Existing users, 
Thanks to the developer for making this nice piece of softwar and for making it free. It works well on my PB 15" aluminium on 10.4.1 and in the case of having to deal with the trackpad it really helps a lot. The comfort of using a trackpad with this extension is much higher.
But I noticed in the last two versions, that the installer of tries to connect to a server without notifying the user about this. LittleSnitch reported:"Installer wants to connect to ev1s-67-15-16-38.ev1servers.net on TCP port 80 (http)". As i hate spyware and any software that transmits data WITHOUT notifying the user, I'm not sure, if i would use it anymore.
I hope the developer could clarify the situation and won't implement such a function in future projects. It's a shame, that often a user has to report about "phoning home" before developers remove it or say what it really does. It's not the best way to make a relationship of trust to your users.
Mart°n
P.S.: My rating reflects the nice functionality but as it behave now, i could not recomment the software until the situation about phoning home is clear.
iScroll2
two-finger scrolling for pre-2005 PowerBooks & iBooks
Version: 0.32
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Contributed by: neonlight Sunday, May 29 2005 @ 11:25 AM PDT
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Nice but... - neonlight
Thanks for the tip with Ethernal. I'm not that paranoid and I think it is panic what drove me to write this review. I simply don't like if a piece of software does something like phoning home without notifying me. It is my computer an I'd like to know and control what it does. But if I don't even know, I couldn't control. I choose software carefully because of it's features and of the benefit of using it. If i know of such a behaviour in a program I could decide by myself if I use it or if I throw it into the trash. It's not the fear that a software could spy on me, but if I'd like a bunch of software phoning home, I already could by a Windows PC.I simply don't like it and there's a hope if enough people report such "network connections" the developer would stop this practise. If I could help some developers with some kind of data from my machine I normally would do this. The people from Omnigroup asked via a dialouge box, if I would transfer my configuration to help them optimising their software. This isn't a problem, but I prefer if I'm being asked.
The problem with packet-sniffnig is simple, that i have to allow the network connection to sniff the data. But if I do this, the data is already sent. So i know what is being sent, but i couldn not undo this. In my case LittleSnitch is a nice solution, because i could deny the conection and everything is fine.
The trackpad driver itself doesn't try to connect, it's only the installer.
Sunday, May 29 2005 @ 01:14 PM PDT
Read Me images - aamann
The issue is that the Read Me displayed by the Installer has a base URL tag and thus pulls the images from that server - no reason to be paranoid but IMO a slightly poor implementation of the Read Me...Sunday, May 29 2005 @ 01:16 PM PDT
Read Me images - neonlight
Thanks for this information. This clears something up.Sunday, May 29 2005 @ 02:17 PM PDT
Nice but... - brossow
If you're that paranoid, you'd do well to learn how to use a packet sniffer (such as Ethernal 1.2) and find out exactly what data is being sent or received instead of panicking simply because a shareware app initiated a network connection.Reply to This
Sunday, May 29 2005 @ 12:23 PM PDT