KAZ219  The good:

– configurable hotkey

– good dictionaries

The bad:

– impossible to get the translation of a link. It will have the same effect as clicking the link. Apple's dictionary can select the word without clicking the link. But maybe this is a private API from Apple.

– Expensive updates in my opinion, considering that the dictionaries aren't changing very much (even if Ultralingua people do say the contrary)

The ugly:

– no cross-dictionary translation: if I hover my mouse over a french word, I'd expect for ultralingua to display all possibilities, in all dictionaries I have, instead of displaying "no match in the english dictionary" and me having to manually choose the french dictionary.

Example: translating "comment" should give me the english and the french meaning (which is totally different) at a glance, without me having to choose the correct dictionary manually. Generally speaking, it should display all translations in the same window. And the user should be able to decide in which order the matches are displayed (first matches in english dictionary, second in english-french dictionary, and so on...). Just like Apple's dictionary does....

– no way to resize this small translation window (the one appearing when pressing the hotkey).  
(Version 7.1.4)

KAZ219  This app needs work. It very often freezes (it doesn't crash though): the spinning beach ball of death, and you can't do anything. This is not that relevevant if it is going on in the background since it always comes back somewhen. It's just annoying when you want to cancel an automatic backup (not enough bandwidth at the moment for example), you have to wait for iDrive to be responsive again.

Another problem in my opinion is the memory usage. Right now, with *no* backup going on, it uses 150MB RAM ("real memory" column in activity monitor) which is quite a lot for a background daemon...

Otherwise it's ok, and still a better (or "less worse") interface than the one from Mozy (where you can't even get rid of the menu bar item – mine is already cluttered, I really don't need another item there.).  
(Version 1.3.4)

KAZ219  Nice benchmarks:

Using a 721MB directory full of text files:

7za (7za a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on) took 11 minutes to produce an 8.3MB archive

BetterZip took 10 minutes to produce a 7.2MB archive (highest compression ratio, no mac-specific files)

I wouldn't recommend the zip highest compression though: 26 minutes to have a 47MB zip archive while the osx utility took one minute to produce a 53MB archive. (Disclaimer: this may be totally different for normal zip compression!)

But since I bought this for removing mac invisible files and p7zip compression, I'm totally satisfied =)  
(Version 1.8)

KAZ219  Fantastic. This update crashed my whole computer. Nice job Apple. Keep up the good work.  
(Version 8.0.2)

KAZ219  Whenever an URL has a high ascii character in it (like "é"), the icon for the website is replaced with a default icon, and pressing enter while this URL is selected has no effect.  
(Version 3.2v58)

KAZ219  I also have this problem. I can't decrypt using the gpg tools frontend, only from the command line, and I too have a non ASCII character in my passphrase. So, it seems to be a bug =(  
(Version 1.2.1)

KAZ219  The link doesn't work since many days. Does somebody has a link for this? Maybe a torrent? (don't know if this is ok to do this, but since it's a freeware...)  
(Version 1.2)

KAZ219  Doesn't for me either. 10.5.3 and Path Finder 4.8.5...  
(Version 1.9)

KAZ219  Is there some smart import rules capabilities? I want to stop using iBank (buggy, buggy and oh, BUGGY), but this one feature from iBank is very nice for CSV import. Saves tons of manual work...  
(Version 2.1)

KAZ219  Still some problems here on 10.4.11 and a G4. On some sites safari starts to eat 100% of the cpu. When I disable SafariBlock everything become normal again.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find out which website which caused this.

I think this app is a great idea though, and I really hope it will work flaslessly in a near future.

As a feature request, I would love to have the possibility of having many subscribtions. Subscribtions for very specific needs, or more localized subscriptions have a nice supplement to the easylist+easyelement subscribtion...  
(Version 2.0r3)

KAZ219  no, it crashes all the time for me too (tiger 10.4.11, PB G4) and I downloaded the version from the developers' site. BTW, now the link from MU link to the right version, so it doesn't matter if you downloaded it from MU or from the developers' site...  
(Version 2.0)

KAZ219  That's not completely true. It's only one way in Plaxo. It can only read your google calendar.  
(Version 1.1.4)

KAZ219  I get "There was an error while evaluating JavaScript for the package." when I try to open the package...

