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However KaZaa has really gone down hill, mainly because of studio action. Most songs I try and download are "tweaked" with yelling in the middle or beeping or are of the wrong sound. It really isn't a good place to find music.

I personally use Direct Connect. You can find a hub with the style of music you like and are more likely to find obscure music. (i.e. blues, jazz, etc.) Further it has a much better selection of TV shows if you are trying to find a show you missed that week. The Mac client is still so-so, but they fixed the memory leaks of the version from the fall.

Regular Bittorrent?

You mean something like: ManOpen

There are a few options right there, i frankly only find it troublesome to have multiple docks. but the option for such is always good.

iTerm also allows for tabbed terminal windows. Tried it once for a few minutes, so I don't know much more about it. YMMV.

there are a few possible fixes to get it to work.

1) does your bank require pop-ups? seems simple, but i totally forgot one site i use an account to order from has a customer pop-up window. i assumed the site was bunk (mozilla blocking my pop-ups too) till safari told me the reason for the error.

2) you can tell Safari to identify itself as M$IE or whatever in the prefs. I know some sites work fine once you do this (like my university's student login thing)

3) there is a cache issue. you can try downloading Safari Enhancer . It lets you do fun things like access the debug menu and disable cache, and easily import Mozilla bookmarks. Safari is a fast browser, so with DSL i barely notice the cache being turned off and it seemed to be the only way for some sites to work properly (like some phpNuke sites i log in for).

Finally be sure you submit the bug to Apple again so they know 1.0 still fails. It's possible it's the bank's fault, but maybe not. Even if it is the bank, somebody should tell them. If AOL really dumps IE and Mac stop shipping with it, webmasters will hopefully return to following standards.

In the meantime, try Show Desktop. I've been using it for months in the menu bar. Just what the doctor ordered!

I am so with you there. I would love a decent version of Project for OSX. I have beenmaking do with a very buggy bit of shareward called PMX on osx for a while and on some ways it is an improvement over project in that it is so simple, but it's so damn buggy it drives me nuts. On the visio side have you looked at OmniGraffle Pro? That rocks serious ass and is Visio file format compatable. but yeah - apple should do something radical with project managament software - something that combines project management with peer2peer - such that people can put their hands up for tasks, not just be assigned them, and the gantt charts become living interactive views of the project, not wall charts.

I am so with you there. I would love a decent version of Project for OSX. I have beenmaking do with a very buggy bit of shareward called PMX on osx for a while and on some ways it is an improvement over project in that it is so simple, but it's so damn buggy it drives me nuts. On the visio side have you looked at OmniGraffle Pro? That rocks serious ass and is Visio file format compatable. but yeah - apple should do something radical with project managament software - something that combines project management with peer2peer - such that people can put their hands up for tasks, not just be assigned them, and the gantt charts become living interactive views of the project, not wall charts.

That said I have yet to find any terminal emulator on any platform (Mac, Windows, even *terms in X11) that I couldn't make crash at some point. Even SecureCRT which I have to use here at home has crashed on me before.

That said I have yet to find any terminal emulator on any platform (Mac, Windows, even *terms in X11) that I couldn't make crash at some point. Even SecureCRT which I have to use here at home has crashed on me before.

(won't someone think of the pr0n collections?)

Sir, I think your pr0n collection needs this app. Just drag'n'drop the "My pr0n" folder onto it and all your precious jpegs will get cute preview thumbnails as their custom icons. Have a cup of tea ready if you have more jpegs than megahertz on your machine :-)

PS. I double-checked the URL and it should work. If not - seek for pic2icon on versiontracker.

iCommune has been rewritten so as not to conflict with Apple's IP. It is available once again...

http://icommune.sourceforge.net/

http://www.versiontracker.com/

I'd prefer not to hear the ... it's a business expense that you must pay arguement. I have built my business on the model I am in right now at the prices I pay right now. It works perfectly. If ISPs want more bandwidth then there's optimizations and measures for stopping scam site hosting and SPAM mail that they could do.

