A few things to say in this post...
1. Menu Master 1.2 is now out. This had no real public beta as I changed one line of code so it wouldn't call -delegate on NSMenu in 10.2.8. This changed fixed compatibility with applications that used cocoa or loaded cocoa in 10.2.8.
You'll notice the readme spells out the version of the Mac OS as Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. This is done in a mocking fashion because I think that it is ridiculous OS X has such a long "official" name. You never see MS referring to Windows NT 5.1 XP or something like that.
The version is 1.2 because 1.1.1 brought a LOT of stuff and should have actually been called 1.2 or 1.5. Not using the proper version number caused quite a few folks to not realize how much had changed between 1.1.1 and 1.1 and how important a fix 1.1.1 was.
2. Silk is currently in beta testing to fix a bug with the font size not being respected and a crash in Entourage due to turning a less than four byte array member into a 4 byte array member. Bad mojo.
3. When looking at FontCard bugs to fix, I saw the Word 2004 bug again. It was reported by a user as to be caused by FontCard. However, upon further examination, the Font menu (in the menu bar) doesn't even work in Word 2004 if WYSIWYG menus is turned off. So it ain't no stinkin bug in FontCard. (*winky* *tongue* *eww*)
4. Speaking of FontCard, You Control: Fonts has finally been released. It was originally scheduled for May of 2004. It is a bit later than that.
Anywho, welcome to the club, You Software. I hope you are successful in your new endeavor. You've one upped us with Cocoa support. Just a few things to say about your new offering. One, it only seems to work with ATSUI/MLTE/Cocoa applications so it won't work in older QuickDraw like applications (read: BBEdit, Eudora) unlike FontCard. Two, it still patches applications. It (the patching thing, at least) is written by the author of Ittec. Even seems to use the same patching mechanism. When first run, it installs a Scripting Addition into ~/Library/Scripting Additions/ called YouSoftware.osax. It does not tell you this and it installs the software before you even accept the EULA so even if you decline it, it is still there. This scripting addition appears to do all the patching work. Or at least loads the bundle that actually does do the patching work. Seems to do the latter. The bundles are stored at You Control Fonts.app/Contents/PlugIns/FontMenu.bundle/Contents/PlugIns/.
Why am I posting all of this? Their original press release said this about FontCard "..., but also they were slow and used some suspect methods to create their font menus that compromised the stability of your computer." Suspect methods... This thing is installing a Scripting Addition without even so much as telling you something is getting installed.
5. There is a new product called iPartition from a company I've never heard of. Their about lists little experience with Macs and especially with HFS+. It sounds like a very promising utility, however.
The problem I have is with their FAQ in which they state:
"Please understand that, even assuming that our software contains no bugs whatsoever, a large number of factors entirely beyond our control can cause loss of data, including power failures, lightning strikes, hardware failure, logic glitches or random bit errors, kernel bugs, interference from third-party software (virus killers, haxies, APE and the like), and even the actions of other people."
Is it just me or are they comparing APE to lightning strikes? Frankly if they properly unmount the volume and mark it as "off limits" as any good Disk Utility should do, APE won't touch the volume. And since the tool runs as root (they say it right on that same page), APE cannot touch it at all. APE will not affect root processes in any case. So no, APE cannot be blamed if your data is lost while iPartition (or any disk utility) is doing its thing.
Edit: They have just updated their FAQ and this criticism is no longer valid. But this is a blog, not a support site.
6. I believe that is all I have to say today. CoreImage looks neat?
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F*** iPartition. It kept creating 0 byte partitions and when I tried to refresh the partition map it showed me, it ran Create Partition Map and WIPED MY ENTIRE DRIVE! I lost over 3 years of irreplacable data, including my entire company. I now have to spend $1600 on professional forensic recovery because of this application.
DO NOT USE
Posted by: on July 7, 2004 1:31 PMIt is hard for one to take an Anonymous AOL user seriously...
Posted by: Rosyna on July 7, 2004 1:33 PMPerhaps an Anonymous AOL user who apparently doesn't backup?
Posted by: Ben Rosenthal on July 7, 2004 1:55 PMThe people at http://www.coriolis-systems.com/ have since updated their page and removed APE and haxies from their description. So all is well with the world.
Posted by: Rosyna on July 7, 2004 2:21 PMMan, Rosyna, that is an *awesome* title.
Does everyone else get as much of a kick out of the "deleted my hard drive" issues from anonymous cowards as I do?
Posted by: Chris on July 7, 2004 2:44 PMInteresting, I wonder how iPartition compares to VolumeWorks.
http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=431
Both came out around the same time, and I'm wondering which one to use.
Posted by: Josh on July 7, 2004 4:23 PMHmm, these volume pooching stories are not that far fetched. I tried Volumeworks, and managed to pooch a disk.
