MARK_CAIRNS  ^^What he said.

Very poor show, Roxio.  
(Version 10.0.4)

MARK_CAIRNS  Another brilliant update. Have used it for years and years. Very useful resource.  
(Version 5.0.10)

MARK_CAIRNS  Still a bit clunky but easier than using the on-line system  
(Version 7.5.2)

MARK_CAIRNS  Works fine for me on iPhone 3G.

I miss not having a camera like on the MacBook but for international calls Skype to Skype anywhere on the iPhone, I can't complain.  
(Version 1.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  Following on from my 3-star hatred rating of 5.5.0 below, I'm awarding this update 5-stars again. All the problems with the initial release have now been fixed (I've been given their Beta for the past few weeks before this full release) and I'm a happy camper again.

Big thanks to Scott and his colleagues for all their help over the past month. You deserve it. A++  
(Version 5.5.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  ...or just ask the person sending you the E-mail to NOT save the E-mail as RTF (which is how the conflict of windat is created in the first place. Ask them to save the Text as "TEXT" or "DOC" and that'll sort the problem.  
(Version 2.0)

MARK_CAIRNS  I've been using Fetch for over 12 years, and I'm dismayed by how unstable v5.5 is.

Any existing (pre 5.5) Fetch shortcuts crash the software on opening. I've had to go back and start again and create new shortcuts for all my managed websites (a big job).  
(Version 5.5)

MARK_CAIRNS  Aren't I lucky that I still have the "Classic" Xoundset from the old days.

The new "default" Xoundset are just a complete abortion. Unsanity, if you're listening... GUY'S YOU NEED TO GIVE EVERYONE ACCESS TO THE PLEASANT ORIGINAL "CLASSIC" SET!!!!!!!

Hope you heard that shouting?  
(Version 2.5b2)

MARK_CAIRNS  So when oh when will Unsanity start devoting resources to this must-have application again?

The Adobe CS3 bug (Illustrator menus etc. with the sticky menus and the mouse pointer) in Tiger OSX 10.4.11 made this unusable and I had to begrudingly uninstall it. To say I miss it from my workflow would be an understatement.

The 1.48 beta is just a joke.

The implementation on Leopard OSX 10.56 is also incredibly buggy and I'm absolutely dying here without, especially with the industry software like Quark and CS3 being used every day.  
(Version 1.4.3)

MARK_CAIRNS  With this version 7.03, the Inspector palette no longer works / shows up in Tiger 10.4.11, so very hard to edit anything compared to the previous version. Poor Apple!  
(Version 7.0.3)

MARK_CAIRNS  I got exactly the same problem on Tiger 10.4.11  
(Version 2.1.4)

MARK_CAIRNS  AVCHD .mts files should be a matter of urgency as Perian's next codec to add. Lots of cameras now out with the format from Sony, Panny and Canon and it's a nightmare to work with for FCP 6.05  
(Version 1.1.3)

MARK_CAIRNS  And *why* would you want to go back to the Windows XP look of Firefox 2 anyway? Geez, get a PC and be done with it.

Firefox 3.02+ - 3.07 runs great for me.  
(Version 3.0.7)

MARK_CAIRNS  You really *are* bad, Dad!

Superb tip. Wuv you! ;D  
(Version 2.0.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  It really is still the most gorgeous of the Mac browsers. The tab system out to the left, and the Favourites dock (with your links and their relevant .ico file beside) at the top is by far the most elegant solution to any of the browsers.

Only prob I've ever had with it is with HOTMAIL, but Firefox 3 sorts that out. Apart from that 90% of my daily web usage is (was) as a paying customer of OmniWeb.

I also hope others now try it. I just never bothered with Safari after version 3 came out due to Omniweb.  
(Version 5.9)

MARK_CAIRNS  The original and the best. Far more control than the built-in Shadow facility in Quark 7.  
(Version 3.3)

MARK_CAIRNS  I honestly think Alan should change his Surname from GLENN to WHEN.

