Spyder - 1.4.46

I downloaded and ran in demo mode and decided to do a test by sending out a simple greeting to my friends in a certain city.

I was horrified to find that my message was surrounded by spam for Spyder and spent the next hour going through myspace's incredibly slow process of removing my comments to the 40 people it posted to. Unfortunately, I couldn't recind the dozen or so people who must approve comments still got the message.. I was pissed... and so were some of the recipients.

I understand this being part of the demo.. but only after it made me a spammer. Outrageous. Maybe its written in the intro somewhere, but I didn't see it..

I suggest you warn people each time before they click send that if you use the demo version this is going to happen. Give people notice or disable multiple comments in the demo mode, instead of prostituting the software and those who are trying out the demo.

I have to tell you, I would have been sold on the multiple comment feature alone, but you put my reputation on the line, not to mention possible expulsion from myspace. This disregard for people in the use of your demo was ample reason NOT to buy the product. Are there any other ways you use the product to promote itself?

Not cool.

I'd like to stress that the layout and idea behind this program is great - and to the developer(s) you're doing a good job. I also realize that myspace has some VERY slow connection speeds, and that is going to interfere with your information loading.

That said - there should be SOME way to parse data without locking up the UI. Unfortunately as things are loading the rest of the program just ceases to function. Unfortunately, particularly with no cached data - it seems like the program is no longer responding (it is). At the very least I would suggest adding some kind of progress bar - perhaps there is and i missed it.

Secondarily - Setting some standard menu shortcuts would be a good idea. When a user wants to reply to a message, many will go for the mail key combo. Having to touch the menu for basic tasks is cubersome.

Also - there seems to be superfluous visual data in the itunes like lcd display portion, making that clickable to go to a given area would satisfy expected behaviour. They look like clickable objects.

You have laid some great groundwork here, and I hope to see the continuing improvement. There are two reasons I won't be purchasing the software.

The first is the lack of usability due to constant ui lockups caused by data fetching. Maybe you can add a one time huge update so teh incremental updates won't impact so much.

The second reason is the price. As much as I feel developers need to be rewarded - and pay for my mac applications/donate to opensource. The price is too much for someone like me - just a myspace user. Perhaps if your target audience is bands, politicians, etc - i can see it - but to basically pay that price to not use a web browser - I really feel you'd have more success about $1 0 less. Obviously - value is in the eye of the beholder - and in no way do my thoughts on the product price reflect your hard work - its just a niche product that has a singular use - and used mostly for recreation - and all of the functionality can be not only replicated online, but faster at this point.

Again, I look forward to seeing the progress with this program, and you've definitely got a good start.