GREGW  Over 5 months later and I'm seeing this comment for the first time. The user never contacted me and hasn't provided enough information for me to help diagnose the problem. Perhaps this was an April Fool's joke.  
(Version 1.3)

GREGW  Right-click or control-click on the clock face. The context menu will let you adjust settings, create new clocks and quit.  
(Version 1.6.2)

GREGW  No clue; my daughter changes the settings on her clocks almost daily. If you write to me directly we can try to figure out what's going wrong, though.  
(Version 1.6.2)

GREGW  I can help you get it working if you'll contact me directly. I suspect you've just not put the plugin in a correct folder.  
(Version 1.2.2)

GREGW  Apparently 7 people downloaded SFC 1.4.1 before I caught and fixed a tiny issue with desktop clocks on OS X 10.4. If you're seeing the Clocks on Desktop command dimmed, please re-download.  
(Version 1.4.1)

GREGW  Guess what: Every version of Compost that was distributed as an installer package (as opposed to a self-installing double-clickable preference pane) was packaged with an uninstaller.  
(Version 1.8.9)

GREGW  I can't reproduce this, so I'd really need you to contact me directly, be able to give detailed responses to diagnostic questions, and probably be willing to run test builds to get it fixed.  
(Version 1.5.1)

GREGW  Since you posted more information here than you sent in direct mail and don't seem to be getting my e-mailed responses, I'll follow up here:

The fact that it works in preview mode means it should work in general. I think the most likely explanation is that you're running out of video memory but I don't believe I made any change to the program that should implicitly increase the memory consumption and I'd be surprised if you're running on a weaker system than the worst machine I tested on. To make sure I'm up-to-date, I'd like you to contact me and let me know what kind of machine you're using, what OS version you have, and what kind of video card. I'm also curious if you only did the upgrade or if you also changed any settings afterwards.  
(Version 1.5)

GREGW  Unfortunately it has been pointed out to me that it *doesn't* work with slideSaver or qtz screensavers. I've got qtz working now but I'm having a devil of a time getting the slideSavers to look right. Hope to have it done tonight and released today.  
(Version 1.0)

GREGW  Considering that SFC was written and tested on Leopard, precisely because Apple had dropped the feature, I'm very curious to hear what it is that makes you are unable to use it.  
(Version 1.3)

GREGW  Just pointing out that as of v1.2.1 the skewed image has been adjusted to avoid clipping the shadow.  
(Version 1.2.1)

GREGW  I know about the shadow. The dock tile is by nature restricted to a 128-pixel square and I figured most people would prefer as much detail as possible on the image over a few extra pixels on the (rather subtle, IMO) shadow. I may tweak it during the next update, though.  
(Version 1.1)

GREGW  "No luck with that. Activating the visualiser with DockArt selected just brings up a black screen."

DockArt's "real" visualizer is only a black screen because all it does is change the icon. It's not really meant to be selected as your primary visualizer.

"Looks like the skew effect only works with iTunes 7, ..."

So you're saying that when you select DockArt as your visualizer and then activate the visualizer there's no button in the window that says "Options" or "Settings" or something like that? Something's very strange on your setup if that's the case; iTunes has supported plugin settings dialogs at least back into the 4.x era, and I believe much further. (DockArt got its first user pref about 2 months before iTunes 5 was released.)

Here's a screen shot of iTunes 6: . What do you see in the upper-right corner in your copy of iTunes when DockArt is selected and the visualizer is turned on?  
(Version 1.0.8)

GREGW  It's been a while since I've seen iTunes 6, but I believe that the way to get at the visualizer options was to select the visualizer you wanted to configure and then actually activate the visualizer functionality. Once active, there was a button in the upper-right corner that would invoke the settings dialog.  
(Version 1.0.8)

GREGW  Make sure that DockArt is the selected visualizer plugin, and then choose the Visualizer Options menu item. (Specific locations of these vary from version to version of iTunes.)  
(Version 1.0.8)

GREGW  At least some of these comments seem like they stem from not understanding how the plugin works. If the user would contact me and describe what's happening and under what circumstances, I'd be happy to help. But I can't do anything with a single, vague report of unexpected behavior when it's working fine for me and everyone else who's ever commented on it.  
(Version 1.2.2)

GREGW  Just a nit: Apple didn't help at all on this other than providing a bug for me to work around. (Bug, in this case, meaning a significant discrepancy between the behavior of a function within the OS X API and the documentation for that function.) Ray, yes. Apple, no.  
(Version 1.2.2)

GREGW  I will FIX THE BUG when I get a better bug report than this. It works fine on my G3/600 with 10.3.9 here. Please provide a more complete description of the actions you're taking and how the saver responds along the way.  
(Version 1.2)

GREGW  The slow startup time and image limit are both gone in v1.2 which is sitting on my machine right now. I'll have it up Saturday pending one or two enhancements.  
(Version 1.1)

GREGW  It "displays scaled pictures from a specified folder (several at a time) and fades them out replacing them with new images."

Except for the iTunes cover art one, all of the picture-displaying screen savers that come with the OS show a single picture at a time, full screen. They do a slow zoom and then transition to a new image.

