JOELLEVIN  $40? ugh....  
(Version 1.0)

JOELLEVIN  Please please please make a new application icon. The current one hurts my sanity.  
(Version 4.0.3846)

JOELLEVIN  It was a mistake, sorry about that. The release as of today (1.1.1) is a universal binary, and all future 10.5-compatible releases will also be universal binaries.  
(Version 1.1.1)

JOELLEVIN  Version 2.0 and above of this app is excellent. The interface is great, and I use it exclusively to keep Sparkle appcasts up-to-date. I highly recommend this app to anyone who gets tired of writing RSS feeds by hand, ever.  
(Version 2.0.1)

JOELLEVIN  This application is really fantastic for learning music. I play guitar, and being able to slow down a song while trying to learn it is a really massively useful resource. I highly recommend this application to any muscians out there who don't want to look up tabs to learn a song.  
(Version 1.0)

JOELLEVIN  Espresso has surprised me. I was initially largely unimpressed with it, as it seems to not have a lot of actual features. Coming from developing with Coda, it felt nearly useless.

However, I recently built a website exclusively with Espresso (as a good test of the software) and it was a pleasure. It doesn't have a ton of features, but it also does a good job of staying out of your way. Also, the merging features are really fantastic. It's almost like having a very unintrusive and clean SCM for development and publishing.

It leaves a little to be desired, but considering that it hasn't yet had a major update yet, I'd say it's pretty damn useful as it is. I look forward to using it for future web development.  
(Version 1.0.1)

JOELLEVIN  Needs an iPhone app! :)  
(Version 0.9.5)

JOELLEVIN  Good luck when Snow Leopard comes out...  
(Version Update 3)

JOELLEVIN  Stop releasing a new version of this every day... spend some solid time building a good app with lots of useful features instead of releasing an entirely new version every time you add a single button... it makes it annoying for people who want to use this but have to download a new version daily.  
(Version 5.3)

JOELLEVIN  $20? Are you kidding me? Why not just open the terminal do it by hand, it's just as fast and free. Or, what about going to whois.org and doing their free domain lookup? I was about to download this, but the fact that it's $20 is a huge turnoff... if I really wanted a GUI app equivalent to this, I would just write one for myself for free in 10 minutes.

Give us some powerful features not available elsewhere if you're looking for $20.  
(Version 1.0)

JOELLEVIN  In my experience, tar + bz2 is MUCH smaller resulting file sizes than tar + gz... just my two cents.  
(Version 1.0)

JOELLEVIN  Versions has been fantastic since the betas. I currently use it to manage 6 subversion repositories, and I would never dream of going back to the command-line way of doing things. The interface is well thought out and intuitive, it is very stable, and the app plays nicely with workflows.

Compared to other applications:

SmartSVN - yeah, SmartSVN is decent, but it's a java app and immediately loses to the native Cocoa app in terms of interface and ease-of-use.

SvnX - this app is awkward to use (interface again).

Cornerstone - I have a lot of hope for the future of Cornerstone, as I consider it to be the only real competition Versions has. But right now, Version's timeline view and general simplicity makes it a better app for the developer that wants to spend as little time mucking about with svn as possible.

When it comes down to it, all GUI subversion clients are going to perform the same basic tasks and it really just becomes a competition of who can make the whole thing a nicer experience for the user. Versions is an excellent example of how to do that.  
(Version 1.0)

JOELLEVIN  I was attempting to make the point that it isn't a huge part of any application and could be implemented quickly compared to the rest of the app. I have written many of these systems before and it really isn't worth the trouble without a solid way to prevent piracy (aka a legal team). There is a thriving OS X cracking community, and this certainly won't stop them. I am interested in ways to make cracking and serial number piracy harder to pull off, but I have yet to see a solution that I actually believe could work.  
(Version 1.0)

JOELLEVIN  Interesting, but what happens when someone cracks the application to get around talking to the framework at all, or even tweaks it to treat any result from the mysql server as an ok serial? This isn't really any more secure than just checking against a local blacklist (one that doesn't cost $200 to implement). Speaking of which, it isn't terribly hard to implement the functionality provided by KOcrack in a day or two...  
(Version 1.0)

JOELLEVIN  Very cool app, nicely done. Might end up buying this one.  
(Version 1.0)

JOELLEVIN  Holy crap, you need to make your website not look like it's straight out of the wayback machine...

Really? PPC only? In this day and age?  
(Version 3.1.7)

JOELLEVIN  Hello, this is a known issue - I'm working to figure out a fix for this. Thanks :)  
(Version 1.3)

JOELLEVIN  Oh, this isn't my product, I was just trying to shed some light on to why you may have gotten confused when trying to use it as an FTP client. :)  
(Version 4.8)

JOELLEVIN  That's because this isn't an FTP *client*, it's an FTP *server*. They are totally different things, and both have a hugely different set of setup options and what not.  
(Version 4.8)

JOELLEVIN  So I've done a bit of research on this topic, and I believe you are correct - darker screens require less power to display, simple as that. My only comment is that I'm not sure that the consumption level change will be big enough to make a practical difference, but there will definitely be one. Good thinking, I hadn't actually thought about if power consumption would change.

- Joel  
(Version 1.3)

JOELLEVIN  Hello,

The mouse pointer not being covered is a bit of an issue currently - but a known one at that. I'm looking into how to fix that. As to your question about if this reduces power usage, unfortunately it doesn't. It is physically impossible to dim a monitor below its lowest native dimness setting (which I'm pretty sure is what the apple brightness controls let you do). ScreenShade works by overlaying and managing a semi-transparent black window over your monitor (or monitors) that effectively dims the screen further.

If you have any more questions, don't be afraid to email me at info@trutwo.com, or chat me up on aim at trutwosw.

Hope this helps answer your questions.  
(Version 1.3)

JOELLEVIN  Just as a note:

It appears the option-plus and option-minus keys are backwards. In my rush to get 1.2 out late last night I messed that up. It will be fixed in 1.3. What are some other features you want to see in 1.3? So far I have localization on the table and that's about it. Tell me how I can make ScreenShade better!  
(Version 1.2)

JOELLEVIN  There is a couple ways to avoid this bug:

Firstly, it is caused by going into Spaces.app (as opposed to switching spaces with control and a number).

Secondly, to avoid it making you restart your computer, just hit f11 and screenshade will move out of the way allowing you to quit it from the menu item. That, or use the command-option-f12 hotkey that was added to 1.1

I am investigating a fix and will post 1.2 very shortly  
(Version 1.1)

JOELLEVIN  The name of this app sort of convinces me not to download it.  
(Version 0.7)

JOELLEVIN  Intel machines are way faster than any g4 you can come by, so there's something wrong with that statement.  
(Version 2.2)

JOELLEVIN  screenshot was enough to scare me away.  
(Version 1.0)