EJI  Since downloading v1.8, I'm unable to login and get repeated login errors (in the form of a red stripe at the bottom of the widget). Is this a known bug?  
(Version 1.8)

EJI  Not working in Snow Leopard. I'd love to see an update and have this functionality restored to Mail!  
(Version 0.8.4)

EJI  I've been checking the developer's site two, three times a day for news.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the absence of WideMail makes my entire upgrade to Snow Leopard seem half-finished. Letterbox just isn't the same.

I know WM is donationware, but still, getting on for two months since the public release is a relatively long time to wait. I wish Apple would just include a vertical view by default.  
(Version 0.5.1)

EJI  Nice idea! Would be great if:

a) it supported DrayTek VoIP devices, and

b) it weren't so damned expensive. I mean, $25 for it to liase with the device and display a caller ID pop-up? That's about $10-15 more than I'd be willing to shell out.  
(Version 1.0)

EJI  Seems to have some memory leaks (10MB on launch, but climbs quickly thereafter); tons of interface bugs (changed account names don't stick, services are listed as "never updated" directly after an update, many essential fields and drop-downs are still in Italian); a lot of popular services are missing (where are sipGate and the US carriers?); and the one working service I could find, Vyke, repeatedly froze and called up the spinning beach ball after 40% of the SMS was sent.

Oh, and quirky Address Book formattings, like, say, +44 for the country code and area codes in parentheses, appear to cause PiggySMS to short-circuit.

The idea sounds promising, but a 1.0 release this is most certainly not. More like a 0.1.  
(Version 1.0)

EJI  The login culprit is Free Flickr Exporter (FFXporter), on which the PixelPipe Exporter is based. By disabling FFX via the Get Info window, the PPX will login without problems.

To their credit, PixelPipe support was very quick with a response.  
(Version b4)

EJI  For the record, even if you had an account (as I do), you still wouldn't have any better luck. Clicking the exporter's login button repeatedly yields an error message about an unsupported something-or-other.  
(Version b4)

EJI  Why not try something revolutionary and go to pixelpipe.com to see if you can sign up there?

In the time that it took you to write your negative comment, you could have googled PixelPipe and followed the pretty straightforward steps to creating a free account.  
(Version b4)

EJI  When I wrote AudioScrobbler, I meant iScrobbler. Sorry for the silly mistake.  
(Version 0.50.10)

EJI  The first scrobbling app to successfully scrobble *all* the recently played tracks on my manually managed iPod Touch 2G to my Last.fm account. So now I'm using it in place of the official Last.fm client (too clunky) and AudioScrobbler (great features but too hit-and-miss).

The memory leaks and runaway processor usage that some other users mentioned back in February seem to be fixed. SP has been running since boot-up this morning and is currently consuming 0% of the CPU and just under 37MB of RAM. Not too bad.

For those still on the fence, SP offers some nice perqs. You can exclude tracks with a certain comment, ignore certain media, and there's seamless Growl integration. If it matched AudioScrobbler one-for-one in terms of features, it would be the Last.fm client of my dreams.  
(Version 0.50.10)

EJI  Yep, it's a WideMail conflict.

Reverting back to MailTags 2.2.1 solves the problem:

http://www.indev.ca/MailTags2.2.1.dmg

Guess I'll wait until either MT or WM is updated before I upgrade.  
(Version 2.2.2)

EJI  Looks like it conflicts with WideMail v.51. The Mail.app message window won't open, and if you manually select it from the Window category in the menubar, it brings up one messy mail interface. Crap.  
(Version 2.2.2)

EJI  I think this dev has unfairly received an awful lot of flack for what seems like a pretty standard donationware policy and a product description (for beta-level software, no less) that could have been better but certainly isn't the worst I've seen.

I gave SoCal a try and I quite like it. It's much more accessible than Organized and more functional than DoBeDo, both of which have functioned as my widget to-do lists for ages. SoCal's integration with iCal is better than Check Off's menubar list, and it omits all the unnecessary bells and whistles of MenuMinder ($10) or DeJumble ($19!).

Is it worth the $10 that the more feature-rich MenuMinder charges (as shareware, keep in mind) to get rid of the donation nag? I'd probably feel more comfortable donating $5. But it fills a niche that no other menubar to-do list does (at least the ones that I've tried), and I really can't quite understand why this app became the focus of so much animosity in its first few days on MU.

I'd like to award five stars just to counter the one-star gripefest below, but I'll keep my rating independent.  
(Version 0.5+)

EJI  Does this update finally prevent Word from switching *@^&(! spaces on me for no apparent reason? My guess is no.

Incidentally, has anyone heard of a fix for this irritating bug, since none seems to be forthcoming from the developers, developers, developers?  
(Version 12.1.3)

EJI  "[S]it back and watch as the driver gets catapulted through the windscreen in spectacular effect."

