Plasma Tunnel Saver | Sep 30 2009 |
G4JAY Wrong. It works fine on dual monitors... as long as you don't mind it being mirrored. Check the box that says "display on all screens".
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Mac DVDRipper Pro | Aug 5 2009 |
G4JAY Ok, so far this software just works. No problem. It rips DVDs no fuss no muss. I used to be a supporter of MTR and even donated (they call it a "gift") so that I could get the latest and greatest. I don't mind that aspect so much, it's the fact that there is only one dude making that software and seems to have a lot of drama in his life. As a result, the software development gets pushed to the back burner. As we all know, DVD ripping software needs to be updated constantly due to the new DVD encryption techniques. That said, I pretty much gave up on MTR because most the new DVDs I try to rip would not work. I've been using anyDVD in Windows XP (via Parallels). It works great, but I hate Windows and the process takes longer. I'm hoping MDRP is going to alleviate that. So far, looks like it! :)
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VLC Media Player | Jul 7 2009 |
G4JAY Yeah... I never liked the icon either. An orange road cone usually means "hazard" or "avoid this" etc. What does that have to do with being a media player? Hopefully this 1.0 version will let me play AVI videos again. The last version did not.
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SyncTwoFolders | Apr 28 2009 |
G4JAY Does not work for me. Syncing one folder from my Mac Pro to My Macbook. There is a newer file on the Mac Pro. The log says it copied said file, yet when I open the file on the Macbook it was not the new version. I also noticed every time I sync, the log shows it copying the same files every time. Time for me to find another solution.
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SyncTwoFolders | May 9 2009 |
XENOPHILE This was never an issue for me, but perhaps you could have STF notify the user more forcefully when in simulation mode. BTW, thanks for such a great app!
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Apple iTunes | Mar 14 2009 |
G4JAY I simply removed the iTunes app from my hard drive as well as the file within library/receipts folder. I downloaded 8.0.2 from the Apple website. When software update nags about wanting to update to 8.1 again, I told it to ignore that update from now on.
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Apple iTunes | Mar 12 2009 |
G4JAY I had problems. Everything was REALLY slow. Even after I started with a clean library file. I downgraded 8.0.2 and all is well again. I'm going to wait for iTunes 9.
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Apple iTunes | Mar 14 2009 |
G4JAY I simply removed the iTunes app from my hard drive as well as the file within library/receipts folder. I downloaded 8.0.2 from the Apple website. When software update nags about wanting to update to 8.1 again, I told it to ignore that update from now on.
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Apple iTunes | Mar 15 2009 |
GROOVYDAVE Any problems with 8.0.2 identifying the library that was updated to 8.1?
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RipIt | Feb 10 2009 |
G4JAY The developer of MTR could learn a lesson from these RipIt folks. This is how to properly publish a DVD ripping application for the Mac. You make some software and you sell it. Simple as that. No taking "donations" from people only to hold off on development of the software because of a divorce. Real tech support too. Not bashing the innocent in forum threads.
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RipIt | Feb 10 2009 |
ROBOTANK I have to agree with you. The way in which MTR 3 is distributed is a joke. You have to sign up for a forum and jump through a couple hoops just to earn the privilege of giving the dev your money. Once you've managed to "make a gift" (no minimum required amount is provided--you have to guess), you will hopefully receive the app, but you will be pestered for more money, both within the app itself and on the forums. All this for something that's been in beta for years and hasn't seen an update since January 08. I can understand wanting to have a private beta run, but at this point it's just a sham. First of all, it seems to me that any shelter from possible legal issues is rendered moot by the common knowledge of MTR 3's existence and where and how to obtain it. Second, I don't think it's quite right for the developer of a beta app, who doesn't even provide regular updates, to continually demand more money from his customers (and threaten to halt development if he doesn't get it). He could have made a fortune if he had just sold the thing as shareware and held off on all the nonsense. Now RipIt has come along and made it possible to dump MTR altogether. Thank you, RipIt developers, for making this application and for making substantial improvements with each update. Thank you also for distributing it in a reasonable fashion.
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RipIt | Feb 10 2009 |
WJB3WVU Ditto, ditto, ditto. I was a regular contributor to MTR, but it finally began to feel a little too much like extortion. Now, even as a prior donater, getting the newest version requires jumping through so many hoops that it makes your head hurt. I wrote off MTR about a year ago.
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Parallels Desktop | Feb 5 2009 |
G4JAY If you got Xp installed on a Bootcamp partition, STAY AWAY from 4.x. I've been plagued with constant BSOD on booting XP Pro. Yet... XP boots fine via bootcamp or VMware fusion (which I dont like). I'm reverting back to Parallels 3.x. It may be slower than 4.0, but it's at least STABLE!
