RAMPANCY  With the apparent death of both Shiira and Demeter, Cruz has stepped up as an excellent alternative WebKit-based browser for OS X (see also Sunrise 2). It's unfortunate that using alternative window styles (e.g. MobileMe and HUD-styled windows) had to be dropped in 10.6 but it's not the developer's fault.   
(Version 0.4)

RAMPANCY  By design, Firefox has never been able to be fully and properly integrated with OS X, and it never will, due to its use of XUL which is necessary for its extensions architecture to work. While Firefox does have its strengths, for a Gecko-based browser that looks, feels, and acts like a proper Mac OS X application, Camino works far better than Firefox.   
(Version 2.0)

RAMPANCY  "A price of $19 would be much better-fitting for an application of this kind."

...and if they priced it at $19, people would complain it was too expensive and demand they priced it at $10. And then people would complain it was too expensive and demand it be priced at $5. Then people would just say "why not make it freeware"?

Good quality Mac software does not just come out of nowhere, nor does it grow on trees.   
(Version 3.0.0.BETA-84)

RAMPANCY  It's with a heavy heart that I write this.

When it comes to donating or paying for shareware apps, I'm far from stingy. I've donated to apps like Butler, Scribblet and D2X-XL, and I paid for apps like Mailplane, Things, or ShoveBox who many would consider overpriced, or not worth paying for.

That said, I am not paying for MainMenu. This app used to be my first app that I'd install over any OS install, or over any Mac I'd receive; it was an app I'd unhesitatingly recommend to anyone as a repair or troubleshooting tool.

If Santa Software had retained ownership of this app, and if the original coder/owner had even added some basic extra functionality like what's offered in Onyx or TinkerTool, or Print Center Repair, I'd be very much inclined to pay the full $20.

The problem is that none of this is the case. Dare to Be Creative clearly hasn't done anything substantial to this product since it acquired it, and $20 is simply not a reasonable price to pay for what little they have done. $9.99 or $5.99 would be a much more reasonable price, or at least a free "lite" version with the core functionality of the original MainMenu with a for-pay "pro" version with added features like those in the apps I listed above.

As it stands now though, this smacks of a blatant cash grab. A shame. Please, please go with Onyx or the many other system maintenance apps out there. It's a shame that this company ruined such a fine and wonderful app.   
(Version 2.0.3)

RAMPANCY  What's truly upsetting about it is that there was almost no accountability on the part of Midnight Apps for the delays. Just, "oh, we didn't expect things would take so long; sorry!" - the fact that their betas had expiration dates made things even worse.

And then they decided to put time, energy and resources into an iPhone port of Cha-Ching. That's nothing less than a slap in the face to all of their customers on the Mac.

Truly, I've seldom seen such irresponsibility on the part of a developer towards their product and their customers. I think they'd do everyone a service if they just discontinued Cha-Ching on the Mac, directed all of their customers to iBank, and focused on their iPhone app, since that's all they seem to care about.   
(Version 2.0b102)

RAMPANCY  Wow. It looks like they actually remembered that they have a Mac OS X version of ChaChing. How considerate of them.

/sarcasm  
(Version 2.0b101)

RAMPANCY  I understand that it was an oversight - thanks so very much for quickly posting a PPC-compatible build of the newest version of SimpleTask. It works perfectly on my Power Mac G4!  
(Version 1.1.1)

RAMPANCY  Their update window for version 1.1 didn't mention that it was going to be Intel-only, and furthermore they took off version 1.0 so any 10.5 PPC users left couldn't use their app. Sad. If I'm going to be left in the lurch and lied to I'm ditching this app and using something else. Other developers came out with 10.6-compatible updates to their apps which were compatible with 10.5 and were universal binaries. Why couldn't they do it?   
(Version 1.1)

RAMPANCY  It's worked solidly for me since the 0.7.x releases, and this is on a MacBook Pro and MacBook with more background hacks, InputManager extensions, SIMBL plugins, and APE modules than you could shake a stick at.

Have you tried contacting the developers and sending them a bug report? Complaining about it "not being well-made" is one thing, but actually trying to work the developers to solve your problems is a much better solution.   
(Version 0.8.2)

RAMPANCY  It is quite harder, as it's easier to misjudge placement of the blocks, and instead of a line, you need to get a full 4x4 block to clear any area of the screen. The blocks also seem to move faster, a lot more sooner, than Quinn, IIRC.

