as someone noted about v.2.5, v.2.8.0 also leaks like a sieve. at launch on my system, PowerTicker uses 10.8 MB of RAM; the longer the app runs - that is, just the ticker running across the top of the screen; i don't use any of the app's other functions - the more RAM it takes up; i think the most i've caught it using is 760 MB.

it also seems to be less than fully compatible with Snow Leopard, as quitting PowerTicker - even before it's sucked up over 700 MB of RAM - leaves a motionless apparition of the ticker across my screen.

and finally, when the ticker is running - again, no matter how much RAM it's taken up so far - it's slightly jittery. it's a minor thing, but i can't help but think how much more pleasing it would be to look at if it rolled smoothly across the screen.

i love PowerTicker's ticker - jitters aside, it's the nicest-looking one i've found. but behind the scenes is a rather flawed mass of code that nobody seems terribly interested in fixing. i wish they did, but the fact that it's leaked memory for at least ten years now - since before WhiteNile owned it - and that it's been updated somewhere around once every three or four years and none of those updates has addressed the app's biggest problems - doesn't give me much reason to hope.