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iDefrag
Jun 15 2009

FAHLMAN  On-Line means the Hard Drive is mounted.  
(Version 1.6.9)

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iAntiVirus
May 16 2009

FAHLMAN  ClamXav has possibly the ugliest UI of any Mac app that isn't X11- or Java-based.  
(Version 1.3.5)

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iAntiVirus
May 16 2009

FAHLMAN  Because iAntiVirus only scans for Mac viruses it will not find Windows viruses.  
(Version 1.3.5)

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Monocle
Jul 26 2008

FAHLMAN  According to the developer's website Monocle 1.5.1 was released 01/28/2007 which conflicts with the date noted here.  
(Version 1.5.1)

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Folding@Home
Jul 13 2008

FAHLMAN  Running you processors at 100% continuously will do that.  
(Version 6.10b2)

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KisMAC
Jun 14 2008

FAHLMAN  From the developer's website.

"KisMAC supports several third party PCMCIA cards - Orinoco, PrismII, Cisco Aironet, Atheros and PrismGT. USB Prism2 is supported as well, and USB Ralink support is in development. All of the internal AirPort hardware is supported as well."  
(Version r272)

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Keywurl
Mar 22 2008

FAHLMAN  It hasn't been in beta since 11/07. Keywurl is known to work with Leopard and Safari 3.1.  
(Version 1.4b2)

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Keywurl
Mar 19 2008

FAHLMAN  I missed this little gem when I was using the beta of Safari 3.1. I'm so glad it's back again!  
(Version 1.3.3)

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CardRaider
Feb 18 2008

FAHLMAN  I was importing a couple hundred photographs in to iPhoto from my Canon SD750 when iPhoto locked up while Deleting the Originals (I'll never do that again!). I instanlty came to MacUpdate to find a utility to recover my photographs from my 4GB SDHC card. I downloaded a couple. CameraSalvage is twice the price and not as easy to use. Exif Untrasher is free but is not easy to use and it locked up during the recovery. CardRaider is easy to use, effective and affordable.  
(Version 2.0.1)

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Aqua Mines
Feb 5 2008

FAHLMAN  The link to the download is dead. Too bad. This looks like the best minesweeper clone for the Mac.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Peek-a-Boo
Oct 10 2007

FAHLMAN  Save yourself $20 and use Activity Monitor.app. It's in your Utilities folder.  
(Version 2.6.9)

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sshOpener
Jul 27 2007

FAHLMAN  Nothing against this app (I've never used it). Try [url=http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8032]JellyFiSSH[/url]  
(Version 1.0)

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Quinn
Jul 21 2007

FAHLMAN  3X  
(Version 3.5)

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FinancesOSX
Jun 5 2007

FAHLMAN  2.3 used to crash upon start using 10.4.9. 2.3a has fixed that crash.  
(Version 2.3a)

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Triangle Solver
Jun 3 2007

FAHLMAN  Looking for an alternative?

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23907/triangle  
(Version 1.0)

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SafariBlock
May 29 2007

FAHLMAN  What a childish response to a a set of valid questions from a concerned (maybe uninformed) user.  
(Version 1.15)

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ArchDetect
May 24 2007

FAHLMAN  This program does exactly what it claims to do, show the architecture of an application. Did you expect it to surprise you with something extra?

Also, just because the program works on your Intel-based Mac doesn't mean it's architecture is Intel native. It may be PCC code that is being translated to Intel-compatible code using Rosetta.  
(Version 1.1b)

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Loan Calc
May 24 2007

FAHLMAN  FinancesOSX (found here at MacUpdate here -> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21832) appears to do everything this application does, and more, for free.  
(Version 2.3.3)

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Debtinator
May 19 2007

FAHLMAN  I have a mortgage, car payment, car insurance, health insurance, life insurance, home insurance, etc and I'll second the first post. Prioritize your finances. Get rid of cable television, broadband internet, dinner out every other night, lunch at the nearest fast food joint every weekday, live in a reasonable house (which also has the side of lowering not only your mortgage but also the home insurance premium), drive a reasonable car (again not only does this reduce your loan payment, but reduces your car insurance also). People live way outside their means and then complain that they're poor. It's only their own fault.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Debtinator
May 19 2007

JIM_T_3  I think this reply is kinda missing the point.

You're already saying that you have a mortgage and a car payment. That's two debts right there.

Are you paying them down in the most efficient fashion possible? Namely, are you putting every spare cent you have towards paying them off? Which one are you paying off first?

What about when one's paid off? Then what are you doing with the money that was going to it?

Do you have any other debts? How do those factor in? What's the most efficient way to pay 'em off?

Do any of the interest rates vary? When? By how much? How does that factor into a payment schedule?

The program's designed to help you find every spare cent you have. "Spare cent" meaning "unallocated". So if you don't want to pay for cable television, broadband internet, dinner out every other night, and so on, then don't do it. But where's that money going instead? I mean, you may have a budget where you earn $X per month and spend exactly the same $X per month, and that's cool. But most people don't track to that extreme a level. They get mostly close enough.

