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Snak - 5.0.2

IRC chat client for internet meeting rooms

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 5.0.2:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	5.0.2
Release Date:	2005-06-21
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 5.0.2):	14,635
Downloads (all versions):	186,730
Price:	$25.00

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Product Description:

IRC - Internet Relay Chat. With Snak you can chat with people from all over the world in IRC meeting rooms on the Internet. Millions of people use IRC and there are thousands of meeting rooms with varied subjects like computers, soccer or sports. You can also use IRC to have private conversations with family or friends, and since IRC is worldwide you can use it to practice your language skills.

What's new in this version:

[New] The profile list remembers the open/closed state.
[New] Nested tell statements in AppleScript will send the command to the right target.
[New] Additional settings in the window preference panel to determine where new panels open. Default is in front window.
[New] Display status messages in the channel titlebar while the connection is being established.
[New] The panel buttons has the same contextual menu as the corresponding panel.
[Chg] The down arrow in the message history in the input field will now always give you a blank input field. The existing contents are saved and can be retrieved with the up arrow. The reason for this is to make it easier to work with partial messages. If you are working on a long message to someone and need to send a short reply to a message to someone else, just press the down arrow, type the short reply and retrieve the long message with the up arrow. The message history still contains 10 slots and the up arrow will still cycle through them.
[Chg] The /debuglog command is reenabled in the shipping build so that Snak can record incoming and outgoing data for debugging purposes.
[Chg] Resized the message dialogs since some messages were too long.
[Chg] Improved format of window title.
[Chg] Open profile list by default if no other windows were opened at launch.
[Chg] If a preexisting server is added again to the server dialog, scroll it into view and select it.
[Chg] Prevent deletion of the DCC item in the profile list.
[Fix] The autoaway script will always return a value from the idle handler.
[Fix] Crash on certain servers which sends out the channel banlist items with certain parts missing.
[Fix] The channel list would not update if it was visible when the list channel command was issued.
[Fix] Playing old-style sound files from an action would often play noise instead of the song.
[Fix] Some system versions would have "Rescued Items" in the trash after a restart because a temporary file did not get deleted.
[Fix] Crash when using the lastlog command (This command is recognized but unimplemented).
[Fix] Possible crash if the floating input window was visible on quit.
[Fix] The userlist would not open properly for the initial list window.
[Fix] One of the edit fields in the setup assistant would scroll incorrectly.
[Fix] Occasional screen trash along top line in a text panel.
[Fix] The transparency setting did not get applied to new windows.
[Fix] The connection menu in the File menu did not get updated when deleting connections in the profile list.
[Fix] The close button in the DCC panel did not work.
[Fix] Potential crash when deleting a query or a filter panel directly from the profile list.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 5.0.2:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(4.5)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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File serve - Version: 5.3.3, 7/13/2008 07:44PM PST

macshadow

Any one use this to share a folder on an irc client? And if so, how? Can't find any place to choose a folder and am not getting a response to my emails to support.

The best IRC client! - Version: 5.3.3, 1/13/2008 08:43AM PST

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

ciglione1

I've been using Snak for years, and I'm glad to see it's still getting better and better! I used to have a license and I was thinking to get a new one, so I went to the website and found out about the pledge to kiva.org. What to say... Great! I felt even more motivated to send the money, since it would be used to help those people. I totally appreciate their support to Kiva and I wish more developers would do such things!

The only thing I really would like to see is the possibility to have a DCC transfer window open "in the background", like a private message (basically, without making it the active window). Apart from this, I'm completely satisfied with the program.

By the way, the support is also very good. I remember sending info on a bug to the developer: he replied and said he'd work on it, and in the following Snak version I found the bugs had been fixed.

I did try other IRC clients, but Snak is still the best by far!

Great initiative. Supporting kiva.org microcredit with PayPal payments - Version: 5.3.3, 11/15/2007 05:01PM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

brunobfan

I'm so completely thrilled to see that the authors of Snak have pledged to give all PayPal payments to kiva.org (http://kiva.org) Kiva is one of my favorite charities because they help by giving poor people access to small loans so they can help themselves. It's totally different than writing a check to a random charity to do with as they please. It's called micro-credit afaik

So, when you pay for or renew a Snak license, the money will be sent to kiva and loaned out to someone in the third world. Each lender loans out only a small amount like $25 which goes towards the full amount that the loaner has requested. The Snak authors are even publishing their page at kiva so you can check that they actually do what they have promised. Right now they've already loaned out 18 separate chunks of money. Way to go, Snak users :-) You can read more about their pledge at http://www.snak.com/KivaPledge.html

Oh, and since this is a review I better end by saying that 5.3.3 works great. I haven't updated to Leopard yet so I haven't seen the bugs that this version fixes. Snak is stable and reliable.