Thanks for the update! Those of us who can't live without Unsanity products (FruitMenu for me) much appreciate being reassured.

Wahoo !!! - thanks to unsanity from the promise of bring back my sanity which Snow Leopard so rudely had taken away - Waiting patiently -

wow the dinosaur has awaken. i forgot i was even subscribed to your rss feed.

by the time we get SL updates, 10.7 will be out. i'd say just go back to sleep.

LOL ... and as users' were commencing with their UnsaniTea Party. I knew it was only a matter of time before Unsanity posted. Great to hear from the Unsanity team of cohorts at unrest! ;)

You all rock. I can't wait to get window shade running on SL.

Great news! Snow Leopard needs WindowShade. I need WindowShade. Thanks for the update--and I hope WS comes along soon! And I'll rejoice when Labels X comes back, too.

Great news! Snow Leopard needs WindowShade. I need WindowShade. Thanks for the update--and I hope WS comes along soon! And I'll rejoice when Labels X comes back, too.

Thanks for the update!! I have been using WindowShade since it came out and sorely miss it since upgrading to Snow Leopard. Can't wait to get it back!!

Add one more sigh of relief ... if your keeping track of those who care.

I really feel disabled without Windowshades. I'm clicking on the tool bar like an idiot and dragging windows around trying to find what I'm looking for and ultimately trying to incorporate spaces or expose in some what that helps. I don't want to do this. I want Windowshades back. And now it sounds as if it is coming.

Please don't dawdle... Best foot forward please!!

Thanks, for the good news, jason.

I am desperately waiting for an APE update, so that MenuMaster, MightyMouse and Windowsshade works again.

Looking forward to it :)

Thank you for finally updating us on SL.

Add me to the list of Haxie-ites who are overjoyed to hear that our haxies will soon be returning! I can't believe how much I miss them!

I promise that i will buy seven font card upgrades if these news are true.

So does this mean that APE will be updated for Snow Leopard? Which means pulltab will work once again?

i nead my dose of WindowShade, FruitMenu and Mighty Mouse.

For Mighty Mouse could you add a vertical mirror option 4 left hand users ? so i can use left hand mouse as an left hand ?

thank's a lot 4 all the upcomming ;)

Godspeed, my haxie brother! This power user is powerless without my Windowshades!

Great news! Like many others commenting, I've been helpless running SL without WindowShade. Glad the pain will soon be over!

SILK. SILK. SILK.
I am SOOOOOOOOOO tired of Lucida Grande

Papyrus was my font of choice -and it worked 99% system wide

Real soon now, yeah right... Sorry but I for one am seriously tired of waiting for months for some tidbit of information and then reading the gushing comments that all is forgiven. Disband the company and put the code in the public domain so someone can actually do something with it...

PLEASE, PLEASE, I really can't live with out WS! I love this product. I use it so much, that I can't believe how much I'm missing this.

Love WS and FruitMenu! Bring it on!

I'm ready to buy new full licenses of WindowShade and Labels X for Snow Leopard. When ?

Great to hear you are alive and kicking. Add my vote for Labels X. Ready to buy (or try beta) now.

I'm ready to buy a new full license for WindowShade RIGHT NOW. Hurry - offer expires while-u-wait!

Eidolon has my vote for comments. I really like the software, but I don't appreciate the attitude that because we want the software we are prepared to wait ... with the rudeness of zero responses to progress-query emails... both for any signs of comment about progress or for even any acknowledgement that there is a problematic situation, and any idea of a time-scale for resolution... of which there is still none. Will it be in time to get working using your software before 10.7 is announced? I sincerely hope so.

The old idea of service to customers... does it still exist?

Thanks very much for the updates. John Gruber, no slouch in the software department, has no idea how your programs work. Me, neither. I know the coding is very difficult. When you're ready to release 'em, I'll be very glad to welcome 'em back. For me, FruitMenu, WindowShade and Labels X are must-haves.

Good luck, and keep us informed when you can.

Eidolon dittos.
Do unto others....

Let me add to the Chorus...I'm desperately waiting for SL compatibility, especially for Windowshade.

Good luck and many thanks!

At last a little snippet of news.
Please update the blog more frequently so that at least we have a clue that there is anyone still there.

WINDOWSHADE for SL!!!!!

Labels is not dead! -- best news I've heard all week. My pet Leopard has been craving it for many months. Thanks for all your good works.

