JAMESKITTY  Snow Leopard introduced OpenCL (GPU Processing) and GrandCentral (dynamic threading to optimize for multiple processors/cores). Both are quite stable and effective. But both require you use Xcode's compilers.

Adobe -- and several other software vendors -- develop for non-mac platforms first and then port that code to macintosh using non-Xcode tools. The resulting programs can't utilize the advanced OS features and often suffer performance wise because of it.

It's not great for mac consumers, but the bean-counters at the top of the pile still see the number of non-mac users in one pile as being much higher, and believe they should be developing (and testing) for that pile first.  
(Version 10.1.51.45)

JAMESKITTY  TRUE! I had downloaded the "update" from the dropbox website and was given .557 (still pushes .557, btw).

The link here gives me .559, which DOES have contextual menu support.

NOW, if it were only 64-Bit...  
(Version 0.6.559)

JAMESKITTY  Not *quite* "Full Snow Leopard Support". Still no contextual menu support (no right-click, copy URL).   
(Version 0.6.559)

JAMESKITTY  I already mentioned isubway maps below, which is essentially the same thing, but free -- you just drop them into your photo library.

but... i love that the developer's OTHER app is essentially MacTracker, rereleased but for money (mactracker's iphone app is free).  
(Version 2.3.1)

JAMESKITTY  In what universe is Flash "lightweight"??!!  
(Version 10.0.32.18)

JAMESKITTY  I'll grant that the majority of users will never need, nor know what to do with this application; however, those of us that work with wireless networks daily or have to troubleshoot connection problems in congested areas need a little more than the Airport menu provides.

If you don't need this app, don't d/l use it. But please don't hate on it for just that reason. It's quite necessary (and works damned well!) for the rest of us.  
(Version 1.1.8)

JAMESKITTY  Using the word Apple in the software name is confusing -- makes it sound like this is an Apple developed application.  
(Version 1.0)

JAMESKITTY  Pretty icons and higher prices, of course!  
(Version 10.0.1)

JAMESKITTY  Seriously, it's not really fair to judge the platform based on PocketMac, which is one of the worst pieces of software available for it.

But it does make me wonder tho, obviously you know about this site, how could you have missed all the horrible, damning reviews of this program?  
(Version 4.1.25)

JAMESKITTY  I'm not sure I'd pay $10 for all of MySpace, let alone their instant messenger.

I've had my MS account on Adium for 3 months now, and I haven't sent or received one message with it. NO ONE uses it. Not even my diehard MS friends.

FaceBook on the otherhand... well I'm using it in Adium right now.  
(Version 1.0b)

JAMESKITTY  In step one above, the OP was saying drag the installer from the DMG file you downloaded to your desktop. You can't save changes while it's still on the dmg (it's a read-only dmg).  
(Version 12.1.4)

JAMESKITTY  $70 seems like a lot to just clean out some bad macros from office documents... Maybe if there were actual Mac viruses out there, it wouldn't sound so extreme.  
(Version 10.5.4)

JAMESKITTY  From the dev's site:

"Supported firmware versions : 1.1.1 to 2.1"

MU likely hasn't updated it's previous description.  
(Version 1.5)

JAMESKITTY  Okay, with much laborious clicking around, I found that the changes for this version of Stuffit are:

COMPRESS AND EXPAND

NEW! Duplicate Folding = smaller archives

NEW! Expand 7-Zip archives

NEW! Expand segmented Zip archives

BACKUP

NEW! Preview archives within TimeMachine

INTEGRATION

NEW! Peer in archives with Quick Look plugin

NEW! Browse archives in the Finder like disks

Assuming "Peer" is supposed to be "Peek", QL & Finder Preview integration could be useful (no idea tho if this is deluxe only feature or if it comes with the expander alone).

But seriously... how many people create stuffit archives (!) that have enough redundant files within them to make a difference with duplicate folding?

I've never heard of 7-zip archives, and have yet to encounter segmented zip archives... but I suspect I could find freeware solutions to either if it were an issue.

