CHRISCHRAM  This version claims to be compatible with Snow Leopard in both 32 and 64 bit mode. After several uninstalls/reinstalls I have been unable to get anything but crashes of background processes on my mid-2009 MacBook.  
(Version 3.16v977)

CHRISCHRAM  Under Snow Leopard this version of Monolingual does something to its preferences file that causes the application to crash after a number of runs. deleting net.sourceforge.Monolingual.plist and then resetting personal preferences fixes things for awhile, until next time. I just tried locking the preferences to see if I get better mileage. Time will tell.  
(Version 1.4.1)

CHRISCHRAM  What are you talking about? I see a "Donate" button, but it's never required me to pay anything.  
(Version 1.1.5)

CHRISCHRAM  Once-upon-a-time I used a shareware application that could read and modify the iTunes database file. When Bento can do that, I'll upgrade.  
(Version 3.0.1)

CHRISCHRAM  Under Snow Leopard: This version seems to go off to never, neverland about half the times I use it. It barberpoles for a really long time, never finding any language resources to delete. When I finally give up and hit the Cancel button, the application crashes.  
(Version 1.4.1)

CHRISCHRAM  I'm recalling how difficult it was upgrading to version 11, and then the subsequent bugfixes. If the older version still works with Snow Leopard (haven't tried yet), Ill be sticking with that one. If they send me an attractive upgrade offer, maybe I'll reconsider.  
(Version 12.0)

CHRISCHRAM  CUPS-PDF does not work under Snow Leopard. The developer is aware of the problem, but says it won't be a trivial fix. Stay tuned.  
(Version 2.4.6.1)

CHRISCHRAM  I rather like the simplicity of the HP scanner software's user interface. It usually gives me what I need with no muss, no fuss. However I know that Vuescan is always there when I need more control over some aspect of the process.

I don't yet know whether HP's software will play well with Snow Leopard. Again, it'll be nice to have Vuescan to fall back on.  
(Version 8.5.27)

CHRISCHRAM  I first started using Vuescan on a hand-me-down MicroTek scanner for which there was no available OS X driver. Nowadays I do most of my scanning on an HP all-in one. I usually use HP's own scanning software, which has a very simple user interface, but I know I can always fall back on Vuescan when HP can't do what I need.  
(Version 8.5.23)

CHRISCHRAM  $119.99 huh? Well, until my stimulus grant goes through, I guess I'll just have to muddle along with poorly placed furniture.   
(Version 1.4.1)

CHRISCHRAM  Of course if you accidentally installed version 9.1 linked from this page, you can't just apply the 9.1.3 updater. You have to go to 9.1.1, then 9.1.2, then 9.1.3. Adobe, just go die!  
(Version 9.1.3)

CHRISCHRAM  Thanks Demolition! Every day I hate Adobe a little bit more.  
(Version 9.1.3)

CHRISCHRAM  I keep Adobe Reader on my system for that one-in-a-thousand document that doesn't play well with Preview. I can't remember the last time I used it though.  
(Version 9.1.3)

CHRISCHRAM  Since updating to version 5.0.5, my eDrive no longer automatically unmounts after startup. I have to manually eject it now.  
(Version 5.0.5)

CHRISCHRAM  I used LimeWire years ago, but had to give it up due to all the spam that came in with search results. Has that situation changed at all, or am I better off regarding this product as a distant memory?  
(Version 5.2.8)

CHRISCHRAM  It's buried a few levels under /private/var. I found it with Spotlight, but an easier way is to get info on TechTool Pro in Activity Monitor while the download is running. (You'll have plenty of time.) The path to the downloading file is listed under File Activity. It's called 5.0.5_4470.zip, and is contained in a folder with TechTool in its name. Grab that file and copy it somewhere else while it's being unzipped. The original file and its enclosing folder will disappear once TechTool is done updating.  
(Version 5.0.5)

CHRISCHRAM  It's a royal pain to have to download this update multiple times for multiple locations, especially when their servers are so slow. I was able to find where the file was being downloaded to, and copy it before it got deleted. Then I could deploy it elsewhere as needed.

I wish MicroMat would just make their updaters available for normal download, and stop treating their customers like criminals!

