TRANCE  there is a bug with 10.6.1 when saving files as m4a, Quicktime X reads the wrong time length and some of the files show as up to 9 hours long ....they work fine in iTunes  
(Version 1.4.3)

TRANCE  this app is rubbish. i agree with the negative comments. it takes forever to scan a drive and finds nothing, whereas iantivirus found the problem trojan quickly.  
(Version 2.7)

TRANCE  works great on 10.6.1, scans literally 10x faster than macscan and actually found the trojans that were giving me problems unlike macscan which found nothing  
(Version 1.3.6)

TRANCE  great, except that it sees 0 apps on my drive  
(Version 1.0.2)

TRANCE  I agree that the software should be rated on what it does and not on a political agenda, but having said that, the initial version 11 was horrendous, and i went back to version 10 which works fine.

Until i see some release notes of what has been fixed i am very reluctant to try any new version  
(Version 11.1)

TRANCE  this is great! beats many of the other shareware similar apps hands down  
(Version 2.4.1)

TRANCE  yes, i installed all the codecs. The wmv files that could not be converted i was able to convert with mpegstreamclip with perian installed.  
(Version 0.98b2)

TRANCE  intel 10.5.7, the files that don't convert are wmv, i attached details of one of them as an example, but they are not all the same

http://img203.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=21409_Screenshot_122_131lo.jpg  
(Version 0.98b2)

TRANCE  and converting to mp4 it converts and then the result vanishes.

converting to 'custom' converts but leaves the result unmuxed.  
(Version 0.98b2)

TRANCE  my mistake, actually it does work, but the first couple of files i tried gave me this error:

Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs

WARNING: Attempting to use DLL codecs but environment variable

DYLD_BIND_AT_LAUNCH not set. This will likely crash.

it had never not converted anything before, previously it converted everything i threw at it  
(Version 0.98b2)

TRANCE  nuts ....just installed this version and trashed my old version and now this one does not work at all .....nothing gets outputted with either format, just stops immediately. now i have to go find an old version to download somewhere  
(Version 0.98b2)

TRANCE  ok, i see the license decription has now been changed so my above comment is no longer relevant, feel free to delete, thanks  
(Version 1.0d0)

TRANCE  this is NOT free or donationware .....it is shareware.

a 10 second nagscreen on startup does not qualify it as either free or donationware as i don't see how anyone could possibly find having to wait through a 10 second delay as being a useable app, ergo not useable without registering = shareware.  
(Version 1.0d0)

TRANCE  this is quite funny ....every new versions brings completely different bugs.

now whenever i try to encode anything i get:

"Illegal comparison or logical. (-1726)"

and whenever i quit the app i get:

"System Events got an error: Illegal comparison or logical. (-1726)"

p.s Intel 10.5.7, perian, x264 encoder installed  
(Version 1.2.4)

TRANCE  if i attempt to encode into the same folder it crashes imediately, if i attempt to encode to the desktop it starts and completes imediately leaving an empty file result.  
(Version 1.2.3)

TRANCE  whatever i tried to encode the finder just crashed ...that's about it, nothing much else to add, tried with some mp4 files.

and about the tab order, i was referring to the video tab ...tab shoud go from width to height ...not width to crop box then on to height.

if you still want a more details let me know and i'll download the app again.  
(Version 1.2.3)

TRANCE  just gets worse and worse.

latest version gets all kind of error messages, does not encode anything with either avi or now even h264 formats, crashes the finder, and still tries to save with the m4v extension.

this is almost back to square zero after looking so promising.

on the good side the interface has been cleared up a bit, although the tab order in the prefs is still wrong  
(Version 1.2.3)

TRANCE  most of the comments below are correct ....i just tried it and i either got a "variable error" dialog or the one file i managed to encrypt and then decrypt became an empty blank file.

........i'd say you have a very good chance of losing your data with this app  
(Version 1.2.3)

TRANCE  must uncheck both the checkboxes in the logfiles for it to work or you get errors like:

"Problems with internal logger

Can't open Library?logs/clamXav-scan.log in append mode (check permissions!)"

Scan Ended Unexpectedly. Error num: 62"

It also crashes one out of every two times you start a scan  
(Version 2.0.1)

TRANCE  the included codecs used for conversion are misleading ....the "Xvid" is not Xvid, it is microsoft mpeg-4  
(Version 2.0)

TRANCE  is the price a misprint? ....i find that hard to believe they would ask for $169 for this app.