Amazing how they can churn out a new version every two months and somehow think they've got a new product.   
(Version 13.0)

JAMESKITTY  did you try trashing the prefs?  
(Version 4.1.4)

JAMESKITTY  apparently you can hack it in by copying the preference files over, or something.

personally, i only need to sync with the machine that is synching my contacts. ;D  
(Version 1.11)

JAMESKITTY  This functionality was included in the 10.5.3 update, btw.  
(Version 1.11)

JAMESKITTY  Fed it a 512 px png file created in illustrator with transparency, it created a 512 px icon with smaller sizes embedded in it. exactly what i wanted (well, except that it skipped the 48 px size for some odd reason, but got the rest).  
(Version 0.5.1)

JAMESKITTY  I fed the leopard version a 512 px png and it created a 512 px png file on the desktop with the icon at that size, but it failed to create the other sizes (128, 48, 32,16).

so it essentially did what candybar already does.

img2icns actually created the smaller sizes as well, btw.  
(Version 2.0)

JAMESKITTY  Probably not *just* you, but I disagree.  
(Version 1.5)

JAMESKITTY  Does it turn those Maxtors and Western Digitals into Seagates?  
(Version 1.0)

JAMESKITTY  Requires Unsanity's APE hack. I won't install it.

Too bad the author can't find a way of programming this within Apple's rules.  
(Version 3.7.10)

JAMESKITTY  Pretty. But http://www.isubwaymaps.com/ could have saved you the time & trouble.  
(Version 0.4)

JAMESKITTY  unless you use hot corners to activate your screensaver when away from the keyboard.  
(Version 1.0)

JAMESKITTY  Would anyone WITH a listed machine that has updated care to comment on the installation and resulting performance?  
(Version 2.1)

JAMESKITTY  I am loving the addition of presets, but unfortunately the bug that made Mediafork unusable exists in this new build of handbrake as well... namely that the audio drops a couple of minutes into *some* cds.

I just ripped Face/Off twice with the same results: the H264 encoding slows wayyyyy down (from ~27fps on my system to ~7fps) and the audio stops 23 minutes into the file.

Thankfully, I kept 0.7.1 archived on my system.  
(Version 0.8.5b1)

JAMESKITTY  Installed and connected each of my two batteries, but there is no feedback to indicate that either or both of the batteries have been updated. =/  
(Version 1.2)

JAMESKITTY  i exported the rge from entourage 11.3.3, opened that rge with VcardConverter, but whenever I try to save the CSV file, it just says the save failed. :(  
(Version 1.02)

JAMESKITTY  Seems like the biggest limitation of this program would be the unreliability of SMART itself. Of all the failed drives I've dealt with over the years, only a fraction of them ever failed SMART.

Most just start dropping blocks right and left until the machine doesn't boot anymore.  
(Version 2.2.5)

JAMESKITTY  have you installed windows yet? generally the partition created by bootcamp is unformatted, and gets formatted in the windows installation.  
(Version 1.1.2)

JAMESKITTY  Crashed within 2 minutes of installing on my MacBook C2D.

Further, I don't like the interface at all. And customization of it seems entirely non-existant. Further, its just loading webpages inside it's embedded browser. and those pages are rather ugly by today's standards as well.

Further still, they're a bit misleading on the whole "myspace" integration, or any other kind of integration as far as i can tell. you may actually be able to use it as a chat application for other networks, but i couldn't find where with that ugly and confusing web 0.5 interface, and frankly it crashed when i was just clicking around, so why should i care -- let alone trust it to replace adium or ichat?

and finally.... there's no upfront indication of their revenue model here. they say they're anti-spyware, anti-adware and that it's free, but how are they making their money? everyone needs to make money to stay in business, and the ones that don't tell you how are usually doing it in ways you don't like.

oh and guys.... um subdomain names of "dude" and "meth" are not confidence instilling. if these are the things you're thinking of at work, i don't want to give you permissions or my passwords... oh shit. now i have to go in and change my msn, yahoo and gmail passwords. dammit.  
(Version 0.62)

JAMESKITTY  so is it dead now?

no updates since February, and no shortage of things that needed fixing....

no hope of getting a 64-bit compatible version?

maybe a version that had metadata tagging built in?

maybe a version with programable presets?

or even a version that wouldn't loose the format selections when you clicked the browse button?  
(Version 0.7.1)

JAMESKITTY  you are ASSUMING that SCR isn't crashing safari. but with SCR, crash. Remove SCR... no more crashes!

maybe it's not directly conflicting with safari, maybe it's safari calling a third-party plug-in that SCR conflicts with... who knows. who cares. that's precisely the reason I try to keep this hack crap off my system, it puts me in an untested state where NO ONE knows what will happen.

Version 1.0.2 installed with NO user notification, and everytime I launched my purchased program, it reinstalled itself (and believe me I reamed the developer of the software I purchased for that). The only way i could keep it from reinstalling was to create the parent folder with the same name, and deny myself permissions to it.

