JOBBY  Why on EARTH does this need my admin password as soon as it runs?

No deal! Cmd-Q, Cmd-Delete.  
(Version 0.5.9)

JOBBY  OK, so we have a choice between paying or viewing ads. Fine. But why, if I choose to view ads, does it ALSO nag me on startup that I haven't paid? There's a "buy now" button and a "remind me later" button, but there isn't a "shut the hell up, I *want* to use the ad-supported version" button.

At the moment Atebits are getting ad revenue from me. If Tweetie nags me again, they'll lose that and not recoup it in the form of a registration fee, because I'll be going back to Twitterific.

Respect your users, don't nag them.  
(Version 1.0.2)

JOBBY  So, I applied a simple version update, and Opera reset all my preferences.

That meant that, on starting up, it reloaded all my saved pages and allowed them to set cookies, run Javascript, Java, Flash etc, EVEN THOUGH I HAD EXPLICITLY TURNED ALL OF THESE OFF.

This is supposed to be a SECURE browser? I would have been better off staying with the old version!

Opera devs, here is a list of circumstances when you may set default preferences:

1) When there is no pref file in existence because the user has never run ANY version of Opera.

2) When the user explicitly tells you to.

THAT IS ALL. If you're going to reset prefs at any other time, at least TELL THE USER YOU'VE DONE SO, and then ALLOW THEM TO SET THEM BACK *BEFORE* LOADING ANY CONTENT!

I am SERIOUSLY pissed off with Opera right now. Even Microsoft don't pull this crap.  
(Version 9.64)

JOBBY  How odd. The macupdate.com RSS feed's just shown there's a new version of Internet Explorer, but coming to this page shows that there isn't.

Hopefully all the Microsoft folks are busy getting macro support back into Office :)  
(Version 5.2.3)

JOBBY  @kknopp: you're a customer? I downloaded this for free...  
(Version 2.0.3)

JOBBY  Yay — thanks :)  
(Version 4.6)

JOBBY  Any chance of support for City Link, please? (http://www.city-link.co.uk/track_parcel/track_parcel.php)   
(Version 4.5.1)

JOBBY  I don't know whether it's a limitation of the demo, but it's only showing AAC tracks.

There's this little format called MP3, chaps...  
(Version 1.0)

JOBBY  Looks good, but really could do with support for regular expressions.  
(Version 2.2.1)

JOBBY  Causes hangs for me as well — taking a sample from Task Manager confirms it's Mail Badger at fault (seems to be trying to update the icon badge at the time).

Unfortunately I closed the sample window without saving it (doh!) so I don't have anything to send the developer until it does it again :(  
(Version 0.3)

JOBBY  Looks pretty useful — but why does the window vanish from screen when the app loses focus? That's non-standard behaviour — and when checksumming a large file, it would be handy to be able to do other stuff while it calculates :)  
(Version 1.0)

JOBBY  Not so - Blizzard might be entitled to nuke your account, but you've committed no crime. And may we all be saved from the kind of society where we could be arrested for breaking some company's terms and conditions...  
(Version 1.2.3)

JOBBY  The gpsbabel binary runs just fine on the Mac, as long as you don't mind using the command line — but the GPSBabel+ GUI is in the DMG as well…  
(Version 1.3.6b)

JOBBY  Can you tell us how you set that up? I've tried both the options in the Save As dialog, and I still get subtitles hard-burned into the movie, with no option to turn them off.

About the best option I can see in there is to save as a reference movie, and then play the original for subtitle-free use, but that doesn't help when you just want to go back a few seconds and check a bit of dialogue you couldn't make out — especially on the Apple TV :)  
(Version 1.5.5)

JOBBY  I've just spent ages trawling through Apple's dodgy navigation to try and find the manual for a G4 Mirrored Drive Door (2003) PowerMac. It would be great if MacTracker could have direct links to the manuals: it seems MacTracker has better search than Apple does :)  
(Version 5.0.4)

JOBBY  Useless download system — fails if you've got google-analytics.com blocked at the firewall because you don't want to be tracked all over the web.

Direct download link is here: http://earth.google.co.uk/ig/directory?synd=earth&pid=earth&num=6&cat=featured&dl=mac&hl=en

Now, why can't it just use Sparkle?  
(Version 4.3.7284.3916)

JOBBY  Thanks for the patch — if only big companies would fix things that fast :)  
(Version 1.2)

JOBBY  Runs fine on 10.5 but starts and immediately exits on a 10.4.10 box. Is anyone else having this problem?

