DOOBIEXX  default folders is a dead attempt at making finder easy to deal with, having shortcuts for users with their pretty gui while really you can achieve all of these things a lot faster and with freeware.

1) I recommend you look at pathfinder for a complete replacement of finder, fully integrated, and check the forums for a hint about getting finder off your dock. I know that is annoying for some pathfinder users.

2) Look into something like "OMC" where you can add contextual items and while at abracode grab their app shortcuts so you can assign hotkeys to your contextual menu items.

3) Check out limit-point's contextual programs, great apps, great developer, free lifetime updates if you buy the utility package which has 20+ very useful apps. And they are constantly developing and updating so you will get more apps for free as time goes on.

4) All in all, default folder x eats up way too much memory for what it's rudimentary capabilities.   
(Version 4.2.1)

DOOBIEXX  that was posted in 2007... Get more up to date info to share before yelling fire.  
(Version 1.5b5)

DOOBIEXX  I thought this would be the end of xmenu! Thank you so much for keeping it free and updated!! Thank you.  
(Version 1.9)

DOOBIEXX  Russel, those comments are really off. I agree with the user who brought up this argument that these apps such as together and little secrets are as good or better.

If you want a really flexible app go with something simple that can do encryption like your mac! mac's has native ways of encrypting items. File Vault of course but turn you can also use disk utility to make an image of where the info is stored and encrypt that vault... You would have to encrypt it so set it up where you have to enter the package to even get to the data and then after that put it where it needs to be. Simple applescript or automator action work.

app for just notes that has publish, encrypt, multi-databse, very smart app that lets you configure everythig you want but it is great for users who JUST USE NOTES, although. If there is an image it will copy over to inotepad once in a note do what you want with it.

Hope it helps someone.  
(Version 2.0b5)

DOOBIEXX  openmenu x is much better than fruitmenu, this is native... fruitmenu is haxie that barely does it's basics. Oh yeah, it's constantly developed, I guarantee if openmenu x and fruitmenu don't work, openmenu x would be the first fixed and probably within the first week of the final snow leopard release.  
(Version 1.05)

DOOBIEXX  Wonderful in simplicity but uses WAY too much system resources for what it does. Needs more juice than full featured application launchers like launchbar and quicksilver. Would like to use this but if quicksilver and launchbar can do the same + a ton more is it worth to use one of them and find a use for quick launching as well...

I know it is free, thank you, I REALLY like this app and would love to switch but as of now I can't. Even though it's free I would be happy to donate if I knew it would go to the future development of this app.  
(Version 0.3.5)

DOOBIEXX  sizeup has the option of getting rid of the menubar icon if you don't want. The real thing is sizeup is an application while fiwi is a simple script one trick pony. SizeUp's footprint is extremely small and does more than just finder windows. Compare 4 way or 2 way. Thanks for fiwi but charging for updates to this app! CRAZY!!  
(Version 2.0.2)

DOOBIEXX  I'm waiting for 1.0  
(Version 0.9.3.15)

DOOBIEXX  Great work Marc, your always giving us these little but essential apps. Even throwing in a check for updates! No offense, love your site but don't want to have to check it every time you tweak something. Thanks for the good works!  
(Version 1.7)

DOOBIEXX  Yeah it's a nice app but the developers haven't even sent out activation keys to those who bought pre-sale. Hell, even the warez scene has cracked it and those of us who paid are still waiting. Bit sad.  
(Version 4.0)

DOOBIEXX  make ibank faster and less clunky and this widget wouldn't be needed. Yes, I do own ibank... unfortunately.  
(Version 2.1)

DOOBIEXX  Love this simple app, does everything you need unobtrusively. Keep up the great work and please never let it become more complicated, only more sophisticated. Simplicity makes it a pleasure.  
(Version 1.13)

DOOBIEXX  Love it! if it could use a bit less system resources and development continues I think the app will have an extremely bright future. Many f10 studio users are going to love the grouping of apps as it has been taken out in their new UI.

Hope the dev's of bevy keep it up and stay in tune with their user's requests and preferences. A+ rarely do I buy an app on the spot....  
(Version 1.0.1)

DOOBIEXX  lame making us pay for an upgrade. Go to www.irradiatedsoftware.com and grab sizeup... does what fiwi 2.0 can + plenty more and it's truly donationware. This is shareware.

With sizeup you determine the price, what it's worth, not what the dev thinks the app is worth. Shame, instead of attracting new customers fiwi is just driving them to the competition. I get SIZEUP makes of TWOUP  
(Version 2.0)

DOOBIEXX  The best To-Do app out there. When it comes to the big ones like things, omnifocus, the hit list can barely do what actiongear can and cost double or in some cases (THL) triple the cost. Grab this and enjoy more features than anyother app of it's kind. Only problem is this app doesn't get the proper exposure it deserves and if that remains the case the dev will one day have to stop supporting it. Save your money and buy this app. Please try out the others and see how much of your computer's memory is used. Actiongear is lightweight and includes things like screenshot so you don't need apps like littlesnapper or anything else. Try the app, you'll be glad you did.  
(Version 1.0.4)

DOOBIEXX  still no auto-update within the app and to make it even worse, if you paid for the app they don't even email you the new version. I don't get it. Promise but no passion at getting customers what they want. I would not recommend this app to anyone until items such as this are fixed... instead look at limit-point and buy their utilities package which has stocklookupMBI (does what this app does + more for the same price, + you receive all their other useful utilities)  
(Version 8)

DOOBIEXX  I like it, simple and can still be used with a ton of differing accounts easily. Hopefully they will keep up the good work with this latest release.  
(Version 1.4)

DOOBIEXX  This app is by far the best tagging app. One click and you easily apply tags to anything from websites to finder windows. Not sure about your problem before with iphoto as I don't use it but iphoto has it's own tagging system.... I think if you contact the dev your problems will be fixed. Don't quit on tags!! It's very intuitive and powerful.  
(Version 1.2)

DOOBIEXX  Finally! I have been waiting ages for this app to get it very very right. Very customizable, most and easiest for simple app launchers imo. Please keep up the great work guys and I am definitely donating! Appreciate the donation-ware perspective! Thanks again.  
(Version 3.6.4)

DOOBIEXX  I second this request! Very annoying to have to constantly update manually. Come on Dev! You made this great app for us now help us keep it up to date! Thanks for making our lives easy, hopefully you will find a way to make updating your app easy. Thanks for attention to the request.  
(Version 0.6.3)

DOOBIEXX  AlphaOmega software in GENERAL, is terrible, and in my opinion quickly thrown together and put on the market as an application which does so much more than it really can. GUI's are always sloppy from them. Every app I have tried, I immediately found a free better alternative. Now when you have alternatives that are free and do more than your app you have a problem, but AphaOmega relies on "churning" out bad applications all the time and charging current customers, like the complaint below mine, who had purchased the overpriced app in the past and charge for every single little upgrade. Upgrades that fix problems not even adding features.  
(Version 3.1)

DOOBIEXX  I would be lost without this nifty little app. Using it with OMCedit and other contextual menu app I have same me a ton of time. LOVE Abracode. You can make your own contextual menu item and then assign it a hot-key with shortcuts. All their apps work amazingly well by themselves and together. Can't recommend the app more. I just hope it stays up to date with OS advances.  
(Version 1.1.3)

DOOBIEXX  only ppc, wow '09, didn't know an app wouldn't be UB  
(Version 1.0)

DOOBIEXX  ARTOORO, your totally correct. I love this app in all ways. Beautiful, works, and responsive dev. I can appreciate it more after using all the other "crap" openvpn gui clients.  
(Version 1.0.4)

DOOBIEXX  don't multi-post, please. If these apps were more popular it would be terrible having duplicate comments from so many people.

I gave you the answer on the ip in menubar page.   
(Version 1.0)

DOOBIEXX  Easy answer: IP in menubar is coded in real basic, an easy language to learn, visual, pretty much anyone that can drag and drop can code an app in rb. They are not as pretty as cocoa apps, not as fast, and as you noticed not as small in terms of app size but it also hogs resources more than a clean cocoa app.

RB is really for people who either don't know much coding or who want to make multi-platform apps since rb can be ran on any OS. If your on a mac, use cocoa apps and in this case, ipmenulet.

