CYBERFUNK  As an organic synthetic chemist, I find this tool extremely useful in my day to day work simply viewing NMRs. It provides a great price / feature ratio. The iNMR reader is a steal at a total cost of ~ 50 Euros, and the full version is worth the price for what it does. I love how quickly I can do line-listings in JACS format for H and CNMRs and how easy it is to process different spectrometer formats (Varian/ Bruker) (it's like the program doesnt even notice).

In comparison to programs like Mestre's MNova, I think this is a slightly better program for mac users, as it really goes with the whole Apple Look and feel. The interface is simply nicer to use than MNova in my opinion. Aside from this competitor however, nothing else comes close for ease of use on the Mac.

If you're on the mac and an organic chemist, do yourself a favor and grab a demo copy at least.  
(Version 3.3.9)

CYBERFUNK  I see no reason why anyone would play this knockoff of a far superior game by Pangea software: Enigmo (Or the 3D version Enigmo 2) at exactly the same cost with much better graphics, realtime physics and user interface.

To be honest, this looks like one of my highschool attempts at a first game: Unpolished blocky 3D graphics, flat user interface, performance problems, etc. I don't mean to be too hard on the developer... but I think this game is a good first try for a freeware/open source project that needs a good deal of work, not a game I would pay $20 for when there are far better alternatives.  
(Version 0.14b)

CYBERFUNK  Just watched my battery capacity jump from 3800 (was getting worried) all the way back up to 5500 ! Yay ! More battery time on my laptop !  
(Version 1.3)

CYBERFUNK  The purpose of this application is easily accomplished on the latest intel machines with the following command in the terminal :

sudo ifconfig ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

where is the BSD style name for the airport card (get it from either knowing, or from apple system profiler, network section)

and XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is the mac address you wish to set it to.

Note, you must "sudo" this command, as it requires root privs.

Also note: this change is temporary, and your REAL hard-burned MAC address is still available from the MAC address portion of the Network section in System preferences, but to the rest of the world, you will temporarily appear as XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX . (May reset on reboot, not sure)  
(Version 1.2b)

CYBERFUNK  I wish there was an app like this that would do milliseconds, a la the countdown clock in independance day....  
(Version 1.1)

CYBERFUNK  Why buy this when Handbrake is free and clean?  
(Version 4.0.22.0419)

CYBERFUNK  Worked well the first time.. and then tried to add more calenders. Everything went to hell in a handbasket unfortunately. Deleted prefs and all files I could find related to the program, and reinstalled.. and now it cant even refresh my local iCal calenders, much less sync them to Google. This is still very much beta/alpha ware.  
(Version 0.9.1)

CYBERFUNK  I just needed to do a reinstall of XP from a install cd that is circa SP1... and windows refuses to install (keeps getting stuck on the file copy portion)! The same CD installs fine on VMWare and real machines. Anyone else have similar problems? (Using the new 3106 beta)  
(Version 2.5.3106)

CYBERFUNK  Does anyone know how to get a copy of this ? The original site is down !  
(Version 0.9)

CYBERFUNK  Note: Previous comment about errors while rendering an animation are due to me running the application from the disk image. Copy Application to hard disk before using ! (errors don't happen then)  
(Version 1.0)

CYBERFUNK  Neat program... very single tasked, and perhaps a bit expensive for it, but if you need a good tree generator, this looks like a good candidate. Of course, the tools in things like Maya may outclass this.

It would be nice if the rendering of the animation for wind actually worked in the demo instead of just producing worrying error messages.  
(Version 1.0)

CYBERFUNK  Looks like a good attempt at a first game by a game developer, but this sort of thing is easily outclassed by nearly any other shooter i've seen. It's just too.. plain. A ship, little green bullet pellets, and simple enemies, and that's it. The graphics are definately subpar compared to what you'd expect on modern hardware. In particular, Jets and Guns is a lot more fun, as is Apogee's old Raptor: Call of the Shadows (for PC).

Mind you, I don't want to hurt the developer's feelings, because it appears he may have the start of a good game maker, but this game needs features, finesse and just general betterment before it's worth anybody's time.  
(Version 1.0)

CYBERFUNK  They should have a checkbox: Disable WussMode™, so when they "get" your files, they actually disappear.

