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If I'm not mistaken the iPod Touch can be made to show up as an external volume, correct? That would mean it definitely shows up in Disk Utility. Even if it can't be used in such a manner it still might. Disk Utility has some heavy security features, including the ability to completely wipe a volume and "zero-out" everything a dozen or so times which would make any data unrecoverable. |
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You're surprised? Given the issues with the beta and the lack of positive response in the web community, if I was them I wouldn't be rushing to get feedback either. As a web designer I'm sticking with Flash. It does what this does plus some more useful tricks and it's better developed for ALL platforms. |
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Note to Logitech: Saying you have fixed the Growl incompatibility issue is not the same as having fixed it. It's really too bad, I love my mouse, I just HATE the software I need to run it. And so far none of the alternatives seem to be worth the money. At least it's stable now... If nothing else it's stable. I can live without Growl until the people over at Growl figure out a way to fix Logitech's problems. How sad is that? One of the biggest input device companies is repeatedly shown up by an open source project. OS: Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard Computer: MacBook Pro 2,2 Mouse: Logitech VX Nano LCC ver.: 2.6 Growl ver.: 1.1.4 Once my Logitech mouse dies I won't be buying another one, not unless some major changes happen with Logitech and their support for Mac. I'll probably go back to my Mighty Mouse. It's not perfect, but at least it's supported on both Mac and PC. |
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This is a great little app. I use it just about every day to help me keep a digital sketch-book of great websites I come across during my work as a web designer. As such I find this app indispensable as it saves me from having to spend a few minutes piecing together images as I take multiple screen captures for pages that are longer than my window. It works great and the browser-button makes it extremely easy. I did notice a small stability issue where one page (for an unknown reason) would save as an empty image but after I had alerted them the developers of Web Snapper fixed the problem for me. The only request I'd make for future updates is to add a little black box onto the bottom of the image that simply said the page's title, the URL it was taken from, and the date. Bonus points for the ability to make a quick notation. This is possible if you save as a PDF but I prefer PNGs. Having that ability would make my log-keeping for the images all the easier. Just an idea. |
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I can, and shall. NTFS for Mac, I find, transfers files much faster than NTFS-3G. It also gels better with OS X. For instance, a 3GB file can take up to 15 minutes with NTFS-3G but it took 4 with NTFS for Mac. The only draw-back I can see so far is there is an apparent incompatibility with VMware Fusion that stops you from mounting Boot Camp with it. |
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I also have quite a few playlists with over 500 songs, over 1,000 isn't exactly uncommon either. You should make the song-limit a variable that can be set by the user, or at least make it something you can disable. |
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You know, you can tell when an app was developed for Mac and when it was ported from Windows, or at least has a Windows version. There are certain issues with it's UI that never make sense. It's something Azureus always suffered with and it seems Vuze is no different. To put it bluntly, the UI is pathetic. Sorry, but it's true. It's horribly confusing and in no way intuitive. The UI makes it hard to do even the simplest tasks, tasks other apps make easy. They may not have some of the features of Vuze but they run well and run fast. What more do you really need from a torrent app? It has a lot of features. Oh yes it does... Too many. You'll never use most of them and even if you do know what they do it's still hard to get around the app to find them. In this case, this many features in this way ruins it. In fact, all the issues for Vuze come down to the UI. This app was made for power users and power users alone and has a heavy influence from it's Windows sibling. This app is fast, blazing fast, and it has some great features that put it above and beyond any other torrent app when it comes to potential, however the UI is so cluttered, bloated and confusing that it's almost impossible to figure anything out. I don't usually recommend this even to my clients but this needs a 100% from the ground up redesign. They need to focus less on features and more on tasks. In features they are king. In tasks they are a peasant. |
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That's too bad about no window-behaviours. What I meant by "middle-mode" would be for it to display the album artwork but not in cover-flow mode, just the album artwork of the current album. I didn't notice that in the current version, but I might have missed it. |
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_Pros:_ Cover Stream has a very nice UI. Out of all the iTunes mini-players it's gotta be my favourite, and not just because it has cover-flow built-in. The UI seems pretty clean and intuitive which is always a bonus for any app, though oddly not something you can rate it for. If I could, this app would get a 5 for it's UI. I've also noticed it to be very stable for my purposes. I have a very large library, with almost all of it having album art. Cover Stream loads it pretty quickly. _Cons:_ For all the niceness of it's UI, it has a mode where there is no album artwork and a mode where there is cover-flow. I would like to see a middle-mode that just shows the album artwork. Likewise, my biggest gripe about this app (and it's competition, CoverSutra) is that it auto-hides itself when not the active app. Key-commands bring it back but I enjoy having it there where I can look at it. It's a nice replacement to Apple's iTunes mini-player. In the end, this last thing is the missing feature that made me look elsewhere. I do wonder how hard it would be to make the auto-hide part of this app something you could turn on and off... |