AND, i read crash reports fairly thoroughly. Kind of a compulsive job hazzard. Which is the only way I knew this POC was there in the first place... in the active tasks list. I saw nothing that indicated to me that the report was going anywhere other than Apple. And if I can't see it, how the hell is an average user going to see it....

so, let's review:

1. third party developers can install this software without user permission or notification, and can repeatedly reinstall this software without user permission or notification.

2. any notification of it's presence, or the forwarding of data to a third party source is so hidden that a very experienced technician can't find it.

It's a trojan, and a privacy violation all in one!

i'm not unsympathetic to you motivations or your intentions for creating this program. i question your ethics and methods a bit, perhaps...  
(Version 1.2.1)

JAMESKITTY  why would ever have APE and DW on the same system anyway?

DW is useless on the boot volume, so you're pretty much running it from the CD/DVD or making a bootable tools drive to run it from.

Of course if you have APE installed, you're likely going to NEED DW to repair your volume from all the system crashes....  
(Version 4.0)

JAMESKITTY  most these utilities are NOT universal.  
(Version 1.25)

JAMESKITTY  is it really time for version 64.3 already? Seems like only last year they were on version 8....  
(Version 11.0.1)

JAMESKITTY  got to love it when the product description is a marketing press release, instead of something that would indicate what the product is.  
(Version 3.20.071.0163)

JAMESKITTY  i hate "conceptual" interfaces. i spent ten minutes trying to figure out where i was supposed to click to get the information i was looking for. even loaded each of the alternate designs included.... still couldn't do it. nor could i figure out what the menubar was supposed to be indicative of.

went straight in to the trash.  
(Version 2.1.6)

JAMESKITTY  am i wrong to have concerns about giving chmod blank check authorization? i'd like to be prompted when something is modifying ownership / permissions of root level files.  
(Version 1.0)

JAMESKITTY  Version 1.0.2 crashes Safari on 10.4.8 when Quicktime 7.1.3 loads certain plug-ins.

Just like the other crap from Unsanity, it works great on the OS when they release it, but then Apple changes something and it causes all sorts of problems. Not apple's fault if you are using unpublished APIs, kids.

Developers, please don't bundle this crap with your applications. It's a true disservice to your users.

Besides.... isn't something that drops inside another application and sends a users data to an unauthorized third party a cause of concern for anyone? the words spyware and privacy violation come to mind.  
(Version 1.2)

JAMESKITTY  Version 4 does actually sync my address book contacts and ical calendar events Blackberry 8100 (Pearl), but it's temperamental. It loses the device often (requiring multiple removal/insertions of the USB cable). And syncing fails if a media card is in the device. And if you try to use the application uploader.... well it probably won't work and you won't be able to shut down your computer afterwards. And there's still no way to reset the system software.

Blackberry support is some of the worst in the business. Doesn't matter what you ask them, they'll find a third party to refer you to. And pocketmac... well despite what they claim, they don't even seem to be answering emails anymore (been well over a week with no response to my initial request).

Glad this is here, but man could it use work.  
(Version 4.0)

JAMESKITTY  Love it! Adobe's answer to Apple "threatening" Photoshop with Aperture is to threaten iWeb?  
(Version 4.0)

JAMESKITTY  so what you are saying is that USERS don't have useful feedback for your application and/or processes, only other DEVELOPERS do.

You might want to consider the difference between developer-centric application development and user-centric application development.

Maybe then you might understand how serious of a problem you're lack of interface design is.

And for the record, I've did QA & escalation support for the top PROFESSIONAL software development companies on the mac platform for nearly ten years. As a now freelance consultant, your application could potentially be of use to me in billing clients; however, with it's current interface it's all but unusable so I'm sticking with Accounts, instead.  
(Version 1.60)

JAMESKITTY  pretty, but pretty functionless. you enter something into the search box then it sends you to the myspace search page. woohoo, it's like a little blue bookmark for myspace's search page.

what would really be helpful is if it could process the results. myspace's search is fairly crippled, but if you had a widget that did multiple searches and then cross referenced the results for you...

for example, i am looking for my friend danielle, who is 30-35, living in portland, female and 5'6". you can't search by those criteria in myspace's current search engines, but if you had a program that captured myspaces results from the two separate searches (search for people named danielle, X miles from a portland zip & a second search to display all women in portland between the ages of 30-35 that are 5'6") and compared them to show only the results that showed up in both sections... THAT would be useful.

