MATTHEW GREEN  agreed, one bespoke Microsoft technology on my Mac is enough for me  
(Version 2.3.0.14)

MATTHEW GREEN  nothing wrong with iTunes 9 and Ecoute  
(Version 1.2.6)

MATTHEW GREEN  for those of you updating to snow leopard, please make sure you re-enable the dock icon otherwise you get a constantly spawning/crashing application that requires a hard reset.

if you have this problem, delete your ecoute preference in your ~/library/Preferences folder and the ecoute folder in the ~/library/application support folder and do not try and hide the dock icon  
(Version 1.2.5)

MATTHEW GREEN  it does say on the MU page that it requires 10.6 and is intel only, guess there's a bit of a mix up somewhere  
(Version 1.0)

MATTHEW GREEN  any chance the bug could be fixed where an album stops playing at the end of the second from last track?

It's a lot more annoying than the flaky gapless playback I'm experiencing   
(Version 1.2.3)

MATTHEW GREEN  dude, seriously… take a deep breath and calm down

last.fm has been supported from the beginning, it's the whole point of using this rather than iTunes + 3rd party controller to give you global hot keys, last.fm scobbling and something nice on your desktop etcetc.

it's still using less memory than iTunes though a bit more than the previous version but I'm sure the dev will have some kind of breakthrough like he did a while ago.

While I don't care much for facebook and don't intend on using it that way (I have last.fm on my facebook if anyone wanted to look at my music tastes) Twitter support is handy if I feel like sharing what's playing to as it saves me typing stuff out. It really is not that big a deal, you don't have to use it as it's hardly intrusive and no one is holding a gun to your head.  
(Version 1.2)

MATTHEW GREEN  if you downloaded 1.1.9 rev2 last night, you need to check for updates again there's a rev3 already that fixes a glaring bug with the desktop controller not starting up again after playing something  
(Version 1.1.92)

MATTHEW GREEN  simply put, it's a remixed geektool that uses less ram and has handy features like tick box option for expose border, magnetizing your log fields so they cling to each other.

The best bit is the one window interface which uses today's interface conventions to put everything that geektool was into one window making it easier to set up.  
(Version 0.5)

MATTHEW GREEN  that's some great work then, just implemented it in next to no time.

would have been faster if i had set some of my app cpu and ram monitors to 4 lines rather than just making the boxes smaller. bit of adjustment to the positions of some boxes and I'm done. Will continue exploring later  
(Version 0.5)

MATTHEW GREEN  so what does your version of geektool offer over the original?  
(Version 0.5)

MATTHEW GREEN  intriguing little application.

It's like iTunes and BowTie wrapped into one, only with not so much theme support (yet) not that I mind, I've found a nice theme I can stick with. But Ecoute does have one benefit over BowTie, when using expose to show desktop, the artwork stays just where it is

memory usage however is a little over what iTunes uses running solo including Ecoute's little helper application (what that's for I'm not sure but could be the mini window) but if your running BowTie or something else to get global shortcuts and last.fm scrobbling you are actually saving some memory.

I am missing the ability to show lyrics and the tick box to enable/disable the playback of certain songs from iTunes.

I would like to see an options to remove the entry in Mac os' cmd tab function as I've set up keyboard shortcuts to access the app and would prefer not to have the app cluttering with my frantic cmd tabbing. Without me having to try and hack it of course.  
(Version 1.0.9)

MATTHEW GREEN  there's a slightly updated build for xchat aqua available at:

http://raim.codingfarm.de/blog/2009/01/21/x-chat-aqua-for-mac-os-x/

thankfully it implements a tabs column on the left of the window now too  
(Version 0.16)

MATTHEW GREEN  omg that is outrageous WTF are they playing at?  
(Version 3.2v61)

MATTHEW GREEN  just need direct message support and I'll be happy  
(Version 1.3.1)

MATTHEW GREEN  i think your getting rated down because basically you jumped on the application for the sole fact it didn't work with the latest beta of Safari which Apple released by surprise catching a lot of devs off guard  
(Version 1.0b14)

MATTHEW GREEN  I should imagine this would be pretty handy with Visor

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22107/visor

  
(Version 1.0)

MATTHEW GREEN  any idea if this clashes with NTFS for Mac os X?

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26288/ntfs-for-mac-os-x  
(Version 1.0)

MATTHEW GREEN  ok not really about version 1.0.1 but about 1.1 but the page hasn't been updated yet

nice jorb on making it sort shows by air date but now it puts shows without an airdate at the top  
(Version 1.0.1)

MATTHEW GREEN  i hope this fixes the silly bug where it crashes if you open a file with openoffice without openoffice already running  
(Version 3.0rc2)

MATTHEW GREEN  if the lightspeed website is offline and an admin logs in the application crashes, not sure if this is fixed in the latest version but it's proving to be quite annoying in 2.6.1  
(Version 2.6.2)

MATTHEW GREEN  having problems here, all my shows now say unknown after months and months problem free usage   
(Version 2.3.2)

MATTHEW GREEN  is this still working in iTunes 8?  
(Version 4.1.1)

MATTHEW GREEN  what's up with opening preview and going file new or cmd +n   
(Version 1.0)

MATTHEW GREEN  your application needs to hide (cmd+h) the iTunes application rather than just closing the window as the keyboard shortcut drags iTunes up from wherever it is but when your done with it only closes the window still leaving you in the application rather than returning you to the application you were using before  
(Version 4.1.1)

MATTHEW GREEN  actually, forget what i said about the remote support breaking i was actually using the wrong remote for my Mac lol that'll teach me to have too many of the dam things  
(Version 4.1)

MATTHEW GREEN  very promising app, it's like a lot of the things i've suggested for coversutra have been picked up here.

