BOUSOZOKU  Why would you think that it would work okay or that some parts of it would work okay?

It's a test version. Besides, the production version tend to not work so well anyway, so you can't expect their test versions to be just as good.  
(Version 10.1.51.45)

BOUSOZOKU  There is an update to 1.9.5 on the website that should alleviate the problem. Everyone I know on MSN Messenger/WLM and work-alikes such as Mercury Messenger are having a lot of disconnections.  
(Version 2.0 RC5)

BOUSOZOKU  As of 0.7.5, it works again for me.  
(Version 0.7.5)

BOUSOZOKU  Thunderbird 3 will access the Mac OS X Address Book and it's progressing toward release, though I haven't seen when that will be.  
(Version 10.10.6735)

BOUSOZOKU  It's interesting that Check for Updates doesn't seem to find anything. For the last update, I waited about a week and it still told me what I had was the latest.

It seems to be the same functionality that's in RapidWeaver and Cyberduck so it works when used properly. It's just interesting that AOL can't get things right.

The IM functionality is good, if a bit late after, what, 8 years?  
(Version 2.1.243)

BOUSOZOKU  It's just as bad on Windows, although you can use it to connect and disconnect.

There, it's necessary to use for tethered phones, also. On Mac OS X, the phones generally work without extra software.  
(Version 2.27.0026)

BOUSOZOKU  I can tell you on the nightly builds of Shredder which seem to be close to the final, that it uses the Mac OS X Address Book list, as well as the Mozilla lists, so they have made progress in integration.

I have not looked to see whether they're storing security information in the Keychain or not, but that's being done in the Firefox 3.6 alpha, so if it's not there, it will be in Thunderbird at some point in time.  
(Version 3.0b4)

BOUSOZOKU  So far, it seems like sites using Java applets (part of what changed) seem choppy and slow. YouTube was a mess earlier, though I was under the impression that was mostly Adobe Flash.

I'm using Firefox 3.5.2 but I've seen others complain about Safari so apparently, this update was not tested well.  
(Version Update 5)

BOUSOZOKU  Adobe:

You know what's been done prior to finishing the software. If you can't or won't post (a link to) release notes, then don't post the update.

The last two updates, I've had to remove because they didn't work properly and hung the browser.  
(Version 11.5.1.601)

BOUSOZOKU  I can repeat my comment from 11.5.0.595. This doesn't work. It hangs Safari while downloading and installing the Xtra Package. The second time I tried it, it asked for permission, something that didn't happen the first time.

It doesn't even go that far with Firefox 3.x, though.

Whoever is in charge of testing must have worked for the defense industry.  
(Version 11.5.0.596)

BOUSOZOKU  As much as I like this software (it's worked well for me) and I've used it in place of Adobe's Photoshop plug-in for raw development, I'm unable to use any release past 4.1.1, as they no longer support PowerPC machines.

This should be noted in the requirements but they leave this to a hard to find document in their support area.  
(Version 4.7)

BOUSOZOKU  Since installing, I tried a couple of the games at www.candystand.com and they no longer work at all through Firefox 3 and through Safari, it shows the Shockwave for Director logo and looks as though it's going to download more (full install?) to complete the package but Safari is hung now.

I'd say that the updates have had a huge effect on performance. Adobe, get your act together.  
(Version 11.5.0.595)

BOUSOZOKU  It really is a new browser experience with release 0.5.4 because I can't get it to display a window, something that wasn't happening with 0.5.3 and earlier releases.

Otherwise, it's interesting, but it seems much earlier than the version numbers would suggest.  
(Version 0.5.4)

BOUSOZOKU  Every 3.0.x release has worked quite well on my 1.33 GHz PowerBook with 2 GB of RAM. I even have a few extensions running. That said, I noticed a slowdown during 3.0.6 but that seems to have been resolved for me with 3.0.7.

If you haven't saved your bookmarks and started over with your preferences since version 1.5, you might want to do that. There seemed to be some data corruption in the very early 1.x releases that caused problems from 1.5 onward.  
(Version 3.0.7)

BOUSOZOKU  Beta 4 = year 4 of the version 3 beta. I realise that it's only 2009 but could you please finish it before this computer is no longer functional?

I was given a Windows machine and Yahoo! Messenger has had 3 versions (7, 8, and 9) since I got the machine in 2006. Sad to say, but I've tried the Linux version and it's worse off than the Mac OS X version.

Any hopes for a finished release in 2009?  
(Version 3.0b4.156957)

BOUSOZOKU  Supposedly, the audio/video for corporate accounts of the Mac version is ahead of what's being used on Windows Live Messenger and will be the standard for the next major version of that.

The consumer side of the Mac version will supposedly be able to do audio/video when they're ready on the Windows side.  
(Version 7.0.2)

BOUSOZOKU  Sorry but this long time Mac user knows that the last real advantage outside of the few AltiVec-enhanced bits of software (G4, G5 only) was with the PowerPC 604/604e processors vs. the Pentium III. At that point, the 604/604e were about 15 % faster overall. The G3 and later processors didn't have any processing advantage.

