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Real Name:Peter 
Homepage:marreck.com 
Last Login:26 Jan 2009 11:45
Posts:15
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WebGrazer
Jan 26 2009
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LECTRICK  Whoa, didn't even notice this app had an update recently until I used an app updater program.

Ran it, it didn't import my old library at all. Hey, what can I say, I like my favorites. Ding number one (maybe import favorites as "three-star" movies?). Then I tried to download some movies... No matter which category I picked, it would download ONE item and then stop. Ding number two. Minor ding number 3 is spelling/grammar errors on the help popup.

I applaud your efforts to give this an update (and the fact that it's Universal now is nice), but please come back with a working version! I've paid in the past.  
(Version 2008.09.11)

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Mojo
Mar 13 2008

LECTRICK  Oh yes, I suppose we should levy this criticism at ALL Mac-only sharing apps. Phooey. I enjoy having an improved user experience in OS X and it doesn't stop here. Get your friends to switch instead of whining about it.  
(Version 2.5.1)

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Mojo
Mar 13 2008
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LECTRICK  Tried Mojo for a few days and a few friends now, it's wonderful. No crashes, not a CPU hog... But a memory hog! I've had it open for a little over a day and it's at 942MB! Two friends' windows open.

Needs bandwidth control and perhaps SOCKS5 support... very nice in the meantime however  
(Version 2.5.1)

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EVE Online
Nov 29 2007

LECTRICK  Just an FYI- The Mac client will time out without warning (or any indication that it did, for that matter) if you take too long to make your character (and why wouldn't you?) The only solution at this time is to take a screenshot and start over and try to duplicate your choices. Not exactly a great new-user experience...

LAME! Please fix!  
(Version 1.0)

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PresButan
Oct 5 2007

LECTRICK  The way it "SHOULD" be? I think that's relative. If you started out on Macs like you SHOULD have, then you would be trying to use cmd-down or cmd-up in windoze ;)  
(Version 1.2)

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Xee
Jun 7 2007

LECTRICK  1) Printing- I have gotten around this by setting Preview.app as the "default editor"... which you get to with a simple Command-E. So printing is command-E, command-P.

2) PDF- I set Preview to open pdf's. Preview is now my PDF reader and all-around printer, Xee for everything else.  
(Version 2.0)

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Xee
Jun 7 2007

LECTRICK  I'm going to take a swag here and guess that your "cheapo" camera is not itself writing the jpeg file in an ideal fashion and this only makes itself evident when Xee tries to rotate it.

I'd recommend a 2 step workaround- first do a Save As on the jpeg, and then reopen in Xee.  
(Version 2.0)

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iVisualize
Jun 28 2006
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LECTRICK  At first, Quartz Composer was the coolest Apple toy (since HyperCard) I had ever seen. Correction: THIS is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Build your own visuals to audio without programming? Dude, sign up! How much fun can you handle?  
(Version 1.5)

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Xee
Mar 11 2006

LECTRICK  Fair enough ;)  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Unreal Tournament 2004
Mar 7 2006

LECTRICK  Update: I had to delete the UT2K4 Application Support files in ~/Library. A little annoying, but not so terrible...  
(Version 3369-2)

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Unreal Tournament 2004
Mar 7 2006

LECTRICK  I upgraded to the latest version and now I can't access any servers or, for that matter, game types... which has basically incapacitated the game. wonderful, time to kill time troubleshooting...  
(Version 3369-2)

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Unreal Tournament 2004
Mar 7 2006

LECTRICK  Update: I had to delete the UT2K4 Application Support files in ~/Library. A little annoying, but not so terrible...  
(Version 3369-2)

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Xee
Mar 7 2006

LECTRICK  Also (FYI), as of the date of my posting there is zero mention as to whether this app is a Universal Binary.  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Xee
Mar 11 2006

WAHA.06X36  It does say "Platform: PPC". No Intel version will be forthcoming until I have a machine to test it on.  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Xee
Mar 7 2006

LECTRICK  This app needs to 1) open PDF documents via some built-in Cocoa framework 2) print... and then I can say goodbye to Preview.app ;)

One thing I noticed it doesn't have is bicubic resampling during scaling operations. This makes it fast but also means it will lose every third line of data in a 66% reduction, for example, instead of blending it in.  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Xee
Mar 11 2006

WAHA.06X36  The lower-quality scaling is due to using OpenGL and not Cocoa to draw images. It's non-trivial to get higher-quality scaling, but I've got some ideas for that. We'll see.

PDF reading is not easily implemented, as this is strictly a bitmap image viewer, and it would require rendering the PDF to a bitmap and then displaying that, which would waste memory and not work very well, especially not when zooming. Since it would be half-assed, I've decided to leave that up to programs that can do it better for now, unless I have some brilliant idea.

Printing might get implemented later, depending on how much trickery it will take.  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Xee
Mar 11 2006

LECTRICK  Fair enough ;)  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Q emulator
Mar 3 2006
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LECTRICK  Works almost as fast as VPC, except free. Supports most of the same features as VPC. The universal binary version supposedly runs way faster than VPC on Intel hardware... I suggest you all keep an eye on this project!  
(Version 0.8.0d537)

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SafariSIA
Mar 2 2006

LECTRICK  Well, one way this is different from Sogudi is that it's UNIVERSAL first! And, I like how the preference interface is integrated with Safari's instead of a separate panel.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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