There's yet another year between my posts Alan, and still no native SndSampler... !?

Well after using your software (and upgrading each time), I'm waiting for you no longer... from today I bid you farewell as I've just found Rogue Amoeba's absolutely outstanding 'FISSION', which really makes SndSampler look soooooo antiquated.

You had your chance. Adios.  
(Version 6.1.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  Yayyy, finally an update.

Looking forward to testing it further. Keyboard shortcuts are welcome.  
(Version 0.1.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  I would agree. Does anybody really even use it any more? VLC Player and/or Quicktime Player are really all that most would need.

The RealPlayer Downloader is quite good though as it automatically downloads the YouTube (or whatever) video stream you're currently watching in the background, so that's the only thing keeping it on my Macs.  
(Version 11.0.1 build 949)

MARK_CAIRNS  The new Drive Genius 2 just kills the old hoary reliable DW stone dead (Norton & TechTool Pro were toast years ago). Drive Genius is the new king, period.  
(Version 4.1.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  Thanks Unsanity.

Glad the annoying Firefox 3 bug was sorted. Now if you'd just address Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 that would be awesome.  
(Version 4.2)

MARK_CAIRNS  Still cannot understand why Joel gives this away for free.

Apart from Disk Utility, Onyx is *all* I ever need to solve any Mac-related probs any more. Haven't needed Disk Warrior or TechTool for over 3 years now.  
(Version 1.9.8)

MARK_CAIRNS  "Silliness"? what? huh?

Any chance of Unsanity getting off the drugs and onto some Red Bull by speaking plain English for the rest of us bought-and-paid-for MenuMaster users to understand what is actually fixed or improved instead of talking this nonsense.  
(Version 1.4.3b4)

MARK_CAIRNS  Installed 12.12 to find that Entourage no longer opens and crashes on launch. Word is the only one that works fine out of the main four.

Pulled Office 2004 out of the trash and back to using it again.

Poor MS! Poor.  
(Version 12.1.2)

MARK_CAIRNS  3.7beta5 works a treat for me.

As Unsanity haven't listed the changes for the last couple of Betas over the past week or so as yet, here they are:

Version 3.7b5 (August 6th, 2008)

- Note: The price of FruitMenu has increased from $10 to $12.

- Maybe sped up application launch a little. Please email us if you notice any problems with icons displaying in the FruitMenu enhanced Apple menu.

- Includes APE 2.5b2.

Version 3.7b4 (July 30th, 2008)

- Note: The price of FruitMenu has increased from $10 to $12.

- In removing deprecated API calls, accidently stopped resolving aliases in the FruitMenu Items folder (it'd resolve the alias, then ignore the result). This has been fixed. Sadly, this also means there may be a significant increase in application launch speed if you have a large hotkey prescan setting.

- You can tell the how long the scanning of FruitMenu Items takes by looking in the console (/Application/Utilities/Console) and looking at the line below "CreateMenuItem: FruitMenuItems"

Version 3.7b3 (July 28th, 2008)

- Note: The price of FruitMenu has increased from $10 to $12.

- Removed all references to QuickTime. Now uses the superior ImageIO functionality to work with images. This has an unintended side effect of decreasing FruitMenu's load time at application launch.

- Removed a lot of deprecated APIs and replaced them with modern, non-deprecated versions.

- Removed some calls to the private CPS (CoreProcesses) APIs when there was a public replacement (many CPS functions still lack a replacement in 10.5.x).

- Changed the gather option to choose a folder name based on the current user's locale settings.

- Added some spin locks.

- Significantly reduced application launch time by only loading preference panes on demand.  
(Version 3.7b5)

MARK_CAIRNS  Use VLC player and you'll be able to see your MP4 content! It has pretty much replaced Quicktime Player for me.  
(Version 7.5)

MARK_CAIRNS  'bout time. Thanks.  
(Version 1.2)

MARK_CAIRNS  Absolutely terrific, modern update to the old Fontographer we all used to use in the early 1990s.

