PENGUIRL  Movist is another app that shares WriteRoom's superior full screen behaviour.  
(Version 2.3.7)

PENGUIRL  There may not be an installer per se, but Google Earth still installs other files at first launch as do many OS X applications without installers.  
(Version 5.1.3509.4636)

PENGUIRL  At first I was skeptical but I decided to try it anyway. I haven't purchased a license (yet) but even the demo features are impressive. It has a lot of functions, too many to list here, two of which that I don't already have are the bandwidth used monitor and duplicates finder. The interface is attractive and intuitive, and the price is a bargain. The two background process' do use a little bit of CPU and the main app a bit more but that's not too surprising given the number of things it's keeping track of. All in all I am looking forward to trying the full version once I get a license.  
(Version 1.0)

PENGUIRL  Meh, color me underwhelmed. It doesn't import feeds into the hierarchal structure they were exported in, and while the UI is different from all the rest I find the three pane widescreen layout more useful for me.  
(Version 1.6v84)

PENGUIRL  I forgot to mention that Shrook's feed synchronization is a fantastic feature and to my knowledge it's the only 10.4 compatible RSS/Atom reader that offers it.   
(Version 2.72)

PENGUIRL  My initial impression of Shrook after being forced to leave NetNewsWire by it's new system requirements is that it's inability to import feeds in the same hierarchy they were exported in is a substantial inconvenience. Also the four pane window seems too busy and leaves each pane too narrow, I would like to have the option of a three pane widescreen layout that NetNewsWire and Vienna offer. I won't rate it until I've had a chance to reorganize the feeds and give it a proper run through.  
(Version 2.72)

PENGUIRL  Growl just popped up an alert that there is a new version available, however I run 10.4 and the new version requires 10.5. I caught it after downloading but before installing but other's might end up having to go back and reinstall an older version. It would be nice if it checked compatibility before alerting the user to a new version, I've now disabled automatic update checking since it's not likely they'll be updating the Tiger version anymore.  
(Version 1.2)

PENGUIRL  I came back to Vienna after NetNewsWire switched their synching from NewsGator to Google and raised the system requirements to 10.5. It has a nice UI, good functionality, and it's the only RSS/Atom reader I've tried that imported my feeds in the same folder hierarchy that they were exported in. So far my only complaints are font related, increasing the size of the article headlines font causes the date and time to be cut off by the headline below it, and there is no font settings for the article summary or the full articles. The only way to make them larger is to force all fonts to a larger minimum size, thus bringing up the previously mentioned issue.

At this time I don't need synchronization but it would be a nice feature to have for the future. All in all Vienna is the best of it's class.  
(Version 2.3.4.2305)

PENGUIRL  Twitterific for Mac seems to have stagnated as all efforts appear to be focused on Twitterific for iPhone. If the Mac version had the features of the iPhone version that would be great.  
(Version 3.2)

PENGUIRL  Regardless of what an app's MU page says about compatibility, an auto updater should not update to a version that is not compatible with the installed operating system, or at an absolute minimum make it clear what the minimum system requirements are. You should not have to go to MU or the developers site first to check the system requirements before allowing the auto updater to run.

(Why do so many Leopard users have pompous attitudes toward Tiger users???)  
(Version 4.2.2)

PENGUIRL  SoundSource's volume control sliders require 10.5 Leopard, that feature is not available in 10.4 Tiger.  
(Version 1.3.1)

PENGUIRL  The previous versions of DSS Player were wretched applications that functioned just barely adequately and had an atrocious UI that was obviously a Windoze port with little effort put into it.

Now they've dropped support for older recorders such as my DS-330. In turn I think I will be dropping my future support for Olympus.  
(Version 7.1)

PENGUIRL  While I appreciate an up to date application, by the time I feel comfortable installing one update (meaning no bad reviews on MacUpdate), the next update has been released. 2.8 updates per month for the last 39 months is a little much, since most of the time I'm only using the browser extension and not the app itself the auto update check is moot.  
(Version 2.9.27)

PENGUIRL  MACLOVER1.1 Lets take exaggeration to the extreme why don't we? Leopard was released in October 2007, which means Tiger is 1 year 10 months "out of date" if you want to call it that, and the Mac Classic was discontinued in September 1992 making it 16 years and 11 months old. Don't be ridiculous, there will come a day when your OS of choice is less than two years old and support is rapidly being dropped and you are going to wonder why is a $130 OS out of date less than two years after the release of the "next big thing."

