I'm just sort of.....horrified.

This "company" was founded about a week ago. It has 12 employees. There are supposedly 32 different applications, but only one of them is for download.

I hate the internet.

pretty sure that the icon is available for royalty free use at www.iconfactory.com

too bad the only thing good about this program was done by someone else

What do the left/center/right radio buttons do? My best guess was justification, but that's on the auqa ruler-toolbar. And there's no way I'm downloading this to find out.

The icon was stolen, from the great Snow.E set (www.rad-e8.com) - and i presume, without permission

The web site is kind of... well you'll see.

If you cant use FrontPage, they are willing to "design" your site, though.

Some people never doubt.

I'm pretty sure that they just took the TextEdit source (comes with the developer tools), ruined the interface, and packaged it off as they're own work...this may not just be ugly, this may be illegal.

Wow. The icon is stolen (they even fogot to erase the Rad-e8 logo in the corner). The website SUCKS and is broken half the time. These guys need a professional bitchslap.

I am, of course, still waiting for a review of Haxial Netfone

http://www.haxialsoftware.com/products/netfone/ , since HTML appears to be filtered out.

Netphone, interesting... It's just like any IM except harder to use and costs $20!!!

That's a great idea though. With a little graphics and some basic programing you too can put a thin UI interface over the OS's API and make bundles.

Getting way off topic... It's interesting (no I'm lying, it isn't interesting) how people think they can charge for some marginal to completely useless (and destructive?) tripe that in some cases is 98% plagiristic to begin with.
Software is a funny field. The only thing I know where free is often better than non-free.

You know, I just realized that most of this software sucks so bad, that PerversionTracker's users MUST constitute a 'rush' in their web logs. So they see this sudden burst in bandwidth use, and check their logs... They find that their number one referrer has just become 'perversiontracker.com', and out of curiosity, of course visit it.

Only then do they discover the horrible truth. :-) And I bet they were so happy when they started to view their logs...

Wow, they seem to have noticed the traffic: the website now asks for a password.

It even has the "brushed look".

Wow.

Stolen or not, I wouldn't say the icon is well-designed. Yes, rad-e8 has truly superb pixel-pushing skills, but AquaTech apparently saw fit to "improve" on them by adding a drop shadow stronger than bad tequila. Not to mention it's a poor choice of icons for an app -- the papers are in the on-a-desk perspective recommended by the Aqua HI Guidelines, but there's no tool accompanying them. Is it an application or a document?

The page is a .mac homepage thingy, so they probably added the password to not be banned by Apple for excessive bandwidth usage.

To ensure noone will ever download that app again, we must persevere and keep polling the site for the rest of eternity. Join us, it will be for the good of mankind.

On the side .. a 12-head company that can't afford their own webspace? I think the guy has 12 conflicting personalities, some like aqua, some like metal, some like buttons, some like radio-buttons, some like toolbars, some like areas and they're all incompetent.

I'm pretty sure that its actually a couple of kids, not a real attempt at a company. I wandered around their website before they set up the password and read their list of 18 employees.

Of the 18 something like 12 are "Director of Deisgn" (sic) and at least 2 of the "owners" happen to share the same last name as one of the "founders". Mom and Dad most likely.

Not, of course, that this excuses the shameless TextEdit rip, icon theivery, or the Metal interface.

Perhaps this is an opportunity for a new PvT rating scale "Estimated age of author"? To keep it fair to the serious authors of shareware under the age of 18 (there are a few) perhaps it should be "Estimated mental age of author".

NOTE: No insult intended to the sub-18 crowd, I'm sure there are some good devs out there in that age group, but I'm doubting their stuff shows up on PvT.

Yeah, don't go insulting the under-18s. If you remember the PPP hang bugs back in 10.0, they were fixed by a 15-year-old.

I would just like to say that when the comments start vectoring off into serious thoughtful discussion, they get boring.

And this surprises you how?

It's important to know that these are apparenly just a bunch of kids, and that this was some sad attempt to make an application. I just hope that for their sake, they read all these reviews and can either make an updated version of this application that actully works, or just make something totally different. I also noticed that they took the website down entirely. Probably under constuction. They also have 18 "employees" and not 12. I also think it makes a lot more sence that the two people with the same last names are not mom and dad, but brother and/or sister.

I'd just like to say that wasting my time complaining about reviews about crappy software is the stupidest and most boring thing I've ever heard of. Everyone thinks I'm a joke.

In Soviet Russia, we do not have what you call "humor".

The site authors are extremely unethical, and may have already edited my comments. Those bastards.

This is probably just a couple of 13 year olds trying to start a company so eventually in like 8 years they might actually be a threat to Microsoft or something. But you do have to admit it's not bad for beginners.

How in the world could these people be a threat to Microsoft??????? I mean, Apple is a way better company, but I just don't see you logic in any of this. Except maybe that they make something really good, which could happen.

Just think about it. If they try hard, take classes etc. it would be like training. They could easily be smarter than Bill Gates in their mid-late 20's.

I'd have to agree with you on that. If I'm right, these guys are starting a couple years before Gates did. They just need to learn how to make something good. But, I'd have to admit that Windows 1.0 and other things people made on their first try was just as bad as this.

Damn! SnowB, what happened to you?

Hey lunarboy, I wouldn't be talking. I don't see what's so great about your website.

Before they took the website down, I figured out that they only made 1 application. Not 32. Some people are so stupid!

Why does everyone say "wow"?
idiots.......

i am pointless

I just need "a professional bitchslap."........... perhaps then I will stop incessantly posting about my own software.

Is there a relation between solarboy and lunarboy? If so, I feel really bad for solarvoy : )
o yea solorboy, u spelled those wrong (tose)* but i certainly agree with what you siad ; )

perversiontrackermakesmesoangryicouldspit

I like the Jefferson Ruritans.

> I?m pretty sure that they just took the TextEdit source (comes with the developer tools), ruined the interface, and packaged it off as they?re own work?this may not just be ugly, this may be illegal.

I too am fairly sure this is a total rip-off of Ari Ozer's TextEdit. Ari's worked on and off at TextEdit for what - six years? There is no way they could - and they wouldn't. After all, the source code is there on the ADC CD - but it's for learning, not for pirating and reselling.

Or bastardising. Time to call the gene pool cleaner. R.

I'm very confused...

You see, people are saying that the website has a password-it doesn't. Also, everyone is complaining about the metal interface-but when I downloaded it, there is none. They also suposedly stole an icon, however I am positive that this was not stolen. There's much more, but you'll find out if you just download it...

Am I missing something?