SIMBL 0.8.2 is installed, safari 3.0.4, Tiger 10.4.11 and a PowerBook G4  
(Version 2.8.1)

KAZ219  A bit slow:

almost 9 minutes on a G4 1.3GHz to export 31000 lines in a text file...

AquaDataStudio 4.7 did this for free (same computer, same SQL script) in 2 minutes.  
(Version 1.2.4)

KAZ219  Same here with a PowerBook G4 1,33GHz...  
(Version 1.2b3)

KAZ219  The idea is great, but I'll have to wait a bit (it's still in beta, after all), because batch processing doesn't work for me... too bad.

Something which would be amazing, would be the "applescriptability" of lensfix, in order to make it possible to write an apple script and batch process pictures from inside iPhoto!! Just a thought...  
(Version 4.0b27)

KAZ219  Very nice thing. I have here the only Wireless Network I know that is not Mac-compatible (Ciscos aeronets, with channel hopping). I tried thousands of things, but I always get the same : "there was an error while joining the network blahblah".

So I decide to try this one. At first I was consterned, because my printing was broken (no cupsd daemon anymore), iscroll wouldn't remember its settings anymore, spotlight was also gone (daemon gone, I suppose), and the "Wireless Status" menubar icon wouldn't pop up.

But after 2 other reboots (!), it works like a charm, everything back to normal. I would just recommend not to boot with the USB-Adapter plugged in...  
(Version 1.4.7)

KAZ219  Workaround for the incompatibility with Firefox 2:

- double-click the word (it gets highlighted).

- Press the accio shortcut. (highlight disapears)

- Double-click again the word.

- Press command-C.

The accio window should appear. It works for me at least...  
(Version 1.0)

KAZ219  Workaround for the incompatibility with Firefox 2:

- double-click the word (it gets highlighted).

- Press the accio shortcut. (highlight disapears)

- Double-click again the word.

- Press command-C.

The accio window should appear. It works for me at least...  
(Version 1.0)

KAZ219  Workaround for the incompatibility with Firefox 2:

- double-click the word (it gets highlighted).

- Press the accio shortcut. (highlight disapears)

- Double-click again the word.

- Press command-C.

The accio window should appear. It works for me at least...  
(Version 1.0)

KAZ219  Workaround for the incompatibility with Firefox 2:

- double-click the word (it gets highlighted).

- Press the accio shortcut. (highlight disapears)

- Double-click again the word.

- Press command-C.

The accio window should appear. It works for me at least...  
(Version 1.0)

KAZ219  I've been long waiting for something like this, where you can just press a key combination and you got the translation of the word over which the mouse pointer is.

The dictionary is far from exhaustive, but it is still usefull.

My biggest problem is: it doesn't work anymore with Firefox 2. Firefox 2 seems to have reserved the function key (for absolutely nothing, AFAIK) so accio doesn't work with FF2. I'm waiting for an update of the keyconfig extension for now. ..  
(Version 1.0)

KAZ219  SLOW.... it takes 1 min to FlickrExport to just open the flickrExport window when 88 photos are selected, and I have a 1,33GHz G4.

And it costs one year of flickr subscription.

So, no, thank you.  
(Version 2.0.2)

KAZ219  -> Shoebox uses the "date-modified" EXIF field in jpeg pictures.

-> iPhoto update this field everytime you do anything with the photo (like rotating it), and most other photo-collection software do also.

That's why a lot of dates in shoebox are going to be wrong when you import from iPhoto, or receive photos from friends.

So, my advice to the developper:

Use the "date-taken" EXIF field instead !!!

I paid for this software, and it would be worth the money if this only thing was corrected.

For the moment, I have to use the jhead CLI programm to reset the "date-modified" field, so that shoebox got the dates right, which is pretty fastidious...  
(Version 1.6.1)

KAZ219  bug from the 100th birthday on: it gets duplicated.  
(Version 2.2)

KAZ219  "This SMS cannot be sent, because the following SMS feature is not supported for this destination: Long SMS" on at least 2 different german networks. It was working on Februar 6, I'm sure. Has anybody the same problem ?  
(Version 1.5)