MISHA  We don't list AppFresh because the application doesn't meet our standards. osx.iusethis.com has many listings that are out of date and AppFresh poorly matches a lot, as well.

The last thing we want is for our users accustomed to MacUpdate's comprehensiveness to download AppFresh via us believing that they are getting anywhere near the same experience and then being accordingly disappointed with the result.

If this seems a little incredulous, consider that *many* people when informed of MacUpdate Desktop respond with "Why would I need that? I just use Mac OS X's built-in Software Update."

Not everyone is a savvy power use and MacUpdate Desktop is designed to be useful and approachable for all user levels.  
(Version 5.0)

MISHA  Looks like this has long been discontinued. We'll update our database accordingly.  
(Version 2.1.1)

MISHA  Fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out!  
(Version 1.5.6)

MISHA  We're investing this. It's working fine (version 2.1.2) at my end right now and has been throughout the day.  
(Version 2.1.2)

MISHA  We're investing this. It's working fine (version 2.1.2) at my end right now and has been throughout the day.  
(Version 2.1.2)

MISHA  I deleted the thread complaining about upgrade price because assigning a poor rating based solely on pricing is misleading. Look at the feature set and then decide whether it's worth the money or not, shooting from the hip because it's a paid upgrade is not helpful to other users.

Fusion 3 is a $40 paid upgrade and their cut-off date was only 3 weeks. That would be a good point to make alongside complaining about Parallel's upgrade price and free upgrade eligibility period.

So would other points comparing the two apps, like the fact that Fusion 3 doesn't support OpenGL 2.1 under Windows 7 (Parallels does) or that Parallels takes full advantage of Intel's VT-x2 technology, which delivers performance improvements.

Keep in mind I'm not saying Parallels 5 is better than Fusion 3 (although the specs seem to indicate it is, but I'm not going to put stock in just what each company says about its own products), I'm just pointing out what distinguishes an actual review or useful comment from troll fodder.

To give any app a low star rating because their customer service has been less than responsive in the past, because they charge for upgrades, or because they once released a buggy version isn't useful. By all means make those comments, but make them as part of a more useful and comprehensive review of the version of the app you're "reviewing"...  
(Version 5.0.9220.531002)

MISHA  Also: If you're running Parallels, it's easiest to update within the app from Check For Updates. Then you don't need to go through their site and request a DL each time.  
(Version 5.0.9220.531002)

MISHA  Parallels 5.0 is 64-bit with full support for 64-bit OSes...  
(Version 5.0.9220.531002)

MISHA  Thanks for pointing that out, it looks like the developer changed the link at some point. We've fixed it.  
(Version 1.4.1)

MISHA  Thanks, I fixed the listing.  
(Version 1.4.1)

MISHA  The coding for the mouse driver is still tight.

It's all those videos that demonstrate the gestures (which are quite high quality) that take up the room.  
(Version 1.0)

MISHA  It's back :)  
(Version 3.0.10)

MISHA  Thanks for the feedback -- auto-deletion of updates is a good idea. If you want to tidy up your MUD downloads a bit, from Preferences choose "Keep Downloads Sorted By Date" and that will create a new folder in your Downloads folder each day MUD runs and will save all your downloads inside (making it easier to delete MUD downloads).

You can also specify a different Downloads folder, of course.  
(Version 5.0)

MISHA  Please email desktop@ -- we'd like to see the crash logs so we can address whatever problem you encountered asap.  
(Version 5.0)

MISHA  Thanks for the feedback, Alfie. We beta tested 5.0 extensively and would like to hear more about the crash and error message you received, as we haven't encountered them but certainly want to fix them for you asap -- please email us at desktop@

Regarding your points:

1) This will be fixed in 5.0.1 (currently in development)

2) Presently macupdate.com only tracks the latest versions, so CS3 apps get flagged as being out of date since CS4 is out (even though they may be up to date as far as CS3 goes). We are working on substantial overhauls to MacUpdate that will, among other things, allow us to support multiple branches of the same app. Short answer: this too will be fixed. :)

3) As I mentioned above, please contact us at desktop@  
(Version 5.0)

MISHA  Unfortunately, to make MUD the best app it could be required leveraging technologies and frameworks that Apple only started including with 10.5. We would have loved to support older users to but it would have meant significantly changing the application and reducing its functionality to accommodate what are now a very small % of our visitors. I'd be happy to put your MUD subscription on pause until you one day move to 10.5.  
(Version 5.0)

MISHA  It was pulled--

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=105705  
(Version 3.0.8)

MISHA  The requirement is for the Snow Leopard version. We'll adjust this, though.  
(Version 1.0)

MISHA  There's a lot of discussion in the VLC forums about the instability. A lot of it is caused indirectly by 10.6. Subtitles crash VLC all the time, so disable subtitles in Preferences to avoid that. That fixed a lot of my crashes.  
(Version 1.0.2)

MISHA  We're investigating this, folks, this shouldn't be an issue-- sorry for the mix-up.  
(Version 3.0)

MISHA  I am definitely getting a ton of crashes with 1.0.2, even just opening files sometimes.  
(Version 1.0.2)

MISHA  What does Instant Text do that's so great?  
(Version 4.2)

MISHA  I've ran WeatherPop for years and its RAM never goes much above 20MB (real) or 50MB (virtual).  
(Version 2.5.1)

MISHA  Yes, it's a MacUpdate referral link. The direct download link is be low in 'Related Links'.  
(Version 1.5.1.5)

MISHA  Thanks Tiago, I updated the listing.  
(Version 1.0.1)

MISHA  What features are you looking for that 0.9.3 doesn't provide for your XviD encodes? You can always keep using 0.9.3 just for that purpose.