I, however, backed everything up first. Not to diss Subrosa, but that was a pricey experiment. Just proved to me that there's no free lunch, and I'm better off doing the old reformat and resize watusi.
BTW, Rosyna? You might want to make the input fields in the your comments mandatory, or when users don't fill anything in they get the badge 'anon coward / beavis / mouth breather.'
As always, just my 2 yen. Keep the change!
Posted by: Leo of BORG on July 7, 2004 5:01 PMLeo, wish I knew how ;)
But 2 yen are filthy. I swear the japanese coins are the dirtiest coins ever. My hands were always black. The US coins just make your hands smell all funny and coppery.
Posted by: Rosyna on July 7, 2004 5:06 PMIt's hard to take Unsanity seriously when they think it better to flame someone who prefers privacy/anonymity to pasting names & links across every comment or query on the Web.
Great public relations, reminds me why I should upgrade or continue using your products, you got me.
An aside, the backup was both on a separate partition and a separate drive, and both were damaged (one in the formatting and one in drive copy error) during the process of trying to recover from this fiasco.
All bow to the eleet hax0rs of Unsanity comment posters, you are soooo much smarter than us all. Flame away, I'm obviously a sub-user compared to your greatness and intelligence.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 7, 2004 6:51 PMSheesh, Anonymous Coward. How old are you? You rant about a piece of software unrelated to Unsanity in their own forum, you relate a story that usually only befalls the reckless, and you get angry with people for expressing concern over your credentials. Learn to spell, and find a place to rant where someone cares to hear your crude comments or better yet, quit your whining altogether.
Posted by: MaestroJAL on July 7, 2004 7:34 PMAnonymous Coward - you're saying that your backup drive was damaged while trying to recover from the (supposed) iPartition goof? How incompetent are you? And if you're in fact claiming that iPartition destroyed your backup drive too (which if you are claiming that, it's not clear) then I call your bluff. I don't claim to know how iPartition works, but I do claim that for iPartition to damage a drive that it wasn't supposed to be touching it would have had to be coded to do that deliberately (I can't imagine how it could accidentally destory a drive it's not doing anything with) and that I don't believe. And even if it *did* do that, it's still your fault for not disconnecting and keeping safe your backup drive. I certainly would never keep my backup drive mounted on my computer while doing an act that could destroy all the data on my computer.
And if you destroyed your backup drive yourself trying to recover, well, that's your own fault.
Posted by: Kevin Ballard on July 7, 2004 7:51 PM"This is done in a mocking fashion because I think that it is ridiculous OS X has such a long "official" name."
And here I thought you were joining me in fighting the big cats. Hmph.
Posted by: rentzsch on July 7, 2004 9:08 PMYou know, I don't care what Rosyna says, as long as she says it with authority!!! I am SO HOT right now… gotta go be alone.
Posted by: Atlaspower on July 8, 2004 9:42 AMAny news on the FontCard front, Rosyna? Hows the cocoa-fication coming along?
Posted by: Ton Ensing on July 9, 2004 1:23 AMThe anonymous coward didn't contact us for support either, which might indicate that they have a pirated copy.
But they also missed-out on the chance to get their disk fixed by us for free; we're pretty certain that we know what has happened in the very few cases where our program has caused trouble, and we've already [remotely] fixed one customer's disk, as well as releasing a new version of iPartition without the bug in question. And if they did run Create Partition Map by accident, well, we could have fixed that fairly easily too, even though that would have been their fault. So that's $1,600 worth of support they could have had for free.
(Just to be clear, we're sorry about the APE and haxies comment; it wasn't meant to cause offense :-) Indeed, we only mentioned them specifically because they're so popular and we weren't sure whether ordinary users would recognise other terms… in the end, we settled for "system hacks".)
As for Mac/HFS(+) experience, we've got quite a bit of UNIX experience, which is relevant on Mac OS X, but you're right, our HFS(+) experience is limited to our work on iPartition. But we're sure we understand the volume format well enough.
Posted by: Coriolis Systems on July 10, 2004 12:38 PM(BTW, contrary to what you say above, our software doesn't run as root. We only need a very small portion to run as root to gain access to the disk; most of it runs as ordinary user code. So we have to disagree—APE can and does inject into our program.)
Posted by: Coriolis Systems on July 11, 2004 3:07 AMGeez...the happyfest disappeared here. What happened? Eagerly awaiting the latest and greatest in the way of Unsanity goodies and some new ones with the advent of Tiger. What the Mac Community has always had is a true sense of community...I hope we never lose the very thing that makes Mac ownership what it is.
Posted by: CREB on July 16, 2004 10:54 AMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated.