DORKYPANTS  Could be made a lot better if literal strings were moved into a language-specific resource file. Then translations into other languages could be more readily accomplshed.  
(Version 4.1)

DORKYPANTS  You can also use Adobe's web page for managing Flash settings to selectively delete/keep Flash cookies:   
(Version 0.3.1)

DORKYPANTS  I don't get it. Why is it better to run this app than to pick Sleep from the Apple menu?  
(Version 1.0)

DORKYPANTS  When I click the Done button after typing in my Twitter username and password, nothing happens; i.e., the widget doesn't flip back to its front side. Not good. Reverting to 2.0.3  
(Version 2.0.4)

DORKYPANTS  Macupdate sysadmins, all links (download, more info, developer site) for this utility are 404!  
(Version 1.0)

DORKYPANTS  Requirements should say 10.5 for ver 0.3.5 or later. They crash on launch in Tiger.  
(Version 0.4a)

DORKYPANTS  Another vote for Bean. It can open .webarchive files and let you get at the components within.  
(Version 2.4)

DORKYPANTS  Not recognized by Growl 1.1.6  
(Version 1.2)

DORKYPANTS  I also find that the Garmin web test page fails to detect the plugin in Safari 4.02 but succeeds in Firefox 3.5.x. Regardless, the plugin works in Safari, at least with bikeroutetoaster.com . Conclusion: Garmin's web test page lies!  
(Version 2.8.2)

DORKYPANTS  1.11.3.28708 appears not to work on Tiger (10.4.11)/Intel. The CoolIris icon previously installed in Safari (4.0.3)'s toolbar disappears, and there's no evidence of CoolIris in Google Image Search results. Reverting to 1.11.1.26925, which continues to work fine.  
(Version 1.11.3.28708)

DORKYPANTS  Doesn't install on Tiger (PrefPane manager says it's unable to load the PrefPane). Requirements should be changed to OS X 10.5. Reverted to version 1.4  
(Version 2.2)

DORKYPANTS  Although the description says "Tiger compatible" AND the requirements say "10.4 or later", when I launch it on my Tiger (10.4.11) MacBook, I get a dialog that says

You cannot use the application "NetNewsWire" with this version of Mac OS X.  
(Version 3.2b6)

DORKYPANTS  The last version that I can successfully login to my Skype account on is 2.7.0.330. Every version since then hangs forever while trying to login. MacBook Tiger 10.4.11 with all Software Updates installed, plenty of free RAM and free disk space.   
(Version 2.8.0.659)

DORKYPANTS  Requested free license on website. Typed it into the license key input field in the installer, double- and triple-checked the license key I typed in, capitalization included. Typed in a password to administer it and retyped to confirm. After spinning the busy cursor for a few seconds it came up with "Validation failed. Unknown error."

???

G5 iMac, Leopard 10.5.6  
(Version 4.0.288)

DORKYPANTS  Thanks, now I can finally upgrade from Tiger to Leopard. I'd been waiting for SafariPlus to be made Leopard-compatible, but I see from Safari Cookies' prefs that it incorporates code from SafariPlus and Safari AdBlock.  
(Version 0.2)

DORKYPANTS  Works fine for me (G5 iMac, 10.5.6, Safari 3.2.1).  
(Version 0.2)

DORKYPANTS  With version 0.2 on my G5 iMac running 10.5.6, favorite cookies persist across relaunches of Safari (3.2.1, not 4 beta). I can't comment on the behavior of 0.1.3 as I upgraded to 0.2 shortly after initially installing 0.1.3 and before setting Safari Cookies' prefs or marking any cookies as favorites.  
(Version 0.2)

DORKYPANTS  The description says it's Intel/PPC but the app and menubar plugin are PPC-only.  
(Version 1.7.2)

DORKYPANTS  Registration code is available from developer's website. It's now freeware.  
(Version 2.6)

DORKYPANTS  Crashes on launch on my Tiger (10.4.11) MacBook  
(Version 1.5)

DORKYPANTS  On my Tiger MacBook (10.4.11, all System Updates applied), Airmailr launches, but is completely unreactive: none of the controls responds to mouse clicks. The only thing I can do is close it.  
(Version 0.2.1)

DORKYPANTS  Almost no built-in help, dropdown menus in HUD tools still need to translation from French to English (and other languages?). No user's guide or any other documentation on developer's website.

