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From: Woody on 14 May 2010 09:50 On 14/05/2010 14:48, Conor wrote: > On 13/05/2010 13:44, chris wrote: >> >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ >> >> I hadn't heard of most of them... > > I'd heard of most as they have Windows versions however Monolingual was > something I'd been looking for as I've used a similar app in Linux. > Monolingual stripped out 1.9GB of never to be used language files. You are so going to regret that when you learn simplified Chinese next month! -- Woody
From: Rowland McDonnell on 14 May 2010 21:33 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Conor wrote: > > chris wrote: > >> > >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ > >> > >> I hadn't heard of most of them... > > > > I'd heard of most as they have Windows versions however Monolingual was > > something I'd been looking for as I've used a similar app in Linux. > > Monolingual stripped out 1.9GB of never to be used language files. > > You are so going to regret that when you learn simplified Chinese next > month! <puzzled> Why this mania for stripping out `stuff I don't use now'? There seem to be a lot of people at it. Once upon a time, I used to put my apps on a diet and strip out the code that made it fat - back in the days of the 68k/PPC transition. But there stopped being any need for that many many years ago, when HDDs got a bit bigger. I don't understand why anyone would feel it'd help to strip out a mere 1.9MB of data from a modern PC's HDD. Okay, if it's an old Mac with a small - oh, 20GB or so - HDD, the benefit is clear. But I've got a 1TB HDD, and that's not big by current standards. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Woody on 15 May 2010 03:01 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Conor wrote: > > > chris wrote: > > >> > > >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ > > >> > > >> I hadn't heard of most of them... > > > > > > I'd heard of most as they have Windows versions however Monolingual was > > > something I'd been looking for as I've used a similar app in Linux. > > > Monolingual stripped out 1.9GB of never to be used language files. > > > > You are so going to regret that when you learn simplified Chinese next > > month! > > <puzzled> > > Why this mania for stripping out `stuff I don't use now'? There seem to > be a lot of people at it. Reducing your application size by 1.9GB is a great advantage when you are low on space. I have only 15GB free on this disk so I will probably do it. As I said from the joke, I am never going to learn those other languages so why do I need them? > Once upon a time, I used to put my apps on a diet and strip out the code > that made it fat - back in the days of the 68k/PPC transition. > > But there stopped being any need for that many many years ago, when HDDs > got a bit bigger. My hard disk hasn't got any bigger recently. > > I don't understand why anyone would feel it'd help to strip out a mere > 1.9MB of data from a modern PC's HDD. GB. It is a lot bigger than a MB. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Roger Merriman on 15 May 2010 04:25 chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ > > I hadn't heard of most of them... I have but don't use most as I don't use IM or video on the whole. roger -- www.rogermerriman.com
From: zoara on 16 May 2010 17:56
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-05-13, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> > >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ > >> > >> I hadn't heard of most of them... > >> > > > > I've got eight of them installed (including Burn, which didn't work > > but > > I never bothered to uninstall). > > Looks like Burn is either bering updated or has been recently. The > version I > have will crash if you tell it to burn a video file as a DVD *and* you > tell > it to put a menu on. No menu, no crash. Now you say it, I'm pretty sure that was exactly how it crashed. Unfortunately I needed menus on the disc I was burning... -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |