PIRX  The download page on equinux.com seems to loop back to itself. Not possible to download software.  
(Version 6.0.3)

PIRX  There are situations and circumstances that warrant surveillance, and this program does the job pretty well. There are some shortcomings that are hopefully addressed in the upcoming version, like support for Firefox, auto-delete of log files, etc.  
(Version 1.2.2)

PIRX  Version 9.8 runs perfectly on Snow Leopard for me (MBAir, SSDrive). If you want to upgrade/buy version 10.0, be prepared for this:

"Error

PGP products are not available in your region."

With big trara PGP announced that they have a sales damager for the Asia/Pacific region, sitting in Sydney. Receiving this error-message does not induce positive buying behaviour in AP customers.

No, I am not a resident of North Korea.  
(Version 10.0)

PIRX  The keyword is compliance. If you work in the corporate world with a computer, no matter what make it is and what operating system it runs, your business partners may request you to run AV, no matter if you yourself are affected or not. Noncompliance = no business. Plain, straight, as simple as that.  
(Version 1.1.1)

PIRX  "The download could not start because you do not have sufficient access privileges..." Please make the download folder accessible, thank you.  
(Version 0.9.6b)

PIRX  I get a 403 forbidden error, when using the download link. This aplies to both, MacUpdate and the developers site.  
(Version 0.9.6.4)

PIRX  Works very smooth, especially the mutli-language addressbook sync is great. Chinese addresses are synced perfectly.

BUT, what does not work is, that iCal events spanning several days are ignored, and so are events in different time zones. That needs to be fixed, ASAP.  
(Version 1.1)

PIRX  I just switched from a Sony W890 to a Nokia E71. BPE effortlessly accompanied the switch, lists reliably the available services and uses them without fail.

Another DWIS-SWID software: Does what it says, says what it does. Very happy.  
(Version 2.1.2)

PIRX  I disagree. It is very light weight, after the initial scan.  
(Version 10.5.7)

PIRX  On cleaning my HD I just found 260 MB of ClamAV logs in /Library/Logs! After testing around with everything & sundry, I am back at Intego.  
(Version 1.3.4)

PIRX  Yes, definitely a memory leak. What a pity, such a great app.  
(Version 1.0.3)

PIRX  Oh, man, yes, I wish Microsoft were "bousozoku" (driving recklessly, speeding) regarding MS Messenger.

I have a conspiracy theory: Apple may not want a video capable client on OS X other than iChat, and Microsoft do not want a Messengr capable iChat.

Consequently, as long as iChat does not have Messenger capabilities, MS Messenger won't have video. Go figure.  
(Version 7.0.2)

PIRX  In terms of webam, Macs clearly lead PCs, however, MS Messenger for Mac has no cam suppport.

What is the point of creating this MS Messenger for Mac?  
(Version 7.0.2)

PIRX  Here we go, they are only responsive to brute force, i.e. when you submit a claim for non-delivery of goods through PayPal. Here is, what the "developer" came up with:

Q U O T E

From Seller: SRS Labs, Inc. on 2/2/2009 08:14 PST

Enter messageHi here is your activation code XXXXXXXX all letters are entered with caps lock on also here is the link to the software if needed http://www.srslabs.com/contact.aspx?fid=703 . You may want to check your email filters and allow SRS Labs or look in your bulk or spam folders for emails from us, regards, Jim Mercer

U N Q U O T E

My response:

Q U O T E

1) Tough luck, I do not apply spam filtering. The expected non-sense excuse.

2) I said clearly before, you can keep your product; I do not want it anymore, because I do not wish to deal with companies who waste my time with substandard performance.

U N Q U O T E  
(Version 3.0.0.255)

PIRX  The company is happy to collect my payment, but does not send registration code.

Completely unresponsive for ten days and counting.

I wonder what kind of ridiculous excuse they come up with after I retrieve my payment.

May be something like "my dog ate my PayPal acount."  
(Version 3.0.0.255)

PIRX  I disagree.

The iPhone is an iPod with rather poor phone functionality added and crippled BlueTooth. As a phone the iPhone is substandard. I am not impressed.

