SJJ_PUBLIC  Can anyone who has this tell me if it keeps your iPod touch (or iPhone) powered on at all times when it is running? If your iPod or iPhone goes to sleep as usual, this would be a bit annoying to use. Obviously that's a power drain, though, so perhaps it would only do this while plugged in/connected to a computer (and thus getting power.)

Also, to the developer - I would really, really like a 10.4 client for it. I could use this at work where I have 10.5, but at home I'm at 10.4 and would like to be able to use it there too. Actually I'm much more interested in using it at home then at work, and I can't due to the 10.5 requirement.  
(Version 1.0.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I've read the reviews and I know this game would be great (while it lasted), and the price is only $3.99, but I'm just not sure that a game that only lasts an hour or so is worth even that price. Yep, the game developer has said it was designed to take about 1 hour to complete. I'm just not sure I want to support that kind of pricing/value scheme. I think spending $5 on a game that has unlimited replay value (or at least a game that lasts *much* longer) is a much more sensible purchase. I think a game that only lasts for an hour should cost no more than 99 cents. The next game is suppose to offer longer play time. If the price is the same for it I'll probably start with that one instead. If they charge more for it, I'll continue looking elsewhere.  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  While the original post was obviously a troll, there are many of us who have Macs which can not run 10.5. I have one such computer (PowerMac G4 Dual-533). Also, there are those of us who have a computer that can run 10.5, but have not updated yet. I have one such computer (iMac G4 1.0 GHz.) I have 10.5 on my MacBook at work, and while it is very nice, at home I'm not sure it's worth buying at full price. 10.4 still works great for me. I'd rather wait for 10.5 to become bargain basement priced once 10.6 is out. I use to be of the ilk that as soon as an OS update was released I bought it, but I'm no longer like that. In fact I was planning to skip 10.5 altogether and wait for 10.6, to save money and get a bigger upgrade versus 10.4, but now that 10.6 is no longer going to supporting PowerPC, I'm stuck with 10.5. Just not yet.  
(Version 1.0.5)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Nice idea, but it doesn't support multiple monitors. Well, it functions OK, but the other screen is not blanked out. You see your desktop and files. Also I'd like the option of turning off the audible alarm, or at least of making it much shorter than 10 seconds.  
(Version 1.0.4)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I primarily watch movies on my iPod Touch on the train, in 30 minute segments, usually two per day. It thus takes me at least 2 days to watch an average length movie. iTunes' rental scheme of only giving me 24 hours to watch a movie is a bust for me. Surely iPod users like me should have been one of the targets of this service? Apparently we aren't, or Apple just wasn't thinking, or the studios forced their hand on this one. Either way, I won't be renting movies from iTunes.  
(Version 7.6)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This works easily and beautifully. Fantastic!  
(Version 1.5)

SJJ_PUBLIC  If you do a system restore does that effectively un-jailbrake your iPod touch? I.e. so that the next firmware update doesn't run any risk of bricking your iPod touch? If we can undo it like that I'm going to give it a try.  
(Version 0.3)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Handbrake 0.9 is fantastic. It use to be a difficult program to use and the results weren't always great, but now it's quite easy to use and to get great results. To rip and convert for the iPod touch just select the iPhone preset and start the conversion. The results are spectacular. There is one catch though - while the program is quite fast on my 2 GHz MacBook CoreDuo, it is unbelievably slow on my Dual-533 G4 tower. It took over 24 hours to convert a DVD on the Dual 533 G4, while taking less than 2 hours on my MacBook. So if you don't have an Intel processor Mac you probably won't be getting much satisfaction from this program.  
(Version 0.9)

SJJ_PUBLIC  One very substantial improvement in 4b is that Windows now works with multiple displays, including spanning! Yeah! I did end with weird defaults for the second display (640x480 and 8-bit color), but once I set the 2nd displays resolution and color depth correctly it worked beautifully.  
(Version 1.4b)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I was a Parallels Desktop user and when that was the only kid on the block it was a good thing, but I've switched because Parallels has longstanding unfixed bugs and just generally feels like a hack job, whereas VMware Fusion feels polished and works like a real Mac application. Some of the pluses: doesn't send the processor into a frenzy when you switch network locations while a VM is running (Parallels always did for me). Suspending and resuming a VM not only is much faster, it works reliably (unlike Parallels, which almost always resulted in a VM crash for me when resuming). Supports drag and drop between Mac OS X and Linux VMs, not just Windows. Etc. This is a great product. It's missing some features that are in Parallels, sure, but nothing major and the features it does have are very polished. Highly recommened.  
(Version 1.0.51348)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I decided to try VMware Fusion as I've been frustrated with Parallels lately, and so far Fusion blows the doors of Parallels. Not from a feature standpoint, from it's far more solid and feels like a real OS X app. It gives me a lot more confidence. Also, one of the major problems I've had with Parallels is that if you switch network Locations while a Parallels Windows VM is running (possibly other OS's too, but I don't know), Parallels freezes up and starts taking up all processing power, sometimes effectively taking OS X down with it. In Fusion I'm having absolutely no problems with switching locations and the networking continues to work within the VM too. Lastly, I tried several times to install Ubuntu Linux under Parallels and each time networking would not work, and I was even unable to get my flash drive to mount (Ubuntu would go bonkers). With VMware it worked the first time and completely. Also drag-and-drop between OS X and Ubuntu works perfectly.  
(Version 3.0.5060)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I didn't buy the mupromo bundle, but if I had I'd be royally pissed, at Lemke, but even more so at MU. Incredibly lame, especially given how quickly after the bundle deal this payment-required upgrade arrives. I'm sure we'll shortly see payment-required upgrades for all the other software that was in the bundle too, and many who bought it will feel ripped off. Not so sure this was a good move on anyones part. Oh, and yes, GC needs a major facelift and other major improvements. It remains far too clunky.  
(Version 6.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I tried this in the Finder and Mail and it didn't work. The screen faded but no window was highlighted and typing text didn't find anything. Yes, I did have support for assistive devices enabled.  
(Version 1.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Crossover is a great tool, but you have to understand that it is a tool and has a lot of limitations. The most significant limitation is that it runs very few applications, and of those that do run, many have quirks and/or problems. None-the-less, if you are a power user it can prove very useful, and unlike Parallels Desktop, it doesn't require you to run (nor buy) Windows.

