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I primarily watch movies on my iPod Touch on the train, in 30 minute segments, usually two per day. It thus takes me at least 2 days to watch an average length movie. iTunes' rental scheme of only giving me 24 hours to watch a movie is a bust for me. Surely iPod users like me should have been one of the targets of this service? Apparently we aren't, or Apple just wasn't thinking, or the studios forced their hand on this one. Either way, I won't be renting movies from iTunes. |
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This works easily and beautifully. Fantastic! |
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If you do a system restore does that effectively un-jailbrake your iPod touch? I.e. so that the next firmware update doesn't run any risk of bricking your iPod touch? If we can undo it like that I'm going to give it a try. |
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Handbrake 0.9 is fantastic. It use to be a difficult program to use and the results weren't always great, but now it's quite easy to use and to get great results. To rip and convert for the iPod touch just select the iPhone preset and start the conversion. The results are spectacular. There is one catch though - while the program is quite fast on my 2 GHz MacBook CoreDuo, it is unbelievably slow on my Dual-533 G4 tower. It took over 24 hours to convert a DVD on the Dual 533 G4, while taking less than 2 hours on my MacBook. So if you don't have an Intel processor Mac you probably won't be getting much satisfaction from this program. |
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One very substantial improvement in 4b is that Windows now works with multiple displays, including spanning! Yeah! I did end with weird defaults for the second display (640x480 and 8-bit color), but once I set the 2nd displays resolution and color depth correctly it worked beautifully. |
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Actually I have had this problem happen once to me too, and I don't have Logitech anything. I'm using the standard Apple driver with a Kensington mouse. So there is a bug, but it doesn't happen all the time. Most of the time it works fine. |
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I was a Parallels Desktop user and when that was the only kid on the block it was a good thing, but I've switched because Parallels has longstanding unfixed bugs and just generally feels like a hack job, whereas VMware Fusion feels polished and works like a real Mac application. Some of the pluses: doesn't send the processor into a frenzy when you switch network locations while a VM is running (Parallels always did for me). Suspending and resuming a VM not only is much faster, it works reliably (unlike Parallels, which almost always resulted in a VM crash for me when resuming). Supports drag and drop between Mac OS X and Linux VMs, not just Windows. Etc. This is a great product. It's missing some features that are in Parallels, sure, but nothing major and the features it does have are very polished. Highly recommened. |
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I decided to try VMware Fusion as I've been frustrated with Parallels lately, and so far Fusion blows the doors of Parallels. Not from a feature standpoint, from it's far more solid and feels like a real OS X app. It gives me a lot more confidence. Also, one of the major problems I've had with Parallels is that if you switch network Locations while a Parallels Windows VM is running (possibly other OS's too, but I don't know), Parallels freezes up and starts taking up all processing power, sometimes effectively taking OS X down with it. In Fusion I'm having absolutely no problems with switching locations and the networking continues to work within the VM too. Lastly, I tried several times to install Ubuntu Linux under Parallels and each time networking would not work, and I was even unable to get my flash drive to mount (Ubuntu would go bonkers). With VMware it worked the first time and completely. Also drag-and-drop between OS X and Ubuntu works perfectly. |
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I didn't buy the mupromo bundle, but if I had I'd be royally pissed, at Lemke, but even more so at MU. Incredibly lame, especially given how quickly after the bundle deal this payment-required upgrade arrives. I'm sure we'll shortly see payment-required upgrades for all the other software that was in the bundle too, and many who bought it will feel ripped off. Not so sure this was a good move on anyones part. Oh, and yes, GC needs a major facelift and other major improvements. It remains far too clunky. |
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I tried this in the Finder and Mail and it didn't work. The screen faded but no window was highlighted and typing text didn't find anything. Yes, I did have support for assistive devices enabled. |
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Crossover is a great tool, but you have to understand that it is a tool and has a lot of limitations. The most significant limitation is that it runs very few applications, and of those that do run, many have quirks and/or problems. None-the-less, if you are a power user it can prove very useful, and unlike Parallels Desktop, it doesn't require you to run (nor buy) Windows. Just understand that getting application X to work may require work on your part and it may not work at all no matter what you do. So... try it. See if it works for your needs. Only then buy it. For me I find it works with enough things to be useful. I always try CrossOver first and if I can run it in Crossover I greatly prefer that to booting up Windows in Parallels Desktop. So... not for everyone, but what it does is pretty amazing and it's a great tool to have in the toolbox. Now, having said all that, the latest update has an annoying bug, or at least I presume it is a bug. Every time I launch CrossOver as well as every time I switch to CrossOver even if it is already running, the "Welcome" screen appears. It's driving me batty. I hope that this isn't a feature and is a bug that will be fixed soon. If not and it's a "feature", I may well go back to 6.0.x. |
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Great news! |
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I installed it, but it says my hard drive can't be indexed, and so it never finds anything. Also the web search thing wasn't what I expected and isn't too impressive. It isn't integrated at all - It just does the search in your browser. i.e. it's like many useless search widgets that do the same thing. |
