Comment and replies on FStream:
And it does AAC live strreams as well!!!
Pity, Growl stuff doesn't work for me, in this version of FStream (Growl, in other applications work properly, and I have been troubleshooting my Growl settings for FStream as well).
Comment and replies on AppleStuut:
And please add a description in an international language.
@ ravon:
French is an international language.
It is spoken in France, Belgium, Switerland, Luxemburg, Canada (Quebec) and several African countries by hundreds of millinos of human beings.
If you don't understand French, then the problem is yours. (Not a problem of the language.)
Correction to my previous post:
Instead of "millinos", please read "millions".
(Sorry for the typing mistake.)
@yuccaplant:
First of all, I'm not a girl. I'm a man (almost 50 years old.)
Second, I'm not French. I'm Portuguese. And I've learned English and French in public school.
Third, there's no language called Chinese. In China people speak several languages; the most common are Mandarin and Cantonese.
If you did not try to be funny (which you are not), you did not show your ignorance.
@ tee_cee:
You're absolutely right!
yuccaplant is not funny and has showed his ignorance.
And he's also RUDE. Otherwise he wouldn't have writen all those stupid things.
No disrespect for the french langauge intended, but this is an english language site. Please update the app entry description.
Yes, Marcus, you're right. This is an English language site.
I think I understand why the description of this widget was posted in French: this is a RSS aggregator for a French website with tips about Macintosh. So, if you don't read French, you won't need this widget. But I agree with you when you say that it should be posted in English (this website's janguage).
However, I cannot aggre with ravon when he asked for a description in "an international language". English is almost the "universal" language now-a-days (i agree), but iit's not the only international language. And my intention when I wrote my first post was to call attention to this, I had no other intention.
So, I cannot accept yuccaplant's attitude of insuting me (mistaking me for a French) or insulting the French language and those who speak it. That's intolerable!
Chauvinist? As I wrote before, I'm not even French. And my second language has always been English.
His post includes the most unacceptable words I've ever read in I Use This. If it is not xenophobia, I don't know what to call it.
Instead of marking the posts that "condemned" his attitude with "spams" (-2 points), he should show some really smart attitude and apologize. Apologizing is not a sign of weakness; it's a sign of intelligence. And if he is really an intelligent person, he should have already noticed that he's gone too far and apologize for that.
@ tee_cee
Once again, I think you're absolutely right!
What that guy wrote is unaccepatble in I Use This or anywhere alse. I think Marcus should take care, or someday this website will be invaded by posts just like: "LOL... Gr8 avatar U got there, man! I'm gonna get me 1 like that 2."
As the King of Spain would say to yuccapalnt: "Porque no te callas!"
Better translate, 'cos he doesn't seems to understand anything but English: "Why don't you shut up?"
Let me give you a free translation of the description:
"Here's a widget that will keep you informed about the latest guiles."
Stuut is a French website with tips about the Mac. Something like A New Mac Tip Every Day, MacTips or Leopard Tricks. This widget is a reader for that website's RSS feed.
(And no... It was not me who posted it here.)
Comment and replies on FinderCleaner:
gaffer74: Yeah, that's what I meant. The program is probably innocent, but the developer didn't think the routine through completely and these kind of suspicions arises :)
Another alternative to this utility is "Cocktail" (shareware). Besides many other things Cocktail can do it also offers to remove "DS Store" files from a disk/volume/folder.
Comment and replies on Inquisitor:
bradbeattie: It's because of Apple's changes with Input Managers. I think, from Leopard and on, the only allowed Input Managers are those approved by the administrator.
An invaluable tool for doing quick searches and with just a few key presses. I use Inquisitor many times a day and couldn't do without it now. It's unfortunate that Apple haven't either rolled out their own version or done the right thing and made a plug-in architecture and bundled this with it.
With Leopard, Apple are tightening up on the misuse and potential abuse of InputManagers, this has meant that Inquisitor now requires admin rights to be installed in /Library/InputManagers
Allan Odgaard writes about the change: http://blog.macromates.com/2007/inputmanagers-on-leopard/
Worse is that new major features (and WebKit upgrades) have always been held back for major releases of OS X. So it will probably be another 2 years before OS X 10.6 will remove InputManagers altogether, hopefully before then Apple will have done right.
Beware: The developer inserts affiliate links into your search results without you knowing. A shady practice at the very least, because it's all done transparently.
More info and proof here: http://on.thehold.net/2008/01/has-inquisitor-gone-scurrilous.html
Let´s face it, Inquisitor is a great enhancement for Safari. It is also freeware. It is in my interest for the developer to continue to update and enhance the app. I do not really care whether the app points to any affiliate links or not. If this generates a little income for Inquisitor´s developer to facilitate further development then I´m all for it.
I've no problem with Inquisitor employing affiliate links where a Google search result points to Amazon, for example, but I'm not okay with it manipulating search results such that the affiliate links are shown ahead of the top Google hits. Uninstalled it for that reason.
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FStream is simply amazing. Not only is it tiny and elegant, but it's just about the only OS X player which can do Ogg Vorbis streams properly.