WAKAYAMA  Admins, to label this as a free app is not a sound idea. Half of the process involved will cost you the full $20 fee. The free side is then next to useless, unless you like backing your preference files for fun on a wet sunday afternoon. (if you do, I have a great 'program' called drag-and-drop I'll sell you for $18, saving you a fortune!)

Please reclassify this under commercial products.

Oh, and for anyone considering, look at Mike Bombich's very excellent (and free) carbon copy cloner for backing up. Even though it is free, I've donated a couple of times, that's how useful it is.   
(Version 1.1.2)

WAKAYAMA  just drag it onto the text edit icon  
(Version 1.0.1)

WAKAYAMA  Brilliant, brilliant app! Having accidentally destroyed the master boot record (MPR), and lost a couple of partitions on my macbook pro internal drive, AND gone through the usual suspects for trying to resurrect a drive, I was beginning to despair and just on the verge of shelling out $100+ for a programme to just get the files back (but wouldn't resurrect the partition itself), I came across this little app.

The destruction manual could do with a little more info, as I didn't really believe it could do the job all by itself from what I had read, but lo and behold, it did. For free, as in beer.

If you are trying to recover a lost partition, give this a shot - especially on an intel mac, it's suhweet.

Cheers to the developer(s) for this!

(I tried to enter this as a review, but macupdate isn't loving me today. So here are my five stars *****)  
(Version 6.10)

WAKAYAMA  many thanks! Too bad some companies *cough* Apple *cough* can't be as swift with patches.

Mind you, they are running a bit low on funds these days, so maybe manpower resources are an issue.

Cheers!  
(Version 1.2)

WAKAYAMA  I've got to say that Peter is spot on here. It so happened that I installed a new tiger system on an old ibook today for someone, and updated it to 10.4.11. Ran the osascript that ifrancisco's link slashdot suggested [osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"';], and it returned 'Appleevent timed out (-1712)'.

My macbook pro returned 'root'.

This is exactly as Peter suggested: a box that had never turned on ard is not vulnerable.

that said, many thanks for this app, and I WILL be running it on my other macs, which have all had ard switched on   
(Version 1.2)

WAKAYAMA  no, not at all. You can just use issh to set up a tunnel and route all your http traffic via your/a computer in blighty (of course you have to have admin privileges on that computer and to have allowed ssh access on port 22, as well as port redirection on your router to make sure wan traffic actually reaches your server computer). That alone is enough for iplayer, and with firefox, you can tell it to use the socks proxy for http traffic, without all your other net traffic travelling down that little ssh pipe - your net traffic via the pipe will only be as fast as your upload speed on the uk computer.

BUT, with ivpn, you can do the above, and then pretend you are on your uk lan, so that printers on the uk lan become available, you can access your webmail/regular mail securely, have afp, etc etc. And remember that all this traffic going down the pipe is nice and secure through the vpn, as well as (and this is the important bit) as far as the bbc is concerned, you are surfing from your uk lan, and so can access all the content on iplayer, itv etc.

Crikey, I did rattle on a bit, didn't I? If I have time in the not too distant, I'll set up a little page, to explain how to do this all as it would affect a brit, but I can't promise it will be any time soon. Kid A, kid B, work, visiting family, they are all conspiring to keep me from doing interesting things like setting up little pages.

Good luck!  
(Version 1.3)

WAKAYAMA  does exactly what it says on the tin. Living abroad, I'm not able to get to watch 'catch up' on iplayer or the itv equivalent. This weekend I found two ways round this, one was issh, and the other was ivpn. I didn't realise they were both by the same chap - brilliant!

Anyways, the review. The server is very simple to set up, but don't forget to open the ports on the server side, and port redirect the router. I bet that catches a couple of newbies out, the port is 1723.

Client side, the only confusion was after entering the settings in leopard, you need to 'apply' the settings before hitting 'connect', which seems a bit Windows-ish to me. But that is nothing to do with this app or the author.

