MAULRAT  @Davidsan: Thats what I'm doing right now ... unfortunately this is probably going to take weeks to do because I have upwards of 100,000+ custom icons ... I'm just using the Zap Resource Fork script to wipe them out ... the issue is with the folder icons (as opposed to .icn files) I have to recreate each and every one of them ... yuk ... on the plus side though it seems to be freeing up tons of space ... 100 GB so far ... thanks.  
(Version 10.6.2)

MAULRAT  @umaroc: yep that was one of the first utilities I tried

@misha: yes, I deleted those prefs a few times in the past but it didnt help. :( I no longer have apple care either.

@richard hallas: we are definitely in the same boat ... a restart is just a quick cure but it doesnt seem to last long ... and the icon distortion is just so random that its hard to to pin down what the cause may be ... sometimes its just custom icons, sometimes it blurs out dock icons, sometimes (but rarely) it will happen inside an application. The app that it happens the most in with me is Automator, when I first open it and the window prompt asks me to "choose a template for your workflow" a majority of the times the service icon and the Image Capature Plug-In icons are pixelated/blurry/distorted (pick your favorite phrase) .... I also get the disappearing icon trick as well, once again mostly a random issue but a pain none the less.  
(Version 10.6.2)

MAULRAT  Does anyone else here get the blurry/pixelated icon issue? For myself its been a nightmare ever since 10.6.0 ... in fact I went back to 10.5.8 until today because I had thought 10.6.2 would resolve the issue but it hasn't. I don't know what the underlying problem is and neither do any others that have been discussing this issue over at Apple's support forums. I know this probably sounds like a nothing issue for most but with the amount of custom icons I create everyday its been quite a pain having to reboot anywhere from 10 - 20 times per day since that seems to be the only cure once icons go into "corrupt mode".   
(Version 10.6.2)

MAULRAT  This should be the default theme ... period. I was "awakened" as to how much I like this theme when I installed 10.6 and it reverted back to the system's default theme, yuck (sorry to use overly technical words here) ... was glad to find the alpha versions shortly afterwards ... glad to see its in beta now.  
(Version 3.0B1)

MAULRAT  I really do like this program and I use it quite often ... that being said, I'm still using version 1 (1.0.5 to be exact) because the output from version 2 has (and still is) always been blurry to me compared to version 1 ... I don't understand why the image should be blurred when these "filters" are basically edge filters ... I believe this problem was supposed to be fixed in earlier versions but I'm just not seeing it.If the dev reads these feedbacks and is interested I'd be glad to provide some side by side comparisons.  
(Version 2.1.8)

MAULRAT  To the developer: Thanks very much for adding the higher bit rate selection for the audio ... bravo!

I don't know if anyone else has this issue but when the program upgrades through its interface on startup it shuts down after it upgrades but it doesn't restart as I would expect it to like many other programs do ... its really not a big deal to restart the program manually but it would be a "niceity" if it rebooted on its own. Like I said, really no biggie.  
(Version 2.0.6)

MAULRAT  oh my word, the screenshot was so scary that I couldn't download it :)  
(Version 1.3.3)

MAULRAT  Two things I would like to see added to this already great program.

1. A "Stitch Videos Together" feature, which is one that I sorely miss from Visual Hub .... unless its there and I've overlooked it somehow.

2. A boost in the audio quality for 5.1 audio ... currently the highest bitrate allowed it 256kbps ... when it really needs to be 384kbps (with 320 kbps as an option)  
(Version 2.0.5)

MAULRAT  This is easily the best of all the myriad of video converters that I've used for the Mac ... where the others such as Handbrake, ffmpegX, SimpleMovie, Road Movie, iSquint, and the now defunct Visual Hub came up short in various areas (namely the ability to convert mkv's) this one was able to do it for me AND at roughly 15 times the speed to boot. Where do I get 15X the speed from? Because of the three 720p 1280x528 movies I previously converted in Visual Hub took 15 hours whereas it took just an hour in iVideo Converter.

