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Stellarium 0.8.2 (Mac OS X)
Reaches the end of "loading constellations" or whatever and stops. Quit, force quit, tab out are all to no avail. This was a wonderful program before the quality control went out the window. [alert admin]
Friday, October 06 2006 @ 05:19 PM PDT
TextWrangler 2.1.3 (Mac OS X)
Nice, but broken on 10.4.7 / Intel Core Duo (MBP)
2.1.3 hangs when trying to open files via SFTP, requiring a force quit. Works just fine when using Fugu 1.2 as a helper app. [alert admin]
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Monday, August 21 2006 @ 09:06 AM PDT
Stellarium 0.8.0 (Mac OS X)
Quits immediately on launching, without any errors or warnings. [alert admin]
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Monday, June 19 2006 @ 03:12 PM PDT
Rax 2.0 (Mac OS X)
Finally... a universal binary, interface overhaul, and a limited but interesting ability to host MIDI files as well as AudioUnits. Check out the demo tracks... you will be impressed with what Rax can do with just Apple DLS synths and matrix reverb. Add a sequencer and some spiffy AUs like Automat and the Expert Sleepers set, and Rax would be shareware music nirvana. As it is, it does all it used to do and a bit more, but now on your Core Duo. :D It also seems to be less of a CPU hog than version 1.2.x. Kudos to plasq -- I had thought this was abandonware. [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 13 2006 @ 05:45 PM PDT
Second Life 1.10.1.0 (Mac OS X)
Since 1.6, SL has become more sluggish and bloated with every patch. The application bundle has gone from around 15 megabytes to over 90. It runs slower now on my shiny new MacBook Pro than it used to on my then-top-of-the-line G3 iBook back in the day. Most of the time, you can't move your avatar at all due to latency, which can easily rise into 6500 msec roundtrips (this is on a good DSL line with no other traffic on it). Performance is absolutely dreadful and seems to be more network- than CPU- or GPU-bound. Looking at CPU usage, SL is pegging core #1 and strangely does not seem to be aware that core #2 even exists. What's even stranger is that if you run SL on the *same hardware* under Windows XP, the difference in performance and playability is night and day. I think it's time Linden Labs stopped making excuses. Instead, hire and fire some people, do whatever it takes, just make the Mac viewer stop sucking. Please. [alert admin]
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Friday, June 02 2006 @ 09:56 AM PDT
Apple DVD Player 4.6.5 (Mac OS X)
I fixed the problem this update is supposed to solve simply by trashing the preferences file. I ran the update, naively thinking it would prevent future problems. Now DVD Player doesn't play any DVDs at all. VLC plays them just fine. [alert admin]
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Saturday, August 27 2005 @ 11:58 AM PDT
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos 1.18 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
The updater is a Classic application?
I downloaded the 1.18 updater using Safari, but OS X 10.4.2 thinks this is a Classic application. I don't have Classic installed. Is this a mistake, or does this updater really require Classic (when the original installer does not)? [alert admin]
Monday, July 25 2005 @ 08:34 PM PDT
Application Enhancer 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Apps crashing, Finder crashes and loops trying to relaunch itself. Yikes. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 28 2005 @ 06:58 AM PDT
Rax 1.2.3 (Mac OS X)
Can't wait for the next update 
Rax is all it's cracked up to be and more, although it still has problems with erratic CPU usage and some soft synths, including some that are listed as being compatible on the Granted web site. The docs are just okay and support seems to be non-existent. I hope these guys are still in business, since I liked it well enough to buy a copy. For what Rax is and does, you can't beat the price. [alert admin]
Saturday, May 28 2005 @ 08:15 PM PDT
Automat 0.1.7 (Mac OS X)
Pros: it's free! Modulation all over the place, not terribly CPU intensive. Cons: All sounds sound the same, absolutely no character, not as cool as Buzzer 2 yet. But it's free! [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 28 2005 @ 08:08 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by muon [ Search for All ]
Better but still not quite the equal of Excel 10.1.6
Uh... this is a Java application. Of course it will be slower than Excel. Since Excel is not yet built for Intel, however, the difference in performance between it and NeoOffice is much less noticeable on Macintel.
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Monday, March 26 2007 @ 02:03 PM PDT
If you want Camino to work with Gmail's full feature set, simply spoof Firefox as your user agent using CamiTools. Works like a charm. I've never had an issue with it.
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Tuesday, February 27 2007 @ 07:00 AM PST
Well... it's a text editor. It's about the power of plain text. If you want to work with RTFD, you need a word processor. For historical, and other reasons, text editors and word processors do not provide the same functionality. Not even the mighty Emacs likes to work with formatted text, and word processors generally make poor code editors.
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Wednesday, December 27 2006 @ 05:01 PM PST
In the Macintosh world, as in the Unix world, FTP support for text editors typically comes from... FTP programs. Smultron works very well with Cyberduck or Fugu for this purpose. Next best thing to a secure shell for remote editing.
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Wednesday, December 27 2006 @ 04:58 PM PST
I missed the part where Mellel advertised itself as the ultimate solution to your legal office needs.
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Wednesday, December 06 2006 @ 08:22 AM PST
Almost nothing works on the MBP. :D But I love it anyway.
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Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 08:28 AM PDT
Months without news... still no universal binary... sigh.
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Friday, May 19 2006 @ 08:36 AM PDT
Obgligatory lack of gapless & aacPlus comment
iTunes has had gapless playback forever. Go in your preferences and check Crossfade Playback and set the fade to 0 seconds. Gapless. Enjoy.
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Wednesday, October 12 2005 @ 08:56 PM PDT
Interface revisions and DSP upgrades are showing promise. There turns out to be more here than initially meets the eye, as a friend and I discovered after hooking up a MIDI controller to this thing using Automat's wicked MIDI Learn feature. We were able to coax a wide range of dope noises from this thing. Check it out.
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Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 08:30 AM PDT
Proper settings for Second Life using the Mac
Thanks for that. It's very informative and obviously took some effort. Even doing all this, one will have a poor experience on the minimal system compared to our Windows counterparts. If you don't have a 128 MB third party video card in a fast G5 desktop, you may as well turn the machine off and do a crossword.
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Friday, July 08 2005 @ 09:55 AM PDT