(Can't upgrade to 10.4.11 as we need to keep a Safari 2 test machine around, unfortunately)  
(Version 1.1)

JOBBY  A followup to my own post: I can see the new items in the affected feeds by turning off NewsGator syncing and refreshing all feeds.

I can then turn syncing back on and read the articles, but still don't get any more updates in those feeds while syncing is on :(  
(Version 3.1.7b1)

JOBBY  The download link is *not* the final version of Firefox 3 — it is Release Candidate 3.

The full version won't be released for another 4 hours or so. If you want that, save your bandwidth for now...  
(Version 3.0)

JOBBY  Yes — audio for the video files is in VIDEO_TS. AUDIO_TS is for the DVD-Audio format: it doesn't need to be there on a video DVD (and it's usually empty anyway :)  
(Version 4.4)

JOBBY  Sorry, no idea — but it's happening to me as well. maczot.com, mupromo.com and dailykitten.com seem to be the main ones affected. I wish I could remember what the last version was that didn't do this, so I could roll back...  
(Version 3.1.6)

JOBBY  Ah — found it, thanks!

I didn't realise the garbage collector was to blame there: it does seem a bit slow to release at times, though. Hopefully that'll improve in 10.5.3 :)  
(Version 2.1.2)

JOBBY  Version 2.1.2 was using over 500Mb (on a 2Gb machine!) less than 10 minutes after launch. That's not good at all — it makes it unusable! (I am running stuff as well as iTunes and CoverSutra :)

The option to use Growl notifications seems to have vanished, too — please can we have this back? I don't want loads of apps that all use their own notifiers: I want everything to work with Growl…  
(Version 2.1.2)

JOBBY  The Snerdware website says Leopard compatibility is due in Q1 2008. We're now into Q2 and still no update. What the hell is going on here?

Hopefully now that Apple's licensed the Exchange protocols for iPhone this will filter back into Mail/iCal and we won't need to pay extra for kludges...  
(Version 3.94)

JOBBY  Looks good, but a couple of nits:

If you have a load of playlists in iTunes, and you're trying to share just a couple, you *really* could do with a "deselect all" button in the Music tab :)

I see "share photos from iPhoto"... but where's "share photos from Aperture"? I don't want to have to export all my photos just so my 360 can see them (one copy of each is quite enough to have lying around)  
(Version 1.0.1)

JOBBY  Growl notifications for svn commits - nifty!

Unfortunately the preamble is so long that Growl cuts off the commit message (at least with the iPhonesque Mini display style and "limit to 2-5 lines" on). I've hacked the text in my copy to be less verbose, but could we have an option to reduce it to something like "r1033 / bob:" to save space?

The text in the widget is a bit on the tiny side, too... it's fine on the main iMac monitor, but the secondary monitor is a CRT, and it's unreadable there. (Of course, I'd rather my boss replaced the CRT with a 23" Cinema Display :)  
(Version 1.0)

JOBBY  I've found it's better to drag the VIDEO_TS folder to the hard disk and point Handbrake at that version. It takes 20-30 minutes to copy across, but Handbrake runs MUCH faster and puts less wear on the DVD drive.  
(Version 4.3.1)

JOBBY  Looks good, but I have some movies in my Movies folder, and some on another drive. There's a symlink to their folder in ~/Movies, so Front Row can see them, but Connect360 won't follow the symlink and says I only have four movies :( Any chance of Connect360 handling symlinks?

My iPhoto library is also on another disk: Connect360 doesn't find it AT ALL, and doesn't have an option for me to say where it is.

Mind you, the library I'd *really* want to access is the Aperture library. Hopefully this will be supported soon...  
(Version 3.23)

JOBBY  Could we have the registration key as a multiline text field? Some programs such as GarageSale have newlines in their keys (workaround is to put these in Notes and use Option-Return to enter the newline, of course)

Having Command-N do the same as pressing the + button under the list would save a bit of time, too :)  
(Version 2.0.1)

JOBBY  Easiest way to move your iTunes library, with metadata, is to use the Consolidate Library command: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748  
(Version 0.50.2b3)

JOBBY  Would love to see Chax have the ability to replace all occurrences of "Buddy" with "Contact". It really grates, and is one of the reasons I use Adium instead of iChat...