Seriously, your lack of maturity is showing. Grow up.  
(Version 0.9.6.1)

PENGUIRL  Re IAMDORIAN: It's a legitimate question, the author has a PPC version that was not where it was indicated to be. You are awfully judgmental to suggest the poster work more to buy a new Mac when there are people who can barely keep a roof over their head or food on the table. Perhaps you should take time to assess the situation and think about the fact that not everyone's life is like yours before you jump on your high horse and put someone else down just for asking a simple question.

Judge not lest ye be judged.  
(Version 1.4.4)

PENGUIRL  No that is not what I'm saying, that is what you choose to see. What I'm saying is that if a developer chooses to support only one version of an OS, then it's very possible that someone could come to rely on your product only to get left behind when the next OS upgrade comes out 18 months later. It has nothing to do with refusing to meet the system requirements of your software. I freely choose not to run Leopard because it is bloated, inefficient compared to Tiger, and I am in the exact reverse scenario I just described with CS 2 Premium. If I could go straight to Snow Leopard I would but CS 2 Premium runs poorly in Rosetta, if it would run on 10.6 at all.

If you choose not to support Tiger, that's your free choice. However it makes me leery of ever using any of your products, free or not. If you have an issue with that, so be it. I really don't care.  
(Version 0.9.6)

PENGUIRL  I installed v5.0 and uninstalled the updater, however it seemed buggy. Since I don't want to continuously uninstall the updater with every update, and Google hasn't yet relented on their totalitarian approach to updating, I am going back to v4. It's rather sad when a software company's userbase nearly unanimously says they don't want a particular "feature" but the developers continue to force it on the users.

And what is with these crazy version numbers? Are they cranking out dozens of new versions a day, thus requiring such long version numbers?  
(Version 5.0.11733.9347)

PENGUIRL  Your single G4 runs as fast as a dual G5? You should patent the process and sell it, there are lots of G4 users that would love to get that kind of performance. *rolls eyes*  
(Version 1.3)

PENGUIRL  I can see by your comments that it does have it's strong points, and I myself have run into Photoshops batch processing limitations, but at the same time a CLI graphics app will inherently have shortcomings of it's own. Never having used ImageMagick I have no way of knowing what they might be, but one thing that comes to mind is that it must be difficult if not impossible to clone stamp in a CLI. Or anything else involving working on specific areas of an image.

Yes I did read the comment before mine, however I did not open up the replies. My comment wasn't meant to offend, it was a serious question.  
(Version 6.5.1)

PENGUIRL  I would love to try fruux but cannot because it's Leopard only. Leopard is fine for some people, but for me it is bloatware that reduces the efficiency of my PPC Macs. Only supporting one OS version is not good IMO, are all the Leopard users going to be left behind when Snow Leopard comes out?  
(Version 0.9.5)

PENGUIRL  Use Little Snitch, which is a good idea in any case.  
(Version 0.9.5)

PENGUIRL  I prefer a stand alone application over widgets, Dashboard consumes resources when not in use that could be better utilized elsewhere.  
(Version 1.4)

PENGUIRL  I love(d) iClip Lyrics but why oh why does it have to be 10.5 only? Leopard is slow and bloated, some of us have greater need for an efficient OS, why can't it be supported too?  
(Version 1.4)

PENGUIRL  So DivX is now Intel only? Way to go and alienate a substantial portion of the Mac userbase. Between Handbrake, Perian and VLC I don't need you anyway so go ahead and take a long walk on a short pier.  
(Version 7.0)

PENGUIRL  You can disable Growl alerts for any app in the Growl pref pane.  
(Version 1.0)