Both apps are opensource at their respective sites so go and play!!  
(Version 4.1)

DOOBIEXX  HMURCHISON he is reviewing the product. When someone makes a review they do not just look at one aspect like UI for instance and judge the app on that, I personally want a review of every aspect of an application, i.e. Customer service, price, easy of use, etc. This was a review of the company, their legal agreement... are all important and this is a review of the company. I am glad that was posted, I for one am now going to download the app as I feel the same way. If he would have gone somewhere to "rant" I would be none the wiser to read through all the legalities of every single thing I put on my computer. It is a review, a review of the Company, UI and a couple other items when he references spideroak having a worse ui but better agreement that your data is safe. I do see where you are coming from, but lets have macupdate mods take care of those issues, if it was an issue.  
(Version 0.6.507)

DOOBIEXX  You will never EVER be able to get rid of every file by every app. If you want to do that, get fseventer and watch what files an installed app makes in real time and then record those so if you want to delete the app, you can do it manually. Most of us are not going to spend days using easy find to find 4kb files ALL uninstaller's miss. Can't be perfect everytime but this app needs much improvement to even compete.  
(Version 1.0.2)

DOOBIEXX  Love the company but a lot of the apps developed recently look and are a lot "lighter" in features and ease. Cleanapp is by far the best in this department. There are numerous apps that can do all of this. New ideas = new apps, not just new app = more money so develop a project to bare essential performance and then make a new one. I rather 1 great app than 5 okay apps.  
(Version 1.0.1)

DOOBIEXX  long time ipaste user and never experienced any problems with fruitmenu going.

That being said, I have moved away from ipaste to launchbar and everything flows beautifully.  
(Version 3.7.1)

DOOBIEXX  I would have to say that combining windows would make it more convoluted in my opinion. I like the 9 step walkthrough where you pick and choose all the tid bits of info and differences in the backup you want to make. Once you have made say a bootable you like, you save it and anytime you want a bootable open that window. When you want a simple one folder backup, again create the settings and save it as it's own "program."

Just the other side of the coin, I see where your coming from but I prefer how the devs have it and have kept it for a long long time. I also enjoy this software and recommend it to anyone doing any kind of backup as it is simply the best.

@dev - TOO EXPENSIVE!!  
(Version 6.0.7)

DOOBIEXX  Great software that's very stableand works perfectly for having a window vertical or horizontal half-way.

They make another program named SizeUp, which I have suggested up top, made by the same dev's but is shareware... it costs $1.35 or something like that lol, they just ask that you make some sort of donation if you like and use the app. They ask that you pay whatever you like based on how useful the software is to you.

This app allows you to put a window in the top right corner or left corner or bottom right/left... you can easily have 4 different or same application windows easily placed on your screen for easy comparison or drag-n-drop. Great app. Definitely check out: SIZEUP , click link above.  
(Version 1.0.2)

DOOBIEXX  only PPC? Mistake or are there still people coding apps just for ppc's?  
(Version 0.9rc1)

DOOBIEXX  Love notemind, I have two products from this dev, notemind and cleanapp. Synium makes great software and updates are very common even though they have 6-8 big shareware projects going on. Updates are necessary, if a dev wants my money.

One thing about notemind I don't like is no hotkey for entering text in whatever template/form... guess unsanity comes in here... Otherwise, best mindmap application out and I have licenses to a few $100+ which try to do what nm does so simply. Of course those expensive mindmap apps can become confusing for one and lots more work to accomplish same goal.

Oh yeah, takes up WAY too much ram.  
(Version 1.5.10)

DOOBIEXX  Here my friend, you will like this application plugin if you hate window's resizing. Go to the developer of butler's site which is www.manytricks.com and you will see on the left side of the page a link for a SIMBL plugin named "Block Window Resizing." I guess you can figure out what the plugin does. Hope it helps, if not, let me know by responding to this and I will come back and give a few more ideas of how to stop pesky webmasters.  
(Version 3.2)

DOOBIEXX  alphaomega software is plain terrible. Besides most of the apps being truly useless as the end result can be accomplished with leopard's built in features as listed below, their apps are terribly expensive and are ugly and don't even perform well. They just strikeout on every app they have ever attempted.

@AO - Quit making software or focus on ONE project and make it a decent app instead of having 20 useless ones. Sorry, the truth hurts.  
(Version 2.4)

DOOBIEXX  I had ditched you control after I switched computers but eventually it came to mind and I gave it another shot. The program never gives problems, only thing I can complain about is the spinning beach ball when navigating through the menu's. Beach ball Doesn't slow anything down just don't know why it appears at all. Even allows me to click something else while it's still the "beach ball."