Much more intuitive, easier to navigate, easier to play with... and easier to create OpenType for both Macs and PCs effortlessly. It all just works! I just converted an old problem Type 1 Postscript font I designed way back in the early days and it converted everything in the MacPro instantly, saved it out, dumped it into the management of Linotype Font Explorer and Quark 7 was using it 60 seconds later from start to finish. Awesome! How a Mac application should be.

Now bought and paid for. A steal at $99 bucks. Unless you're a professional typographer you'll only ever need this one if you're in the general design industry. Works faultlessly on Tiger OSX 10.4.11 on MacPro.  
(Version 3.0)

MARK_CAIRNS  I'm losing Menu Shortcut all the time with new Pasteboard XT7.01 Xtension paired with Quark 7.31  
(Version 1.4.3b2)

MARK_CAIRNS  Superb for converting VOB video/audio files directly off DVDs for use in FinalCut etc.

Simply set up your settings to maximum quality and then drag & drop the VOB. It's so simple to use. Couldn't live without it now.

Awesome!  
(Version 1.3.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  FAP2 was slug slow to import... 35 minutes for a 1600 professional Adobe/Bitstream/FF collection.

FAP3 wasn't much different with the exception of faster (to be expected) import. 3 licences & upgrades wasted on both.

I'm laughing at FAP4's so-called new features:

Smart Search -- which I would take it would offer fonts up as you type in the search box... LFE already has it

Smart Classification -- customisable columns of information... LFE already has it.

Smart Sets... LFE already has it

Font sets that dynamically update as users add new fonts... LFE already has it pretty much

Smart Installer... LFE already knows FAP, FontBook or Suitcase is already installed -- deactivates existing type management's stranglehold.

Smart Views... LFE already has it

Smart Store... no explanation to what this is?

Smart Diagnostics... lifted from ATM Deluxe! (i.e. is the font damaged YES/NO). One up to FAP4

Smart Activation... fancy words for Auto Activation/Deactivation and all that it entails. They pretty much all do it now although

With Unsanity's MENU-MASTER I've changed certain keyboard shortcuts to be identical to what I was used to with ATM Deluxe all those years.

I've only a few small annoyances with LFE in that I can lasso fonts the way I used to in OS9 under ATM Deluxe; there's no AutoActivation for FreeHand MX (nor obviously will there be now with a dead product) and Microsoft Office 2004 is temporamental with it (PowerPoint especially) at times, but then who's fault's that... Linotype or M$?

Apart from that, it's superb.  
(Version 4.0)

MARK_CAIRNS  I've been stung twice by FAP, both versions 2 and 3 and really can't see the point of all this "smart"ness that's built into 4.

I'll be sticking with Linotype's Font Explorer, which is as fully featured as FAP but is totally free! It works perfectly with Quark 7 and CS3.

Still nothing touches the simplicity of Adobe's ATM Deluxe 4.6 back in the 1990s.  
(Version 4.0)

MARK_CAIRNS  TO ALAN GLENN the developer:

Alan,

I've been a customer of most your versions since the early days in the mid-1990s; my current version on the MacPro has topped out at v5.94 and even though it's only PPC it still runs well and is a valuable part of my Final Cut Studio set-up.

My point though, like the post below me... why or why in 2008 are you introducing a new full version of your software that's not Universal Binary for Intel Macs... they've now hit critical mass and all us die-hard OS9Forever people (of which I was the absolute last) have *all* now moved on. We're all on OSX now Alan... nobody but nobody (even the Atari guys in music studios) are using OS8.6 / SoundManager-enabled machines any more so why, as an active developer are you still supporting them?

I'll honestly not be justifying upgrading to v6 or any further until you develop a UB build. Snd will just stagnate in what is now an extremely competitive market.  
(Version 6.0.2)

MARK_CAIRNS  2.0.0.10 is the fastest of the Firefox two-zeros so far

But Omniweb is still my No.1 browser with it's drawer tabs and superb Favourites/Bookmarks.  
(Version 2.0.0.10)

MARK_CAIRNS  At least it's stable, but basicallly agree with everything said by POIKKEUS below.