If you're already tracking where every single penny you have goes, then bully for you, and you've forecasted out tracking every single penny until all of your debts are paid off, so you know where everything's going and when everything'll be paid off, then bully for you. You're right, you don't need it.

But I'm willing to bet that most people are more like me. Me? Sure, I have debt. Mortgage, 2 car payments, a credit card with a small balance from an emergency a while back. All very small, very low interest rates. So all these posts here telling me that I should get lower rates or only pay for the essentials, well, I'm already doing it.

I'm still saving a fortune by tracking how I'm paying everything.

Telling people to not acquire debt or to only acquire small amounts with small interest rates is _not_ the entire solution. It's part of it (a big part!) but the rest of it is better planning with what you have.

The program helps with the better planning.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Debtinator
Jul 7 2007

HARRISTYPE  You seemingly contradict yourself here. Big debts are your first two items. And broadband internet? Did you post your comment from dial-up, or did you use one the computers at your local library?  
(Version 2.1.9)

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Debtinator
Jul 14 2007

JOELSCHMIDT2  Ignore Fahlman. He's probably just upset that Basset Software wrote this program before he could.  
(Version 2.2)

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Spanning Sync
Mar 28 2007

FAHLMAN  If only .mac were just a calendar service your comparison would be valid. . . but it's not.  
(Version 1.0.2)

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America Online X
Mar 23 2007

FAHLMAN  Huh?  
(Version 128)

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Reunion
Mar 18 2007

FAHLMAN  Great concept. Ugly, really, really ugly GUI. So ugly I can't use use even though it's full of features and is simple to use.  
(Version 9.0.2)

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Mar 8 2007

FAHLMAN  No, it's a pity when an application tries to do everything, but does nothing well.  
(Version 1.0)

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Chicken of the VNC
Mar 3 2007

FAHLMAN  It's been over a year since this beta version of 2.0 was released. This is my favorite VNC viewer. I wonder if development is dead, it appears to be. Bummer.  
(Version 2.0b4)

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TrashCache
Feb 20 2007

FAHLMAN  From the developers website:

"When you drag a file to the Trash, TrashCache will intercept the file and leave an alias in the Trash. When you empty the Trash, the alias is deleted, but the original file remains intact."

If I'm reading that right I can't actually empty the trash. If I think I'm emptying the trash, I'm really not. I'm just deleting an alias of the file I want to delete, but sometime in the future TrashCache will actually delete the file? Interesting, I guess.  
(Version 1.4)

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iCursor
Feb 19 2007

FAHLMAN  A menu extra would be okay also. Some day we're all going to all need 50" screens all our menu extras from covering up our application's menus. This would allow for easy access to turn it on and off quickly.Actually the icon in the dock doesn't bother me as much as having an iCursor folder inside /Applications.  
(Version 1.30)

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AppZapper
Feb 12 2007

FAHLMAN  I can guarantee you that you don't want your standard user account to have the ability to delete files from the locations where AppZapper is deleting these files. If you were smart you would use Fast User Switching to log in to your Admin account and delete the application you needed deleted and then use FUS to switch back to your standard account. You want the security of a standard account but the power of a admin account? You can't have it both ways.  
(Version 1.8)

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iCursor
Feb 11 2007

FAHLMAN  This is a fun application. Most of the built in effects are cool. A couple of suggestions.

One, implement this as a Preference Pane instead of a stand alone application. I would prefer this for a couple of reasons reasons. The first reason is because it's icon wouldn't need to be in the dock. Second, it would continue to work all the time because it couldn't be hidden. Third, it could also be set to start at login with out adding it to the startup applications.

Two, move the Effects folder out of the /Applications folder and in to /Library/Application Support/

Three, allow for exporting and importing of effects. Maybe the developer could host user-submitted effect at his website.  
(Version 1.30)

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iCursor
Feb 19 2007

FAHLMAN  A menu extra would be okay also. Some day we're all going to all need 50" screens all our menu extras from covering up our application's menus. This would allow for easy access to turn it on and off quickly.Actually the icon in the dock doesn't bother me as much as having an iCursor folder inside /Applications.  
(Version 1.30)

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iCursor
Aug 15 2008

AAANOUEL  I agree 100% with you.

A Pref Pane will solve every disadvantage implicit in an open application. There, user could set it on and off as needed.  
(Version 1.40)

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Xtorrent
Feb 9 2007

FAHLMAN  I didn't claim it made sense. In fact I would not pay for any bittorrent application because I download a torrent file about once every three months.