Does this app presume familiarity with some Illustrator or some other vector drawing app in order to be usable?  
(Version 0.7)

DORKYPANTS  Does this solve the problem with Energy Saver's Scheduler where if the Mac is asleep when the scheduled time for shutdown occurs, it stays asleep rather than shutting down? Or, even if the Mac is awake when the Scheduler starts a shutdown, if it goes to sleep before the shutdown confirmation dialog times out, it stays asleep rather than shutting down.  
(Version 1.1)

DORKYPANTS  Installer runs but fails with dialog saying:

cp: /Applications/QuickTime Player.app/Contents/Resources/ac3.icns: Permission denied (1)

My everyday login is a non-admin account. Tiger 10.4.11 MacBook.  
(Version 2.4.3_TigerFixed)

DORKYPANTS  installer crashes (MacBook 10.4.11 with all Apple System Updates installed).  
(Version 2.4.3)

DORKYPANTS  Ver 1.2 leaks memory big time. I'm frequently using Activity Monitor (I'm on Tiger 10.4.11) to quit the process, as it's consuming a couple hundred MB, when it starts out at under 30 MB.  
(Version 1.2)

DORKYPANTS  3.1.2 is unable to access my Keychain entries for 3.1.1 and hangs my Tiger 10.4.11 MacBook. Reverted to 3.1.1, which works fine.  
(Version 3.1.2)

DORKYPANTS  Although the requirements say OS X 10.4, the zip archive unpacks into a .pkg that on Tiger pops an alert saying "This package type requires Mac OS X 10.5"  
(Version 1.0)

DORKYPANTS  Actually, if you go to the developer's website, it says SimpleAuthority is free for up to 4 users, with no nagware reminders. You only need to buy a license to manage more than 4 users.  
(Version 2.5)

DORKYPANTS  Tiger (10.4.11 with all Apple Software Updates installed) on 1st gen. MacBook, Safari 3.2.1 - I was mostly interested in Glims' ability to make new tabs open adjacent to the current tab. After installation, weird things started happening:

- with lots of tabs open, some tabs would go blank in the tab bar when I picked a tab towards the right of the tab bar. Picking the leftmost tab would usually correct it.

- with lots of tabs open, clicking on an embedded YouTube video's icon to open it in a new tab worked, but after starting the video I closed the tab it was in, and its soundtrack kept playing!

- with lots of tabs open, couldn't drag-and-drop the URL from the address bar onto a FInder folder.

I rate Glims not ready for prime time.

If it matters, I have SafariStand 3.1T162, SafariPlus 1.6a1, SafariBlock 2.2 and Cooliris 1.9.1.17582 installed. They've been playing nice with each other.  
(Version 1.0b12)

DORKYPANTS  Is this a peer-to-peer connection or does each client go through servers operated by TeamViewer's vendor? It's not apparent from either the description here at MacUpdate or at the developer's website.  
(Version 3.6.5453)

DORKYPANTS  Still no Universal Binary version?  
(Version 4.30)

DORKYPANTS  The description doesn't do justice to this app. See the developer's site for Quicktime movies showing how to make rotating animated GIFs from single images.  
(Version 1.2.1)

DORKYPANTS  Forecasts are no longer working (spinning radar disks forever) as of sometime last week, though current conditions, radar and alerts still work. Did NOAA perhaps change the SOAP query/response format for multi-day forecasts? I can still get 7-day forecasts for the same location at NOAA's website, forecast.weather.gov.