Let it loose on a sibling's computer and see how click happy they get.  
(Version 1.0.2)

CYBERFUNK  I suggest that you don't run apps that are required by your application as root on startup. This tends to make unix-type people/security concerned people worry a bit. Common wisdom dictates that very few things should run as root, end-user applications usually should not.

Is there a reason your "graphics server" or any other application has to run as root ? Do you have to run on startup ? Why not have the appl. have it as a child process ?

Also, I guess i dont see why a graphing application needs a "server", shouldnt that be integrated into the code of the application ? It seems wasteful to have it another process entirely. If there's code you need to reuse a lot in more than one app, wouldnt' it be better just to put it into a shared library/framework instead of spawning another process and having to deal w/ the overhead of interprocess communications ?

Do you have to install your frameworks in the root system directory ? Couldn't you give the user an option to install for all users/install for one user? Or better yet, integrate the necessary frameworks into an all-inclusive package or applications directory that can sit in /Applications ? This would be much more in the way of following the "Tao of the mac" (although I'm sure apple would like you to put your frameworks in the /Library place, but at least use ~/Library or give us the option to do so)  
(Version 10.4.34)

CYBERFUNK  Also, the original author of handbrake has written just such a tool, which is not just a manipulated version of handbrake, but a real handbrake lite called "Instant HandBrake"

See here: http://handbrake.m0k.org/  
(Version 1.1)

CYBERFUNK  Just... Why ? Why not just use handbrake "pro/full" It's still free, right ?  
(Version 1.1)

CYBERFUNK  Works as advertised.

I like that I can see the source so that I know that some sketchy little program isnt password stealing. Nice little app.  
(Version 1.0)

CYBERFUNK  Note: Uninstall facilitated by noting every installed file, which can be seen by the following:

In the terminal

1) Navigate to root drive (/), and then to /Library/Receipts/VvidgetUser.pkg/Contents/

2) List out the files installed by the following command: lsbom Archive.bom -pf | less

3) remove Offending files.  
(Version 10.4.18)

CYBERFUNK  Aieee ! I've just discovered that the program installs something called "Peer_Visual_Server" that is hooked into Launchd.

Why these people need a process running on my computer at ALL times under root permissions is VERY sketchy to me. I dont care if it's for their liscening scheme.. These people need to learn some manners and tell people when they're installing root'd applications that will run all the time on a machine. This program seems to thing it's fine to basically put whatever it wants whereever it wants. I'm trying to uninstall it now, but there's no uninstaller !

I knew there was something sketchy about all this..   
(Version 10.4.18)

CYBERFUNK  Seems pretty neat, looks like it has lots of potential.

However, it's sort of disjointed with 1 main app and 3 different random mini Apps tacked on for no apparent reason (VVidget Builder being the main, and Computer Monitor/Quadratic Lab/Web Signal being the strangly attached "extras").

Also, the app definately calls home (strange that it should do so, seeing as it's free) to mail.vvi.com on every launch. I block it w/ LittleSnitch, and it seems to have no ill effect. It could be an update check, but who knows... I'd rather the program told me about that before hand.

Another big gripe: UNDO DOESNT WORK ! Be careful, because apparently most changes have to be undone manually ( havent found one that undo actually works on)

Lastly, while filled with a bajillion cool options, they arent organized very well... It seems like the developers tried to cram controls into every nook and cranny. It's nice having them all on screen at once, if you've got a large screen like mine (two, actually), but it is very "cluttered" for a mac app.

Fix the orginization, fix the disjointed feeling of 4 apps in one package, and FIX THE UNDO! And this will be a 5 star app.

P.S. For some very very strange reason, the installer wanted me to reboot after installing. Considering I had to give it admin privs to install... and this is really an application that should be packaged as a drag and drop app, it makes me a little leary of what's going on behind the scenes in the install... I checked the logs and there's nothing sketchy, but I still have a nagging feeling that the installed installed some sort of kernel extension or something (bad if it did).   
(Version 10.4.18)