Just understand that getting application X to work may require work on your part and it may not work at all no matter what you do. So... try it. See if it works for your needs. Only then buy it. For me I find it works with enough things to be useful. I always try CrossOver first and if I can run it in Crossover I greatly prefer that to booting up Windows in Parallels Desktop.

So... not for everyone, but what it does is pretty amazing and it's a great tool to have in the toolbox.

Now, having said all that, the latest update has an annoying bug, or at least I presume it is a bug. Every time I launch CrossOver as well as every time I switch to CrossOver even if it is already running, the "Welcome" screen appears. It's driving me batty. I hope that this isn't a feature and is a bug that will be fixed soon. If not and it's a "feature", I may well go back to 6.0.x.  
(Version 6.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I installed it, but it says my hard drive can't be indexed, and so it never finds anything. Also the web search thing wasn't what I expected and isn't too impressive. It isn't integrated at all - It just does the search in your browser. i.e. it's like many useless search widgets that do the same thing.  
(Version 1.0.0.155)

SJJ_PUBLIC  "Added support for multiple users". Wow! It only took them 3+ years to do it (multiple users/fast user switching was added in Mac OS X 10.3, released on Oct 24, 2003)! I can't wait for their compatibility fixes for Leopard, 10.5, to come out in or 2010 or 2011, perhaps just prior to the release of Mac OS X 10.7!  
(Version 2.0b18)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is a great, but only if you aren't trying to decompress into a directory you don't own (such as /usr/local/bin). 7zX just reports an error, rather than allowing you to type in an admin username and password to authenticate. Any chance support for this could be added? Also would be helpful if we could choose the directory to unarchive into.  
(Version 1.6)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Note that this will not enable booting of pre-Intel Macs from a USB drive. I had thought that was the idea of this, but it isn't. It just lets you use a 3rd party bootable CD to install a minimal bootable system on a flash drive, along with the utilities you wish to install on it as well. Still useful, but not as much as I had thought it would be.  
(Version 1.0.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I find that beta 2 is a huge memory hog and it brings my MacBook to its knees at times. Also, Coherence still doesn't seem to work well with multiple monitor setups. I found the new option to allow coherence to span multiple displays, but it then the taskbar disappears. It works OK without spanning displays, but then it behaves oddly in that while Windows windows appear to be mixed with Mac windows, if you drag a Windows window off the main display it disappears. If it's half off the main display, only half of the window appears. It's still a neat feature, but sure is hackish. Also I've had beta 2 start going haywire and cause other applications to crash, one after the other. From a stability standpoint, beta 2 seems worse than beta 1, and beta 1 wasn't so good in that regard. Perhaps they need to scale back some of these features and concentrate on just making it work well.  
(Version 2.5.3094)

SJJ_PUBLIC  It does have some bugs. Sometimes windows open zoomed beyond the edges of the screen, for example, but on the other hand this is *so* much faster than the old version in starting up. It's now usable. Also, I really dislike the search feature in Preview - that standard drawer thing is just absolutely awful. I think Adobe Reader is much better for use with large documents, especially if you want to do any searching. I've set it as my default reader now. Curiously, I can't seem to get Firefox to open PDFs in Adobe Reader even after having set Adobe Reader as the default app, and Firefox set to open .pdf in the default app. That may be a Firefox issue, though.  
(Version 8.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Phoenix Slides is fast and fantastic, but it is a tad complex for basic users. I wish it had a toolbar for slideshow navigation and zooming, rather than depending on keyboard commands (of course, keeping the keyboard commands too) and I'd like to see an option for it to automatically jump in the browser to a loaded CD when a CD is loaded, preferably seeking out the first folder on it with photos in it. That would be uber great. Also I'd like see it change the default behavior to be to *not* show the EXIF info Window. For my Mom and Sister, that's information they don't need and that just makes the program seem more complicated. Still, this is a fantastic program as-is and the price is definitely right. Much better than using Preview, especially when viewing pictures on a CD!  
(Version 1.2.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  It's important to note that there's a lot of Windows software for which Crossover doesn't work at all, or only works partly with. However, for the software it does work with it's better than running those programs in Parallels, or booting into Windows with BootCamp.

First of all, you don't need a copy of Windows so you can run the software without paying the exhorbitant prices Microsoft asks for Windows.

Second, you don't need to boot Windows, only Crossover's minimal environment, which starts up substantially faster, so running the odd Windows-only app with CrossOver is much more convenient than even Parallels.

Third, if things go awry Windows-style, you can easily and quickly trash the "bottle" and make a new one.

I am not sure, but I suspect it is more secure to run Windows software in Crossover than to run it in Windows, due to it only partially implementing Windows APIs, and doing so with its own code, and due to it being based on the open-source project WINE. Perhaps someone with more knowledge than I can chime in on this subject.

It's worth noting, though, that I find that applications do run slower, sometimes substantially slower, in Crossover than they do in Parallels. Some apps run fine, others run really slow. If you are pretty computer savvy and are willing to put the time into it, you can get some applications to work better by playing with the various not-so-user-friendly options that are available.