What I want to know is how the hell he could cram this game into 74k of space.   
(Version 1.8)

RAMPANCY  This is actually a pretty neat idea but it actually gets easier as the word length increases - I found the actual fully formed word already appearing among the extraneous letters.

For a true challenge I'd suggest having the word the player is searching for actually being scrambled within the extraneous letters, as opposed to being already in the right order.   
(Version 1.0)

RAMPANCY  Sigh. Are we EVER going to get release notes from Apple about little point updates like this?   
(Version 4.0.1)

RAMPANCY  I really wish I could get some info on future pricing of this app.   
(Version 1.15b)

RAMPANCY  Version 1.3 of Lotus Symphony is here:

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/help.nsf/ReleaseNotes

Hopefully this resolves the issue where it broke after 10.5.6.   
(Version 1.2b)

RAMPANCY  Is this for Leopard only? I followed the standard procedure to install preference panes for Camino, but it won't load up. I'm using 2.0b3 with 10.4.11.   
(Version 1.0)

RAMPANCY  I'm sick of the complaining over Plex being Intel-only. If they can only afford to direct their available resources to Intel-only development, then I'd rather have Plex being an amazing app on Intel versus being a mediocre, buggy app on PPC and Intel. What next, are you going to complain that Apple isn't supporting OS X on your Performa 6400?  
(Version 9.04.1)

RAMPANCY  Looks like they jumped the gun prematurely - according to AppleInsider, Apple sprang a surprise last-minute extra build of 10.5.7 to its developers which no one expected.

Still doesn't explain why they're talking about 10.7, though. :)  
(Version 2.3.3)

RAMPANCY  Why bother? Wyzo took practically 2+ years for their product to reach full feature parity with the Windows version for FireTorrent functionality, and they still don't have a version out for Linux. In the meantime, FoxTorrent has been available for all three versions of Firefox since 2007. You can even already download the FireTorrent extension for Firefox for both Mac and Linux. Many of Wyzo's other features, like mouse gestures and Cooliris, are already available as stand-alone add-ons for Firefox.

Apart from the new theme (which isn't much to write home about anyway) there's almost nothing differentiating it from taking Firefox and adding the requisite extensions and themes to it to match Wyzo's features. At least Flock went to the effort to differentiate itself though a tighter integration with social web services.

It's silly to see them beating their chest about incredible and revolutionary their browser is, when the truth is that they're practically pushing a reskinned Firefox with a mix of free and proprietary extensions pre-added.   
(Version 3.0.1)

RAMPANCY  This app is seriously broken - logins don't work, nor does the location setting service in the preferences window. While I like the Twitterrific-like HUD window, Tototl still just plain doesn't work.   
(Version 1.6.1)

RAMPANCY  Ok, fair enough that the icon that you're using is no longer used by Stainless...did you get explicit permission from the artist to use it?

Also, you're still ripping off Apple's iPhoto icon for the "Create A Project" button at the intro screen.

Stop ripping off other people's icons. You have no excuse. There are plenty of good quality freeware/royalty free icons out there for programmers just starting out like you.   
(Version 0.3)

RAMPANCY  The 0.9.5 messed up all of my existing SSB's; they all wouldn't open, giving me an error message saying something to the effect of "the application is not supported by the architecture on this computer". I'm still staying with my old 0.9.2.4 version.  
(Version 0.9.5)

RAMPANCY  The stickies feature is horribly broken in Notebook 3 - you can't edit stickies once you've set them, and the toolbar item for summoning stickies doesn't even work! You also can't easily delete stickies with a key combo - you have to drag them off your notebook like a dock item, and even that doesn't work half the time. This makes this touted feature in v3 useless to me.

Oh yes. I also can't right-click on the toolbar to edit it.

IMHO, people still on v2 should hold off upgrading until this very broken feature is fixed.   
(Version 3.0v340)

RAMPANCY  Sparkle updating is broken - I tried to do an update via Sparkle from both 2.7 and 2.6.6 (both on separate computers) and they both reported that I was at the latest version and that no new updates were available.   
(Version 2.7.3)

RAMPANCY  I guess April 1st came a little early?

