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scf, 2008-08-14

This is a great little utility. Now, if only the EVE-Online client itself worked well on Mac (or at all for the premium/new client). And EVE-MON on mac would be fantastic, too.

Eve Skill Monitor is a great start, though. Superb little utility.

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scf, 2008-07-08

Of course, Pandora JAM is commercial and $15 while PandoraBoy is free and GPL. I know that mac users LOVE to pay money for software they could otherwise get for free, but...

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kelchm, 2008-07-09 (score: 1)

I wish this had scrobbling support.

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scf, 2008-05-18

Thanks for the info, paultaylor. I didn't want to drop $30 on it if Jaikoz was going to be missing a backend a year from now, but I'm otherwise quite happy to go out and buy it now. I used to use picard, etc and am pleased to see there is still a great OSX utility for this.

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enjourni, 2008-09-20

Seems pretty good. Lots and lots of features/options (maybe even too many... how about a "simple" mode?) Doesn't seem to consider or populate the "# Tracks" field. You have to enter it manually, for example "2/12" for the 2nd track of a 12 track album. Then iTunes will recognize it.

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paultaylor, 2008-09-26

enjourni:Jaikoz does consider the #Tracks when matching. You are right it doesn't automatically fill this field, this is because originally only supported Mp3 format and with Mp3 the Track#/#Tracks are stored in a single field. This will be fixed very soon.

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scf, 2008-05-07

My machine is only two weeks old and I just cleared more than 2gb from it.

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shikhanshu, 2008-07-15

keeps EXACTLY what you need on ur mac... no extra crap... lovely app

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scf, 2008-05-07 (score: -2)

So, I tried using Safari again and it is still lacking in so many areas. To start with, most of the functionality one has come to expect over the years from Firefox is lacking in Safari. You can regain some of it if you want to spend $20, $30, $50 or more in multiple third party applications. Or you can get the same functionality (usually done better) with free extensions in Firefox.

There doesn't seem to be any delicious plugin that integrates with the browser the way that the official Yahoo! delicious extension in Firefox does. Getting adblock plus to work with it isn't that hard, but it does a poor job compared to the Firefox version. For example, a banner area that would be entirely removed on Firefox shows up as a big empty space in Safari. Rather than reclaiming the space, Safari just blanked out the content that was inside.

The only thing Safari offers over Thunderbird is a webclip ability to let you display content from a web page in the OSX Dashboard.

I really would love to use the default mail and browser clients that Apple offers, but both are unfortunately so lacking in functionality -- even after spending a lot of money on third party applications to round-out the default applications -- that they really aren't sufficient for any purpose other than use by the most basic, non-demanding user.

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zain, 2008-05-26 (score: 2)

best, lightweight, elegant browser and pleasure to use!
People complain that Safari doesn't have this and that, like FF...
Most of the stuff is really unnecessary, and useless.
That's why FF is as heavy and over bloated, like IE.
Today there is no difference between FF and IE, both heavy, and loaded with garbage.
Opera is the only windowz browser which can be compared in some ways to Safari - it's light and also pleasure to use. I used it on Windowz for 5 years and loved it.
Now I in no way going to put anything Windowz related on my iMac, except Skype.
Safari is no doubt the most enjoyable and fastest browser.

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windowsvista, 2008-09-04 (score: -8) buried [Show comment]

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scf, 2008-05-07

This is a nifty little application and I did use it for a week or so. However, it doesn't offer anything I can't find using the official Delicious extension for Firefox, from Yahoo! -- and the extension is free. And integrates directly with the browser in place of the standard bookmarks. Pukka requires that you use a bookmarklet and doesn't have a way to simply click on common/suggested tags for your new entry.

If you're using safari, this is probably a decent solution. If you're not using safari, the standard extension is better.

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pimodan, 2008-11-03

very nice app. however started costing $5 and now is $17, which is more than expensive, considering the current difficult times. but nice work, developer

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scf, 2008-05-07 (score: 1)

Thunderbird is the way to go.

Whereas mail.app can't handle virtual identities, Thunderbird does so with ease by the installation of the Virtual Identities extension. You can get multiple accounts in mail.app. You can even set it to allow you to send email from multiple addresses, if you PRE-CONFIGURE it and follow certain restrictions. Thunderbird, however, lets you create on-the-fly addresses, learns when to suggest what virtual identities should be used for what recipients and the extension is completely free.

Thunderbird's junkmail filter is rather decent, too. Mail.app has spamsieve, if you want to pay $30. Thunderbird's builtin bayesian filtering as well as spamato are free, however.

Thunderbird has a fantastic extension called Nostalgia/nostalgic which lets you quickly filter messages into certain folders with the touch of a couple buttons. You can get an addon to mail.app which does this, but it involves an annoying pop-up interface to accomplish it. Oh, and like most of the apple software in the world, it costs $9.

Thunderbird also has numerous extensions that let you add reminders and tags and notes and classifications to messages. Mail.app has this as well, but it's another $30.

There are numerous other extensions that make life with Thunderbird far superior. Not having thunderbird interact with the operating systems' address book is pathetic, but it's easily overlooked when the alternative is to use mail.app, spend at least $70 for extensions (not to mention future updates to them) and still not have the same functionality that thunderbird has.

Also, the latest OSX build of thunderbird has a very nice OSX-ish feel to it. Not quite on-par with the way the mail.app interface looks, but if you're more concerned with functionality, there is nothing in the thunderbird interface that would detract from the experience.

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scf, 2008-05-05

Is this still being maintained? MacFuse is currently 1.5.1 and the latest MacFusion is for use with MacFuse core 1.1 . . .

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scf, 2008-04-24 (score: -2)

Yeah, 1password seems nice, but $35 for a password manager?! That's as much or more than Transmit, Path Finder and other programs. Except, all it does is manage passwords. Like the free and open source applications that are already out there for linux and windows.

I swear, if Apple didn't include simple copy and paste functionality, there'd be some guy trying to sell you a third party app to copy and paste stuff for $80 per machine.

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shingas, 2008-08-20 (score: 1)

If you're keeping state secrets, sure, don't use it. But for many people who are just trying to keep out the prying eyes of co-workers, friends and family, it's an easy to use effective program.

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