Tiger (10.4.11), MacBook.  
(Version 1.1.1)

DORKYPANTS  ver 1.6a1:

1. Removing non-favorite cookies also removes cookies with no expiration date that belong to websites marked favorite.

2. Doing innocuous things like sorting by website in the SafariPlus window crashes Safari (3.1.2 (4525.22))

My system is a 1st gen MacBook running Tiger (10.4.11) with all Apple Software Updates applied and lots of free RAM.  
(Version 1.5.1)

DORKYPANTS  It occurs to me... a tabbed window UI (like the Networks prefs pane) would be a lot more self-explanatory than multiple independent modal windows where buttons are reserved for switching between the different modes and confusing (non-button) elements are used for controls. With a tabbed interface, things that can be clicked on to perform actions can be shown as buttons, while switching modes is just a matter of clicking on a different tab.  
(Version 0.2)

DORKYPANTS  Launches under Tiger (10.4.11) and all controls appear to work--though the UI is perplexing in that some things that look like text inside an input box are actually "clickable links" (like a URL in a browser) without giving any visual indication of being such. Haven't yet tried rebooting with LoginLauncher as a Login Item to see if it works as advertised.  
(Version 0.2)

DORKYPANTS  The zip file expands into a folder containing a run-only AppleScript app and an *ALIAS* to a Readme.rtfd file. Developer, please replace the alias with the actual Readme file!  
(Version 0.1)

DORKYPANTS  Chikka requires you to register on their website. WebSMS doesn't require any kind of registration of its own (though you still to have an account with a cellphone service provider with a web login and password).  
(Version 2.9.10)

DORKYPANTS  Addendum: I just tried the VSMS widget, which only works with Vodafone Italia numbers, and it successfully displays its CAPTCHA challenge and then transmits the SMS to the destination phone.  
(Version 2.9.10)

DORKYPANTS  No longer works with Vodafone Italia: the CAPTCHA image displays as a question-mark icon only, making it impossible to authenticate one's attempt to send. I reverted to ver. 2.9.9, which used to work and it also now is afflicted with the same problem.

I used the developer's contact email web form on the emeraldion website to report the problem and have not received any response (not even an acknowledgement).  
(Version 2.9.10)

DORKYPANTS  Is there a list of the "other" worldwide cities for which the widget displays weather information via wetter.com? I'm afraid I don't read Deutsch and I didn't see anything obvious on the widget's homepage.  
(Version 3.0.6)

DORKYPANTS  The interface is entirely in Dutch(?) and the widget opens a regular browser to do its work. It would be more useful if it would display query results itself.  
(Version 1.0)

DORKYPANTS  Crashes immediately after selecting a directory/folder to scan, on my Tiger (10.4.11) MacBook  
(Version 0.9.13)

DORKYPANTS  When all tracks on a CD are checkmarked iTunes (7.7.1), rips some tracks and not others. If I manually select a track which didn't get ripped with the others, it gets ripped OK.

Reduces the usefulness of this app significantly as I have to manually/visually compare what's on my iPod with what's on the CD and ID the tracks that didn't make it.  
(Version 2.0)

DORKYPANTS  Ttakes forever to login to an FTP server that ver. 3.0.1 logs into instantly; also reliably causes securityd to crash on my Tiger (10.4.11) MacBook.  
(Version 3.0.2)

DORKYPANTS  Has been spinning the busy-wheel on my MacBook with DSL connection for several minutes with no end. It's configured to display only EUR/USD, EUR/AUD, EUR/CAD for Daily changes in Percent.

The Forex Charts widget works fine, however.  
(Version 1.0)

DORKYPANTS  Quitting and relaunching NetNewsWire clears out the Downloads window even though there's no Preferences set to do this. This is a misfeature.   
(Version 3.1.5b3)

DORKYPANTS  1. unable to file bug report, mail bounced by minime.convergentcs.net:

: host

/var/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/imap/socket/lmtp] said: 550-Mailbox unknown.

Either there is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or you do not have

authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO

command)

2. bug report: the About Stalker window shows the Version and a truncated "Update plan expires" date (missing last digit of 4-digit year) the first time it pops up, but if closed and reopened, the version and update plan expires are both blank on 2nd and successive tries. This can be reproduced reliably on each new launch of Stalker 2.0.4.  
(Version 2.0.4)

DORKYPANTS  On Macs (1-button mouse or trackpad), use ctrl+mouse to rotate or change tilt, where the documentation says to use "left mouse + drag".