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Technically it was updated for Leopard back in November. It was just done badly and has been wreaking havoc since and Logitech seems unwilling to do anything about it. I love my Logitech mouse but their Mac support has made me rethink ever purchasing any of their products again. The Mighty Mouse is over-priced but at least it works. |
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The one issue I have is it takes too may clicks to change the brightness on the fly. What might be better is if clicking on the icon in the menu bar you get a slider to easily adjust the brightness and darkness of the displays. Then you can do settings and stuff with a CTRL+click/right-click such as is done by apps like CoverSutra. |
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Maybe since it does both (EasyWMA and EasyWMV only do one or the other) it should be EasyWMX? ;) |
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I'd double-check your Growl settings. Also, if you have any Logitech software installed that tends to mess with Growl notices, which includes UnPlugged. I have 10.5.3 and it works perfectly fine for me. |
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Not really. The way iStat Pro works 100% is one core, 200% for both cores. Simply put it uses up every last available resource my processor has to offer. I'm guessing some bad code that is causing a repetitive loop that just keeps building on itself. I down-graded to 1.2.4 and it doesn't happen anymore. I guess I'll have to wait for 1.2.6... |
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The other day I noticed my current FTP app (Yummy FTP) wasn't running very fast. I knew part of that was my ISP and modem, but that was not enough to explain a 5kb/s upload. So I went on a round of MacUpdate looking for FTP programs (commercial, shareware and free) to give them all a test. The way I tested was three part. First I tested the speed they logged in and created a folder. Then I tested how fast they could upload a batch of small files, in this case WordPress. Then I did an upload of each using a larger file, an 8MB FLV. Then of course I deleted everything and started again. I tested YummyFTP, Fetch, Transmit, ForkLift, Flow and Cyberduck. YummyFTP, Fetch and Transmit were the registered versions (I had serials from previous uses and bundle buys) and the rest were either free or trials. Out of all of them, ForkLift was the most user friendly, had the best UI and was by far the fastest. Usually it clocked in at 2x-5x the speeds of the others. YummyFTP was the only one that was remotely close. Fetch, Transmit and Cyberduck were average and Flow was slower than death. I ended up quitting that program by the end since even the simplest things took ages. Though ForkLift is by no means perfect, the way it stores favourite FTP sites for instance could use a bit of work. But in so many respects it's exactly what I need, as well as being blazing fast. Would definitely recommend this to anyone who needs a good FTP client and is willing to pay a little bit to get it. |
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This app converts video extremely fast, it's very easy to use, it's highly stable and is free. It doesn't get much better than that! The only thing I'd ask for is better track naming abilities. |
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AVI is a container, DiVX is a codec. You would need a specific DiVX encoder to export something to play in a DiVX player. Try FfmpegX, I know it can export specifically to DiVX. |
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More information: It seems to do it mostly when I am unable to connect to GoogleTalk. My router is extremely fragile at the best of times so my connection constantly goes down or becomes otherwise unstable. Whenever this happens is when Adium seems to have the most trouble. More that the issue only occurs when it seems to be having a hard time re-establishing a connection. Also, at the same time my MSN account is logged in which might be why there's an issue? Maybe it's unable to send a connection failed message because one service is working even though another isn't. |
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I downloaded the most recent version and three time since then I've had to quit the app because it was eating up resources like nobodies business. I have a 2.33Ghz processor and it was using between 130-160% of it! I'd love to know what an IM client needs with all that power. I don't really even get that with Photoshop! Leopard 10.5.2, all updates. |
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This is a pretty good app. It tried it out not too long ago during my search for an option on how to deal with Matroskas. I wanted a way to put subs in a QuickTime friendly format. This was one option I looked at. In the end I didn't go with it though because the subtitles are hard-encoded. In other words when it exports the video it doesn't add a new layer to the mix, it makes it all one video. QuickTime supports subtitle files now, has for a little while, especially when embedded but not hard-encoded. That's why I don't give this a perfect rating. Yeah it's good on value, stability and easy of use. But one you add the subtitles you can't remove them again. For people like me who are looking for a way to have multiple audio and the option of subtitles in their MP4s and M4Vs, this doesn't do the trick. |
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I can't find this on the website. Does anyone know if the subs are hard encoded and the video is re-encoded with the subs on top or if it exports a video that can enable and disable subtitles? |