XviD is 10 year old technology, everything is moving to 264. The MKV container is also vastly superior to AVI.  
(Version 0.9.3)

MISHA  The next version is due Feb 2010. Apparently a complete re-write; it's about time.

http://blog.quicken.intuit.com/announcement/2009/07/09/quicken-for-mac-coming-in-february-2010/  
(Version R2)

MISHA  I'd email this log to the support people over there.  
(Version 8.2)

MISHA  Please try our Download link again, I think it's been fixed at Nikon's end.  
(Version 1.5.1)

MISHA  Where do you see that they only added a "single" feature?  
(Version 8.0)

MISHA  We have confirmed with the dev that this is version 1.5, they just didn't update the version strings. We have already pointed this out to them and asked them to correct it.  
(Version 1.5)

MISHA  Please try again; I just tried our Download Now link and it worked fine. Their server must have been offline momentarily.  
(Version 1.2.2)

MISHA  I just tried it and it works for me -- please try again.  
(Version 5.0.10)

MISHA  Thanks for pointing this out, we'll update the listing -- I found the 5.5 release, it's still in beta:

http://www.thebrain.com/#-156  
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  The Download Now link should download the file directly. Unfortunately one needs to go through a SourceForge redirect page, but it should be automatic (i.e. no more clicks needed).  
(Version 1.3.1)

MISHA  While the classic game is still the best, Super Collapse 3 is a lot of fun. Easy to learn, not too hard to master, great for reflexes... it's even better on the iPhone, though. At the faster speeds the game's difficulty is determined more by how quickly and precisely you can move the mouse than how quick your eyes can see things (which is corrected by using your finger instead of the mouse).  
(Version 1.0)

MISHA  Next time it happens, immediately afterwards, fire up Console.app (in Utilities) and see what happened just before -- it might clue you into what's causing the issue.   
(Version 10.6.1)

MISHA  Does it always/only happen with Photoshop?   
(Version 10.6.1)

MISHA  To go forwards, you must go backwards?

http://www.nisus.com/Thesaurus/gallery.php  
(Version 1.0.7)

MISHA  It sounds like you have a severely messed up block... you might want to contact Prosoft Support for guidance.

Having said that, I've had drives with very messed up blocks take over 24 hours to scan. It eventually makes it through them, in my experience (and each block won't take that long, just the really damaged ones).  
(Version 3.0)

MISHA  What does the Console show when it's trying to update? For me it was a language file issue.  
(Version 9.2)

MISHA  You must be in the UK to use this (or using a UK proxy). Your IP indicates that you are in the USA which would explain the trouble you're having.  
(Version 3.4)

MISHA  Er-- I meant RoadMovie. Although you might want to try iVideo Converter. :)  
(Version 1.9)

MISHA  That is a pretty standard conversion speed.

Btw, your Mac Pro can probably encode things much faster than the Turbo.264 can... Turbo.264 really only provides a speed boost on systems with 1 or 2 cores. If you have 4 or 8 cores and are using an app that can take advantage of them, your Mac Pro will do the encoding MUCH faster (applies to any app, not just iVC).  
(Version 1.9)

MISHA  Care to expand?  
(Version 2.0b102)

MISHA  Thanks for catching this, I've corrected the listing. Developers often change prices but don't always notify us ;)  
(Version 12.0b5)

MISHA  I'd try uninstalling and re-installing.  
(Version 3.1)

MISHA  The answer to your last question is never.  
(Version 3.1.2)

MISHA  Agreed. You do need to click the download link from Roxio's page, though, other referrer's don't seem to work.  
(Version 10.0.3)

MISHA  I hope this fixes the horrible battery life that has plagued my 3GS since 3.1...  
(Version 3.1.2)

MISHA  This is rather incredible. 1.0 was a decent app, but 3.0 is now a perfect star gazing companion with augmented reality and more. These guys know what they're doing!  
(Version 3.0)

MISHA  Sure you can. And if someone knows your password or figures it out, how will you know? Especially if they're thorough about covering their tracks (clearing history, deleting recent documents, clearing logs, etc.).

A nice kitchen knife can be wonderfully useful when you're preparing a meal in the kitchen.

Or it can quite easily be used to kill someone.

Tools are just that. We decide how we want to use them and for what purposes. ;)  
(Version 2.1.1)

MISHA  A direct copy should not take 7 hours. I'd contact the dev for some help if you're sure you're just setting it to do a direct copy. It might be re-compressing the DVD as well (from the sound of the time it's taking you).

Generally speaking main bottlenecks of copying a DVD to your drive is the speed of the DVD drive itself. RipIt, MacTheRipper, DVDRemaster Pro should all perform the raw copy at about the same speed.  
(Version 5.2.2)

MISHA  I fixed the link and have updated the listing. Please try again. Thanks!  
(Version 3.21)

MISHA  Or to make sure no one is using your Mac without your knowledge.  
(Version 2.1.1)

MISHA  FWIW the download links at the developer's site and MacUpdate are identical.   
(Version 12.0b4)

MISHA  7 hours isn't abnormal, it really depends on your processor speed. Settings matter a lot, too. There are definitely settings that produce less good rips but take much less time.  
(Version 5.2.2)

MISHA  When you buy direct from VMware they always charge you full retail. When you buy from a reseller, you can often get it below retail.

Apple sells everything at full retail (its products and those of third parties). I've never understood why people buy things from the online App store, unless they want engraving (at least with retail Apple stores you get some convenience).  
(Version 2.0.6b1)

MISHA  How am I "wrong"? If you visit the link I posted it takes you through the quick sign up for a free account, which is what the original poster was asking for...  
(Version 0.6.567)

MISHA  Have you gone to the Help menu inside the app and chosen "Contactizer Help"? It has a fairly extensive of the software and how to use it.  
(Version 3.8.1)

MISHA  Download 1.0.8 now :)  
(Version 1.0.8)

MISHA  Agreed -- very good points. You do have 2 choices of "skins" which you can get to from the Tools -> Load Skin menu.

But they are both very non-standard, quite ugly, and overly large. There also appears to be no way to actually create your own skin or load others.

Having said that, you can use Sierra's own software in place of Sprint's. It's less obtrusive (although still non-standard).