I tried the last version and it was obvious it was written by windows developers. At the moment it's rubbish, it might improve .....but i would not even pay $20 for it, there are much better alternatives at the moment  
(Version 1.1)

TRANCE  With this version if i try to edit and save an avi file i get a "no video compressor" error message.

The same files work fine with 1.9.2  
(Version 1.9.3b2)

TRANCE  this version is not good.

created avi files don't open and the viewing app (movist etc) crashes ....and btw avi files with mp4 audio? where's the mp3?

mov files with m4v extensions ...why?

extra libraries to clutter everything.

preferred the old icon ....this one is just a visualhub clone.

went back to the old version for now, hope it gets back on track.

p.s. what's with the version numbering ...MU shows 1.3.4, the app says 1.0.3, your site shows something else again  
(Version 1.3.4)

TRANCE  works great ....at first impression seems to be the best of the new video converters (including the shareware ones).

still has a few features not yet implemented or working properly and is still missing some codecs/formats like avi/xvid encoding but has some things that visualhub did not like picture adjustments.

good job.  
(Version 1.2)

TRANCE  really i have not tried it but 10mb seems rather large for an app that just empties or securely deletes your trash ....or is the memory clearing aspect an extra unexplained step?  
(Version 1.0)

TRANCE  when i try the terminal command i get a "file does not exist" (presumably because the folder 'bin' does not exist there and it will not let me create one even though i am the admin  
(Version 3.98)

TRANCE  it's not rocket science ....i get terrible compression artifacts with a higher bitrate setting with IVC than i do with a lower bitrate setting with penguin encoder, or mpegstreamclip, or handbrake.

I tried it a while back, and again now just to check if it had improved and it had not.  
(Version 1.1)

TRANCE  is it just me or am i doing something wrong but the picture quality i get with anything i convert with this is just awful ....i get much better results with mpegstreamclip or penguin encoder.  
(Version 1.1)

TRANCE  i have 2 problems with this app.

the self extracting archives it creates from the intel version are ppc and also not openable on windows.  
(Version 1.11)

TRANCE  Still there:

major bug with copying from FAT filesystems with special character / will result in

Error: bad file name passed to routine: there may be no bad names in the final system! (-37)

so, obviously, still has not been fixed, and this is not a beta, and I am posting it here so others are aware of it  
(Version 1.7)

TRANCE  once again audio with wmv using ffmpeg is broken with 0.6.2 .....this seems to be a recurring theme and something you'd think they would have found the source of the problem previously  
(Version 0.6.2)

TRANCE  has one of the weirdest bugs I have ever seen .....it creates a file called 'file.tiff' that has a reload icon, in the root of the drive .....or is there a purpose to placing this file there??  
(Version 1.5)

TRANCE  it's free isn't it? if you don't like it don't use it  
(Version 1.0.4)

TRANCE  um ...ok, i tried the new version and I still don't see the 'crop' feature  
(Version 1.0b6)

TRANCE  it needs at least cropping functionality and some picture adjustment settings to make it any better than the free available tools  
(Version 1.0b4)

TRANCE  yeah, I can see that but there is no 'move to trash' option and I mentioned 'sudo' delete because some files cannot be moved because of permissions  
(Version 1.1.1e95.1)

TRANCE  major bug with copying from windows filesystems with special character / will result in Error: bad file name passed to routine: there may be no bad names in the final system  
(Version 1.7b2)

TRANCE  promising, needs a lot of improvement, including English localization ....like a development version of Together, a bit confusing the way the catagories are organised etc, and I could not figure out how to get the search to work  
(Version 0.2)

TRANCE  97mb !!!?? ....wtf!??

can this get any more bloated?? .....gone from the ridiculous usual 65mb in the last version to somehow adding on a extra 30mb!  
(Version 6.4.1)

TRANCE  good point.

I have criticised them before anyhow but they don't pay attention to any constructive crticism, either directly or on boards.

I have a number of issues with the app but they don't seem to care so I gave up and just take it for what it is.  
(Version 1.4.1)

TRANCE  yes, I already have those luckily since they pulled them a while back ....even those are no longer available  
(Version 1.4.1)

TRANCE  um .....pixelmator $59 ......photoshop $699

does your comparison really make any sense?

when they release a version of pixelmator that costs over $100 then you might be able to say that's it's meant for professional work.  
(Version 1.4.1)

TRANCE  scratch that ....just tried it and although it may be marginally better it still adds a lot of color noise to white areas of an image, so it still needs some work  
(Version 1.4.1)

TRANCE  oh ..ok, the saturation tool has indeed been improved in 1.4.1 ....missed that, my mistake  
(Version 1.4.1)

TRANCE  *Third-party core image units support improved*

That's great! ...now if we could just find some Third-party core image units! lol

Nice app, getting much better all the time, although that lack of being able to set a color management preference on startup is still annoying.