My SonyEricsson W890i syncs faster by BlueTooth with my Macbook, than the iPhone syncs the same data via cable. You got to use cable with the iPhone, since BlueTooth is crippled to only allow for headphones.

Sound quality of the phone is disastrous, unless you use headphones.

I can not use the iPhone as a business phone, because sometimes when a call comes in it freezes and becomes inoperable.

Running 2.2. No update so far has brought about significant improvements to a.m. shortcomings.  
(Version 2.2.1)

PIRX  Says what it does, does what it says. Beautiful. Thank you.  
(Version 1.1.10)

PIRX  Well, to begin with doing a good job marketing your product, you could send the registration code that I have been waiting for for a whole week!

I reminded you twice.

If I do not get the registration code in 48 hours from now, I am going to re-call the payment from PayPal on the grounds that goods bought were not delivered.

Unbelievably sloppy working style.  
(Version 3.0.0.255)

PIRX  I installed Lillipot and drag-dropped a freshly aquired m4v file from Finder on Lillipot, entered a destination folder and at the speed of light Lillipot converted the file to a *.mov of excellent quality.

I would give it 5 stars, but a large part of the GUI is in French, so it is one star less for inconsistent English/French interface.  
(Version 1.8)

PIRX  Another solution to a yet to be invented problem. The whole point of this exercise is to sell some VoIP service. Waste of my time.  
(Version 1.0.6)

PIRX  "You really shouldn't be forwarding on files of which you know so little": And just how - without anti-virus - can you be sure that the file that you received from your business partner which you need to forward to your supplier does NOT contain virii or mad macros?

What you state is like saying "I am immune to HIV, so if I carry it to others it is none of my business".

Use condoms, honey, on every conceivable occasion.

The statement of crippling your Mac with anti-virus is complete and utter nonsense, we do not need to discuss that further, or do we?  
(Version 1.3.2)

PIRX  To clarify my point: We are living in a Windows world. We work with files from Windows users and we forward files by e-mail. Photos, documents, spreadsheets, presentations. As a Mac user you will not notice that you are spreading a virus, unless you apply anti-virus software.

And that is the condom function of using AV software on a Mac: You don't have unprotected interaction with the opposite sex.

As to the likelihood of virii affecting Macs, I think is is not a question of "if" but only a question of "when".  
(Version 1.3.2)

PIRX  Does what it says, says what it does. Good stuff.  
(Version 3.1.3)

PIRX  Well, for some freaky reason I have ClamAVX and VirusBarrier X4 running on Leopard.

After all the negative publicity about VirusBarrier I was really surprised about 2 weeks ago, when VirusBarrier X4 did catch a Windows trojan instantly on receipt, while ClamAVX remained mum and also on re-scanning did not respond.

I agree that VirusBarrier pricing is totally unattractive and I also do not understand why I should upgrade to X5 at rather high expense.  
(Version 10.5.5)

PIRX  Brilliant, just simply brilliant. Does what it says, says what it does, flawless encoding. Brilliant.  
(Version 0.9.3)

PIRX  Rocks! The return to leadership! Still a beta, but pretty good. Apart from the RTF option, would love to see more HTML implemented, like backgrounds and inline display of images for outgoing messages.

Another real benefit would be the 3-vertical pane browser layout.

PowerMail is good stuff, worth it.  
(Version 6.0b1)

PIRX  It is supposed to be a one-fits-all solution, however, it is not there yet and looking at all the open support tickets, there still seems to be quite a bit of work in progress.

I you are on a run-of-the-mill VPN, chance is that you will be happy, even totally excited with Shimo.

Good idea & concept, if fully implemented Shimo will be great.  
(Version 2.0.7)

PIRX  Being an avid PowerMail user I would love to see the product being developed and updated continuously.

After recent Mac OS X updates I noticed PowerMail crashing on a variety of occasions and beginning to hang randomly when sending e-mails with attachments.

