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Real Name:Frank Fackelmayer 
Last Login:4 Oct 2009 06:27
Posts:5
Recent Downloads:
  1. xGestures
  2. File Juicer
  3. Simple CSS
  4. Glims
  5. Saft
  6. PithHelmet
  7. pdf-Recover
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Glims
Oct 21 2009

FRANKOF  I like Glims ever since I use it. First, for the features it implements, second for the possibility to leave behind Saft and its greedy, arrogant and unresponsive developer.

Having said this, I would like to point put a bug - that is downloading into dated folders. For many downloads (such as pdfs shown in Safari, and downloaded by clicking the "download" button) this does not work, the files simply do not go into this folder.

Anyway, great work guy! Thanks a lot!  
(Version 1.0b22)

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TimeMachineEditor
Oct 4 2009

FRANKOF  I do appreciate free software. In fact I very often donate to developers of free software when a program is useful. I also reserve the right to say when I don't like something, regardless of whether the software is free or not. Developers should be grateful for people speaking out the truth. And in this case, the simple truth is: putting in a daemon s*cks.   
(Version 2.5)

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TimeMachineEditor
Oct 4 2009

FRANKOF  It is not only the daemon - it is also the requirement to stop the built-in TM mechanism (which is well integrated into the system and shows its status in the menu bar) and rely on this daemon for backups. Why should I do this? Why run a background process that kicks in every now and then, just to do something the system can do better? This is a major PITA, and is especially bad as the program used to be perfect for what it should do.

I don't know, maybe the developer did not find a way to come up with a real solution in Snow Leopard - but putting a background process instead of a well-integrated system component is definitely not the way to go. Either the developer finds a way to change the settings without using a daemon, or I will not be using this program any more. And many sensible people won't.  
(Version 2.5)

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TimeMachineEditor
Oct 4 2009

FRANKOF  New version changes everything - the program does no longer set a system parameter to tell TM when to back up, but installs a f*cking daemon that runs in the background and requires to manually shut off time machine (which will also be visible as inactive in the menu bar). All the advantages of the earlier program are now gone. Why should I rely on a background daemon for my valuable backups? Not be able to see TM active? Not have a reliable and visible indicator of when the last and next backup occur/ed?

Frankly, this version stinks.   
(Version 2.5)

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TimeMachineEditor
Oct 4 2009

WANDERER  Well it wasn't working before, maybe this will get TM to do what we want, personally a daily backup is enough for me, not hourly. If it works I'll put up with the daemon.  
(Version 2.5)

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TimeMachineEditor
Oct 4 2009

FRANKOF  It is not only the daemon - it is also the requirement to stop the built-in TM mechanism (which is well integrated into the system and shows its status in the menu bar) and rely on this daemon for backups. Why should I do this? Why run a background process that kicks in every now and then, just to do something the system can do better? This is a major PITA, and is especially bad as the program used to be perfect for what it should do.

I don't know, maybe the developer did not find a way to come up with a real solution in Snow Leopard - but putting a background process instead of a well-integrated system component is definitely not the way to go. Either the developer finds a way to change the settings without using a daemon, or I will not be using this program any more. And many sensible people won't.  
(Version 2.5)

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TimeMachineEditor
Oct 4 2009

WANDERER  It's free software, you have no right to complain about the way the author decided to implement it. I'm no expert but I'm sure he's done the best under the circumstances.  
(Version 2.5)

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TimeMachineEditor
Oct 4 2009

FRANKOF  I do appreciate free software. In fact I very often donate to developers of free software when a program is useful. I also reserve the right to say when I don't like something, regardless of whether the software is free or not. Developers should be grateful for people speaking out the truth. And in this case, the simple truth is: putting in a daemon s*cks.   
(Version 2.5)

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TimeMachineEditor
Oct 4 2009

TIMESOFTWARE  FRANKOF, requiring to turn Time Machine OFF was the only sensible solution to solve the issues on Snow Leopard. The built-in mechanism of Time Machine relies on doing hourly backups in several places which would have been impossible to workaround without doing really nasty hacks to your system that you really don't want.

Now you shouldn't be alarmed at all about this daemon since this is exactly the way the built-in mechanism works. TimeMachineEditor used to modify the system daemons configuration files, now the system daemons are disabled and TimeMachineEditor uses its own configuration file. And note that the daemon is the backupd-helper process from Apple and it is only launched at schedule time (nothing is running all the time in the background).

Believe me, this was the best solution.  
(Version 2.5)

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Saft
Sep 29 2009

FRANKOF  I've been a loyal SAFT user for many years now, paid three times for "updates" after upgrading the OS. I have seen this program grow for some time, and then - nothing. It has not added features ever since Leopard came out, it even lost features that were present in Tiger, such as blocking GIF animation. Every little update of Safari killed Saft; and not for a real reason. In fact it just checked the Safari version against the version stated in the saft plist, and refused to start if it was higher. No wonder Saft was "updated" so fast every time: the developer usually just changed a single string in the plist (one that everyone could have done) and voila, he appeared "responsive". He is NOT. I have contacted the developer several times, with feature suggestions and bug reports - not a single time he bothered to reply. This utterly arrogant and disturbing attitude upset me more than once.

Now, after upgrading to Snow Leopard, he wants me to pay a fourth time. Let me say it very clearly: FORGET IT! No added features, not even 64bit support, none of the useful features I had suggested years back. I might have considered upgrading for some nominal upgrade fee, if it was an upgrade. It is not. It is the attempt to rip-off customers that paid for this software for years. This f*cking s*cks.

This guy definitely lost me as a customer for good. I have moved on to Glims without a single look back.

(btw: the Glims developers are really nice guys - I found a bug, reported it, and got a reply almost instantly. I know they care; they do without asking for money. And you know what: I'll pay them a donation twice the price of Saft as soon as it is running flawlessly)  
(Version 12.0b3)

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Saft
Oct 4 2009

DONPERREAULT  I agree....  
(Version 12.0b4)

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Saft
Oct 4 2009

FLEC65  Agree. I'm using Glims since one week now and I can't find anything I miss from Saft yet.  
(Version 12.0b4)

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Saft
Oct 4 2009

DWETTE  +1

I paid for the Tiger and Leopard versions, and to ask for money for a Snow Leopard version that isn't -- because it's still 32 bit -- and with no new features to justify an upgrade otherwise is unfair to users and a questionable practice. Until Saft has support for Safari running in native (64-bit) mode, I'm just getting used to live with it and thus less likely to ever upgrade again.  
(Version 12.0b4)

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