I emailed Bjango regarding the price increase from $10 to $16. I commented on how I believed they would sell many more copies at the previous price. This is the reply I received from supportbot[at]bjango.com:
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Hi,
The $10 price was an introductory price, which has now ended.
It is now $16 to purchase iStat Menus.
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The reply was so curt that it sounds like a Bot. Or a canned text snippet, at most.
Perhaps Macupdate can get Bjango to do a promo deal for a lower price?
One thing I'll point out is they have a 5-user "Family" license for $26.
This is a GREAT start! The application works as advertised and quickly scanned my files. The results are just like the corresponding Windows applications WITHOUT the annoying watermark. And you can't beat the price! Many thanks to the developer.
Suggestions for future updates: additional info in the header such as video duration, CoDec, framerate, etc. Either allow input of info by user or have the program get it from the files automagically. Preferences could be used to control what gets included in the result.
I'm a very long-time CDFinder user. I think I started with it back at version 1.6 or so...
I've always found it to be exactly what I need for all of my indexing. It's made the transition with me from CD to DVD to Hard Drive archives. I can search over 350 archive files in less than a minute and subsequent searches take much less than that. (Some of my HD archives have over 100,000 files on them.)
I've always found Norbert Doerner to be responsive to user requests and bug reports. And the application's indices are cross-platform compatible with CDWinder for Windows.
Yes, the user has to establish their own methodology for how to flag media. I happen to like not being pinned down to someone else's idea of how discs/files should be cataloged.
I've always recommended CDFinder and will continue to do so. If you don't like it, feel free to look elsewhere. But I see no reason to badmouth what works so well for so many people.
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iStat Menus
Imarc845 reviewed on 13 May 2010
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Hi,
The $10 price was an introductory price, which has now ended.
It is now $16 to purchase iStat Menus.
=====================================================
The reply was so curt that it sounds like a Bot. Or a canned text snippet, at most.
Perhaps Macupdate can get Bjango to do a promo deal for a lower price?
One thing I'll point out is they have a 5-user "Family" license for $26.
+1
Skreenics
Imarc845 reviewed on 18 Jan 2010
Suggestions for future updates: additional info in the header such as video duration, CoDec, framerate, etc. Either allow input of info by user or have the program get it from the files automagically. Preferences could be used to control what gets included in the result.
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NeoFinder
iMarc845 reviewed on 03 Sep 2009
I've always found it to be exactly what I need for all of my indexing. It's made the transition with me from CD to DVD to Hard Drive archives. I can search over 350 archive files in less than a minute and subsequent searches take much less than that. (Some of my HD archives have over 100,000 files on them.)
I've always found Norbert Doerner to be responsive to user requests and bug reports. And the application's indices are cross-platform compatible with CDWinder for Windows.
Yes, the user has to establish their own methodology for how to flag media. I happen to like not being pinned down to someone else's idea of how discs/files should be cataloged.
I've always recommended CDFinder and will continue to do so. If you don't like it, feel free to look elsewhere. But I see no reason to badmouth what works so well for so many people.