PENGUIRL  For the life of me, I can't understand paying $10 to do what the Return key does for free, and faster.  
(Version 2.1)

PENGUIRL  Cha-Ching reminds me of the disc burning application Disco. Lots of hype, some eye candy, but little functionality and no communication from the developers. Do not invest your time into this app because you'll only end up having to invest more time extracting your data so that you can import it into an app that actually works (I use CheckBook Pro).  
(Version 2.0b89)

PENGUIRL  Is it just me or does it seem odd to use a CL tool to do GRAPHICAL work? Wouldn't a GUI be easier?  
(Version 6.5)

PENGUIRL  The listing at Google shows that AdiumBook 1.5 does run on Tiger and Leopard, and it does work on my G5 2.0DP running 10.4.11 so apparently it's mismarked here on MacUpdate.

Having said that, it's functionality is limited. There were Address Book contacts that it would not see, and Adium contacts that it did see that I deleted years ago. Sometimes it would not allow me to copy a picture from Adium to AB, and it doesn't let you copy a picture from AB to Adium (although you can do this in Adium preferences). It's statistics said that it saved me 16 minutes, but I think that's over optimistic. Also, after I authorized it to check for updates it froze and I had to relaunch it.

Overall it is useful, but not quite as useful as I had hoped.  
(Version 1.5)

PENGUIRL  Adium imports contacts from Address Book but it does not sync contacts with Address Book. Big difference.  
(Version 1.5)

PENGUIRL  Adium is the only contextual chat client I use and I was looking forward to trying AdiumBook so sync contacts I have in Adium but not in Address Book. Unfortunately I can't do this because AdiumBook requires Leopard. That really is too bad.

Why do so many 3rd party apps these days only support one version of the OS? Used to be that most 3rd party apps would support 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4 all at once. What gives with 10.5? Is it something Apple has done in the background to "encourage" people to "upgrade" to Leopard? Is this some sort of agreement between Apple and shareware/commercial developers?  
(Version 1.5)

PENGUIRL  BTJunkie already searches the other six sites so it seems redundant to search anything more than BTJunkie.  
(Version 1.3)

PENGUIRL  This update address' my primary complaint, which was all messages being marked unread upon launch. The addition of https communication is long overdue but finally included. It's the best Twitter desktop app for Tiger, and possibly OS X. My only complaint is that it is overpriced, really it shouldn't cost more than $10. If the ability to manage your Twitter account were included it would be worth it's current price.  
(Version 3.2)

PENGUIRL  My browser, OmniWeb, does not crash a lot. In fact it's very rare that it crashes. But OmniWeb, like all Mac browsers including Safari, does become more of a memory hog the longer it runs. If Google's Chrome is designed in a way that does not do this than I would like to try it.  
(Version 3.0.0.310)

PENGUIRL  In Chrome, each tab runs independently. This means that if one crashes, it doesn't crash the entire browser, and also should keep CPU & memory usage from getting out of hand. This is a feature that no other Mac browser has, and why so many people want Google to release a Mac version.  
(Version 3.0.0.310)

PENGUIRL  If you're going to vote my comment down, couldn't you at least make a counter-argument to my statement?  
(Version 3.0.0.310)

PENGUIRL  Intel only? Thanks for nothing Google, how hard is it to make a UB? Guess I'll stick with iPhoto and Flickr.  
(Version 3.0.0.310)

PENGUIRL  It's only five days late but WHOSYOURTATOR posted his/her comment on New Year's day when it was one day late. That just seems silly to me, five days is pretty good for a small software developer.  
(Version 4.0)

PENGUIRL  I have gmail set for IMAP and I configured Mulberry for IMAP but I think that it was either a port issue or a password password protocol issue.

