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February 26, 2008

software

Unsanity is back

Posted Feb. 26, ’08, 5:27 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

Unsanity One of my favorite pieces of shareware is Unsanity’s Fruitmenu. What can I say? I have a little bit of that nostalgia. I like being able to customize the Apple menu. I like putting various folders and applications into it. The Apple menu is in an unmoving location and virtually always available.

When Leopard first premiered, other than a bug in an obsolete version of APE, we heard nothing about the software developer. Radio silence. I began to wonder if I’d continue to stare at Apple’s bland new(sih) self-branded menu for the rest of time. Those ellipses continued to mock me, as if to say “you can’t just restart or shutdown without me bugging the crud out of you”. (I do know I can hold option, but having to hold another guy means I might as well click/button press out of the confirmation dialog.)

Unsanity is back with Leopard ready versions of their products (all in beta). Ah, but that’s not all that Unsanity has written about in their post. It also explains why the long obsolete APE 2.0.1 caused a problem with 10.5.0 but not 10.5.1 or 10.5.2. Also, it explains why they couldn’t test for the issue and why there wasn’t anything they could do even after the incompatibility was found (“Hi dear user, please update to a version that released a year and a half ago.”). It’s long, but if you were one of those ready to point the finger (ahem, Dan), it hopefully will give you a fresh perspective.

Beyond that, we have all those great utilities back (in beta form). I’m pretty happy about that.


1 Comments

Joe said:

Saying "all" of Unsanity's programs are currently in beta for Leopard without in actually, having, you know, Shapeshifter in beta, is like saying "all" of Adobe's apps are in beta except Photoshop.

February 26, 2008 6:42 AM

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