If you go into it knowing that Crossover is not going to be a universally effective tool, you won't be disappointed. I find it worthwhile and worth the price of admission. It's definitely worth checking out.  
(Version 6.0b3)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I installed SMC Firmware 1.1 on my 2 GHz MacBook, which was *not* exhibiting the sudden shutdown problem as far as I could tell, as is recommended by Apple. There have been no issues with the update.  
(Version 1.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Video converted with iSquint 1.5 and VisualHub (latest version) is noticeably darker than the original video. Is there any solution for this?  
(Version 1.5)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I think I'd like this a lot more if there were the option to only pop-up if a settable set of modifier keys are held down. As it stands I find it a bit bothersome, mostly popping up when I don't really want it to. Better still, with it only activating with modifier keys, perhaps it could be made to work on any link on any page, not just certain web sites.  
(Version 1.3b)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I had been using the Lite version and liked it, and so downloaded this "Hardware" version and like what seem to be the additional features, but my one big complaint is that the demonstration version does not let you even try the additional features for a limited time, it only tells you what those features are. I still purchased a copy because I wanted to support just the Lite features, but surely having a trial of the added features in the "Hardware" version would only help matters? One other nit is that the purchase procedure does not give instant gratification. A lot of shareware I buy gives you a registration code instantly, but with Hardware Monitor it appears I have to wait for the author to send me the code which I guess is a manual process. Not a huge deal, but definitely could be better.  
(Version 3.95)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Version 0.8 is much, much better than past versions in terms of stability, at least so far. There are still some weird quirks, though. For example, I was using the "Font Size Follows Window Resize" option and it started resizing in ways that weren't even following my mouse drags of the resize tab. Also a major shortcoming to my mind is that it only offers either confirmation of closing windows or not confirming. It doesn't have the option to confirm only when their is an active telnet/ftp/whatever session running in the window. Still, it has tabs and a lot of other nice features and it now seems to be fast (past versions were very slow) and so I'm going to try using it on a daily basis now.  
(Version 0.9)

SJJ_PUBLIC  The Quicktime LAME MP3 codec referred to in the response to the previous (months ago) message seems to have been discontinued and pulled from the internet. Are there any other Quicktime plugins/applications that utilize this framework?  
(Version 3.97)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I like the features of this program, at least in theory - so far I can't get it to do anything at all, at least not with VOB files (from MacTheRipper ripped DVD.) It just says "Converting..." with a twirly "progress" bar, and no apparent progress, nor any apparent use of processing power as my CPUs remain at a low processing level. Is conversion from VOB supported? If not it would be helpful for it to reject such files to begin with. Of course I'd much rather is supported conversion from VOB.  
(Version 1.2.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  EXIF Untrasher has in the past worked for me, and today it worked for me again. Rather, it worked for my son. He had taken a bunch of pictures at his "back to school day", and when we tried to import them they were no where to be seen. EXIF Untrasher recovered all of them, along with some 200 other older pictures, which didn't need to be recovered, but it's nice to know that it could! Thanks for this fantastic, and *free* program!  
(Version 1.4.3)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Works great on my MacBook running 10.4.7. At first I thought there was something wonky with its handling of the Apple Remote's menu button because it seemed to cause a random jump to a different letter, and only for the albums in the background, then I realized what it was doing was toggling the sorting between album name and artist name. Cool. On the other hand, using the volume up and down to change tracks instead of volume is weird. I'd rather it worked as follows: The menu button would toggle between controlling iTunes and controlling CoverFlow, preferably with some visual indication of which is in effect (and easily seen from a distance.) A good way to do this would be to have coverflow switch to a different view when you start playback (or pressed menu), one that showed the album art, track info, play time, etc, of the current track, and the remote would control iTunes playback. When the user pressed the menu button it would go back to the library view, and the controls would then control browsing of the library. Pressing menu again would bring up the playback info again. Etc. It would be intuitive and more obvious. It would still be nice to have the ability to control the sorting via the remote, though - is there a way to handle press-and-hold on a remote button? Perhaps then a press-and-hold of the menu button would either change the sorting, or perhaps better, bring up a menu of options, including the sorting options. I realize this is all a rather tall order, though. :)  
(Version RC1.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This program is far from perfect, but I pre-ordered anyway because it is useful (and cool too), and has potential for the future. If you don't expect it to run complex *unsupported* applications you will be pleased with it. There are a number of supported complex apps that do work well, and while there is a lot of unsupported stuff that doesn't work, I've found a number of unsupported apps that do work and which I consider valuable. If you sign up for the mailing list you'll find the support good and friendly too. FYI, don't try to install the full version of WinAmp into Crossover as it is problematic, but the "Lite" version of WinAmp works quite well and WinAmp is much better than using VLC to play aacPlus internet radio streams (iTunes doesn't play them at all.) WinAmp Lite, in fact, put Crossover over the top for me and got me to pre-order. I will be using WinAmp every day at work to listen to Indie Pop Rocks because the 128 kbps MP3 stream is blocked. I can only listen to the aacPlus stream. I'm hoping that eventually we'll see the full version of WinAmp working, but the Lite version is useful now.  
(Version 6.0b1a)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I only just started using JBidWatcher, but I really like it so far. The UI is decent and the functionality is great. It worked beautifully for me today, winning one auction, and not winning another that went too high for my blood. I'm not sure what else you could ask for for free. Highly recommended. It gets "only" 4 stars strictly for the UI which could use some improvement, but that's a fairly minor complaint. One minor issue I noticed on my MacBook is that sometimes the context menu doesn't like to "stick". That is, I do a two-finger click to bring up the context menu on an item and release the mouse button, but the menu goes away instead of staying up. This problem seems to be intermittent.  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  While there are a lot of unsupported programs that don't work, they were never claimed to be able to work, and some unsupported things do work, as does the one officially supported program I've tried (Internet Explorer), which in itself makes Crossover super useful (to, for example, access sites that provide features that are only available when using IE for Windows, such as ritzpix.com). I haven't decided if it is currently useful enough for me to register, but I certainly will be watching its development. If it runs the things you want it to run, it's certainly much better than paying Microsoft exorbitant amounts of money for a copy of Windows (plus a copy of Parallels, or having to reboot into Windows with Boot Camp).  
(Version 6.0b1a)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I have tried to use this on numerous occasions and every time I end up removing it. One problem is that it does not switch virtual screens when the context switches. For example, if you click an application's icon in the dock, but its window is on another screen, nothing appears to happen. There are other situation where this problem arises, and then there is the fundamental issue that it is not always clear when you would want it to switch. Sometimes you would and sometimes you wouldn't. For example, if you quit an application and then another application comes to the front, it's not clear that you would really want it to switch virtual screens in that situation in order to bring that apps windows into view. I don't see a solution to this problem. Apple's Spaces appears as if it will be an improvement, but issues such as that noted are not so easily solved, so I remain skeptical of it. I want to like virtual desktops, but to me they are, so far, more of a hinderance than a help.  
(Version 0.53r216)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is a superb screenshot tool, and a fantastic widget. Indeed, it makes the sometimes rather silly seeming dashboard actually useful. Thank you for making this available and for making it free of charge.

