MRELCEE  I have given up on this app - I appreciate the developer's efforts but he seems to have a lot of difficulty parsing text and matching it to the thetvdb.com's search and XML interface. That is what this app is all about is text parsing.

I don't really intend to slam the author, because he's at least banging out code and trying while I have taken the path of being a software user and no longer develop.. But I think he needs to rethink the design of this app.

I think the trouble comes in with trying to pass command line parameters for shows around from a controller app to helper apps..

Perhaps too much dependence upon third party perl modules that don't work exactly like is needed for parsing - when i was taking CS courses I spent most of a year just learning how to tear text lines apart and parse them for information in Pascal and C usually.

Compared to those two languages, Perl is a breeze for doing text parsing - it's what the language was designed for.

I have been using iFlicks, which is quite incredible at pulling names and season/episode numbers out of file names without having to format them perfectly and remove spurious punctuation. If it does not get a hit, you can manually edit the fields to show name, episode# and season# and let it search again from your input and if thetvdb.com or imdb has it in their databases it finds it and pulls artwork every time.

iDentify is 100% hit or miss, and continues on writing the output file when it cannot find data for a file.. It has trouble with shows that have numbers in the series name.

I truly did want this app to work out and show financial support. But from his comments on his wordpress blog, i feel he's not truly in charge of things and needs to step back and rethink how it should work.

Instead I've purchased an app that has it all together now. But I really wish the author success at pulling this program together.   
(Version 20090905)

MRELCEE  In the spirit of Visualhub, let me just point out you forgot to mention Visualhub. That still works great. :)  
(Version 2.1.5)

MRELCEE  This is a very nice filter to own.

The Aperture version of this (and all other aperture plugins for that matter) will be a lot more useful when the day comes that Apple allows you to run plugins non destructively instead of this malarky with just allowing export filters. Not tiffen's fault of course.

Until then I am going to use the photoshop version and make a round trip through photoshop. At least there I can layer effects and have something I can return to for editing..   
(Version 2.0)

MRELCEE  Pardon me, but "duh"

You are ripping a DVD, and storing it on the hard drive. DVD images files are what we call "large".

Nowhere does it say it is converting to another format.

This app does what it says - and it is indeed true that playing a movie from the hard drive takes less power than spinning the optical drive.   
(Version 1.0b5)

MRELCEE  Platypus rocks - So very useful for putting together tools for both myself and clients of mine. I am astonished he doesn't charge for it..  
(Version 4.0)

MRELCEE  Agreed - it wouldn't take much for them to make a package installer to do this for you.

As a matter of fact, 3-4 minutes if you are familiar with how to do it and 15 minutes tops if it's your first time..

I've done it myself to hand out to non-techie friends..

On the other hand, I'm rather grateful they do a Mac build at all and that the winrar key I bought ~8 years ago still works when i install it in /etc for this version.

That is truly a liberal licensing scheme..  
(Version 3.8b2)

MRELCEE  PEBCAK Error. :)  
(Version 8.4.70)

MRELCEE  This is a very slick idea.   
(Version 0.8.9.1)

MRELCEE  It's funny (to me) I've been using Skitch beta since fairly early on when beta invites were pretty difficult to get. Very rarely do I get an app like this where I am actually looking forward to the developer going to a release version so I can pay them money for it..

This one I am - within minutes of getting the notification that they're selling it, my credit card is coming out. I use this app countless times per day to do quick snaps of designs to post to people I work with or customers for input or snap quick shots of web articles/photos to send to someone via IM.. it is one of those apps that I just won't do without now..  
(Version 1.0b6.1)

MRELCEE  I really want to like this app. But it's just not ready for prime time. I even own a license for it but I'm back to xchat aqua for the foreseeable future..  
(Version 1.2.1)

MRELCEE  i've been considering purchasing netnewswire..

I guess I am confused now - is this a software product I can license or a subscription that I have to pay annually or I revert to a mode with significantly reduced capability?  
(Version 3.1b31)

MRELCEE  At least he didn't call us dirty hippies.

Though, accusing me of going to a sports bar is bad enough.  
(Version 3.0)

MRELCEE  All I want to do is customize my system icons.. Candybar 2.x fit that bill.

While v3 certainly does that, feature creep has priced it way out of the price range I'm comfortable paying.

How about a lite version?  
(Version 3.0)

MRELCEE  I think this is a really neat thing.. but I'm rather dubious about putting tests online for students to take where it actually affects their grade.