I don't see any instructions in the accompanying PDF documentation or any obvious way from the menus or controls to "edit" a loaded GPS track despite the description of the app. as a way to display AND edit GPS tracks in 3D.

As things stand, Google Earth is, for me, still a more convenient way to display my GPS tracks in 3D.  
(Version 0.1.4)

DORKYPANTS  There's already another widget out there named "Refurb Store", at version 2.0, from widgetinfo.net  
(Version 1.0)

DORKYPANTS  DropCopy 1.4.7 on my Tiger (10.4.11) MacBook can't send files to DropCopy 1.4.7 on my Leopard (10.5.2) iMac. They can see each other, but the sending DropCopy always times out unsuccessfully, and the receiving DropCopy never pops up an alert for an incoming file (which it's configured to do). Both machines have their firewalls configured to allow DropCopy connections on port 5052.

This problem first showed up between 1.4 on Tiger and 1.3 on Panther, and has continued through the minor versions of 1.4  
(Version 1.4.7)

DORKYPANTS  This is a poorly written piece of software. (1) You can't install it unless you're logged in as a userid with admin privileges. (2) It installs within a folder in the Applications folder, read-writeable only by the userid that created it. (3) It creates files within that folder for its data rather than using files in the user's Library/Preferences and/or Library/Application Support folder, thus making it impossible for anyone but the admin userid that installed the app. to run it.

When you do manage to get it running, you have to tell it what stock exchange to search for the item you want to add -- and it can't find some index mutual funds at all. Useless!

It looks and feels like it's ported from another platform (Windows?)  
(Version 2.2)

DORKYPANTS  Even with a valid ISIN it doesn't work. For example, SPFIX (California Investment Trust S&P 500 index) is ISIN US1303474043. DEPOTset responds "Stock or security with symbol US1303474043 couldn't be found." I found the ISIN at financialcontent.com, not de.finance.yahoo.com.  
(Version 1.13)

DORKYPANTS  What does this do for $29 that you can't do with Google's free MacFUSE and the freeware MacFusion menubar utility that makes use of it?

Installing them is a no-brainer. You set your favorite ssh/sftp remote hosts, then mount them as ordinary volumes, to which any app can read/write as easily as a local volume.  
(Version 1.01)

DORKYPANTS  I get it. The product description is misleading. The app doesn't generate elevation graphs from KML tracks. It generates graphs connecting GEarth placemarks saved together in one KML file. As such, it can only be as useful as the density of placemarks YOU add to your tracks. That's not useful for me, as it demands too much manual input.  
(Version 1.2)

DORKYPANTS  I don't understand how to use this app. I've tried using its File->Open... menu to open KML files saved from Google Earth and the resulting utrekGE window shows NOTHING. Clicking on the toolbar icons also does nothing. There's no built-in help and the web page is no help either.

I'm on a MacBook running Tiger.  
(Version 1.2)

DORKYPANTS  I'm on Tiger, not Leopard. Importing from AddressBook worked up through ver. 2.8.1(? which preceded 2.9).

BTW www.emeraldion.it has been down for several days, showing only a page that says

Spiacente, questo sito é temporaneamente disabilitato!  
(Version 2.9)

DORKYPANTS  Version 2.9 seems to have lost the ability to pick up mobile phone numbers from AddressBook to send messages to!  
(Version 2.9)

DORKYPANTS  Still crashes the same way as ver. 2.0. Still doesn't prompt for admin login & password (it just says "this installer requires admin privileges to run", which isn't any more useful than 2.0, which tried to write into the Applications folder w/o checking to see whether the current login had permission to do so).  
(Version 2.1)

DORKYPANTS  Crashes on launch on my Tiger 10.4.11 MacBook:

An exception of class NilObjectException was not handled. The application must shut down.  
(Version 2.0)

DORKYPANTS  Installation would be friendlier if the installer app. would check whether the current userid has admin capabilities, and if not, ask for an admin userid and password.