(This is what happens when you let AOL near a program :)  
(Version 2.1.1)

JOBBY  I started KeyCastr and got a "Catastropic error" because the service wasn't running. Tried again and it started, but there was no Dock icon or menubar icon — I had to go to the Terminal to kill it.

This isn't some 10.5.2-related problem, maybe?

Hopefully once I've got to an icon, I'll be able to set a preference to only show keystrokes with a modifier key pressed.

It also seemed to be very difficult to move the window — it kept trying to jump back. The secret seems to be to keep pressing keys so the window doesn't try to close mid-drag...  
(Version 0.7.3)

JOBBY  What I'd LOVE to see is a "Scan" button (using the scanner's TWAIN driver or ImageCapture, like in Yep/ReceiptWallet)

I get a load of stuff on paper, and it would be so much quicker to scan it straight into Together, rather than open the scanner program, scan to PDF, and import the PDF into Together.

That's the one feature that keeps me with Yep rather than upgrading my old version of KIT, but I much prefer the KIT/Together interface, and would switch back if it were added.  
(Version 2.0.7)

JOBBY  Any chance of a Universal build? PPC-only menu items don't work on Intel :(  
(Version 1.0)

JOBBY  Still 1.6? You need version 2.0 or higher to install the latest maps, or to use the MapShare functionality. So where's the Mac port of the current version?

I bet it *still* doesn't even let you control the TomTom from the computer, which is the only way to set a password on the thing.

Roll on the GPS-enabled iPhone...  
(Version 1.6.020)

JOBBY  Ah, hang on — it seems a Finder search for "kind:font" returns all these "FontExplorer X font" files — unless you restrict it to your FontExplorer X library, in which case it returns the correct font files and preview work OK. Very odd that it shouldn't return those AS WELL AS the "FontExplorer X font" files, but that seems to be Spotlight's fault :)  
(Version 1.2.2)

JOBBY  It's great - but under Leopard, apart from occasional crashes, it breaks the ability to preview fonts in CoverFlow and Quick Look. All you see is an icon saying "Font Explorer X Font", and no preview.

Even telling Finder to open all font files with Font Book doesn't fix this. Does anybody know how to restore this system functionality without removing FontExplorer X?  
(Version 1.2.2)

JOBBY  I use Yummy at home but Transmit at work, and Transmit definitely works with Growl :)

I prefer Yummy for most of my stuff, but Transmit's tabs are very handy when you have to keep four servers updated...  
(Version 1.7)

JOBBY  Actually, a reboot fixed the problem with CTRL-number not switching between spaces, but I'd still like to be able to use the shortcuts in Safari - say with CTRL-OPT-number?  
(Version 10.0.1)

JOBBY  Installed the demo on Leopard - now I can't use CTRL+number to switch between Spaces, even when Safari is not the focused app. It seems Saft is somehow eating this keystroke globally.

The "jump to bookmark bar item" feature is useful, but I switch between spaces a LOT, and don't want to use a different key shortcut for that. Please can we have an option to have Saft use a different shortcut, and to only have it absorb that shortcut when Safari has focus?

Also I can no longer drag tabs between windows, like I could before installing Saft. I know it provided draggable tabs in Safari 2, but could it be made to not interfere with Safari 3's tab-dragging code?  
(Version 10.0.1)

JOBBY  One option I'd like to see is the ability to replace every occurrence of "Buddy" with "Contact".

The whole "Buddy" thing just seems to irritate me for some reason (possibly it's just down to being British :)  
(Version 2.0b2)

JOBBY  It won't let me record an area on any monitor other than the main one, either in fixed camera mode or follow-mouse mode (the viewport just bangs up against the edge of the screen and tries to stay as close to the pointer as it can)

Are there any plans for dual-monitor support in a future version?  
(Version 1.0.5)

JOBBY  Seems to work on Leopard, except the menubar item never appears. The error in console.log is:

iMote[146] Unable to add iMoteMenu.menu, error = -108

(don't know whether that helps or not :)  
(Version 2.2.1)

JOBBY  This is definitely a problem — the Tubetrack widget relies on being able to connect to mac.com in order to get the list of stations, and hasn't worked since I installed notMac.

Ideally it should pass all .mac requests (other than for the username I've configured) on to the REAL .mac.