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25530/sierra-wireless-watcher  
(Version 2.27.0026)

MISHA  Thanks, I'll delete it from our database now.  
(Version 1.045)

MISHA  Did you try uninstalling and reinstalling from scratch?  
(Version 4.0.1)

MISHA  1.0b21 with full 10.6 support is now officially out.  
(Version 1.0b21)

MISHA  Because I can find articles on my Mac that are especially long and that I don't have time to read, and VERY easily retrieve and read them later, even on my iPhone if I want. This is way nicer than emailing articles to myself (and not every site has a nice email option; in those cases I'd save the page as a PDF, then email it to me). Check out how it works at instapaper.com  
(Version 2.1.2)

MISHA  My money's on iWork '10.  
(Version 9.0.3)

MISHA  Brilliant!  
(Version 2.1.2)

MISHA  StuffIt's .sitx compression does produce smaller files (especially if you set it to maximum compression, which takes longer).

The downside is ONLY StuffIt can decompress .sitx, so whoever you're sending the file to will be forced to download Expander.

Also, in the age of $75 1TB hard drive and 20Mbps bandwidth, I question whether making a 10MB file 5MB (with .sitx) or 7MB (with .zip) really makes any difference (my example is arbitrary, btw, I'm not saying .stix compress that much more than .zip).  
(Version 2010 14.0)

MISHA  We were unaware when we organized the promo that the #s we received were 1.0 #s. When we contacted VMware to ask why and if there was any difference between those and a 2.0 #, they said there is no difference whatsoever.  
(Version 2.0.6b1)

MISHA  What makes you say you won't be able to update in the future?

The SN#s are no different between the two--this is what VMware told us.  
(Version 2.0.6b1)

MISHA  https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTExNzEwODk  
(Version 0.6.559)

MISHA  Thanks for catching this -- I have updated the link!  
(Version 1.0.2)

MISHA  Nice, new icon. And of course CCC is great as always.  
(Version 3.3)

MISHA  You might want to pose your question here (and try to search there, as well):

http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=235

Good luck!  
(Version 10.6.1)

MISHA  Thanks -- we actually already have this listed under 'Related Links' above.  
(Version 1.3.8)

MISHA  Thanks, I've updated the listing!  
(Version 6.1019)

MISHA  This doesn't seem to work under 10.6.1. It looks like the file transfers (I can tell by iStat Menus) but the widget just spins forever... something is getting stuck.  
(Version 1.1.1)

MISHA  I'm really curious to hear how this works out -- let us know!  
(Version 8.1.526)

MISHA  Sorry, the promo offer was for 1-day only (yesterday, Sept 14). I've corrected the error that put it on our extended store.

Regarding Rosetta, it's a tiny installation that doesn't impact system performance whatsoever. 10.6 should prompt you to install it automatically when/if it is needed.

Regarding the app itself, yes--it is a commercial app, not free, so you have to pay for it. That's how these things go. ;)  
(Version 1.7)

MISHA  1.5.4 was released today, also. See 'Related Links'.  
(Version 2.0)

MISHA  View -> Grid View -> Show Header

The white is normal now. New with iTunes 9.  
(Version 9.0)

MISHA  The System Requirements mentions: "8GB Hard Drive space"  
(Version )

MISHA  There's an easter egg if you hold down Option and choose About Wired Client...  
(Version 1.3.3)

MISHA  Try 2.0.18, linked to here.  
(Version 2.0.18)

MISHA  For many people, there are not just "good" and "bad" songs (with "bad" not being part of their collection to begin with). There are shades of good... and sometimes even great or perfect.  
(Version 3.2)

MISHA  Thanks for the kind words of support, KAWAII, you're one of our favorite users!  
(Version 1.0.2)

MISHA  You need this as well.. but very few files actually are distributed in this format anymore.  
(Version 3.0)

MISHA  Fixed now.  
(Version 0.9.6.4)

MISHA  Hold down option when you click the green button to get the mini player.  
(Version 9.0)

MISHA  I think that's a poor excuse for not supporting FLAC. Yes, it can be done with tricks like Fluke but why should we have to deal with that?

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC

"Free means that the specification of the stream format can be implemented by anyone without prior permission (Xiph.org reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any patent. It also means that the reference implementation is free software."

And I'm only talking about supporting *decoding* of FLAC in iTunes. Apple didn't have to pay the Fraunhofer Institute royalties for decoding MP3, it had to pay them to license the *encoder*. There's a ton of FREE apps that can both *encode* and *decode* FLAC. Why can't iTunes just support decoding them...

FLAC is the preferred format for live recordings which are generally free to distribute...

I think Apple thought it could do uncompressed encoding better and produced ALE as a result. But we have to remember Apple doesn't always hit home runs. Even they were smart enough to kill the iPod Hi-Fi and acknowledge they can't make speakers like the real guys can.  
(Version 9.0)

MISHA  Thanks GBK -- you're right, it's just off by default. On U.S./English iTunes:

View -> Grid View -> Show Header  
(Version 9.0)

MISHA  One more thing to add... the reason iTunes is not 64-bit is because it's still Carbon.

Yes, iTunes is NOT Cocoa. It's quite crazy, I know.

So for developers of new apps (native Cocoa) to ignore leveraging the benefits of the 10.5 libraries and 64-bit support in 10.6 (recommended by Apple) is a bit shortsighted.

Anyway, I'm off my soapbox. 10.4 is dead. Long live 10.6!  
(Version 9.0)

MISHA  As someone who has 80% of their playlists being just for an artist.. I really love the new Artists column, at last!

And being able to configure iPhone app screens in iTunes... I've been waiting for this for a while. Overall, a polished update.

Minuses are:

- still not 64-bit

- still no FLAC support

- limited view options (let me make the font tiny so I can see more tracks if I want!)