It's stability, small footprint, and ridiculous amount of options/menus it is definitely worth giving a shot. You will be very surprised. Great app and becomes more stable with each update.   
(Version 1.7.2b3)

DOOBIEXX  I don't know why all these ip apps take up so much system resources. drives me crazy as I would like to see ipmenulet or ipmenu or bwanadik run all the time but they just eat up way more memory than they should. opening a browser and going to a proxyjudge gives your ip address with less system resources... not against bwanadik, just an issue with every "quick ip" app I have come across.  
(Version 3.2.1)

DOOBIEXX  Bug or possible fix?

Can't get window 1 of application Finder." - Error Thanks for all your hard work this farI love it. but one essential thing is missing from the scripts. They need to be able to open a finder window if there are no finder windows already being displayed. You get the error listed above.

It would be cool if it could launch a finder window if there is none open. Could get rid of the finder dock item all together!  
(Version 2.3)

DOOBIEXX  HA, 5 stars on an app/dev that everybody else dislikes and then to top off the BS, you make a completely unnecessary comment about a posting user... This has nothing to do with onyx, not even similar app types... *cough* dev promoting his own wares *cough*

Ahhh I love MU sometimes, not when I read reviews like yours. Sorry Rick.  
(Version 1.8.1g)

DOOBIEXX  Interface is excellent, simplicity... can shovebox encrypt your notes? Can it lock your notes? Can it instantly export to ipod or ipublish, or email? Multiple databases that save and make backups on their own? I use both apps, they are completely different. I forget what other item you mentioned but I am positive it can't do a 1/3 of what inotepad can.  
(Version 2.4.2)

DOOBIEXX  If you haven't gotten the idea from the descriptions below, do not buy this app! It is extremely over priced. $100 for a ledger? Get an app like Checkbook Pro if you want a ledger. So many financing apps, nobody should have to pay $100 for something that can be done on pen and paper. It's a simple ledger! Can't even function properly as that. Unless dev totally reworks the app, stay far away.  
(Version 2.3.2)

DOOBIEXX  Nice lol, uncompress and decompress as two different things. They are synonymous words. Little grammar never hurt anyone.   
(Version 1.1)

DOOBIEXX  WOW! WASTE OF MONEY AS DEVELOPER CAN'T EVEN KEEP UP WITH APPLES UPDATES...

1) YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR EVERY SOFTWARE UPDATE

2) EVEN IF YOU WERE WILLING TO PAY LIKE I WAS STUPID ENOUGH TOO, DEVELOPER JUST DISAPPEARS.

3) NOW YOU CAN EITHER, NEVER UPGRADE PAST 10.5.5 OR WELL NEVER UPGRADE PAST

10.5.5, I HOPE NOBODY ELSE GET'S SCAMMED.

4) DEV = JOKE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. DO NOT BUY PRODUCT, OH WAIT, DEVELOPER IS AWOL.

4 GOOD REASONS NEVER TO DEAL WITH THIS DEVELOPER IF YOU EVEN WANT TO CALL HER THAT.  
(Version 10.5.5)

DOOBIEXX  "All this needs to be made clear if you wanna play with the big boys. Pretty, though." - Thanks for laying it all out for us, I think you should contact the developers and tell them they should hire you if they ever want to be successful. Completely unnecessary comment.

You must be a "big boy", please link me to your app?

And no, I don't have anything to do w/ this program or dev.   
(Version 2.7)

DOOBIEXX  Do you work for google? or a cop? If not, relax and don't get so worked up over things that really don't have anything to do with you.

No offense but your grilling the dev, and from the question scheme it seems you have no affiliation w/ google or anyone attached to the icon or you would know the answers your asking.

If google cares so much, they can take care of the problem. If not, let's leave "royalty" disputes out and simply discuss the software. Now that I think of it... do you have right's for that name? I could have swore I saw someone else on the net use the same nick, you two should really square off old west style and see who gets to keep what. j/k, serious though, I hope your response and my response to your response gets deleted. No need for it to be here.  
(Version 0.3)

DOOBIEXX  No offense, but I think it would better all MU members if your opinion was a bit more subjective. To you Buddi is best, I , personally despise the program. So obviously you can't just say Buddi is BEST. You can say in my opinion it's best but, it's not the best by a long shot. Runs like a one-legged donkey, my opinion on the soft. Funny how opinions differ.  
(Version 2.9.1)

DOOBIEXX  I know I am responding a year and a half to late, but dev's contact info is: rick@desertsandsoftware.com - probably wasn't there when you looked years+ ago.  
(Version 1.7.1)

DOOBIEXX  I agree w/ the poster now below me. Decent dupe app but for 20$ it is definitely not worth the change. No offense to Araxis but all of your products are over priced. If the apps were reasonably priced I believe you would in the end have more customers. Just my .02 . Wish I could afford Araxis programs, but right now, there is no way I can sleep easy paying the list prices.