A post above had a good point - should TV's cost more because they use up a significant portion of the electricity - after all, more electricity, more damge to the environment and more cost to the Power company!

I suggest you download PithHelmet for Safari. That should take care of most of your filtering woes.

For you MacHeads out there, I use the program that ships on the MacAddict CD. It's a little shareware app called DiskTracker

You just pop in your disk, drag it to the disktracker windows, and it creates a catalogue of all the files. Which is the searchable etc.

With a PSX > USB adapter and this free driver I can use my PSX controller with any game. Gamepad Companion also will let you use a PSX controller, though it's not free.

With a PSX > USB adapter and this free driver I can use my PSX controller with any game. Gamepad Companion also will let you use a PSX controller, though it's not free.

I used VNC to run headless mac renderfarms. It runs like a charm.
It might be less complete or performant than solutions like Timbiktu or Apple remote desktop, but it is open source, free, runs over IP, is ported on all the platforms that you might want to use.

Search for VNC on Version Tacker.

Ok, a week later, I know, but maybe you're checking for replies... Someone posted a new app to versiontracker that lets you tap the tempo and it calculates the BPM... here

With QuiclTime it is not possible to play a movie full screen (that is, if you dont want to pay $30 for the pro version).

If you want to play a DVD in QuickTime, you have to pay other $20.

I LOVE the keyboard shortcuts in Mplayer, especially navigating forward and backward with the arrow keys, I can skip whathever stuff I want withot using the mouse.

Another shortcoming of QuickTime: if you want to play an Xvid or Divx file you have to convert it first.

Also, unlike Videolan, QuickTime does not play .ogm (ogg) movies

That said, I by no means want to say mplayer and video lan client are bad, I use them regularly myself (for divx/xvid avi's with mp3 audio tracks). They're not as stable as Quicktime Player though, and fast-forwarding or rewinding doesn't always work (there seem to be points in some movies you just can't get by except at normal playing speed, both in mplayer and vlanc). Switching from full screen back to windowed mode doesn't always work either in vlanc (afterwards, the window is often black until you switch back to fullscreen mode).

If you don't like the Apple supplied QuickTime Player why don't you try one of the many replacement players.

If you don't like the Apple supplied QuickTime Player why don't you try one of the many replacement players.

If you don't like the Apple supplied QuickTime Player why don't you try one of the many replacement players.

If you don't like the Apple supplied QuickTime Player why don't you try one of the many replacement players.

If you don't like the Apple supplied QuickTime Player why don't you try one of the many replacement players.

If you don't like the Apple supplied QuickTime Player why don't you try one of the many replacement players.

Well either someone could send it to you or you could try one of the other terminal apps out there. this one looked interesting.

Oh, and dragging something from the Apps folder to the Dock (it's not called "taskbar") results in an shortcut or "alias" of the thing. The original item doesn't get moved when one draggs to the Dock. You must've dragged it somewhere else or otherwise deleted it entirely.

Do we really want samurai x on tv 24/7?

If there were more than 4 Kenshin OVA - damn right I would! But as it stands, 2 hours of anime repeated 24/7 isn't all that great.

Besides, I leeched that off Hotline over a year ago. And it was good subtitled Anime, not the dubbed shit you're bound to get on cable. Not that I'd get the channel anyway, what with me not being in the US, but who the fuck wants piss-poor dubs 24/7?

There are alot of Apple Script files that alow control of iTunes available for free on version tracker, I don't think it would be awfully difficult to hi-jack a popular script with some "extra functionality" and pass it around!

Apple laptops are effectively unusable for unix users.

I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.

Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.

Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.

There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.

Apple provides a technical note on how to remap the keyboard, but provides no solution to the hardware problems caused by the design of the ADB keyboard. This tech note helps foreign language users, but does nothing for the CapsLock/Ctrl problem.

Apple is (currently) ignoring Unix users! This is not merely speculation on my part. In an on-going email exchange I am having with an Apple employee (whom I won't name) in their marketing department, the Apple marketing person directly stated to me that Apple was catering to their historic Mac customers, and is purposely ignoring the Unix market. He also claimed that Apple would soon start paying more attention to the Unix market. I won't hold my breath. Apple has been ignoring Unix users for more than 12 years. I expect that trend to continue.

