NICHOLAS RILEY  Very nicely done - a good mix between MPlayer's keyboard friendliness and being a real Mac application. The ability to switch between FFmpeg and QuickTime decoding without losing your place in the video is especially appreciated.

Only feature I really miss from MPlayer is the ability to play partially downloaded videos. Given how well Movist keeps your place in a video already, it seems it should be trivial to simply reload a video when you get to the end of it, rather than terminating playback.  
(Version 0.6.1)

NICHOLAS RILEY  Do you have an example of this? I both wrote ICeCoffEE and use MacSpeech Dictate, and haven't noticed any problems. If I can fix the problem, or help Unsanity to fix the problem, please let me know.  
(Version 1.5b3)

NICHOLAS RILEY  I've never heard of or seen any other occurrences of kernel panics with ICeCoffEE. If ICeCoffEE being enabled causes kernel panics, it's a problem with Mac OS X or an installed kernel extension (such as a driver). Neither APE nor ICeCoffEE touches the Mac OS X kernel or any applications which run as root.

However, I'd be interested to figure out what's going on; please send me (icecoffee@sabi.net) a copy of the panic logs—and in future, email me rather than/in addition to posting on MacUpdate to get a faster response.  
(Version 1.5b1)

NICHOLAS RILEY  You’re right—leaving those controls there doesn't make much sense. I just pushed out a new version (21) which removes them until I can get them to work. If you're already using Pester 1.1b5, just choose "Check for Updates..." from the Pester menu and you should be all set.  
(Version 1.1b5)

NICHOLAS RILEY  Sorry, these features are not implemented yet. This is just an interim Leopard update; I hope to have them finished at some point in the future.  
(Version 1.1b5)

NICHOLAS RILEY  APE requires administrator access to install. If your managed environment is properly managed, then users won't be administrators, and the administrators can regulate whether APE is permitted. (In addition to being the author of ICeCoffEE, I manage a lab of Macs.)

APEs are inherently no more or less able to crash applications than any other type of native code plugin - contextual menu items, scripting additions, QuickTime components and Web browser plugins among them.

There's been exactly one known crashing bug due to ICeCoffEE in its entire existence. The bug was very obscure (clicking on a disabled window close button in Terminal), and it was fixed years ago. Compare this, for example, to how often Adobe's Flash plugin crashes your favorite browser, and you'll see that APEs are not a risk even in managed environments, if the environments are properly managed. The quality of the code you're running is far more critical.

ICeCoffEE also supports and includes Smart Crash Reports, so every time an app crashes which could even be remotely related to ICeCoffEE, I get the report.  
(Version 1.4.4)

NICHOLAS RILEY  Why is your name "macupdate31"?

I think it was automatically generated from the email address I used to register.  
(Version 1.1)

NICHOLAS RILEY  ...oops, sorry, that got cut off. Here's the correct comment:

Actually, the Launch! guy got me beat by a few months; he released his product in April 2001, whereas I didn't start working on launch until August 2001. I don't think there was ever much potential for confusion as this one had a lowercase l, no exclamation point, and was command line instead of GUI.

In any case, Launch! is no more, and I can't believe launch is already five years old! Enjoy version 1.1.  
(Version 1.0.1)

NICHOLAS RILEY  Actually, the Launch! guy got me beat by a few months; he released his product in April 2001, whereas I didn't start working on launch until August 2001. I don't think there was ever much potential for confusion as this one had a lowercase l, no exclamation point, and was command line instead of GUI.

In any case, Launch!  
(Version 1.0.1)

NICHOLAS RILEY  If you just want to remap caps lock to control, follow the instructions here:

http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~jfieber/osx/

It works better than uControl would if it worked, anyway - the keyboard caps lock LED functions properly.  
(Version 1.3.7)

NICHOLAS RILEY  The first truly Mac OS X native version of Python - with support for Cocoa, Carbon, AppleScript and cross-platform GUI options like Tk, wxWindows and Qt, you can't really go wrong. Wonderful!  
(Version 2.3rc2)

NICHOLAS RILEY  Most responsive developer ever! He responded to my email within 5 minutes (!!!) with a new build of the app addressing all my comments. Great app too.  
(Version 2.1)