That being said there is still nothing unethical about what he's done. The developer of Transmission specifically made a choice to use the MIT License knowing full well that it allowed for resale of his original source. If it's his source and he doesn't care, why should we?  
(Version 1.0b3v28)

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Xtorrent
Feb 8 2007

FAHLMAN  I wasn't aware that Transmit handled torrent files. Maybe you wanted to say it was based upon Transmission? Now that we have that straightened out let me straighten out another mistake in your post. [url=http://transmission.m0k.org/]Transmission[/url] while being OSS (Open Source Software) is released under the MIT License. The MIT License allows for reuse of the original source code in proprietary software that can be sold and/or released without it's own source code being open. Next time before you spout off get your information straight. Thank you.  
(Version 1.0b3v28)

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Microsoft Messenger
Jan 31 2007

FAHLMAN  Now that Microsoft's and Yahoo!'s networks are compatible I've stopped use Microsoft Messenger and begun using Yahoo! Messenger to chat with my MSN-using friends.  
(Version 6.0.2)

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Sosume
Jan 14 2007
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FAHLMAN  With the addition of automatically pausing when the game is not the active application, undo, and the shadow piece, plus someone's advice on how to get the pieces to snap to the edge the feature set and playability has been much improved.  
(Version 1.1)

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Sosume
Jan 1 2007
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FAHLMAN  It's great to have another Universal Binary version of the classic "falling blocks game". The other UB version of the "falling block game" that can be found here on MacUpdate, Quinn, is currently in beta and has a couple bugs, but has a few more features also. One of the features is a shadow piece that shows where the block would end up if you dropped it. Most times I just watch the shadow. It also automatically pauses the game if it is no longer the active application. Another is the way it'll snap the blocks to the side instead of clicking it over step by step if the key is held for more than a fraction of a second. It has an undo feature too. It also has network play, including Bonjour support. A couple of the fun features it has is custom blocks and backgrounds. All that being said it appears that the development of the UB version of Quinn has stalled. An updated version hasn't been released since 8/31/06. I mention it's features because I hope that the developer of Sosume considers adding some of them.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Sosume
Jan 2 2007

GTW2  If you set the key repeat rate to max (in the prefs) and make the delay short, it'll effectively "snap" the pieces to the side when you hold down left/right.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Sosume
Jan 1 2007

FAHLMAN  You can change the key setup in the Preferences.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Quinn
Dec 12 2006

FAHLMAN  This thread, http://simonhaertel.de/forum/index.php?topic=45.0, at the developers forum has a beta a Universal Binary version of Quinn.  
(Version 3.4.4)

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Xslimmer
Dec 5 2006

FAHLMAN  While you can do this for free as you suggest, for less than $10, XSlimmer saves a back-up of the slimmed application so that you can verify taht it runs properly after slimming and is easy to restore if it doesn't. It also contains a blacklist of applications that don't operate properly, for one reason or another, after slimming that it will not slim. Not to mention it'll slim a whole folder of application a lot faster than manually clicking on each application one at a time. I think the guys are offering a discount of $3 if you buy before 12/10/06.  
(Version 1.1.3)

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iCyclone
Dec 4 2006

FAHLMAN  Now that we have that all straightened out I'm going to give it a try. As I said in my previous post I really like the GUI. Thank you for taking the best features of two open source applications and combining them to offer us this application.  
(Version 0.7.2)

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iCyclone
Dec 3 2006

FAHLMAN  The GUI looks great, but has anyone noticed that the FAQ for iCyclone is almost a word for word copy of the FAQ from smcFanControl? Compare the paragraphs about how they each handle the authentication with their own dialog box. It seems a little fishy. The source for smcFanControl is open source. Maybe iCyclone is based on the same source code? Has anyone tried this? I'd love to give it a try but am not interested in being the first.   
(Version 0.7.2)

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Sirds
Nov 19 2006

FAHLMAN  It's the space shuttle!  
(Version 1.2)

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WaterRoof
Nov 17 2006

FAHLMAN  The number of windows could be reduced.  
(Version 1.2)

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Xslimmer
Nov 1 2006

FAHLMAN  While Monolingual has the capabilities to do the same thing the GUI is not as nice, it does not show the progress of each individual file, or does it show how much was saved from each file, just the total saved. This looks like a nice product. Will people pay $10, I don't know, but the developer is welcome to charge whatever price he feels is fair for his time. If people pay, good for him.  
(Version 1.0b)

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Licensed
Apr 28 2006
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FAHLMAN  If you are looking for a simple to use utility to manage the serial numbers of your applications then Licensed is it. The best attribute of Licensed is that it is designed to just store serial numbers, which makes the appearance clean and operation easy. Because it is a beta it is lacking features, understandably. It would be nice if it had a preference pane where default settings could be entered such as the owner's name and email address. These settings would automagically appear in the proper field when creating a new license. The fact that it has a list of built in Software Companies that it will auto-populate in to the "Maker" field is nice. It'll even remembers Makers that you type in that weren't originally in its built-in database. Another feature request would be the ability to "upgrade" applications and the upgraded application to appear nested in the newer applications entry. For example, if I own Photoshop 7 and I upgraded Photoshop 8 I would like to be able to upgrade the Photoshop 7 to Photoshop 8 therefore "attaching" the two together. This would also simplify the interface because it would only show the most recent applications. The built in search is great too. It's a very easy way to find just the application you're looking for. While I'm requesting features the option to show/hide columns would be nice. The Duplicate License is great for people who own multiple versions of the same applications with different serial numbers, though I'd like a Duplicate button in the toolbar. The ability to copy the serial number to the clipboard so it can be pasted in to an installer's dialog box is easy on the fingers.  
(Version 1.0b1)

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