Incidentally, the upgrade script doesn't really make it clear whether or not I'm supposed to manually disable notMac (and how I'm supposed to do that!) or whether the script is going to do it for me.  
(Version 1.1)

JOBBY  Thanks for that — I'd forgotten Apple didn't make the title bars bold. The colours look a lot better, though :)  
(Version 1.1)

JOBBY  Nice style - but the bright green stripe on the "low" priority makes it stand out more than the "normal" priority, and there's no way to edit the colour of these stripes... (well, not without mucking around inside the package, anyway)

It would be nice if the title could be in bold, too - it's a bit difficult to pick out in the time the notification's on screen.  
(Version 1.0)

JOBBY  Why does the installer need root privs? That seems to be overkill for a program that plays sounds...  
(Version 1.1.3)

JOBBY  Doh! Should have had a coffee first - fancy forgetting you could do that :)

Thanks for replying!  
(Version 0.88a)

JOBBY  Please could we have the "fullscreen" command NOT be Cmd-F? It's very annoying when you're trying to use "find" on the remote machine :)

(And is there any way to get the remote Mac to let me have a screen resolution of higher than 1024x768, or is it just restricting me to what the physical monitor is capable of? It feels insanely cramped, and I can't find a way to increase it...)  
(Version 0.88a)

JOBBY  Great, but is it REALLY necessary for the text input boxes to use Windows key shortcuts rather than Mac ones?

Cmd-A is a lot easier than Home followed by Shift-End, not just because it's less keystrokes, but because it's the standard that EVERY OTHER Mac app (except Microsoft's, of course) uses.

I've lost count of the number of times I've looked at the "Fly To" box and found the previous search still in there with my new search at the end, because I pressed Cmd-A out of habit and nothing happened.  
(Version 4.2.180.1134)

JOBBY  It can't encode audio from MPEG video files. The recommended solution is to convert the video to a different format and then use Video2SWF to convert the resulting file — meaning you have to buy a second conversion program, wait twice as long, and go through two phases of video compression. Ridiculous! There should have been a clear warning of this limitation on the purchase page — I only hope this post saves someone else from buying something so limited.  
(Version 1.011)

JOBBY  OK, there's a README file in the .dmg, but that's no substitute for something that comes up (in Help Viewer, please, not a browser or TextEdit) when you click on the Help menu :)  
(Version 1.0.1)

JOBBY  The colours are all inverted in the images for some reason. There's no help, and the link to the developer's site goes to an empty site.  
(Version 1.0.1)

JOBBY  No matter what I do, it just says "coaster created". I've tried turning the burn speed down to minimum, using CD-Rs and DVD-RWs, but nothing works. (Core 2 Duo iMac, Matshita DVD-R UJ-85J, firmware FCQ5)

I can burn to (and read afterwards :) the same types of discs using a Burn Folder just fine (a shame Apple never thought to put disc spanning support in) so it's not the discs or the drive at fault.

What's going wrong here? I'm running out of blanks...  
(Version 1.0.2)

JOBBY  You could drag it to your Finder sidebar or toolbar, then you'd always have it handy (unless you were working from the Desktop, of course).

Agree it would be nice to have a floating window if you just run it on its own, though. I'd also like it to not break the icon — after I pass a PNG through PNGCrusher, it just has the generic PNG icon rather than the preview of the file contents, and I have to use Pinki to restore the preview...  
(Version 1.2)

JOBBY  Great program, but let me be another one to ask for multiple monitor support :)  
(Version 1.0)

JOBBY  Attempting to select a user or group in the Grant Wizard crashes it every time. To add insult to injury, all changes made to prefs in that session are lost — they should be written to disk as soon as the user hits OK, not held in memory until the program exits cleanly. Especially when it's this unstable!  
(Version 1.4.2)

JOBBY  (for those in the same situation, try opening Terminal and typing 'disktool -e disk1' first - may save you a reboot :)  
(Version 2.0)

JOBBY  I tried to convert a mounted CD to an ISO — ISOlator gave an Applescript error and left the system thinking there was nothing in the drive, even though the CD was still inside. I had to reboot to get it back!  
(Version 2.0)

JOBBY  Clicking "download now" produces "Sorry, but this LinkLok link has expired" — you have to go direct to the site.

Please can we have a working download link?  
(Version 3.7)

JOBBY  When I open a .z5 file (from the Windows version of Lost Treasures of Infocom) the window just opens and closes again straight away.