Incidentally, I do like it as a widget and wouldn't use an application version. The dashboard is the perfect place for a tool such as this IMHO.  
(Version 2.3)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I would be interested in a generic "slap" tool that could perform other actions. For example, slap the right side of the screen to launch some application, run a script, or whatever. This should be adaptable to that type of utility shouldn't it?  
(Version 0.65)

SJJ_PUBLIC  It seems to be working fine for me on my MacBook. Very cool!  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  So far I'm seeing lots of errors trying to use this tool. Converting to iPod, for example, I added several VOB files from DVD rip to the queue, set it to convert to iPod format, optimized for TV, selected "stich together" option. I selected "2 pass" in the advanced options and clicked Preview and after a while I get an applescript error reporting some problem with ffmpeg about a file being missing. I then tried doing a conversion of the files to DV format, but it also gave an applescript error. There the "2 pass" option is greyed out, so that wouldn't seem to have anything to do with it.  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Works pretty well for me on my MacBook and PowerBook, but the keyboard shortcut is a bit akward to use, and doesn't always seem to work. Sometimes I have to press it 2 or 3 times before it pastes. Otherwise this is nice.  
(Version 0.54)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is the single most useful widget there is. It gives real purpose to the dashboard by making taking screenshots much easier and more functional too. Really, really slick and very highly recommended.  
(Version 2.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  After installing I was taking to a "success" page in Safari, and the video on that page didn't work. I got an error saying that "Video playback couldn't be set up". I tried in Camino and got an error saying the movie couldn't be downloaded. I tried removing all traces of DivX on my system and re-installing, but it didn't help. However, I was finally able to see a video, the Da Vinci Code trailer, so perhaps the success page troubles are just that, web page troubles, and not the DivX plugin. However, the quality and playback of the DivX format movie trailer was pretty horrible. It looked worse than Apple's QuickTime format trailers, and yet the playback was very stuttery. I tried other trailers, all with the same result. I'm trying it on a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 on an 802.11g connection to a fast pipe. In some cases it took ages for "buffering" to complete (actually I didn't have the patience to wait for those cases to finish, so I don't know if they ever would have.) Other times buffering completed quickly, but in all cases playback was very, very poor. I can't say I'm terribly impressed!! Version 6.5 is pretty awful, at least on my Mac.  
(Version 6.5)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Oh, here's my rating for it. Klunky UI, but the features are quite nice and it works well, at least for me!  
(Version 4.1.3.0X)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Perhaps the comments regarding this not working with OS X were with regard to some quite old version. For me it has always worked with my 8500f, at least after downloading the latest version from Canon's web site. No problems. The interface is certainly a bit klunky, but it does work and does a pretty good job of it in spite of the interface. I've been quite happy with my 8400f. However, I really, really hope Canon is going to update the drivers and Canoscan software to be "universal", and soon. This isn't a problem for me now, but eventually I'm going to be getting an Intel-based Mac.  
(Version 4.1.3.0X)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Does anyone know if Final Cut Express HD will work on Intel macs that have shared video graphics (i.e. the Mac mini and MacBook)? My understanding is that Final Cut Pro does not work, but what about Final Cut Express?  
(Version 3.5)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Note from the developer: I would like to translate Laserlight into more languages (currently it's localized for English and French), but I need translation help to do it. If anyone is interested in helping localize it for another language (either partially or fully) please contact me at oneleftfoot@verizon.net  
(Version 2.0.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This rocks! I was expecting it to slow Spotlight down, but it doesn't seem to. I wish, though, that I could set it to more than 10 results, and of course it would be better if the results were listed under a heading other than "Bookmarks", such as "Google Results", but I'm sure that's not currently possible.  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I tried running this on three AAC format files, choosing pass-thru. I have chapter tool installed. The script launched QuickTime Player 7.0.4, opened the 3 tracks in it plus created a new Untitled track. It then brought my system to its knees. I waited a while but it did not show any progress in QuickTime Player and continued to completely and utterly throttle my PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz. Eventually I pressed command-option-esc and then wait a long time for the force-quit window to appear, then force quit it and QuickTime Player. I would love to look at this script to see what it is doing and see if I could fix and/or improve it, but unfortunately even though it is freeware it is distributed as a run-only (un-editable) script. I went to the "web site" linked to here, but there is no sign of a "source" version there.  
(Version 4.0.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I don't yet have an IntelMac, but I think you should be able to get a working Azureus on those systems if you download the Jar file from the web site instead of the Mac OS X specific file. Mac OS X can run Jar files just fine. Just download it, and double-click the Jar file to run it. I believe the problem for the IntelMac's is just with the Mac OS X specific launcher part of that download, which isn't Intel compatible. The jar file is worth a shot, anyway.  
(Version 2.4.0.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  As has been pointed out to me, there is in fact a "send all to iPhoto" feature in Mail.app. I just didn't know it was there. If you view a message and then click and hold the "Save" button, then you get a "Add to iPhoto" menu item. Call me a fool. Then again, it's not exactly the most intuitive design. Oh well. Moreover, you can drag multiple image files onto the iPhoto application icon to import them. Hmm. Send Photos to iPhoto may still be useful for sending photos from multiple messages at once, but certain it's less useful than I thought!  
(Version 1.0b1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I wrote this for my Mom because she kept asking me how to get photos in an email into iPhoto. I found it useful myself too. There is no "send all to iPhoto" button in Mail.app. You'd think there would be, but there isn't. The only direct way to do it in Mail.app is to start a slideshow and then manually send each photo, individually, to iPhoto. Plus there's no easy way to send all the photos in multiple messages to iPhoto.

