JACKWEB  "Can I bum an apple?" (from screenshot)

...oh dear. This app needs some serious polishing up to be taken seriously. :/  
(Version '08)

JACKWEB  We're supposed to trust this company??

Sorry but risking sending private information through their servers is a no no for me.

They don't seem to disclose very much about themselves on their website.  
(Version 0.942)

JACKWEB  I wanted to like this, especially since it's offered free in Australia.

But it is just too intrusive. Its strength in picking out many sites well is also it's weakness. It can be over vigilant making web browsing virtually useless.

In the end it would better to just disconnect your internet and live in a monastery. Sorry but the internet nowadays is full of online media, i.e. videos, music, podcasts, photo albums etc, and I'm talking about the CLEAN stuff.

This software pretty much bans it all. Which is weird as in the logs it seems to usually know the difference between "banned" categories you have selected and things you've allowed.

Yet for some very odd reason even when you allow everything it still ends up randomly blocking things???? And don't get me started on the user/password system it uses.

It slightly creeps me out that it pretty much keeps tabs on everything you do (email, chat, online purchases) and possibly sends it all to their servers. And yes I know you can make changes in the admin options, yet like I said above it doesn't seem to work.  
(Version 3.3)

JACKWEB  I too just realised that some web pages are truncated :(

It seems to be an off and on thing. Though it does tend to happen on very long pages.  
(Version 0.4.3)

JACKWEB  Thanks for the update, it installs but I'm getting the "not able to right click" problem now. Seems to happen with the other ad blockers too. At least its not crashing when I right click.  
(Version 2.8.3a)

JACKWEB  Man Viewer is only Leopard compatible :(  
(Version 1.0)

JACKWEB  Will this be updated soon? With the latest version of smartctl??  
(Version 1.1-5.37)

JACKWEB  Hmm SMART itself may not be reliable but at least if you're getting a more indepth check it might prove to be reliable in the long run.

SMART Utility offers additional functionality, including pre-failure warnings, that SMARTReporter doesn't seem to offer? (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24875/smart-utility)

I'm trying it out, no crashes yet. But not free :(

Though SMART Utility is really a GUI for the open source command line tool 'smartmontools':

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Or SMARTctl which is free, but hasn't been updated in over a year.

(http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23777/smartctl)  
(Version 2.3.7)

JACKWEB  Wow, what a cool little program. Is it really this underrated? I don't think I've seen any information about this anywhere else.

It does what it says and helped me a lot with some corrupt Windows ttf typefaces. It converted them perfectly and now they work, (only had one instance of a font not able to be converted).  
(Version 1.0.3)

JACKWEB  Sorry I forgot to say, yes I do have the latest version of Safari.  
(Version 2.8.3)

JACKWEB  I'm getting this pop up message when trying to install version 2.8.3:

"The version of PithHelmet is only compatible with Safari 3.x.x"  
(Version 2.8.3)

JACKWEB  to dwette:

You can force an install if you open the PithHelmet.mpkg file in Pacifist and install the necessary packages depending on what you already have installed on your system.

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/6812/pacifist  
(Version 2.8.2)

JACKWEB  Seems like the 'right click' bug is back?

Like one poster several months ago noticed, whenever I right click in Safari it causes a crash. If I right click on a flash animation I get a menu.

Was there ever a solution for this?  
(Version 2.1)

JACKWEB  Can't believe no one commented.

It's a great little app that plays your saved flash content. Okay I may have had more use for this before I found other applications that could play flash content. But still it's a nice utility if you don't need any other wiz bang features that come with other apps.

But yes I know it's technically not made to *just* play flash but oriented to developers.  
(Version 9.0.115)

JACKWEB  I agree with JMAX, auto tagging doesn't seem to work. I thought it would actually search through for words within the currently selected document?? But it gives me random words which have nothing to do with the pdf I'm looking at? :(  
(Version 1.7.6)

JACKWEB  People still having problems may want to try Gmail Browser:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24228/gmail-browser  
(Version 2.3.1)

JACKWEB  It's crashing nearly everytime I either run it or try to login.

It uses the CPU a lot before crashing. Sometimes, seems random, it doesn't crash and keeps running. Unfortunately it seems very unstable :(

Adium for now...  
(Version 0.97)

JACKWEB  It logs in fine but none of the links in Gmail work, I can't open any messages or go through any folders?? :(  
(Version 2.3.1)

JACKWEB  This is such a unique and beautiful game! =)

I congratulate the developers for taking the time to make this. It's so simple in design yet so beautiful.

Thanks for making this!  
(Version 1.0pb)

JACKWEB  oh wow! This is a little like the Rasterbator! They have that available as a standalone program in windows, and I'm so happy I found this program for mac :)

I'm assuming it'll work similarly.  
(Version 1.2)

JACKWEB  Ok I just realised that if I don't resize my pic to 128x128, and leave it at the larger size (512 in this case), it's not blurred.

So I assume that on 128x128 pic, even though it's the right size, there's a resize action being performed, causing blur??  
(Version 2.0)

JACKWEB  Thanks for making such an easy app to create icons :D

I love the fact that I there's the resource fork option.

My only negative to such a wonderful little app, is that compared to img2icns, http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18369

FastIcns seems to slightly blur the final 128x128 image. Whereas img2icns keeps it sharp (at least that's how it is if I've already resized the image to 128x128 size beforehand).  
(Version 2.0)

JACKWEB  Sorry, I was teasing, didn't mean to offend.

