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This is not improving with each iteration. Not only is the interface now larger, with clumsy icons consuming the top bar, but it appears that frequent revisions are required to make it work properly. It isn't working now. First, we had to suffer the loss of station identifiers (here in Australia). Okay, once resolved, we discovered that some channels were incomplete. Then, another build later this was resolved, but we now discover that if you choose to view more than 5 channels, you can only view up to 3 programs. Alternatively, you can choose to view less channels and see 5 programs. Further, the present active program is no longer coloured to indicate what is being shown (oddly, now the blue highlight is used to indicate supplemental program information, which is plainly wrong from an interface perspective), and I can no longer simply toggle from 3 to 5 or all programs on the fly, but have to resort to flipping the widget and awaiting a refresh. On the plus side, the supplemental information is easier to read thanks to a sharper font choice. Overall, badly implemented and I recommend that users keep Build 1.25 and learn to cope with the problematic ABC1 and ABC2 station identifiers being absent: at least it works, and works well, in a more compact space. I also dislike having to store preferences on a website, but this is trivial in comparison to the widget not actually working the way it should. On the good side? It's free. So perhaps I shouldn't complain, but I do wish that the constant beta testing wasn't up to users so much. |
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That's better: the previous version didn't match battery cycles with Apple's System Profiler - now it does. |
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'European'? You probably mean 'non-Amercian' - there is no other place on earth than USA which uses the strange and illogical mmddyyyy format. |
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Why do we have to negotiate through a third device each time we wish to connect? Whilst logmein has a page devoted to security, there is no mention made of what data is kept at logmein.com. What does this offer that the OS 10.5. 'share screen' does not offer? Or ARD? |
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Does anyone else get their own video view sitting above everything else (even in Exposé) with this version? All of the other panels correctly sit behind the current app, but not my own personal view of my camera. (using Mac OS X 10.5.2 on MacBook Pro) |
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Sorry, but I don't want my software to 'move forward'. I just want it to work, and do what I want it to do. |
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Great work. We now have a choice of adblockers for Safari. Whilst not as customisable as SafariBlock, it leaves the decision to block or not block to a list. Set and forget... Incidentally, I have absolutely no issue with the principle of blocking annoying material from view. Others may believe that the world rotates around commerce and advertising, but some of us use the web for other purposes, and blocking advertisements is of little loss to the real world. The web won't disappear overnight if advertisements are blocked - contrary to some people's views. It happily ran for a number of years before the advertisers moved in. |
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A timely update: it was unusable with Remote Buddy open at the same time (made Vienna uncontrollable, oddly). Further, the display bugs introduced with Leopard now appear to be ironed out. No more truncated scrollbars or icons. What's missing: Still no icon to indicate that a headline has been opened in external browser: only option is to display read/unread and to manually flag item. Also difficult to re-sort headlines by date (up or down) without doubling size of pane used for headlines (I use condensed layout to emulate previously purchased RSS readers). Apart from this, it works remarkably well, and the price is brilliant value. Like others, I bought other readers but grew disappointed with the direction of development and features. I'm now happily stuck with Vienna. |
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I suggest giving it a wide berth until developer confirms that it works with Leopard (10.5). Turned my entire machine into thick cold porridge until uninstalled. (3GB RAM, MacBook Pro 2.33GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo) |
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Read the manuals? I'm a veteran Macintosh user - so have long lost any desire to comprehend manuals, instructions, or readme files. And any preferences interface that requires more than a simple selection is beyond my capacity, thus I conform to Steve Jobsian expectations. |
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I mistakenly attributed a complaint to the developers of Growl, when I should have checked more thoroughly: OmniGrowl is the culprit, using the Growl framework. I apologise to the developers of Growl unreservedly. It's a great piece of FREE software, and works as advertised, with no fuss or bother. |
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I mistakenly attributed a complaint to the developers of Growl, and not OmniGrowl. However... OmniGrowl is nagware, not freeware. The author should acknowledge this in the documentation. |
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Warning: not just unstable, but doesn't play nicely with dual-screen setups (plugging in an extra monitor causes problems, removing a monitor causes system instability). |
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Okay: I'll reinstall (removed it entirely yesterday) and post a screenshot soon. Then perhaps I can have an explanation of how I get growl notifications (dismissible, as are all other notifications) of the number of people who have downloaded the software (in the thousands) and the number of donations (which was zero), and how I can remove this nag message by donating. |
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Useful, but now broken: Latest version (2.0) backs up to one level below where you expect, creating havoc if you used IMsafge prior to the non-beta period. |
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Having been an ex-user of NetNewsWire, I thought it would be good to try the latest version to see if it's worth switching back. It was once the premier newsreader, in my opinion. Having used Ensemble, Shrook, Vienna, and a few others, I'm now a convert - to Vienna. It's fast, lightweight, free and has an excellent interface. Why pay for NNW when Vienna does it better, for free? |