The color saturation adjustment needs some work also, adding saturation tends to create heavy color noise.  
(Version 1.4.1)

TRANCE  This is my new favorite maintenance app.

The developer really knows what he is doing and has not just thrown in a bunch of scripts that may or may not work.

Still has a some improvements to add but this is easily on par with the best.  
(Version 1.2)

TRANCE  how come there is no sudo delete button rather than having to manually hunt down and trash the files?  
(Version 1.1.1e942)

TRANCE  I feel I must chime in with all these negative reviews from people who have never even tried the app.

Even though microsoft owns it, it is the best app of it's kind ...i.e media cataloging.

And 2.0.2 finally did fix some major bugs that had been present since it changed from iView.

The interface is a little outdated and would be helped by being completely rewritten in cocoa but nevertheless it still does what it is supposed to do remarkably well.  
(Version 2.0.2096)

TRANCE  This may be a dumb question but what if someone doesn't want the contextual munu item in the root of the menu?

Not knocking the idea, just maybe should be an option.  
(Version 1.5)

TRANCE  still many preferences/functions missing, not ready for proper use yet but looks very promising  
(Version 0.1)

TRANCE  works as advertised.

Would be nice to have a preference to skip the dialog and just have it open, clean the folder and quit automatically.

Thanks  
(Version 0.90b)

TRANCE  Audio with wmv using ffmpeg is broken with 0.6.

Went back to .051 until this issue is fixed  
(Version 0.6)

TRANCE  ditto ....same Finder crash as below

Connection is invalid" msg and then the Finder crashes  
(Version 1.5)

TRANCE  Things is the first To-Do app that is a pleasure to use. Simple, straightforward, intuitive, looks nice, not bloated with a load of useless functions.

I also have tried Omnifocus, found the interface cluttered, unintuitive, complicated, and besides (not that this is important) it leaves a bunch of files all over the place, as opposed to one in the prefs and one in app support ....who know why they find it necessary to have it create so many files ...maybe because the app is so complicated?

It would be nice to have Things for something other than the iphone e.g. symbian, android, or even a java app so it could work on any mobile platform. We are not all iClones;)  
(Version 1.0.2)

TRANCE  i was just about to say "nice app" when I noticed how much RAM this app uses, as well as hitting the 'windowserver' for an equal amount of RAM .... and it keeps growing the more you use it.

It also crashed a couple of times during searches, and you cannot set your default window sizes and location ....new notes keep popping up in the left side of your screen which is annoying.  
(Version 1.6.1)

TRANCE  This Divx function with this new version works great thanks ....the audio is in sync now (and the export is much faster and brighter than mp4)  
(Version 0.97b8)

TRANCE  any folder with any number of .pages documents inside will cause the error and hang, requiring force quit, I have attached a sample that you can check if you can get any information from it, otherwise there is no other hang or crash log that I can find

http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/115c47c3cf/Sample_of_Search&Replace.txt  
(Version 1.2)

TRANCE  Thanks, but it doesn't work ....I get an applescript error (-1409) and then the app hangs.  
(Version 1.2)

TRANCE  I don't know the format, but here is a pages document you can check, thanks

http://www.sendmefile.com/00664884  
(Version 1.1)

TRANCE  nice for an initial version.

my suggestions:

delete"d" saved thumbnails spelled incorrectly.

keyboard left and right buttons should go back and forward in the folder, not move the picture around the screen.

need a trash/delete button.

doesn't remove cached thumbnails of images that have been removed from folders.

thumbnail location is wrong, should be in application support instead of caches because they will get deleted every time the caches are cleaned thoroughly.  
(Version 0.1)

TRANCE  works great for converting .rm files (except for the older ones), just have to use the optimize instead of the divx finction or the sound will be out of sync.

only problem is the converted files are darker than the original, a fix would be appreciated :)

Thanks  
(Version 0.97b7)

TRANCE  any possibility of support for .pages?

thanks  
(Version 1.1)