With Send Photos To iPhoto you select or open a message containing photos in Mail.app and run the script (put it in your Dock for convenient access). That's it. You can also select multiple messages in Mail.app and Send Photos To iPhoto will operate on all the messages at once, only pulling out the images, ignoring any other attachments and messages without photos in them, and sending them all to iPhoto as one "Roll".

As a plus you can also drag-and-drop one or more photos onto Send Photos To iPhoto and it will send them to iPhoto, which is a lot more convenient than uncovering and/or re-arranging windows in order to be able to see the Library "album" in iPhoto in order to drag onto it (you can't drag onto iPhoto's application icon if you are dragging more than one file - why I don't know!) This will work from any application that lets you drag-and-drag image files, such as the Finder, but also Mail.app and other applications.

Hopefully this makes the purpose of this script clear and I hope somebody else out there finds it useful.  
(Version 1.0b1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Great idea, but I wish it supported non-public stats  
(Version 1.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  The inability to modify templates is a huge shortcoming, at least for blogs. It works fine for creating pages of photos from iPhoto, but you could do that just fine from within iPhoto in the previous version of iLife. In fact it was easier because you didn't have a separate application to deal with. In theory you can create blogs with iWeb, but only if you are willing to create ones that look exactly like the templates. While you can modify a blog entry page when you make a new entry, subsequent entries go back to the formatting of the template and you have to do your modifications all over again. Want to make an entry without a photo in it? You have to delete the photo placeholder, then rework the page so that it doesn't have a ridiculous gap between the title and the content. That makes it pretty useless for blogging.  
(Version 1.0.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I've only just looked at this program so I won't give it a rating, but so far it appears to make me run screaming back to .Mac and iPhoto. This program's design makes me think that .Mac is worth the price of admission. .Mac really does make it easy to create a nice looking web photo album to share with friends and family. This program seems to be a complete mess. It isn't even obvious how to change the look and when I did find a "Template" option, there were only something like 5 cryptically titled things available (and no pictures of what they look like) and selecting any of them didn't appear to do anything at all. Ouch.  
(Version 2.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This program appears to be trying to sort the results by size, but it isn't working. I have a listing where there are numerous cases such as an 89 MB folder being listed before a 93 MB folder. Also it doesn't sort anything until after the sizing on the drive is completed entirely. That OmniDiskSweeper does do this, and gives a frequently updating total for folders as it sizes them, makes it easier to see the progress of the scan. I paid for OmniDiskSweeper a while ago, before this existed, so the cost is moot to me. OmniDiskSweeper works better, but this one is free and that's nothing to scoff at. Fix the bugs and improve the feedback and it would be hard to justify purchasing ODS, but ODS isn't expensive and it works great now. Lastly, the claim by another reviewer that WhatSize is faster is questionable - at least in my just done experiment, ODS finished the entire drive scan substantially faster than WhatSize did and, as I noted, ODS gave much better feedback as it progressed.  
(Version 10.2.6)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I've only had it installed for an hour or so on my 60 GB 5G, but so far so good. It does appear to fix the endless star ratings screen bug. I haven't tested any videos yet, but can't comment on its affect on the old video playback issues anyway, as I've been using more recent versions of iSquint and Handbrake which already resolved those playback issues themselves - I've no old conversions to test with. I like the new volume limiter option. Note that you can set this with or without a code lock. It's useful in two ways for me: allowing my 5 year old to listen to my iPod, as he so wishes to do, without having again to worry about him changing the volume to too high of a level. Further, for me, I can set the limit to what I consider to be more than loud enough, and then I never have to worry about accidentally bumping the volume up to painful levels (which I've done it on a few occasions when attempting to scan forward or set a star rating via the scrollwheel). Since I never have to set the volume higher than halfway at the most anyway, why not limit it to halfway? I can easily enough change the max if needed. Cool feature - thank goodness for "frivolous" lawsuits. :)  
(Version 2006-03-23)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I paid for Location X a long while back and then stopped using it. Today, with this update, I rediscovered it. It is pretty cool, especially with the new automatic locations feature that can switch you between Location X locations automatically when you join or leave a particular wireless network. Nifty! I did see a bug several times though. Sometimes when I add a "shell script" action, I don't get the window allowing me to add any. Further, sometimes the UI becomes unresponsive and I can't do anything, not even quit - it just beeps when I try to. I have to force quit Location X and relaunch it when this happens. Otherwise this is looking great. Running 10.4.5 on a 15" PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz  
(Version 2.5.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is a great start! The Info window shows some strange results, often showing artwork from some other track. However, when the artist/album tags are right and the tracks are in iTMS, it successfully gets the artwork, which is much higher quality and resolution than what's available on Amazon.com and other places. Lastly, when it finds more than one match, the selection window to choose one is confusing - it gives no visual indication of which one you have selected, although it does seem to take the one you last clicked on when you then click the "Select" button. Looking forward to updates!  
(Version 0.1 Beta)

