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MenuMeters
Sep 1 2009

MRHOOKS  I don't consider it non-relevant at all. I have the CPU meter displayed as "User and System (Small Text)", and IMHO it looks faint and blurry without anti-aliasing turned off. I wish the dev would reconsider.  
(Version 1.4b1)

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Vox
Aug 28 2009

MRHOOKS  I like the app, but it crashes a lot when I'm skipping from song to song. G5 1.8GHz, 10.4.11.  
(Version 0.2.6)

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Camino
Dec 29 2008

MRHOOKS  Never mind, I found the problem. Tossed out the old chrome folder in ~/Library/Application Support/Camino/ and it works again.  
(Version 1.6.6)

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Camino
Dec 28 2008

MRHOOKS  No longer blocks flash animation for me. G5, 10.4.9.  
(Version 1.6.6)

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Camino
Dec 29 2008

MRHOOKS  Never mind, I found the problem. Tossed out the old chrome folder in ~/Library/Application Support/Camino/ and it works again.  
(Version 1.6.6)

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DownloadComment
Dec 23 2007

MRHOOKS  I would love to see this for Camino as well.  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Audio Switcher
Dec 5 2007
****.

MRHOOKS  Nice little program. I haven't really done a thorough comparison to SoundSource, to which this app is very similar. They're both small enough that it probably isn't necessary. Although, since it's a regular app, you don't have to reboot or use an app that can force empty the Trash in order to be completely rid of it.

The Menubar icon is too big and detailed though. IMHO it looks out of place next to...well, just about every other Menubar icon. Not as bad as SoundSource's icon sometimes appearing as a big black square, I suppose, but close.  
(Version 1.1)

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unRarX
Nov 29 2007

MRHOOKS  After selecting your destination folder, click Extract instead of double-clicking the archive. But yeah, I agree, it shouldn't have to be that way.  
(Version 2.2)

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aMule
Nov 25 2007

MRHOOKS  Also, if a file has few sources. My ports are forwarded correctly, and my ISP does not throttle my download rate. Unless a file has many complete sources, downloads are excruciatingly slow.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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SoundSource
Nov 13 2007

MRHOOKS  Menubar icon appeared correctly with the update, until I updated QuickTime. Now it's back to being a black square again.  
(Version 1.4)

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SafariStand
Nov 9 2007

MRHOOKS  Never mind, I see it does not load the same way anymore, gotta run PlugSuit or something. Ugh.  
(Version 3.0L151)

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SafariStand
Nov 9 2007

MRHOOKS  Repairing permissions didn't help me. Brand new install of Leopard, and SafariStand is the only InputManager for Safari installed (the only other InputManager I have is GrowlCamino). I installed it the manual way, dropping the entire folder into ~/Library/InputManagers. I know nothing of SIMBL.

I noticed this version does not have a loader file, but I imagine that isn't the problem.  
(Version 3.0L151)

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SoundSource
Oct 21 2007

MRHOOKS  Menu item appears as a black square. G5 Power Mac 1.8, 10.4.9.  
(Version 1.3)

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SoundSource
Nov 13 2007

MRHOOKS  Menubar icon appeared correctly with the update, until I updated QuickTime. Now it's back to being a black square again.  
(Version 1.4)

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SoundSource
Aug 29 2008

NITEWING98  I have the same problem (black square for the icon). This happens in 2.0 and in the previous version as well. I'm on a PM G4 with 10.4.11.  
(Version 2.0)

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Transmission
Aug 13 2007

MRHOOKS  Transmission has always had more lag than other clients when pausing - I don't like it, but I don't expect to see it change anytime soon. However, a new bug that's popped up for me is the red star that appears on the Dock icon when a download has finished - specifically, it does not always go away like it is supposed to when Transmission is brought to the foreground.

