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If you've looked around at KVM switches you've seen that they are pretty dicey. Either they don't work or are buggy or the video doesn't pass through well. If you can manage to get your video going into a monitor with multiple inputs (preferably all digital!), you don't need a KVM switch any longer. Teleport will get you there better and faster, with clipboard switching and file transfer. And it takes all of two minutes (1 minute per Mac to configure - don't forget to have a quick look at the read me on the way) Unbelievably and very generously, Teleport is donationware. After the onslaught of crappy and overpriced shareware the Mac has had to put up with in the last couple of years (enough to make one think of switching to Linux), it's nice to see a developer creating high quality donationware. I sent in $20. I hope others are doing the same. If Teleport is still running as smoothly in a year, I'll send Julien another donation. |
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Hey Nick, You know what Voluminous needed to do to enable people to enjoy Project Gutenberg on their computers? Put up this list of links: If Voluminous were freeware with donations going to Project Gutenberg, it would be a nice contribution. Right now, it's straight parasiteware. For those of us who had to put up with Nick and I this far, here's a bonus: The University of Adelaide's Collection of Ebooks, even better presented than Project Gutenberg. If you've got extra cash to spare, donate to either Gutenberg or the University of Adelaide. Those are the guys bringing the books to you, not these crooks. |
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No, but the marketing for Voluminous is deceptive (they don't tell you very clearly where the books are coming from). Frankly, I don't see the value added in Voluminous. Project Gutenberg has perfectly decent search and perfectly decent display options (.txt, .doc, .pdf). Voluminous more like someone coming along and trying to charge you for the right to breathe. Can you say no value added? |
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Unbelievable direct ripoff of Project Gutenberg. All these books are easily available in text, doc and pdf format here: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page It's clowns like this who give Mac shareware a bad name. Turning freeware volunteer labour into payware for the naive. |
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Every time you run Synchronize! Pro , it installs parasiteware in the background of your Mac which is very difficult to turn off. The parasiteware doesn't do much except steal processor cycles (going up and down between 0 and 6% in my experience). That's a pretty heavy performance price to pay. Synchronize! Pro X used to be a great product. Then the developer became more obsessed with all the unlicensed copies in use rather than the licensed copies that are in use. Hugh Sontag would do well to make his customers advocates, knock his price down a bit and sell to a much wider public. Instead he gives rude answers and cripples our computers. Look elsewhere. |
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Annoying and repetitive registration process for trivial programs is exactly why you won't have my $10 today. No thanks. A world of pain for your little utility. Developers like you make Linux look more attractive every day. |
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XLD froze my computer several times and was very difficult to get off the computer. I don't remember the rest of the details now. |
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Makes the service menu usable again. Only one of the service menu editors which actually works. Check out Butler and Witch also. Peter Mauer and Marcel Brink (Tinker Tool and Hardware Monitor) are two of very few programmers whom I trust with system level utilities. Rock solid. I've donated to almost every product they write and recommend you consider making a donation as well. Any of their code is better and more useful than 90% of the $30+ shareware apps out there. |
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After two absolutely serene and crash free weeks (after finally getting Default Folder X off of my system), I made the mistake of installing this monster after picking it up in Macheist. I do a lot of screen capture so I thought SnapZ might be a help. I was a bit apprehensive when I saw the archaic package installed (since when does an app need an installer package - those are for Apple when I'm building my system). But like Sleeping Beauty I couldn't take my eyes off the needle. Immediate kernel panic on launch of Snapz Pro X. The system ran for fifteen minutes the next time and even allowed me to use SnapZ Pro for ten minutes before another kernel panic. Some nice Subsequently I uninstalled it using the accompanying uninstaller. On a hunch, I used Devon's EasyFind to do a search on SnapZ including invisible files. Everything to the trash. App itself zipped up and original thrown away. Still another kernel panic. Nasty, expensive crashware. Stay away. I've gone back to built in screen capture (to PNG - TinkerTool let's you change the default format) and a quick trim in an image editor before saving out to a small web version in GIF or JPEG. BTW, compression with Photoshop results in GIF files which are half the size of what Snapz Pro X generates. If you need something with more automation (Windows), Snap N Drag from Yellow Mug is a great choice (available in a huge bundle with other useful software for half the price of Snapz Pro). At this point I'm hoping I've got all of SnapZ Pro X out of my system and that Ambrosia didn't mess something hidden up during the half an hour I was fool enough to allow them on my hard drive. (This is not a bleeding edge Leopard issue. I'm running good old 10.4.8.) |
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Max is great - so many codecs - doesn't crash my computer. But the tagging is a mess in comparison to iTunes. A really pity as the author seems to be a very good coder and is extremely generous creating three high quality freeware audio applications (Play and Tags). I'd rather he charged something and finished up tagging with an option to pull in the iTunes tagging. After hunting around, I recommend anyone looking for properly tagged Lame encoded MP3's use iTunes-Lame Encoder (now on Google code and open source after Alcor also lost interest). I have also used/tested Audion (PPC only, also dead) and XLD-GUI (absolutely toxic). |
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Great, simple, elegant application. Create wonderful black and white mind maps. Do straightforward This is like MORE or Word 5.1 or MacDraw, a great Mac classic. Finally a step away from buggy, expensive, bloatware (the entire rest of the mind mapping category). |
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Crazy pricing. Not so nice interface. This fad for mind mapping will surely shake out with some better looking and simpler and less expensive applications. In the meantime, what works in black and white with nice switching between text and different map modes is MyMind. Free and elegant. |
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I've tried lots of these mind mapping programs. I second the vote for MyMind. Simple, easy, elegant. The opposite of MindMap. Mindmap is complicated, fiddly and hideous. |
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If it works as promised that would be great. Sync is a minefield. |
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I'd be more interested in the full deal which is Printfolio. This just covers newsletters and brochures. |
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A great program. I have the Standard License already. |
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Could it be used to burn DVD's of picture collections? |
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Very expensive normaly, but a bargain today, When the finder misbehaves, Pathfinder saves. |
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Alas longtime users don't look too happy. |
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Very pricey for those who don't need it, a steal for those who do. |
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