- can't resize album artwork in Grid view

- album covers are not effectively cached

- no way to sync ratings/play counts of songs from iPods that are set to "manually" manage music  
(Version 9.0)

MISHA  It's already there (at least in 3.1.8). Go to Preferences -> Display -> Advanced and check the "Hide Dock Icon" box.

It affects some of the features but if you just use it as an easy calendar like I do, it's fine w/o the Dock icon.

Enjoy!  
(Version 4.0)

MISHA  ... and it's still not 64-bit. And obviously doesn't leverage any of the great new libraries Apple introduced in 10.5. If it did, it would probably have a much smaller footprint and be faster ...

Apple continues to support 10.4 because surely their data shows enough iTunes users on 10.4 to justify continued development/more complicated ways of doing things (more iTunes users = more iTunes store purchases).

Small developers don't have such fortune...  
(Version 9.0)

MISHA  After installing this, run Disk Utility's Repair Permissions. When I did that I got a lot of user/group differs on my Smileys.plist ("should be 0, is 502").  
(Version 4.0)

MISHA  If a site is not loading properly under Firefox or Safari it is the fault of neither browser but rather of the site for being so horribly coded...

The story about IE is that Microsoft had basically abandoned it (but not officially killed it). More than a year after IE development stopped (but not officially), Apple released Safari. After Safari was out, THEN MS "officially" killed IE. But IE was already dead. Safari was just a convenient excuse to some how justify why they had stopped working on it.   
(Version 4.0.3)

MISHA  For a simple, free To Do list SimpleTask is great.

But I really, really wish you could adjust the font size/view options. Why does the little Flag icon require its own line? If every task could be on one line instead of two (the Flag being on the second line), I could see twice as many items at a time.

And if I could bump everything down to a 10pt font size, I could see even more.

I have a lot of things to do! Scrolling up and down just makes me have to do more ;)  
(Version 1.1.1)

MISHA  Yaaaay! So glad to have this back on 10.6!  
(Version 2.0)

MISHA  Version 2.1.2 is a universal binary. You must be using an older version -- please upgrade.  
(Version 2.1.2)

MISHA  The best I've found for what it does. Super simple and straightforward, the way it should be.  
(Version 2.1)

MISHA  MS stopped active development of IE for Mac before Safari came out. IE for Mac was always one sold rev behind the Windows version, and it would take 1-2 years to catch up. Apple got fed up and did its own thing. And MS seemed only too keen to officially be able to drop development of something it had long ago unofficially stopped developing.

IE for Mac was consuming resources of the Mac BU without generating any revenue. Can't really blame them... and MS knows first hand what happens when you make your browser the default (as they did with IE on Windows, and Apple then did with Safari on Mac).

There's always Firefox.  
(Version 4.0.3)

MISHA  Thanks for catching this, I fixed the listing. It had been free.  
(Version 1.3)

MISHA  http://www.binarynights.com/blog/forklift_blog/snow-leopard-support-sort-of.html  
(Version 1.7.3)

MISHA  This works fine.

Make sure you are moving the file to Library folder in YOUR home folder, not your Mac's Library folder.

The path will be:

yourhomefolder/Library/iTunes/Scripts/  
(Version 2.0)

MISHA  If both Cocktail AND MacJanitor are locking up your Mac, I'd be inclined to say the issue lies at your end with your OS installation and/or possible extras/hacks you might have installed.

Did you contact the developer? Thousands of users have been relying on Cocktail for years (like me) without nary an issue...

A 1-star review because of an issue with the app is a bit unfair, in my opinion, unless the developer was outrageously rude to your support inquiries or ignored them outright.  
(Version 4.4.1)

MISHA  Thanks, fixed.   
(Version 1.0.6)

MISHA  Mac OS X 10.6 users:

TextMate’s command-left/right arrow key functionality (one of the most commonly used keystrokes) is broken in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Fortunately’ there’s a fix. Edit (or create) the file named ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict and add the following lines to the end:

"@\UF702" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";

"@\UF703" = "moveToEndOfLine:";

"$@\UF702" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";

"$@\UF703" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";

Quit and re-launch TextMate, and your precious key-combo should be working again.   
(Version 1.5.8)

MISHA  Did you uninstall Glims? If not, do that and let us know if your problems disappear.  
(Version 4.0.3)

MISHA  The DL link here should automatically take you to a mirror. I just tried it and it worked fine -- I was redirected to:

ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/lemkesoft/gc65ub.dmg

You might want to try that link directly.  
(Version 6.5)

MISHA  Most developers don't release their apps for a new OS until it's officially released. And since only developers should be running 10a432 right now, those 10a432 users should understand that and not be upset that a developer hasn't yet released 10.6-ready software...  
(Version 2.2.12)

MISHA  Contact the developer?  
(Version 8.5.23)

MISHA  Actually most of mine did too. It just reverted to the default view (three column).  
(Version 13.0)

MISHA  This resets all your Entourage preferences. It also causes Entourage to forget what mail you have downloaded (if you keep mail on the server with POP3), so it will re-download all the messages and give you a bunch of dupes.

Fair warning...  
(Version 13.0)

MISHA  Did you contact the devs?

http://www.tooble.tv/index.php?page=contact  
(Version 2.0.5)

MISHA  I move on to iStat Menus a couple years ago and haven't looked back :)  
(Version 1.3)

MISHA  If you want a REALLY basic rename tool, this can help you out. If you want any options (add text X places in, replace only the third occurrence, etc.) or way more flexibility (rename based on ID3 tags, and a ton more) ABFR is the only way to go..  
(Version 8.27)

MISHA  You may want to contact the developer directly with your issues:

http://www.davtri.com/index.py/contact  
(Version 1.7.3)

MISHA  You'll be happy to hear the Glims team is aware of the issue and a fix should be coming very very soon :)  
(Version 1.0b19)

MISHA  Aluminum MacBooks are not affected/included in this update.  
(Version 1.0)

MISHA  Glims isn't working right with Safari 4.0.3. If you have that installed, remove it and your crashes should go away.  
(Version 4.0.3)

MISHA  http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Designing_AirPort_Networks_10.5-Windows.pdf  
(Version 1.2)

MISHA  Btw, it's worth noting that as shareware Speed Download costs you nothing to try. No benefit = no loss of money.   
(Version 5.2.1)

MISHA  It's not for everyone. People who have throttled internet connections (or throttled per active connection) see a lot of benefit.