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"Added support for multiple users". Wow! It only took them 3+ years to do it (multiple users/fast user switching was added in Mac OS X 10.3, released on Oct 24, 2003)! I can't wait for their compatibility fixes for Leopard, 10.5, to come out in or 2010 or 2011, perhaps just prior to the release of Mac OS X 10.7! |
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This is a great, but only if you aren't trying to decompress into a directory you don't own (such as /usr/local/bin). 7zX just reports an error, rather than allowing you to type in an admin username and password to authenticate. Any chance support for this could be added? Also would be helpful if we could choose the directory to unarchive into. |
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Note that this will not enable booting of pre-Intel Macs from a USB drive. I had thought that was the idea of this, but it isn't. It just lets you use a 3rd party bootable CD to install a minimal bootable system on a flash drive, along with the utilities you wish to install on it as well. Still useful, but not as much as I had thought it would be. |
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I find that beta 2 is a huge memory hog and it brings my MacBook to its knees at times. Also, Coherence still doesn't seem to work well with multiple monitor setups. I found the new option to allow coherence to span multiple displays, but it then the taskbar disappears. It works OK without spanning displays, but then it behaves oddly in that while Windows windows appear to be mixed with Mac windows, if you drag a Windows window off the main display it disappears. If it's half off the main display, only half of the window appears. It's still a neat feature, but sure is hackish. Also I've had beta 2 start going haywire and cause other applications to crash, one after the other. From a stability standpoint, beta 2 seems worse than beta 1, and beta 1 wasn't so good in that regard. Perhaps they need to scale back some of these features and concentrate on just making it work well. |
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It does have some bugs. Sometimes windows open zoomed beyond the edges of the screen, for example, but on the other hand this is *so* much faster than the old version in starting up. It's now usable. Also, I really dislike the search feature in Preview - that standard drawer thing is just absolutely awful. I think Adobe Reader is much better for use with large documents, especially if you want to do any searching. I've set it as my default reader now. Curiously, I can't seem to get Firefox to open PDFs in Adobe Reader even after having set Adobe Reader as the default app, and Firefox set to open .pdf in the default app. That may be a Firefox issue, though. |
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Phoenix Slides is fast and fantastic, but it is a tad complex for basic users. I wish it had a toolbar for slideshow navigation and zooming, rather than depending on keyboard commands (of course, keeping the keyboard commands too) and I'd like to see an option for it to automatically jump in the browser to a loaded CD when a CD is loaded, preferably seeking out the first folder on it with photos in it. That would be uber great. Also I'd like see it change the default behavior to be to *not* show the EXIF info Window. For my Mom and Sister, that's information they don't need and that just makes the program seem more complicated. Still, this is a fantastic program as-is and the price is definitely right. Much better than using Preview, especially when viewing pictures on a CD! |
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It's important to note that there's a lot of Windows software for which Crossover doesn't work at all, or only works partly with. However, for the software it does work with it's better than running those programs in Parallels, or booting into Windows with BootCamp. First of all, you don't need a copy of Windows so you can run the software without paying the exhorbitant prices Microsoft asks for Windows. Second, you don't need to boot Windows, only Crossover's minimal environment, which starts up substantially faster, so running the odd Windows-only app with CrossOver is much more convenient than even Parallels. Third, if things go awry Windows-style, you can easily and quickly trash the "bottle" and make a new one. I am not sure, but I suspect it is more secure to run Windows software in Crossover than to run it in Windows, due to it only partially implementing Windows APIs, and doing so with its own code, and due to it being based on the open-source project WINE. Perhaps someone with more knowledge than I can chime in on this subject. It's worth noting, though, that I find that applications do run slower, sometimes substantially slower, in Crossover than they do in Parallels. Some apps run fine, others run really slow. If you are pretty computer savvy and are willing to put the time into it, you can get some applications to work better by playing with the various not-so-user-friendly options that are available. If you go into it knowing that Crossover is not going to be a universally effective tool, you won't be disappointed. I find it worthwhile and worth the price of admission. It's definitely worth checking out. |
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I installed SMC Firmware 1.1 on my 2 GHz MacBook, which was *not* exhibiting the sudden shutdown problem as far as I could tell, as is recommended by Apple. There have been no issues with the update. |
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Are we sure the issue really was the heatsink? Certainly that *seemed* like a solution, but perhaps it was not the real solution or a complete solution? Perhaps replacing the heatsink only reduced the problem, with the underlying problem remaining, such that given enough high processor use it would still shut down, just requiring more than before. This is purely speculation on my part, mind you, but Apple is recommending firmware update 1.1 even for those who had the heatsink replaced (indeed, even for those with MacBooks not exhibiting the problem now.) I think it's safe to say that you should install this update. FYI, I installed it on my MacBook which was not exhibiting the problem and have seen no problems with it. |
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Video converted with iSquint 1.5 and VisualHub (latest version) is noticeably darker than the original video. Is there any solution for this? |