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Unbelievably poor installation process. In this upgrade, it has taken more than 35 minutes to regain control of my computer. Although I had other apps open at the time (Safari, iTunes, Mail, Vienna, BBEdit, Preview, Photoshop, iCal, Activity Monitor), the Parallels update process completely took over my MacBook Pro (with 2GB RAM, 40GB spare hard disk space) to the point of it being totally unworkable, with Activity Monitor showing that Safari, Vienna and iTunes 'not responding' on numerous occassions. Eventually, the installation, upgrade, installation of Parallels Tools, and subsequenty Kapersky 6.0 updates were complete, and Windows XP booted: 38 minutes later, at which time all other apps were usable again, though now with a 5-second timelag in shifting from app to app, and with fans blaring. Overall, I loathe discovering updates for Parallels, and loathe having to fire it up. I've got the fastest Mac laptop that can be bought, and it's full of RAM, yet Parallels acts as though it's no better than VirtualPC in its characteristic 'slow' mode. What a disappointment. I was hoping that I'd be able to fire up XP and view webpages in IE (the primary reason for buying the product - I'm a web developer), but the sluggish response and the ridiculous speed of loading Parallels makes it more profitable for me to simply fire up an old XP workstation and work from that. For further information: I've experimented with giving less and more RAM to the virtual machine with each update (it makes no difference - the spinning beachball sits there for just as long), and I've a stock installation of XP (with all service packs, plus IE7) and nothing else. And my MacBook Pro is running 10.4.10, and is stock also. |
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Note: Dimming only works on one monitor in multiple-monitor set-ups.. |
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Still great, still free! The new dimming feature makes it even more useful: not just for web designers, but for people who want to highlight certain parts of their screen. Rock solid, easy to use, though the ability to drag by all edges would be an added bonus - it takes some experimentation to discover that you can only drag by one section of the 'window frame. An old favourite updated. |
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I share similar concerns with others here: I was an early adopter of this software, but now find it almost unworkable on my 2GB RAM, 3-month old laptop. Not only does Parallels take over the entire machine (preventing me from using any other app for up to 5 or 10 minutes) but I cannot even push it into the background to run anything else. IF the developers were truly interested in helping those of us with these problems, the ReadMe file would make suggestions about how it can work on current Apple laptops without crippling everything else. I now prefer to use an old Windows machine nearby with Remote Desktop - much faster and easier! |
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Great idea, and has great potential. However, it keeps crashing on my Intel MacBook. The widget remains in place, but the app crashes in the background, even after restarts. Would be even better if the lyrics in the widget were both editable, and copyable! |
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And this is different to 'Sync Now' in what way? (same icon, too) |
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Stops on mounting of CD-RW. Have to manually eject and re-insert CD to allow script to continue. Not sure why this is better than manually selecting all protected files, converting them to an MP3 format on CD, then re-importing... Confusing non-standard interface, too. |
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It stalls at backing up an image at 15.99GB... (and indicates 1% complete, on a 'second pass' of the update progress bar). Makes it useless for home directory backup to iPod disk ,for example (what I am trying to do - back to manual directory copy) |
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Works for minor backups of individual files, but chokes on home folder backup (20GB or more), and required force-quit after command+period failed to cancel stalled process of a backup to an iPod disk. A number of applescript errors appear from time to time, not making me confident that a backup imagefile can be created. Yet to try restore function. |
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Fantastic bit of software: I agree that OS 10.4 made a backward step in this area. Let's hope that 10.5 reverts back to a more functional approach. If not, I"ll continue to use Sync Now. |
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Not just Filemaker Pro 8.5, but v8.0 and 7.0 also won't operate - and Microsoft Word crashes on some documents (with embedded pictures), and Excel now takes forever to open. Looks like a complete reinstall is imminent. First time that an OS update has caused mayhem in my Intel-Mac. Finder takes forever. Firefox, Parallels (after losing it's wireless connection), Photoshop, Apple Remote Desktop, TextEdit, iPhoto, iTunes, BBEdit, Fetch, Google Earth all okay. InDesign is very slow to load. Menu items mostly okay as before. I recommend being cautious in upgrading this time around. PowerPC Macs seem to be fine, however. |
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Broke a few plugins for iSync and other apps, and FileMaker Pro 8.5 won't load. Not happy. Didn't go as smoothly as hoped. Now looking for FMPro fix, and SonyEricsson plugin that works, and why both broke. Non-Intel Macs seem to be fine, though (updated 5 machines so far). |
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Airport Extreme Driver shows no change (v405.1.0) though framework has jumped from v431.4.0 to v451.2.0 - and Airport Menu Extra now shows v441.1.0 (up from 428.3.0). Security improvements are all well and good, but it's still impossible to get more than 53.7KB/s throughput in either direction from an Extreme Base Station sharing with older 802.11b and g machines (so mixed protocols required). Hurry up with this fix, please, Apple! And let's hope the constant drop-outs are fixed at the same time. |
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Doesn't work with MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo - probably needs updating to cope with 802.11n cards that appear in these machines. |
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Doesn't work with latest MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo). I suspect that it needs updating to deal with new 802.11n cards that have been put in these machines. |
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