I did noticed that both apps have different ways of doing things.

I just thought it was funny how more than one person out there would have the idea for something this unique but rather useful for some people :)  
(Version 2.0.1)

JACKWEB  Hey which came first, this or Writer ?

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/23221

I'm intrigued by the similarities :D

Well anyway if you want similar typewriter functionality and getting rid of distractions try that one, it's also free.

Personally I don't quite understand the apps, are people that distracted these days? :)  
(Version 2.0.1)

JACKWEB  Hehe ooh the nfo viewer on a Mac.

It was pretty useful on Windows.....for those...certain files bundled with software downloads, you know what I mean Windows users ;)

But still this is cool, thanks for making it.  
(Version 0.3b)

JACKWEB  I've tried this for a few weeks, and it does what it says! =)

My MBP has never been cooler, and I just realised that most of the time the fans were running at 1000 RPM or just below. Now I've set them to 2000 RPM like the default on the new C2D's.

Thanks for combining the other fan speed controls into one easy little interface. And what a bonus that it doesn't need to do any hacks, just a standalone app.  
(Version 0.8.1)

JACKWEB  WOW! This is exactly what I was looking for!

Ever since switching from windows, I missed having the preference of seeing the list of filetypes and the programs they open with.

Finally no more having to find each type of file and doing the whole command+i thing =)  
(Version 2.0.1)

JACKWEB  Ok I found this

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11910

Thats the AppleCore Project which contains Xfile, unfortunately seems from users descriptions it's slow and dated :(

Rixstep sure criticise the mac a lot, but they don't seem to update their own software???  
(Version 4.6.1)

JACKWEB  Can any of the power users here (or anyone) tell me how Path Finder compares to Rixstep's Xfile?

Path Finder seems to have more options and has a nice integrated design, while Xfile promises to be fast and effiecient, yet design wise seems to be stuck a few years back.

http://rixstep.com/4/0/xfile/

Why isn't Xfile on MacUpdate? :/  
(Version 4.6.1)

JACKWEB  Well yeah that would happen, many apps you install will associate themselves with files as the default program to open them.

You can easily change that either by, checking for any tweakable settings within the program itself, or do a command+i on files and change the 'open with' application.  
(Version 5.9.4)

JACKWEB  Or better than paying for this, try FastIcns

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22759

Edit your image in any app, than just drag and drop and choose whether you want to save as .icns file or resource fork file! FastIcns resizes automatically :)

Hooray for freeware!  
(Version 1.1)

JACKWEB  Hmm why can't we see the whole user interface in the screenshot?? I'm not desperate enough to download this just to see how it works :P

To the poster below, sorry but you can specify other Applications, by dragging that app to App Extras in CandyBar.  
(Version 2.0)

JACKWEB  The site isn't online anymore?!!

Someone please upload these :(  
(Version 1.1)

JACKWEB  So does this work on an Intel Mac??

Will it cause a crash or corruption on the new machines, and under Tiger?

Please someone reply :(  
(Version 2.5)

JACKWEB  Great there's a free little app like this for Mac. And has worked great on my Intel MacBook Pro. :)  
(Version 2.00)

JACKWEB  If you need a quick, simple little app to modify or edit stuff, try the free ones.

ResFork

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15422

HexEdit

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17562  
(Version 1.0.3)

JACKWEB  Or better than paying for this or the other one mentioned below, try the free ones.

ResFork

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15422

HexEdit

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17562  
(Version 2.4.1)

JACKWEB  This is Intel too?? As when I check the apps info it tells me it's PPC, same in Activity Monitor.

hfsdebug is also PPC, did the developer really update anything?? :/  
(Version 0.80)

JACKWEB  When did this change from being freeware?! :(

Phew lucky I downloaded the free app a while back (version 1.06), it looked nicer too :P

Like others said, save your money folks, you can do this with Disk Utility.  
(Version 1.1)

JACKWEB  Something strange is happening, the disk image is being downloaded as an archive with extension .bz2

I initially tried to unarchive the thing, but ended up with a non useable dmg file.

Then finally thought to change the extension to just .dmg

Now it worked, sorry maybe I'm the only one with the problem, I know it's happened on one other occasion when Safari attached a .zip extension to a download.  
(Version 0.8.1)

JACKWEB  For anyone looking for a free alternative, try HuginOSX

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/18575

Let's hope someone develops a free version of the Lens fix.

(btw HuginOSX isn't a plugin as such, but standalone software)  
(Version 3.0.6)

JACKWEB  This was handy....until I found HuginOSX

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/18575

That's free and based on the same software libraries that PTBatch uses.

No I'm not the developer, and please note that HuginOSX may crash or exhibit bugs. But still it's free! :)  
(Version 2.1v25)

JACKWEB  Mac users please listen up, some of you aren't understanding the focus of this app. Of course it blocks connections to Apple and other 'useful' sites. This is mainly for use when you're downloading stuff off P2P.

So you wouldn't want to be tracked by government agencies or companies. This also helps stop you downloading from fake servers.

You can turn it off, or selectively disable when you want to surf anywhere.

One thing though, I wish this had enable/disable of just HTTP, like in the windows version.  
(Version 1.4.2)