I think that may be it could be time to post an update.  
(Version 5.6.5)

PIRX  Damn, yes, You are right! It does not appear under software-updates. Thanks for saving me from a potential unpleasant experience!  
(Version 2008-003)

PIRX  Down with things Micosoft!  
(Version 2.0)

PIRX  Requiem requires iTunes 7. Later versions of iTune break Requiem. If this thingy works under iTunes 8, it must be a bit more than Requiem.   
(Version 4.2)

PIRX  Well, I had ClamAV running all the while on Tiger, folder sentry on my PowerMail e-mail attachments folder, documents folder and downloads folder. Then, upon finally upgrading to Leopard last week (October 2008), ClamAV instantly warned me about 3 Windows virii, 2 of them in my e-mail attachment folder, one from 2005 and the other one from June 2008, as well as one in the download folder.

For some reason I was mighty unimpressed by ClamAVs performance, but it is hard to blame ClamAV, as Intego VirusBarrier and Sophos had also failed in detecting the virii!

If there should be an aggressive new virus out there, I reckon that the chance of either aforementioned software on a Mac catching it may be no better than 50/50.

Apart from corporate compliance, the point of having AV software running on a Mac is the same as using a condom in real life: To protect yourself against against an unlimited variety of known and unknown infections.

If iAntivirus can reliably do that better than the others, then it is a sure winner.  
(Version 1.1)

PIRX  Is the wheel be re-invented here?  
(Version 0.2)

PIRX  Not bad at all, basing on the old concept of webmail on a secure server PLUS an e-mail client that seems to go through an encrypted connection and seems to be using IMAP.

Messages that you send to others are tag-lined "Send me a secure VaultletMail message anytime, anywhere!

https://production.vaultletsoft.com/dropbox?to=". If the recipient does use the webmail interface to reply to the message, there seems to be complete end-to-end encryption.

If you have got something secret to communicate - say, you sit in China negotiating this important deal, well knowing that all and any communication is being in intercepted by state security organs and forwarded to the Chinese business partner (that still is standard practise) - having VaultletSuite handle the e-mails would certainly increase the degree of difficulty of spying on your communication and putting you checkmate by preempting your negotiation strategy.

For the standard SOHO the server solution is much too expensive, but on a corporate level it may be interesting to have the client/server solution with your own domain, say in areas where compliance is an issue (law firms, pharmaceutical research labs, patent conulstancies, security firms, government, NGO).

VaultLetmail does what it says, it says what it does.

For convenient, secure end-to-end encryption and daily e-mail communication, however, the solution is still GNUPG/PGP, especially in case of small organisations.  
(Version 2.7.2)

PIRX  I used to have it on my Tiger notebook. After upgrading to Leopard, the my beloved screensaver vanished. Still trying to figure out what happened.  
(Version 1.0)

PIRX  I think it is generally the crippled usability of the iPhone's bluetooth.

Anything that would enable usage of services or carriers beyond the chargeable services of Apples revenue-sharers is being blocked by Apple.

I just switched back from iPhone to SonyEricsson, because I find the limitations of the iPhone unacceptable.   
(Version 2.2)

PIRX  I agree that SOPHOS is the very best anti-virus software on the planet, however, since their Singapore and China offices in charge of my business are totally unresponsive to multiple requests for purchasing the software, individually and for my company, I bought a different solution.

Corporate arrogance is the beginning of the end.  
(Version 4.9)

PIRX  In general, in the Windows world Grisofts AVG found at least 6 more infections on our office machines than Avast did.

For Mac, I was looking for an AV that scans the single biggest source of infection: e-mails. I do forward e-mails, so passing on Windows infections is a possibility. Avast plugs into your Mail.app and launches it. If you uncheck the mail option in the preferences, no mail scanning seems to be happening. Apart from my preference to launch my e-mail software at my leisure, Avast completely ignores the fact that many people do not use Mail.app, but things like Thunderbird, PowerMail, Entourage, et al.

So, in terms of what I really wanted to have, e-mail scanning, it does not perform as expected.

The HD scans are fast and thorough, no complaints about that. No crashes or hanging on OS X 10.4.11.  
(Version 2.74)

PIRX  A pity that this has been compiled only for the Intel Macs, so I can't use on my PowerBook G4.