Speed Download works similar to how a usenet reader handles files. e.g. if I download something from usenet I can only get about 600-800K for a single connection. But if I open up 5 connections they'll each work at 400K/sec saturating the 2MB/sec line I'm on. This is the same idea taken to other applications.

Again, it's not for everyone and if you have fast commercial broadband in the U.S. and most of your traffic goes to fast servers in the U.S. you may not notice any improvement.  
(Version 5.2.1)

MISHA  I've noticed that, too. Not sure what the deal is..  
(Version 4.0.2)

MISHA  You should download and install this add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Set it to subscribe the banner ads list best for your country and it will automatically block most ads.

Except set it to allow ads from macupdate.com and even click those once in a while so we can keep delivering you our great service! :)

-Misha w/ MacUpdate  
(Version 3.5.2)

MISHA  The version # listed here is for the iPhone app -- we'll clarify that.  
(Version 1.3.1)

MISHA  Agreed -- MARLEN456Y: 1Password is one of the highest (and most) rated apps on MacUpdate. Don't let one user's mediocre experience with it keep you from trying it. 1Password has worked flawlessly for me and 1000s of others for a long time now. I'm grateful to have it everyday!  
(Version 2.9.22)

MISHA  Happy to be of assistance :) If any other download from us doesn't work (short of it giving you a 404 or "regular" error), try that same tactic and you should be good.

Enjoy!  
(Version 5.0.1)

MISHA  I think it also depends on the Mac. I have no problem running torrents >100GB from a 1.66GHz Core Duo mini with 2GB RAM.

Try Vuze. I've ran similar sized torrents w/o issue using that.  
(Version 1.73)

MISHA  Agreed. But don't trash VLC so quickly... if you ever move on to media encoded with x264 and stored in a .mkv container, Perian forces you to pre-load the whole thing in QuickTime before you can watch it (which can take several minutes depending on your Mac and file size). VLC will play throws straight away.  
(Version 1.1.4)

MISHA  Are you running any privacy blocking software? Surfing with cookies off? Etc.?

For downloads hosted by us (this one included) we require people click the Download Now link from this page for it to work ( http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21666 ).

Our server must see the click as originating from our site to start the download successfully. If you are using anything that covers your tracks online, it might be blocking this. If so, please disable and try again.

If not, please let me know your Mac OS and browser versions, as well as your location and ISP so we can investigate.

Thanks,

Misha w/ MacUpdate  
(Version 5.0.1)

MISHA  Did you contact Agile for help with your issues?  
(Version 2.9.21)

MISHA  I'm not really sure about this beta... you lose features, gain ads, and a better icon? I might just copy/paste the icon on b5 and be done with it :)  
(Version 3.2b6)

MISHA  Are you sure they came from us? The only chance of that happening is through some of the Google AdSense ads we serve... but I didn't think Google allows that.

Regardless, browsers have an option to only accept cookies from sites you visit. I recommend surfing with that option. That will let cookies from macupdate.com go through fine, but it will prevent any other cookies that might some how be coming to you via MacUpdate (third party ad tracking cookies) from reaching you.  
(Version 2.6.1)

MISHA  Odd. Have you tried restarting? Uninstalling/re-installing?  
(Version 1.1.4)

MISHA  It's getting 3.0 for me (both now and when I posted it earlier). QuickLook and Get Info both show 3.0.0 as the version, last modified 27 July @ 12:21 a.m.  
(Version 3.0)

MISHA  If you stick with the presets, Handbrake is pretty easy to use. Just select the source, choose the preset that best matches your need (or desired output), and hit encode!  
(Version 0.9.3)

MISHA  As with other disk utilities, updated DVD images are not free updates to download (due to their large size and bandwidth costs). You can contact Micromat about ordering a new DVD. I think it's around $10.  
(Version 5.0.5)

MISHA  Great app... I use Alarm Clock Pro (which isn't free) and Timer Utility does a lot of what that does AND adds Countdown Timers (which ACP lacks). Great UI, too. Thanks!  
(Version 3.2)

MISHA  Does what it says (not hard to do), but is really quite basic. Only one timer at a time and the timer alert MUST be a rather annoying voice that says "The timer has finished." over and oer again. It would be nice to have multiple timers and be able to select alert sounds... a nicer icon wouldn't be a bad touch, either.

If you want a FREE timer, I think Timer Utility is better:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30402/timer-utility  
(Version 2.6)

MISHA  I think you're trying to do something Parallels isn't designed to do. It's not like Boot Camp -- you can't "boot" off a "Parallels drive" (nor is there any such thing as a "Parallels drive").

You can install Parallels anywhere. It doesn't need to be on its own drive.

Parallels uses virtual machine images (basically a document Parallels can use and that holds all your OS, apps, and files for that particular VM). You can only use these via Parallels.