Also, during the update process, my com.apple.finder.plist file got blown away, and I ended up with default Finder settings. (Thanks the gods for Time Machine.) Did this happen to anyone else? I can't imaging why TechTool would be messing around in there.  
(Version 5.0.5)

CHRISCHRAM  Version 1.7.1 has been out since April. I wonder why it's showing up on these sites today.  
(Version 1.7.1)

CHRISCHRAM  I should have mentioned that the crashes occur when making a DVD during the MPEG2 conversion.  
(Version 2.3u)

CHRISCHRAM  Version 2.3 crashes too often to be useful on my Intel iMac under Mac OS X 10.5.7. There is a link in the author's blog for an Intel-only version 2.1 that is much more stable.  
(Version 2.3u)

CHRISCHRAM  I've been using an old AppleScript to automate my SpamCop reports. Unfortunately this application will not replace that script until it allows for "Quick" reporting. Too bad.  
(Version 2.02)

CHRISCHRAM  Is it just me, or is this application a solution in search of a problem? I just don't get it. Whatever, the author could use some major help with the English translation.  
(Version 1.1)

CHRISCHRAM  Since this is the only product of its type that still works (albeit ver-r-ry slowly) on a PPC, I can see some value there. I myself am sticking with VirtualBox.  
(Version 3.0)

CHRISCHRAM  "Mactracker for iPod classic is no longer included."

I guess that makes sense, since the latest generations of iPods can't use this feature, but "Boo, Hiss!" anyway.  
(Version 5.0.7)

CHRISCHRAM  Among other console messages I'm getting "4/9/09 12:19:40 PM [0x0-0x5d75d7].com.apple.JarLauncher[89540] java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file" when I double-click the .jar file. I'm not enough of a Java hacker to repair this problem. I'll see if there's a place on the developer's site to report this.  
(Version 5.7)

CHRISCHRAM  All this little patch does is update the Sparkle component of TechTool Pro so that the application itself can perform the REAL version update.

The real update is close to 60MB. After two attempts which ended in dropped connections, I was able to download it at their overloaded server that was dispensing data at dialup modem speed. We're talking several HOURS here folks!

If you have an eDrive, you must go through that whole slow process again. (If you run Activity Monitor during the first download, you can see where the updater is being saved, then quickly copy it to another location while it's being expanded.)

This update also blows away whatever protection preferences you have set, so write them down before you start.

I guess MicroMat is trying to protect their intellectual property, but by making it impossible to simply download their updater in the more traditional way, they're treating all their paying customers like criminals. Not a wise move when money is tight.  
(Version 5.0.4)

CHRISCHRAM  Clicking on the Download link gets me to a Nikon site with this message:

Permission Denied

Illegal parameter  
(Version 1.4)

CHRISCHRAM  For ten bucks you get a utility that goes to wunderground.com and snags the iCal feed of the four-day forecast for your area, a feat that anyone can do for FREE. Such a deal!  
(Version 1.0)

CHRISCHRAM  I've had far too many sites fail to run properly with various beta versions of Flash Player 10 installed. I just went back to version 9 and I'll stay there until the FINAL version 10 comes out.  
(Version 10.0.12.10)

CHRISCHRAM  WARNING: Be sure to have a good system backup before installing version 2.2.1. YMMV, but it rendered my Early 2006 iMac unbootable. Thank the gods for Time Machine!  
(Version 2.2.1)

CHRISCHRAM  Version 4.3b2 fixes the crashing problem I observed in version 4.3b1. Good work developer.  
(Version 4.3b2)

CHRISCHRAM  Version 4.3b1 crashes when I try to open one of my catalog files. This is still an excellent application, but skip this version.  
(Version 4.3b1)

CHRISCHRAM  Has anyone tried playing a CD through iTunes 7.6? That was the KILLER bug in 7.5, so one would hope the problem's been addressed by now.  
(Version 7.6)

CHRISCHRAM  As far as I can ascertain, this plugin blocks ads by not allowing Safari to launch. (Intel iMac; latest Leopard; latest Safari)  
(Version 2.0r2)

CHRISCHRAM  It is indeed a paid update. $25.00 plus a shipping charge of $5.00 and up and up and up. Last time I paid for a TTP update was a year-and-a-half ago, so I guess it's not too bad, but I really hate it when they gouge you for shipping. Any of us could mail a DVD for less than a buck.  
(Version 4.6.1)

CHRISCHRAM  Under Leopard, does not download schedule. Back to 1.8.1.  
(Version 1.9)

CHRISCHRAM  This version has a major problem! Under Leopard, it is impossible to return to the front side of the widget from the preferences side. I guess I'll have to take a trip in my Time Machine to find the previous version.