This is in poor taste, no?  
(Version 1.0)

EJI  Great. Got rid of those annoying music store arrows. Even redirecting them to display the original file (using Onyx) just wasn't the same as having them altogether gone.

Thanks!  
(Version 1.0)

EJI  Really great app. So far I've sent a handful of faxes through my Sipgate.de account (which doesn't even have the "Plus" fax option), and it's worked beautifully.

When I had what I thought was an issue, he returned my e-mail within a day and encouraged me to continue providing feedback to improve Fossi. He's been extremely courteous, even in the face of poor spellers calling his free app "a waist of time."

Since Apple's taken the modem out of Macs, this is a fantastic solution to the problem of convenient faxing from the print dialogue. And even if you've got an older Mac with a modem, this obviates the need to stay plugged into the phone line.  
(Version 1.0.3)

EJI  Update to 3.1.2 succeeded, apparently, but it just hangs on "Scanning Volumes..." and never gets anywhere.

Quality stuff, Micromat. Does Apple actually pay you to include this half-baked utility with AppleCare?  
(Version 3.1.2)

EJI  Multiple currency support, automatic downloads for most major financial institutions, slick and fairly intuitive interface, trouble-free importing from multiple formats (OFX, QIF, CSV), great features like forecasting and graphed portfolio overview... these are all things I've been waiting for a Mac financial organizer to offer. And iBank3 has them.

I'm not really the power investor type, but I still spent all last night trying out this software. It's fantastic. I'm still waiting to see what Cha-Ching v.2 has to offer, but it'll be hard to beat the new iBank. I've already shifted all my accounts over to iBank from Quicken and won't look back.  
(Version 3.0b8)

EJI  I also got a kernel panic on reboot after upgrading from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2. After a second restart, everything's grand.  
(Version 2.0.2)

EJI  All it's missing is a contextual menu item to make it easier for custom blocking. Other than that, Safari AdBlock is the best and most intuitive freeware ad blocking plug-in for Safari. I'm really pleased with it.  
(Version 0.3.1)

EJI  I'm having the same problem as I was before with SB 2.1. I get the "first run" window, but I can't close it and Safari won't open a new window. The "first run" window also doesn't stop reappearing when I quit and relaunch Safari.

Does this have anything to do with having Safari AdBlock installed? Is anyone else having this problem too?  
(Version 2.1)

EJI  $59? Really? $59?

I saw this pop up in my MacUpdate RSS and thought it might be useful. So I was going to give it a spin, but there's no way I'm going to pay $59 for story outline software with a few extra bells and whistles, no matter how nice it looks.

I really like the corkboard visual layout with photos for characters, but for my purposes, it's better to create a slimmed-down version without any word processing functions for, say, $20. That way, I can stick with Pages, Word, Bean or WriteRoom for writing and use Storyist exclusively for conceptualization and outlines.  
(Version 1.3.5)

EJI  When I installed SB2r2, on launching Safari I got a "first-run" dialogue window that explained the basics of SB. It included a small checkbox for setting automatic updates.

I couldn't close this dialogue box and I could not open a Safari browser window. Restarting the computer, repairing permissions and relaunching Safari yielded the same results. All I could do was force quit Safari and uninstall SB.

I really relied on SB when I was running Tiger. But SB2 has been nothing but flaky.  
(Version 2.0r3)

EJI  Yeah, but ZMacSync and the AJZaurusUSB extension are two completely different parts of this software bundle. So ZMacSync could be buggy, and AJZaurusUSB.kext could be fully compatible.  
(Version 2.3.2)

EJI  Does this mean the AJZaurusUSB kernel extension for accessing the Zaurus over USB is fully compatible with Leopard?  
(Version 2.3.2)

EJI  Does this work in Leopard? Is it the sort of app that can cause major problems if it doesn't?  
(Version 1.0b2)

EJI  7zX created an invisible or "hidden" temp file (.7zXtemp/) on my desktop, which wreaked havoc during a backup operation with Carbon Copy Cloner.

What happened was that somehow my entire user directory was aliased in this temp file, causing the clone operation to copy data infinitely (since the alias existed in the alias too).

I have no idea how this happened, but I'm wary about reinstalling 7zX now that I've upgraded to Leopard. Has anyone else experience this? Was it a bug left over from earlier versions of this compression app?  
(Version 1.6.7)

EJI  Speaking as a Yank, we're known to be a bit too literal at times. And Xenophile's comment on Google Desktop was dripping with irony.  
(Version 1.3.1.806)

EJI  @coldfusion1970

Are you American, by any chance?  
(Version 1.3.1.806)

EJI  All I can say is, "Wow." This v.11 beta finally feels like a proper, solid OS X app. I don't know if it can ever replace VLC as my primary media app, but it has some nice features (including Web vid clip downloading and lots of playback options) and it looks like they had someone with a modicum of taste design the GUI. I also like the installation prompt for launching the RealPlayer Donwloader agent on login instead of just doing it automatically.  
(Version 11.0 Beta (build 631))

EJI  Make sure you're using the latest version. XLD was just updated for Leopard.  
(Version 20071114)

EJI  I just launched iMeem today, only to have it quit, launch my default browser, and present me with a page that said this:

"The imeem instant messaging client is no longer available."