1.8 GHz G5 running 10.4.9.  
(Version 0.80)

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Apple Wireless Keyboard Update
Aug 10 2007

MRHOOKS  Curious why so many MBP owners installed this, when it isn't for the MBP. AFAIK, it's only for the new standalone aluminum keyboard Apple introduced this week.  
(Version 1.1)

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Apple Wireless Keyboard Update
Aug 10 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  Take a look at the version number those people were reviewing (version 1.0), it was for other models.  
(Version 1.1)

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Apple Wireless Keyboard Update
Aug 11 2007

DAVID.ACORD  also note their reviews were a year and a half ago.  
(Version 1.1)

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Apple Mac OS X
Mar 18 2007

MRHOOKS  After updating to 10.4.9, I now have to hold down the Eject key for half a second to get the optical drive tray to eject. I don't remember this being the case for me with 10.4.8.  
(Version 10.4.9)

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Apple Mac OS X
Mar 22 2007

RIP0FF  Nothing to worry here. In version 10.4.9, Apple added a slight delay after pressing the Eject key, this to prevent unwanted opening of the tray in case you press the button by mistake.  
(Version 10.4.9)

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Apple Mac OS X
Apr 8 2007

DRKARL  What a lame thing for Apple to do, to add a 1/2 second delay and not put it in a big pop-up README after the update. Now that I know (thanks, BananaMoon), no big deal - life goes on. (Before finding this post, I was about to take my tower apart, but then noticed that pounding on the eject key seemed to work...and figured my keyboard went bad, so was searching for alternative keyboard shortcuts.)

Apple: a change to the UI like that without notification is really unprofessional. Sheesh. Thanks for the wasted half hour.

K  
(Version 10.4.9)

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Firefox
Feb 23 2007

MRHOOKS  I believe the whole point of Firefox is that it uses XUL, and therefore will never be Cocoa-native. Camino is more-or-less the Cocoa-native version of Firefox.  
(Version 2.0.0.2)

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Flip4Mac WMV Player
Jan 6 2007

MRHOOKS  Flip4Mac seems to do a better job of playing WMV files than MPlayer OSX, although MPlayer OSX opens WMV files noticeably faster. Also, does MPlayer have a browser plug-in, or do you have to type the URL into the player? That alone makes Flip4Mac worth having.  
(Version 2.1)

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Camino
Dec 12 2006

MRHOOKS  CamiFlash helps with the Flash problem, although I'd rather not have to use it.

Unfortunately, Camino doesn't render fonts as well as Safari. It also increases the vertical dimensions of widgets, which occasionally results in part of the button/drop-down menu/whatever to get cut off.

I've also encountered a minor problem. When I use Yahoo! Mail, the column on the left with all of my folders does not render correctly. The folders appear staggered, rather than in a straight vertical column. I'm not sure how to fix this; I guess I can trash everything in ~/Library/Application Support/Camino and see if that will help.

I also have some issues with ad blocking, although at this point I'm not sure if Camino or CamiBlock is the culprit.

Oh, and self-refreshing pages cause Camino to go wonky and require a restart, if the page is left open for an extended period of time (over an hour? not sure how long exactly). The same thing happens to me when using Firefox as well, although I haven't tried the latest version.

All said, Camino is still my main browser.  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Nov 20 2006

MRHOOKS  Has a tendency to wipe out the Address field and render a blank page when I click on certain links, and it isn't even 100% consistent with regards to which links are troublesome.

It is consistent in not rendering any link to SourceForge properly (links I click on from MacUpdate) (only the plain text is rendered); then, when I go to select a mirror from which to download, it does the blanking-out thing I described above. It's been doing this for almost as long as I've been using Tiger.

