DoThisNow - 2.1.1

WARNING: This Company Is Dead! Do Not Purchase this Software!

Over three weeks ago I bought this hunk a junk. I had problems running it on my new Intel Mac Mini and wrote the support. No one answered. I wrote again after 15 days. Still no answer.

It seems like they were happy to take my money but then they don't care.

I found the following by searching for the developer, Bryan Lund:

"We discovered the dark secret of all those shiny fancy Macs out there. A good portion of the Mac enthusiast that use them are really rude. Really, really rude. We had no idea the kind of mean hurtful things the readers...would say to us"

This is probably due to the huge amount of criticism that Lund took on his blog some time ago (from what I've read) by customers who were dissatisfied with his products and wanted some kind of resolution to unending problems. Apparently Lund took those comments as personal attacks on himself.

Here's further news by blogger Phill Ryu:

"As you...screw your RadicalBreeze customers as well (the people who so generously enabled a half-assed developer to quit his day job and do quite well for years), you frame the entire thing in your favor and send out PRESS RELEASES ..."

Again this apparently describes Lund's actions at the Macworld SF gathering in January of 2006 when he announced the "imminent" release of obvious vaporware "Formation II."

I only wish I'd found out about this stuff *before* I bought this road apple disguised as a Mac app.

going through what it does, I have to say that Butler does everything this does, and then some, ALL for FREE.

$19 my foot.

give butler a chance before you even half think of buying this. the devs have every right to charge for this. but we also have every right to use superior apps that do the same thing for free. :)

...rather than 2. I guess 2 wrongs won't necessarily make a right.

Try to disregard their review, perhaps; try the app, then vote for yourself. I certainly found it far from deserving a 1-star rating.

Well, I'm posting this mainly to balance the 2 one-star reviews, which are most likely unfounded as a general review of the app. It launches fine on my machine (OS X 10.3.3); my guess is it's something specific to that person's machine.

GUI is well put together for the most part. I'd probably make the width of the left-hand column resizable if possible, by using something like an NSSplitView (though I dunno if that or its equivalent is available to Carbon apps like this), somewhat similar to the change that happened between the Jaguar and Panther versions of Disk Utility. Geez, lol. Okay, I missed the resizability of the main window--I guess you can scratch that critique.

The placement of the Add New Action and Delete Action "buttons" are a bit confusing, though. As toolbar items, I'd expect them to behave like switching panes in iTunes. Instead, for whatever reason, I'd expect to see little + and - buttons down at the bottom of the column, similar to creating a playlist in iTunes, adding a Buddy in iChat, etc...

Price seems maybe a little high, IMO.. While it's only $4 difference, $15 seems to be a bit more fitting perhaps. I dunno, just my 2¢.

Downloaded. Moved the whole folder to Applications. Opened sub-folder to locate the actual app. Launched it. Sat and watched the spinning pizza of death for 3 minutes before I gave up. Menu Meters was saying the CPU was being worked at around to 60% for that entire 3 minutes (while the DoItNow icon just kept bouncing merrily away in the Dock.) Force quit and tossed it. I'll come back and try yet again, I suppose, becuase I'm a glutton for punishment.