This is on an Intel Mac running 10.4.7.  
(Version 1.0b7)

JOBBY  Looks nice, but won't connect to my ISP for some reason. It keeps saying "479 We don't accept private IP", which suggests MegaFon is using my internal network address (192.168.x.y) rather than my external address. Not much use if you can't use it behind NAT!

Incidentally, where is it getting the email address for the registration screen? It's not the one in the "me card" in Address book, which is what it should be grabbing. I'm not sure I like the idea of programs scouring my system to try and find my email address, in any case. Providing a blank field and letting me type it in looks a lot less dodgy :)  
(Version 0.8415)

JOBBY  Not working on 10.4.7, Intel Mac. Can we have a Universal build, please?  
(Version 1.0)

JOBBY  All download links appear to be dead. Anybody know of a mirror?  
(Version 3.3.9)

JOBBY  Trial version is available for Windows but not for Mac. Thanks, Adobe — very useful. Obviously you don't *want* our money...  
(Version 4.0)

JOBBY  OK - looks like your FTP server *must* support passive mode - which is extremely annoying if it's behind a firewall, as you have to forward tons of ports. Grr...  
(Version 2.1.1b1)

JOBBY  Has anyone managed to get syncing to work over FTP? It sits there for ages and says "connection timed out" - despite the fact that I can put the same details into Transmit and get straight in!

Shame the Activity and Errors windows don't seem to report anything about what FTP's doing, as I might have a chance of sorting it. It doesn't even log to Console, much less have a Transmit-style transcript window :(  
(Version 2.1.1b1)

JOBBY  Is there a way to change the currency from dollars?

It would be particularly nice if CoCoaCash could default to the currency set in the International prefs - that should be right for most users - but it should definitely be possible to at least change it to use the correct currency :)  
(Version 1.2.2)

JOBBY  Earlier versions used to work on my old G4, but installing this latest version on my Intel iMac produced a window that just says "can't fork: No such file or directory" when I click Refresh.

Unfortunately all the help links point to web pages that no longer exist - which shows the value of including the help files with the program!

After some fiddling, I found you needed to copy vstream-client from /Library/Application Support/TivoTool to /usr/local/bin - everything started working then.

Intel users - it's also worth downloading ffmpegX and copying the ffmpeg file from inside that app's package to /Library/Application Support/TivoTool - it'll convert a *lot* faster without Rosetta in the way :)  
(Version 0.5.7)

JOBBY  Actually, scratch that - Mail's doing the same stupid thing as well. Completely the wrong behaviour, IMHO, but that's something to take up with Apple.  
(Version 1.1)

JOBBY  Slight problem with the subfolders feature - I have an 'all unread' Smart Folder which has one of its rules as 'Folder is not Work Email'.

However, 'Work Email' is the root of my work IMAP account. The Smart Folder correctly excludes everything in the account, including subfolders. but DockStar only excludes items in the root of the account, not the subfolders. As a result, the unread count is much larger than what actually appears in the Smart Folder.

(Given the number of folders in the work account, adding them manually to the rule is a bit of a non-starter, too :)  
(Version 1.1)

JOBBY  .mac syncing is useful, but expensive. I tried to set up .mac-free syncing with the incredibly useful MySync, but KIP doesn't appear in the list of applications it can sync with.

Not sure what's causing this (I'm assuming KIP uses Sync Services to do its syncing) but if this worked, that would be the killer feature for me.

Well, that and being able to encrypt individual items (or entire tags), and only show the previews/open the items when the password is provided :)  
(Version 1.0.1)

JOBBY  Cool program - but it needs to work with PithHelmet. Ideally it would actually load the page in Safari and capture what Safari's rendering, so font preferences/user style sheets/ad blockers work the same as they do in the browser - otherwise it's not capturing what I see.  
(Version 0.4.3)

JOBBY  Nifty, but it doesn't seem to get PDF Services - I zapped the trial of VoodooPad Pro and my PDF menu still had "Save to VoodooPad" in it afterwards.  
(Version 1.6)

JOBBY  Great - this has replaced GrowliTunes for me.

The Show Growl Notication action doesn't work when assigned to hotkey 9 for some reason. It would also be nice to be able to choose the hotkey activation sequence - some of my apps use Command-Option shortcuts extensively, and I'd like to be able to change it to Ctrl-Command. Even better would be setting it on a per-hotkey basis.