Ah, well. it was a good run while it lasted. I didn't use this client an awful lot, but it was looking promising.  
(Version 1.41.16)

EJI  Hear, hear. I agree with all the above. Though I love Transmission, I find that I'm constantly switching back to Az for selective file downloads and its much better download/upload reporting to trackers. Using Transmission, my ratio seems to go down but never up.  
(Version 0.71)

EJI  I may be missing something essential, but I'm having a hard time understanding the real value of this app.

So I've matched my Address Book contacts to their Skype names. Cool. But that doesn't appear to have had any useful effect on the apps themselves. For example, the contact icons from AB don't display in Skype, and there's no Skype field in the AB IM section. Nor is there a "Call contact using Skype" option in SkypeToAddressBook.

Have I missed the point? Or is this more like a fun but pointless detour to Skyping rather than a direct (and more sensible) route?  
(Version 1.0)

EJI  Wonderful app when used in conjunction with a Mac-compatiple GPS location device or a mapping app like Google Earth. I just used PGPSE to tag 200+ photos from a Paris trip using the coordinates from Google Earth, and it went smoothly. The coordinates appear in iPhoto's "Get Info" window and they can be used to map the shots in, say, Flickr for an interesting slideshow.

Best of all, PGPSE doesn't (as far as my testing goes) strip the other EXIF data from the photos.

v1.5 supports drag-and-drop, which was my only quibble with earlier versions. I don't really know how they could make it any easier.  
(Version 1.5)

EJI  No problems here. I was using Entourage 2004 as my primary e-mail app before the security update, and it's working as before now that the update is applied. I'm on 10.4.8/PPC.

Maybe, as another poster suggested, you make sure that all Microsoft Office patches are applied?  
(Version 2006-007)

EJI  Nope, they can't coexist. I tried it. An Inquisitor install trumps AcidSearch, though uninstalling Inquisitor puts everything back the way you had it (meaning AcidSearch is untouched).  
(Version 3.0b1)

EJI  Very nice implementation, and should help to put an end to the menu bar burn-in I'm getting on my iMac G5's LCD. Mac OS X should do this by default.

As a few other posters have mentioned, there are a few bugs with Menufela.

- Doesn't play well with Unsanity's Windowshade "Minimize in place" option. Do so and the window will shrink and disappear somewhere offscreen. The only way to get it back is to quit the app and relaunch.

- The "new mail" envelope is showing on the Entourage icon permanently now. Quitting and relaunching doesn't get rid of it.

- On login, my menu extras hover at the top and don't vanish until the first time I call up the menu bar.

- Apps like iTunes don't like to be maximized to the entire display. Minimize them, then maximize them again and they expand offscreen.

- Like others have said, it would be nice if the menu bar didn't appear every time a user launches a new app. And it would be good if the app's window positioning automatically accounted for the presence/absence of the menu bar.

And that's just what I've encountered in the past two hours.

I really wish this had been issued as a beta for testing before the dev started charging $5 for it. Yeah, it's relatively cheap, but it's got too many glitches to make me feel entirely comfortable with using it.  
(Version 1.0)

EJI  Yeah, I've submitted countless requests for the menubar pager because I find every other pager implementation annoying. You'd think it'd be fairly simple, but then, I'm not a developer.

Until then, I'm stuck with Desktop Manager.  
(Version 0.53r220)

EJI  This (a7) is the first version of Books 3 that I've tried, and for software in alpha state, it's still highly useable. Books 3 corrects some of the inconveniences of its forerunner with, for example, multiple at-a-glance lists, great Spotlight integration and a fairly customizable two-pane, e-mail-like view. Opening and saving collections is now just as it should be: instant. And I really like the plug-in architecture -- this has amazing potential with export/import formats. (On that note, the forthcoming J2ME export for phones and PDAs ought to be great.) But I can't understand why ISBN isn't available as a column view choice, or the bottom pane (a plug-in, unfortunately, not in editable HTML format) should offer little more information than the top one.

Multiple autofill doesn't seem to be there yet (Books 2 never quite nailed this) and good ol' HTML export is no longer an option due to the somewhat more elaborate Books Server. Also, the 22.5MB(!) disk image could be slimmed by half with a non-source code version.

Minor flaws considered -- hey, it's still in alpha -- I still prefer this over Readerware, Booxter and the more beautiful but less practical Delicious Library. Books 3 is coming along nicely, and in its final release stage will likely provide many more features than its competitors at an unbeatable price. For my personal library it's just right. though I'd really like to know what bookstore owners think of it. I should think that it's worthy enough to be billed as the recommended Mac software on ABE.  
(Version 3.0a7)