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It is true that both AVI and WMV allow a collection of codecs to be used, but in my mind these aren't that much better than MKVs anyway. As for blaming a codec for the way it's used by it's users... I'm a designer and if there is a way I know my sites shouldn't be used I make sure to remove the functionality. Besides, that still doesn't make up for the horrible support of the container on most platforms. If you go to Matroska's home page you'll see the minimal amount of support for Linux and OS X. Thankfully the digital world is moving more to open source and standards compliancy. So much so that even Microsoft, the worst out of all, has begun to toe the line. |
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Just because Matroska is a container and not a codec doesn't mean it's not a bad one. The reason it is a bad container format is because it allows you to mix and match whatever you want. Example: I have one now that's an h264 with OGG Vorbis audio with a styled subtitle layer over all. Do I like the ability to have multiple audio and video tracks? Yes. Subtitles that I can turn off? Oh god yeah. But you end up with three obscure formats in a container that is already badly supported by standard programs. Yes, they have flexibility of what you can use, but that's only a benefit when the formats used are well supported. MKV just perpetuates fanboys who keep telling themselves that their proprietary format is better than the standard one even when the reason one is standard and the other isn't is because the other is actually superior in any number of ways. Oh, and I'm not an uneducated one I'm a web designer. My job relies on the ability to distribute content to a mass audience with the maximum level of compatibility. Matroska is almost as bad as Microsoft when it comes to this. |
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Don't waste your money. I've had externals die and use various programs for data recovery and have been called in to help out friends. I've tried various programs and this one is the worst. It hasn't worked a single time. The two main situations where I've tried this is when the directory data was lost and where 1 drive of a RAID-0 2 drive system failed. In the first case Boomerang didn't recover very much, including being unable to recover any of my music and what it did recover many of the files were corrupted. The situation was solved via Disk Warrior which was able to recover ALL of my data. The second case one of the two disks in my RAID-0 external failed. Data Rescue II was able to recover the vast majority of my 1TB of files. Boomerang couldn't recover a thing. At all. Nothing. Buying Advice: Don't get this. Don't even bother with the demo. Nothing. If it's a software related issue get Disk Warrior. This is a great app to have anyway, very useful and helps prevent these sorts of problems. Otherwise the best data recovery tool for Macs is Data Rescue II without a doubt. Either of these options is light-years ahead of boomerang. |
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Just an update on where things stand. I got sick of using Xtorrent with it's horrible support and lack of features that justify it's price. I have since moved to Transmission which has pretty much all the same features, at least all the important ones for sure, and is free with fantastic support. Highly recommend it. |
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This might be because Real Player is a rare, proprietary format and there is already a multitude of other ways to watch Real Video and listen to Real Audio. |
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For some reason my backup alarms have stopped working. I don't know if it's an issue with the latest iTunes or what, but if iTunes fails to play I no longer get a backup alarm. All my music is on my external hard drive so iTunes can load but no music will play as the song will be "missing" and thus I am left with silence. Unfortunately as I tend to be plugged into my external most of the time I haven't noticed when this stopped working. What I do know is that it was working once upon a time. iTunes 7.6.1, Awaken 4.0.11, OS X 10.5.2 |
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Just a quick note: If you're get notifications and are using Growl, you can go into Growl and disable them for TotalTunes Controller that way, which might just be where the problem originates from. |
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I thought Netscape Navigator was dead? I read articles on Arstechnica, Slashdot, Engadget and Wired all saying that the browser was being put out to pasture with no future updates? Is this the final release for Mac or something? |
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Awaken doesn't revert to backup alarm if iTunes doesn't play a song. My music is on an external drive and when it's not plugged in Awaken still acts like iTunes is going to play a song so it doesn't revert to the backup alarm. Itunes 7.6, OS X 10.5.2, Awaken 4.0.11. |
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Featres (5): With this latest release they've added all the old features back so it's completely back to where it was, plus all the added new stuff. I can't think of anything else it could possibly need as it has all the features I want. Ease of Use (5): Everything is simple and easy to figure out, being right where you'd expect it to be. Value (5): Sure, enough of it's functions are done on other alarm apps to make you wonder if it's worth paying for one that does just a little bit more, but once you've seen how much that little bit more is your worries about price pretty much disappear. They did for me. Stability (4): The only issue I've ever had with the program is that one morning I woke up late to find that an update had been released since I went to bed and instead of an alarm, an update notice was shown. Turning off the auto-update feature solved this but I'd much rather it wait to tell me until AFTER I've turned off my alarm. |
