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PithHelmet 2.6.7

Type: Review

Date: 30 Jun 2007 10:01

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Easily the best add-on hack ever. If you use Safari, you need this. You also need to send Mike Solomon $10 to encourage him to work on PithHelmet again.

SlimBatteryMonitor 1.4

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Date: 22 Mar 2007 00:26

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Elegant. Light. Saves menu bar space compared to Apple's battery thing. Doesn't gobble up resources. Doesn't do anything unnecessary like graphs.

Perfect.

Google Earth GUI Facelift 1.0

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Date: 28 Feb 2007 03:26

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Gorgeous.

Parallels Desktop 2.5.3186

Type: Comments

Date: 28 Feb 2007 00:22

A real changelog showing exactly what has changed between individual released builds would be cool.

VISE X 3.2

Type: Review

Date: 16 Feb 2007 08:59

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A VISE installer is a bit like the glue of a label that does not easily come off something you've just bought: annoying, and a certain way of finding out a company does not care about its customers.

VISE installers are vile pieces of crap that provide no easy way of seeing exactly what files are going to be installed. The interface is clumsy and has not significantly evolved since 1997. Some installers quit every other application before running - what is that about? Others crap files with bad permissions all over my disk, with no easy way of fixing those permissions. Please.

VISE is a practical joke Mindvision has been playing on the Mac community for too long. If you want me to take your product seriously and really, really require an installer, use Apple's.

Canon Remote Capture X 2.7.4r2

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Date: 29 Jan 2007 09:17

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You know, it actually does what it says on the box. OK, it doesn't have tons of features, and while I wish it came as a simple drag and drop app, would enjoy it if it imported straight into Aperture or iPhoto, and was upset when it crashed on me when I quit, it works.

Ah, if only someone found the time to reverse-engineer the protocol and make something useful with it!

UnPlugged 1.1

Type: Troubleshooting

Date: 27 Mar 2006 11:10

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This told me every couple of seconds that I was running on battery. I started it while already running on battery.

JackenIAX 1.0beta v148M

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Date: 27 Feb 2006 02:47

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Easy to use and nice looking. The people at Digium in Texas were making fun of me within minutes!

Windows Media Player X 9

Type: Comments

Date: 7 Oct 2005 09:19

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why Vendor Lock-In and Proprietary Formats Suck: A short piece in one binary, by the Microsoft Mac unit. Yuk.

Installer VISE 8.4

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Date: 14 Jan 2005 00:30

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The more stupid the company, the worse the installer. If you see a VISE installer, you can bet the program is full of idiocy. Please don't use VISE. Please, please, please.

Fetch Art for iTunes 1.1.1

Type: Comments

Date: 24 Dec 2004 23:11

This is a trivial Applescript bug. We had the same problem with gettunes. See the forums at http://gettunes.sf.net for a fix if you are the author.

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