ETNIER  Thanks for this considered and informative response!  
(Version 8.0b1)

ETNIER  AFAIK I have a 'lifetime' subscription to this software and DO NOT and will not use Leopard: it offers me nothing over Tiger.

Developer: will the release version support the immense base of Tiger users???  
(Version 8.0b1)

ETNIER  Yeah: I recently found SimplyRAR as well and am happy I did.  
(Version 3.8b2)

ETNIER  I think this release is buggy, at least in Tiger. I have repeatedly had it stop playing any files. Deleting the pref files clears the problem.  
(Version 1.0rc2)

ETNIER  MacUpdate should highlight releases of this important product: it's worth the attention and rarely sees updates.

I may have missed something somewhere along the line, but this seems to be the first version which plays .wmv files on my computers! It's great to have the much greater playback control flexibility that MPlayer offers aas compared to QuickTime Player in wmv.

I DO WISH THEY'D PUT IN A "RECENT ITEMS" FILE-MENU ITEM, however.  
(Version 1.0rc2)

ETNIER  Yeah, this is great, although I somehow doubt the pref is under Firefox>Preferences.

Thanks!  
(Version 0.8.6e)

ETNIER  Won't stay installed in my CM's: OSX 10.4.11  
(Version 1.4.1)

ETNIER  Bad news.

Nice whiz-bang presentation effects but on my brand new 2.8GHz AL iMac it is very very unstable, now crashing every few minutes.

What's worse is that there is no file system involved with this app: you don't create files of any kind. You can only "Save" your work by quitting. I started a project in PhotoPresenter and quickly developed a habit of quitting after every significant change.

If the prefs file gets corrupted and needs to be trashed, you trash all your ongoing projects because they don't exist anywhere else.

I'm sorry I bought this program. The 'shareware' crippling made spending the 8 bucks all but mandatory, but it was money I wouldn't have spent.  
(Version 3.3b)

ETNIER  No Intel version? Hope one is pending. Love this app.  
(Version 1.4.1)

ETNIER  On launch I was presented with an astonishing dialog box: something to the effect of "Import my address book, settings and folders from: NONE": there was no choice made available. After that I poked around trying to see how I'd import my Mail boxes and settings and AFAIK it can't be done.

Too bad: I was under the impression that this (V2.0.06) was a mature product.  
(Version 2.0.0.6)

ETNIER  Checking the documentation shows no database support for the Nikon D80 or D40/d40x. A shame...  
(Version 4.0b33)

ETNIER  This seems to work well and is easy to install. One unanswered question, however, is how Attachment Adder, which is a Workflow item, handles the stupid problem of Mail's "Send Windows Friendly Attachments" checkbox.

Send Windows Friendly Attachments" is seriously one of the most useless and irritating things Apple has ever come up with, but we still need to have confidence that the attachments sent by Attachment Adder will be readable by the recipient, regardless of platform.  
(Version 1.0)

ETNIER  FWIW what this appdoes is to put a dot as the first character of the 'hidden' object's name.

If said object is aliased in the well at the lower left of finder windows, it remains there, with a dot at the beginning of its name.  
(Version 1.0)

ETNIER  Also, FWIW I have been unable to get SimplyRAR to work, and so far support has not been forthcoming.  
(Version 3.7)

ETNIER  It's almost impossible to believe that this program, vital for people who do wish to transmit files using the .rar format, is so incredibly difficult, not to say risky to install. And to charge $30.00!!!

Installation instructions are not included in the package: you have to be on this page of comments to learn how to 'install'.

"(give root:wheel ownership via 'sudo chown root:wheel ')":This is incomprehensible to me.

"copy 'rar' and 'unrar' to '/usr/bin',

copy 'default.sfx' to '/usr/lib/' and

copy 'rarfiles.lst' to '/etc/'."

A bit more easy to understand, but not for most Macintosh users. There are comments here from users who can't locate their usr/bin and similar files, not surprising given that those folders are invisible.

IMHO any Mac developer who releases general-purpose software in such an arcane bundle of bits should be ashamed of themselves. Isn't this what an INSTALLER is for?????

I guess these guys "own" the .rar format and so we're stuck with this, but it's just not fair.  
(Version 3.7)

ETNIER  Stopped working for me. I don't use dashboard much, but as of 5/07 it won't load movie times.  
(Version 1.5)

ETNIER  While Panic used to be friendly and responsive as they developed Unison in the year or so after its initial release, this has changed: fewer of the program's many significant shortcomings (in relation to 'professional' USENET applications like Thoth or Hogwasher) are being addressed, in releases which come very infrequently now. And in my experience they have stopped responding to support inquiries.

I have no way of knowing, but from the evidence I think development of this program may be all but abandoned  
(Version 1.7.7)

ETNIER  The "MacOpenSource" link doesn't really seem to have anything about Iridium. I love Iridium: much more attractive than UNO, I feel.

Is anyone working on Iridium now?  
(Version 1.9.F)

ETNIER  OH: found this in the release notes:

"This 9.0.2 update replaces an earlier version that was briefly distributed via the Adobe Update Manager. This revised update addresses an issue discovered in the earlier release that could cause a crash when printing on systems running Mac OS 10.2.x or 10.3.x. If you previously installed the earlier 9.0.2 update and are affected by that issue, please re-install Photoshop CS2, then apply this update. If you are running Mac OS 10.4 or later, there is no need to reinstall & apply the update.

