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New Mactella 1.2b beta for OS X

updated 06:35 am EDT, Tue June 26, 2001

 
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The file sharing client Mactella 1.2b, which now runs as a native OSX application, includes new features such as download lists for automating the procedure of trying. The company notes that a release version will follow for both OSX and pre-OSX systems in about a week after it receives feedback from users on the current beta release. It is available in French, Japanese, Spanish, and German versions. [Carbon]


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    humm

    Good but bad. Still has bug and needs a lot more options. Grouping would be nice, an incomplete download folder is also needed, and those ugly tabs need to go. Decent app though.

    If the above fixes and features were taken care of I'd use it. Right now I will stick with LimeWire. This is the Gnutella client to beat for OS X. Ya it has no icon, but a draging the app to the terminal and a pressing return is not toooo hard ;)

    Ohhh and I'd like to see a gnutella client with multiple windows. I hate all of these one window clients. Most people have scrapped this UI design since you have no idea what is happening under one tab while you are working under another. (this UI design made the mac hack 2000 bug list mind you ...for the OS X system prefs) We need a gnutella client that has a UI like mac-napster or hotline.

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    Limewire has an icon

    The latest version of limewire is now a dmg image. It has an icon and you can drag it to your application folder like the rest of the apps. You are right however, Limewire is the gnutella client to beat and mactella has a little ways to go.

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    How many windows do you w

    Mactella started its life as basically a one window application in homage to (OK, copying) Furi, the first gnutella app that ran on the Mac. It has been a long time since it has been limited to one window. By choosing New Search... from the File menu you can create any number of independent Search windows. Using the new Find dialog which is obtained by selecting Find... in the Edit menu, you can select a useful subset of the entries in a Search window (or the Search panel of the main window) and then select Make Download List in the File menu to create yet another window. This new window is a new type of window that automates the tedious procedure of finding a server that is not busy. It will step through the files in its list and keep trying until it manages to download one file successfully. You can alter the files in the list using Macintosh standard interface techniques like drag and drop (try that with a ported app).

    Are people seriously not finding these user interface features? These are described in the release notes (yeah, I don't like to read documentation either). The list procs which are incorrectly drawing the progress bars when scrolling, will be replaced with Apple's data browser controller but that will force the application to only run in OSX systems and pre-OSX systems that include an up-to-date CarbonLib. There were also some crashing issues with the current Apple data browser which I was trying to avoid.

    Steve Bryan

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    Full Fledge Napster?

    Should i even both and get this? is it a full fledged napster replacement? is it easy to use ? does it work anything like napster did?

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    Re: Full Fledge Napster?

    Well...not quite.

    Although Gnutella/Mactella/LimeWire is a peer-to-peer file sharing system and it allows, without restriction, sharing of any file from PC to PC, it unfortunately has drawbacks of being somewhat slow (in most instances).

    On occasion, you can make a very fast connection to a user. My personal experience is that a download above 10kbps is pretty rare.

    Also, if you are running on a modem, you don't get the wide range of selection with LimeWire, because you are restricted to only having 2-3 connections open. Each connection has a list of hosts, which has a list of users and media files.

    Give it a shot. It's the best thing available since Napster is gone. Yes, it's gone people, live with it.

    -jw

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    What about this...?

    These clients are unrestricted, but like in Limewire,
    I MUST connect and disconnect from EACH server to search
    each one?? Can't I enter a search and have it attempt connect
    until exhausted?

    Am I missing something, or are these apps lazy?

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    WinMX

    I wish we had a Mac version of WinMX.

    It would be cool if Rapster or something similar that supported OpenNap servers would add features like WinMX for Windows has.

    The coolest thing it does is that it can attempt to connect to all OpenNap servers at the same time and keep redialing all of them automatically until it gets in and when you search you search all the OpenNap servers that you are connected to.

    On my PC at work it takes about 2-3 minutes to get into about 5-6 OpenNap servers at the same time.

    (I know this has nothing to do with Mactella - but maybe someone will read this and adopted it into the features their file-sharing app for the mac)

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    Re: WinMX

    I agree. A budy of mine at college has it and it is the best program going for mp3 (or any other file type) right now!

    we should email them and get them to port it over to the mac!

    feedback@winmx.com
    www.winmx.com

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    Re: What about this...?

    Gnutella is a broadcast query, route reply network. When you are connected to it your query is broadcast to every server no further than about seven hops away. Each server that has a reply to your query sends it back along the path of the query to your node. That is how it works. There are some embellishments having to do with indexing the network but what I described above is the main search protocol in gnutella.

    In other words, no you do not have to connect to each other machine in order to search for content on it.

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    dmg

    where can i find this dmg version of limewire?

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