User Profile for Paul Hagstrom

OmniGrowl 3.6.2 (Mac OS X)

A very useful application  

I've been using OmniGrowl for quite a long time, and I do really miss it now when it's on a machine that's not installed. The developers have generally been pretty quick to address problems (though I haven't interacted with them directly), and it's otherwise been pretty unobtrusive. I would definitely recommend this. I haven't seen (at least in any recent version) problems with the preferences pane always coming up, it works as advertised. I haven't tried everything it can do, but I have tried the RSS feeds, weather, iTunes notifications, log notifications, SMART notifications, and iCal notifications, and all work just as they're supposed to. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 01:50 AM PDT

fairly decent product, terrible support  

This is a bit unfair to M/S I think. There's a post on their support boards that outlines what the problem was, and it seems to have been out of their control. They couldn't start development sooner, because Apple had not finalized the sync services portion (pretty much the heart of what MissingSync does) until the same release that the public got. Quoting from that message:

There were MAJOR changes to sync in Leopard, including…