora for greener pastures but other clients have always choked on several hundred megabytes of mboxes. This weekend I tried to make the switch to Mail.app again, this time using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner. This time it was a success! My many, many mailboxes made the transfer swimmingly although two (out of perhaps 200) were truncated and missing some mail. A quick re-import of those individual mailboxes and all was well. This could easily have been a Eudora issue (I was suffering from some mailbox corruption, hence the switch!) but bear in mind that if you use EMC you may have to do some manual checking to make sure everything is intact. I had two other minor problems: although colors are imported in rule sets, existing colors/labels applied to messages are NOT transferred. And the "Rebuild Mailbox" Applescript choked about 3/4 of the way through my mailboxes and I had to do the remaining boxes individually by hand. All in all, it took me about an hour to get everything set up perfectly in Mail.app while I'm sure it would have been MUCH longer without this great little utility. Don't even attempt to make the switch without it--but just make sure you check everything one last time before deleting your Eudora files! |
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Nope, double-clicking torrents in the Finder to open them in Azureus has been an on again, off again affair, and it definitely didn't work in 2.4.0.2. I'm glad it's working again in 2.5 and I'm happy to see the other OS X-related bugs that have been squashed, too. So far this looks like a good upgrade all around. |
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Launches quickly with a double click and then all you need to do is type the time and hit enter. What could be simpler? I end up using this almost every day. Inobtrusive, handy, tiny--a perfect little utility! |
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Works great. I'm using this utility to batch print PDFs from Virtual PC (which lets you route documents to your Mac printer but doesn't let you use any print dialog settings on the Mac side). Then I can send all of them to my real printer en masse at my leisure once I'm back in the office. The "Label" setting to require unique PDF names in the outputted files is a MUST--see the reply to the previous comment for details on how to set it. In practice I've found that the PDFs generated by CUPS-PDF are 3 to 6 times larger than those produced by OS X's built-in Print to PDF function but if time is at more of a premium than disk space, you'll find this utility very handy. |
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I could never QUITE give up iChat for the more feature-rich client Adium thanks to bothersome bugs. Luckily Chax is here to bring an essential Adium feature over to iChat: tabbed chat windows! Awesome. This is an utterly essential iChat plugin that I can't imagine living without--and I've only been using it for a few days. |
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I recently upgraded from version 2.3.0.4 to 2.4.0.2 and thus far I'm not incredibly happy with the changes. Even when using the small fonts setting, this version requires wider columns to show the same amount of data than previous versions. I now have to scroll to see two columns that easily used to fit on my PowerBook's screen! Double-clicking torrents in the Finder or in a Safari downloads window no longer opens the files (and yes, the file associations are set correctly on my Mac), although it does bring Azureus to the front. To open them, they must be dragged onto the app window instead, adding a tedious extra step. There's also an annoying file-opening "wizard" rather than a simple "choose folder to save in" dialog. On the plus side, performance has improved (perhaps due to taking advantage of Apple's newer java implementation), especially in formerly lagging areas like viewing the list of files within a torrent to selectively choose what to download. Startup and shutdown are also quicker, and there are no longer stray processes left running when the app is quit. I still can't help feeling like this version is in many ways a regression. But until I can find another client as stable as this with the same advanced features (per-torrent upload caps, peer-blocking plugins, selective file downloading within torrents), Azureus remains my go-to app for torrenting. It still gets high marks from me despite my complaints. |
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Sorry about the incorrect terminology, I'm on a slightly out-of-date version. |
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JAP, you can change this in the Azureus options--it's the setting "Allocate and zero new files on creation" in Options / Files. |
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No problems using this in 10.4.3 over here. I use this to convert Eudora mailboxes so they can be read by my server for Bayesian spam filtering. There are probably command line utilities that could be automated to do this, but LineBreak gets the job done in a quick, drag-and-drop fashion with no muss and no fuss. Just a solid, simple little utility that's handy to have around. |
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One of my most indispensible utilities from the pre-OS X days is finally back! The "FinderPop Items" feature, which adds a simple Move To/Copy To/Alias To menu to the Finder's contextual menu has already saved me hours of shuffling files around in the Finder to keep my hard drive tidy. Things are not 100% perfect with this latest version--like the description says, some features are still in development, and I run into a roadblock where the program wouldn't work after a reboot until I turned it off and back on again, but this is still a great utility with a bright future. |
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