Xounds is my top priority. Please don't delay.

Over a week since this last teasing blog post now... I almost wish they hadn't said anything at all :(

Hurry up boys...it's time to give us Windowshade....

Hulk want Windowshade. Hulk want Windowshade!!!

Windowshade!!! Please!!!

I regret updating to snow leopard, frankly. I would downgrade back to 10.5 to get windowshade again if it wasnt such torture migrating to snow leopard and if i didnt anticipate tons of hassle downgrading again.

Please!!!!! We need windowshade!!!!!

Apple and steve jobs don't get it. This is one UI decision they got wrong. We gotta have windowshade!!!!!!

Great, no Shapeshifter. So, how about a refund for those who barely got to use it after purchasing it? I for one don't really feel inclined to ever purchase anything from Unsanity again after being had by that one. What's to stop you from updating some other product we all poured our money into?

I've sent a handful of messages to you inquiring about an unruly update installer. No replies from you. Are you there?
-John

Guys...

HURRY UP LOL

Love and kisses,
The Windowshade Warrior

PS. FASTER!

Windowshade is superb. I should not have upgraded to Snow Leopard until it was ready. Here's hoping for it to appear soon.

it is so strange to read some of the comments. for example, i cannot explain how people can reject upgrading of the entire system (and this upgrade is almost unanimously considered a significant improvement in speed and stability) just because of a small convenience tool like WS. Or unbridled joy of hearing from developers who have been ignoring their customers and products for months upon months.

I also eagerly await the Windowshade update. It is the first thing I install on a new machine!

Thank you!

Could you guys give some kind of estimates as to when windowshade will be available?

I know your past pattern has been to disappear for a few months then reappear with the betas... could you please just give an estimate?

I am going to downgrade back to leopard if we dont have an update in a week or so... Vitaly, windowshade is so obviously a correct UI decision. Steve jobs should suck it up and admit it. I cant work without it. My screen or dock get cluttered up with crap so quickly without it. I can't focus on what I'm doing.

I dont see any benefits of snow leopard. I've had a number of glitches and issues, and I can't use windowshade. I might as well revert back to 10.5.8 if we arent going to have windowshade soon.

Please, get Menu Master working for Snow Leopard as soon as possible!

It's the only thing holding me back from upgrading to SL right now. (My 10.6 install disc has been sitting beside my desk, looking over at my MBP longingly...)

Window Shade needs priority. It shouldn't take so long.

Hi Unsanity,

"windowshade is so obviously a correct UI decision. Steve jobs should suck it up and admit it".

Couldn't agree more! Wow, I thought it was just me that thought getting rid of this in the OS was a stooopid idea. (I've even writtent to Apple to tell them, not that the beggars bothered to acknowledge of course).

I'm also having serious FruitMenu withdrawals- keep clicking on the Apple Menu and not finding the stuff I need. Using XMenu for now as a substitute but it's not the same...

You must be chuffed, though, to find so much support for your stuff- so please do your fans a big favour and GET IT SORTED!

So the count down begins.... Do I wait for window shade or get an i7 iMac.... Ships November is all the Apple Store says. Now if there were only 32 days in November Steve was overheard saying.... Tough decision Window Shade or i7 QUAD CORE!!! hummmm who will win.

XMenu as a substitute for fruitmenu? I will look into it. Is there anything that can substitute for windowshade?

I am planning to downgrade back to leopard as soon as I can find my 10.5 installer DVD.

XMenu is a marginal alternative to Fruit Menu. In a pinch it helps, but it ain't no Fruit Menu. Looking forward to the return of FM!

menu browser is better than xmenu, although it costs a bit

I'm really glad to know you still keep updating your products.
Without FruitMenu,my macbook air is not perfect mac to me.

well, I have to admit that after writing 2 times with no response and then finding this site, to read 'one of these days' MAYBE
im a little peeved
How hard can this be-if it were a free app i would have no gripe
Since you need not build APE from scratch-what is the hold up?
my unsanity apps are now useless
If you had a developers build of SL then you ve had 5 months to work on this
I find it odd that some apps and utilities had 10.6 compatible product out BEFORE SL was even released or within a week-

The "near future" has slowly become "past future," or should I say "past endurance." I did downgrade to Leopard but am now missing out on a lot of stuff in SL... I agree with previous posters who mentioned the difference between having "paid for" and "free." Also, why are you now working on free apps *before* taking care of your paying customers?

