tar, gzip, bzip2, unzip are all available on stock Lion. brew install unrar for .rar files. Why bother with GUIs?
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Is it legal to sell it there?
Or do some rules apply to promotional cards?
I'm asking because there seem to be no Back to school 100$ cards on eBay right now, just the regular ones you can buy at the Apple Store.
OPlayer, Boom, Collins (a dictionary app), Cloud, MP4 Converter and iWork suite-that's what I bought so far from the App Store, quite happy with all of them...
- I'd recommend MPlayerX, it is very good, I used to use VLC before that.
- Caffeine is useful if you want a quick and easy way to stop your screen going to sleep.
- Radium is a great internet radio player that you operate from the task bar, I use that quite a bit.
- Caffeine is useful if you want a quick and easy way to stop your screen going to sleep.
- Radium is a great internet radio player that you operate from the task bar, I use that quite a bit.
That's not what he meant. By freeing RAM, apps you previously used will start slower. Lion will free up memory when you run out of it so I don't see the point why you'd like to free it up in the first place. Stop that hold Windows habit, it's not productive in the Mac environment or let's say the environment of any modern OS.
Not to mention you essentially paid for an app that simply does the following :
Code:
system("/usr/bin/purge")Guys, the purge command can free up memory. It simply drops the disk cache. Of course, each time you do this, the OS basically has to fetch back files from the actual disk drive, slowing up file read/write operations until the cache fills back up.
And the nice thing about the disk cache : The OS won't hesitate to flush it itself when it needs to allocate memory to user space applications.
So much for buying tools that are shipped with OS X, just because they have a pretty GUI.
In my experience Stuffit often had trouble uncompressing large files and froze, on 2 different macs.
Besides, The Unarchiver is basically install and forget and never gets in your way, there's a settings windows and that's it. It also automatically moves archives to the trash which is great.
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MPlayerX uses more CPU, and sometimes gives me some bugs related to fullscreen. VLC never gave me the slightest trouble so I'm still using it.
What I prefer with MPlayerX however is the "quit app on window close" option, and the fact there's only one window, I never understood why VLC uses 2.
I still have it installed though, in case they make it better some day.
Oh and ALFRED is a KICKASS app (especially with the powerpack), one of those I'll always have on any mac, like Dropbox and Caffeine.
iPhone Apps, iBooks...
too bad you can't use it to buy iPod clickwheel games anymore (they're gone altogether).
or GarageBand lessons, or iPhoto cards/photobooks (credit card only).
Otherwise, mine went to buy Pixelmator and music albums.
I already had iWork but it's a safe (and cheap) purchase if you don't have it or MS Office already.
enjoy
too bad you can't use it to buy iPod clickwheel games anymore (they're gone altogether).
or GarageBand lessons, or iPhoto cards/photobooks (credit card only).
Otherwise, mine went to buy Pixelmator and music albums.
I already had iWork but it's a safe (and cheap) purchase if you don't have it or MS Office already.
enjoy
Yup. I really don't understand why people waste their money on this stuff or why Apple actually allows it. The same goes for some of the multiple file rename apps. You can create a Finder service in 1 minute using Automator to the exact same thing.Not to mention you essentially paid for an app that simply does the following :
Code:system("/usr/bin/purge")
Guys, the purge command can free up memory. It simply drops the disk cache. Of course, each time you do this, the OS basically has to fetch back files from the actual disk drive, slowing up file read/write operations until the cache fills back up.
And the nice thing about the disk cache : The OS won't hesitate to flush it itself when it needs to allocate memory to user space applications.
So much for buying tools that are shipped with OS X, just because they have a pretty GUI.
my point exactly
just discovered Radium... has to be the best app I´ve ever seen, I wouldn´t change anythingoh dont forget Growl.. a nice add-on
This thread is originally from July, so all of the BTS promo cards have long since been sold.