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About John
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Real Name:John M
Posts:42
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Last Login:25 Mar 2007 01:03
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Type: Review
Date: 16 Apr 2008 03:19
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Max has many issues but this app is no replacement for it. Rips only to MP3. Isn't free. Its a java based app with a horrible, non-mac like interface. Ugh. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Jan 2008 00:03
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Doesn't do ANY HD encoding. When I read "Optimize for AppleTV" I expected 720p @23fps, which is the max AppleTV can handle. But alas, I'm still stuck ripping video with quicktime player. |
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Type: Review
Date: 5 Dec 2007 19:13
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A stop watch app doesn't have to do much. Just count the seconds tick by. This app doesn't track time correctly. Compare it to your system clock and let it run, the times very quickly get out of sync. Very lame. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Nov 2007 22:42
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The author's email address has been sending out "Conversation isn't dead" auto-responses for 2 years running. I've given up hope. I know several OS X programmers that offered to port the code to at least make the program Universal, for free, and even without seeking credit (though crediting them would certainly be the right thing to do). But email after email goes unanswered. :-( |
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Type: Comments
Date: 31 Aug 2007 05:23
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Very buggy. Just this version. The older versions have never had crashing issues since I've been using it. But 0.9 is brutal. Ditching it now and trying to find someplace I can download an older version. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Jul 2007 07:28
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This app is very confusing. The controls are not at all intuitive. I keep setting an alarm for noon, and it tells me the next alarm is set for the next day at midnight. Or it tells me the next alarm is December 31st. ??? This app needs some work before its usable. |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 16 Feb 2007 04:23
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Version 3.0 broke support for VNC. This sucks for me as both my servers run VNC server instead of Apple Remote Desktop server because ARD is a bit less stable. But Since upgrading on my intel macs, I can't connect to my servers at all. The notes on version 3.1 say that VNC support is fixed, or at least imply that it is. But trying to connect to a VNC machine fails every single time in ARD 3.1. I don't know what they are waiting for here. Apple is usually so good about things but every once in a while they really leave you hanging and this is one of those times. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Feb 2007 13:00
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I've never been able to coax this widget to work |
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Type: Review
Date: 28 Dec 2006 03:20
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This program is a classic example of a really bad implementation of a really good idea. It is a very nice looking program, with only some minor changes I'd make to its UI. Its feature set is nice and is growing with new releases. The main problem is that this program has astronomical RAM requirements. I have a Quad 2.66GHz intel Mac Pro with 1GB of RAM. Even with nothing else running, launching Spyder throws my hard drive into constant HD paging. The computer goes almost completely unresponsive. Loading friends of my friends takes over a week. I understand that it is scraping web pages and so there is a limit to it's speed, but that is not the bottleneck here. This app is trying to use 2-3 GB of RAM all by itself. This is the type of program that should be able to run in the background almost unnoticed while you do other things, and while it loads data etc. But instead it brings your system to a hault and keeps it at bay until you give up and force quit it, or until it crashes, or until you've waited over a week and it is done. When I first started using it, and saw that it uses an internal SQL database, I thought that would make it highly optimized, more so than any other program that deals with storing thousands of records of data. The developer does release updates often, but they are always to small bug fixes. I'm a paid user of this software, and I'm beginning to think I may have wasted my money. I really want this program to work... it just doesn't. |
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Type: Review
Date: 30 Oct 2006 09:02
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Great little app. I use it in conjunction with photoshop all the time. Its real easy to use them both to make favicon's for web sites, and of course you can load icons into photoshop with their full transparency. BUT IT NOT A UNIVERSAL BINARY. In fact it hasn't been updated in quite some time. It is due. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Jul 2006 22:20
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I figured I'd give this app a try today since I was going to be away from computers during an auction I really wanted to win. So I set it up and let it run while I was away. I set my max bid to $155.89. I got home and the auction was over with a high bid of $151. Thanks for nothing Maxi Bidder. This was a very unique auction and I'm very upset. Don't use this program, it simply doesn't work. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Jan 2006 06:00
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As a game its a little too basic, and gets boring quick. But, this would make a real kick ass screen saver. Mac goes to sleep, and the trains start thundering along!!! |
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Type: Review
Date: 29 Dec 2004 02:46
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Right off the bat, a keyboard the requires drivers is not a good thing. My mom really wanted this keyboard because I kicked her off my iBook and she got used to the thin low travel keys. This was the best keyboard i could find that had those kind of keys. It mimics every key on the apple pro keyboard, even the volume and eject keys. So you'd think it would work flawlessly out of the box, but it doesn't. It says you need the driver to use the volume and eject keys. You shouldn't have to install a driver for something like that, so already you can tell they aren't doing things the right way. Now I installed the driver, cause I wanted her to have those super useful keys. Well it makes you reboot, and when you reboot, the keyboard goes totally dead. No keys work at all. I can't even log in. I had to uninstall the driver over remote desktop to get the keyboard to work again. Now it works, but no Volume or Eject keys. Kinda sucks. It should simply mimic the apple keyboard signals for those keys and then be interpreted by the system the same way. But it doesn't. Unfortunately, this review isn't really going to help anyone, since anyone who finds it is going to already have the keyboard. These drives are from 2002 so they are way outdated, but they are the ones that come on the CD so you shouldn't have to re download them. Also I am using 10.3.7. |
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Type: Review
Date: 4 Dec 2004 19:43
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Its a nice try but they definitely missed the mark on this game. - Only fords. No single manufacturer makes enough cars to have a game all to themselves, let alone ford. - Steering is really bad. It's a very on/off type of steering control. - Doesn't support controllers. I have in iShockII, and I had to use macally's keyboard mapping program because the game wouldn't use the controller directly. And macally's software is the worst app i've ever used, its a java piece of shit app, thats embarrassingly bad. - Game has excessive load times and really poor menu design. - Graphics are ok on my dual 1.8 G5, but on my 1.25 GHz iBook I really had to slim everything down just to get it to go, and even them it was really jump. I can't imagine this would work at all on a 700 Mhz G3 I don't recommend this game if your looking for a real good racing game. Get a PS2 and Gran Turismo. It doesn't get better than that. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Jul 2004 15:59
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VLC 0.7.2 seems to Kill all audio on G5's. requiring a Reboot. :-( |
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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Jun 2004 05:09
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Am I the only one that thinks this is the worst idea i've heard all day? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Nov 2003 16:27
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I especially like the blood on the bottom of the cars when you crash. This is the best game ever. I think everyone should play. Its also good for the kids, it can help them to get used to driving fast before they actually getting behind the wheel. An excellent game I recommend for everyone. People that want electronic devices to parent their kids for them so they don't have to do as much "work" should stop trying to ruin other people fun and cut their balls off and solve their issue. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Aug 2003 23:00
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Kazaa in general, on any machine, has been known to make cable modems shut down. |
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Date: 2 Feb 2003 05:12
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Nice program, great for Thumping :-) |
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