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I think I'd like this a lot more if there were the option to only pop-up if a settable set of modifier keys are held down. As it stands I find it a bit bothersome, mostly popping up when I don't really want it to. Better still, with it only activating with modifier keys, perhaps it could be made to work on any link on any page, not just certain web sites. |
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I had been using the Lite version and liked it, and so downloaded this "Hardware" version and like what seem to be the additional features, but my one big complaint is that the demonstration version does not let you even try the additional features for a limited time, it only tells you what those features are. I still purchased a copy because I wanted to support just the Lite features, but surely having a trial of the added features in the "Hardware" version would only help matters? One other nit is that the purchase procedure does not give instant gratification. A lot of shareware I buy gives you a registration code instantly, but with Hardware Monitor it appears I have to wait for the author to send me the code which I guess is a manual process. Not a huge deal, but definitely could be better. |
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Version 0.8 is much, much better than past versions in terms of stability, at least so far. There are still some weird quirks, though. For example, I was using the "Font Size Follows Window Resize" option and it started resizing in ways that weren't even following my mouse drags of the resize tab. Also a major shortcoming to my mind is that it only offers either confirmation of closing windows or not confirming. It doesn't have the option to confirm only when their is an active telnet/ftp/whatever session running in the window. Still, it has tabs and a lot of other nice features and it now seems to be fast (past versions were very slow) and so I'm going to try using it on a daily basis now. |
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The Quicktime LAME MP3 codec referred to in the response to the previous (months ago) message seems to have been discontinued and pulled from the internet. Are there any other Quicktime plugins/applications that utilize this framework? |
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I like the features of this program, at least in theory - so far I can't get it to do anything at all, at least not with VOB files (from MacTheRipper ripped DVD.) It just says "Converting..." with a twirly "progress" bar, and no apparent progress, nor any apparent use of processing power as my CPUs remain at a low processing level. Is conversion from VOB supported? If not it would be helpful for it to reject such files to begin with. Of course I'd much rather is supported conversion from VOB. |
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EXIF Untrasher has in the past worked for me, and today it worked for me again. Rather, it worked for my son. He had taken a bunch of pictures at his "back to school day", and when we tried to import them they were no where to be seen. EXIF Untrasher recovered all of them, along with some 200 other older pictures, which didn't need to be recovered, but it's nice to know that it could! Thanks for this fantastic, and *free* program! |
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Works great on my MacBook running 10.4.7. At first I thought there was something wonky with its handling of the Apple Remote's menu button because it seemed to cause a random jump to a different letter, and only for the albums in the background, then I realized what it was doing was toggling the sorting between album name and artist name. Cool. On the other hand, using the volume up and down to change tracks instead of volume is weird. I'd rather it worked as follows: The menu button would toggle between controlling iTunes and controlling CoverFlow, preferably with some visual indication of which is in effect (and easily seen from a distance.) A good way to do this would be to have coverflow switch to a different view when you start playback (or pressed menu), one that showed the album art, track info, play time, etc, of the current track, and the remote would control iTunes playback. When the user pressed the menu button it would go back to the library view, and the controls would then control browsing of the library. Pressing menu again would bring up the playback info again. Etc. It would be intuitive and more obvious. It would still be nice to have the ability to control the sorting via the remote, though - is there a way to handle press-and-hold on a remote button? Perhaps then a press-and-hold of the menu button would either change the sorting, or perhaps better, bring up a menu of options, including the sorting options. I realize this is all a rather tall order, though. :) |
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This program is far from perfect, but I pre-ordered anyway because it is useful (and cool too), and has potential for the future. If you don't expect it to run complex *unsupported* applications you will be pleased with it. There are a number of supported complex apps that do work well, and while there is a lot of unsupported stuff that doesn't work, I've found a number of unsupported apps that do work and which I consider valuable. If you sign up for the mailing list you'll find the support good and friendly too. FYI, don't try to install the full version of WinAmp into Crossover as it is problematic, but the "Lite" version of WinAmp works quite well and WinAmp is much better than using VLC to play aacPlus internet radio streams (iTunes doesn't play them at all.) WinAmp Lite, in fact, put Crossover over the top for me and got me to pre-order. I will be using WinAmp every day at work to listen to Indie Pop Rocks because the 128 kbps MP3 stream is blocked. I can only listen to the aacPlus stream. I'm hoping that eventually we'll see the full version of WinAmp working, but the Lite version is useful now. |
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I only just started using JBidWatcher, but I really like it so far. The UI is decent and the functionality is great. It worked beautifully for me today, winning one auction, and not winning another that went too high for my blood. I'm not sure what else you could ask for for free. Highly recommended. It gets "only" 4 stars strictly for the UI which could use some improvement, but that's a fairly minor complaint. One minor issue I noticed on my MacBook is that sometimes the context menu doesn't like to "stick". That is, I do a two-finger click to bring up the context menu on an item and release the mouse button, but the menu goes away instead of staying up. This problem seems to be intermittent. |