1. Quit Photoshop CS2.

2. Move any personal files that you want to save from the Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS2 folder.

3. Delete the Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS2 folders and its contents.

4. Empty the trash.

5. Run the Photoshop CS2 installer.

6. Run the Photoshop 9.0.2 update."  
(Version 9.0.2)

ETNIER  This is a completely baffling release. My installation of Photoshop CS2 is at 9.0.2 already. The updater utility says no update is needed. The file referenced here, upon launch, fails to recognize my installed version of PS CS2/

So just what's the point here?????????  
(Version 9.0.2)

ETNIER  "You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies."

I can't get WMV's to play, sadly. Wish I could, 'cause I love MPlayer. The timeline moves and I hear audio, but no picture or picture window appears.  
(Version 1.0pre8 final)

ETNIER  In fact, this behaviour continues, with clarity snapping in and out, as a video plays back. Anyone else having this problem?  
(Version 2.0.2)

ETNIER  Thanks for your response here.

Your response suggests that 'archiving' of IM contents will be re-enabled in the future. Is that correct?

The previous version succesfully saved the last-used username between launches. This one doesn't.

Strictly from the user's perspective, it would be helpful to be able to select from a dropdown list of stored usernames whether or not the user(s) choose to store a password. There may be a hard-and-fast connection from the developer's perspective, but people using the program would be helped by this change.

Thanks again!  
(Version 3.0b1)

ETNIER  Ever since this was released smooth surfaces, like a painted wall, sky sometimes or an expanse of human skin, get all mottled and then 'snap' to proper resolution after a few seconds playback. Very distracting if you're skipping around in a vid.

Will this be fixed soon?  
(Version 2.0.2)

ETNIER  If you sometimes choose to save the text of your IM conversations, this release will not work for you. That function has been removed from this release.

Also: this release was unable to remember my login preferences: those relating to whether to save my password and to log in invisibly. This can represent compromised security for some users.

Finally, the pulldown list of user names which appears at launch is broken in this release. Login names must be typed in manually.  
(Version 3.0b1)

ETNIER  "Also: problems communicating with (again: my ISP) the server, so that queued items fail to download on launch: the program has to be manually instructed time and again to seek for files it fails to obtain from the server."

This is not clear, I realize. The scenario goes like this: for one reason or another, including the "relaunch for forgotten files" scenario, if Unison has a list of queued dowloads present upon launch, it often hits the ISP server so hard that all download requests but one are rejected, forcing the user to manually restart the rejected downloads by selecting them and hitting a "retry" button on the Transfers window. This is undoubtedly tied to nonstandard behavior on the server side, but Unison should be able to deal with it by now.  
(Version 1.7.5)

ETNIER  I moved from Thoth to Unison quite a while ago. Although it has done a great job of making the USENET experience user-friendly, the developers have not yet managed to address longstanding bugs which really get in the way.

Biggest: the program (at least with my ISP server) loses track of what it's supposed to download, reporting a completed download queue when it's actually lost track of many files. IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER to then RELAUNCH Unison so that it can remember the components it lost track of, they stand an excellent chance of being flushed from the server before you figure out what's happened.

Also: problems communicating with (again: my ISP) the server, so that queued items fail to download on launch: the program has to be manually instructed time and again to seek for files it fails to obtain from the server.

Also: you cannot reply to a post unless it's lucky enough to have been sorted into Unison's arbitrary "Messages" category. All this categorization works against the power-user, and should be defeatable.

I haven't gone back to Thoth yet, but little about this app has changed in the last year or so. I'm running out of patience.  
(Version 1.7.5)

ETNIER  Incredibly, the problem with unreliable Alerts STILL has not been fixed, according to the release notes. This is awful.

QuickContact

* Added Universal support (Intel Mac compatibility)

QuickDay

* Added Universal support (Intel Mac compatibility)

Now Up-to-Date

* Added unified toolbar and titlebar

* Improved reliability of Save a Backup and Auto backup

* Changed calendar events print size to be more accurate

* Changed banners print size to be more accurate

* Changed calendar header to not print in solid color (ink/toner saver)

* Changed year view so past month names print in gray

* Fixed an error after attaching something to an event

* Fixed an issue where changing the server offset may not shift event times

* Fixed a crash that could occur in Page Setup or Printing

* Fixed an error that would occur when selecting Firefox or Navigator in Internet Prefs

* Fixed a conflict between the Edit menu and the event info window

* Fixed several issues that could shift times in iCalendars

* Fixed an issue that would cut ical events to 32 characters

* Fixed inability to subscribe to iCalendars with long URLs

* Fixed a display issue with special characters in iCalendars

Now Contact

* Added category color to the contact detail window

* Added unified toolbar and titlebar

* Added new xml based web services

* Added hierarchical menu for Web Services

* Added Save a Backup...

* Fixed an issue where opening a contact detail window could cause a crash

* Fixed several instances where working with attachments could cause crashes

* Fixed several miscellaneous crashes

* Fixed an issue where Shared Keywords could be accidentally deleted

* Fixed a crash that would occur on file import with a detail record open