Many many thanks. Now I got iplayer, and printing direct to my office comp, and afp, and.... You get the picture.

Cheers  
(Version 1.0)

WAKAYAMA  I've been using the last couple of betas of the native open office app, and in my admittedly limited experience it's been stable. I'm not saying it's a picture of beauty, but if it means I don't need to be a slave to MS or Java, I'm happy. And it is very fast on my 2.5ghz powerbook, much more so than Neooffice. NO is unusable for anything other than occasional use on the office powerpc comps, sadly.

Cheers  
(Version 2.2.3 patch 3)

WAKAYAMA  Brilliant little plugin, and always progressing. Just being able to command click on youtube etc files to save them to disk alone is worth it. Domo~ domo~!  
(Version 3.0L159)

WAKAYAMA  iCal is your friend  
(Version 1.1)

WAKAYAMA  When I read the comment below about it not being supported in leopard I was really depressed. However, never one to believe what someone says (I'm still not convinced that mum is telling the truth about 'dad') I installed it anyways. At first my depression was deepened by its absence in the CM. However, if you look down the bottom, to 'more', you see it there in all its glory.

Do~mo, do~mo, Itoh-san, sueden kara domoarigatogozaimashita!  
(Version 2.0)

WAKAYAMA  this and other flv player are a total resource hog - on my g4 1.5 gig powerbook playback falls apart if I bring an other app or window to the foreground.

Do yourselves a big favour, and download the perian plugin for quicktime, and tame those flv files

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22923/perian

it just doesn't get any simpler, and it's totally free  
(Version 3.0.33.5102)

WAKAYAMA  this is now $20. Easyfind is still free. Does that mean easyfind is even better value now?

Easyfind - absolutely brilliant  
(Version 2.0)

WAKAYAMA  great little app, does one job, and now very nicely with the text over all apps.

Can I make a request though, and have the duration last longer? Say up to 500ms or eevn 1 second. Not subliminal I know, but nevertheless a great tool for language learning (trying to grasp a sentence with kanji and hiragana in 25ms, or even 50 is beyond my tiny brain)

cheers, and keep up the great work - it's appreciated!  
(Version 4.0)

WAKAYAMA  Hi again

well, clearly doing something wrong, as I just tried exactly the same thing for an ftp server, and it worked exactly the same way (I must confess I normally use transmit for ftp, so I hadn't tried it through the finder for a long timer - the finder is a lot faster than it used to be for ftp...)= perfectly.

So, so far my method works perfectly for afp, smb, and ftp. These are the only ones I've tried it on, but I'm sure that covers what 95% or more of what other people are doing with servers.

I've also just tried all three methods on another machine (eMac, 10.4.4) to check it's not due to some gizmo I've added to my system at some time. it works perfectly there too.

I'll happily make some movies to prove to you I'm not making this up.

I'll mail you at the addresses provided, and maybe we can have an ichat to see what I'm doing wrong... erm, right.

cheers!

PS, I have no idea what my 'divagation' is, I hope it isn't being rude! ;)  
(Version 0.9.8)

WAKAYAMA  Ok, I'm clearly having a blond day. What's stopping anyone from doing as I do:

1)use the 'connect to server' dialogue to log onto the server (same amount of work as filling in the info in this app)

2) as you are logging in, remember to click the "remember password in keychain" check box

3)once the volume has mounted drag it's icon from a finder window to the desktop (or wherever you like)- an alias is formed.

Unmount the volume, then double click the alias. Steve-be-praised, the volume mounts, no paper cuts, no grazed knees.

To mount this at log-in, drag the alias icon to the login items tab in the account pane in preferences. Wash hands, and repeat as necessary for other volumes. If you want to really impress your friends and make sure the volumes are always mounted, create a cronjob to open the alias.

It's great that this app is free and all, but who needs MORE gumph clogging up the system?

Hope this helps someone out  
(Version 0.9.8)