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Re: A Moment In Stats: iStat Menus and Snow Leopard Shoot Skyward

Rob Oudendijk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:53:14 -0000

Beta work fine for me too. Very happy. Made my donation directly.

Re: A Moment In Stats: iStat Menus and Snow Leopard Shoot Skyward

Rob Oudendijk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:19:43 -0000

Thank you. Downloaded and happy. Made my donation directly.. great software need support.

Re: A Moment In Stats: iStat Menus and Snow Leopard Shoot Skyward

danboarder — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:28:19 -0000

Thanks! However, Drop.io has Failed on me:

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Re: A Moment In Stats: iStat Menus and Snow Leopard Shoot Skyward

jmacofearth — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:54:01 -0000

The iStat Menus beta is now available for download. See link at the top of the post.

Re: A Moment In Stats: iStat Menus and Snow Leopard Shoot Skyward

Rob Oudendijk — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:41:33 -0000

I agree with Ben. Most of ISTAT menu users will not hesitate to run beta's. We got so use to this great tool that we can not use a "standard" finder menu bar. Specially people who switched from PC to Apple mis the knowledge of the hard disk activity.

Re: A Moment In Stats: iStat Menus and Snow Leopard Shoot Skyward

jmacofearth — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:51:18 -0000

The tech industry needs a boost and Apple is only 8% of the market. I am sure that the new WIN7 will get some companies back into purchase mode. Not everyone needs a Mac.

Re: A Moment In Stats: iStat Menus and Snow Leopard Shoot Skyward

Ben — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:32:34 -0000

Releasing a new version of an OS, with kernal enhancements, rewrites of slower and/or buggy code to improve performance, etc... it is pretty hard (next to impossible) to release a new major version (10.5, 10.6) that doesn't break compatibility with at least some programs. I don't blame Apple for this at all.

However, it would be nice if iSlayer was more lenient on their beta program. I love that I can tell TextMate to do "Cutting-Edge" updates, or tell Adium to stay on beta releases. Granted, Adium is open source, but TextMate is not and the fact that they allow you to control how dangeresque you want to be is excellent.

Please, iSlayer, open your beta program a bit more! :)

Re: A Moment In Stats: iStat Menus and Snow Leopard Shoot Skyward

Rob Oudendijk — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:13:17 -0000

The combination SL and Istat Menu something I and probably many people need. Apple should have made the change from L to SL without having applications to be rewritten. But they needed some thing before Windows 7 comes out.