I love Snow Leopard's speedup but it's too quiet without Xounds and I really miss Fruitmenu for quick access to everything. Hope to see these updates soon!

to Mark: I too really hate using OS X without WindowShade, and am also annoyed with the lack of response from Unsanity, and agree that they should have been working with dev builds.

However you totally misunderstand the situation. APE will in effect have to be build from scratch. Snow Leopard closed the loopholes that allowed it to function. Unsanity needs a whole new injection mechanism.

Furthermore, Unsanity was bitten in the past by last minute pre-release changes, which is what caused the Leopard upgrade problems. So relying on dev builds for something like this is by no means sure to solve any problems. They basically have to wait until the release versions are out. The situation is not unlike an iPhone jailbreak.

Well I down/up-graded back to 10.5.8 from blow leopard. Blow leopard didnt fix any of the leopard bugs that annoyed me (dont save user prefs in filevault for example), and broke a lot of things, and had lots of annoying new problems...

Thank god I'm back to a stable reliable system with fruitmenu and windowshade.

For everyone whining about unsanity's slowness in updating products, cut them some slack. You really think for $13 an app they're raking it in? Apple is also continuously making life hard for them. Steve jobs has commented on how he doesnt like third parties messing with the UI. Not sure who else he was referring to. They're probably doing this mostly for fun and entertainment. I would imagine they have day jobs.

At any rate, just be glad they're here, doing what they're doing. Someday I will likely be forced to downgrade to blow leopard, so i hope the apps are compatabile by then.

Having said all this.... unsanity folks, it *would* be nice if you could give an estimate as to when things will be blow leopard compatible

Is there still a possibility that there won't be a Snow Leopard compatible version of WindowShade? Is it possible that Unsanity won't be able to find a way to get APE to work with the new OS?

Or is the problem already solved, and it is just a matter of getting it done?

Sigh….you worried little donkey.

Hey! I have sent *many* emails to your various contact addresses asking for information. Not even once have I received a response. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Very frustrating.

Any ideas as to when your products (especially FruitMenu) will work with OSX v10.6 (Snow Leopard)??

PLEASE update fior Snow Leopard... I SO miss your products !!

Clint

PLEASE UPDATE WINDOWSHADE FOR SNOW LEOPARD, I HATE NOT HAVING IT!!!

It seems APE is able to run in SL, however, at the moment it is 32 bit so it does not run natively. I am willing to wait for stability. Those who blast people for not wanting to upgrade. For some people looks are a huge deal breaker, but windowshade also adds to workflow. In addition SL for me is the most unstable OS I have ever had (try using Word 2007, or any omni app.), and I had Windows ME. I am just saying.

Just echoing everybody's wishes for Windowshade and Menumaster!! I LOVE unsanity products, I can't wait to install them on my brand new 10.6 computer...

Keep up the good work. (Im)patiently waiting for Windowshade...
Your best app!

Although I do miss Xounds too. sigh.

Good news I can't live without your utilities esp. Window Shade uggg I hate Mac for not having this feature built in.. I am willing to pay for an update to this please make it happen and sooner rather than later.
Regards,
Dave

Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!

Please...

- kthxbye.

It seems that there's some FUD concerning APE and whether 10.6 completely broke it, or you just need to make it 64-bit, or something in-between.

WS is a great produce and is greatly missed. On a slightly different tract... how great would the new WS be if the shrunken windows
could be twice their current maximum size. I love to watch shrunken web pages and such, since they are live updated, but
the shrunken windows are a bit tiny even when set to their largest.
I've made this request a few times through the addresses under contacts but have never received so much as a peep in reply.

Bill...

Love Love Love your products!! I even sent in money just to say thank you again!! I upgraded to Snow Leopard and found that in spite of some productivity and feature increases, they were outweighed by my loss of efficiency without WindowShade And FruitMenu -- my two CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT utilities. So I downgraded back to Leopard and as patiently as I can and enthusiastically waiting to re-upgrade again when the critical Unsanity products reappear!! Thank you for making such a difference in my computing life!! Keep up the great work!!

SAD AND CRYING THAT THERE'S NO SHAPESHIFTER:(

I am checking this page several times per day. If the previous post said that updates are coming, it looks like its around the corner.
But what I never understood is the lack of ANY damn communication. If they are hard at work, is it really so big problem to drop a short notice or oneliner to all of us - faithful costumers and fans of Unsanity products about the updated? Is that part of Unsanity brand. Damn you....you know we love it, can't live without it but still stupidly closed to communication of any kind.

Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!

Fruit Menu Update for Snow Leopard!!!!!!

What is taking so long for a Snow Leopard Fruit Menu and Windowshade??? This new OS is not that new, and not being ready for it is... well, unprofessional. Let's GO!

If it's any consolation, the company behind Desktopple Pro are slow and useless too...

Windowshade is much missed. Glad you're all planning to update it. The sooner the better!

Are you guys alive? I have been trying to obtain the serial for my copy for FruitMenu for a couple of months. Several emails have gone unanswered.

Snow Leopard 6 is still a fairly new release (under 3 months) and not all companies have Snow Leopard compatible items yet. Especially as Unsanity's product line digs into the OS to change things around, and it'd be better having updates that don't break the system, my vote is to give it time.

3~6 months is the norm for Windows products to fall in line... sorry to mention the W-word, I had to rinse my mouth out with soap too...

But I will agree, the lack of e-mail responses has been disconcerting. Seeing at least a blog response is better than absolutely nothing.

It's not that hard to keep your software up-to-date. Unsanity just does not care what we think. They seem to have time to release new iPhone apps.

Oh PLEASE hurry up. Every day without WindowShade is torture :(

I've em@iled every address in your contact page, I've FAXED to no avail, and here's where I finally find an update to progress for Snow Leopard and FruitMenu. THANK GOD! I miss it so much, thanks for communicating it to us. Even tho you didn't lift a finger to communicate it to ME.

I was looking through your website hunting for any information about when Snow Leopard-friendly haxies might become available, and it’s positively eerie that there’s no mention of SL anywhere on your site, even on the page devoted to listing compatibilities of your various products. And how long is it been since Unsanity has developed a new product? Once Unsanity was a leader in the field, but I get the idea that now Unsanity is for all intents and purposes a dead enterprise. I’d love it if you’d prove me wrong, but you won’t, will you?

JESUS CHRIST!!! JEEEEESUSSSSS CHRIIIST! JESUS! CHRIST! JEEESUS.....

It's been a long time since SL has been released and still NO unsanity updates. This is the first time I write here but I must point out that this is becoming really frustrating. Being a owner of most of unsanity products ,some have not been updated since TIGER (still being UNCOMPATIBLE). The question is : Will they ever be compatible? But... considering that I lost all hopes, AT LEAST, say something about this big and troublesome issue concerning Snow Leopard,Windowshade,Menu Master and Fruit Menu,I think your customers deserve a treatment like this and not this silence.

Yeah, i can understand your ignoring the whiners, but it's pretty unprofessional to simply not respond at all to your paying customers. we put our trust in you, where is the good faith?

Wie lange dauert das denn noch bis "Windowshade" auf SnowLeopard aktualisiert wird. Dieser Kommentar ist vom 06.Okt., das ist der letzte Scheiß den Ihr hier veranstaltet. fuck

It's so frustrating, talking to thin air. Can someone please say "vaporware."

i've noticed that most developers that give away their software FOR FREE do a MUCH BETTER job of COMMUNICATING with their users. The fact that I've PAID for UNSanity's software (twice, mind you) and get no response is very unsettling. I find the staff at UNsanity to be extremely UNprofessional.

My only wish is that some other smart developer picks up where they leave off. I challenge anyone else out there to develop the same kind of support for using Windowshade in OS X.

Rule #1 in business: find out what your competitors are doing (or not doing) and do it better. Unsanity, you are leaving the door wide open for others to take over your business. Your lack of communication with your PAYING customers leaves much to be desired. If there were some way to give you a negative BBB rating, I would. Hopefully, this comment will suffice and will propagate through Google when people search for info on your company.

To all those moaning, to all those checking this page in vain every day:

IT TOOK UNSANITY ELEVEN MONTHS to get WindowShade working on 10.5 Leopard.

So there's no real point coming back here until around July 2010... sorry...

Oh what a consolation...if it took eleven months ...it means that next time the new OS from mac will be available they MIGHT be ready for Snow Leopard...Indeed it is a SHAME

It wasn't until it became disabled, that I realized how much I rely on Fruit Menu! Can't believe the flexibility you provide through this program is not built into Mac OS.

Please hurry up with new releases. I also use Window Shade constantly. I really miss it! LET'S GO!!!