VLC player does most of my playback, as well if not better than Quicktime Player or any other. Quicktime still needs to sort it's AVI, Xvid and all the other flavours of codec before even competing with VLC. Even the Pro version doesn't come close.

Getting there Apple, but you need to get the basics right first.  
(Version 7.3)

MARK_CAIRNS  Absolutely fantastic. Super simple to use (drag & drop) and couldn't live without it now.

No more numpty PC users sending embedded Word docs with graphics.  
(Version 4.8.3)

MARK_CAIRNS  You 've been able to do this since v1.2 and it has worked perfectly ever since.

Every time you do an update you have to reset the resolution of each monitor attached by going into DISPLAYS > SETTINGS > ADVANCED -- picking the resolution from the slider and then the refresh rate otherwise everything will default to an eye-straining 60Hz.

The real updates this time are the addition of the Bootcamp panel in the Control Panels (which is basically a twin of the Startup disk further down the list), and fixing the corrupt garbled video problems on startup introduced with v1.3.

The Apple Software Updates application/panel also works more smoothly than before.  
(Version 1.4b)

MARK_CAIRNS  Yet another update and yet another Bootcamp that doesn't install any decent support for Vista Ultimate... still no Mac keyboard support, still no Startup Disk control panel, still no volume control (due to no Mac keyboard), still no CD eject button (due to no Mac keyboard)... [b]unlike the XP 32-bit version of the drivers[/b] which have worked flawlessly since v1.2.

Why is there this disparity between the drivers for XP and Vista?

On a positive note, v1.4 Bootcamp fixed the corrupt video on startup problems with XP 32-bit that were introduced with v1.3. Only a cold startup would fix it rather than booting out of Tiger into XP. Love the new Bootcamp or Startup disk choice in the XP control panels. Works just like Tiger. Just wish it would work with Vista is all.

Come on Apple - finger out please!  
(Version 1.4b)

MARK_CAIRNS  Geez Joel, you love your updates dude! ;D That's three times I've installed Onyx this week from the 1.81 daily betas to this one.

v1.82 works great. TigerCacheWho? nowadays! :)

Kudos as always.  
(Version 1.8.2)

MARK_CAIRNS  Still the best piece of shareware - EVER!

I've been using it since the early 1990s throughout its evolution and Keith Turner's application is invaluable and the ONLY one out there to have a Boolean-based search system.

Apple take note for OSX10.5 Leopard. It's what you should have been basing OSX10.4 Spotlight on from the very start.

Could do with another update for the Intel Macs and a few interface tweaks for the late noughties but still works really quickly and does the job beautifully.  
(Version 2.7)

MARK_CAIRNS  Well I've hunted high and low for a silent, unassuming piece of software that worked almost identically to Connectix brilliant "Turbokeys" from their OS9-only COPY AGENT software (just waiting on somebody writing an equivalent to their "Smart Replace" in Copy Agent now too).

Works really well, although I'd like it to be easier to assign the Hotkey for the application I want to launch whenever the Application is dragged and dropped onto the canvas. It should be asking for the hotkey combination there and then rather than leave it blank. It is a little clunky to then have to go and double-click on relevant column to enter the key combination. It works perfectly well yes, but could be a little slicker.

It would have been nice if Beniot had seen Turbokeys in the old days.

Anyway, I would give it 4.5/5 at the moment due to the above, but am feeling generous today and *do* realise it's only at v1.1 of its development so can forgive my little quibble. It's stable though (in OSX 10.49 on my Intel MacPro) so I've paid the $15 registration and am very happy with it.  
(Version 1.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  Smooth, reliable upgrade from 1.2b to 1.3b.

Noticed an additional fix with the CONTROL PANEL > START-UP DISK

Even if you picked the OSX partition in 1.2b it always started up in XP. That has been fixed to work like ours now, so it restarts into whatever OS you command.