Please bring the prices down or get with MU and do a one day deal, I think your company would benefit from more customers at a lower price. I don't need to explain economics, you know what your doing. Just wish they were priced fairly.  
(Version 2008.38)

DOOBIEXX  Awesome to see this project under development again! The only true gui for testing wireless network's. If you can't get kismac to work properly then check their support forums' which are filled with info. Your second best option for testing wireless networks is honestly switching out of os x and load a virtual machine with Backtrack 3, and have access to every "test" tool imagined, but for OS X, kismac is the one and only with a gui. If your good with command lines get aircrack-ng through darwin ports and use that.  
(Version r318)

DOOBIEXX  All I can do is hope, it's going to take a while for me to go back to cleanapp, which was an excellent program when I bought it, but the CPU hogging has been ridiculous. the daemon has to be ran with less memory being used especially virtual ,,,, this is running on a notebook with 2.6ghz core2 duo and 4 gb of ram. Also, it has been throwing in unattached essential preference file to most if not all the applications for uninstalling. This is a bit quicker but still not as fast as it used too/needs to be.  
(Version 3.0b12)

DOOBIEXX  I'm commenting my own review hmmm, I know the developer responded to the post about the external not being visible and that it was fixed a few versions back but I for some reason still have the same problem. Other than that, if you want to be updated when your ip changes, buy limit-point's bundle if that's not needed, then check out the simpler freeware apps, but for the value, you can't beat this piece of software. I feel my original comment was a bit harsh but it didn't fit my needs, and I expressed that. Must be my router or something but when connected to other connections the developer was right, external can be displayed, and displayed correctly. Just not my network, or apparently the network of the guy who posted underneath me. Just wanted to clear that up and also let those who read the review to know that they should definitely check the app out along w/ the other recommended apps listed, out of the "notify upon ip change" apps. shareware or freeware ipsentinel is the best imo for notifications, hands down. I'm actually running this and ipmenulet, menulet when on my network and sentinel when I am out and about. LP packages are by far the most generous I have seen, and they actually give you useful apps.  
(Version 1.0.10)

DOOBIEXX  Things, is by far the most intuitive and versatile to-do software available and it's still in beta status. I have no idea why anybody would post the other recommended applications because there is simply, in my opinion, nothing comparable to Things. The only "thing" that worries me is that once it's out of beta and they are charging for the software it will be appropriately priced. I think the developers will make a smart decision and make the software affordable so there will more customers paying the smaller fee than fewer customers paying the higher price and in the end more users = more money no matter how expensive the soft. I don't review or comment on much software, but this app is so amazing I was dumbfounded to read the programs others posted as "similar" and recommended if Things didn't pan out. Great app, and I hope to see the final release soon! Please continue listening to your customers because your doing an excellent job!  
(Version 0.9.4.1)

DOOBIEXX  Simply put, perfect for my needs. Automatic update of your external ip in the menubar when it senses a change, and if you can't wait that 20 seconds you can refresh it yourself, it has never failed to pick up the new and accurate ip. Exactly what I was looking for, no bells and whistles just display my external in the menubar! Great App, from the developer, if more programs are to be released by the group I would definitely check it out. Beautiful in it's simplicity.  
(Version 1.0)

DOOBIEXX  limit-point makes good software and I was hoping this would be as I thought but like the response below me, it merely picks up my internal ip and does not show external at all. If your looking for a program to display your external ip address in the menubar with automatic refresh and just a click to refresh it yourself I would check out the Free IPMenulet. It won't perform tasks such as emailing you when your external changes but it will show your external, and update itself before you even have the chance to refresh it most of the time. Never had a glitch w/ IPMenulet. I also never had a glitch w/ IPSentinel... it just wouldn't pick up my external over my network. Of course it could be an error on my part but this is my experience. Try both out, see which suits you best and go from there. limit-point is constantly updating which is nice, IPMenulet not as much but then again it doesn't need an update as it is quite a simple little bugger that does the trick.  
(Version 1.0.10)