I use VirtualBox for Ubuntu on an IBM ThinkPad and run Windows from inside VirtualBox. Absolutely awesome, fantastic, outstanding.  
(Version 2.0.2)

PIRX  Simply the best.  
(Version 3.1.6)

PIRX  How to put it.... well, even my wife can use it successfully. Good stuff, great software.  
(Version 8.4.79)

PIRX  Works flawlessly and reliably for me for more than a year, using Witopia VPN. Brilliant app, good work.

Upgrade Maniacs on Leopard may have lots of issues with many other softwares as well, so it is not fair hammer each one developer for compatibility issues.  
(Version 3.0b9)

PIRX  It looks super-cool, but there is work to be done. Great, that Eudora has risen from the dead. Used to be my prime email toy in Windows, looking forward to a stable Eudora in Mac OS X.  
(Version 8.0b3)

PIRX  Splendid tool. Excellent job!  
(Version 2.3)

PIRX  frequency, thats it, in a nutshell. The business conduct of this company is unacceptable. Actually, I am not sure if macupdate would want to burden themselves with this kind of supplier.  
(Version 5.0)

PIRX  The standard way of advertising a version UPGRADE is to send an e-mail to your existing customers, announcing the upgrade and not pushing a veriosn UPGRADE through the previous version's UPDATE channel.

I have never experienced this kind of business conduct. It is just unethical, unacceptable and indefensible.  
(Version 5.0)

PIRX  That is an indefensible position you are taking there.

You push-in the upgrade through the regular update features, which is and remains unacceptable.

I do not wish to use software from your company anymore, therefore no further support of version 4 is required.  
(Version 5.0)

PIRX  I am very surprised. Today Speed Download prompted me to update so I did, and afterwards I found out that my license is no more valid and that they expect me to buy a new full-price license.

I have never experienced that before.

Usually, a developer would announce that this is a version upgrade which requires buying a new license and ask, if I would want to upgrade.

Instead, Yazsoft push this upgrade down your throat and expect you to pay for it.

Unacceptable business conduct this is, Speed Download is off my PowerBook tonight.  
(Version 5.0)

PIRX  CTM is Swiss, unrelated to EUR/USD exchange rate.

But with crude oil at USD 100/barrel, writing code becomes more expensive, too...  
(Version 5.6.1)

PIRX  Powermail website is down! Have CTM bit the dust? :-(  
(Version 5.6.1)

PIRX  It seems after the PGP Desktop trial period expires, it is supposedly falling back to previous PGP 8.1 freeware functionality. See here for details:

http://www.pgp.com/downloads/desktoptrial2.php  
(Version 8.1)

PIRX  Yes, just as I said, please do try VideoLAN Client (VLC).

If VLC can't play it, then there is definitely something wrong with the files.

You find VLC here:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5758/vlc-media-player

Please download and install VLC, and try to play your YouTube/Get Tube files with it.  
(Version 2.1)

PIRX  The movies created are mp4 files. It may be, that whatever software you use to play the movie, you have not got the right decoder.

Try VLC VideoLAN Client to watch the mp4 file and see if that works.  
(Version 2.1)

PIRX  The video quality is much better than others. Otherwise: Does what it says it would do.

The sole and single downside I found: When you feed to the app an URL that does not link to a movie, the app seems to be unable to time-out.   
(Version 2.1)

PIRX  Installs flawlessly and works fine, but there are some ISPs who reject these direct SMTP messages. In such case, RapidoSMTP 1.6 does not seem to produce error messages, but keeps the mails in the queue and continues trying to send the mail. For that, 1 star less than the well deserved 5 stars.  
(Version 1.6)

PIRX  www.leapingbytes.com seems to be down.