Concerning OpenOffice 3.x, I'm not sure why they've chosen to let the PowerPC version lie dormant or nearly dormant near its finish. Was the code so different? Is it that the compiler or the source code is so bad that the generated code requires a much faster processor to take up the slop?  
(Version 3.0.1)

BOUSOZOKU  This seems to be the only client that supports legacy MSN Messenger video as well as Asian languages. Adium doesn't support video and aMSN didn't support Asian languages the last time I tried it. Microsoft Messenger will be supporting video the next time round, as they're waiting for the Windows version to catch up.

This is a good client. It works reasonably well at all times. CPU usage seems reasonable finally and it's able to be themed so it can take on other look-and-feel skins, including the Mac OS X look-and-feel.

I've used it to connect to a number of MSN Messenger/Live Messenger clients and it always seems to do okay but it's not spectacular. Version 2.0 is being developed at the current time.  
(Version 1.9.4)

BOUSOZOKU  Version 0.4.22 shows up in Safari but apparently does not affect Firefox for some reason as it shows 0.4.15 that I already had loaded as a Firefox extension.  
(Version 0.4.22)

BOUSOZOKU  I've found the application useful.

Not only does it give exact information about a word, but it can also give related idioms.

I'm not sure of the source of the information, but it seems that it misses some honorific data, i.e., o-senbei, o-yu. Japanese can be used without the honorific prefixes, but it's important to use it.

One thing I noticed when I upgraded from .7d to .7e is that I lost my list, even though I had used the File->Save option. The data should be stored in the user's data area, not within the application itself.  
(Version .7f)

BOUSOZOKU  If you're waiting for the bugs to be gone, you shouldn't try a beta test piece of software.

Perhaps you don't understand that beta test software is a work in progress and it's not meant to be used on a day-to-day basis.  
(Version 10.0d536)

BOUSOZOKU  The corporate AV chat is ahead of the chat available on the Windows version, supposedly, and they're migrating the Windows client to use the AV chat protocol that's already available in the Mac OS X client.

It seems as though it's behind, but it's really ahead, even though we still can't use AV chat.  
(Version 7.0.1)

BOUSOZOKU  Leopard itself has many features, though the count itself doesn't seem $129 worth. For most people, an unintrusive backup is worth $129, though. 10.5.3 is what Apple should have shipped from the start.

At the initial installation, I was surprised to find that the performance was horribly slow compared to 10.4.10. Things were taking 5 times as long to finish, even though the user interface was very responsive.

Personally, I had to upgrade a number of applications with new versions as they would not work consistently for the first time since Mac OS X v. 10.1.x. Other applications were dead.

The firewall was a sieve, only giving the impression of security.

10.5.3 is where it starts to work properly. This is the point where Apple should have used as a retail starting point. They still have much to fix, apparently. Performance is definitely one of those things, as it appears the performance is about half the speed of what 10.4.10 was able to do.  
(Version 10.5.3)

BOUSOZOKU  I'm hoping that they get the basics locked down before 2008, but I doubt that. It would be nice to have something as stable as 2.5.3 after almost two years of waiting for version 3.0.

Seeing feature parity with the Windows version might take until 2011.  
(Version 3.0b2.78326)

BOUSOZOKU  The MacUpdate Promo price was good and generally, the game is fine.

However, especially since Leopard, sounds and occasionally graphics, occur out of order. e.g., the "You've got a Monopoly!" sound will occur well into the next player's turn.

Problems are exacerbated on a busy system and occasionally, steps occur twice such as the "Finish Turn" dialog box returning after pressing the key.  
(Version 1.0)

BOUSOZOKU  Version 2.4 has restored the full functionality of my Internet Navigator keyboard and works just fine.

I no longer need struggle with the old Apple black pro keyboard.  
(Version 2.4)

BOUSOZOKU  Version 0.32 has given back the two finger scrolling, which hasn't worked since Tiger. It still seems a bit jerky but that is probably due to Leopard as everything seems to work poorly.  
(Version 0.32)

BOUSOZOKU  Leopard (10.5.0) already includes emacs 22.1.1, for those interested.  
(Version 22.1)

BOUSOZOKU  I don't see any serious problem with the way version 2.3.1 is working but in upgrading, some of my keyboard settings were wiped out, so now, changing volume is impossible.

I can't say that this is as bad as 2.1.x when I could not get to the keyboard configuration but it's more frustrating since part of my keyboard seems to be useless.  
(Version 2.3.1)

BOUSOZOKU  This is exactly the kind of tool that helps with the varying simplication of Chinese characters across countries.

Since Japan and China have gone separate ways to simplification and Taiwan still supports traditional characters, it's often important to have a bridge. This product is that bridge, especially for someone who is younger than the changes.

I find it invaluable when dealing with Simplified Chinese from a Japanese background.  
(Version 1.2)

BOUSOZOKU  Logitech Control Center 2.1.3 has fixed the problem with being able to configure the keyboard.

It wasn't apparent that this had happened.

I had to go into the preferences at ~/Preferences and delete all Logitech-related files, after which I restarted my system.

After that, I could configure the keyboard.  
(Version 2.1.3)

BOUSOZOKU  Fugu doesn't appear to have similar capabilities beyond those of simple FTP clients.

JaSFtp is touted as having features for automation and Fugu doesn't support that, according to what the developer has provided.

Claiming that the price is inappropriate for that reason is not a valid argument.  
(Version 7.16)