Application Enhancer

Interesting: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258 It says version 2.0.1 or earlier, suggesting that the current version should be Lion compatible. Still, Windowshade and MenuMaster both require Rosetta, which is not supported under Lion. Wonder if/when/how Unsanity will handle this.

I can't Login or Access Account Info on Mac App Store, Anybody else having this issue and is there any way to fix it?

Copy/Paste AFCGBBOB er, ah, gameboybob!!! Can be dangerous to your system too!

When is this thing going to get updated to 64-bit?

This is a commentary, not a review. I'm going to tell why I won't ever use Application Enhancer again, even though I loved WindowShade and I already miss it very much. I used APE and WindowShade for years. I couldn't believe it when I discovered that OS X unceremoniously did away with the window shade feature of all System 9 windows, so I was delighted to find WindowShade. The first signs of trouble showed up when WindowShade wouldn't work with certain apps. OK, fine...I just added those apps to the exclude list. Not ideal, but nothing's perfect. The list of excluded apps grew under Tiger (10.4.11), but I still stuck with WindowShade and APE as long as I could. The real problem happened when I tried to upgrade a G5 DP 2.5 to Leopard. I installed the new system on a volume that already had APE installed. The system installed, but on the reboot after install, I got a black screen, and the system wouldn't start up. The fans on the G5 spun up to full speed and stayed there. I let it run for maybe 20 seconds, but if you've ever heard a G5's fans running full-bore...well, it's a frightening sound. I forced the machine to shut down. Alas, the G5 has never been the same since. It doesn't boot from any system--Tiger or Leopard--or even from an Apple system install disk. The only way I can get it to boot is by going through Open Firmware...and even then it only boots sometimes. It appears to be a hardware problem caused by the heat generated during the failed reboot. I never suspected APE as the cause of the problem until I finally found, after hours of searching, some older posts that reported exactly the same problems with numerous cases of system upgrades from Tiger to Leopard. Apparently, the culprit was the older version of APE I was running under Tiger. I've been seeing warnings about system haxies for years. I ignored them for the simple reason that I never had a problem I could verifiably link to APE. But the destruction of the G5 has convinced me. As much as I miss WindowShade, I'm through with APE and all system haxies. It's not worth it.

Thanx to UnSanity for this update that sorta kinda fixing it so that WindowShade sorta kinda works for iTunes. It's pretty ugly looking, but it works. Thanx guys! So what the difference between Application Enhancer SDK 2.6.1 and Application Enhancer 2.6.1?

  I have made good use of several of Unsanity's products, in a professional environment. As far as I'm concerned, flawlessly under Tiger, so no complaint here. Yet, I have to agree with most comments that those people, to put it mildly, have a talent to positively defecate on their customers & users. One thing is that they ask for ideas. I did provide some suggestions to them, but never even got the slightest acknowledgment. Fair enough, maybe what I'd sent them didn't make sense in their eyes. Maybe they're too busy, I said to myself (but how come, when I was running my own online store, we ALWAYS found the time to reply to requests, even the silliest ones?) Quite different, though, the total lack of response I experienced after they finally upgraded some of their haxies so they could run under Snow Leopard. I purchased several of them, and was even granted a voucher for the purchase of other products - within a month. I wrote to Unsanity asking for a proper invoice, as the "receipt" they issue online and my mail is not considered as valid by my tax authorities. I also asked them to put me on a mailing list for when the new version of FruitMenu would be available (Soon! - their site said). And: would they kindly extend the validity of their voucher to use it when purchasing FruitMenu, as it was the only one of their utilities I still needed? Finally, I reported that their update of WindowShade compatible with Snow Leopard was causing havoc when used on multiple screens: once your windows are minimized on a secondary screen, you can't get hold of them anymore! We're talking here of straightforward Apple monitors.   To this day, and in spite of four or five reminders, I have received no reply whatsoever from Unsanity. When the update of FruitMenu was released (no warning!), the voucher had expired two days earlier. Needless to say, its validity didn't appear to have been extended when I tried to purchase online. Moreover, after reading that the upgrade was free for registered users, I tried to use my current FruitMenu key (still working fine as of a recently reinstalled Tiger). To no avail (of course?)   I once again wrote to Unsanity, by now not with the friendliest of tones. Silly me, I should have known: response = zilch. So now I'm left with my money thrown out of the WindowShade that won't work properly (not even the latest update a few days ago), and, on the bright side, finding an alternative piece of freeware, XMenu, that does in Snow Leopard some of the things FruitMenu is supposed to do, but won't be doing "on my watch."   Curiously, passwords to Unsanity's haxies are not listed in Serial Box. Makes you wonder...   Last curiosity: a note with the recent update of WindowShade stated something like "this depression is so painful". Is this the explanation? "Depression" could be one of several things, of course...

I'm finally able to use WindowShade and FruitMenu with Application Enhancer 2.6.1. I think that after Tiger I stopped using Unsanity products, so it's nice to have these 2 back in my system. I have used Unsanity products for years, starting with Echo which was their first product IIRC. I'm not happy about the time it took, but I'm glad to see this working once again.