August 4, 2007, 1:26 a.m. Eastern  
(Version 1.5.1)

PIRX  CrushFTP and AlmostVPN are both in the hall of fame: access to their sites is blocked from China, the censors probably don't want users in China to have access to these powerful tools. A medal of honour.  
(Version 4.3)

PIRX  I have written to CTM several times during the past year or so, but no response: A major, major shortcoming of PowerMail is the lack of a GNUPG plug-in, like Apple Mail has it. I would expect that to be implemented with no further delay.  
(Version 5.5.3)

PIRX  It does not show up under iTunes 7.1.1 OS 10.4.9. How come?  
(Version 1.1.8)

PIRX  I would like file juicer to also extract fonts.  
(Version 4.7.4)

PIRX  Easy to use, highly effective and fast, this certainly is one of the coolest must-have apps for Mac. DropCopy rocks!

A bummer, of course that Mac OS 7 and 8 are not supported, but we'll get over it.  
(Version 1.3)

PIRX  If your serial does not work, then re-set the date of your computer to the date of the confirmation e-mail from the developer.

After that, your serial may work, and you can set your computers date back to today.

That worked for me.  
(Version 3.0.8)

PIRX  If your serial does not work, then re-set the date of your computer to the date of the confirmation e-mail from the developer.

After that, your serial may work, and you can set your computers date back to today.

That worked for me.

These developers, Chris Long and Kai Cherry, should definitely not abandon their day-time jobs.  
(Version 3.0.8)

PIRX  3 months of waiting and no reply from support regarding dysfunctional serial at all.

MacUpdate should seriously consider to delist the apps of such irresponsible developers.  
(Version 3.0.8)

PIRX  Having tried a lot of different 'solutions' behind restrictve national firewalls, for me nothing beats the combination of AlmostVPN and secure-tunnel.com  
(Version 3.0.2)

PIRX  On the website they advertise a price of USD 59.99, but when you go through the purchase process they still try to charge you USD 79.99.

Factual on December 1, 2006, several attempts.  
(Version 11.0.1)

PIRX  I have never worked with a more cumbersome office suite than Lotus Notes. The one positive thing I could find: it is secure.  
(Version 7.0.2)

PIRX  After filling in data I get out of bounds errors and the app is shutting down. In the credit card input the field for the PIN number is missing, and no option to add it.

The pro version seems not to be able to import data from the free version.

The free version performs better for me, the pro version in its current state is a bit of a disappointment.  
(Version 1.0)

PIRX  I emailed support twice for problems with their registration number, but they don't bother replying.

I can not recommend any software of any developer with such lousy support.

As this is totally unacceptable, and just as a matter of principle, I may go legal and sue for damages if there is no reply by September 12, 2006, business closing hours.

I have done that before and it was VERY effective.

Companies with this lousy attitude do not deserve anybody's business.  
(Version 3.0.8)

PIRX  The widget itself works great, no problem.

Now let us get some things straight: China is a country with a repressive communist government, that suppresses press-freedom and censors the media and the Internet.

Journalists are still being imprisoned in China or 'reformed through labour', there are also journalists who are paying with their lives for investigative journalism.

Very recently an environmentalist was paralyzed after a vicious attack on him, when he had given an interview to German TV. The official examination concluded that he 'broke his own neck' (quote Shanghai Daily).

The headlines in the Shanghai Daily widget will give you represent China's communist party line, and the content is only what was approved by state censors.  
(Version 0.1)

PIRX  This app has really evolved nicely. Keep up the good job!  
(Version 0.53r212)

PIRX  Apple should consider adopting the iridium look. Iridium is the most beautiful theme around, as far as I am concerned.  
(Version 1.9.F)

PIRX  I would actually expect Skype to come up with a OS X version equivalent to the 2.0 for Windows. with cam support.  
(Version 1.4.0.49)

PIRX  It does not start under OS 10.4.6, it crashes on starting the app.  
(Version 1.1)

PIRX  Thank you very, very much, this was extremely helpful.

