Comment and replies on DMGConverter:
Comment and replies on mdf2iso:
The Mac binary seems to have dropped off the internet..? Source can be found here:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2545&release_id=3870
Comment and replies on Disk Order:
This looks like the closest thing I've seen to "Shez" on a Mac. I hope the developers can load up a DOS box and find some more inspiration from Mr. Jim Derr.
Comment and replies on Chop:
This looks exactly like an app I need, but unfortunately it's crashing on launch (v1.0b) and it looks to be a PowerPC app? Eh?
Comment and replies on Decoder:
Presuming that a base64 file is always HTML is ridiculous. Most image attachments through e-mail are MIME based. And it will not recognize a filename designation in the MIME header.
Comment and replies on PicMark:
Great little app for freeware, but not useful for me without full PNG transparency support. Getting better results with iWatermark.
Very handy. Freeware, so you can't expect too much. It has the ability to hold multiple watermarks, so a different one can be used each time. Also, you can also 'somewhat' rename files.
Comment and replies on SharePoints:
Haven't been able to get it working under 10.5.1, nor can I get Leopard's sharing to work with my PC network, so I miss it!
Will have to try 10.5.2 I guess.
Comment and replies on EasyDMG:
@el_cravito: I've had confirmation from the FreeDMG developer that a Leopard update is still coming, as the current 0.5.5b doesn't reliably support Leopard.
Comment and replies on Tor:
I am also not a networks genius, but if you do a bit of simple Googling, there are very simple examples and plenty of understandable information why Tor is a good and workable idea. By design it is more secure than "naked" IP traffic. Plus the underpinnings were built by the US Navy and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This isn't a garage project just because it's open source.
mach5 - if you have travelled extensively, you may have discovered that some hotels, many internet cafes and a variety of other places that provide internet access have unscrupulous people managing the network. In third world countries, particularly, there are very real dangers in using naked internet services. Man in the middle attacks are common and can result in identification theft and other serious problems.
You point out that Tor routes traffic through three intermediate nodes before exiting into the Internet. You are correct. However, the only node that can see your packets is the exit node, the intermediaries are tossing around completely encrypted packets. So it is possible that Tor exit nodes could attempt man-in-the-middle attacks doing such things as presenting fake SSL certificates or artificial proxies for well known services, however, all such Tor exit nodes are ip-logged within the Tor cloud and these types of activities are hunted for and investigated by a rather large community. I guess you could say that you are trading a completely unknown set of dangers for a specific and heavily policed danger, a trade well worth making in many situations.
Your mileage may vary.
Comment and replies on TuneRanger:
This is absolutely the iTunes catalog app I've been searching for! Many other "applets" exist to do one or two common tasks, but nothing has been the swiss-army knife that Just Works. In the first two days of using the fully-functional trial of TuneRanger, I was able to copy my huge WinXP iTunes library over to my Mac via LAN (thanks to a separate PC version) and subsequently clean up all orphans, duplicates, and merge the artwork database into each MP3.
Absolutely, totally, sold. Watching 5000 tracks, videos, and podcasts magically appear with ALL metadata intact without so much as a hiccup or double-click was magical. This is shareware at its finest.
Comment and replies on Curator:
$18 for the BEST artwork manager. Sold.
My collection is primarily soundtracks, indie, foreign, and compilations. I can NEVER trust an automatic artwork finder, and nothing I've tried works as slick or as intuitively as Curator. Here's how easy it is:
1) view album listing to see if it has the right artwork
2) if it doesn't click Search Google Images.
3) Correct artwork is usually on the first page. Drag into Curator.
4) Double-click to copy artwork into all the MP3s.
I can't do any of that in Corripo. It's what I consider a fun use of $18.
Comment and replies on Resize 'Em All:
I'm pretty demanding when it comes to resizing images, so take this with a grain of salt, but here's how this program (v1.0.3) doesn't help me...
- Can't control compression level - large JPGs
- Batch functions don't always "remember" the horizontal dimension
- Batch Save All doesn't adjust the dimensions to stay proportional, stretches all images to match the first.
- Save button overwrites without prompting (good if you're expecting it)
- Save As... dialog demands you select the format every time, no default or matching the black window's setting.
- Limited keyboard commands, focus jumps to Cancel button on last image.
I concur with the notes pointed out by arundel below, and I'd like to add one thing that is left wishing for:
- Image rotation! (Clockwise, anti-clockwise and mirroring.) Perhaps this would kind of make the app name a bit ambiguous, as it would probably more or less double its amount of features. How about Batch 'Em All instead? (Just a suggestion.)
On the good side, I must say that it looks very promising!! Keep up the good work!
Personally, I find this utility (v 1.0.5) does fine for my simple needs - just to quickly resize a batch of pix and nothing else. It does that quite well and pretty quickly. When I want some simple task done I hate wading through "bells n whistles," so I keep trim little apps like this one handy. Given time and positive feedback, this very nice utility will do well.
Resize 'Em All is now RapidoResizer.
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/rapidoresizer
Comment and replies on Tinderbox:
I thought the price was insane. People I respected told me that I had to try this. I downloaded the demo and couldn't figure out the fascination. Finally, I bought it. Too much evangelizing from other users made me pull the trigger. Took me two years to kinda understand the charm of the product. I haven't scratched the surface of it yet.
It is now indispensable to my workflow. Rare example of software which enhances your life. I don't work for them. Just an user.
I so wanted to love Tinderbox. I got into Tinderbox to make myself a better writer, but instead of writing I spend my time trying to understand Tinderbox. Actually, I'm not being entirely serious. Still, I wonder where the break-even point comes -- when do I stop working on the program and when does the program start working for me?
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