SCRIVENS  Yep, same thing with 10.6.1. Very annoying as it takes a while for the cursor to be restored.  
(Version 2.1.3)

SCRIVENS  And the really nice thing is that it has a little "Show banner" label so you can still see the ads if you want to after you've paid. Some good bargains in there at times. Definitely worth the $10.  
(Version 3.3)

SCRIVENS  I have a Miglia Mini2 and an EyeTV DTT Deluxe and both The Tube and EyeTV - both have good features that are missing in the other, but neither is particularly brilliant on its own. The main problems I have with The Tube are the lack of double-clicking to go to full screen, the very clunky 12 hour EPG update, what appears to be a total failure to work with IceTV EPG in Australia and (huge one) the fact that Closed Captioning (Teletext) also doesn't work at all in Australia. The sidebar menu appears to only be able to be activated/deactivated by selecting a menu choice, not with the usual toolbar icon or popup menu. All these features work in EyeTV - but then it doesn't keep the selected screen size constant when going between normal and HD channels, has various "can't get there from here" traps in its popup menus, doesn't work with the Miglia TVMini2 and so on. I know these apps are generally supplied free with TV sticks, but the cost if you have to buy them is far beyond their actual worth as they are really not particularly good as far as function and Apple UI consistency when it comes down to it. The licensing rigmarole for both is quite ridiculous - one of the points of using a USB TV stick should be the ability to swap it over between a laptop and a desktop and with both these apps this cannot be done without deactivating and reactivating the software - and a lot of stuffing around. Hence the two TV sticks; the cost of the second wasn't much more than the cost of having to buy a second licence for either app to use on the other machine.  
(Version 2.9.4)

SCRIVENS  Doesn't seem to work properly anymore under 10.5.6 - links become inactive on pages followed from the original link, back-tabbing replaces asterisks with letters and the links fail. Shame really as I used this thing dozens of time a day for quick searches and it's the only one there is.  
(Version 0.9.2)

SCRIVENS  Any intention of including known bad peer blocking and encrypted peers only connections? Without those two, yes it is very fast connecting to peers - but a lot of them are ones you really don't want to be using. The lack of protection is curious to say the least.  
(Version 0.9.1b)

SCRIVENS  I wish Apple would lose Cover Flow down the nearest drain; might be OK on an iPod but it's rather pointless in a browser. (And Top Sites as well - Opera's wall does it neater.) Would prefer the tab bar to be in its previous spot too, and without the auto-resizing, as it feels more integrated - the top tabbing reminds me of IE7 which is one of the worst laid-out apps I've used. Seems to be pretty zippy and has a nice clean interface. Unfortunately it causes Mail to crash on downloading new mail on my Mac, even with the single mail add-in (MailFollowUp) removed. 10.5.6 on a 2.66GHz iMac.  
(Version 4.0b1)

SCRIVENS  Same here. No add-ins in Safari and MailFollowup (today's release) and Growl in Mail. Standard 10.5.6 install, nothing weird, on a new iMac.  
(Version 4.0b1)

SCRIVENS  Thanks for the links Eric. I quit out at the agreement screen, so I didn't see what it actually installed. Covertly installing a daemon which runs as root; amazing. Real World calling Planet Google...  
(Version 5.0.11337.1968 )

SCRIVENS  "To continue using Google Earth, you must accept the new Google privacy policies and allow Google Software Update to run in the background on your computer."

I don't think so. Nice app but I don't want Google updating anything without my knowing about it. This company is getting way too big for its boots.  
(Version 5.0.11337.1968 )

SCRIVENS  Aagh! - I meant Pluto, not Pilot!   
(Version 1.0.1)

SCRIVENS  It's not so much case of replacing Word for heavy duty word processing as finding something simpler than Word (overkill but ubiquitous) which can still do the utility side of word processing in a fast and easily managed manner. I opened the Word doc in Word and did a copy & paste into both Briefe and Schreiben then saved the file in Schrieben format and used it to test both apps. The doc is 579 pages - each page is one CD's track listing in table form - so the actual data in the file is quite small but the file size is large and it does give any wp app a pretty good workout. Both Breife and Schrieben take around 25 secs to open the doc and around 20 secs to close and quit. The original Word doc takes around 3 secs in TextEdit and 4 secs in Word to open, all times with the apps closed and timed from selecting "Open" to the file being fully displayed. The good news is that once the doc is opened both apps (Briefe, Schrieben) are very fast indeed in handling the document and lengthy scrolling, searching and global formatting changes are nearly instantaneous. While Word is very fast of course, none of the Open Office variants can do the formatting test in less than around 4 minutes and Bean hangs or crashes. So Briefe and Schrieben are pretty nifty apps, though I think Schrieben has a nicer look to it. I hadn't realized you were responsible for Pilot and quite a few other very nice apps that are on MacUpdate - and your software bundle deal is quite remarkable value. (And to anyone else reading this, use the "More Information" tag to check out the website.)  
(Version 1.0.1)

SCRIVENS  Yes, the conversion engine may be the same and you may guarantee that engine's performance, but if I can't import an existing 570 page Word .doc to see how Briefe handles large files for things like global format changes, search & replace etc then the application itself cannot be tested against it's competition (Mariner Write, Bean, Nisus, Mellel, Pages etc). This is the only wp app I've come across that has not been able to import other formats in unregistered mode.  
(Version 1.0.1)

SCRIVENS  Only works with one format in demo mode so it cannot be checked against Word files. Makes it a bit pointless as a demo as the ability to work with other formats is one of Briefe's main points and this capability claim cannot be tested. Can't test -> Trash.  
(Version 1.0.1)