I guess the only way of disabling that, is not to access pages that use Google tracking, right?  
(Version 1.0.1)

PIRX  No, that is not what I mean. Whenever I connect to any site, it is clearly visible on the task-bar on the bottom, that Camino connects to Google first. I don't hope, that Camino harvests information for Google?  
(Version 1.0.1)

PIRX  Why is it that Camino always connects to www.google-analytics.com? Is there something in the EULA about this, that I should have read?  
(Version 1.0)

PIRX  I have just come from Safari via Firefox via Opera to Camino and must say, that I am really impressed. Excellent browser.  
(Version 1.0)

PIRX  Demo does not seem to be importing tune names from iTunes. Also manual input does not work. Otherwise, good idea, good concept.  
(Version 1.4v45)

PIRX  k0t1k: thanks a million!

gaoshan: if you have nothing to contribute, then no one would object if you would just remain silent.  
(Version 0.9.13)

PIRX  http://idisk.mac.com/atchijov/Public/ and all thereafter is blocked, too, by the censors.  
(Version 0.9.13)

PIRX  To avoid the ridiculous, total waste of time to find daily a working proxy server that has not already been blocked by the censors, it might be much more advantageous to just upload almostVPN to an unconspicuous mirror.  
(Version 0.9.13)

PIRX  The People's Republic of China has chosen to block all and any access to leapingbytes.com. I would regard that being a medal of honour, if the worlds no.1 paraniod censors are that much scared of leapingbytes.com.

But, it also poses a problem to download from leapingbytes.com.

Can you put AlmostVPN on a mirror-server somewhere?  
(Version 0.9.13)

PIRX  VPN and tunneling is also useful, if you are behind the Great Fire-Wall of China, with port blocking, content filtering, etc, etc.  
(Version 0.9.11)

PIRX  Yes, brilliant app. I just love it, the simplicty of configuration together with the fool-proof help makes connecting to a VPN or tunneling a breeze.

Minor, minute problem occured:

I have experienced repetitive almostVPN freezes followed by crashes on a machine that runs OS X 10.4.3. Somehow related to the menu icon the whole app seems to go down.

No such occurrence under OS X 10.4.4.

Again, great stuff, we need more of that, for example HTTPort on OSX http://www.htthost.com  
(Version 0.9.11)

PIRX  Just plain brilliant, perfect for learning by flashcards.  
(Version 2.7.1)

PIRX  It installs and runs fine, but I am very concerned:

I installed NetBarrier, ran the update, rebooted and confirmed everything runs fine.

Then I installed wimp 1.1 http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20455

wimp calls home, i.e. in a way it behaves like spyware - OK, it is a cron job, but still, I a extremely concerned that NetBarrier did not utter a whimper when wimp called home and sent an e-mail, even.  
(Version 10.4)

PIRX  Good, clean, wholesome Gnutella fun. Delightful to use, and worth every penny.  
(Version 126.1)

PIRX  Most important function: parental controls, disable music store.  
(Version 6.0.2)

PIRX  This is the good old board game Risk or Risiko, with some slight modifications. There are Windows and Palm versions from other developers.

This one here is way too easy to play in off-line mode, can not match the Palm game.  
(Version 2.3.4)

PIRX  I am not sure what it actually does, but it is great. Gives you the clean feel of a new machine.   
(Version 1.6.6)

PIRX  I am also disappointed.

It seems that the developer tried to do a too good job, and thereby things went wrong. Error messages while downloading software, because stuffit tries to unzip it during the download process, sometimes crashes during normal unzip processes, etc.

I would say that less automation is more.  
(Version 10.0.1)

PIRX  Thank you for this brilliant app.

It is a mystery, why Apple tried to re-invent the wheel with the clumsy input interface for the address book.

AddressBookQuickEntry brings us back to the roots - very good.  
(Version 2.1.1)

PIRX  Beautiful, useful, well conceived app, but I wish I had not bought it.

Upon entering the registration details Grammarian stops responding and the system locks up.

This wasted a lot of my time, including having to write to support and hoping for a workable fix sometime soon.

I find it totally unacceptable, that paying customers are being exposed to such an experience. Anything beyond a fast and totally pain-free registration process is unacceptable.

Probably there is a line somewhere in the small print of the license agreement, that you can only register this software with a live VPN connection to the Pentagon on Tuesdays after full moon.  
(Version 1.6.2)

PIRX  Their sales agent PowerMax refused to sell TechTool Pro to me, on the grounds that they 'don't export software'.

Looking at the other comments I was may be lucky, and should take my business elserwhere.  
(Version 4.0.6)