SJJ_PUBLIC  SuperDuper is fantastic and well worth the shareware fee. It would be even better, though, if it had the option to archive files that are removed/updated, perhaps even on a different volume than the backup is going to, with options for how much to archive, removing older stuff that is beyond the limit. Anyway, the advent of a universal binary version is a good thing. I don't have an Intel Mac yet, but expect to be getting one sometime this year. SuperDuper was one of the missing links and now that is resolved. Yeah!  
(Version 2.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  To followup to my own question... I just couldn't resist trying, and so upgraded my iPod's firmware to 1.1 again. Sure enough, videos converted with iSquint 1.2.3 do indeed play perfectly, at least so far. Yeah! Further, with the latest version of Handbrake, DVDs converted with that program, so far at least, don't seem to have problems either. Double yeah! Furthermore, iPod video firmware 1.1 is much better for playback of videos (presuming converted as noted) as the controls are much more responsive than with 1.0. Triple yeah! So it looks like it's finally safe to go into the 1.1 firmware waters, as long as you don't have a large library of existing videos converted with older versions of either software, that you can't or don't want to reconvert.  
(Version 1.2.3)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Works. I find it annoying that you can't click below the text in order to set the cursor after the end of the current text. Instead you have to carefully click just barely to the right of the end of the text. Apple's notepad widget has the same annoyance. Also, contextual menus don't work, and there's no spell checking. Also needs some basic features such as a link button to easily add a link to the text of your post. I'm more interested in the ability to add a link *in* the text, as opposed to the "Link" feature available on the web page that puts a link after the end of the text. Still, this is exactly the kind of thing the Dashboard is actually good for - bogs are all about quickly posting entries, and there's no quicker way to do it than this widget.  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I play this game, albeit on my Palm PDA. This game is fun for a while, but eventually what I found was that I do at least as well, and probably better, by simply randomly (more or less) tapping all over the screen as fast as I can. Playing the palm version on Hard I was only rarely able to even complete one level when I actually tried to play it. The first time I tried just tapping as fast as I could all over the place, I easily got through the first level and got my highest score that far. I repeated the feat on a second try. YMMV.  
(Version 1.12)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I would really like to use this, but in testing it out, I had it crash on me within a few minutes. I had been playing around with tabs, creating and closing them. Moving their location to bottom and side, etc. Tried setting the text to resize with the window, etc. At some point it all went *POOF*. I've never had Terminal.app crash, and it occurred to me that I have to have a terminal program that doesn't crash. So, yes, I want a terminal program with tabs (though iTerm looks ugly/busy with tabs) and a number of the other features in this program, but in a short test at least, the stability seems shaky. Definitely will be checking out future versions and I hope they can make a slicker tabbed interface, but I won't be using version 0.8.2.  
(Version 0.8.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Nice, but still not compatible, or entirely compatible even with some Apple-provided widgets. I actually think that the features provided by this app could justify the cost. I do like being able to have some widgets always available, and I like the ability to control their display level (normal, always on top or on desktop), resize, rotate and set the auto-update interval of widgets, etc, plus the new version does seem to resolve the performance issues - always visible widgets don't seem to bog down the processor anymore.

However, it still doesn't work with some standard widgets, including Apple's nifty Dictionary widget which is one I'd like to have visible. The widget displays, but when you search for a word the widget doesn't expand downward to show you the definition. Instead you get a tiny sliver of the top of the definition and that's it. Note that the free Merriam-Webster dictionary widget *does* work properly with Amnesty, so that is a workaround and though not as slick, it's arguably better anyway.  
(Version 1.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I hope it's true that iSquint has figured out what the problem is with the 1.1 firmware and has a workaround that actually works. I'm not going to try it though (that is, I'm not about to install the 1.1 firmware again), until this fix is in other software as well, especially Handbrake. I hope the developer of iSquint is actively sharing this fix with other projects. We need it! Also, if anyone has tried it and has found it to work, especially with higher resolution conversions, please post about it here!  
(Version 1.2.3)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I got this installed (put the CreamMonkey folder in the InputManagers folder in your Library - you may need to create the folder if it isn't already there. Quit and restart Safari if it was running), and I'm able to install scripts, or at least CreamMonkey claims they are installed in its preferences, however none of the 3 scripts I tried did anything at all. Anyone getting this to work?  
(Version 0.3)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This isn't "Enigmo", it's "Enigmo 2". The latter adds the 3rd dimension to the gameplay, and not just the look. I have only tried the demos of both, but I think Enigmo 2 seems harder to control due to that 3rd dimension. Rotating the view is particularly tricky. I often end up spinning out of control and then have to reset the view and start over. Also, rotating objects is problematic. Often I end up unselecting the object by mistake, so I have to select it again. Also, if you have set the option to show all axes rotation controls, then moving an object sometimes results in an unintended rotation. I find myself hitting the reset rotation and view buttons more than I'd like and so control of the game can be frustrating. Still, it seems like a fun game. If I were to buy one, though, I think I'd buy Enigmo 1 - the concept and game play are similar, but the 2d-restricted controls are less frustrating.  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I had a kernel panic at startup after installing 10.4.5 that was not even resolved with a Safe boot. During safe boot my powerbook just shut itself off! So I restarted into single user mode and ran "applejack auto restart". After going through it's routine and automatically restarting, my Powerbook started up just fine and is working great since. This kernel panic experience after installing 10.4.5 probably won't be repeated by many others, but it does sometimes happen, and its resolution speaks volumes for AppleJack. Every Mac should have AppleJack installed on it. I can't recommend it highly enough.  
(Version 1.4.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  With version 0.5, Transmission is now really slick in addition to being the fastest and least processor taxing torrent tool for the Mac. I can't wait for 1.0!  
(Version 0.5)