Only quirk was that it reset my video drivers (caused by the new Radeon drivers) back to 800x600 at 60Hz initially, but 30 seconds of tinkering in the CONTROL > DISPLAY panel fixed that.

Excellent job Apple!  
(Version 1.3b)

MARK_CAIRNS  Absolute superb piece of software! I'm using Linotype Font Explorer X at the mo for all ATM-Deluxe-esque font management and even it's clean caches section doesn't do what FontNuke does.

After the necessary Restart everything works perfectly.

WOW! Kudos.  
(Version 1.1.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  Superb. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

It produces great .VOB files (the native Video files on DVDs) which you'll then need to convert to .MOV or any others you want to work in.

Pair this with EasyWMV which is a brilliant $15 convertor from VOB to *any* video format in a simple, gorgeous interface.

Both of these together are a force to be reckoned with!

Looking forward to version 3.  
(Version 2.6.6)

MARK_CAIRNS  Much better on an Intel MacPro now.

Up to now the game has run better and faster on the PC version than the Mac version (I run both).

Three differences only:

1) The little stubby lights around the maps glow RED or BLUE on the PC version; they're just pale static cyan on the MAC version. Much prettier on the PC.

2) The gun turrets on the PC file three accurate "bullet beams" (a triumvirate) which helps aiming. On the Mac we obviously have that ugly streaming lightning thing going on

3) On the Shees (sharing a similar anomaly to 2) - the wing tips glow orange on the PC when the shee is piloted, they do damn all on the Mac version. Much MUCH prettier on the PC.

Unfortunately even this superb U-B version of Halo hasn't addressed the three points above on the Mac / Intel Mac version... which is a shame.

PC version still wins (booting into XP 32-bit on MacPro) hands down.  
(Version 2.0.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  The screenshots are from the PC version and with all the settings maxxed out that way a new MacPro could handle it (with the Radeon X1900 card anyway). Up to now the game has run better and faster on the PC version than the Mac version (I run both).

Three differences only:

1) The little stubby lights around the maps glow RED or BLUE on the PC version; they're just pale static cyan on the MAC version. Much prettier on the PC.

2) The gun turrets on the PC file three accurate "bullet beams" (a triumvirate) which helps aiming. On the Mac we obviously have that ugly streaming lightning thing going on

3) On the Shees (sharing a similar anomaly to 2) - the wing tips glow orange on the PC when the shee is piloted, they do damn all on the Mac version. Much MUCH prettier on the PC.

Unfortunately even this superb U-B version of Halo hasn't addressed the three points above on the Mac / Intel Mac version... which is a shame.

PC version wins unfortunately.  
(Version 2.0.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  Absolutely fantastic knowledge that always behaves beautifully. Total respect to the developer.  
(Version 4.2)

MARK_CAIRNS  This is a waste of time... All you need is Quicktime Pro upgrade.

Open the Movie file.

Go to SHOW MOVIE PROPERTIES in "Window" menu

Click on VIDEO

Turn off Constrain image

And change your standard 4:3 ratio to 16:9 by typing in monitor resolutions e.g. PAL is 720 x 576... just change that to 1024 x 576 eh voila -- instant uncompressed anamorphic widescreen in its proper aspect ratio with proper black bars for 4:3 sets.  
(Version 0.9.9)

MARK_CAIRNS  Worked fine for me. Noticed no difference. Everything A+  
(Version 1.0)

MARK_CAIRNS  Decent initial release but years too late to market when the mature AMAZING SLOW DOWNER just does it so much more professionally.  
(Version 1.0)

MARK_CAIRNS  Absolutely superb as always. Is rock solid on everything from an old speed-bumped G4 to a new Mac Pro, all running 10.38 at time of writing. Couldn't live without it now.  
(Version 2.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  Complete rubbish. Crashes on opening in OSX10.48

Lots of work for them to do to bring it to Tiger on the Mac.  
(Version 4.27.2)

MARK_CAIRNS  3.0226 just kills my 330 Speedtouch (on OSX10.48). Steer clear and stick with the original revision2 of 3.01 instead. It just works.