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Parallels Desktop | Nov 21 2008 |
G4JAY YEP! It totally HOSED my XP install as well. BSOD while installing parallels tools. I refuse to RE-DO my bootcamp installation! It's way too laborious! I'll downgrade to 3.x instead. It would have been nice if they would WARN people that if you have a bootcamp partition with XP SP3 installed, you will have issues.
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DiskWarrior | Oct 27 2008 |
G4JAY I bet this version still cannot rebuild a 500GB hard drive that is used for a Time Machine backup. Disk Warrior has a limitation... if you have a lot of files on a big drive, it does not have enough RAM to rebuild that volume. I have 8GB RAM. Tech Support told me there is nothing they can do unless they re-write Disk Warrior to be able to use more RAM. Ludicrous if you ask me!
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3D Flamingos | Nov 16 2007 |
G4JAY Runs really SLOW on a Mac Pro with an ATI X1900 video card and dual 20" LCDs.
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PimpMyDock | Nov 8 2007 |
G4JAY AWESOME! Something that allows me to get rid of the busy looking 3D dock. 3D is cool, but that stupid "swirl" thing made it look busy! This app is cool!
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Little Snitch | Nov 7 2007 |
G4JAY For some reason, it kills my Airport Base Station. Using Little Snitch for about an hour will make the the signal weak and eventually lose the Base Station completely. The only way to get it back is resetting the Base Station. After disabling Little Snitch, I have not had a problem.
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Apple Login & Keychain Update | Oct 27 2007 |
G4JAY Yes... I did. Check out the Apple Discussions: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1195969 I'm not the only one!
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Apple Login & Keychain Update | Oct 27 2007 |
G4JAY Now they just need to fix the graphics glitches that Mac Pro w/ X1900 users are experiencing. It was so bad, I had to revert back to Tiger! I already miss Leopard :(
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Apple Login & Keychain Update | Oct 27 2007 |
BLLOYD Did you apply the ATI Firmware Update that was released a couple weeks ago prior to updating to Leopard? I'm having no issues with the ATI X1900 and Leopard, and I've been running it for a while.
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Apple Login & Keychain Update | Oct 27 2007 |
G4JAY Yes... I did. Check out the Apple Discussions: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1195969 I'm not the only one!
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Apple ATI Radeon X1900 XT Firmware Update | Oct 17 2007 |
G4JAY Are you SURE this is the same issue? Most artifacts can be seen in a screen shot. When I do a screen shot, they go away. Did you read the URL in my first post? My warrenty expires on this thing in like 10 days!!!
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Apple ATI Radeon X1900 XT Firmware Update | Oct 17 2007 |
G4JAY I installed this hoping it would solve the random pixel artifact issues I've been having. It didn't help. Here's more info on what I am referring to: http://echeng.com/journal/2006/12/09/ati-radeon-x1900-xt-macpro-artifacts/ It's the weirdest thing. It only started happening a couple months ago. I suspect Apple needs better drivers for this card. It's not heat related either. I can erase the artifacts with a white window OR setting my screens to a lower resolution. Annoying!
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Apple ATI Radeon X1900 XT Firmware Update | Oct 17 2007 |
G4JAY Yes, I use MainMenu to batch process all my system cleaning tasks quite regularly. Once I get Leopard, I'm going to do a system enema and hope that clears this glitch.
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Apple ATI Radeon X1900 XT Firmware Update | Oct 17 2007 |
UMAROMC Have you attempted Recalibrating to create a new color profile? Maybe messing with those gamma, hue and saturation settings a tiny bit could be it... :P Another idea is to try aticcelerator to lower the clock speeds of the VRAM and GPU, I think it works with the X1900 XT—dblchk.
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Apple ATI Radeon X1900 XT Firmware Update | Oct 17 2007 |
POWERTOWERPRO The artifact issue with the GPU is a known rev1 problem and if you mac is still under its one year warranty a quick call to apple care will get you a brand new rev 2 card. I did this 2 months ago. There is a HUGE forum on blizzard on this. Tons of people have got new cards. Here is the link (you can thank me later): http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=94000596&sid=1 My post with direction on how to handle the apple care reps: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=94000596&sid=1&pageNo=10 Read the post from "Elderclass" Thats me.
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Apple ATI Radeon X1900 XT Firmware Update | Oct 17 2007 |
G4JAY Are you SURE this is the same issue? Most artifacts can be seen in a screen shot. When I do a screen shot, they go away. Did you read the URL in my first post? My warrenty expires on this thing in like 10 days!!!
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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro | Jun 14 2007 |
G4JAY This software lags BIG TIME. If you leave the application to do something else, then come back to it, you get the spinning beach ball for a few seconds. It's not the most intuitive application to use either. Not very good for $800 software. I expected better from this company.