Well my i7 is on the UPS truck for delivery. So long Window Shade and Fruit Menu, not to mention all the other cool haxies. Just can't stay with the 3.06 24" when twice the speed is available.

seeya, or maybe not
eidolon

Thanks for your hard work! I've been missing fruitmenu ever since I've updated to Snow Leopard. I miss it so bad that I would honestly pay the full price for it again! It's THAT much of a timesaver.

Cheers.

WindowsShade & Mighty Mouse for Snow Leopard too.

ATTENTION ALL DEVELOPERS!!! Unsanity obviously cannot cope. SOMEONE SHOULD BUY THEM OUT, or at the very least purchase the rights and source code to WindowShade and possibly FruitMenu. There is a HUGE user base clamouring out for some decent treatment at last - I forecast that whichever firm does this will become very rich indeed...

some external words about Unsanity:

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6126_102-0.html?threadID=357511

Maybe open sourcing some of the code might be in order... You can still make money on support and licensing if you structure it properly

Really, are you guys surprised? This guy could care less.

> Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!
> Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!
> Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!
> Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!
> Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!
> Windows Shade! Windows Shade! Windows Shade!

What he said. Please. Ta ;)

Well, I never thought I'd wean myself off Windowshade, but as the months have dragged by I've found I can live without it after all. That, and the suspicion that Unsanity will have more and more problems maintaining compatibility with new OS releases means it's time to move on. I hope someone at Apple notices how much people like the apps, since it'd be good to see them again (BTW, has anyone else noticed that Stickies - still supported on SL - has always retained the double click "windowshade" function: what's so magical about other windows that they can't be handled the same way?) Anyway, today I trashed APE and Windowshade...hope I'm not going to regret this tomorrow...

Yes, please bring back APE to Snow Leopard. I hesitate to switch until I can use DesktopSweeper on SL (certainly DesktopSweeper must be updated too, to work in the new Finder).

Gambatte, guys!
I am patiently waiting for your stuff for Snow Leo especially the Window Shade.

thanks for your work!

May I suggest that you add a minor note about FruitMenu and Snow Leopard on http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/fruitmenu

It would head off a lot of the rants on Version Tracker since many of us apparently missed looking through the blog.

Any news on WindowShade for Snow Leopard? I really miss it, used to use it ALL the time. I'd be more than happy to pay for an upgrade - please look at it soon! :o)

well, I dont know what gives here but I feel like im paying rent for an apt that i cannot move into-i bought SILK for a reason -and yet am unable to use it in 10.6-since a majority of apps and utilities have easily made the crossover-how hard can it be to make APE and Silk for Leo? I afraid I can see this dragging on for months...

A silence like this is very unprofessional. There is nothing else to say about it.

Just got this reply at the Macupdate web site:

"PROKOS_J Out of business from what I can tell. The office has a "For Lease" sign on it. I think I saw in the Phoenix Sun that the programmer was killed in a hit and run sometime around the release date of Snow Leopard. R.I.P. Usanity. "

Can anybody confirm this? If so it could mean the end of the road.

I work with leopard in my day job and get to use WindowShade there. Such a delight!

PLEASE, PLEASE port it to snow leopard yesterday!!

;-)

Killed? Oh no! I don't live in the area, but if it's true he was killed, my sincerest condolences for his family. :(

Deepest sympathies. Rest in Peace.

Are those last comments a bad joke? Please clarify or delete your comments. bk

Hope that the news is not true.and all this is a bad joke-

Aren't there 3 main programmers ? I would hope that if something catastrophic like that happened, one of the other programmers would mention it here or on the main website.

That's why I tend to disbelieve this. I really hope that I am right though.

- Jay

It's obviously the programmer behind WindowShade that's been killed in a horrible, untimely fashion. Anything else just wouldn't make fucking sense. Jesus wept, Amen.

Very sorry to hear the news. My commiserations in this difficult time. God bless

Hey guys,

This is Jason, the programmer behind ShapeShifter and Mighty Mouse.

Nobody has died. I have no idea where this rumor came from. Everybody is fine, although Rosyna is having some real-life issues that are preventing he/she/it from posting a status update.

I don't know what the Phoenix business address posted above is - maybe it's a PO box. Unsanity doesn't have physical offices, so I don't know what else it could be. It's just a few blocks from Rosyna's house, so that'd make sense.