Apple has now lost two opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.

If you're using Mac OS X, check out Audio Hijack to capture an application's sound to an AIFF file.

Well, you could rip back to AAC. I'm assuming that there isn't any DRM on tracks you rip from physical media; there certainly isn't when you rip to mp3. So I can imagine a consumer burning his restricted AACs to a CD, then ripping them back to unrestricted AACs.

Of course, long before that becomes necessary, we will probably see utilities on VersionTracker that will illicitly remove DRM from all of your media.

Apple laptops are effectively unusable for unix users.

I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.

Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.

Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.

There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.

Apple provides a technical note on how to remap the keyboard, but provides no solution to the hardware problems caused by the design of the ADB keyboard. This tech note helps foreign language users, but does nothing for the CapsLock/Ctrl problem.

Apple is (currently) ignoring Unix users! This is not merely speculation on my part. In an on-going email exchange I am having with an Apple employee (whom I won't name) in their marketing department, the Apple marketing person directly stated to me that Apple was catering to their historic Mac customers, and is purposely ignoring the Unix market. He also claimed that Apple would soon start paying more attention to the Unix market. I won't hold my breath. Apple has been ignoring Unix users for more than 12 years. I expect that trend to continue.

Apple has now lost two opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.

The developer of selfQuit has decided to stop development of their "possible" killer app for OS X because someone said their friend who knows a guy who works at an Apple store made fun of the program.

on the topic of open macs hwoever, if you happen to be in central london someday with some spare time, just sit down at bar italia on frith street soho, pop on yr wifi and see how many drop boxes you can visit. i found at least 5 open wifi networks and each one of those exposed lots of macs. didn't find any ichat users tho... but plenty of rendesvous (or liberty connector as i hear you merkins prefer nowadays) shared web sites (99% default index pages).

oh and if you really wanna get into closed wifi networks remeber there is always KisMAC.

enjoy

Looks genuinely useful here is another selection Search Result

I was about to post my usual mention of Safari Enhancer when I realized what you were saying. Safari recognizes URL drags into the bookmarks bar from pretty much any source, including .webloc files and text selections. Definitely cool. Makes me wonder why other browsers don't do the same.

Besides the already mentioned features (by Bwanazuila), i personally consider these pretty handy:

-FULL drag & drop support. And when i say full i mean full! Drag Text or Links into formfields, drag images onto Photoshop or any other App (Dock or elsewhere) or somewhere on your Harddrive if you prefer. Just great, i don't understand why there is NO other Browser that's able to do that, not even Apples own Safari!

-Shortcuts were already mentioned, and they're really a boon, i have shortcuts for everything! To search on eBay i enter "e [string]", to search on slashdot "s [string]", i have various search-shortcuts for sites i regularly visit (and search!) like The Register, a German/English translation service (no, not Babelfish, that unfortunately won't work with shortcuts due to its nature!), an encyclopedia, Google images, the Apple Knowledgebase and (very important) Versiontracker. You can put whatis.com in there or Google groups or Google Dictionary or whatever you want! Really great, i would never use a browser anymore that didn't have shortcuts, sorry no Safari here! Luckily Camino also implemented shortcuts and i actually prefer their implementation via the bookmarks to OmniWebs!

-A network monitor where you can see which parts of your page take the longest to load

-A log of HTTP-Requests and errors

-An Information-Window that shows you the structure of a site in a tree with Information on every element: creation dates, byte-sizes, dimensions and thumbnails of images etc.

-FULL contextual menues. The other browsers just don't measure up! Only OW has the complete set (Camino is getting close though!)! If i have a href'd image, i can copy the image's link to the buffer, the image's URL or the image itself! I frequently need all 3, so OW is the only choice!

-Perfect Font-Rendering for ALL fonts! Camino only does Arial properly and already balks on small Times new Roman

-REAL Aqua-Widgets! Camino fakes them, although they look okay mostly...