The latest version of Eudora/Penelope 8.0b4 seems to be working pretty good although I use it for receive only at this time.  
(Version 4.0.8)

PENGUIRL  This is obviously a Windoze port, the screen shot is from the Windoze version. Come on developer how hard is it to make a screen shot on a Mac? Answer, it's not hard so there's no excuse.  
(Version 1.2)

PENGUIRL  Are you listening Steve???  
(Version 1.0)

PENGUIRL  Wow, SweetMail looks like a blast from the OS 9 past. It hasn't been updated in years and doesn't have the functionality (STARTTLS for one) to work with gmail. It would be nice to see a Cocoa version someday, as it is I cannot do a thing with it.  
(Version 2.2r6)

PENGUIRL  I really want to like Mulberry, but I can't get it to work with gmail. Looking around in the gmail forums, I find people asking how to get Mulberry to work with gmail and zero replies. Thunderbird is a CPU hog so it's back to Correo for my work account.  
(Version 4.0.8)

PENGUIRL  Functionality is limited, as is to be expected in a 0.3 release. However, it is CPU efficient which Thunderbird cannot say, and it works with Gmail which to my knowledge no one has gotten Mulberry to do. For those reasons, Correo is my separate e-mail client for my work account. I'm looking forward to the addition of standard features in the future.  
(Version 0.3)

PENGUIRL  Looking for a separate e-mail client for my work account I decided to try Thunderbird again. It's been a few years since the last time I used it and not much has changed. Still unable to import anything at all at launch, and Thunderbird still uses far too much of the CPU. 11% +/- 1% at idle on my DP G5 2.0GHz. Might be okay for some, but being a dedicated BOINC cruncher I am not going to throw away my CPU cycles on an idle e-mail client.

I can't get Mulberry to play nice with gmail, so it's back to Correo for now. Maybe in another decade Thunderbird or Eudora will be ready for prime time.  
(Version 2.0.0.17)

PENGUIRL  Transmission used to work very well for me, but a pattern has emerged in the last few months. It will start downloading a file very well, lots of peer connections and good speeds, but then it will choke. It drops to few if any peers, most of the time downloading at   
(Version 1.34)

PENGUIRL  Looking at the developer's website, it says that the "Apple Key chain Extractor" plug-in is for law enforcement use only. It also says that once the passwords are extracted from the key chain, a dictionary attack is used on the system login password.

It's well known that many people use simple passwords, or none at all, most people with something to hide would likely have a password that would withstand a dictionary attack, no?  
(Version 2.0)

PENGUIRL  Buggy. Must be quit manually to logout, shut down, or restart. Must be restarted every few days or data slows to a trickle. Sometimes freezes at launch. Can't share internet connection. Even the screenshot shows a display bug. That's just off the top of my head, I haven't used it in nine months.  
(Version 1.1.1)

PENGUIRL  OmniWeb is my favorite browser, however 5.7 does not work for me. The File and Edit menus are missing completely, and the application menu does not show up. I cannot cut, copy or past, create new tabs, etc... Reverting to 5.7b1 fixed the problem.  
(Version 5.7)

PENGUIRL  60b crashed for me at startup on Tiger. Developers site says 60b requires Leopard, try 5.3 if you are not running 10.5. Started right up for me.  
(Version 60b)

PENGUIRL  v0.93 gives me much better connectivity and dl speeds than previous versions. I wish it would give more information about peers like Bits on Wheels does, but BoW is dead and Transmission is now the best OS X bt client.  
(Version 0.93)

PENGUIRL  Does what Meteorologist used to do, the difference being that WeatherSnitch is still supported. Nice, free software - thank you!  
(Version 1.2.1)

PENGUIRL  Keyclick: $2.50; 0.30% CPU while in use.

Typewriter Keyboard: €15 (about $18); 8.20% CPU when IDLE!

'nuff said.  
(Version 3.4)

PENGUIRL  Keyclick: $2.50; 0.30% CPU while in use.

Typewriter Keyboard: €15 (about $18); 8.20% CPU when IDLE!

'nuff said.  
(Version 1.0.2)

PENGUIRL  The screen saver itself is nice, but I got the endless spinning beach ball of death when I tried to unlock the display. Too bad.  
(Version 1.1.1)

PENGUIRL  I am new to AppDelete and so far I am impressed. So much easier than searching Finder for files with the name of the app, the developer, or who knows what. Or where for that matter.

Thank you Reggie, you have another fan!  
(Version 1.0.1)