Jim In Holland

I wish TUAW would stop giving these guys a free ride.

Read the Firecore forums - lots of dissatisfied users waiting for promised features, codecs, etc that they've only seen screenshots of, eg:

http://blog.firecore.com/4144
http://blog.firecore.com/3856

I'm still surprised that they're charging a YEARLY FEE to distribute other people's free work.

Agreed - I'm not replacing my 1st gen AppleTV so quickly... it'd be great to use it on the old beast!

India!?
Puh-LEEZE come to Europe already!

I wanted to follow up on this - Marketcircle's response is to drop the firewall or to use the firewall in the Application-specific mode, which - as many know - has iTunes problems (iTunes requests admin asssitance each and every time) and this mode is annoying if you already use Little Snitch (and who doesn't?). The reason being that Billings needs access to contact the iPhone version, which is reasonable, but very clunky with this firewall model. I'd really rather they use something like Tapbot's Pastebot helper app to communicate through the better-security firewall. I'm going to turn off syncing until I need to, because it's just not worth the aggrevation.

Bought it immediately - I have been desperately hoping to get a timing app that runs independent to my computer, and being a Billings user already...

One problem though: Requires you drop the firewall to sync. I usually run with "Allow only essential services", but it can't communicate in this mode (yet Pastebot can, without a hiccup).

Hopefully they can correct this - it's really slick otherwise.

Boy, don't you know there's a recession goin' on? Put down that Sears catalog and gitta work, or all you'll get for Christmas is another can of that CheezWhiz you like so much...

Admins, please remove this post. I wasn't watching where I stuck jt and it clearly doesn't belong in the iPhone area. Please do keep it and consider it for background on a story submission.

You want to talk vaporeware? Let's talk Typestyler.

Now's late to the game but not as late as Typestyler. I've been
occasionally writing about how long *this* has been in development and still continually ADVERTISED that the "Native OS X version on the way".

It's been "on the way" for over at least 5 years now, probably more.

How many designers have upgraded thinking that they'd have a modern
Mac app, only to see Classic apps and now all PPC-based systems
committed to history. To me it's a very worrisome situation - when you continually advertise something that never, ever comes.

What's more shameful it's the ad's been on the front page of MacSurfer for
least those 5 years, again, perhaps longer.. I've written MacSurfer, and the company, and have commented it on my blog for years now:

http://www.shortcuts.nl/index.php/weblog/comments/the_oldest_vaporware_in_the_macintosh_world/

I've even gotten feedback from the programmer once, but
that's it. The ads and the vapor continue…

Bananas are good - always take a banana to a party. Just be sure not to invent the banana daiquiri a few centuries too early...

Um - No.

That's that.