-A pretty useful HTML-Editor with highlighting and editing-capabilities

-URL-bar filtering of spaces, linebreaks and tabs. Camino also has this now. Very useful for non-href'd long links like you frequently get them in emails or find them in some forums. I don't get it why all other browsers still also copy linebreaks - There IS no linebreak in an URL!

-Services-Support:
-I can highlight a link, press Apple-Shift-U and it opens a new window with the link.
-I can let it read text of a webpage for me
-I can use any other Service, like e.g. Devon's WordService to reformat Text in a Formfield, change to CAPS or remove them, remove linebreaks, capitalize the first letters of words or give me a statistic on how many words, lines and letters are in a highlighted text.

-New in 4.2: Linky-thing to Textedit in Formfields, so you can do your editing in Textedit and it gets automatically passed on into the formfield. Neato!

Summing up, OW is the single most feature-rich browser ever, and the features are very nice and mostly very handy! You can see all the time that its makers really did try to think of useful improvements for the user, and it's as OSX-like and -embracing as can be (even beats Safari!). I tried it when OS X came out and i fell in love with it. Only due to its amazingly slow table-rendering and poor CSS/Javascript support i was basically forced to switch to Camino by now, which is also nice, but not THAT nice! ;-) Most of its cool new features are taken from Omniweb anyway!
Hence i can't wait for OW 4.5 with proper speed and compliance, i'll definately switch back as soon as it's released!

It doesn't sound like you looked very far before giving up on certain things. Learning a new platform requires investing time.

1. You can create a directory under every save dialog by expanding it and selecting the New Folder button.

2. Look on VersionTracker.com for WinZip alternatives: here

3. Java 1.4...obviously no longer a problem. They were slow in releasing it but once released it has worked flawlessly for me.

4. TextPad? Again I'd point you towards VersionTracker to find NUMBEROUS, more robust and free replacements.

5. The single menu bar isn't going anywhere...thankfully. The reason the OS works this way is well documented in Apple's User Interface Guidelines. It is this way for ease of use, it works for me and many others. Realize that the UI is based on things learned from an OS which has been around for nearly 20 years. I have never found anything more annoying than the multiple window/multiple menu system of OS's like Windows and Linux...other than how each of these windows expand to fill the entire workspace and take over after each application switch. The MacOS has always had a better environment for running multiple apps at the same time. I on average run at least 10 apps at once on my Mac and the same thing on a Windows/Linux box bugs the hell out of me, it's a matter of preference.

You honestly think one can't do buisiness using a Macintosh? Mac OS X is every bit as usuable as Windows, some may argue more so. There is certainly Mac software to fill about any need you can think of, and free high quality development tools just in case you find the odd thing that someone isn't currently supporting on the Mac.

Don't believe me? Go to VersionTracker and take a look at all the software you could ever want for that platform.

True Apple does have licensing as well, but it's not near as arduous as Microsoft's, that and Apple supports open source far more than Microsoft ever has or ever will.

When you factor in software and hardware costs, using the Mac isn't so much more expensive given that even though the hardware costs more, you get far better terms on licensing, that and your support costs are a lot less given that Mac's don't break down near as often as PC's. It may even be less, I remember a study which showed total cost of ownership of a network of Mac's was less than comparable PC's using Windows, but I can't remember where it was.

This close race is a Good Thing? in my book. Since the end user doesn't have to make a choice, but can keep any number of media players installed, the end user always wins :)

This close race is a Good Thing? in my book. Since the end user doesn't have to make a choice, but can keep any number of media players installed, the end user always wins :)

1) There is no 'Menu' button. I do not want to have to run an Application to get a list of programs which I then have to click through. Mouse-over opening menus is nice. It doesn't have to be called Start, or 'K', or anything fancy but a button that has menus and sub-menus listing my appications would be a start.

Quick easy way to achive this is to drag the entire 'Applications' folder to the dock. Or you can create your own unique shortcuts folder with on the applications you want and drag this to the dock. Or you can get Fruit Menu, F10 Launch Studio, or a host of other applications that do the same things. Search Version Tracker if you want them.

