ABHI BECKERT  I used both the logitech drivers and SteerMouse, and found SteerMouse to performs better and is more reliable than the logitech ones.

Even on my G5 PowerMac, I noticed slight lag in scrolling with the logitech drivers, with SteerMouse, scrolling is butter smooth in all programs. Plus there were several minor bugs in the logitech drivers, and none that I've found in SteerMouse.  
(Version 3.6)

ABHI BECKERT  Warning for anyone trying this out: ununstall requires the installer, and it will harass you at every login until you don't uninstall it.

Keep the installer handy!  
(Version 10.4.5)

ABHI BECKERT  The problems others mention bellow appear to be fixed, running beautifully on my 800Mhz iBook.

Very nice!  
(Version 10.1.1)

ABHI BECKERT  Pfft, and don't forget to convert it back to binary when you save. There's probably a reason why the developer chose not to use xml.

Even Apple's tool is more popular among developers than editing the source code.  
(Version 1.2.1)

ABHI BECKERT  The more it's "ok" to ask for your details, the more developers will do it, and eventually you *will* start getting spam.

I'm a developer, and I'd love to reliably track how many people are downloading my app, and then compare them with the last release to see how many actually still use the app. But I don't do it, not only is it a pain in the ass to users, more importantly it makes it hard for the end user to detect a company that wants to sell your email address (in an ideal world, only spammers would ask for your email).  
(Version 1.0b3)

ABHI BECKERT  Apart from (apparently) going nuts on the level at which file's are shredded, in what way is this better than the Secure Empty Trash feature built into recent versions of Mac OS X?

Seriously, the only reason to use this app is to waste time messing with your computer, which is perfectly fine. But actually spending money on this thing is crazy.

If this was open source, I'd have downloaded it and probably given a five star review.  
(Version 20050612)

ABHI BECKERT  What part of his comment could possibly not be serious?!  
(Version 1.0 Beta 4)

ABHI BECKERT  I've used virtual desktop products, I've had a second monitor plugged into my mac, but Teleport and an old G3 iMac is a thousand times better.

Thank you!  
(Version 0.9.7 (pr3.7))

ABHI BECKERT  I noticed the same thing, but didn't comment since I might have been imagining it.  
(Version 0.5)

ABHI BECKERT  I agree there's some amazing server and command line software in the open source world, but in my experience that excellence usually doesn't reach into GUI apps.

That isn't to say I don't like open source, I love it and have contributed to a few open source apps in the past.  
(Version 0.5)

ABHI BECKERT  I love this app! Small, fast, free, elegant. It's one of the very few times I've seen quality software come out of the open source world.

If you want graphs and all the other snazzy features, this isn't for you. But if you just want to download torrents this gem is perfect.  
(Version 0.5)

ABHI BECKERT  Wow this is excellent! Incase the description wasn't clear (it wasn't for me), it installs several scripts in the iTunes menu, which you can then use for various iPod-related tasks, including ripping songs to your library and so on.  
(Version 2.0.1)

ABHI BECKERT  Is there a quality drop when encoding faster?  
(Version 1.0)

ABHI BECKERT  Do your users a favor and avoid third party installers if at all possible.

Use a dmg for apps, and show any license agreements/read mes the first time a user opens the app.

If you need to install extensions or something, use a standard installer package. User's are familiar with them, they work well, and you never have to worry about bugs in future versions of the OS.  
(Version 1.8.2)

ABHI BECKERT  Oh wow! This is inspired!!

You absolutely must try this, no other game has made me laugh so much!  
(Version 1.0)

ABHI BECKERT  It's not perfect, but this is a really nice app, exactly what I've been looking for!  
(Version 1.0)

ABHI BECKERT  Thank you!!

Installer would be nice though, for us lazy people. ;)  
(Version 1.0)

ABHI BECKERT  Coolest useless app I've ever seen! Had to tone it down a bit to get it smooth on my 800Mhz G4 iBook but that's expected. Only improvement I can think of is to hide the effect when the mouse isn't moving.  
(Version 1.2.1)

ABHI BECKERT  I don't know about you, but for me speed download is almost twice as fast as using a browser's built in download manager. I usually get about 70 - 90kb/sec using the built in download manager of any browser I've tested. Speed download allways gives me at least 140kb/sec, usually around 160 -170kb/sec (my connection isn't capable of anything higher than that).

Speed download does work, but it depends what server you're downloading from, and how far away from you and stuff.  
(Version 3.0.2)

ABHI BECKERT  I love it! I've used sidetrack in the past (when it was free), and I didn't like how I had to trade off a section of my track pad to use it. SideTrack is a great product, but this is heaps better.

WAAHOOO!!!  
(Version 0.7)

ABHI BECKERT  I can't think of any reason to upgrade it. I haven't seen any bugs, and I've owned it for more than 2 years. I can't think of any features to add either so it's not surprising that there's been no updates.  
(Version 3.0.5)

ABHI BECKERT  This morning Apple's Finder crashed 350MB into a 2GB afp transfer with a friend's mac on the other side of the world. 6 hours gone just like that!

