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This really shows how naturally dirty our minds are, you just assume the word that’s being bleeped out is what it is.
Of course, now I’ll never be able to watch Sesame Street with my nephew in the same light ever again.
This really shows how naturally dirty our minds are, you just assume the word that’s being bleeped out is what it is.
Of course, now I’ll never be able to watch Sesame Street with my nephew in the same light ever again.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in square holes.
As many of you will probably know I’ve been rather upset at Ambrosia Software of late for what I regard to be a complete lack of respect for their paying customers. I was one of their biggest advocates, I bought WireTap Studio, WireTap Anywhere and Soundboard all because they were fantastic apps, and in the case of Soundboard it still is a great app.
But then Lion came along, during the developer previews I became aware that both WireTap Studio and Anywhere just didn’t work, they couldn’t capture application specific audio, which meant I couldn’t record or stream IMP Live from Lion. Of course I understood that I was using a developer preview of an unreleased OS, so I wasn’t angry at all, and reached out to them on Twitter. Their response was fairly reasonable along the lines of
We plan to have something in place by the time Lion is released
I was delighted, they seemed responsive and on top of things but that was nothing more than false hope. Lion arrived, I upgraded because, well I like to be on the latest release, and still no update on either app. I left it a week or so, as I still had a Snow Leopard partition I could use for IMP recording, but still no update and their site came up with a pathetic excuse blaming Apple and Lion’s sandboxing. OK, I’d buy that if it wasn’t for the fact that Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack Pro, NiceCast and AirFoil were updated to work with Lion and can hijack specific application audio.
I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt for a bit longer, again because I still had my Snow Leopard partition on my MacBook Pro. Then, when I got my new 27” iMac, which I’ve already fallen in love with I faced a decision about what I wanted to, I really didn’t want to install Snow Leopard onto this new system. So, I went to their forums to see if there were any updates and I was horrified by the response there, to quote from their last forum post on the matter:
We are not putting the resources into a fix that we know will only last a couple months.
I’m sorry, but I paid $129 for this app, and that’s their attitude to their customers? Now, you all know I do customer support for the great folks at AgileBits who make 1Password, and we’ve had a lot of changes over the last few months, because of changes in Lion, Safari 5.1 and Firefox 6+, but I genuinely hope we’ve done a better job of conveying our passion to help our customers than these guys have.
So, today, with the help of some friends such as Victor Cajiao and Bart Busschots, I got everything up and running with Audio Hijack Pro and a few manual wiring setups because of my great audio interface and unless Ambrosia come out with a really big apology and great update then I’m never going back.
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get this off my chest.
I’m on an apple computer, it’s silver and black. I don’t know anything about browsers, OS, versions of anything, licenses (other than to drive) and I’ve never been on a safari. My ex was a teckie (and a total dork) and put this on here probably to spy on me but we don’t live together anymore and I don’t have a need for James Bond level of top security to send cat videos to my friends.A customer asking how to remove our software.
Nothing sucks more than when an app on the Mac is slow and is giving you the ‘spinning pizza of death’ beachballs (is there an actual name for these?), it sucks even more when it’s one of Apple’s own apps.
I was having issues with the Mac App Store being incredibly slow, giving lots of beachballs and generally being unpleasant to use. At first I thought this was a Lion bug, but after tweeting a plea for some help my friend John F. Braun came to the rescue.
Here’s how to fix things:
Here’s a screenshot of what the Preferences > Certificate window should look like.
Hope that helps, thanks again to John for the tip.
After kindly being loaned this fantastic bundle from the folks at OWC, I spent some time to really put it through its paces. Follow the link for the full review
Client: We’re moving to another host, you need to help us!
Me: I’d love to, but my wife is in labor right now.
Client: Do you understand our website is down?
Ah yes, the wonderful clients who think they come before anything else :-)
