I'm still testing it, but I think I'm in love with Cookie. However, I'd be thrilled if the dev added finer-grained control over the Browser History and Browser Cache. I use Safari as my main browser, Firefox for sites that don't work well in Safari, and Chromium for other sundry purposes, and they all have pretty lame history and cache controls. If Cookie allowed us to set how many days of browsing history to remember, and allowed caches to be cleaned up along with everything else but included the option to do so only when quitting, then Cookie would truly be the best all-browser, all-threat management system that Mac users desperately need in this age of ubiquitous privacy invasion in the name of the almighty Dollar (though it's our own fault that we allowed the Internet to develop into just another foul tool for business to fleece us).

This new version continues telling you that there's a new version available even after you've installed it. It's happened every time I've used Keka on two different Macs since updating to 1.4.3. And yes, I did trash the old version and emptied the trash.

I cannot figure out why so many here have rated Hear so highly. In several months with the last v. and a week with 1.1.1, I determined that its only useful component was the equalizer, and despite my 23 years in the industry, I could not get a single pleasant effect out of it. This was especially true on my Early-2011 MacBook Pro and Late-2008 Aluminum MacBook, though it more or less sucked on my new, maxed-out 27-inch iMac as well. In the past 4 days I compared Hear with both the Bongiovi Digital Power Station 3.0 (which is nowhere near as configurable), my 3-year-old SRSiWow Premium (same), and the Audio Hijack Pro/LoudMax VST plugin solution (winner!).

Not sure why Hear’s hyper-configurability couldn’t be somehow employed in my systems, but neither I nor my ex-brother-in-law (and former Outlaws guitarist) could stand anything it output. Oh well, maybe just a problem with my systems.

Does this work on a per-app basis or a per-session/app basis? In other words, if I set it to stop resuming TextEdit's saved state, does that work only the next time I open TextEdit or every time from then on?

Love this. Doesn't work all the time, but I've yet to find ANY video app that always works on OS 10.7. When Media Center does work, I can download a video I find on the web by simply right-clicking it and selecting "Download Video" — easy peesie.

I guess I spoke too soon in my review (in Reviews/Comments) because after a couple weeks of use, v. 1.1.5 sidebars and sometimes a whole pane when in dual pane mode keep disappearing, replaced with a featureless grey field.

Unbelievable! The Office 2011 14.0.2 update STILL can't find any version of Office on my work MacBook Pro or iMac, despite that they're both loaded with v. 14.0.1!!! And the list of this update's 'improvements' (which really should be called 'fixes') is TINY compared to the number of unaddressed major muckups that any self-respecting company would have fixed well before the first version was released! Nevertheless, it still weighs in at 111 MB!!

The final verdict about Outlook: Absolute sh1t, and the few improvements that v. 2011 brought to the rest of the suite weren't worth its cost. There isn't enough space here to list all the ways in which Outlook alone is VASTLY INFERIOR to almost any other solution — even Entourage '08, which also was sh1t — let alone the problems with the other three-quarters of Office!

With this last in a grand series of humiliating failures, I think it's clear now that Microsoft is just a warehouse for all the half-assed engineers and code warriors who couldn't get hired at Apple, Google, and a few other quality enterprises. Even Bill got out while the gettin's good! I think it's headed for an overdue and dramatic reversal of fortune.

Despite having paid for Office 2011 for home use, after two disappointing months with Outlook, I chucked it! Now ours is a fully Apple household, and the integration of Mail, iCal and iWork is a welcome relief from the 15 years I spent wrestling with Office!

A lovely app, and I applaud the developer for keeping it free.

However, Rename (and perhaps my idiosy as well) caused a major problem. Using the OS 10.6 Finder's own 'Make Alias' command, I made a new folder located in the Documents folder that only contains aliases of all my applications (for use as a launcher in Classic Menu's Apple menu). However, that process added ".alias" to the end of all my applications' names (e.g. "Safari.app" became "Safari.app alias"). So, I used Rename to remove the last 6 characters from all of my applications' aliases, but that resulted in all my apps (not the aliases) being converted to FOLDERS because Rename removed all of the ".app" extensions because Rename performed that operation on the WRONG FOLDER: Even though I dragged and dropped all of my applications' ALIASES from my Classic Menu Items folder into Rename's file list, Rename ignored those aliases and instead renamed everything in my Applications folder! Now I have to use Rename again to add back the ".app" extensions, but then I must go through all of them to fix the name of all the folders and ReadMe files that were in my Applications folder when I ran Rename.

My point is that this is powerful software, and it can majorly screw up your system if you don't test it on a few unimportant apps, folders and other files before you batch-Rename anything. Lesson Learned.

invisibliX 2.5 COULD be my favorite app for quickly and easily toggling the Finder's 'Show Hidden Files in the Finder' preference, and THANKS to its developers for making it free! However, it has some MAJOR PROBLEMS that make it too annoying to use until it's fixed:

1) When I click on the invisibliX menubar icon on my 13" MacBook, the drop-down menu drops down as expected. But, after I've made my selection from it, the drop-down menu DOES NOT DISAPPEAR as it should! And because some applications have lots of menubar items that force out other left-of-center icons, in order to make invisibliX's stuck drop-down menu go away I must first switch to the Finder to make the invisibliX menubar icon reappear, and only then can I click on it to make its drop-down menu go away! This is a MAJOR PROBLEM, and I'm amazed that no one has yet commented about it here. It also happens on my 20" iMac, so it can't be a machine-specific issue or a problem that only affects small displays.

2) invisibliX's icon is the least important item in my 13" MacBook's menubar, so I want it to display as far to the left as possible in case some other app's menus force my left-most menubar icons out. Around half of the times that I enable the invisiblix menubar icon in its Preferences and then quit invisibliX, its menubar icon disappears! I have to go through the process one or two more times just to get the its menubar icon to stick! This also is a major problem, especially since its menubar icon never shows up in the same location after restarting my Mac -- sometimes it displays on the far left, and sometimes in the middle -- so I have to disable and then re-enable its icon at least once just to get it to display on the far left side of the menubar.

There's at least one other problem with this version, but I can't remember it just now. And since I'm also sending this info to invisibliX's devs, they'll have their hands full for awhile anyway.


My Macs:
A 2.4 GHz Core2Duo Unibody Aluminum 13" MacBook with 4 GB of RAM running Mac OS 10.6.3;
&
A 2.16 GHz Core2Duo 20" iMac with 2 GB of RAM also running OS 10.6.3.

Preference "Expand all nodes by default" DOES NOT WORK.

I set the new version's preference to "Expand all nodes by default", but when I drag and drop a movie on the MediaInfo icon, its window still opens with the nodes closed (that is, the triangles on the left are closed and I must click them to see the info).


My Systems:
2.4 GHz Core2Duo Unibody Aluminum 13" MacBook with 4 GB of RAM running Mac OS 10.6.3;

2.16 GHz Core2Duo 20" iMac with 2 GB of RAM also running OS 10.6.3.