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The only actual damage that could be done by this program is if someone had a heart condition and thought it was real. That could be a problem... Otherwise, side from shortening your life by a few minutes, it's harmless. |
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This is a great piece of software and is a must for anyone who spends a lot of time in Safari, especially if you find yourself doing searches where you know the first result or two is going to cover your needs. —Features— It has all the features you'd want in a plugin like this, allowing you to search from an amazing number of localised search engines, and allows you to choose how many results, how many keywords, auto-complete options... It's great. The only thing I could see it doing more with is giving you a small thumbnail of the image but, personally, I think that'd be far too much. —Ease of Use— There is almost no learning curve with this. The arrow key commands are a bit confusing at times but by no means does it reflect negatively on the program. It just takes getting used to. —Value— It's free. Even if you want to complain that your results are mixed in with affiliates it doesn't matter because the option can be turned off and suddenly you see them no more. It's completely understandable on a free piece of software, and while having to deal with them would have greatly annoyed me, I could have survived and think the developer did a great thing by allowing people to say no to them. —Stability— Completely stable. Never caused a problem for me, ever. I wish all apps were this good. Conclusion? Get it. You have no reason not to. There's nothing better out there and even if there was you'd certainly have to pay. |
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You could fix it either by: 1. Not logging default positions (or at least making this an option that can be disabled). 2. Detecting display configurations and having a preference for each configuration. 3. Always having the controller appear on the main screen at a certain position. At least that's how I'd do it. Then again I'm a Flash developer, not an app developer. |
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there is a bug that's related to secondary displays in Leopard (might be Tiger as well, I can't test that) where if you have TotalTunes Controller on the secondary display when you disconnect the controller window might be partially off the screen. When this happens, and the top-bar is obscure, it becomes impossible to drag the player fully into view. The only solution I've found for this, when it happens, is to either plug the monitor back in, which isn't always possible, or to close the program, delete it's preferences, and start it up again. |
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I can attest to it working perfectly under 10.5.1 All the issues you listed (sans no artwork but that's been explained) are non-existent in Leopard. |
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This is the best out of all the mini itunes controllers I've used, if only because it's free and provides 90% of the features the paid versions offer. Features (4): It offers a lot of great features, the only ones I've seen others offer that this doesn't seems to be cover flow and Last.FM support both of which don't matter to me. Ease of Use (4): It's easy to set up and has a lot of options that make easy to use to the point of where you don't have to do anything. Some things aren't always clear right away, but with a little bit of playing they become so. Value (5): It's free. Stability (5): I've not used it a whole lot yet, but so far it seems to be 100% stable for me on my MacBook Pro with Leopard. Pros: Easy to use and customise with great compatibility with OS X combined with the fact that it's free. You really can't ask for much more. Cons: Though there seems to be an option for it, there aren't actually other styles for the album art. Also, though it does have a clean style, things can feel a bit cluttered as there's not much space between the icons and controls so you get no real sense of grouping. |
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Nice! I have a friend with an old iMac whom this would be perfect for. Like I said, it's something that can be done anyway (technically) but your little app has indeed made it easy. :D |
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Technically any Mac with Front Row installed (anyone with Leopard, I think) can access it without a remote by using the key command Command+Esc. Then just navigate via arrows and the enter key, pressing Esc to back out a level. Though, it is nice to see this in a free app to make things easier for people. |
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I've noticed a few issues relating to Paragon's NTFS for Mac and I just wanted to share them. (1) Incompatible with VMware Fusion: In order to run VMware Fusion I have to go to Disk Utility and unmount the volume before I can run it. (2) Safari Download Issue: When attempting to download a file via Safari, if the NTFS volume is mounted on the desktop the Safari will hang for about 15 seconds before it continues the download normally. (3) Name In Finder: Though the volume's name is "Mimmic" both in Disk Utility and in Windows, it's mounted as "Mimmic 1" and no amount of changing on my part can fix this. It will change temporarily but the next time I mount the volume it will be "Mimmic 1" all over again. (4) Finder Eject: I cannot unmount the volume by key command or dragging to the trash, I have to unmount it via Disk Utility. It's a good little utility and once these issues are ironed out it'll be an invaluable piece of software. |