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While there are a lot of unsupported programs that don't work, they were never claimed to be able to work, and some unsupported things do work, as does the one officially supported program I've tried (Internet Explorer), which in itself makes Crossover super useful (to, for example, access sites that provide features that are only available when using IE for Windows, such as ritzpix.com). I haven't decided if it is currently useful enough for me to register, but I certainly will be watching its development. If it runs the things you want it to run, it's certainly much better than paying Microsoft exorbitant amounts of money for a copy of Windows (plus a copy of Parallels, or having to reboot into Windows with Boot Camp). |
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The Finder and the Desktop are not synonymous. They use to be, but Apple separated the two with OS X. In any case, what I'm finding is that I don't like this unique, and forced behavior for the Finder. It can get really weird. If you try to bind the Finder to a particular desktop and then while on a different desktop you click the Finder icon, it still doesn't change to the desktop you bound it to. It gets even weirder if you then create a new Finder window - it briefly appears and then disappears, because VirtueDesktops moves it to the bound desktop, but doesn't move you to it! It ought to just let the user choose how it should behave, just like with other applications. |
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Well, it looks like I have been wrong. However, what was fooling me is that it appears that VirtueDesktops treats the Finder differently from other applications, and it was the Finder I have always been trying it with. In retrospect it's probably more useful for it to behave this way for the Finder, but it was confusing. When clicking the Finder's icon, unlike for other apps, it will not switch desktops to show the topmost window. However, it does (mostly) seem to work with other applications. I say mostly, because in playing around with it after that I ran into a bug. I had opened the VirtueDestkops preferences while on a desktop, then switched desktops and later choose Preferences from the Virtue menu, and nothing happened. This seems to be due to the prefs already being open on another desktop, but unless you know that it just appears to do nothing. |
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I tried deleting the noted files and folders and restarting VirtueDesktops and it made no difference. The switch only happens if an application is "bound" to a particular desktop. If an application is not "bound" to a desktop, but its windows, or top window, is on another desktop, then switching to that application doesn't change desktops to the one containing the now frontmost window, and so it doesn't appear to do anything. Mind you, in some cases this might be exactly what you wanted it to do. For example, you might want to then make a new window within the application on the current desktop. Other times you would want it to jump to the now frontmost window. How is VirtueDesktops suppose to know? I suppose you could have keyboard shortcuts that affect what it does, or other tricks, but it's really getting to be a mess. That's the basic problem - sometimes it does what I want, but a lot of the time it seems to not do what I want, and then it just becomes a burden. |
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You are correct that I didn't try version 0.53.r216, but I had tried the previous version. In any case, I just downloaded the new version and tried it, and the same problem remains. If you "bind" an application to a particular desktop, yes, it does in fact switch to the proper desktop when you switch to that application. However, if an application is not "bound" to a particular desktop, but it's current windows are all within a desktop other than the one currently shown (or any case its topmost window is on another desktop), then switching to that application does not switch to to the desktop containing the now frontmost window, instead nothing appears to happen. Aside from that confusion, you have to manually find the windows on the other desktop(s) in order to do anything with them. Hopefully that description made sense. |
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I have tried to use this on numerous occasions and every time I end up removing it. One problem is that it does not switch virtual screens when the context switches. For example, if you click an application's icon in the dock, but its window is on another screen, nothing appears to happen. There are other situation where this problem arises, and then there is the fundamental issue that it is not always clear when you would want it to switch. Sometimes you would and sometimes you wouldn't. For example, if you quit an application and then another application comes to the front, it's not clear that you would really want it to switch virtual screens in that situation in order to bring that apps windows into view. I don't see a solution to this problem. Apple's Spaces appears as if it will be an improvement, but issues such as that noted are not so easily solved, so I remain skeptical of it. I want to like virtual desktops, but to me they are, so far, more of a hinderance than a help. |
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Also note that Parallels does not share the Mac OS X internet connection. You must set up Windows separately. So, for example, if you have a fixed IP address and require a fixed IP address, then you must get a separate IP address for the Parallels Windows OS. If, on the other hand, you have a dynamically assigned IP, then just make sure Windows is also set to use a dynamically assigned IP address and it will get automatically assigned its own, separate, IP address. Hope this helps. |
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This is a superb screenshot tool, and a fantastic widget. Indeed, it makes the sometimes rather silly seeming dashboard actually useful. Thank you for making this available and for making it free of charge. Incidentally, I do like it as a widget and wouldn't use an application version. The dashboard is the perfect place for a tool such as this IMHO. |
