XMROCKS  Unfortunately, that's the risk you take when installing software like this that modifies system files for iChat.

The only remedy is reinstalling from the Tiger DVD.  
(Version 1.4.3)

XMROCKS  FYI, I did read the instructions and only ran the program once. I should not need to use Pacifist to fix the problems your software created. Plain and simple.

So stop assuming that I didn't read the instructions. And of course you're going to say your application is stable. Anything else would look bad from a developer.  
(Version 1.2.2)

XMROCKS  Agree with "Jim Milton" below. This app is causing issues system wide on my machine.

Spotlight no longer shows up.

Airport menu no longer shows up.

Screen captures of any kind no longer work.

Re-enabling these items in System Preferences does nothing, so it's clearly an issue with this application. Would NOT recommend this application as it's highly unstable and screws with important system files.   
(Version 1.2.2b3)

XMROCKS  Pretty nice. The thing that differentiates this widget from all of the other mail checking widgets is that it doesn't open up Mail.

Those widgets are kind of redundant in that you'd open Dashboard first, it would then open Mail to check for new e-mail, and then you'd switch over to Mail.app. In other words, you could have saved time by just opening Mail.app in the first place. Kind of pointless if you ask me.

With this widget, it's an easy F12 to Dashboard. If there are new messages, you can then choose to open Mail if you want. If not, it doesn't care :-)

It would be nice to be able to read snippets of the new e-mail and then have the option to open the Mail.app, but so far a good start!  
(Version 1.41)

XMROCKS  Crashes iChat when clicking "Decline" on a new chat with tabbed views open and another person in the same tab. Window goes blank after clicking decline and then kills iChat.

Uninstalling it now since it's not stable enough to use.

Date/Time: 2006-04-03 21:03:04.520 -0400

OS Version: 10.4.6 (Build 8I127)

Report Version: 4

Command: iChat

Path: /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat

Parent: WindowServer [96]

Version: 3.1.4 (432)

Build Version: 3

Project Name: iChat

Source Version: 4320000

PID: 3905

Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000027

Thread 0 Crashed:

0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90a41bec objc_msgSend_stret + 12

1 com.apple.iChat 0x0002debc 0x1000 + 183996

2 com.ksuther.chax 0x005f241c -[HaxChatController _adjustInputLineHeightBy:] + 520

3 com.apple.iChat 0x00031e5c 0x1000 + 200284

4 com.apple.iChat 0x00031c64 0x1000 + 199780

5 com.apple.iChat 0x0002f618 0x1000 + 189976

6 com.ksuther.chax 0x005fc0fc -[TabbedChatController windowShouldClose:] + 260

7 com.apple.AppKit 0x9381a1a4 -[NSWindow _document:shouldClose:contextInfo:] + 140

8 com.apple.AppKit 0x9377c270 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 108

9 com.apple.AppKit 0x9377c1a4 -[NSControl sendAction:to:] + 96

10 com.apple.AppKit 0x9377c084 -[NSCell _sendActionFrom:] + 156

11 com.apple.AppKit 0x9377bb64 -[NSButtonCell performClick:] + 472

12 com.apple.AppKit 0x9377c270 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 108

13 com.apple.AppKit 0x937d6aa4 -[NSMenu performActionForItemAtIndex:] + 392

14 com.apple.AppKit 0x937d6828 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 104

15 com.apple.AppKit 0x937d62d0 -[NSMenu performKeyEquivalent:] + 272

16 com.apple.AppKit 0x937d5f1c -[NSApplication _handleKeyEquivalent:] + 328

17 com.apple.AppKit 0x936dfa28 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 2944

18 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d7330 -[NSApplication run] + 508

19 com.apple.AppKit 0x937c7e68 NSApplicationMain + 452

20 com.apple.iChat 0x00002fd4 0x1000 + 8148

21 com.apple.iChat 0x00076e94 0x1000 + 482964

Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:

srr0: 0x0000000090a41bec srr1: 0x000000000200f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000

cr: 0x44000422 xer: 0x0000000020000004 lr: 0x000000000002debc ctr: 0x0000000090a41be0

r0: 0x0000000012000000 r1: 0x00000000bfffe210 r2: 0x0000000001823408 r3: 0x00000000bfffe260

r4: 0x0000000006183170 r5: 0x0000000090a92b40 r6: 0x00000000ffffffff r7: 0x0000000000492750

r8: 0x000000005e4e3e2c r9: 0x0000000004ae36f0 r10: 0x0000000000000004 r11: 0x000000000016fafc

r12: 0x0000000000000007 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000

r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000000000 r19: 0x0000000000000000

r20: 0x0000000000000000 r21: 0x0000000000000000 r22: 0x0000000000000000 r23: 0x0000000000000000

r24: 0x0000000000180000 r25: 0x0000000000180000 r26: 0x0000000000000000 r27: 0x0000000006197530

r28: 0x0000000000180808 r29: 0x00000000bfffe3d0 r30: 0x0000000000181128 r31: 0x000000000619d2b0  
(Version 1.4.1b1)

XMROCKS  Download works fine here as of 2:24pm, EST.  
(Version 1.2.2)

XMROCKS  Pretty cool application! It'd be nice to have the same effects as Photobooth (if that's possible). But otherwise, fun to play around with - nice job!  
(Version 2.1)

XMROCKS  A really great application and the free credit to get you started is a great way to push people to using it!

I've been using it for a while now and it's a bit better than Skype, in my opinion. When I've received calls with Skype, they are often garbled and staticy, but no so with Gizmo.

I'd recommend it. After all, it's free to try and you get a few cents of free credit. What's to lose?!  
(Version 1.3.2.132)

XMROCKS  Works like a charm! Highly useful, easy to use, and free! Couldn't ask for more and would highly recommend (as I've done often on the Apple Discussions) :-)  
(Version 1.3)

XMROCKS  Wow... that sums it up! One of the best widgets; well designed, great GUI, and the ability to make it smaller when not in use is... useful!