Leopard users: Skip this one!  
(Version 1.9)

CHRISCHRAM  I'd really like to like this widget, but it's just too unstable. I like the way it can find independent weather stations, though the forcasts appear to still come from "official" weather stations. My biggest problem is that this widget can rarely survive a computer restart without losing its settings, and the settings cannot be restored because something in the plist file or the widget itself gets corrupted. I don't want to have to delete all traces and reinstall this thing just to get it working again.  
(Version 1.42)

CHRISCHRAM  I have used MacProgramGuide since the start, and I find it to be infinitely more useful than the online sites. That said, nobody likes to pay for something that was previously free. I signed up for the first quarter of service from schedulesdirect with the hope that the price would drop if they got enough subscriptions. (I believe schedulesdirect is shooting for a price of $20/year if this thing catches on. That's not too bad.) If the second quarter price remains at $15, I'm afraid I'll have to look elsewhere for my TV listings. Right now I find both Zap2it and TitanTV to be useless.  
(Version 0.56)

CHRISCHRAM  This application does not work properly unless I remove my glasses. Then I can't see my Mac's screen.  
(Version 0.9)

CHRISCHRAM  I see the price for this less than useful app has gone up to 15 euros. Lemme see. TextEdit is free. TextWrangler is free. Do you suppose anyone at all has ever purchased this product?  
(Version 3.0)

CHRISCHRAM  A year or so ago a version of VueScan started giving my Microtek scans a yellow cast. Mr. Hamrick was quite responsive. It took a couple weeks of betas, but he eventually fixed the problem. Trouble is, he doesn't have hundreds of scanners to work with, and has to rely on manufacturers information and customer feedback.  
(Version 8.4.08)

CHRISCHRAM  Be afraid, be very afraid! This product is being distributed by medea.co.uk, a notorious and unrepentant spammer. I have been getting a constant spew from these guys for at least half a year. The spam-catcher email address receiving these ads could only have been obtained by scraping Usenet posts.  
(Version 2.4.2)

CHRISCHRAM  It says version 3.4.5 at the top of the page, but it's still downloading version 3.4.3.  
(Version 3.4.5)

CHRISCHRAM  Hold on to version 7.x.x if you are on an Intel Mac (I haven't tested this on a PowerPC) and have any of Adobe's "Digital Editions" ebooks. Select Digital Editions from the File menu and you are taken to a webpage that has nothing at all to download. Sheesh, they could have at least waited until this bugmobile was ready for prime time!  
(Version 8.0)

CHRISCHRAM  I just manually checked my Yahoo mailbox, and there was this HUGE backlog of unanswered mail going back weeks and weeks. This widget just plain doesnt work on my iMacIntel.  
(Version 2.0)

CHRISCHRAM  You don't have to wait for an Intel version of this app. it's quite easy to compile. Just download the source code from the dev's website, in Terminal navigate to the source code's folder, type make. That Easy. (You must have Xcode installed for this magic to work.)  
(Version 2.5.1)

CHRISCHRAM  Adding to Spyro's comment: (You must have Xcode Tools installed for this procedure to work.) Download the source code from the dev's website. Double-click the archive to unzip and untar it. In Terminal type 'cd' (without the quites) and a space, then drag the 'ManOpen-2.5.1' folder to the terminal window, then . Type 'make' . In a few seconds you will find ManOpen.app and openman in the folder. Drag ManOpen.app to somewhere you keep your Applications. Drag openman to somewhere in your PATH. You're done.  
(Version 2.5.1)

CHRISCHRAM  iTerm opens all new windows and tabs transparent. Maybe it's just me, but I do not like transparent windows, and have to hit Cmd-U after opening each new tab. The workaround would seem to be to write an AppleScript to open new tabs, but why should I have to go to that trouble to turn off a "feature" that should have been set by global preferences?  
(Version 0.9)

CHRISCHRAM  Laraine, it was not clear from your review whether you were aware that SCSI devices must me powered up before you boot your Mac into OS X. This is a quirk of OS X's underlying UNIX innards. Try turning your scanner on, then reboot into OS X and see if Vuescan works for you. I once had the same model of scanner you have, and Vuescan worked quite well on it.  
(Version 8.3.62)

CHRISCHRAM  Even though this app is compiled as a Universal Binary, it does not work properly on a MacIntel machine. The .flv file gets downloaded, but is never converted to anything. I tried running under Rosetta...No Joy.  
(Version 1.0)

CHRISCHRAM  This version is compiled as a Universal Binary, but on my Intel iMac it quits suddenly and unceremoniously part way through booting from my OS 8 CD. I have tried several different ROM files from Performas and Quadras, and consistently get the same poor results. Once-upon-a-time I had a version of Basilisk running on an old PowerPC machine. It was pretty crashy, but at least it ran a bit.  
(Version 19b)

CHRISCHRAM  On my new MacIntel iMac most of the functions of this program don't work at all. Click a button and wait forever. No function, no feedback no nothing.  
(Version 3.6.1)