The iTunes saver shows a couple of dozen images in a grid and periodically flips one over to show a different image, so it's closer in net effect but with a different presentation and only displays images from a single, non-configurable location.  
(Version 1.1)

GREGW  The blacklist has been updated to include Audio Hijack Pro 2 and Linotype Font Explorer X. Users can grab the latest version of the list by launching TTF, opening the preferences window and clicking the update button.  
(Version 0.7)

GREGW  At about 4:20PM (eastern US) on March 19, I found out I had put up the wrong zip file that morning, and immediately corrected it. Sorry about the inconvenience.  
(Version 1.0.4u)

GREGW  "This is not a bug with Speed Download or TrimTheFat."

I didn't mean to indicate that it was. A bug, in my book, is unintended behavior. As far as I can tell, Speed Download's behavior after trimming was quite intentional.

"While some application work well; not all applications work well after they've been trimmed."

In this case, the application apparently detects that the executable file (not code but file) has been modified and presents a message to the user asserting that it has been corrupted. There's no way eliminating code which is never even loaded into memory from the executable container should have any impact on the reliability of an app.  
(Version 0.6)

GREGW  If you've found a page that doesn't work, please point me to it. It should be extracting everything.  
(Version 1.2)

GREGW  The verdict is that TTF didn't corrupt Speed Download. Speed Download detected that its executable had been modified and refused to run other than putting up a dialog saying so.  
(Version 0.5)

GREGW  Update on the issue with Speed Download. I'm not posting this as a reply to the original message because I don't want it lost in the background.

It appears to be Speed Download's fault. Not a problem with TTF or the command-line utility it wraps, but an intentional behavior of SD to detect that the executable has been modified and refuse to run if that's the case. There are several reasons a developer might choose to do that, boiling down to protecting the user from malware or more pragmatically shielding themselves from liability, but it has never been a supported practice on OS X given that under some circumstances even the OS may modify an executable.

I've contacted SD's developer.  
(Version 0.5)

GREGW  I've confirmed the issue with Speed Download, but can't find anything else so far that behaves the same way. I'm not sure exactly what's causing it (I have a guess basd on a comment made by SD's developer, but nothing concrete) and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to predict it for any given file. The next release of TTF, though, will have and default to a "safe" mode that backs up the original item before trimming.  
(Version 0.5)

GREGW  Just tried it on Witch (Thanks for reminding me that exists, btw. I meant to try it when I first heard of it and forgot to grab it by the time I got back to my machine.) and it worked fine in one shot. There are two pieces of executable code in there: the prefPane proper and the code for the background app that actually does the work. TTF got them both and the next Get Info showed it as PPC-only. Not sure what might have made it miss anything in your case. Especially not sure why a second attempt would get further.  
(Version 0.4)

GREGW  I'm fairly certain Apple would object, and they'd have a good case in doing so.

I consider the chance of damage fairly low. TTF doesn't do the heavy lifting itself. It's just a convenience GUI wrapper around a command-line tool that Apple includes in the stock system installation expressly for this purpose and it doesn't even try to invoke that tool on anything that doesn't appear to the OS to be an executable file. It's probably slightly less likely to do damage than the tools we had during the transition to PPC that did the same kind of thing.  
(Version 0.4)

GREGW  You'll probably want to try 0.4. It does a better job with packages. I just knocked about 9MB off iMovie and over 22MB from iWeb.  
(Version 0.4)

GREGW  I think I can arrange that. I've been paring it down as I determine the specific items aren't going to be useful. Thanks for the feedback and encouragement.  
(Version 0.3)

GREGW  No problems; I didn't take it as a dig. It's a fair question that deserved a straight answer.

Actually, we really do have much more powerful machines and systems in our hands. It's just that our expectations have grown at least as fast. Remember waiting a weekend for a ray tracer to render one 640x480 image - and remember that it "only" took a weekend to do it?  
(Version 0.3)

GREGW  Granted hard drives are huge now, I think I'm not alone in resenting applications that take up space on my machine with content from which I cannot benefit. Imagine being able to reduce the footprint of your whole installed set of apps by 20%. It adds up to a fair amount of space that you can use for data or for other apps. A prior commenter, for example, noted that stripping one architecture out of iTunes saved about 8MB - or about 8 minutes worth of music.

It might be especially of interest to notebook users, for whom internal expansion is quite limited (and for iBooks non-trivial) and external expansion inconvenient.  
(Version 0.3)

GREGW  You can, by the way, accomplish the same thing with a call handler script through the scripting interface that was added in 1.2.  
(Version 1.2)

GREGW  Consider it on the to-do list for 1.3.  
(Version 1.2)

GREGW  As noted inthe trouble-shooting document included with Silica, the most likely problem is simply that the modem you're using only supports one of the several CID protocols in use (which is the case for almost all modems) and your phone service provider is using a different protocol. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be done about that.

As for the minizing thing, I'd think most people just wouldn't have the front-end running unless they were actively interacting with it and would quit when they're done. You should be able to hide it via the normal means, such as by option-clicking elsewhere on the screen.  
(Version 1.2)

GREG WESTON  DenyThumbDrives will react to any drive mounted locally (after it launches) regardless of connection mechanism. iPods would trigger the behavior as well as any other device does.  
(Version 1.0d1)

GREGORY WESTON  Unfortunately, there's no stable way I know of to fiddle with another process' dock icon (or menu...I tried to track that down for another project). I'm not into introducing instability to other peoples' machines if I can help it.  
(Version 1.0)