I can see this being a great (albeit nasty) prank app. Loaded it up into your unsuspecting victim's login items. Watch hilarity ensue as your victim goes apoplectic over his/her Mac going nuts. (It'd likely eventually cause some serious corruption on their hard drive as they repeatedly force their Mac through hard reboot after hard reboot.)  
(Version 1.0)

RAMPANCY  While I still find Plaxo's web interface somewhat clunky, I find that the client-side software for Plaxo works well on both 10.5 and 10.4. Thanks for your efforts in supporting the Mac and Mac users - they are well appreciated.   
(Version 3.12 v839)

RAMPANCY  A great app, and a great concept - pity it only seems to recognize American cities on Craigslist...(I live in Canada!)  
(Version b1)

RAMPANCY  This was echoed earlier, but if you use their "Standard" account (quite limited but good enough for typical usage by most people) for personal use, the app and the accompanying service are free - otherwise, the service itself is for-pay.   
(Version 2.7)

RAMPANCY  Sadly, this version simply doesn't work on 10.4.11 (on a C2D MacBook 2 GB RAM/2 Ghz).

The main window can't be shown, all of the menus don't work, and bottom half WhatSize's application menu is completely blank (as in no text, just an empty menu).   
(Version 4.3.1)

RAMPANCY  Absolutely one of the most essential apps for my Mac and the first thing I install on every Mac I get. I donated as soon as this newest release was put out - I'm surprised it's still donationware, actually.   
(Version 4.1.6)

RAMPANCY  1.2 crashes on startup for me, while 1.1 worked before. 10.4.11, MacBook Pro C2D 2.16 Ghz/2 GB RAM. I can send a crash log if it might be helpful.

(Disclaimer: I do run APE, and 1.1 did crash until I set APE to exclude Scribblet, whereupon it worked fine afterwards.)  
(Version 1.2)

RAMPANCY  I can now report with delight that I can do searches for terms in texts without crashes. Additionally, MacSword no longer nags me to "upgrade" to 1.2.1b. Finally, I can switch from the aging BibleReader Free back to MacSword.  
(Version 1.3.4)

RAMPANCY  A great browser, made by Mac users, for Mac users. It's a proper UI citizen on the Mac OS, it's fast, and it's a pleasure to use. The developers on the MozillaZine forum for Camino are friendly, prompt and helpful when it comes to help requests, too. Bravo to the developers, for the hard work they've put into making Camino what it is now.   
(Version 1.6)

RAMPANCY  I hope that with this version, MacSword will stop crashing when I try to do a search for terms in scripture...  
(Version 1.3.2)

RAMPANCY  Baseline lacks the nifty radial view that WhatSize now has, but I like the look of their Tree View mode a lot more than GrandPerspective and Disk Inventory X.

Oh yes, and Baseline is much, much faster than any of them.   
(Version 1.1.6)

RAMPANCY  For me, this does what no other application that I know of (shareware or freeware) does: allow you to attach sticky notes to applications - that made it a must-buy for me. This means that I now truly get the reminders and to-dos that I need to see, when I need to see them - they're not constantly in my face, cluttering up my workspace, especially if they're not immediately pertinent to what I'm doing.

Paperclip does something similar, and while I'm sure it's a fine product from a good developer, it attaches its stickies on a per-window/per-document basis, and according to some reviews only allows for one sticky per window/document. That means that for my needs, for now anyway, Sticky Notes is what fits the bill.

I just wish development on this app were more active.   
(Version 1.5b6)

RAMPANCY  I don't understand why people are complaining so hard - Alsoft said we'd get a CD updater to 4.1 for registered users, and we got one. Were people expecting a free MacBook Air to go with it too, or what?

And furthermore, if you're going to give an app a 1-star rating, do it on the merit of the app itself, not the company selling it. You're rating DiskWarrior, not Alsoft.   
(Version 4.1)

RAMPANCY  I'm still getting the occasional AppleScript errors with this, (and I think they stopped when I told it not to parse the Clipboard for URLs) but all in all, this is the perfect "Web 2.0" app for me. It's unobtrusive, and its focus on updating your own status (as opposed to reporting the status of others) is what makes this app a better fit for me than Twiterriffic.

And thankfully, this works a lot better for me than the previous version did.   
(Version 3.1)

RAMPANCY  I'd give my left nut to know what on earth this does.

