Comment and replies on Bookdog:
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.
Comment and replies on WebnoteHappy:
Right now my top request for this app would be an "Open selected items in browser tab" command, with a preference to warn if attempting to open over an N item limit.
The best solution I've found if you're like me and use del.icio.us only for storing bookmarks. A desktop app allows for more features - better searching, smart folders. I'd like to see a better way to browse tags but other features make it easy to find bookmarks. Worth the dough if it becomes part of your workflow (hey that's a good rap)
Best companion to del.icio.us you can find. I can't use Internet properly without this one.
The best delicious client I've found. Unfortunately its pretty expensive.
The best delicious client I've found. Unfortunately its pretty expensive.
The best delicious client I've found. Unfortunately its pretty expensive.
Comment and replies on Eudora:
Update to kelter's update:
[from http://www.eudora.com/faq/]
October 11, 2006
QUALCOMM is announcing that its Eudora email program will become an open source product effective the first half of calendar year 2007. As an open source product, it will be free to all customers.
There appears to be a v8 beta available at
http://www.eudora.com/download/eudora/mac/8.0/Eudora-8.0.0b3.en-US.mac.dmg
I haven't tried it yet.
Comment and replies on EyeTV:
Still lacks a few generally useful features, like:
• Saved EPG searches(!)
• "Keep viewer window on top" preference
Mmilian said:
"I'm very surprised that there are so many users of this app considering you need to plunk down at least $250 to get this thing working."
If you know any cheaper way to receive and record TV broadcasts to DVD and DivX, please enlighen us. Oh, and I assume you won't be using additional hardware since the $250 price tag is primarily for the TV tuner and MPEG encoder/decoder, not the EyeTV application itself which costs €80.
EyeTV + MacMini is a great combination. The software is very good, it could use a couple more features in automating output to AppleTV, for instance, detailed control over encoding export options. HDTV watching on my mac is quite an experience, very impressive. FYI the Hybrid retails for $150, at your neighborhood apple store.
The best computer based PVR I've used, and I've wasted way too much time and money on other setup's until I found this one.
Easy to use, beautiful, stable. Applications like these make the Mac experience so pleasant. They just work and fit in the overall look-and-feel. Well worth the additional cost.
But I also miss saved searches in version 2.5.2. :-(
2.5 caused some problems, but was a workable solution. But the new 3.0 is rubbish.
This is the first time I have been moved to comment negatively on a piece of Mac software: I paid for the upgrade, but it's been nothing but restart, restart, restart because of instability.
Five reasons not to upgrade:
1. DVD Player and EyeTV 3.0 fight for some reason (when EyeTV is recording during DVD Player playback), leading to kernel panics. Duh, restart machine.
2. USB driver code appears to lead to kernel panics all by itself. Duh, restart machine.
3. web access is so flakey as to be useless. Duh, restart EyeTV.
4. export is painfully slow (many days to export some stuff, it might even be that the export function is broken) Duh, restart encoding.
5. many, many spinning beachballs (unbelievable). Duh, restart EyeTV.
Sleak, slow and unworkably poor. EyeEyeEyeTV: stick with 2.5...
Comment and replies on PithHelmet:
The correct name is PithHelmet, with only one word as in the description here but not the title for some reason.
I've tried all the Safari ad-blockers (SafariBlock, FloppyMoose, etc.) and have settled on PithHelmet. Just set the Ad Blocking Level slider to "Some" or "More" and that's it; you're basically ad-free from them on out.
Safari+PithHelmet is also much cleaner than OmniWeb with their built-in ad blocking e.g. it collapses ad space rather than graying it out (which is often as bad as the ad itself).
$10 well spent.
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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.