Keeping up with the Latest (and Worst) Mac Software

g_adams27 writes "Sure, VersionTracker will keep you up-to-date with the latest useful software, but where can you go to get the latest updates on absolutely horrific software? Fear not! PerversionTracker has got you covered, with updates on the latest (and most worthless) Mac software." The best one is a review of Nisus E-mail via interpretive dance.

Not really

[onthefenceman]

That's funny, I always thought /. was the best way to keep up with the worst software...

perversion?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, I happen to ENJOY SkullCracker Daemon 1.1.1

Re:perversion?

[Anonymous Coward]

You *must* be the author, trying to hide behind obvious anonymity.

You shall now die for your crimes!

Something about perversion-tracker

[ihatewinXP]

Something about the task that guy has set himself was keeping me up last night. "OK first I have to turn my system into a clusterfuck of extensions by installing damn near every program that comes out...Daily. Then for the real pieces of crap I'll explore all of their non-existant and frustrating features. And only after this is all done I will then somehow put on my happy face and write a blisteringly funny review."
I just couldnt do it......

Re:Something about perversion-tracker

[water-and-sewer]

I was laughing too until I saw Opera on that list. Opera is a seriously great browser in my opinion, and anyone who goes to such extreme lengths to trash it is probably still using IE for Mac, which any Machead will tell you was crap to use.

Still a pretty funny site. I liked the references to the baboons chasing you in your glass-filled shoes.

Re:Something about perversion-tracker

[Anonymous Coward]

It is generally agreed that Opera for Windows is a great browser, while Opera for Mac is terrible. Which have you used?

Re:Something about perversion-tracker

[water-and-sewer]

maybe that's the difference. On Windows it's my primary browser and the only browser I can stand to use. It's also my primary Linux browser. I've never used it on Mac. Too bad to know it's not as good.

Re:Something about perversion-tracker

[Ponty]

From the review: "On attempting to load PerversionTracker, Opera laid out the page poorly, claimed to be "done," and yet continued to spin its progress indicator. For 25 minutes."

Re:Something about perversion-tracker

[Ponty]

Of course you can. Part of being a browser is handling non-optimal/error conditions. If it can't deal properly with an erroneous page, then what's the hell of bothering to have a browser?

Re:Something about perversion-tracker

[ihatewinXP]

Opera on mac is shitty (and yes, it is) becasue its an obvious port. Among other things but the number one complaint: it just doesnt feel like a mac program (this is the Apple board, I dont have to explain what I mean by that). I also like it on Windows (I was an early Opera convert) and my sister jumped for joy when she found out is was coming to OSX but when we actually used it, bleh. A day later and she was done with it. It took me a week at most. At the time we went back to Omniweb and now are both content with Safari. Sorry Opera team, best of luck on that other platform.

Re:Opera

[gobbo]

Yes, Opera on X suX. But when setting up an old 180MHz PPC with not much RAM or HD on a cable connection, I found that it took Opera or iCab to surf decently... and Opera has the better interface (sans ads) and rendering in the pre-OS X version, IMHO. Actually, WannaBe has the best speed-surfing experience, as it's text only...

Re:Opera

[ihatewinXP]

Whatever happened to iCab? I thought they would really do something by being one of the first browsers to work on X (I think they had it running at the Public Beta). It was hella clean, a totally mac native app, and runs from old school Moto 68000s to brand new dual g4's - Sooooo many features and so small. The only things that stick out to me are that 1. it is put out by some small german company that couldnt market themselves into getting arrested and/or 2. that the rendering looks (or at least did look) like shit on a system like OSX... Omniweb too........ Now all i hear about is this newfangled SurfSafari thing, and the tabs, and the tabs, and the tabs.......

Re:Something about perversion-tracker

[tsa]

I liked that one. Mozilla is at the moment my favourite browser. I wonder what the author would make of Mozilla.

don't forget the worst part of Virtual PC

[commodoresloat]

is that it allows you to install Windows.

New vistas in crap

[shawkin]

Imagine what one could do were this idea extended to Windows! Of course you would have the problem of reviewer suicide.

The reviews aren't funny

[Anonymous Coward]

...not half as funny as the actual apps...shit...I just downloaded 'Steve's Timer', my fucking God what a disaster. I think I have been the victim of a Software Troll.

Still recommend the site, but just download the software and make up your own reviews. There is one gem though:

Resizing the window will result in much hilarity as the interface breaks apart like a fragile ice sculpture of Steve Ballmer falling into a volcano

Virgin Tracker

[orthogonal]

Virgin Tracker?

You mean the Slashdot user list?

Oh, Perversion Tracker!

Yeah, that's the Slashdot user list.

He's right.

[Geekboy(Wizard)]

"Using Opera is like slipping on a comfortable pair of shoes, and then discovering that your formerly comfortable shoes have been surreptitiously filled with broken glass. As you make this realization, a troupe of baboons rounds the corner, baring and snapping their grisly teeth. They howl and begin to chase you. Knowing you're the only fresh meat for miles, you start running from this horrible Ape Menace, suspecting that you have somehow fallen into the hands of the Global Monkey Conspiracy. As the simian horde draws closer, in your desperate panic to get away, you slide into a steep ravine. As you strike bottom, you awake, in bed. It was all a dream. You are safe, asleep, and your computer has only non-Opera browsers installed."

How true, How true.

Son of Pervision Tracker

[blab]

Son of PervisionTracker, it's...Useless Freshmeat, SourceForge (and others) Projects [open5ource.net]

Spawn of VersionTracker

[Such_a_geek]

C|Net ran a little blurb [com.com] about this the other day. (Scroll down). Interestingly, the site's founder [spiny.com] used to work for VersionTracker itself. It must be nice to spit out a little bile after having to be objective about some of the crap that gets posted up there.

Oh, and they are open to expanding onto other platforms: "I'm not much of a Windows guy," he said. "It's certainly possible if we got some contributors that were interested in highlighting the worst of Windows or Linux we might go there."

Re:Spawn of VersionTracker

[critter_hunter]

It's hard to identify the worse of Linux. Linux apps tend to be chockfull of feature and very useful, but they are all so badly designed it's a pain to use them. There doesn't seem to be any Interface Design Guidelines for X11, and so apps will have wildly varying behaviors for similar tasks, making it hard to judge an app's GUI.

As for Windows... well, you'd have to check a thousand apps before you even set on a scale. There's no telling the abysmal pieces of VB shit that may lie around in wait of a poor reviewer.

so...

[sc00p18]

I'm using this crappy software on my mac, and then it's like beep beep beep beep beep. And like, my mac froze. And I had to restart it and it wasn't as good. It's kind of a, bummer.