Option, option, option... STOP telling us about holding the option key. We Mac users expect a more elegant way to choose the startup. Sitting attached to the keyboard holding the option for 20 seconds at every restart (yes, sometimes we forget what the boot is set for, so we better sit at the keyboard and hold... and hold) is not the best solution.

Unfortunately, BootPicker is no better. This is the most useless piece of software I have ever seen. It does not change the actual ROM setting for startup. It always boots to OS X first, and presents a picker screen just before user login should appear. Even when I am in Windows, and use BootCamp control panel to choose to boot to OS X, this thing STILL halts the startup of OS X and presents its cotton picking picker screen. That is no better than holding the option key.

For those of us needing OS X to have write support for a Windows 7 partition, NTFS-3G needs to add a System Preferences pane like that of "NTFS For Mac" that allows you to choose the writable NTFS partition with Windows 7 as the startup. Until that happens, NTFS For Mac is the best method of having NTFS write support AND a fairly elegant way to set the startup disk.

When I launch IconCreator, it presents a small window titled "Get Specific Finder Items" with two columns, "Name" and "Path". No items appear in either column. There is a "+" and "-" sign at the lower left of the small window and a "Cancel" and "Continue" button. The only menu at the top bar is "IconCreator" and when I click on that, there is no drop list. If I click the "Continue" button, the small window disappears and an even smaller window appears called "Scale Images". It allows a choice between "To Size (pixels)" and "By Percentage". The default is 480px and 100%. Again, the buttons are "Cancel" and "Continue", so I click "Continue. The very small window disappears and is replaced by a small window that says "You have successfully created an icon using IconCreator which can be located on your desktop." I keep my desktop very sparse, so it's easy to see no icon is there and if there were, I would be very curious to see what it is, as I didn't get a chance to select any picture from which to make an icon.

This app doesn't work and doesn't have a Help menu. The ReadMe PDF says "All you have to do is open IconCreator and select any picture from your computer, IconCreator will create your icon and neatly place it on your desktop." It is probably quite intuitive for the developer but not for anyone else.