Good idea. Any reason it can't handle 12 reps?

Interesting how nobody seems to complain about the convenience of Apple's Software Update, or indeed about the self-update feature present in nearly every freeware and shareware program for Mac these days, yet when Google provides the same convenience feature for software it distributes, people start muttering about secret spyware, etc.

Guess what? It's FREE. Nobody is forcing you to use it. Those who are happy with iPhoto, GO USE iPhoto and enjoy it.

Complainers:

Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and other GUI apps for email will never fail to disappoint, because they try to do too much. Apple Mail is the best of the lot, but like every other featureful mail client, it suffers from feature-itis, and it will eat your mail now and then, given a chance.

Google Mail, for better or worse, is the right thing for most people, and you don't need a bloated, craptacular email client to use it. Client programs are just another 100 things to wrong. You already have to use a bloated, craptacular web browser anyway, so why use another one for email...

Try Fluid or Prism if you really need to have an icon in your dock for your email application.

(No, I'm not shilling for Google. Like you, I resisted switching to web-based email for a long time. Now I wonder why I ever put myself through the pain of storing mail locally. That is all.)

Agreed, support for this product is useless (and often quite surly).

It does work. Not as well as it used to, but it works. If you are having difficulty with the URL/filename insanity, try eliminating the filename portion completely, such as:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/

My listeners often have to reconnect a few times, and I often have to restart the icecast server several times before they can get any connection at all. An infinite-buffering problem is also evident. The problem is definitely Nicecast and not my firewall. But once it is finally all working, it works reasonably well. Keep trying.

With support for regexps, projects, functions, tabs, shell commands, and bindings to FTP clients such as Cyberduck and Fugu, Smultron is simply the best free editor in Cocoa on OS X. Pay no heed to the commenters and reviewers who haven't the wherewithal to learn a different key binding or cope with page-based scrolling.

Did I mention Smultron is FREE?