Beware! I had Boom installed as a login item, so it loaded whenever I stared up, along with several other login items and startup programs that I use every day. I didn’t notice any problems at first but one day started experiencing a sudden, spontaneous log-out and reboot problem: I'd be working on the computer doing nothing in particular and suddenly get a blue screen and be rebooted to the login screen. This is not a kernel panic but, rather a sudden total shutdown and restart.

I tried all the usual troubleshooting techniques (repair permissions, test RAM, test HD, run Diskwarrior, Applejack, etc.) and couldn't find the problem. I checked crash logs but couldn’t find a consistent cause. I, then, disabled my login items, one at a time, over several days, and traced the problem to Boom. I uninstalled Boom and have not had a problem since.

This is a potentially good and useful utility, but the developer needs to find a better way to implement it, rather than with a kernel extension (kext) that appears to cause a kext conflict.