(Well, metaphorically speaking, anyway.)  
(Version 2008-001)

RAMPANCY  Oops, sorry, I meant to say, I hope you can keep this *Tiger*-Compatible. Sorry - brain freeze, there.  
(Version 0.0.5)

RAMPANCY  I'm really hoping you can keep this Leopard-compatible...  
(Version 0.0.5)

RAMPANCY  For people turned off by the new HUD/bezel interface, the floating window is a substantial improvement. I was surprised with the menu animations but they don't seem to incur that much of a performance hit.

All in all, a very welcome update - I actually prefer the newer HUD-style interface to the older Aqua-based interface.

Hint: If you're feeling l337 enough, option-click the "Settings..." button for some extra preferences (like disabling menu fading, which gives a big performance boost).   
(Version 4.0)

RAMPANCY  FYI, this version expires on Jan. 1, 2008. I hope they keep this Tiger compatible...  
(Version 4.1.4 Transient)

RAMPANCY  Yay! I've been waiting for this release since they revealed details on it on their blog.  
(Version 1.2)

RAMPANCY  And so the spirit of Conflict Catcher lives on... :)  
(Version 1.0)

RAMPANCY  For some reason which I can't understand, this plugin won't appear in Growl's list of display styles, even after a removal and reinstallation of the preference pane.

I'm guessing a .plist or something somewhere is corrupted or isn't working right, but I don't know what it could be.   
(Version 1.2.2)

RAMPANCY  Thank God for Aqua4iTunes. At least I can still pretend that Apple still actually cares about UI consistency and good interface design.   
(Version 3.4b)

RAMPANCY  An absolutely must-have utility; run, don't walk to get this. When I had (ultimately minor) configuration issues with 1.5 during its beta phase the developer always took the time to answer my questions.

I know Alex has worked long and hard on this release, so I congratulate him on finally getting 1.5 shipped.   
(Version 1.5)

RAMPANCY  Good idea...that is, until someone steals your USB key, or until it gets lost or broken. :)

Is there a way the owner could bypass this if he/she needs to ?  
(Version 1.0)

RAMPANCY  So now we know what happened to Caffeinated Cocoa Software's Magrathea...  
(Version 1.0)

RAMPANCY  If all of these people seem to truly hate and revile Thorsten Lemke and GraphicConverter, as much they seem to, my advice is to just stop complaining, and don't use it. GC is an app subject to constructive criticism of course, but the level of complaining here about it is just plain ridiculous.

No one is forcing you to use or even like GraphicConverter. If you don't, use something else. With the level of complaining about this program, Thorsten could be giving away a Mac Pro with GraphicConverter and people would still find something to whine about.   
(Version 6.0)

RAMPANCY  I just got my Bundle upgrade GCX6 license key in the mail a few minutes ago. Thanks both to Lemkesoft and to MacUpdate for their continuing efforts on our behalf.   
(Version 6.0)

RAMPANCY  For those of you complaining about what LemkeSoft did: this is pretty much why the devs of the apps of the bundle agreed to be part of that deal in the first place!

As the classic saying goes, "TANSTASAFFL". If they didn't do this they'd obviously be losing money - hence making shareware development more of a losing proposition for them.

This really isn't new - Delicious Monster and Macromates are both doing this with their products which were with the original MacHeist bundle (the reason why it hasn't happened yet is because of the delay with Leopard).  
(Version 6.0)

RAMPANCY  The best just got better - to me, this is the ultimate version of just what might be the ultimate game.   
(Version 3.5)

RAMPANCY  Utterly worthless - this gives constant AppleScript errors like "defaults[1555] Unexpected argument Documents/; leaving defaults unchanged. (1)" and "Error: Can't read the connectionm data!".   
(Version 0.1)

RAMPANCY  Doesn't work - I get an error message saying I can't open the application because it is "damanged or incomplete".  
(Version 1.0)

RAMPANCY  I still can't download this; both Safari and Camino can't reach the developer's website - is there a mirror anywhere?   
(Version 2.6.1)

RAMPANCY  Trying to open this app (MBP C2D, 10.4.10) gives me the following message:

"Library not loaded: @executable_path/rbframework.dylib

Referenced from: /Users/jancheta/Desktop/CrossWire.app/Contents/MacOS/CrossWire

Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:

/Users/jancheta/Desktop/CrossWire.app/Contents/MacOS/rbframework.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

/Users/jancheta/Desktop/CrossWire.app/Contents/MacOS/rbframework.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture"

Wrong architecture, eh? I guess he has some issues with building universal binary apps.   
(Version 1.0b1)

RAMPANCY  Download doesn't seem to work for me - I've been trying all day, but I keep on getting a "Server Could Not Be Found" error message.  
(Version 2.6)

RAMPANCY  This doesn't seem to work with the latest 3.0.3 release of Smultron. Hopefully we'll see an update?  
(Version 1.1)

RAMPANCY  This doesn't seem to be compatible with the icon replacement patch...  
(Version 3.0.3)

RAMPANCY  I had the exact same problem Migrant had. Until this issue gets resolved I simply can't use or recommend this.  
(Version 1.0.0.155)

RAMPANCY  Same as William Schaff. No go on an MBP C2D, 10.4.9.  
(Version 1.6.7)

RAMPANCY  Edit: My apologies for my mistake, the actual app running on startup which is PPC is Privoxy, not Vidalia.  
(Version 0.1.1.26)

RAMPANCY  A warning: while the Tor package itself is Universal, Vidalia, which also runs as a startup background application (not just the launcher) is still PPC-only.   
(Version 0.1.1.26)

RAMPANCY  Shhhh! Keep quiet! You don't want Apple to know this is still up and force whoever's providing this file to take it down, do you? ;)  
(Version RC1.2)

RAMPANCY  An awesome program that does exactly what I want it to do and what I need it to do - nothing more, nothing less.

Thanks! - the only thing I'd like to see is Address Book integration (allowing for contacts to be linked to items alongside URLs and files...  
(Version 1.6)

RAMPANCY  Great utility. One problem though - on 10.4.8, with NuFile v1.9 installed the "Open With..." selection in contextual menus freezes and crashes the Finder consistently. The usual suspects (repair permissions, reset LaunchServices database) don't work at all.   
(Version 1.9)

RAMPANCY  Thank you, thank you, thank you for imposing some sense of sanity back in iTunes. Pity it won't fix those scroll bars or buttons. God help us all if Leopard looks like that...   
(Version 1.3.1)

RAMPANCY  A really nice utility. I really didn't appreciate how awful Apple's decision to go with a Metal Finder was until I saw how clean and nice everything looks with UNO installed.

Definitely a must-have.  
(Version 1.3)

RAMPANCY  The game works great now! I had to start a new player profile instead of using the default player included.

The only problem is that for me, loading and saving games is broken - when I load a game I get the black transparent walls bug mentioned on the D2X forums.   
(Version 1.6.130)

RAMPANCY  Like the last version, the game crashes when a missile or a laser beam strikes a door.

If one of the devs wants a crash log, I'm happy to send it their way.  
(Version 1.6.122)

RAMPANCY  I'd heard a lot about this when the betas first came out. Bravo to the devs for making this open source...

Good: It's quite fast and doesn't take up any more CPU/Memory than Mozilla. You can hide the menubar and dock icon when it launches to save space and hassle. Very nice.

Not So Good: It's crashed for no reason on me once, and I don't know how to configure the prefs once I've hidden the menubar and dock icon. The hotkey for making the window slide in and out doesn't seem to change when I change it in the preferences dialog - I had to change my spotlight hotkeys as a result because those conflicted with the defaults.

All in all, it's something I might use as my main browser from now on - it's a nice complement to other apps of the same style like sidenote and Xshelf.   
(Version 1.0)

RAMPANCY  I have the same issues here. The scripts don't do anything useful, even though I've followed the instructions to the letter. All they do is just open the Script Editor.

I tried saving the scripts as "Run-Only", but that didn't help at all.

I wish this could work - it's a cool idea and it's something which could work perfectly with Butler. Pity it's unusable.   
(Version 1.5)

RAMPANCY  This is just what I needed for my small Mac network at my home, especially since xAFP doesn't seem to work. Growl support is an especially welcome feature.

I'm wondering if the menu could actually show the name of the computer/user that's sharing with the host computer (in addition to its IP address)...that would be a nice thing to have.   
(Version 1.1)