For lots of good reasons, many of us have our normal logins set to be "standard" accounts without admin privileges.  
(Version 2.0)

DORKYPANTS  Doesn't work on my Tiger 10.4.11 system:

sh: line 1: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy: No such file or directory (127)  
(Version 2.4.1)

DORKYPANTS  URLs not allowed? Google's web page on sshfs for MacFUSE is at (add the h t t p slash slash colon in front if your browser requires it)

code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS  
(Version 2.5.1)

DORKYPANTS  Google's own sshfs is a Mac OS X app which is pretty obvious to use and seems much more straightforward than this implementation. It's an ordinary .app you can drag-and-drop wherever you want to install it, no sudo required. More information at   
(Version 2.5.1)

DORKYPANTS  Very nice, much more self-explanatory than Formulate and easier to use. Would be nice if it put its own document icons on documents it creates: currently you only get a blank rectangle in Finder (in Tiger).  
(Version 0.0.3)

DORKYPANTS  Whatever I try to search for (US store), it shows "Searching" and never comes back. There are no controls to interrupt a pending search, nor any kind of progress bar to indicate how much longer one ought to wait for a search to complete. By contrast the "Refurb Store" widget searches almost instantly.  
(Version 2.0)

DORKYPANTS  Great feature set extensions to TextEdit. Too bad it's PPC-only: it launches a lot slower than TextEdit on Intel Mac.  
(Version 2.1)

DORKYPANTS  Must have been a problem on Yahoo's end. It's working fine again.  
(Version 3.1)

DORKYPANTS  Today (2/22/2007 4 pm Pacific Time), Ticker 3.1 is showing ZERO for all values. What's going on?  
(Version 3.1)

DORKYPANTS  I second the comment to not put up TabStop's confirmation dalog when there's only 1 tab in the Safari window  
(Version 1.0)

DORKYPANTS  Garmins download server sucks. After half a day I'm only 13.8 MB into the ~56 MB download and it's stalled!  
(Version 2.0.1)

DORKYPANTS  Curious that the description says, in the "Compatible Garmin devices:" section, "ForeRunner 201 (PC only)..." There are 3rd party OS X utilities(LoadMyTracks, Link2GPS) which work just fine with my ForeRunner 201 and a no-name serial-to-USB adapter cable.  
(Version 2.0.1)

DORKYPANTS  Description says ver. 1.3.x requires Tiger (10.4) and to use ver. 0.5.3 for Panther (10.3). However, ver. 1.2.1 works fine on Panther (10.3.9). Is it the case that 1.3.x is merely UNSUPPORTED on Panther, or is it known definitely not to work?  
(Version 1.3.1)

DORKYPANTS  The .bz2 archive for version 042 unpacks into a .dmg which doesn't mount on my Tiger (10.4.8) MacBook  
(Version 042)

DORKYPANTS  A Universal Binary version at last! Works great. A long-standing bug is still present: the Volume for indexes is still often a bogus negative number; try, e.g., Wilshire 5000 (^DWCF), which shows a volume of -2,147,483,6... (too wide to fit) as of 4:30pm Dec. 12, 2006. Similarly, at the same date/time, Vanguarg S&P500 (VFINX) showed a volume of -1.  
(Version 3.1)

DORKYPANTS  Anyone been able to install IE7 using Crossover? It's not obvious to me how it's supposed to go: Crossover doesn't know what to do with the .exe installer downloaded from MS's IE website...and there seem to be indications from Crossover that it's only Win2000-compatible, not XP or Vista.  
(Version 6.0b3a)

DORKYPANTS  Causes sleeping iBook G3 to keep waking up. Quitting Focus Layer when sleeping cures the problem.  
(Version 1.4)

DORKYPANTS  Works on Panther (10.3.9) too. Would be more useful if it could be set up with "Dim" already activated upon launch AND if it didn't dim the Desktop when Finder is the frontmost app.  
(Version 1.0)

DORKYPANTS  2.5b2 crashes every few minutes on my 10.3.9 iBook with lots of free RAM.  
(Version 2.5b2)