Still waiting for the Intel Mac drivers Alcatel/Thompson!!!!!!!

Poor.  
(Version 3.0.2.2.6)

MARK_CAIRNS  Excellent as always, Ian! Just need the current Mac Pro listings and we're laughing.  
(Version 4.1b1)

MARK_CAIRNS  Still waiting for Alcatel to get their finger out and give Intel Mac users the equivalent of their new Intel 64-bit PC drivers.

I've a new Mac Pro with a Mk2 SpeedTouch 330 (the square blue version) that hasn't connected to the Internet yet because of these laggards.

Intel Macs have been out since January 2006...

WE NEED UNIVERSAL BINARY NOW ALCATEL!!!! Wakey Wakey!!  
(Version 3.0.1.2)

MARK_CAIRNS  I have multiple MX1000's and 'Pilot' mice, all OSX10.48.

All work perfectly with no problems. Can't rate it highly enough.  
(Version 2.1.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  I've been using Fetch since version 3 on OS8.

Couldn't live without it for FTP; does what it says on the tin with minimum of fuss; and it's fast on every Mac I've tried it on over the years from an old G3/PowerMac7600 to a new MacPro with the new Intel UB builds.

Wonderful.  
(Version 5.1.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  Up to now we've only really had Font Agent Pro 3 and Suitcase to play with. Always hated the latter; the former was slow but stable although continuing to improve.

And then Linotype came along with this to completely smoke the other two out of the room in one fell swoop.

Simply cannot believe how good this is for version 1.0 software, and now with the many many dozens of fixes and improvements in 1.1 they've got my loyalty down pat. Quark 7 was the holy grail and they've sorted that.

Keep up the great work Linotype!  
(Version 1.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  WOW! I just couldn't understand why my Tiger Macs were all SOOOOOOO SLOWWWWWWWWWWW. 7 minute start-ups, everything like treacle.

Simple... Goodbye FontAgentPro 3! Hello Linotype Font Explorer (not to be confused with Font Explorer!). I feel like the first time I experienced the revelation and revolution of my beloved ATM Deluxe 4.6 during th early 1990s.

Kudos to Linotype for finally realising that ATM Deluxe's hole needed to be filled (nothing rude I may add!), and they've blended a superb iTunesMusicStore-esque font marketing concept with the most professional, high-end Font Management software I've yet seen and experienced on OSX, and double kudos for the most stable v1.01 of software I've ever used. Stable. Feature-filled and fantastc value.. being FREE.

DUMP the bohemoths -- Suitcase XI and FontAgentPro3 people! This is it. At last.  
(Version 1.0.1)

MARK_CAIRNS  The 10th January, 2006 will go down in the history as the day we'll all look back on in 20 years and say "How on (Google)Earth did we ever live without this Killer App" before then?

Three letters summarise:

W. O. W.

I was going to go home from work early last night; I eventually left at midnight after falling into Google Earth.

Marty McFly has just got his DeLorean and take Google Maps from 1955 to 2025.  
(Version 3.1.0527.0)

MARK_CAIRNS  Loved the original QuitCSM control strip for OS9 for many years; this evolution is just on another level. MabaSoft just know how to write these invaluable little applications and the QUIT ALL command in this one is something I couldn't live without; but then he's bundled all those other new features from v1.4 onwards; v1.5 adds some more things from the QuitCSM days but it's even better now. Money well spent!  
(Version 1.5)

MARK_CAIRNS  Awesome. Have been a fan of Xpert Tools since the late 1990s with version 1.11. This adds functionality on top of that again. Some crashes on Quark 4.11 within OS9.22; so there are still some bugs for them to iron out; and ShadowCaster no longer shows in the Xpert CommandPads lists any more thus can't be added. Have ended up mixing it with 1.11 and 2.13 versions to get a full set of functionality.  
(Version 2.1.3)