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Every time I'm not connected to the net but I go to browse through Finder and look at videos, each time the icon changes to the preview I get a message saying Perian couldn't load version info, in a folder of 20 videos I might get that 20 times. I've stopped it by turning off "Check for Updates" in the System Preferences pane for Perian, but I liked the fact that it would warn me if a new version comes out. Is there a way for the check to be disabled if no internet source is connected instead of a little pop-up error? |
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See, that little detail I was fuzzy on. I couldn't remember if it could or not, I only knew that you had to have it to boot from an Intel. |
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Oooo, thanks! |
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I love these icons, I still use them on my My Book. I've bought a WD Passport, I don't suppose you'll add those? |
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GUID partition map is required to boot any volume on an Intel Mac. It is not, however, required for a PPC Mac. |
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Nope. You'll get a message saying it only works with 10.4. |
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Out of curiousity, how is this better than something like Keynote, which is part of iWork for only $79? |
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Any chance on adding a rating functionality, either just for the song or for the album as well as the song? |
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Nice, but what would be really useful is if it cached the data from the last time you opened it so if you're using a web app it doesn't need to be connected to the net. My example of this is Kuler by Adobe. if it had a way of caching all information used last time I opened my little desktop version this program would become extremely useful as Adobe doesn't supply a good desktop version of Kuler and, rather sadly, most other desktop apps that do the same thing aren't as good. |
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Currently does not work in Leopard. Any chance of an update? |
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Features: Great list of features. You can save in any number of formats that you'd like, including single and multi-page PDFs. However, the one thing I do miss is Red Snapper used to let me define the width of the shot. Though not a necessity, it was nice for browser testing I could define a width that would be normal for 800px displays and 1024px displays to see how they showed up. Also, support for Safari .webloc files would be nice. Ease of Use: Very easy to use. Just drag a link straight from your browser onto Web Snapper. The only hang-up is if you use the button in Safari. In my case the bar showed green, as if the image had been taken. It took me a few minutes of searching my computer to realise this wasn't the case. Now that I know it's not an issue but that problem should definitely be fixed. This could be done by just having it go directly to the save dialogue without having to click anything. Value: Only $8 for an app like this isn't a lot at all. It's got only a little way to go to being perfect. If you're a web designer this little program is extremely useful for keeping a visual log of great sites from around the web to use later as inspiration. Stability: Not had any problems with it at all. 100% stable. This is how all Mac apps should be (minus the Safari button of course). |
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There's nothing on the website but does this support other RAIDs, such as a Western Digital My Book Premium II 1TB perhaps? |
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I've completed 19/20 of the levels, that being all of the main island and all of the second island, but I haven't completed the game. When I go to the bottom of the frozen make when I try to jump to that little island with two levels it instead puts me to the point where I can head to the right onto the bridge to the boat. On the second island all the levels are beaten but there appears to be a single small island to the top right with one mushroom house I can't seem to get to. What am I doing wrong? There is nothing about this on the site and it lists a 0.1 as the latest Mac version, which obviously isn't. |
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I'm giving Azureus a 2 because it fails in what I think are some key areas for any application. It's features are great, it has the most of any torrent app I've seen for Mac. You want features, you get them in full, hundreds. But I think it's a bit bloated because of it. Ease of use is horrible, I mean sure the very basics are easy but if you try to get beyond that it becomes very hard very quick. This app is one of the least user friendly out there for torrents. Value, well it's free isn't it? Can't get better than that. Stability is pretty good as with any application. It has it's moments but they are few for me. The reason I gave it a 2 and not a 3 (as math would make me) is because I'm judging by visuals and UI, which doesn't always fall under "Ease of Use" (says the web designer) and I think it fails there. The UI at first appears slick, but doesn't allow you to do anything. The second you try to you're shown one of the ugliest PC looking UIs for torrents that is so confusing and bloated with information and options that it's impossible to do much if don't know exactly how. This application has the ability to be the best app for torrents hands down no contenders, but before it can do that it HAS to figure out a way to make it more user friendly and visually appealing. |
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Warning to those thinking of downloading the latest version of Transmission, be careful it's buggy. I'm running a MacBook Pro with Leopard and I've found the last two version of Transmission to be extremely temperamental, crashing all the time and locking up, graphical glitches like active and hit states for buttons missing, scroll bars disappearing and re-appearing... 0.92 was stable, but this latest version isn't as much so. |