(lyrics display/retrieval, start/quit with itunes) while the menubar controls are nice i'm missing the floating window controls/rating ability of coversutra oh and the music search too

i'd say go copy coversutra some more and you'll have lots of happy people because it seems like the dev just isn't listening to the users or improving the app despite the fact it's a paid for app

the apple remote support needs fixing btw, it breaks the remote entirely (hopes it works after a restart)  
(Version 4.1)

MATTHEW GREEN  excellent but in the next version can you do an icon for the older style my passport drive?  
(Version 0.1)

MATTHEW GREEN  fantastic little application, i've been looking for something like this for ages. so SIMPLE! i've been snagging a few images here and there and using instant alpha in preview to clean up the backgrounds

i think the only way you could improve on this is to add some kind of masking feature to make images like the os original folder icons   
(Version 1.0)

MATTHEW GREEN  this is overly in english, the application menu however is not but then it's pretty easy to guess what quit is and that's really all you need  
(Version 1.2)

MATTHEW GREEN  with such a rapid version release i sure wish you'd support sparkle internal updates  
(Version 3.0.4)

MATTHEW GREEN  still a rather glaring flaw when using a folder as opposed to other user account, to be able to get it to work you have to tick all the modules then adjust the settings you want (either home directory or folder)

or start with home account to other user, select your options then change it to folder  
(Version 1.6.2)

MATTHEW GREEN  can we have a toolbar button to quickly enable/disable this please? would save me having to dive into preferences every time a website doesn't behave right   
(Version 0.3.2)

MATTHEW GREEN  quite why the developer insists on distributing this in a zip file rather than a dmg I don't know but all I know is betterzip just doesn't want to play and keeps asking for a password. 7zX plays ok with it but produces a strange folder alongside the install file  
(Version 3.0v53)

MATTHEW GREEN  still waiting for a revamp of the menu item, quite frankly it's stupid not having an add task button on there.

i sent you a mock up of what i think would be awesome what more do you want?!  
(Version 3.1.2)

MATTHEW GREEN  if your looking for something that just passes the safari rss link to google reader without running all the time

try greedy

http://geeksomnia.com/2007/12/20/greedy-update/  
(Version 1.07)

MATTHEW GREEN  not working in leopard, will not stay enabled even tho it installs  
(Version 1.0.2)

MATTHEW GREEN  just a word of warning

if your using a non admin account it will require you to enter an admin password to be able to write anything to an ntfs volume.

the reason escapes me and technical support still haven't replied to my question. their website also sucks for documentation and actually working in general. there's supposed to be a support system on there but every time i log in there i just get a white screen.

NOT GOOD! other than that it works fine and as fast as Mac native fat32  
(Version 6.0)

MATTHEW GREEN  just a word of warning

if your using a non admin account it will require you to enter an admin password to be able to write anything to an ntfs volume.

the reason escapes me and technical support still haven't replied to my question. their website also sucks for documentation and actually working in general. there's supposed to be a support system on there but every time i log in there i just get a white screen.

NOT GOOD! other than that it works fine and as fast as Mac native fat32   
(Version 6.0)

MATTHEW GREEN  is it really needed? right click on the artwork in the now playing box click copy, open preview file > new from clipboard and rotate a couple of times (odd i know)  
(Version 0.30b)

MATTHEW GREEN  this kinda bugs me, my connection is adsl that means BY DESIGN it downloads faster than it uploads this just capitalizes on the fact  
(Version 1.1)

MATTHEW GREEN  in the next release can we have an angle measure pleeeeeease  
(Version 1.7b5)

MATTHEW GREEN  ok the app launches but doesn't actually bring up any webpages  
(Version 1.1.2b)

MATTHEW GREEN  wouldn't launch on core2duo iMac, interesting concept because i would just want to set it on my google stuff to try. wonder what engine it uses  
(Version 1.0b)

MATTHEW GREEN  interesting, perhaps a good replacement for the ppc only iconverter but that can make windows icons and other things.....you say it supports windows icons but i assume you mean taking windows icons and converting them into mac icons unless i'm missing something of course

feels too minimistic for me and keep having to refer to the help (not really a good idea to have online help) but i think the saving as a resource fork is a great feature

take a look at iconverter (it hasn't been updated in 4 years) and expand on both of these and it will be excellent!  
(Version 2.0)

MATTHEW GREEN  love this app, just what anyone needs to make icons....could do with an update to universal binary   
(Version 0.86)

MATTHEW GREEN  is it possible to choose how big the scroll bar is?  
(Version 0.4)

MATTHEW GREEN  set off a virus warning with ClamXav, infected with Oversized.zip

sorry mate no go untill it's clean  
(Version 1.40)

MATTHEW GREEN  i've had no problems using google chat, set it up as a jabber account  
(Version 4.15b)

MATTHEW GREEN  great program, works a treats and gives good looking video, just wish it had a encoding progress meter and wasn't reliant on a website to download the video's

i also wish it would convert flv files that are stored locally  
(Version 1.0)

MATTHEW GREEN  a fair app but to be honest why limit it to just calendar? having mail as an option in the prefences would work wonders

another idea would be to use a firefox base rather than webkit so you could have the messenger running too, but i know nothing about that so ignore me if thats a crap idea  
(Version 1.08)

MATTHEW GREEN  great potential but early days, keep at it  
(Version 0.1)