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I had a problem as well until I realized that I had to use my gmail username (actually email address) and password, not my google username and password, which were different. |
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I would be interested in a generic "slap" tool that could perform other actions. For example, slap the right side of the screen to launch some application, run a script, or whatever. This should be adaptable to that type of utility shouldn't it? |
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It seems to be working fine for me on my MacBook. Very cool! |
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When I get a chance I'll try the conversion again and let you know what the error is, however it will be impossible for me to give you the entire error message because it was so long that it went off the bottom of the screen, with no ability to scroll it. It may actually be a few days before I get to it as I'm pretty swamped at the moment. In the mean time, an additional thing I had meant to mention - when doing the preview, when I had 2-pass unchecked I did *not* get the error. It only happened when 2-pass was checked. |
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So far I'm seeing lots of errors trying to use this tool. Converting to iPod, for example, I added several VOB files from DVD rip to the queue, set it to convert to iPod format, optimized for TV, selected "stich together" option. I selected "2 pass" in the advanced options and clicked Preview and after a while I get an applescript error reporting some problem with ffmpeg about a file being missing. I then tried doing a conversion of the files to DV format, but it also gave an applescript error. There the "2 pass" option is greyed out, so that wouldn't seem to have anything to do with it. |
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I had the keyboard/joystick settings problems, but resoloved it by throwing out all of the existing settings files for games and then setting up the default settings. Then the changes stuck, as did further changes I made, and changes for specific games. So try tossing out all the settings files. |
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Works pretty well for me on my MacBook and PowerBook, but the keyboard shortcut is a bit akward to use, and doesn't always seem to work. Sometimes I have to press it 2 or 3 times before it pastes. Otherwise this is nice. |
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This is the single most useful widget there is. It gives real purpose to the dashboard by making taking screenshots much easier and more functional too. Really, really slick and very highly recommended. |
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After installing I was taking to a "success" page in Safari, and the video on that page didn't work. I got an error saying that "Video playback couldn't be set up". I tried in Camino and got an error saying the movie couldn't be downloaded. I tried removing all traces of DivX on my system and re-installing, but it didn't help. However, I was finally able to see a video, the Da Vinci Code trailer, so perhaps the success page troubles are just that, web page troubles, and not the DivX plugin. However, the quality and playback of the DivX format movie trailer was pretty horrible. It looked worse than Apple's QuickTime format trailers, and yet the playback was very stuttery. I tried other trailers, all with the same result. I'm trying it on a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 on an 802.11g connection to a fast pipe. In some cases it took ages for "buffering" to complete (actually I didn't have the patience to wait for those cases to finish, so I don't know if they ever would have.) Other times buffering completed quickly, but in all cases playback was very, very poor. I can't say I'm terribly impressed!! Version 6.5 is pretty awful, at least on my Mac. |
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Oh, here's my rating for it. Klunky UI, but the features are quite nice and it works well, at least for me! |
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Perhaps the comments regarding this not working with OS X were with regard to some quite old version. For me it has always worked with my 8500f, at least after downloading the latest version from Canon's web site. No problems. The interface is certainly a bit klunky, but it does work and does a pretty good job of it in spite of the interface. I've been quite happy with my 8400f. However, I really, really hope Canon is going to update the drivers and Canoscan software to be "universal", and soon. This isn't a problem for me now, but eventually I'm going to be getting an Intel-based Mac. |
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Does anyone know if Final Cut Express HD will work on Intel macs that have shared video graphics (i.e. the Mac mini and MacBook)? My understanding is that Final Cut Pro does not work, but what about Final Cut Express? |
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Note from the developer: I would like to translate Laserlight into more languages (currently it's localized for English and French), but I need translation help to do it. If anyone is interested in helping localize it for another language (either partially or fully) please contact me at oneleftfoot@verizon.net |
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This rocks! I was expecting it to slow Spotlight down, but it doesn't seem to. I wish, though, that I could set it to more than 10 results, and of course it would be better if the results were listed under a heading other than "Bookmarks", such as "Google Results", but I'm sure that's not currently possible. |
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I tried running this on three AAC format files, choosing pass-thru. I have chapter tool installed. The script launched QuickTime Player 7.0.4, opened the 3 tracks in it plus created a new Untitled track. It then brought my system to its knees. I waited a while but it did not show any progress in QuickTime Player and continued to completely and utterly throttle my PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz. Eventually I pressed command-option-esc and then wait a long time for the force-quit window to appear, then force quit it and QuickTime Player. I would love to look at this script to see what it is doing and see if I could fix and/or improve it, but unfortunately even though it is freeware it is distributed as a run-only (un-editable) script. I went to the "web site" linked to here, but there is no sign of a "source" version there. |