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That's probably the operating system. It will swap out RAM for other applications as it's needed. |
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I love this widget, so much better than any of the other options out there and it works great, especially now that it's Leopard friendly! Great widget, keeps me organised and helps me not forget deadlines! I've been without it since Leopard released and I have been the worse for it. Definitely get this! |
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This is currently incompatible with OSX 10.5, when can users expect an update? |
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They shouldn't. However, if they expect to be paid they should offer something that either isn't on offer anywhere else, or if it is that they do it in a much better way and therefore justifies the money. This coming from someone who develops and designs. I don't expect to be paid the same thing for processing an image as I do for making a Flash slideshow. |
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It is true that Netscape did vanish for a while, but the latest version is just as good as many of the major browsers out there, Firefox included. And it's better than IE7 in leaps and bounds. Though, that's the equivolent of saying this dirty rock isn't as pretty as Michaelangelo's David. |
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Firstly because it's got better standards compliance than IE, 6 or 7 (7 is just as much of a nightmare, I don't care what Microsoft says) and is equal to Firefox. Yes, both Opera and Safari have better compliance. To designers that means that it's users will actually see the site the way we, the designer and developer, intended. That helps everyone. Secondly, you listed browsers like Safari and Opera. According to the W3C each of those owns roughly 1.5% of net users today, same with Netscape. So if you want to play the "Get rid of it, because no one uses it" card, those two go too. Especially Opera as Safari and Netscape have legitimate reasons for being around other than just someone created them in the never-ending quest for a better browser. Others, such as Shiira, have even less and collectively barely even tie Safari. Third, and this goes to my previous statement, show some respect! :P Netscape is the reason the net isn't so bad these days. It's the reason why things like Web Standards are happening. I'm not saying it's the only reason, but it was the first major browser to support them on any level. It helped spark a revolution in the software world to support things designers and developers need in order to make a user's experience not a nightmare. Plus, any competition for IE is more than welcome as it's the only browser that makes designers and developers want to kill. Microsoft is single-handily holding back the web via it's pathetic excuse for a browser. -Signed, your friendly neighbourhood web designer. ^.^ |
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Can Flame identify the PCs as well as the Macs? |
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For some reason I can't backup to a disk image on my external. I've set up a schedule to backup to a disk image in a specific folder on my external, making an image of my entire main drive, but when I run it I get an error saying it's not available or the bath has changed. It hasn't. What's up? |
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Oh I fully plan on trying it out, but I wasn't going to bother if it didn't have the features I wanted. Thus the question asking. ;) Also, it seems to do a lot of what SuperDuper! does only for free. |
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That doesn't change the fact that it's not listed as a feature in the discription. Or on CCC's home page. Neither has a mention of backups to disk images as a feature. After drilling down into the app there turns out to be the feature. Personally, I think this could all be solved if it was mentioned in the description, or the CCC home page, among it's features. |
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I try to avoid downloading software that I might not need or use. As for finding my own answer, I never realised asking a question would get such responses. In the future I'll avoid asking people here for help. :D |
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Can I backup to a disk image instead of an external drive? Or possibly a folder? |
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Thanks for the tip! |
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Yep! Great job on the quick fix! |
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I see... Thanks for the reply! Makes much more sense now. |
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Please don't take this as flaming, but instead as only curiousity, but how is this different from the default iTunes visualiser? |
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Does anyone know if Parallels supports both cores or if it can only utilise one core? VMWare Fusion makes a point of mentioning this and I just wanted to double-check. |
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I gotta say this is a very good review and it's really helped me decide whether or not I want to try out VMWare Fusion. I use Parallels now, but the performance is pretty pathetic. But your comments about snapshots was pretty interesting. Though, you should just get your hands on a IE6 stand-alone (I have it and use it now). If you want it let me know and I'll send it via e-mail or something. |
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Could you post a link to the Google group? I took a quick look around Growl's website and did a very quick Google search with no luck. |
