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illegallydead said:
Try rebooting. Also, check if there is a red light coming from your speaker output / headphones port. If yes, stick a paper clip in there and wiggle until it goes away :D. Seriously. If not, there is something else weirder going on that I have no way of knowing (not to mention it would be a lot easier to diagnose a problem if you actually said WHAT application it was that caused this...)
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I didn't see a red light at the headphone port. I also tried using head phones and pulled it out and reinserted it about 6 times with no luck (saw this on the Apple discussion board).

I installed: DefaultFolderX, KeyCue, whatsize, mac pilot, little snitch.

Will be hard to tell which is the culprit. I may have to do a restore... Or else revert back to last nights preferences using Time Machine... What do you suggest.

Nuc

Edit: After Archive and install it's working again...
 
MindBrain said:
Alot of those programs sound really useful, any comment on ones that work good or dont work good ?
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Well, personally, I'm not still too impressed with WhatSize. I've tried it a couple of times in the past when trying to help other people on these forums, and it was absolutely atrocious. Serious bugs and design flaws resulting in completely incorrect output.

I just tried it again, curious to see if they'd fixed their problems. Was looking good, nice impressive new interface, when in less than 2 minutes of use it crashed on me. Oops! :eek:

The output seems more correct this time around, and I see they did implement one major fix I'd suggested in this forum back in April. But for anyone who's not afraid of Terminal, everything it does is available for free with the built-in du command. $13 for a pretty interface? I'll pass! Others may find it useful.


As for the other apps, most seem like things I'd rather try to figure out on my own for fun. KeyCue looks handy, but it's clearly just looking somewhere in the application bundle for that info. Would be fun to research what it's looking for - probably not hard. MacPilot looks like somebody went to macosxhints.com and put a bunch of the hints into one app. And they charge 20 bucks for it? Sheesh. :rolleyes:

In fact, daenney seems to have it right on most of them, from what I can tell. Especially iVolume... huh? :confused: Isn't this built into iTunes? :rolleyes:


DriveGenius does seem to be the most promising, but I have no direct experience. It's made by Prosoft Engineering, who also makes Data Rescue II which I can personally vouch for as an excellent product. Saved my butt when a drive started to go really bad.

Out of curiosity, I just tried the demo of DriveGenius. The gratuitous eye candy is a little over the top for a drive utility... :rolleyes: I also find it hilarious that even a product like this with real, non-trivial features has to add stuff that already exists in standard system utilities (Info and Initialize). I'm not sure what they can possibly add to initialize/format to make it any better than what Disk Utility does?? But otherwise it looks pretty solid, and easily the best value of this package.
 
JPGR_Fan said:
I attempted to buy the bundle. Took all my info and then didn't deliver. Now I must monitor my credit card for a period of time to avoid fraud.
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same thing happened to me. and im pretty sure my VISA has been charged but i will wait for a conformation. if it has been carged i will be calling them ASAP.
 
jforger said:
Does anybody know how the licensing works on these bundles? Can I split the applications up across my various Macs? Also, am I able to remove one of the apps from the Mac that it was originally installed on and then move it over to one of my other Macs, or is it locked to the original Mac that it was installed on?
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i have bought former bundles and unless they have changed the rules (which i really really don't think), you can split apps. delete it from one mac, install it in another. you could also sell the apps you don't need.
 
Wirelessly posted (iPod touch 32GB: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77a Safari/525.20)

illegallydead said:
good lord, no wonder piracy is so popular. For the prices of the programs and looking at what they do, I would say they are all stupidly overpriced. But then I have never used any of them, but still...

I'm just saying....

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And yes, to anyone who fires back, I know that they are on sale and it is a wonderful deal and all that happy stuff and it goes to help MR blablabla...
And no, moderators, I am not endorsing piracy, I am just talking about the motivations for doing so. Stop censoring me :D
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I see this argument quite frequently and it's something I've never really understood.
Being too expensive shouldn't be a justification or reason for piracy: I think ferraris are overpriced but it doesn't mean I would feel justified in nicking one :D
If software is too expensive simply don't buy it
 
Bought it for little snitch but on paying, it said that the serial number would be provided by the developer. No serial number ever arrived. I sent an email to the developer about this but haven't received any response yet. Now I'm locked out of the program because my "demo" version's 3 hour trial has expired. As far as I'm concerned, if you are buying it for little snitch, beware
 
topicolo said:
Now I'm locked out of Little Snitch because my "demo" version's 3 hour trial has expired.
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AFAIK, you can run the demo version three hours *at a time*. Just quit and relaunch the app and you can run it for three more hours.
 
littlesnitch and drive genius... sold me

thanks macupdate ive wanted both these apps and you will take a home in my hitachi 320 gb 7200 rpm hdd for my cdmb
 
Same thing happened to me when I was creating my login, the page finally crashed. But when I tried again I got a confirmation page after re entering my info. DId that happen to you?

After this I actually dont expect to be charged twice.
I got the licenses a few minutes later.
 
topicolo said:
Bought it for little snitch but on paying, it said that the serial number would be provided by the developer. No serial number ever arrived. I sent an email to the developer about this but haven't received any response yet. Now I'm locked out of the program because my "demo" version's 3 hour trial has expired. As far as I'm concerned, if you are buying it for little snitch, beware
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you have to download little snitch from the "direct from developer" link
 
These bundles are good for one thing: They increase awareness of specific applications within the bundle. I have no use for any of the applications in that bundle other than iVolume, so I just purchased that application by itself last night. (Works great, by the way!)
 