It sounds like what you're trying to do is use Parallels like it's Boot Camp. If you want this functionality (to be able to use Windows alongside Mac OS X, which Parallels lets you AND boot up directly/exclusively in Windows) you need to FIRST configure/install Windows with Apple's Boot Camp, then tell Parallels to use that Boot Camp partition.  
(Version 4.0.3844)

MISHA  The $19.99 promo pricing is available through the 19th.  
(Version 1.0)

MISHA  This hasn't worked in a while and the site ontour.net hasn't been live in a couple months. Anyone have any idea what happened?  
(Version 4.02)

MISHA  3.5rc1 finally gets a nice 512x512 px icon :-)  
(Version 3.5rc1)

MISHA  You want DVDRemaster Pro.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12826/dvdremaster-pro  
(Version 2.6.6)

MISHA  The update is free. The app itself costs $15 if you don't already have a copy.  
(Version 2.8.4.1)

MISHA  BS0D: The reason I was asking is because we have blocked some third party tools from searching our site. Obviously if you are searching macupdate.com from the home page you should not have an issue. I'll investigate this further to make sure it's not an issue at our end. Is it affecting other search engines you use, as well?  
(Version 10.5.3)

MISHA  how are you initiating the search on MU?  
(Version 10.5.3)

MISHA  This sounds like a config issue at your end.  
(Version 12.1.9)

MISHA  Try 2.8.4 again... they rev'd the build (but kept the version #) and say it should work. If it still doesn't, contact the devs.  
(Version 2.8.4)

MISHA  Version 2.8.4, released June 8, fixes this.  
(Version 2.8.4)

MISHA  Version 2.8.4, released June 8, fixes this.  
(Version 2.8.4)

MISHA  Version 2.8.4, released June 8, fixes this.  
(Version 2.8.4)

MISHA  Your brilliant eyes failed to read the System Requirements above that clearly state:

Mac OS X 10.5 or later, resident in the UK.  
(Version 3.3)

MISHA  Got it, that makes more sense.

But that's also the way this sort of software works. There's no magic bullet to protect/recover data. I imagine the 5GB TechTool is using in your case is a lot less space than it would take to create full backups of all your drives, no?

Having said that, you can just disable those features of the app. There's still lots of other good tools for performing preventive maintenance and repairs (and you don't even to install it on your drive, you can just boot from DVD when you want to run those).  
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  I think the bigger issue with TT is that a lot of trackers don't work with it and that development seems to have ceased.  
(Version 1.5.1)

MISHA  So what's the issue here, exactly? It using up 5MB?  
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  This is pretty cool. But looking at proteins all day makes me want to eat a steak.  
(Version 2.1)

MISHA  I'm not sure what is going on exactly -- please contact the developers of DVDRemasterPro: support (at) metakine.com

I'm sure they'll be able to help you!  
(Version 5.1.3)

MISHA  Unsanity released Mighty Mouse back in 2003 (if not before).

Apple's Mighty Mouse came out in 2005.

I don't think there's going to be any complaints here.  
(Version 2.0b1)

MISHA  For what it's worth, all games released by Electronic Arts for the Mac in the last 2-3 years have been Intel only.  
(Version 1.0)

MISHA  It was free when it came out.  
(Version 3.0)

MISHA  Thanks, I'll update the listing now.  
(Version 2.0.2b)

MISHA  Working fine for me. So you boot from the disc and when you get to the language screen the app becomes non-responsive? Very strange... contact Micromat support, they'll help you. micromat.com  
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  Yes, it's very safe to use. MacFormat (biggest UK Mac magazine) gave it 5/5 and Macworld (biggest US Mac magazine) gave it 4/5. I have used it since January on all my Macs without a single issue -- I wouldn't have let it be included in the bundle if it wasn't up to par.

Having said that, *all* disk utilities of this sort can potentially cause issues, which is why all of them recommend that you have a recent backup just in case.

If you look at the reviews on MU that claim TechTool Pro hosed their drives or data, you'll see it's really quite low -- only a few instances, vs. the 100,00s of downloads this app has had over its lifetime. Happy people tend not to find the outlets to voice their happiness, since the app does what it was supposed to do. Unhappy people make a point of bashing the app everywhere they can, since the app did not do for them what it was supposed to.

Many of the complaints here stem from Micromat's policy of charging for new DVDs that can boot up newer Macs, as they're released. But this is congruent with the policies of Alsoft (DiskWarrior) and ProSoft (Drive Genius), its two biggest competitors. Bandwidth isn't free and if every time a new DVD was released they sent it out to all their customers free (at a 700MB download a pop) they would incur huge expense. So these companies charge anywhere from $5-$20 for the new DVDs. Micromat also has a plan where you pay an annual fee and get ALL the new DVDs automatically mailed to you.

When you take TechTool Pro for a test drive please let us know what you think.  
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  I understand your point... although gor all you know, other Safari enhancers you've used in the past were hijacking your links and just not disclosing it (obviously you never noticed Glims was doing this until you read the Read Me)... you never know.

I think the Glims guys are pretty stand-up folks, actively developing the best Safari enhancer and always keeping it free. I guess the middle ground would be for them to charge $10 for a version that doesn't do that.  
(Version 1.0b17)

MISHA  I'm with MacUpdate and I found them from the parent comment -- which is why I was asking where *he* found them, so we can be more on top of these moving forward :)  
(Version 1.2.1)

MISHA  + MTR and RipIt get the DVD off the disc and onto your Mac.

+ DVDRemaster Pro and Handbrake re-encode the DVD to the kind of media you want.

+ MTR and RipIt are NOT necessary in the process. DVDRemasterPro and Handbrake can work directly with the DVD.

However, getting the DVD off the disc and onto your Mac will improve the encoding speeds, since the drive can become the bottleneck (+ wear & tear).

+ The exception is if you are looking only to do full uncompressed backups of discs to your Mac's hard driven -- then you must use MTR or RipIt and Handbrake and DVDRemaster Pro are unnecessary.  
(Version 5.1.3)

MISHA  Right -- but even http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/history/

is only showing notes for up to 1.2, not 1.2.1..  
(Version 1.2.1)

MISHA  Where are you finding these release notes? :)  
(Version 1.2.1)

MISHA  Just copy the DVDRemaster Pro app to you Applications folder.  
(Version 5.1.3)

MISHA  There are *two* TechTool Pro 5 DMG... one is on this page with the Download Now link, which provides the installer (it used to provide the updater, but I changed it to help mitigate confusion). It's about 70MB.

There is another DMG that is bootable that is about 750MB. The link for that bootable DVD Is in your bundle receipt under "Special Instructions", below your list of serial numbers.

