Pretty darn good little utility! It has given me no problems since day one of getting it and I have it running all the time as a startup item. I hope the developer keeps it up-to-date with the evolving Mac OS so that it continues to function as Apple updates.

First of all a bit of praise and a thankyou for this app and the effort. Things I like are:
- That it is a menu item that is out of the way, out of the dock, and easily accessible
- I really like the ability to access NTFS and read/write.
- The simple interface is welcome

What is troubling though is that it is awkward to use based on the following descriptiopn (I could just be doing it wrong but this is the problem):
- With NTFS Mounter running, the first time you mount an NTFS volume, the volume is read only but shows up in the NTFS Mounter list of available volumes...OK
- When the NTFS volume is selected, an NTFS Mounter Error instructs that you must eject/unmount/eject the volume...OK
- When the NTFS volume is unmount/ejected in the Finder as instructed above it is no longer available to NTFS Mounter...not good...The act of unmount/eject basically removes it from the bus that it was plugged into (USB/FireWire) and it can no longer be seen by NTFS Mounter
- Remedy: by this point the external NTFS drive is no longer visible on the desktop (unmounted) nor connected (ejected) on the bus. I unplugged and plugged it back in and it mounts as before in read only mode but instead of unmount/eject in the Finder I used Disk Utility to unmount (only...not eject) at this point it is visible to NTFS Mounter to mount it in the Finder as read/write.
- Cumbersome but it works

The next thoughts I had were around performance. I found that older NTFS drivers had poor read/write performance as compared to using HFS on the Mac or NTFS in Windows. I found that NTFS-3G performance was not as good. And I also tried the retail Paragon NTFS driver which was comparable to native speeds but of course it was a little bit more expensive than free :-) It would be interesting to see what other peoples experience performance wise is with this implementation.

Thanks for the tool.

Why is this categorized on MacUpdate as FREE when it's not. If the free offer was in October then it makes sense., but this is not October.

Anyway, I have never been able to get much to run with this software. Sure some of the most common things work but only with little quirks and stability issues. I have had better luck using opensource or other native 3rd part Mac apps to replicate desired Windows only applications.

I'm not really nocking this system because I really like the idea but I just wish it worked better.

I used this when it was called PicLens on the PC. I really liked it and never had any problems with it. Along with their other product CoolPreviews it was great. I tried them both out in FireFox on a couple of my Macs and found them to be OK but I really wanted to use Safari and development/stability seemed to be a bit off in Safari. The last version of CoolIris (aka PicLens) was right on in Safari...it beat the heck out of browsing through pages of Google thumbnails looking for pictures and having to wait for another page to load and have a look at the picture. This is a great add-on to any browser and OS combo. it could use a little more user control/configuration but the concept is solid and a real improvement from an end-ser experience perspective. I have read of few of the other comments and I agree that i don't like the fact that it relies on input managers...for Safari...but is that the fault of the developer or the lack of an integrated plugin system in Safari to allow for feature expansion? I don't know! I think it fairly good and petty stable. blah...blah...blah :-)