Would it be possible to have Rate Previous Track commands? If a track finished before I can rate it, I have to go to iTunes and rate it in there, which is a pain. Shouldn't be too hard to keep a note of what's just finished playing, hopefully :)  
(Version 2.2.1)

JOBBY  Good start, but doesn't seem to handle compilations as a single unit.

I also dragged a cover to an album that already has one, and it now has two pieces of art with no apparent way of deleting the old one!

The Help menu produces a dialog saying "Help isn't available for Art Collector" - this program needs a help file, especially if it isn't obvious how to do something as simple as removing art from a file!  
(Version 1.0)

JOBBY  Would really be nifty if it could remember its size over a reboot - it always starts up too small at the moment (especially considering you can't scroll with the wheel :)  
(Version 1.0.4)

JOBBY  Main app works fine on Intel Macs, but the openman command doesn't :(

Any chance of a Universal build, please?  
(Version 2.5.1)

JOBBY  Actually, as a follow up to that comment: my files all seem to end up as CBR even though I've got "Variable" selected. So that makes the whole thing not a lot of use to me :(

Does anybody know what might be going wrong?  
(Version 2.5.3)

JOBBY  Installing LAME separately is a pain. Other apps bundle it quite happily - why can't Sound Grinder?

(And could we have an option to select --alt-preset-standard and --alt-preset-extreme, please? All my other MP3s are ripped at --alt-preset-extreme, and it would be nice to have the same for Sound Grinder-generated files as well...)  
(Version 2.5.3)

JOBBY  Surely when you upgrade to a new version it should reload your saved tabs from the old version, rather than throwing the entire session away and displaying a 'welcome to Opera' page instead?

Thanks a lot. Now I have to pick through the History to try and find what I had open. Please fix this extremely annoying bug!  
(Version 9.0pre2)

JOBBY  That 'Design Template Utility' looks interesting, but it appears to have been compiled as Intel-only. My G4 Mac Mini complains that it's unsupported on this architecture.

Any chance of a Universal version, please?  
(Version 2.2b4)

JOBBY  Needs to work on a per-app basis, really. You might want to block P2P apps from Microsoft, but it really doesn't help you talk to friends on MSN when PeerGuardian blocks Adium...  
(Version 1.2)

JOBBY  Good, but it needs ad-blocking support - preferably PithHelmet integration. The pages loaded from within Cocoalicious are unusable compared to those in Safari, what with all the flashing crud everywhere.  
(Version 1.0b33)

JOBBY  I may be missing something, but if I open a window from Manage Databases and then go to table view, I get left with an uncloseable window - I can't get back to record view, which has a Close button, and the standard red Close button is greyed out. Command-W doesn't work, either. This could just be me not being used to Filemaker, of course, but it would be great if it could be made to work in the same way as other Mac apps.

Is there a way to change the units to metric for us Europeans, BTW?  
(Version 2.5.8)

JOBBY  Ah, found in the manual that the connection is an attempt to download templates - which would explain why there didn't appear to be any in there.

I think I still have a bit of paranoia left over from the last time I used Windows...  
(Version 3.0.2)

JOBBY  Wow, that was quick - fixed already in 3.02 :)

Thanks!  
(Version 3.0.2)

JOBBY  OK, so I enter my FTP details (which weren't preserved from the 2.x demo for some reason, despite my giving permission to access the Keychain item) and hit 'Test Upload', and the whole thing just crashes. Not good.

It also trys to 'phone home' on each start up. If this is just a check for new versions, please add an option to disable this. I prefer to manage my updates through macupdate.com rather than have apps all shouting 'look at my shiny new version' every time I start them :)

Of course, if it's NOT just a check for new versions, please tell us what you're sending back and why...  
(Version 3.0)

JOBBY  It would be useful if Subscriber supported Growl as a notification method.

Supporting standard keystrokes like Cmd-Left in the text entry field would be nice, too :)

More worryingly, what is amber.x-dns.com? Subscriber tries to connect to this at startup - probably just a version check (but there's no option to disable this, and there should be). If you deny connections to this address, email notifications don't work. In fact, Subscriber doesn't even try to connect to my mail server. Is it trying to send email via x-dns.com, and if so: why, and what guarantee do we have that our email addresses aren't being harvested? It doesn't inspire confidence :(  
(Version 1.1b1)