It has other little problems/quirks as well, which vary in their level of annoyance. But the above problem makes Safari unusable for me, except for a select few sites which don't seem to produce said problem. So it's Camino for me, which is a shame because Safari still renders fonts, buttons, and pull-down menus better. With Saft and SafariBlock, it also seems to handle ads/pop-ups better than Camino with CamiTools. It also doesn't freeze up the way Camino sometimes does if I leave it running for a long time, especially on a page that reloads itself periodically.  
(Version 2.0.3)

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Quinn
Nov 20 2006

MRHOOKS  Last couple of versions have had an annoying tendency to give 4-8 of the exact same piece in a row, far more often than any other version of Tetris I've played, even at low levels. And they're usually squares or S-shapes.  
(Version 3.4.3)

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You Control: Tunes
Oct 6 2006

MRHOOKS  Works as intended. However, the registration process is kind of a pain, as others have mentioned. Also, it took several unsubscribe attempts before You Software finally stopped sending me email advertising their wares. Also, it did something weird to my Startup Items - if I change any of my Startup Items from what they were when I installed You Control: iTunes, and I stop and restart YC:iT, my Startup Items list reverts to what it was when I installed YC:iT. That's too much crap to deal with. I uninstalled this, set up the same functionality using Butler, and never looked back.  
(Version 1.4.1b2)

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Scorched 3D
Sep 18 2006

MRHOOKS  According to the Scorched 3D website, it requires OpenAL. I'm not too keen on installing it, since I've heard nothing about it (and the latest version is pretty old).  
(Version 40-app)

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Scorched 3D
Sep 30 2006

MITCHISMO  I installed OpenAL, and it was a no go.  
(Version 40-app)

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Scorched 3D
Sep 18 2006

MRHOOKS  Same here. G5 Power Mac, 10.4.7.  
(Version 40-app)

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Tuboy Juego
Aug 27 2006
***½.

MRHOOKS  Plays fine, but the UI is very slapdash. No Dock icon or Menubar menus, not sure why. Its own menu commands don't seem to require the Command key. In other words, it's very non-Mac-like.

I also could not get it to download anything using either Safari or Terminal. I haven't tried the third download option yet.

Also, it's too bad it can't play downloaded .flv files.  
(Version 2.0.3)

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Camino
Jul 25 2006

MRHOOKS  Forgot to mention, I do have the latest version of CamiTools installed, in case the problem lies there and not with Camino.  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Camino
Jul 25 2006
****½

MRHOOKS  Great browser, although right-click saving seems to take a long time. Downloads seem to stall for a second or two after the Downloads window appears. This even happens when saving images from websites, which should be immediate since you're saving from the browser's cache, right?  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Camino
Jul 25 2006

MRHOOKS  Forgot to mention, I do have the latest version of CamiTools installed, in case the problem lies there and not with Camino.  
(Version 1.0.2)

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VirtueDesktops
Jul 20 2006

MRHOOKS  Hmm, didn't know about that, thanks. A couple of versions ago, I never had that problem though, even without having done the things you mentioned.

Also, that doesn't explain why the DNP would randomly show up now and then, say if I were to scroll through all my desktops over and over.  
(Version 0.52r175)

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FLV Viewer
Jul 7 2006

MRHOOKS  Didn't work for me at all - detected .flv files but clicking on them woouldn't play them. Also, does the app have a rather short filename length limit?  
(Version 0.4)

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VirtueDesktops
Jun 14 2006
***½.

MRHOOKS  I have it set to display the Desktop Name Primitive in the lower right corner. When I scroll through desktops, the DNP almost always fails to appear.

And it's still asking me if I wish to install Smart Crash Reports after I tell it not to ask me again.  
(Version 0.52r155)

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VirtueDesktops
Jul 5 2006

KBALLARD  Did you check the box that says to use the desktop decoration on new desktops? And did you Merge/Replace it onto your existing ones?  
(Version 0.52r155)

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VirtueDesktops
Jul 20 2006

MRHOOKS  Hmm, didn't know about that, thanks. A couple of versions ago, I never had that problem though, even without having done the things you mentioned.