Hope this helps!   
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  There are *two* TechTool Pro 5 DMG... one is on this page with the Download Now link, which provides the installer (it used to provide the updater, but I changed it to help mitigate confusion). It's about 70MB.

There is another DMG that is bootable that is about 750MB. The link for that bootable DVD Is in your bundle receipt under "Special Instructions", below your list of serial numbers.

Hope this helps!  
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  You don't *need* to burn the DVD. You can always just mount it and run the installer. But in order to get maximum utility out of TechTool Pro, you need to run it off a bootable drive that's not your main hard drive (like all utilities of this kind).  
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  Please kindly try the link again. There was an issue affecting a few users but it should be fixed. We uploaded a new DMG to the server and I downloaded it just now and verified that it mounts correctly. Rest assured if you are continuing to have troubles we WILL get this resolved! Thanks for your patience!  
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  Can you back this up a bit more?  
(Version 4.0)

MISHA  Wow, crazy. You can always try eBay... not only will you save money, I'm sure the seller will have no problem just giving you the SN#.  
(Version 2.1.3)

MISHA  Good points, but unfortunately in the speech recognition space I don't think we're going to see any compelling or superior offerings any time soon. MacSpeech is (I believe, last I checked) already licensing what is considered the best recognition technology.  
(Version 1.5.1)

MISHA  This just means that they modify the link to include their affiliate tracking ID. Nothing else is affected -- the link still points you to where you wanted to go, it's just that the Glims team will earn a small % if you buy the item.

Totally harmless, I assure you. It's just a way for them to earn a bit of money for their efforts on the free software.  
(Version 1.0b17)

MISHA  Please check your email receipt from the bundle for the URL to download the bootable DMG -- this is not normally publicly available, and we only link to the updater here on MacUpdate (which you will not need since your bundle copy has the latest version).  
(Version 5.0.4)

MISHA  I suggest contacting Parallels support with your issues. What you are experiencing are features of Parlallels designed to make running Windows apps seamless with your Mac apps (so if you launch an .exe directly, it launches it in Coherence mode like it's a Mac app, rather than launching Parallels in Windowed-mode -- it assumes since you are not launching Parallels from the app, that you just want to run that app alongside your Mac apps). Of course, that should probably be a setting and it's not hard to switch out of Coherence mode back to Windowed mode. Which documents are being associated with Parallels/Windows apps (the two red lines)? From my experience that only happens if I open a document in a Windows app via Parallels... like all my Vizio docs will launch Vizio in Parallels, since I opened them with that (even though OmniGraffle could handle Vizio docs). This behaves the same as a Mac app -- if you associate a file type with an app, it will always open only in that app. You can't have some .mp4 files open in QuickTime and others in iTunes (unless you manually specify them so), they either will always open in one or the other, until you change that setting.

Anyway, contact Parallels support, they know their stuff.  
(Version 4.0.3844)

MISHA  I'm pretty sure it should only be launching Parallels if you trying to run a .exe or if you have a document type associated with a Windows app. You can fix document type associations by Getting Info on the file and selecting what app you want to open it.

Have you tried Parallels support?  
(Version 4.0.3844)

MISHA  Yes.  
(Version 1.2.8)

MISHA  http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6366/adium  
(Version 3.4)

MISHA  why crack?  
(Version 1.1)

MISHA  It shouldn't affect anything. Processors are designed to run at specific safe speeds within specific safe temperature ranges. A processor running full-out is still running within that range, and Apple designs its systems so that the cooling provided is adequate regardless of CPU load (fans speed up if they need to).  
(Version 6.6.29)

MISHA  Thanks for pointing this out, I have updated the price.  
(Version 6.10)

MISHA  Wow, great story -- thanks for sharing!  
(Version 1.2.2)

MISHA  I'd bet the developer is French, despite showing the english versions of the app... tampon=buffer in French, so not quite as bizarre.  
(Version 1.3.8)

MISHA  What issue do you have with mkv on Mac? Have you read the specs on the container? What it allows for is really impressive. It's not backwards compatible with older systems, sure, but that's what lets it have some of those features. The same way that h.264 can't play on older systems, but is vastly superior. I agree, though, that Apple needs to embrace mkv at the QuickTime level. It's a drag to have to use VLC (which forces someone to download VLC).  
(Version 7.0)

MISHA  There is definitely a propensity to complain rather than commend here. If an app works, people generally are pleased that it does what it says and leave it at that.

If an app doesn't work, people seek out venues to voice their displeasure.

TuneUp has 3000+ downloads from here and 5 bad reviews. While 0 good reviews isn't a very positive sign, 5 out of 3000 isn't exactly a worthwhile sample.

Should we assume 2995 are happy with the app? Maybe not. But I'm sure it's not 0%.

We're trying to figure out ways to entice people to review apps they like more. Any ideas, feel free to share.  
(Version 1.5)

MISHA  Give it a shot and let us know what you think, I know they put a TON of effort into the new version.

Worst case, you wasted a few minutes and need to uninstall it.  
(Version 1.5)

MISHA  I wish there was a feature where if I opened 5 .torrents at the same time, I didn't have to choose the save as location for each one manually. In other words, so that all 5 would be presented to me as if it were a single .torrent and thus I only need to choose a single location (the way Azureus/Vuze works).  
(Version 1.61)

MISHA  The developer just submitted it to us last night. It's hard for us to post what we don't know exists. :)  
(Version 0.893)

MISHA  I just deleted all the comments pertaining to the *name* of this app. The name is what it is, and it's not offensive, so let's leave it at that. Please post comments/reviews about the app as a whole from here on out.  
(Version 4.0.1)

MISHA  Care to elaborate?  
(Version 0.6.5)

MISHA  You should probably contact the dev and ask him to link to your 2.8 version:

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/contact.html

We can also host/distribute it from here, if you want to upload the file to this listing (you might need to create a MU dev account and claim ownership of the listing first to upload the file):

http://www.macupdate.com/developer

http://www.macupdate.com/submission/prodinfo.php?id=16837  
(Version 2.7)

MISHA  Thanks for the heads up, I updated the listing.  
(Version 0.4rc)

MISHA  Actually I get the icon with an X through it on my Intel Mac, too. Not sure what the deal is.  
(Version 2.2.5)

MISHA  Not sure why you even visit that other site anymore. ;-)  
(Version 10.5.7)

MISHA  Thanks, fixed the crashing issue. If you can add column sorting that will be great :)  
(Version 2.0.1)

MISHA  Tried out 2.0, first time I've checked out this app... first annoying thing: radio stations are only organized by State, and you can't fine tune that list further (by city or region).