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I don't yet have an IntelMac, but I think you should be able to get a working Azureus on those systems if you download the Jar file from the web site instead of the Mac OS X specific file. Mac OS X can run Jar files just fine. Just download it, and double-click the Jar file to run it. I believe the problem for the IntelMac's is just with the Mac OS X specific launcher part of that download, which isn't Intel compatible. The jar file is worth a shot, anyway. |
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Thanks for the report. When I find some time I'm going to install 10.3.9 on a firewire drive and will try to get this script working there. I'm still a bit proud of the mechanics of the script, and it would certainly be good to have substantial use *somewhere*. :) |
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Ticout - if 10.3.9's Mail.app doesn't have that feature, then perhaps Send Photos to iPhoto will still have a life for that. However, I currently have no systems with 10.3.9 installed on them to test it out to see if it even works! So, I would be very interested to hear if 10.3.9 has the built-in send to iPhoto feature, and if not, if my script works. |
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As has been pointed out to me, there is in fact a "send all to iPhoto" feature in Mail.app. I just didn't know it was there. If you view a message and then click and hold the "Save" button, then you get a "Add to iPhoto" menu item. Call me a fool. Then again, it's not exactly the most intuitive design. Oh well. Moreover, you can drag multiple image files onto the iPhoto application icon to import them. Hmm. Send Photos to iPhoto may still be useful for sending photos from multiple messages at once, but certain it's less useful than I thought! |
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One of the first things I tried to do when I wanted to automate this task was to try Automator, but in it I didn't find an action allowing you do anything with attachments other than to add attachments to messages. The ones I see under Mail are: Get new Mail, Get Specified Mail Items, Combine Mail Messages, Display Mail Messages, Send Outgoing Messages, Add Attachments to, Filter Mail Items, Find Mail Items, Get Selected Mail Items, Group Mailer, New Mail Message and Send Birthday Greeting. There is no "Save Image attachments". I presume I'm again missing something? |
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Well, I'll be! I didn't even know you could get that to act like a menu! So, yeah, I suppose the usefulness of this is lessened as a result, although it may still be useful when you want to send photos from multiple messages to iPhoto. |
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I wrote this for my Mom because she kept asking me how to get photos in an email into iPhoto. I found it useful myself too. There is no "send all to iPhoto" button in Mail.app. You'd think there would be, but there isn't. The only direct way to do it in Mail.app is to start a slideshow and then manually send each photo, individually, to iPhoto. Plus there's no easy way to send all the photos in multiple messages to iPhoto. With Send Photos To iPhoto you select or open a message containing photos in Mail.app and run the script (put it in your Dock for convenient access). That's it. You can also select multiple messages in Mail.app and Send Photos To iPhoto will operate on all the messages at once, only pulling out the images, ignoring any other attachments and messages without photos in them, and sending them all to iPhoto as one "Roll". As a plus you can also drag-and-drop one or more photos onto Send Photos To iPhoto and it will send them to iPhoto, which is a lot more convenient than uncovering and/or re-arranging windows in order to be able to see the Library "album" in iPhoto in order to drag onto it (you can't drag onto iPhoto's application icon if you are dragging more than one file - why I don't know!) This will work from any application that lets you drag-and-drag image files, such as the Finder, but also Mail.app and other applications. Hopefully this makes the purpose of this script clear and I hope somebody else out there finds it useful. |
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You would think there would be a button to send the photos in an email message to iPhoto, but there isn't in Mail.app. The only built-in way to do it is to start a slideshow, then use the controls there to send the photos to iPhoto, albeit one photo at a time. You could also save all the photos to a folder, then drag them to iPhoto, but you have to drag to iPhoto's Library icon - you can't even drag onto iPhoto's icon, plus then you have to manually trash all the originals since they are copied into iPhoto's library. This script is intended to make the job much easier and quicker. Selecta message in Mail.app (or open a message containing photos) and run the script, click and button and you're done. You can also select multiple messages in Mail.app and send all of the photos in all of the messages to iPhoto at once. It is smart enough to only pull out images from the selected messages, ignoring any other attachments and messages without any photos in them. |
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Great idea, but I wish it supported non-public stats |
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The inability to modify templates is a huge shortcoming, at least for blogs. It works fine for creating pages of photos from iPhoto, but you could do that just fine from within iPhoto in the previous version of iLife. In fact it was easier because you didn't have a separate application to deal with. In theory you can create blogs with iWeb, but only if you are willing to create ones that look exactly like the templates. While you can modify a blog entry page when you make a new entry, subsequent entries go back to the formatting of the template and you have to do your modifications all over again. Want to make an entry without a photo in it? You have to delete the photo placeholder, then rework the page so that it doesn't have a ridiculous gap between the title and the content. That makes it pretty useless for blogging. |
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Contact Apple. I've read they are fixing this problem if you contact them about it. You have to send your MBP in to them, though. |