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This may be a side-effect of the global positioning but my notifications aren't showing where they should. I have it set to display them in the top-right (I know, original, huh?) but they're showing in the middle-right of the screen. I can take a guess as to the cause of this since it's not constant. I usually use two displays, the larger one which acts as my main display is set to 1680x1050 and my MacBook Pro display is set to 1440x900. When I leave my display the main screen becomes my smaller MBP screen and that's when things start showing up in the wrong position. A little extra info to help you guys figure out the issue (assuming you need this): - Growl v1.1 - OS X Tiger 10.4.10 - Theme: Smoke I know it's not a problem with the specific app doing the alerts since I get the same issue when getting alerts from Safari, YummyFTP, Adium or iChat. |
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I gotta say the reason I stopped using Azureus and move to Transmission was simply that Azureus' UI was /is horrible. Your app runs great and is definitely a great bittorrent app, but my recommendation to you is to NOT follow Azureus and instead design a nice, clean, front end to your app. Do that, and you'll be the only BT app for Mac or PC that has all the features, is fast, and has a nice friendly UI. Heck, do that and I'd be willing to pay for it. |
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I've been working strictly in Coda for development on my latest project and I've come across two possible additions that would make Coda all the better: (1) Automatically, or via a menu item or right-click, turn any symbol into it's HTML equivalent. & to & and — to – and so on. (2) Auto-formatting. So I can select a block of text and it will remove all the extra spaces, tab it out to the level it should... But more (and this is where I need it most) when I copy content into Coda it will put all the lines together for me so I don't have to join each line of a paragraph up myself. |
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I can't do it for you as I don't know how to build desktop apps, but remember you're using styles. CSS is extremely easy and is based around the principle what is good for the one is good for the all. So if you say all P elements will be something, they will but you only need to set the style to a rule in the header. Check out w3schools.com. |
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WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get. Dreamweaver is not a WYSIWYG, it can be used as such, but it's infinitely more powerful and that's just one of it's more basic features. As for bloated, I was referring to how you style each element individually instead of using style sheets. It creates a lot of extra, and useless code. |
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(1) I was referring to the source code your application puts out. I'm a web designer, remember? I did say that. (2) iWeb comes FREE with EVERY Mac. You only need to pay $79 for iLife (which iWeb is a part of) if you have a previous version where it's not included or you wish to upgrade to the newest version. Otherwise, it's free. (3) I'm not comparing you to Dreamweaver, I never mentioned Dreamweaver, I wouldn't either because Dreamweaver is an extremely powerful and highly in-depth application that can do some pretty advanced level web development. This isn't anything like that. (4) I don't use iWeb. I use Coda or Dreamweaver, remember, I hand code. (5) As for what most people need, most people need nothing, but what more. You're application expects that they have their own web space (otherwise what's the point of writing your own code?) and people paying for web space are going to expect a bit more out of an app like yours. Otherwise they'd get a blog on Wordpress, Blog.com or LiveJournal assuming MySpace and Face Book weren't enough to satisfy their needs. |
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Sorry but when you look at the source code, it's bloated to a horrible extent. Those of you considering this, as a web designer who hand-codes his work (so you know how much I dislike WYSIWYG editors) just use iWeb. More features, more support, extremely user friendly. |
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While I'd have to agree that there is a speed limit capability, there are far too many other negatives to XTorrent that others like Transmission and Azureus provide that are free. Transmission has a few less features, but none you'd truly ever miss. Azureus has all and many, many more but has the worst UI known to man. While XTorrent does have a happy medium, it's missing quite a few key features as well as having horrible support from the developer and being highly over-priced. Sorry, but if you're going to charge me $24 I want more than what I can get for free. |
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Note: You can accomplish this with a series of aliases, which are like shortcuts. it's a pain but you could do it. |
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I am indeed aware of Perian and have been for quite some time. There are other plugins as well that support MKVs and OGMs but I just haven't played with Quicktime's subtitle functions that much in how they render. I'm curious to find out what settings it has that I can mess with, if any. |
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As a web designer what would make me move to this instead of browsers like Safari and Firefox would be the ability to swap render engines. Right now in order to browser-test I have to go to those different browsers. The ability to render from one browser in IE 5.5-7+, Firefox 2+, and Safari for both Mac and PC. If someone created a browser that could do that I would most happily pay for it as it'd be one of my most useful tools for web development. Also, you might want to look at FireBug and The Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox as those are the two most useful tools for development and checking your work. Personally, I don't care as much about a small, light and fast browser. Safari (the beta) runs very fast for me as it is and any extra speed you'd get out of it would be barely noticeable. Where as combining some of my most often used tools, as well as adding some never before seen, would make my life extremely easy. |