Anyone buying the optional program - Good Deal ?

Anyone buying any of the optional programs - Good Deal ?

ProSoft Data Rescue II (retail: $99.00)
Recovers data from damaged hard drives. Learn more...
@ $59.00 ea.
ProSoft Data Backup (retail: $59.00)
Robust backup solution. Learn more...
@ $39.00 ea.
Hear (retail: $49.95)
Improves audio quality in music and movies. Learn more...
@ $34.95 ea.
Librarian Pro (retail: $29.95)
Complete personal inventory system. Learn more...
@ $9.95 ea.
Intego NetBarrier X.5 and Personal AntiSpam (retail: $99.90)
Firewall and anti-spam solution. Learn more...
@ $39.00 ea.
 
Anybody having a problem receiving the keys/serial #'s for LittleSnitch and KeyCue? It says that I will receive them from the developer, but I haven't seen anything yet.

Edit: Okay, I figured it out. Anything on MU's page that says "Direct from Developer" means that they haven't yet gotten the serial # from the software developer. I refreshed my purchase receipt and the serial # for LittleSnitch showed up. I'm still waiting on KeyCue, but I would guess that it will show up shortly.
 
Carl Abudephane said:
The truly frightening thing though is that here in England, when I'm out and about, virtually without exception, everybody I see with an iPod is using the earbuds that come with it! Don't even get me started on the reasons why....
In two words: Asleep. Sheep.
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I use Apple's earbuds, and when they break (I tend to go to sleep listening to audiobooks) I buy new Apple ones. I think they sounds just fine. I'd never pay more than £20 for a pair of earbuds, and Apple's ones sound better than the various other big-name branded ones I tried at the same price point. Why bother getting others when they do the job fine? My ear isn't nearly sensitive enough, nor do I listen to anywhere near enough music to justify fancier ones. That doesn't make me a sheep. It also shows I'm not a music snob.

And yes, the iTunes equalisation does just fine for me. I expect I'll get no more use out of iVolume than I will the anti-virus app included.
 
freeny said:
Whats the word on rapidweaver? Is it any better or different than iweb?
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Much better than iWeb, which while notable for its ease of use essentially commits the user to ONLY using an iWeb roadmap. That said, for the price, iWeb is still pretty decent.

Rapidweaver seems to strike a unique balance of being a WYSIWYG web editor but with the ability to directly code HTML (and limited CSS, which you get built in with RW's various templates). Haven't used Version 4 but it looks pretty promising. RW's biggest problem is that it can't compete with iWeb's price point (free or a cheap iLife bundle) .
 
Went through the purchase process, put in my CC number, got an error about JavaScript... not impressed.

I logged back in to see if the bundle was purchased, MacUpdate says I have $40 a year account with them. I definitely didn't sign up for that. I would recommend anyone who bought this bundle to check they're not going to be charged.
 
Sky Blue said:
I logged back in to see if the bundle was purchased, MacUpdate says I have $40 a year account with them. I definitely didn't sign up for that. I would recommend anyone who bought this bundle to check they're not going to be charged.
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I saw that earlier on too - but it says this now as well:

Your current subscription rate: $39.95/year
Please note: If you just recently became a MacUpdate member and have not purchased a membership, your account will be marked as a Desktop account at $39.95. This will last for 7 days and is part of our free trial–rest assured that you have not, and will not, be automatically billed unless you elect to continue the membership.

I bought the bundle primarily for the anti virus (better safe than sorry methinks - given Apple's recent announcement and the continuing growth in the usage of Macs, it's only a matter of time) - but there are a few other nice items in there too of definite use (Drive Genius, iVolume, Little Snitch mainly)
 
Don't know what you're missing

Jimmni said:
I use Apple's earbuds, and when they break (I tend to go to sleep listening to audiobooks) I buy new Apple ones. I think they sounds just fine. I'd never pay more than £20 for a pair of earbuds, and Apple's ones sound better than the various other big-name branded ones I tried at the same price point. Why bother getting others when they do the job fine? My ear isn't nearly sensitive enough, nor do I listen to anywhere near enough music to justify fancier ones. That doesn't make me a sheep. It also shows I'm not a music snob.

And yes, the iTunes equalisation does just fine for me. I expect I'll get no more use out of iVolume than I will the anti-virus app included.
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I assume you're one of the lucky people who can wear the Apple earbuds without them falling out of your ears the moment you move your head. If you're really lucky and your ears provide a reasonably tight fight for the Apple earbuds then you are probably getting decent sound too. I've tried the standard earbuds and when I press them against my ears with my hands they don't sound too bad.

Since I can't wear standard earbuds I opted for in-ear units over the much larger, heavier over-ear models. Comfort is a huge factor with in-ear models. I had been making do with $20 buds because they were super comfortable, but the muddy sound quality was driving crazy. I tried moving up to $60, but they hurt my ears so I gave them to my wife who thinks they're comfortable. I eventually settled on a $100 pair of Sennheiser buds, but they came with such soft rubber that I couldn't get a proper seal in my ear. I swapped them for the firmer rubber from my old $20 pair and finally got the bass response they're noted for.

I'm over 40 and my hearing isn't what it used to be, but I could never go back to cheap earbuds.
 
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