ESCAPERAISE  Just a heads up.

Sierrra Wireless Watcher 1.1.4 breaks under Snow Leopard 10.6. Yes, I've installed Rosetta.  
(Version 1.1.1)

ESCAPERAISE  I have used Sierra Wireless Watcher with two different Sprint EVDO cards and several MacBook Pros including the Unibody, over the past three years.

Today running fully updated 10.5.8 with Sierrra Wireless Watcher 1.1.4, and SWW crashes as often as every ten seconds, often every 5 minutes, taking the connection with it. Seldom stays online for more than an hour.

There cannot possibly be anything good to say about the software engineers at Sierra Wireless. This is a longstanding and widespread problem and they have no interest in fixing it.

The upside? When the connection is active it's fast enough for everything I do. I travel a lot so I live with the situation and hope someday Sprint will ditch SWW and hire a software company that has a Clue.  
(Version 1.1.1)

ESCAPERAISE  Totally love this app. Simple, fast, copies DVDs old and new.

Now my DVD collection is my backup, no more shuffling through stacks of plastic.

If I were to nitpick, I'd wish the file size were smaller, on the order of iTunes, 1 GB instead of 7 GB.. Even so, the paid version is the best software purchase I've made in quite a while. And the free versions worked fine for me as well.  
(Version 1.0.3.1)

ESCAPERAISE  Had a wonderfully fast response from the developer. Summary:

The instructions are here: http://glimmerblocker.org/wiki/Uninstall

• open the "Network" preferences panel and disable the "http proxy" setting for all the network connections: Click the 'advanced' button for each of them, then select the 'proxy' tab.

• if this file exists, delete it:

/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.glimmerblocker.proxy.plist

• restart your mac (so the proxy is stopped, and the system notices the above file is removed)

With support like this I plan to keep Glimmerblocker and learn to configure it better.

Cheers,  
(Version 1.3.3)

ESCAPERAISE  GlimmerBlocker had very little effect on the number of ads displayed, and in particular did not block animated flash advertisements which was the whole point. I trashed the control panel and now cannot get online using WiFi. EVDO still works. Suggestions welcome :-)

Unibody MBP running 10.5.6. Tx.  
(Version 1.3.3)

ANONYMOUS  Well Simone, I sent the following report on 10/09/09 and have had no reply from you:

"Unfortunately, Command-S causes the app to quit unexpectedly, with loss of all entries including the password.

Running 10.3.5 with all system updates except the three most recent security updates..."

And, I included the crash log.

Thanks,

R -  
(Version 1.0.7)