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Can TuneRanger transfer individual songs directly from a connected iTunes Library and is there a PC version available? |
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_____Features_____ Transmission has all the features I really need in a torrent client. The UPnP, with the recent update, works fantastically on every network I've tried so far. The prioritising also works perfectly well, possibly even better than Azureus but that just may be my imagination and they might work the same. And with the added ability to not download files I don't want, it's added everything I've wished it's had over the years. _____Ease of Use_____ You can drag a file in, put it in a folder you have Transmission "watch" or you can just double click it. It even has Growl support to let you know when files are done. Doesn't get much easier. And the UPnP/Port choosing on Transmission is infinitely more reliable and easy to use than on other clients such as Azureus that are, while feature heavy, in desperate need of a bit of design. _____ Value_____ It's free. Um, what more could you ask for? _____ Stability_____ Mostly it's perfectly stable. I've only noticed it getting a bit finicky when I'm downloading more than 15 torrents at a time (which occasionally does happen) but then, every other client I've tried is the same way. |
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Awaken is great and all but it needs better iTunes+external drive support. If you have your music on an external hard drive and you allow your disks to go to sleep, starting up of iTunes and the playing of that first song can take a few seconds while the drives spin up. This is a problem because Awaken won't wait long enough and tends to go right to the error message and backup sound. This could be solved by, if you're playing an iTunes track, having it start up the minute before the alarm is set to go off that way when you're set to play the song iTunes, and your external, are ready. Or you could just extend the time before you get an error message to a few minutes. |
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It says you can automatically determine the BPM of a song, but last time I downloaded it I first had to choose a range. Is there a way to bypass this and just have beaTunes determine it for me? |
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You seem to have forgotten to mention one tiny yet highly important fact: The Filter is COMPLETELY different than beaTunes. beaTunes analyses the BMP (beats per minute) and uses this information to create playlists. The Filter uses an online database that keeps data on the likes and dislikes of all it's users and uses that information to recommend songs to you. The reason why I'd prefer something like beatTunes over The Filter is beaTunes relies only on you having iTunes and whatever tracks. The Filter requires a broadband connection, iTunes and the songs which have to be labelled how they choose. They also say that even very common songs might not be recognised if the track info is different, which can be even by a character. Also, if you're someone like me who has an extremely large collection of music, you're bound to have quite a bit of stuff they do not have in their database, making it useless. From now on before you make comments about why to choose one free software over another, make sure you're comparing two software that actually do the same thing. Try Tangerine! if you want to compare beaTunes to something. |
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Something I noticed that Coda has over Dreamweaver is the ability to use Tiger's built-in spell-checker. By right-clicking and selecting Spelling>Check Spelling as you Type I can have all my text spell-checked which you can't do in Dreamweaver without getting special menus and such out. The reason I mention this though is that it spell-checks things like "href" and other terms that aren't in any English dictionary. A nice feature addition would be to have Coda only spell-check things between tags. It's things like this that are going to make me permanently switch from Dreamweaver to Coda. Keep up the great work guys! Small thing I know but it's the small things that makes Coda the best. |
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Does it disable all Flash or is it just certain Flash ads based on IDs and Classes? |
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Indeed. I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to pay a little more (considering how good Coda is it's very cheap already) if you added such functionality as the ability to run your files locally even if they were PHP. |
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Would this allow someone to download the music from that website as well? |
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Now that there's actually an icon for my drive I can give it a proper review. Features: Great! It has all the My Book drives. I guess that's what you'd call features in an icon set. It also comes with the icons as well as the icons applied to documents so you can copy and paste them easily. Ease of Use: Well he's given all the things you'd need to make applying them in whatever way you like as easy as possible. Value: It's free. 'Nuff said. Stability: The icons work great with no problems that I can see. Plus the guy who made them is responsive to requests and that can't always be said of a developer. |
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Any chance of getting one for the 1TB My Book Premium II? It's thicker than yours and the one I made is a bit on the rubbish side since I didn't take time to really do it justice. |
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Is there a way to preview .php files without running a server environment locally? So far the only way to do it is if I run MAMP Pro when I go to preview. |
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