CHRISCHRAM  I was unable to get this application to do anything useful on my MacIntel box. I suspect that many Universal Binary application developers are trusting Xcode way too much instead of actually testing their software on the newest Intel hardware.  
(Version 2.5.5)

CHRISCHRAM  Like many recent applications that 'claim' to be Universal Binaries that work on MacIntel machines, this is another one that just doesn't live up to its claim. Runs just fine on my old G4, but crashes like Gangbusters on this new iMac.  
(Version 4.3.4)

CHRISCHRAM  I feel compelled to amend the hasty review I gave this application. iTerm works just fine on MacIntel but does NOT seem to save its preferences. I'm sure this will eventually be corrected, but at this point I have to downgrade it a bit.  
(Version 0.8.2)

CHRISCHRAM  Man, am I happy to see this application updated to run on MacIntel. version 0.81 was seriously broken. Thank you Developer.  
(Version 0.8.2)

CHRISCHRAM  I've used Kensington trackballs since the late '80s, but it looks like my Expert Mouse Pro will have to sit in the drawer until a MacIntel version of this driver is released. Please guys, get it out soon before I start to really love or really hate this Mighty Mouse.  
(Version 2.9)

CHRISCHRAM  Since installing this, Camino has slowed to a crawl. I'll withhold any blame for this phenomenon until I see what happens after I reinstall Camino. Anyone else have this trouble?  
(Version 1.0.1)

CHRISCHRAM  I can't decide whether to characterize this application as a benign trojan horse or an evil practical joke. Be prepared to "Quit" this program with the reset switch, rather than the accustomed method. :-( The "Music" is kind of interesting.  
(Version 1.0)

CHRISCHRAM  I was so impressed by the demos of iData 2 that I scrapped it and bought a license for iData 1. Why? Datafiles with simple plain text data, such as those generated by the late, great IngoGenie, balloon up to enormous size under iData 2. Look at an iData 2 file with BBEdit and you'll see why. Each record's metadata is up to 10 times the size of the actual data you're storing. YMMV of course, but iData 1 works for me while iData 2 is just plain overkill.  
(Version 2.0.2)

CHRISCHRAM  I finally got fed up and reverted back to the previous version. 7.5b1 is just too intrusive! I will give them credit for _FINALLY_ being able to scan inside StuffIt files. On the very, very minus side, I started getting tons of tmp... files in three AppleWorks folders shortly after I installed Virex.  
(Version 7.5b1)

CHRISCHRAM  I had reason to dig this application out recenty and try it out under Panther. It's still sort of usable, but pretty unstable in that environment.  
(Version 1.4)

CHRISCHRAM  Maybe I haven't been keeping up with the news, but why would I want to downgrade QuickTime to 6.4? Apple's site linked from this page gives nary a clue. Whatever is going on here, version 6.5 appears to be working nicely on the systems I administer.  
(Version 6.4)

CHRISCHRAM  Version 3.2b2 seems to have forgotten how to eject removable disks. Back to 3.1.4 for me.  
(Version 3.2b2)

CHRISCHRAM  Version 1.0 produced html code that worked in Safari. Version 2.0's "streamlined" html code now produces distorted images in Safari, but works OK in Camino and Explorer. I say WHO CARES ABOUT FILE SIZE?! Make it bloated and big and bring back Safari compatibility.  
(Version 2.0)

CHRISCHRAM  Be aware that ncftp 3.1.6 does NOT install in the same default location as version 3.1.5 (or earlier?). The old version went in /usr/local/bin and the newer goes in /usr/bin. (The man pages are also in different locations.) You may want to manually remove the older version. I have been using ncftp since the '90s and have never, never had a bit of trouble with it!  
(Version 3.1.6)

CHRISCHRAM  "There were errors installing the software. Please try installing again." Looks like MacTracker pulled this version from their list AFTER I downloaded and tried installing.  
(Version 1.1)

CHRISCHRAM  This application appears to do nothing whatsoever on my OS X 10.2.6 system. Nothing! Nada! Zip!  
(Version 1.3)

CHRISCHRAM  Am I just dreaming that someday there may be a version of this program that doesn't crash when one tries to kill a message thread?!  
(Version 1.0rc2b)

CHRISCHRAM  Strange! Under 4.3.17 all I can print is the test page in CUPS. No Applications can print anymore. I went back to 4.2.6-pre1 and everything works again.  
(Version 4.3.17)

CHRISCHRAM  I really want to like this application and I really want to be able to use this application, but it is just to unstable.  
(Version 1.0rc1)

CHRISCHRAM  "Version 1.0" has way to many issues to be classified as anything more than an Alpha release.  
(Version 1.0)