Excellent job!  
(Version 1.0)

XMROCKS  This is an OK program. The only issue I have with it is that there's no way of changing the box-like shape to it and there's no easy way to quit the program other than going into Activity Monitor and killing the daemon.

I'd recommend GrowliChat in the meantime as it offers more flexibility as to where the notification appears, the shape of the notification, and an easy way to turn off/on notifications. But it's still not a bad start.  
(Version 3.4)

XMROCKS  You're welcome as well!

I was actually inspired by OompaLocker 1.0 which basically locks the InputManager directory. I just took it a step further and included a removal script.

Thanks again for the comments and the note of appreciation :)

-Ryan  
(Version 1.0)

XMROCKS  You're very welcome :)

-Ryan  
(Version 1.0)

XMROCKS  I wish I could say it worked but I can't. TiVo sees the connection by placing it in the Music, Photos, & More category. When selecting it, it eventually times out and returns the following:

"An error occurred while running the application. Http failure (Http Connection error: 0x50005).  
(Version 1.5pr0214)

XMROCKS  Simple, useful, and unobtrusive. Couldn't sum it up better than that - very nice job!  
(Version 1.2)

XMROCKS  Right, see how I was using 1.4b and not 1.5.3? This documentation was not available in 1.4b, IIRC.

The documentation still makes no note of this other than "plays Quicktime movies."  
(Version 1.5.3)

XMROCKS  First off, yes it's beta and I understand that.

Uses up an absurd amount of CPU at times (~80%). When playing music via iTunes, it sometimes cuts out the music while it's processing whatever I tell it to do. So in that respect, it's obtrusive since it wants so much CPU time.

If it's the only application open, it's great. If you plan on using it with another application open that uses a bit of CPU, it's not efficient enough to be usable at this point in time.

Needless to say, Google has some work to do on it.  
(Version 3.1.0527.0)

XMROCKS  Thanks for the compliment!

As for Sirius, I'm strongly considering it as I'm a subscriber to both services anyway. With time permitting, *hopefully* I'll be able to bring something together. No promises, though!

-Ryan  
(Version 1.5)

XMROCKS  The application does not work for me using 10.4.x. It refuses to recognize .mpg files (as those are the only movie file types I have on my system, I cannot test other formats).

The interface has misspellings, too, such as "Import/Brows" and "Updat All short cuts".

The interface, IMO, is also ugly. The buttons aren't consistent with the look-and-feel of the application and the fonts/bolded letters fall inline with not following/adhering to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Application needs work and is more beta than a full release.  
(Version 1.4)

XMROCKS  The developer is on top of things and fixed both of the above issues (saving strings and close the application via the red x) in version 1.9.

Well done, and thanks for the prompt fix :)  
(Version 1.9)

XMROCKS  Well done! I was watching the thread while someone requested it on dashboardwidgets.com and wasn't sure about it at first.

This widget is a huge time waster in a sense that you can watch it all day (just like the real lava lamp!!) and not get any work done!

Overall, well done, fun to watch, and worth the download!  
(Version 1.1)

XMROCKS  The window is now resizable per your request. Enjoy!  
(Version 1.4)

XMROCKS  Also forgot to mention, there's no way of saving the custom string for the next time you open the application.

So for instance, if I have load averages as my first message and uptime as my second message and later close the app because I am done with iChatAV, I can't reopen the iChatState later and have my previous settings/messages saved, unfortunately. I'd have to recreate the messages, which is kind of annoying.  
(Version 1.8)

XMROCKS  It's a decent application. The interface is kind of basic and the application's functions are very basic, but it has potential.

There is a bug, though. Start up iChatState and then click the red x in the corner to close the application. There's currently no way of re-opening or opening a new instance of the application. You'd have to quit the application for it to show the GUI again.

Otherwise, it's a decent app and does as described.  
(Version 1.8)

XMROCKS  I never said it affected my life in any way...

I previously didn't know it was a leaked beta. Thanks for jumping down my throat though.  
(Version 3.1.0371)

XMROCKS  But they should still abide by Copyright and pre-release software "rules" in my opinion.

I did notice that it's not hosted on Google's servers and thus they're probably not supportive of the decision, otherwise they'd host it on their own servers. It also looks like the download link redirects to the "rapidshare" file sharing site for the download.   
(Version 3.1.0371)

XMROCKS  So if it's illegal, then why is it posted on MacUpdate? I'm not denying what you're saying but I don't condone sites supporting piracy and that's essentially what is being done by a beta tester and can cause some serious legal issues regarding pre-release software and NDA's.  
(Version 3.1.0371)

XMROCKS  It seems to be sporadic then. I'm using an iBook G4, 1.2 GHz, 768MB RAM. Others say it works, others have issues. Odd...  
(Version 3.1.0371)

XMROCKS  System resource hog. When my mouse is moving around in the interface, LineIn (used to play audio from my iMic) gets all garbled. This is with the mouse just moving around in the Google Earth interface and not actually zooming in/out or doing any work.

The same goes with using iTunes and playing music. It distorts the music and evens slows the music down. No other apps are open so it's not a conflict of what's getting CPU time and what's not.

Yes, it's a beta and yes, it's very buggy. HAte to say it, but exceptionally disappointing so far.  
(Version 3.1.0371)

RYAN  Thanks for the comments. I thought about a widget but decided against it since I'm not too familiar with Javascript. But I appreciate the feedback!  
(Version 1.2)

RYAN  Couldn't agree more as well. Thank you for your hard word, developers! It's greatly appreciated!  
(Version 1.4.3)