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Oh, and how can this program claim to be "WYSIWYG"? Just look at the screenshot - it doesn't look anything like a web page. There's nothing even remotely WYSIWYG about it. |
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I've only just looked at this program so I won't give it a rating, but so far it appears to make me run screaming back to .Mac and iPhoto. This program's design makes me think that .Mac is worth the price of admission. .Mac really does make it easy to create a nice looking web photo album to share with friends and family. This program seems to be a complete mess. It isn't even obvious how to change the look and when I did find a "Template" option, there were only something like 5 cryptically titled things available (and no pictures of what they look like) and selecting any of them didn't appear to do anything at all. Ouch. |
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This program appears to be trying to sort the results by size, but it isn't working. I have a listing where there are numerous cases such as an 89 MB folder being listed before a 93 MB folder. Also it doesn't sort anything until after the sizing on the drive is completed entirely. That OmniDiskSweeper does do this, and gives a frequently updating total for folders as it sizes them, makes it easier to see the progress of the scan. I paid for OmniDiskSweeper a while ago, before this existed, so the cost is moot to me. OmniDiskSweeper works better, but this one is free and that's nothing to scoff at. Fix the bugs and improve the feedback and it would be hard to justify purchasing ODS, but ODS isn't expensive and it works great now. Lastly, the claim by another reviewer that WhatSize is faster is questionable - at least in my just done experiment, ODS finished the entire drive scan substantially faster than WhatSize did and, as I noted, ODS gave much better feedback as it progressed. |
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I've only had it installed for an hour or so on my 60 GB 5G, but so far so good. It does appear to fix the endless star ratings screen bug. I haven't tested any videos yet, but can't comment on its affect on the old video playback issues anyway, as I've been using more recent versions of iSquint and Handbrake which already resolved those playback issues themselves - I've no old conversions to test with. I like the new volume limiter option. Note that you can set this with or without a code lock. It's useful in two ways for me: allowing my 5 year old to listen to my iPod, as he so wishes to do, without having again to worry about him changing the volume to too high of a level. Further, for me, I can set the limit to what I consider to be more than loud enough, and then I never have to worry about accidentally bumping the volume up to painful levels (which I've done it on a few occasions when attempting to scan forward or set a star rating via the scrollwheel). Since I never have to set the volume higher than halfway at the most anyway, why not limit it to halfway? I can easily enough change the max if needed. Cool feature - thank goodness for "frivolous" lawsuits. :) |
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I paid for Location X a long while back and then stopped using it. Today, with this update, I rediscovered it. It is pretty cool, especially with the new automatic locations feature that can switch you between Location X locations automatically when you join or leave a particular wireless network. Nifty! I did see a bug several times though. Sometimes when I add a "shell script" action, I don't get the window allowing me to add any. Further, sometimes the UI becomes unresponsive and I can't do anything, not even quit - it just beeps when I try to. I have to force quit Location X and relaunch it when this happens. Otherwise this is looking great. Running 10.4.5 on a 15" PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz |
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This is a great start! The Info window shows some strange results, often showing artwork from some other track. However, when the artist/album tags are right and the tracks are in iTMS, it successfully gets the artwork, which is much higher quality and resolution than what's available on Amazon.com and other places. Lastly, when it finds more than one match, the selection window to choose one is confusing - it gives no visual indication of which one you have selected, although it does seem to take the one you last clicked on when you then click the "Select" button. Looking forward to updates! |
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SuperDuper is fantastic and well worth the shareware fee. It would be even better, though, if it had the option to archive files that are removed/updated, perhaps even on a different volume than the backup is going to, with options for how much to archive, removing older stuff that is beyond the limit. Anyway, the advent of a universal binary version is a good thing. I don't have an Intel Mac yet, but expect to be getting one sometime this year. SuperDuper was one of the missing links and now that is resolved. Yeah! |
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To followup to my own question... I just couldn't resist trying, and so upgraded my iPod's firmware to 1.1 again. Sure enough, videos converted with iSquint 1.2.3 do indeed play perfectly, at least so far. Yeah! Further, with the latest version of Handbrake, DVDs converted with that program, so far at least, don't seem to have problems either. Double yeah! Furthermore, iPod video firmware 1.1 is much better for playback of videos (presuming converted as noted) as the controls are much more responsive than with 1.0. Triple yeah! So it looks like it's finally safe to go into the 1.1 firmware waters, as long as you don't have a large library of existing videos converted with older versions of either software, that you can't or don't want to reconvert. |
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Ok, I tried doing this and then the window did expand correctly, however, it then couldn't find any words at all in the dictionary! Even the word "the" was not found! I tried closing the widget and Amnesty seemed to crash or otherwise quit (icon disappeared from menu bar, but I didn't get an application unexpectedly quit dialog.) However, after I started it back up again, and again brought up the dictionary widget, then it started working correctly. So problem solved, but there seems to be some bugs. I'm running 10.4.5 on a PowerBook G4 1.5 Ghz. |
