ahammondsaidthis

Handy app, but why the hell is it distributed in .sitx format? I simply can't bother dealing with that level of pain.

Collaborative editing is the super-cool feature of SEE. I liked it so much I bought a license for it and played around with it with my other Mac using co-worker. We never did end up using it as part of our work-flow though, which is a shame since it seems to have so much promise. I've since switched to TextMate, which lacks the collaborative feature, but has other features which, honestly, leave me amazed.

Would love code folding. Other than that it rocks

I've finally given up SubEthaEdit in favor of Smultron. 1.x was getting dusty and as a person who rarely codes, I don't feel like paying $30 for a text editor. I do miss how good SEE was at automatic syntax coloring, but Smultron and even VIM do the same with a little nudging.

I use Google bookmarks to solve this problem. It's built into the google toolbar. It works on my Mac, my PC, my Linux and FreeBSD boxes. I only use FireFox so I don't know about other browsers although I expect that anywhere google toolbar works, so do google bookmarks. It's free. I suppose you might not want to use it if you think google is an evil corporate overlord.

Excellent little piece of software. Lets me easily export/import bookmarks between browsers, as well as backup all my bookmarks to Google for safekeeping.

Does what it says it will. But very ugly/clunky interface!

@ nan:
You wrote: "But very ugly/clunky interface!"
And you forgot to mention the application's icon...

Like it or not, we're all stuck with the peculiar (IMO) and unintuitive (for me) non-OS X-like interface but the icon is easily changed if you don't like it.

It's lightning fast and does a great job bridging the gap between different apps' metaphors (i.e., tags in FF3 v Safari folders). It also does a great job finding bum links and fixing them.

The price is wrong here, it's actually 19.95

Great idea but incredibly unintuitive.

I was very impressed with the writeup so I decided to install this app. The install was completely painless and easy, which left me greatly impressed. Unfortunately it looks like google is in the block lists loaded by default. Since I'm a huge google fan boy (mail, calendar, rss reader, maps, bookmarks, and obviously search) this was a bit of a problem for me. So I thought I'd just add an allow rule for google stuff. Hmmm... how do I do that? Google will tell me... oh... right. :(

Anyway, the uninstall script worked just as cleanly as the install. I'd love to use this tool, but default blocking of the most useful set of sites on the net kinda ruins things, at least for me.

@ ahammond:

I use the feature "disable filters" whenevr I'm going to be remainn g on known, safe pages. Google and others get blakclisted because if you pull a P2P seed from them, you are likely to be suspected of somehting illegal and possibly harrassed / arrested / sued.

Other thna that, you can also create your own allow lists. I juts wish the lists could be speicifc for a particular protocol - let me browse to any site I want, block ftp protocols when in doubt. That's where I use Little Snitch.

Doesn't work yet with Leopard!

I'm sorry, but this app is just terrible. There's no way to block IPs for a specific application - you either block everything or you block nothing. This means you either a) have to edit your blacklists and whitelists to restore semi-normal internet access, or b) enable PeerGuardian only when you're running that specific application and disable it afterwards.

The problem with a) is that it requires you to spend hours (or even days) monitoring your logs and editing the blacklists and whitelists to get things working properly again. And the problem with b) is that you're still dealing with crippled internet access while it's running. Additionally, PG is set to run at startup and there's no way to disable this. So if you use it infrequently, every time you startup or restart your computer you have to load up the PG app and allow all connections (and disable the helper applications, unless you want to waste resources). Also, good luck trying to get PG completely uninstalled.

The only problem, AFAIK anyway, is that PG is really the only game in town. A couple of apps like Azureus have built-in IP filters, but unless you happen to already be using such an app, there really is no other option for IP filtering. Which sucks. Because I really hate Azureus. And PeerGuardian.

It looks like this might be one of those "lesser of two evils" situations...

@jaxsedrin:

The Transmission nightlies now have built in blocklist support (but if you don't want to use the default, you have to mess with it a bit).

Requires you to run with admin privileges. So it's useless to me (and probably some others too). I think the OS X version isn't quite there yet. Needs work

pretty good, but... take a look at KisMAC instead.

Would be nice if it didn't crash all the time. This is what I get in the log:

2007-10-23 19:33:32.770 iStumbler (8026) *** -[NSConcreteNotification size]: selector not recognized [self = 0x3789a0]
(line above repeated dozens of times)
2007-10-23 19:33:47.588 iStumbler(8198) loaded 239 services from services.plist
2007-10-23 19:33:49.093 iStumbler(8198) loaded 882 vendors from vendors.plist
Oct 23 19:33:52 Macbeth crashdump(8200): iStumbler crashed