SJJ_PUBLIC  While I like the options that are available, I find it really irritating how it has things that seem to imply that it will result in more detail in the widget, but actually it takes you to a web page in your browser. Particularly annoying is the "Animate" item for the radar. Why doesn't this animate the radar display within the widget? No, it takes you out of dashboard and to their web page. Similarly, when you look at the alerts, the text it shows is ridiculously truncated, such that you have no choice but to click the "details" link, which of course takes you out of dashboard and to their web page in your browser. Why can't it reveal the details within the widget?  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is based on the similar Hybrid portable firefox that supports both Mac and Windows. There is good reason to make the Mac part better, but why remove the Windows support? It is very useful to be able to use Firefox on someone elses Windows PC if that is all that's available to you. Just not sure I understand why this is a separate, Mac Firefox-only version. Perhaps the author should just contribute their Mac-specific improvements to the original?  
(Version 1.5.0.1r3.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I thought this was a joke. I was astonished to find it is not. SeaMonkey?  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I read the review saying the installer didn't work with Tiger. There is a manual install option available on the web site if the installer isn't working - I installed prior to Tiger, I believe, so I'm not sure if the Installer works. Anyway, It seems to work fine in Tiger (I'm using 10.4.4). I hope we'll see an update making it a universal binary, and I'd really like to see this freeware open sourced.  
(Version 1.1.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is a good idea, but of limited value at the moment. The dialog results window isn't an improvement over spotlight, but the search itself is. However, the use of kMDItemDisplayName for filename searches is inherently problematic. When you have a wildcard name search, people are going to expect *.doc to match all .doc (Word) files. The problem with kMDItemDisplayName is that if there is a .doc file for which the filename extension is hidden, then *.doc will not find that file because the ".doc" is not "displayed". As such, I think filename searches should be created that have as criteria: kMDItemDisplayName = *.doc || kMDItemFSName = *.doc. The bad news is that while kMDItemFSName searches will find all those .doc files with their filename extensions hidden, searching on the "FSName" takes a lot longer than DisplayName-only searches. You ought to search on both, and not just FSName, because some users will not realize that, for example, a saved search actually has an extension of .savedSearch - it's normally hidden. Anyway, this is definitely a good direction to go and warrants further development.  
(Version 0.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is the best, albeit only since the audio bitrate (advanced) setting was added. With default settings I end up with pretty horrible audio quality. With the audio bit rate set to 128 kbps or higher, the quality is good. Why is the default so bad (and what is it?) Also it's annoying that every time you click the Advanced button it brings up a bother box. Not to mention that you have to quit and relaunch to undo any Advanced changes you make.

In a related comment, either preferences are needed, or it needs to remember settings between runs so we can get our choice of settings without having to reselect them every time.

In spite of these issues, though, iSquint is quite fast, with the right tweaks produces great results consistently, and it handles pretty much anything you toss at it aside from DVDs (use Handbrake and sometimes MacTheRipper for those.) I don't really care for the (alleged) humor in the program, but I can live with it. Guess I'm a lamer. ;) Anyway, great stuff and thanks for it.  
(Version 1.0)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is a great idea. I want something that my Mom can use to convert DVDs for her iPod, and Handbrake still involves some knowledge of the process. However, I want a program that will output video at the highest resolution and quality that the iPod can play back to facilitate high quality viewing on a TV (in addition to watching it on the iPod). This program only outputs at 320x240. So what I'd really like is something that autocrops out black bars and then determines the maximum possible resolution (limited to 230,400 pixels for MPEG4 format for the iPod) for the given video, and compresses at highest quality. Still, if you just want to watch your DVD on your iPod only, then this fits the bill very nicely indeed. Load a DVD and click a button. Nice.  
(Version 0.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This works well if you select H.264 format, albeit excruciatingly slowly, but I find that it does a terrible job if I use MPEG4 format, even at the high quality option. I get a bad pulsing effect in the resulting videos. Anyone else seeing this? I wish the MPEG4 format worked well (and it can, as shown by iSquint - unfortunately I find that iSquint gives horrendous audio quality, so it's useless.) At least I can use H.264 format with this and get good video and audio quality, but it does take an insanely long period of time to convert even a 30 minute video using H.264.  
(Version 0.993)

SJJ_PUBLIC  CornerClick is great, but I'm having a problem with one corner. For some reason the upper right corner does not work. When I set it to some action, it will work the very first time I move the mouse into that corner, but subsequent moves into that corner do nothing (whether set to click, hover, etc.) This seems to happen when I have my external display attached (dual displays). I have the displays arranged such that my Powerbooks screen is on the left, and my external is on the right. The problem only happens with the upper right corner of the external (right) display. Anyone else seeing a similar problem?  
(Version 0.7)

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is great, indeed better and more useful than I thought it was going to be. I don't *browse* the web with this widget, I use a regular web browser for that. Rather, I use this to have quick access to one or two web sites I frequently want to look at. Specifically I have a Shiira mini browser on my dashboard that is set to the National Weather Service weather page for my area. It's so much better to go to the source than to have the exceedingly limited info that even the best "weather widget" has to offer, and it's still reasonably compact.

