Let’s face it: some reviews you read should be suspect immediately. For instance, a drive repair utility is a difficult application to review effectively. Certainly, a reviewer can have it run routine diagnostics and repairs. But a real world test would be some dramatic drive failure, against an intense deadline, that is totally unexpected. So, how convenient that I (ahem) went that extra mile and, er, PLANNED for such a catastrophe in order to give our readers a complete hands-on with Micromat‘s new OS X-native disk utility, Drive 10.
The Mac’s legendary interface customization software Kaleidoscope has become a casualty of the transition to OS X. Arlo Rose reports on his website today that “The last version of Kaleidoscope we released was 2.3.1. While we still support it, and encourage people running pre-Mac OS X machines to download and register it, we are no longer actively working on a version for Mac OS X.”