Second annoying thing: you can't sort the stations, be it by frequency or call name.

Third annoying thing: when I went to play a station (any station), all I get is "RRMplayer unexpectedly quit."

Hmm..  
(Version 2.0)

MISHA  You should probably list some so your comment has more merit.  
(Version 3.8.17.6241)

MISHA  thanks, where did you find that list?  
(Version 1.1.2)

MISHA  Thanks, updated the link.  
(Version 2.5.0.2)

MISHA  This is definitely prudent advice, although by no means necessary. I have run OS X updates w/o repairing permissions before/after without issue. But then again, I've done it w/ repairing permissions before/after, as well.

As part of general preventive maintenance, things like disk permissions, repair/verify disk, and third party tools like Drive Genius, TechTool Pro, or DiskWarrior should be run monthly.  
(Version 10.5.7)

MISHA  Are you sure you don't already have 9.1.1? I'd try deleting Adobe Reader completely and re-installing 9.1, then try the 9.1.1 update on that fresh copy. Might be a permissions thing. Who knows.  
(Version 9.1.1)

MISHA  huh?  
(Version 1.1rc1)

MISHA  Link has been updated.  
(Version 10.5.7)

MISHA  Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we'll investigate.  
(Version 0.9.8)

MISHA  Reinstall OS X. Don't do an archive/install or erase/install, just run the installer that came with your Mac (or 10.5) again. It should intelligently find/add just the files back you deleted.  
(Version 1.3.9)

MISHA  Thanks, fixed it. Glad the typo got you to rate the app, too... the more ratings on MU = the more useful for all. :)  
(Version 2.0)

MISHA  Can you not allow forever and be done with it? mdnsresponder is not harmful.  
(Version 2.1.1)

MISHA  Downloads/mounts without issue for me under 10.5.6. Must have been one-off download corruption thing at your end.  
(Version 5.0.2)

MISHA  How is an app that is being constantly developed and updated 'dead'?  
(Version 3.0v351)

MISHA  Version 3.1? According to this page 2.4 is the last English PowerPC release...  
(Version 3.1)

MISHA  .mkv has already been the preferred contained for x264 media for some time. It's only on the Mac where Apple pushes .mp4 down our throats that it's not. There are many advantages of .mkv over .mp4...

DivX 7's purpose remains the same as previous versions: to provide decoding/encoding options for DivX media. The other features (x264 support) are just extras.  
(Version 7.0)

MISHA  I have the same issue as ROBERTS2424. Just tried TubePod for the first time today, popped in a URL (curious to see whether it was smart enough to grab the HQ version), but no go... when it was almost done I got the message:

"There was an error in calculating the conversion process."

Then I click OK and get the message:

"Where is Play Sound.app?"

(Hint: it's here, on MacUpdate, and not on my Mac since it's quite old and I have no use for it.)

So I click "Cancel" since I don't have Play Sound which yields the error:

"AppleScript Error File Play Sound.app wasn't found. (-43)"

Then the app crashes....

Process: TubePod [1004]

Path: /Users/mishas/Downloads/TubePod.app/Contents/MacOS/TubePod

Identifier: com.evancoleman.tubepod

Version: ??? (1.0.5)

Code Type: X86 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [188]

Date/Time: 2009-05-07 18:51:58.674 -0500

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)

Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000002732c550

Crashed Thread: 0

This should probably still be in beta... it will be cool when it works well (and if it grabs HQ video).  
(Version 1.0.5)

MISHA  Works great, no complaints. :)  
(Version 3.5.1)

MISHA  You're correct, deleting this listing... thx.  
(Version 0.3)

MISHA  What makes it "extremely bad"?  
(Version 2.0.1)

MISHA  Thanks, updated the listing.  
(Version 10.0.3)

MISHA  What to investigate? The software works, who cares what the developer does besides coding little widgets...  
(Version 1.0)

MISHA  This is pretty standard pricing for an anti-virus product. The beauty of our free market is that you can decide whether you want to pay it or not. :)  
(Version 10.5.8)

MISHA  Looks like the $10 offer is no longer available. I have deleted the editor's note.  
(Version 1.0b11)

MISHA  Tried deleting all your iChat prefs and stuff?

You might want to run iChat through Koingo's Amnesia uninstaller. Let it clean out all the associated files, but tell it not to actually delete the iChat app itself. Then set it back up again.

Or, you might have a Firewall or filter (LittleSnitch) set up that is blocking connections to oscar.aol.com ...  
(Version 4.0.7)

MISHA  You rock, thanks again.  
(Version 1.1.1)

MISHA  Thanks, updated the listing.  
(Version 1.1.4)

MISHA  "But it doesn't tell you anything's wrong with your drive until the moment it dies. It's crap."

That's not true -- I've had other utilities alert me of S.M.A.R.T. failures prior to a drive dying, which gave me time to copy the data off of it.

The attributes S.M.A.R.T. monitors are pretty thorough, see here.

No, it won't help if your drive suffers a sudden catastrophic failure, but it has its place.  
(Version 2.0.1)

MISHA  Thanks, added them. Where did you find the notes? Any idea what 1.1.1 changes?  
(Version 1.1.1)

MISHA  Fixed! Thanks!  
(Version 6.2.9)