I don't want to see the Shiira mini widget turn into bloatware - it is only useful as long as it loads quickly and takes up a minimum amount of space. And speaking of that - the one thing I'd like added is the ability to resize the window via normal window resize control. That way we can make it as small or as big as necessary for the specific web site it is set to.  
(Version 1.1.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I wish there were a way to retract a review on MU! I have to, unfortunately, retract my previous review. In further experimentation I find that other applications act similarly and/or behave as if they are not launched as root. When I use the program Pseudo to launch the apps as root, I don't see this problem and they are clearly really launched as root. So either Chalaut isn't actually working, or it only partly working. Hopefully the author can fix this!  
(Version 1.0.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  For the most part this works great, and to the previous reviewer - the current version has a contextual menu item. I also like that it can open documents in their associated app, with the app launched as root. Pretty cool. There is one problem I've seen, but it may have more to do with OS X and not to do with anything wrong with this utility. If I launch TextEdit as root, I still can not save a new file in a read-only (root writable) directory. TextEdit says I don't have privileges to do it and refuses to save. I am, however, able to edit read-only files (writable by root) and then save the changes. TextEdit puts up a dialog saying the file is "read-only" but allows you to try to save anyway, and doing so works, so it would seem the app has been launched with root privileges, but TextEdit, at least, gets a bit confused by this state.  
(Version 1.0.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Is there a way with this program to have it automatically fill in the gap? What I means is, I layout a section of track that almost completes a circuit, then the program automatically figures out what track to add, and how, in order to connect the ends. If not, is there a program out there that can do this? Preferably on the Mac, but Windows or Linux would be possible if need be.  
(Version 2.3.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  It's important to note that in order for this feature to actually be functional, you must have more free disk space than you have RAM. I forget the exact amount more, but 1.5*RAM worth of disk space should work. This disk space must be available when you reboot after applying the NVRAM patch - making free space after rebooting won't help, until you reboot again.

Moreover, you should really make substantially more than 1.5*RAM available, because you're going to lose all that disk space when the hibernate cache is created at startup - you don't want to end up with a disk with dangerously low free space! So I'd suggest making more like 1.5*RAM + 1 GB free space before applying the patch. Ex: if you have 1 GB of RAM, then make sure there is at least 1.5*1+1 = 2.5 GB of free disk space before applying the patch and rebooting. When you come back up you'll find you have only about 1 GB of free space left.  
(Version 0.81)

SJJ_PUBLIC  I think this is useful in "Sleep and hibernate" mode, but the value of always hibernating seems questionable to me. Having had it in always-hibernate mode for a week or two now, I ended up switching to sleep-and-hibernate.

I have not timed it, but I would estimate that shutting down and powering back up, especially with 10.4's extensive caching, is just as fast as going to hibernate and back, at least on my 2 GB RAM, 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4. Plus shutting down has the advantage of giving you a clean slate to work with at the next power up and you have the option of a quick sleep/wake when needed. If you set your powerbook to always hibernate, then you lose that quick sleep/wake capability.

The as-long-as-full-startup restore from hibernate mode takes away most, if not all, of the advantage of sleep mode, and hibernate mode, like sleep mode, can't be trusted - you should save open documents before using it. Given that they are saved, there is little advantage to hibernate mode versus shutting down, since after a normal powerdown/startup you can just open the saved documents and be where you left off. Moreover, shutting down reminds you to save unsaved documents, so it is inherently safer. If hibernate mode were nearly as fast as normal sleep, then it would hold an advantage over sleep, but since it is so slow, its value as as sleep replacement, as opposed to a supplement, is highly questionable.

As a supplement, however, for when your powerbook/ibook accidentally loses power while asleep... that can be useful. It may prove to save ones bacon some day. So set it for "Sleep and hiberate" mode, and use shutdown, not hibernate mode, when you want to minimize power drain.  
(Version 0.81)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Still a nifty, if not entirely useful widget (inability to print means you have to go to the web page anyway). I'm wondering why the satellite image feature had to be removed? Did Google block access to that feature?  
(Version 2.2)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Actually putting quotes around your spotlight search query does not do the same thing. Moreover, it is unreliable. Putting quotes around your search term is roughly a "keyword search", but that also being limited to only matching whole words. It's an undocumented, and perhaps entirely accidental, "feature".

I think Version 1.1 of Spotlaser presents too much information and is a bit klunky (can't press return to start you search, for example), but the functionality is there. Version 1.1 does work (version 1.0 did not). Note that you have to click the big logo at the bottom to start your search and you can't press return - you really have to click the bottom icon. Hopefully the author will add support for pressing return to start the search and change the funky logo button to a normal Mac OS X button.

I have on and off been working on a similar, but much more limited tool to do wildcard name searches only. Both mine and Spotlaser support wildcards. So if you search for "Test*.pdl" it will match "Testing 1 2 3.pdl". Pretty cool, and very useful. Spotlaser and mine work by creating a custom Finder smart folder and the opening it. By creating a smart folder this we you can tap into much more capability than the Finder currently provides an interface for. For example, the wildcard searching. With some simplification and refinement, Spotlaser will be a great tool.  
(Version 1.1)

SJJ_PUBLIC  Basically this is great. It works and it's free, so you've got to like it. The interface is a clumsy, though (click the big funky picture to quit? Not only that, but the text says you have to click below the picture to quit, yet clicking on the picture also quits. Weird weirdness!), so I have to dock it a star for that. Whatever.  
(Version 1.5.4)