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Apple Safari | Jun 12 2007 |
G4JAY Good to know I'm not the only one seeing this. If they don't update it soon, I will uninstall the beta. These issues are highly annoying.
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Apple Safari | Jun 12 2007 |
G4JAY I dunno about anyone else, but ever since I installed this beta of Safari, other weird things are happening on my Mac Pro. Yahoo Messenger isn't working properly... people miss my messages... and when they do actually get them and reply... I keep having to scroll down to read them. iChat has a significant delay when sending messages now too. Anyone else experiencing this???
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Apple Safari | Jun 12 2007 |
JEFFS Me, too! My Yahoo IM scrolling has been messed up since installing Safari 3.0b. Also, I can't access my banking site. Firefox works fine to access the site, so I'm guessing it is the beta problem with Safari.
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Apple Safari | Jun 12 2007 |
G4JAY Good to know I'm not the only one seeing this. If they don't update it soon, I will uninstall the beta. These issues are highly annoying.
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Apple Safari | Jun 12 2007 |
DAIYI I have had the same issues with YIM. Shiira started crashing, too, after I used it in place of the beta Safari. Did uninstalling help any? I have reverted to Safari 2 using the uninstaller from the beta version.
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Grizzly Adventure | Jun 2 2007 |
G4JAY Game does not work properly on a 14" iBook G4. As soon as you choose the first demo level and it begins, the back ground stays the same as the one from the level choice screen. And the bear falls off an invisible cliff. Unplayable. However, plays fine on a Mac pro in the same household.
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Android | May 15 2007 |
G4JAY If this is like Lode Runner, this will rock!
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| Feb 13 2007 |
G4JAY What's the point of this, if you can't customize the text?
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MacBreakZ! | Feb 12 2007 |
G4JAY I agree... get rid of those old reviews! "Control Strip"? I haven't seen that since OS 9!!! This software is great! I've been needing to take breaks and get away from the Mac, my back is messed up from working so many hours in front of the computer. This software does the job!
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VLC Media Player | Jan 4 2007 |
G4JAY I stand corrected... I totally missed that pull-down menu. It's not in a "general" tab though. It's in the "Disc Setup" tab at the bottom. Kind of a weird place. A "general" tab would actually make better sense. Thanks though.
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VLC Media Player | Jan 4 2007 |
G4JAY Apple should take some lessons from this player. I can actually watch a DVD in 5.1 Surround Sound via optical connection with VLC. Apple DVD Player doesn't have this ability. FFW works better in VLC than DVD Player too.
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VLC Media Player | Jan 4 2007 |
WARLOCK7 That's because Apple has to follow licensing rules that VLC does not.
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VLC Media Player | Jan 4 2007 |
DISPLACED Umm... Apple DVD Player is certainly able to output digital 5.1 audio (any format - PCM, DD5.1, DD-EX, DTS etc.) via an optical port. Open DVD Player's preferences then (with the optical port connected to a receiver), choose Digital Audio from the Audio Output drop-down box in the General tab. This works on both my MacBook Pro's analogue/optical combo port and my PowerPC Mac Mini with an external USB M-Audio sound device featuring an optical output. Having said that, VLC's fast forward/rewind is better than Apple's rather odd solution where you set the speed in a menu (??!!).
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VLC Media Player | Jan 4 2007 |
G4JAY I stand corrected... I totally missed that pull-down menu. It's not in a "general" tab though. It's in the "Disc Setup" tab at the bottom. Kind of a weird place. A "general" tab would actually make better sense. Thanks though.
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VueScan | Dec 13 2006 |
G4JAY His site simply showed testing of scan speed. However, in my own testing, VueScan is painfully slow!
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VueScan | Nov 25 2006 |
G4JAY Very good test! Nice to see I'm not the only one who's not happy with the speed of this software.
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VueScan | Nov 22 2006 |
G4JAY This software is SLOW when previewing on my Canon CanoScan LiDE 30. Preview should be fast and scanning should be slow. They are both the same speed with this software. Unfortunately, now I have to use the junky software that Canon provides. At least the preview works quickly though...
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CoreDuoTemp | Oct 25 2006 |
G4JAY I change the graphics for the Xeon in my mac Pro. However, I wish I could change the widget to F instead of C. :(
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Desktop Dolphins 3D Screen Saver | Aug 24 2006 |
G4JAY Once again another unique screensaver from a cool developer. Well worth the price! I have bought three screensavers from them. Space Wars, Desktop Aquarium and this new Dolphins. My only negative comment is the fact that the dual monitor support needs some tweaking when in "desktop mode". On my Dual 1Ghz MDD G4 with a Radeon 9800 card, all I get is a while background on the secondary monitor. Overall, I love the screensavers from these guys. Great stuff! Keep up the great work!
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