2) I want the windows to store my settings. If I list applications by details, rather than as naff, huge icons, unless there is an option that I can find to tell it to store my settings, I expect it to be done automatically.

MacOS X lets to set window setting either 'Globaly' for your account, or for any given window. To do this open the folder you want then click on 'View - View Options' (or hit command + j) then click the radio button next to 'This window only'. Then any changes you set for this view will stick for this folder, or if you selected 'All windows' then all folder views.

3) I want to be able to tab through all my Windows. Not just '1' of each application. If I have a terminal up and 2 Mozilla windows (not 1 window with tabs), I want the Apple key + Tab to be able to go through all 3.

'Command + Tab' cycles through Applications, 'Command + ~ (tilde)' cycles through an individual Applications windows

4) I want it to tell me -- without requiring me to search in depth, and spend about 20 minutes -- what these shortcut keys are. I can't be the only one used to Linux/Windows, surely?

The standard shortcut keys for all Mac systems dating back to the original Classic is: Cut (Command + X) / Copy (Command + C) / Paste (Command + V) / Select All (Command + A) / Undo (Command +Z). There are many others depending on the Application and the amount of time the developer put in to this. The short cuts are normal listed next to the comand in the Application's menus.

MacOS 10.2.x enables you to turn on 'Full Keyboard Access' if you want additional Shortcuts. Go to System Preferences - Keyboard - Full Keyboard Access.

Also there are a ton of third party apps which will enable you to define your own if you want.

5) I want to be able to change settings in the 'Control Centre' without having to go back to the menu of options at each stage. This is just usability. If I want to go from one option to the next, I have to click one, which redraws my window, make changes, then click the button to show all the options. I can't a) look at more than one and b) have a list of options in the background (if you're changing something in every category it's handy to see where you're upto).

Try looking at the menu options listed up there next to 'Apple / System Preferences / Edit / View / Window / Help'. Clicking on the 'View' option will give you an alphabetical listing of every option in the System Preferences.

6) I want the maximise button (the +) to fscking well maximise. I don't mean 'get bigger' - I WILL DRAG THE WINDOW IF I WANT THAT. I WANT YOU TO MAXIMISE.

Read the previous response to how the MacOS handles windows.

7) I want to be able to tell OSX what I want click events to do -- I want the double click on the title bar to MAXIMISE. NOT MINISE. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO TELL IT THIS.

Individual preferences; however, Apple is keeping the behavior consistent with MacOS 8.x+ in terms of minimize/window shade features.

8) I want the terminal to run faster than my P200 running Linux. If I run the default shell, or even more so bash, it crawls. I use the ter

It's my understading that there are several alternatives to Apple's terminal, but I'm not sure what they are, I like the default one. I REALLY should have mentioned this in my earlier post, but every Mac user should be aware of http://versiontracker.com. You can find all kinds of fantastic software there. It's a really amazing site.

Bam, there you go. And that's only one of several.

Correction, thanks to another poster I discovered that you can calibrate iBook screens properly and now it looks a shitload better. Sweet :)

Dave

The sendmail/openssl security update you refer to was also released for 10.1.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/1 5352

Notice that Apple never indicates how to re-program the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key. That is because it isn't yet possible, due to the fact that Apple is still using a built-in ADB keyboard, which is broken by design.

My standard rant follows, because Apple hasn't yet listened to me.

Apple laptops are effectively unusable for unix users.

I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.

Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.

Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.

There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.

Apple provides a technical note on how to remap the keyboard, but provides no solution to the hardware problems caused by the design of the ADB keyboard. This tech note helps foreign language users, but does nothing for the CapsLock/Ctrl problem.

Apple is (currently) ignoring Unix users! This is not merely speculation on my part. In an on-going email exchange I am having with an Apple employee (whom I won't name) in their marketing department, the Apple marketing person directly stated to me that Apple was catering to their historic Mac customers, and is purposely ignoring the Unix market. He also claimed that Apple would soon start paying more attention to the Unix market. I won't hold my breath. Apple has been ignoring Unix users for more than 12 years. I expect that trend to continue.

Apple has now lost two opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.