jamsoftsaidthis

(Version 1.1.4 Review)

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Leech is a great little app – It's lightweight, fast, stable, and most importantly it just works.

I've repeatedly tried other download managers in the past (Speed download, iGetter, Download Wizard, etc.) and I always found myself uninstalling them because their 'cons' far outweighed any 'pros'. They were everything I didn't want in a download manager: overly complex, clunky, intrusive, required excess system resources, and they were unstable to the point that it even caused other applications to crash.

Pros:
- Lightweight & fast
- Stable
- Automatically integrates with Safari/Firefox's cookies, authenticated sessions, and stored passwords. In other words, downloading files from a website that you're a member of (i.e. a premium RapidShare account) automatically works without you having to mess around with setting up or configuring any tedious rules.
- Plenty of user controllable features & settings (i.e. automatically resize download window, private downloading, user definable rules, etc.)
- It just works.

Cons:
- Doesn't seem to properly work on a couple sites.
- Could use a few more features.

Suggestions:
- It'd be nice if Leech would preserve the "Where from:" URL like Safari does when you download a file. (You can view it in the Finder's "Get Info" window under the "More Info:" tab.)
- Leech (or any download manager for that matter) can always be optimized even further. It'd be great if Leech honed in on maximizing your download speed.

Conclusion:
If you download files on a regular basis (whether it's apps, music, movies, or anything else) I highly recommend you give Leech a try!

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Download the latest unofficial builds here:

http://www.haque.net/software/mplayer/mplayerosx/builds/

Viewing WMVs with Flip4Mac: open instantly but loading takes ages, or wait for QuickTime to load whole movie and you can seek. Viewing them in VLC: open instantly and seek works, but can't determine the keyframes, so the action kind of smudges out till the next keyframe hits. MPlayer opens instantly and seeks instantly and correctly. Second cool thing: MKV files from HD material opens instantly and seeks instantly. VLC crashes every once in a while when opening these files.

i wish there was such a thing as vlc + mplayer, but until then i have them both..

MPlayer can also play RealVideo and RealAudio if you install the optional codecs package.

Note: mplayer logs names of files it has played, in console.log, located in /Library/Logs/Console.
(ie: system folder, not the user's ~/Library folder.)

MPlayer OSX Extended offers more options and has actually been updated recently.

http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/

You can download all lof Logitech's software updates & drivers from their public ftp server: ftp.logitech.com

More specifically, you can find the Harmony Remote software under: ftp.logitech.com/pub/techsupport/harmony/

thanks for that linke, I was able to get the 7.4.x version which resolved many issues. Unfortunately AppFresh/iusethis don't seem to catch the correct version number.... thoughts?

ftp://ftp.logitech.com/pub/techsupport/harmony/LogitechHarmonyRemoteSoftware7.4.1-OSX.dmg - latest as of today

could you could use a wii mote to control the pointer?

Go to: TextEdit > Preferences, under the New Document's Format change it to 'Plain Text'. Now every time you make a new document it will always be that way. No more having to go up into the format menu to convert a document from Rich to Plain text (not that it was all that hard to in the first place)

I live by 'copy and paste', and I used to get so tired of dealing with all of the extraneous and annoying formatting that came along with almost anything I did. Trying to do something as simple as copy and paste a collection of notes from various websites would create an ugly assortment of different fonts, sizes, colors, hyperlinks, etc. . . That is until I discovered the beauty of plain text, and for that matter TextEdit.

Basically, the simplicity, stability, speed and lightweight of TextEdit combined with the ability to create instant plain text documents makes this an essential tool. I have yet to find anything that even comes close to replacing this, and I find it almost laughable that I rely on such a basic program for so much.

I've been using this for about a month now without any problems. In fact, the reason I decided to post a comment is because it actually saved my ass!

To make a long story short, I had to take a timed online college midterm for one of my lecture classes the other day. Every single browser I attempted to use (including Safari, Opera, I.E. for Mac, Netscape, FireFox 1.5.4, and OminWeb) didn't work. All of the other browsers wouldn't render the site correctly, and Safari decided to keep crashing at completely random times (4 times in total, and I rarely have Safari crash on me). So I decided to give MineField a chance and lo and behold everything magically worked.

After the exam I talked with a few of my other fellow classmates 'slash' mac users and they had all experience similar problems (which is why they now get to take a make-up exam in the PC lab).

Though it is called Minefield. . . maybe I just got lucky and didn't step on one? :-)

I've been looking forward to this ever since I heard about firefox 3.0 for mac being written in Cocoa. I might play with this but I'm definitely sticking with Camino as my primary for the time being.

I find this to be pretty stable these days and much better than version 2! I get mine from:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

I put together I nice little package that has the Mac version already translated to English.

Get it here:
< http://www.sharpproductions.com/jamsoft/incognito/filechute/Doukutsu.dmg >

Enjoy!

The crashing on Intel platforms has to do with the ORG player. Open up the .app file and rename the ORG folder inside to something else. Music won't play anymore, but the game will be perfectly stable.

Since you'll have no ingame music, check out the ReMixed Soundtrack here:
http://kwix.shackspace.com/cavestory/home.htm

What a shockingly amazing game.
It has eaten my entire weekend.

Everyone here is right; quit wasting your time reading my comments and download this game!

The secret hard ending is so amazing. Some of the best platforming I have experienced.

This is an extraordinary game, made even more extraordinary by the fact that it is free. A must have for anyone who likes platform/adventure games.