but then, if you can send search queries to myspace... is it accepting outside POST requests? assuming that both searches above both query the same database, could you build custom queries that bypass their fucked up search logic criteria in the first place? maybe send ONE query with all the criteria listed above?

either way. should display the search results inside the widget.  
(Version 1.1)

JAMESKITTY  you know, being that their posting a .01 build every other day, you have to wonder if they are doing any testing at all.

personally, i'd much rather download a STABLE application once and have it work. i could understand major patches being rushed out, but series of small fixes should be rolled into one build that can be adequately tested.

if you are going to charge professional development prices, you need to meet professional development standards.  
(Version 1.60)

JAMESKITTY  handbrake is wonderful, but it needs improvement in 3 areas:

1. h264 is a third as fast as mpeg-4. i realize this is probably codec related, but seriously, i get ~65 fps with mpeg-4, and ~22 fps with h264.

2. metadata input. can't we have some sort of AtomicParsley ui built in? it's so 20th century to have to rip, then tag in a separate application.

3. universal preferences. i hate having to set the same settings over and over. i want to set my defaults and have them applied unless *i* change them.

and why a LITE version now? do you really have that much time on your hands that you needed to create a second version? why not just a preset?  
(Version 0.7.1)

JAMESKITTY  um... so, what does it do?  
(Version 2.0rc1)

JAMESKITTY  wow, this interface could sincerely use de-obstusifiscation.   
(Version 1.51)

JAMESKITTY  if i understand it, this puts an icon in the doc that will:

1. turn bluetooth on

2. launch isync and start the sync

3. close isync once the sync is done

4. turn bluetooth off

??

seems like a lot of trouble to go through to make this into an application, since bluetooth already lives in my menubar with off/on functionality, and isync is in my dock.

but hey, if you had fun doing it....   
(Version 0.5)

JAMESKITTY  gosh thanks adobe for this experimental player, with no real indication as to what's new. so it's like a player for a application platform that doesn't, like, exist yet? and heck for kicks, it still doesn't even run on the very real intel platform that DOES.

cool.  
(Version 9.0.16)

JAMESKITTY  they fubar'd the link. see:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3399  
(Version 4.0.3)

JAMESKITTY  oh. SIMBL.

nevermind, then. i don't mess with third-party inputmanagers on my system. i'll stick with my simple script to ftp calendars to my phpicalendar site.   
(Version 0.1)

JAMESKITTY  so what does this upload exactly? ics? html?

i'd think that would be kinda important to know, right?  
(Version 0.1)

JAMESKITTY  This widget is useless even by widget standards. It has no internal database, you type in a search string and it hurls to a browser to search a website.

and the website doesn't know "woot" ( http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/acronym.php?WOOT ).

and i doubt apple would be pleased with their unauthorized use of the iChat icon.

So let's review:

1. Functionless

2. Incomplete

3. Stolen

awesome!  
(Version 1.0)

JAMESKITTY  not the only option. most incremental backup utilities have archival options. i use synk 4.1 for exactly that.  
(Version 6.1.130)

JAMESKITTY  Seems to lack the ability to add a calendar to the list to be uploaded.... could this be a 10.4.x compatibility issue?

I guess it's a bad sign when the product isn't even listed on the developer's website. The price is a bit steep, as well.  
(Version 1.1)

JAMESKITTY  wow. i thought this app was dead.  
(Version 2.1)

JAMESKITTY  well any utility isn't going to be able to report the sizes of files you don't have permission to view...

BUT, if you boot off an external drive, set the internal drive to "ignore permissions" (do a get info, it's a check box at the bottom), then it *should* report all the sizes.  
(Version 10.2.6)

JAMESKITTY  If they've really fixed switching tabs within the message window i'll be a lot happier with Metal Adium (this bug didn't exist in the main adium).

But I still don't understand why this is a separate dev project. Couldn't you accomplish the same thing with a theme for adium?

seems like a waste of dev resources  
(Version 0.89c)

JAMESKITTY  actually font explorer does have auto-activation plugins.   
(Version 1.0)

JAMESKITTY  system requirements posted: 10.4.2. last i checked that wasn't panther.  
(Version 2.0.1/1.3.2)

JAMESKITTY  um.... why not just change the port your smtp server is using?

my mail server recognizes port 26 as well as port 25. port 587 is also popular. ISP send mail blocking is usually nothing any more sophisticated than just blocking port 25.  
(Version 1.0)