Why not 5 stars (I would give it 4 1/2 if it was possible)? The audio conversion has been muddy sounding at best ... thankfully this program has the audio passthrough option. But this defeats the purpose if you want to convert the audio track. I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem but I certainly have even when I've converted a movie's audio source from simple stereo (L R) to stereo (L R). The high end seems to be stripped in the conversion for some odd reason. If not for this anomaly I would easily have given this 5 stars.  
(Version 1.3.5)

MAULRAT  I love all the new options that are available ... like the addition of meta tagging, the option to keep the surround track, the brightness/contrast/saturation sliders, the additional deinterlace options, the ability to preview a small portion of the movie and such but its still very buggy at the moment ... plus I havent been able to successfully convert any files yet (I tried a couple of avi's and mkv's) hopefully this will be addressed in future updates.   
(Version 1.2)

MAULRAT  I was just going to record (screen cap) what I was talking about with the skipping and the auto updater updated to 1.1.1 which said it addressed the skipping problem ... and that did the trick ...THANKS!  
(Version 1.1.1)

MAULRAT  With the 1.1 update I'm now experiencing songs skipping ... that is when a song goes to play it plays the first 5 seconds then suddenly skips to the next song. The odd part is that it happens on every other track. Example: Track 1 plays normally Track 2 plays 5 seconds then skips to Track 3, Track 3 plays normal then Track 4 plays 5 seconds then skips to Track 5 ... repeat etc etc etc. This may be related to the new gapless feature (but thats my own speculation).  
(Version 1.1)

MAULRAT  Odd how "Barton Fink" here has rated/reviewed ONLY Jalada programs and has given them all 5-star reviews that tend to read more like advertisements than honest to goodness reviews ... I'm smelling me some fakery goin' on in these here woods ... and thats not a good practice devs.  
(Version 1.3.3)

MAULRAT  I agree, they have an air of "infomercial testimonial" to them.  
(Version 1.4)

MAULRAT  all this time I had that "filter" pane closed ... I had no idea.

thanks  
(Version 1.52)

MAULRAT  One thing I'd like to see added is a search function in both the main window and then the files menu in the inspector. Reason being is because of the crazy amount of torrents (and files within the torrents) that I work with .... it would really beat scrolling through lists of hundreds of torrents or files to find what I'm looking for sometimes.

Just wanted to add that. Still by far my favorite torrent program! The only one I use anymore.  
(Version 1.52)

MAULRAT  Absolutely love this program. Couldn't live without it for my icon development/conversions. Well, I could but this little prog simplifies the process.  
(Version 1.0)

MAULRAT  I really like this little menu app for what it is. This is something that I always thought should be available from the Airport menu.  
(Version 3.2)

MAULRAT  I really liked Azureus at one point in the past, despite its former ugly UI, but then Vuze came along and its been all unnecessary bloat ever since. I give it an extra star only for its tweakability.   
(Version 4.0)

MAULRAT  I have to agree with Zangief ... the smallest drive I have is a 500GB external .... cant see myself partitioning a drive just to test a demo .... how sbout a time limit instead?  
(Version 1.6.6)

MAULRAT  I love this program ... runs 24/7 on my ol' PPC and doesn't slow my machine down to a crawl like Azureus did.  
(Version 1.10)

MAULRAT  there are a plethora of programs and browser add-ons that do this for free these days. sorry guys but youre trying to profit in an area that just isnt profitable. On a side note, I have jars of air for sale.  
(Version 1.1.6)

MAULRAT  this used to be my torrent app of choice as well ... but I made the permanent switch to Transmission because Azureus has become so bloated  
(Version 3.0.5)

MAULRAT  Visual Hub? 2 different programs. 1 converts and the other rips. Not comparable. Perhaps you mean Mac The Ripper?  
(Version 0.9.2)

MAULRAT  It amuses me when people don't know what the phrase comparing apples and oranges means but use it anyways.

Still, this is almost AlphaOmega worthy ... paying for something that can be done fairly easily or is supplied for free by a plethora of other programs/add-ons.

Still waiting for AO's "Computer Is On" program.  
(Version 1.0.9)

MAULRAT  could be an intel issue I suppose ... I'm on a Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 using 10.4.10 (4.5 GB ram).  
(Version 1.4.7)

MAULRAT  never personally had a problem with a mem leak here ... its been constant at 20MB (22.6 to be precise) for months and months with no change with this version. guess I'm lucky?   
(Version 1.4.7)

MAULRAT  Even though the update CLAIMS to have fixed the radar issue .... it hasnt on my end ... I'm still seeing the same radar animation now (9:44pm on 8/22/07) as I was seeing at 6am this morning ... I'm happily sticking with The Weather Channels superior radar widget.  
(Version 1.0.2)

MAULRAT  who the heck is supporting alphaomega that it continues to exist? this company is the joke of the mac software community. whats next in development ... a $20 program that tells you that your computer is turned on?

i dont get why macupdate and version tracker continue to post these updates  
(Version 4.1)

MAULRAT  Just wanted to add that I'm having the same Keybord/Joystick issues as Mr. Ash and Scatterbraine. I don't think this is a random issue as my same setup (Logitech RumblePad/USB Overdrive X) worked just fine with the last version of MacMAME I was using, which was 97 (yea, I hadnt upgraded in a while!).  
(Version 0.103u2)