I've had it with Finder's unreliability, add Path Finder to my wish list.  
(Version 3.2.2)

ABHI BECKERT  Very nice, for me it's not worth the price, but I can imagine some people would really like this.

It's not as snappy as it should be on my G4 iBook (800Mhz, 640 MB RAM).  
(Version 1.0)

ABHI BECKERT  This is a great app, I dropped LaunchBar yesterday to try this app out, and Quicksilver is the far better app, I can assure you I won't be upgrading to LaunchBar 4 when it leaves beta.

My only complaint is that it has too many features. I had to spend a *long* time in preferences, and downloading plugins to get it how I like it (check out the "Mini Interface" plugin!), and it wasn't as easy to use as other apps.

I think some of the built-in features need to be made into separate plugins.

Try this app out, and remember that most of the things you might not like can be changed.  
(Version 1.0b32)

ABHI BECKERT  The fact is he shouldn't be rating something that he hasn't tried.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ABHI  The first time I opened this app it said I'd been using it for 1381 days, and has a 23 minute wait time before I can use the app. If this happens to you, force quit it and open it again.  
(Version 1.0)

ABHI BECKERT  I bought this app yesterday, it was the best browser available for mac and worth the high price tag. Now today they release this version, fixed the ugly focus ring bug, fixed the speed issues, gmail now works... I'm in heaven!

If you browse the net regularly, try this app for the full 30 day demo, it takes that long to discover all the awesome features. Once you've done that, it's up to you if it's worth the price.  
(Version 5.1b1)

ABHI  I love this app!!!

*does monkey dance around room*  
(Version 2.2)

ABHI BECKERT  Amazing app, definitely try this one out! It's perfect for anyone who want's a simple finance app that works extremely well.

Don't let the low price fool you into thinking this is a low quality product. Not all companies base the cost of their software on how good they want their target market to think the product is (peoples opinion of quality is always heavily biased towards the most expensive product, it's instinctive or something). I know what I'm talking about, I'm in the software industry myself, this issue is #2 on the list of how to set price of a product (after covering your costs).

With software, you should be careful not to judge quality based on the price. In-fact, software companies that have high prices usually care too much about profit to put more than token effort into the quality. In other words, they usually write really bad software, but customers rarely notice, they honestly think they own the best app money can buy.  
(Version 1.0.3)

ABHI BECKERT  This is a great app that adds a feature that should be built into all text editors. Not that it matters too much, since it's free.

Installation was a bit alienating though, you'll need to consult the help files to work out how to install it properly, and I imagine newbies would have a hard time understanding the instructions there. But once you've got it installed it "just works".  
(Version 1.3)

ABHI  An anonymous reply to PitzzaMacMan's comment:

| Right, you are correct. Any any 3rd party

| software that does use the menu bar does so

| via a haxie which is not suported by Apple

No, it's only half true. Any third party Menu Extra is a hack that isn't supported by apple. However, Status Items are fully supported by Apple, and pretty much do the same thing.

Menu Extra's use less memory, and have more features (eg. you can move a menu extra around by holding the command key and dragging).

But because menu extra's are a plugin, if they have bugs, they will often bring down the system process that manages all of the loaded Menu Extra's (it probably manages other things too). In more rare cases, a menu extra might even cause a "crash loop", rendering all of the other menu extra's unusable.

But status items are fully self contained, and don't have any of these problems. If they have bugs, those bugs will only effect that one status item. A status item can do pretty much everything a menu extra can do, it's just that they don't integrate with the other items in the menu bar, you can't re-oder them, and they aren't automatically installed when you open them the first time, and you can't uninstall them by holding command and "puffing" them like you would to remove something from the dock.

Now that that's cleared up, feel free to ask the developer to put CopyPaste in the menu bar. There's no reason not to, and it wouldn't take much effort on the developer's end.  
(Version 2.0.1)

ABHI  I like most of it, but I wish the buttons and stuff where the same blue as the title bar instead of cyan. The buttons "glow" painfully on my G4 iBook (i mean literally painful).  
(Version 2.5)

ABHI  Way cool. I'm not to sure how often I'll use this, or buy it. But this is definately a cool app.  
(Version 1.1.1)

ABHI  Not bad for v0.2, I'd like to see better graphics and have a few ships fly around outside separate from the rest of the wave (Like in Bedlam II). Oh, and add some way of starting at a later level.

- Abhi  
(Version 0.0.2)

ABHI  If a menu icon appears in the menu but doesn't load it's usually because it's set to "Hide" in System Preferences>Accounts>Startup Items. Turn Hide off and it will work at login. This is a bug in Panther.

- Abhi  
(Version 3.0b1)

ABHI  LaunchBar 4 ads pretty much everything I wanted in LaunchBar 3, I'm definitely going to upgrade when I can't get away with using beta's anymore.

I highly recommend this app to anybody who types faster than they click.  
(Version 4.0.beta5)

ABHI  I recommend at least giving this a try, it's not perfect, but it works well for me, I use it daily.

Oh, and it doesn't appear to be leaking any (or at least not noticeably anyway) memory on my system.  
(Version 1.0)