Also, that doesn't explain why the DNP would randomly show up now and then, say if I were to scroll through all my desktops over and over.  
(Version 0.52r175)

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VirtueDesktops
May 28 2006

MRHOOKS  Keeps asking me whether or not I want to install Smart Crash Report or whatever it's called, even after I tell it not to ask me again.  
(Version 0.52r138)

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VLC Media Player
May 7 2006

MRHOOKS  Still needs a way to keep the Controller from reappearing, and/or get rid of the controls at the bottom of the movie window. It's annoying to have to either manually close the Controller every time, or live with the clutter of two sets of controls.  
(Version 0.8.5)

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VLC Media Player
May 7 2006

PO60T  I don't know how to stop the controller reappearing.

But to turn off the controllers on the movie window...

Preferences/Interface/Main interfaces/macosx/ then uncheck the Embedded video output.

I agree, if you don't do this it looks very cluttered.  
(Version 0.8.5)

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Camino
May 6 2006

MRHOOKS  Excellent browser, faster than Safari. However, Safari still renders small fonts better - Camino, like Firefox, causes small fonts to look either pixellated or blurry (from poor anti-aliasing?), whereas Safari handles all fonts perfectly. Setting the minimum font size in Camino to 10 causes other text to become too large for some reason, and it still doesn't eliminate blurry small fonts.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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VLC Media Player
Apr 23 2006

MRHOOKS  I tried that and it didn't work, but using the script that came with VLC worked. Weird.  
(Version 0.8.5test3)

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VLC Media Player
Apr 22 2006

MRHOOKS  Seemed to run ok the first time i started it up...except the Controller window keeps re-appearing (now that there are basic controls at the bottom of the movie window, I don't need the Controller window). Then, after closing VLC, it wouldn't start up again. I tried switching back to the last stable release, but now it crashes several seconds after startup.  
(Version 0.8.5test3)

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VLC Media Player
Apr 22 2006

STAR-AFFINITY  I suggest trashing the preference files for VLC by trashing the VLC folder in *home*—>Library—>Preferences.  
(Version 0.8.5test3)

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VLC Media Player
Apr 23 2006

MRHOOKS  I tried that and it didn't work, but using the script that came with VLC worked. Weird.  
(Version 0.8.5test3)

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VLC Media Player
Apr 27 2006

BRUCE_Y  FYI, the 'Delete_Preferences' script that comes with VLC now deletes two (2) items from user preferences: the 'org.videolan.vlc.plist' and also the 'VLC' folder.

The VLC folder (in prefs) has several items in it. So if you don't use the script, be sure to delete both of these things manually.

These two prefernces items seem to mismatch and cause problems when switching between versions (084a to 085test).   
(Version 0.8.5test3)

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Chax
Mar 26 2006

MRHOOKS  Not sure why, but the auto-reconnect feature seems to be a little too quick on the trigger for my DSL line (either the line or my router hiccups once per hour, I have no idea why, causing iChat to disconnect) - if I reconnect manually, I need to wait a second or so before attempting it, or else it won't go through. Any way you could put in a (user-selectable) slight pause before the auto-reconnect attempt?  
(Version 1.4)

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TrimTheFat
Jan 25 2006

MRHOOKS  I used this app on GarageBand, iPhoto, iWeb, and iWork, and trimmed over 100MB total. Great!

But it acted a little weird when I used it on Witch. I dropped Witch, it trimmed a little, but Info still said Witch was a universal binary. I dropped it again, it trimmed some more (?!), and still said it was a universal binary. After that, it wouldn't trim any more from Witch. I wondered if it was a PrefPane thing, but I didn't experience any weirdness trimming other PrefPanes.  
(Version 0.4)

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Butler
Jan 11 2006

MRHOOKS  Others have had problems with Butler hanging after installing 10.4.4 or QuickTime 7.0.4. I wasn't specifically paying attention for it, but I didn't notice any hanging after restarting my machine after installing QT. Anyone else have any problems?  
(Version 4.0b29)

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