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Works. I find it annoying that you can't click below the text in order to set the cursor after the end of the current text. Instead you have to carefully click just barely to the right of the end of the text. Apple's notepad widget has the same annoyance. Also, contextual menus don't work, and there's no spell checking. Also needs some basic features such as a link button to easily add a link to the text of your post. I'm more interested in the ability to add a link *in* the text, as opposed to the "Link" feature available on the web page that puts a link after the end of the text. Still, this is exactly the kind of thing the Dashboard is actually good for - bogs are all about quickly posting entries, and there's no quicker way to do it than this widget. |
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I play this game, albeit on my Palm PDA. This game is fun for a while, but eventually what I found was that I do at least as well, and probably better, by simply randomly (more or less) tapping all over the screen as fast as I can. Playing the palm version on Hard I was only rarely able to even complete one level when I actually tried to play it. The first time I tried just tapping as fast as I could all over the place, I easily got through the first level and got my highest score that far. I repeated the feat on a second try. YMMV. |
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I would really like to use this, but in testing it out, I had it crash on me within a few minutes. I had been playing around with tabs, creating and closing them. Moving their location to bottom and side, etc. Tried setting the text to resize with the window, etc. At some point it all went *POOF*. I've never had Terminal.app crash, and it occurred to me that I have to have a terminal program that doesn't crash. So, yes, I want a terminal program with tabs (though iTerm looks ugly/busy with tabs) and a number of the other features in this program, but in a short test at least, the stability seems shaky. Definitely will be checking out future versions and I hope they can make a slicker tabbed interface, but I won't be using version 0.8.2. |
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Nice, but still not compatible, or entirely compatible even with some Apple-provided widgets. I actually think that the features provided by this app could justify the cost. I do like being able to have some widgets always available, and I like the ability to control their display level (normal, always on top or on desktop), resize, rotate and set the auto-update interval of widgets, etc, plus the new version does seem to resolve the performance issues - always visible widgets don't seem to bog down the processor anymore. However, it still doesn't work with some standard widgets, including Apple's nifty Dictionary widget which is one I'd like to have visible. The widget displays, but when you search for a word the widget doesn't expand downward to show you the definition. Instead you get a tiny sliver of the top of the definition and that's it. Note that the free Merriam-Webster dictionary widget *does* work properly with Amnesty, so that is a workaround and though not as slick, it's arguably better anyway. |
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That's weird. I have never had iSquint produce an unplayable video. There were some problems at one point with it stopping the conversion prematurely, but that was fixed. The only current issue I've found with it is that when I try to convert a 720x480 slideshow exported by iPhoto ('05) (I'm not clear on why iPhoto '05 exports at that size, but it does, and does so by cropping the photos, not by stretching/squashing them - i.e. it is *not* a non-square-pixel format) the resulting video is stretched. I believe iSquint is presuming that a 720x480 video has non-square pixels, and in this case that's incorrect. I was able to work around this problem by manually setting the vertical and horizontal size to be 1.5:1 (720x480 is 1.5:1). For example: 540x360. In the end, though, I was much happier when I exported my slideshow to iDVD, instead of as a 720x480 quicktime file, created the DVD image and then used iSquint to convert the resulting VOB file to iPod format. This worked great and didn't result in cropped photos. I.e. I blame iPhoto's weird behavior, not so much iSquint, although iSquint may be presuming that anything that's 720x480 has non-square pixels and it shouldn't. |
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I hope it's true that iSquint has figured out what the problem is with the 1.1 firmware and has a workaround that actually works. I'm not going to try it though (that is, I'm not about to install the 1.1 firmware again), until this fix is in other software as well, especially Handbrake. I hope the developer of iSquint is actively sharing this fix with other projects. We need it! Also, if anyone has tried it and has found it to work, especially with higher resolution conversions, please post about it here! |
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I got this installed (put the CreamMonkey folder in the InputManagers folder in your Library - you may need to create the folder if it isn't already there. Quit and restart Safari if it was running), and I'm able to install scripts, or at least CreamMonkey claims they are installed in its preferences, however none of the 3 scripts I tried did anything at all. Anyone getting this to work? |
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This isn't "Enigmo", it's "Enigmo 2". The latter adds the 3rd dimension to the gameplay, and not just the look. I have only tried the demos of both, but I think Enigmo 2 seems harder to control due to that 3rd dimension. Rotating the view is particularly tricky. I often end up spinning out of control and then have to reset the view and start over. Also, rotating objects is problematic. Often I end up unselecting the object by mistake, so I have to select it again. Also, if you have set the option to show all axes rotation controls, then moving an object sometimes results in an unintended rotation. I find myself hitting the reset rotation and view buttons more than I'd like and so control of the game can be frustrating. Still, it seems like a fun game. If I were to buy one, though, I think I'd buy Enigmo 1 - the concept and game play are similar, but the 2d-restricted controls are less frustrating. |
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I don't understand your comment regarding batching. iSquint has batch processing and it's pretty much front and center so I'm not sure how you could miss it. |