If you think about it, they are one tabbed browser instance away from...Google. :)

It seems quite nice for making tests to print out though. I wish our school used Macs, I'd donate this software to my children's teacers..  
(Version 3.6.1)

MRELCEE  I think watching a partially transparent video playing over my work would would trigger ADD, as if I don't get that enough with the reload button on my RSS newsreader..

Now I could watch movies while hitting refresh in Netnewswire.  
(Version 2.1)

MRELCEE  This thing sounds really neat.. and I've recently become "coerced" into transcribing notes from meetings for family member because I know how to work the digital voice recorder they use...  
(Version 1.21)

MRELCEE  1.x is good, I see nothing compelling about the 2.0 release to make me say "WOW this is worth paying again!" This is more like a 1.2 release than 2.0. No Sale.  
(Version 2.0)

MRELCEE  I like the concept of the app - but no sale - devs, if you read this - it could really use some multithreaded routines for scanning folders and generating thumbnails.. I hope some day to check it out again.  
(Version 3.0)

MRELCEE  This reminds me a lot of acdsee back in the 90's on Windows when it was really fast and did one or two things REALLY good.  
(Version 3.0)

MRELCEE  Dang, you guys are kicking maczot's butt lately with good stuff.. My wallet is cowering in fear..

So now I have a toy to play with tuesday to see if I want to buy it..  
(Version 3.0)

MRELCEE  If anyone wants to really know what pushed me over the edge on buying.. I use public ssh keys to ssh between 20 or so machines daily. this keeps me from having to enter passwords every time I want to run a remote command or login. forklift used this key to negotiate a login to my remote account.. If they put that detail into it (which nobody seems to do) they definitely have my attention..  
(Version 1.1)

MRELCEE  I gotta admit, I'm not 100% happy with how the UI is built - two window trays. The file panes would feel a lot better to me if the duplicated the finder look and feel better, including icon view. I do love the tabs support though.

I hate to say it as I get older I am way more visual and recognize icons before text..

I'm still very impressed with the batch rename and bluetooth function - AND the gung ho attitude I see exhibited by the developer(s)..  
(Version 1.1)

MRELCEE  Going to sleep on this one and buy in the morning when I can see my credit card numbers... I am seeing two sets of them right now. :)  
(Version 1.1)

MRELCEE  playing with the app more - It would be really good if it would automatically grab your favorites from the finder sidebar.

a lot of the time, files I am transferring are coming from/going to there..  
(Version 1.1)

MRELCEE  The batch rename feature saved me about 4 hours of tedium last week.. I haven't even looked at the rest of the app yet..  
(Version 1.1)

MRELCEE  I like this app - get good results from it but sometimes I have trouble with how it organizes designs..  
(Version 4.4)

MRELCEE  Hah - I keep telling myself I need one of these apps - and now after I've spent half the night working on a client's project I'm scratching my head - did I start at 6 or 7?  
(Version 4.3.7)

MRELCEE  I'll have to check this out and see how it compares to using the subversion support in xcode..  
(Version 1.2b3)

MRELCEE  Mighty generous of you! :)  
(Version 1.15.3)

MRELCEE  hahahah!

my complaint about my purchased key not working notified me that I just won a free copy while I was posting it.. there's irony..  
(Version 1.15.3)

MRELCEE  Been thinking about buying this.. Now I have.. So far it's anti-climactic:

"The Key is not correct. Make sure you entered it exactly as you received it."

i've cut and pasted, manually typed, tried first name only, first last first plus last with no space, my email address..  
(Version 1.15.3)

MRELCEE  ModOps: they'll just scan the paper and upload it anyway.. Be consistent and curse the scanner and photocoper people too. :)

This app is just a tool. My hammer is just a tool, too. I can do illegal things with both of them.  
(Version 3.4.4)

MRELCEE  They have kind of alienated me with this paid 3.6 update. I'm a relatively new user. Yes I bought it through MacZot. I had been checking the app out for a while but was sitting on the fence over buying it. I did jump on it when it was discounted through the maczot website - then proceeded to buy more stuff from their web store..

I kind of feel like they were wringing the last money they could out of 3.5 before releasing 3.6 and do not really value me as a customer. I've read conflicting upgrade policies - the head guy made a post that anyone within 3 months is covered for a free upgrade then stated in his blog that April 1st is the cutoff and that sadly, maczot sales do not qualify for free upgrades. Only full price purchasers.

Then the icing on top is that shortly after discounting it via maczot, they were actually giving away licenses to Macuser readers.

Fair? I suppose they don't really owe me anything - I got exactly what I paid for - a license for V3.5.1.

That cuts both ways, I don't owe them anything - an upgrade fee or loyalty as a customer and positive word of mouth..

Not a very good customer relations move.   
(Version 3.6)