VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while innotek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria. What can be said has mostly been said, but I'll chime in. When I was still on dial-up, I had no choice but to obtain the typically humongous Adobe software updaters for the various Creative Suite applications by individually downloading them off Adobe’s web site.It's not quite as nice to configure as Parallels, but once it's running it's fantastic. Now that I have a semi-broadband connection via satellite, I have more or less given up on this approach, partly because the Adobe web site itself is so frustrating, and partly because the current version of the Creative Suite (version 3) has so many components that need updating that keeping track of all the updates is almost a full-time job in itself. So I effectively let Adobe CS3’s own automatic updater application do its thing:īut frankly, this application and the updating process as designed by Adobe is a complete disaster.
There are just too many issues to mention. When the updater runs, it checks for updates in the background, and then displays a dialog box requiring your attention:Īnd that’s where the problems start. (I’ll ignore the purely “aesthetic” problems here, although there are plenty of them, starting with these ugly blue links for “ Preferences” and “ Show Details” instead of proper Mac OS X controls, and with the fact that the blue link is the only way to access the application’s preferences. There is no “ Preferences” command in the application’s menu.)įor one thing, in my experience, there is absolutely no point in trying to use the “ Show Details” option. For example, in the message above, I am told that there are 2 updates available, for a total of 68.4 MB. Yet when I click on “ Show Details,” I get this:īy my count, there are already five updates listed here, and it’s not even the full list. And if I check the boxes next to the available updates listed, I get a total that far exceeds 68.4 MB.
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