The new version 2.0 works fine with OS 10.6.7 and is a free upgrade for previous owners. Hint for previous owners: Don't just click on the MacUpdate download link or you'll end up with the demo version. Go to the developer's web site, enter your e-mail address used for the original purchase and you'll get a link for the full version.

Comments on Apple's App Store indicate v4.0.2 fixed the previous problems.

For compressing and zipping files, I merely select the file, pull down the File menu in Finder, select "Compress (the file) and the Mac OS does the heavy lifting. Now that's pretty simple. Does YemuZip do anything else for me other than costing a shareware fee? For example, does it compress the files any smaller and/or anything else?

If you want version 3.0 at $10, I wouldn't procrastinate. The developer's web site graphic (http://bjango.com/apps/istatmenus/) shows the $10 price as being "On Sale." Since it's a sale price, common sense would dictate the after-sale price will be higher.

So you've got a decision to make...stay with the free version 2.x, upgrade to version 3.0 for the sale price of $10 and get more features or twiddle you thumbs thinking about it and then pay the TBD after-sale price.

I saved a screen shot of the $10 On Sale graphic for when the price goes up.

Well, I was going to come back to my previous post and add that the silent update to version 5 fixed my problem. I re-downloaded and re-installed MacUpdate Desktop 5 and it went from finding five applications (and nothing else) to 177 applications, 33 widgets, a few screen savers and 11 pref panes.

But my previous post is gone so I can't append this note to it! Does the MacUpdate site routinely delete user posts? That's not a good sign since mine had no profanity, slandered no one and was not overly critical beyond saying I would soon trash the app if I couldn't get it to work properly. Subsequently, a silent update (with no version number change) was posted.

Anyway, the app is working just fine now (early 2009 MBP, OS 10.6.1) and found three minor updates I guess I'd missed during my usual once/day scan of Mac software changes. It's quite handy (and more accurate than a similar free one I'd tried out) so I'll likely register the app when the 10-day trial is up.

I do have a couple questions though:

1. Am I correct in assuming that a new scan is only done when the app is initially launched? Or when I manually select "Check for Updates." Since I rarely turn off my laptop (sleep it) and typically just leave opened apps running in the background, it would be helpful to have a selectable update frequency in the MacUpdate Preferences window maybe every four hours, eight hours, once/day, once/week, etc. The app's resting CPU load is 0% and I haven't noted any serious memory leaks so leaving it run for days (with periodic auto updates) wouldn't appear to be problematic.

2. With a stated 30,000+ Mac app database, there were a few surprises that showed up reflecting no "Current Version" (meaning they aren't tracked by MacUpdate I assume) examples, Apple's Grapher, a boatload of Canon digital camera utilities, RescuePRO, Apple's Podcast Capture, DxO Optics Pro, Gizmo, Google Chrome, Image Rescue, MacGPS Pro, pearCALC, Apple's Photo Booth, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Mac), XBattery +19 widgets (I'm not listing all these). Will you take these I've noted for action or do I need to go through the "Submit" process for each one in turn?