SCRIVENS  I've tried this and the previous release and I'd rate them as very early Betas at this stage. Importing? CSV doesn't work properly, tab delimited doesn't work at all - and the help pages for import/export come up blank both within the app and from the developer's website. There are many other operational problems with the software; looks promising but needs a lot more work.   
(Version 1.0.1)

SCRIVENS  This is now a browser plugin and basically it sucks big time. The free standing app was neat, had useful sidebars and was generally a slick piece of work albeit with a few minor niggles. The browser is just a mess. It looks like Facebook gone mad, and the aggravating login animation - loud, annoying and persistent - is enough to make anyone cringe. Hard to navigate and the continual streaming of unwanted video while you are searching is also a drag. It was fun while it lasted, but I can't use this anymore.  
(Version 1.0)

SCRIVENS  Adobe reader has been a lumpy, slow and annoying app for years, and on the release of v8 I gave up and found an old copy of v5 on a software distribution disk and reinstalled that. What most people need for pdf files and similar is something akin to Preview with perhaps a few more bells and whistles, not an MS Office style app full of unneeded code. Skim is perfect - fast, small, looks good on screen and has the ability to handle notes and so on as well. It has become an essential part of my daily work, Adobe Reader has been deleted and I've changed the pdf default from Preview to Skim. A very elegant and stable app and potentially one of the great utilities for OSX. My thanks to the developers.  
(Version 1.1.6)

SCRIVENS  File downloaded from the "Download Now" link says it is version 3.1.3 from 6 Feb 08.  
(Version 3.1.5)

SCRIVENS  Nifty; I don't want junk in the dock either and I do use the "Backup Now" option fairly often each day for backing up development directories. Dashboard is active in the LH screen corner, so zip-click from anywhere and that's done. My *nix days go back to PARC and this is just the sort of widget that GUIs are good for.  
(Version 1.2)

SCRIVENS  Marketing Droid to YazSoft CEO:

"Well, that went off OK, I think."

Rare to see someone load their software company into a Porsche and ram it into a cliff-face.  
(Version 5.0)

SCRIVENS  Go into Preferences and turn off "Shut Down When Finished" .  
(Version 2.0.1)

SCRIVENS  That is a remarkably good selection of software to bundle together. I currently own Graphic Converter, Little Snitch and Amadeus Pro and use them daily, and used Techtool and Fetch years ago in pre Powermac days. Garagesale would have been handy for my last lot of eBay sales and I don't have a drawing app, so Intaglio was welcome. PhotoPresenter, Cocktail and ProfCast will probably end up being used, but the real sleeper is iWOW. iTunes has always been pretty dull, even with the Equaliser active, but iWOW really makes it boogie. I'd never even heard of it before, so that's another benefit of the bundle. My thanks again - an excellent range of very useful apps and at an unbelievable price.  
(Version )

SCRIVENS   Previous version failed with the Safari 3 Beta and 0.9.2 won't work either. Just have the blue box, no input box, no information "i" etc. I've completely removed the previous version, plists and so on.

(Great little widget, use it a lot.)  
(Version 0.9.2)

SCRIVENS  DDU is one of the most useful widgets I've got. I have used DDU since it was first released as a normal app, have never had a problem with it and it has always worked flawlessly. I like the way clicking on the station name brings up the BOM regional results and from there, easy access to the regional and state forecasts.

Along with Tide Widget this is a must have for anyone who goes fishing or boating.

Good one guys!  
(Version 1.0.2)

SCRIVENS  The good news is that it is the *only* word processing app I've ever used that can open complex Word docs without a single part being out of place. I'd given up trying to use converters as they all failed on several particular docs. Not this one. The drawing and presentation apps are excellent as well. Base is fairly useless at this stage, but the groundwork is there. (I'm a db prorammer by trade.) The db connectivity is glacially slow and it doesn't seem to like opening dBase and other formats. Native MS Access compatability would make it a killer Mac app as there is no real equivalent on the Mac platform - which is why a lot of companies have to use PCs given the ubiquitousness of Access these days. It seems to be very stable, and the interface is beautifully done. As a Mac app it is very nice to use.

On the down side, overall it is very sluggish starting up and in loading docs and spreadsheets etc. The screen updating is jerky and slow and saving docs seems to take an inordinately long time. (Word/Excel run like lightning in comparison. (iMac G5 2.1 with 1.5gb RAM) The size of the app is a worry as well. My full install of MS Office uses 216mb - NeoOffice uses 319mb.

This is an alpha release and it can only get better in the next year or so. As others have mentioned, it is the only viable alternative to MS Office for workplace compatability/use and despite the slowness and lack of some useful features it's great even now. Up the speed, cut the bloat and get the db side working and it has the potential to wipe Office from the workplace. AND IT"S FREE!  
(Version 2.0a3)

SCRIVENS  Just the thing. Works very well and even has the inner harbour tides for the city I live in - great for working out the time to hit high tide with the kayak and avoid a forty minute drive to find hundreds of yards of mud flats. The latest version fixes the loading delay which was a minor problem.

As mentioned in another review, this is what widgets should be about; simple, excellent design and interface, works well, useful and free.  
(Version 2.1)

SCRIVENS  Simply brilliant. In fact I like it better than the commercial version. It's fast, simple, configurable and it's worked without problems since the first release. One of those apps like MacSoup for news that just fits perfectly with the way I work.

And a big thanks for making it free!   
(Version 2.1b18)