Unsanity consists of Slava and Rosyna. They act as a publisher for my software (ShapeShifter and Mighty Mouse). So while the three of us are buddies and on good terms, I am not officially a part of Unsanity and cannot speak for the company.

That said, I agree that it's appalling that they haven't posted a status update. I know that there's been progress on Snow Leopard Haxies and I think that Slava and Rosyna should be more forthcoming about sharing this progress with their customers.

I'm sorry I don't have more news, but unfortunately, I'm not the one who can provide it.

Thanks, Jason. Smart, dependable, and good-looking - you really are the whole package.

:)

The Phoenix address is listed on the support page, which is likely where the original grim reaper saw it, went to visit headquarters, and saw the for lease sign. Like the rest of the website, though, that information is very likely outdated.

In your conversations with Slava and Rosyna, do mention to them these two things:

1) Their most loyal customers do understand and appreciate how tough must be to recreate APE every time a new OS comes out. It would do a world of good to hear, once a week, a line like, "Hey, we're still actively working on it - be patient" unless and until it becomes, "Hey, we've given up on this OS. Maybe we'll try the next kitty."

2) Because we understand that they're recreating the wheel every time, I think that most of us would be more than happy to pay every time if it would allow them to devote more time to the development process. I would definitely pay for FruitMenu (SnowLeopard Edition), and then pay again for FruitMenu (NextKitty Edition).

Again, thanks, Jason, for the update. You da man, my friend.

At this point in time I would happily pay $200 for Windowshade...

Thanks Jason.
Some news is better than no news.
Thankfully the rumor above was false.
Just hope there is progress on Unsanity's fine products, especially WINDOWSHADE!

RE: SILK

I agree with the poster who bought SILK and now cannot use it. I am in the same situation. And no info as to when or even IF it will be updated to work on Snow Leopard.

Give us a "yes" or "no" please. I need to move on.

And PS -- I too would gladly pay for each update. It's more than fare to charge us. After all, you'd be writing a whole new program. If you plan to skip Snow Leopard, it would be nice to know. Thanks

Hi all,

Same here, can't wait for WINDOWSHADE to be working under 10.6.x. Like many others I'm still under 10.5.x and will delay the move to 10.6 as much as possible unless windowshade is ready for the latest OS X.

Also, like many others I'll also be glad to buy the app again, in fact I already did buy it several times (4 or 5 times) as a show of support.

All the best and keep up the good work, we are waiting !

PS : more than glad to hear no one died !

FontCard for graphic designers is ESSENTIAL pro-level app that NEEDs to be updated for Snow Leopard and CS4... pleeease!

Thank you!

(Registerd licensed user!)

Ohh Yes...! You are coming back to life!
I certainly have been waiting for Labels X to become PPC compatible with my Leopard G5.
Just let us know.

WindowShade pleaseeeeeee!

Any chance of having a beta out in the near future?

Thanks in advance!! :o)

Hey is there any chance that the "Text Colors" option will be editable.

Hey is there any chance that the "Text Colors" option will be editable.

Hey Jason, you said you are the developer for Mighty Mouse. Just set up a PayPal account and let us send you money in exchange for a working version. I've already paid for it once AND paid the VUF so what's one more time? I just want it working!

Francois: It doesn't work that way. Besides the obvious -- that John probably has a business agreement with Unsanity that would preclude taking in money like that -- all the haxies are incapable of functioning until APE itself can work in Snow Leopard.

As a lover of ShapeShifter, and someone who was once keenly interested in using APE to write a haxie, I too would like to hear from the developers of APE whether the framework has a future, or Apple has sadly closed all the doors and windows of opportunity for haxies. I mean, it's getting to the point where they shouldn't even be selling some of these products, considering some have been dead in the water since 10.4.

I'm so glad you are working on a solution for windowshade on OS6.x. It has taken an awfully long time. I'm going crazy with out it. Please, I hope it will be available soon. Can you give us some idea of a time line when it might be ready?
Thanks.

Hello Jason, and thank you for having the courtesy to let us know that no one has died. I'm VERY glad to hear that. Having heard that, the crickets we hear in response is inexcusable, and significantly bad form. "Rosyna has real life issues right now?"...Sorry but the entire PLANET is busy! We paid, and I'm willing to pay again, so come on! Get with it, boost yourselves up by the bootstraps and get your ass to work.
Thank you

It's at the point, frankly, where I think either a class action suit needs to be filed, or better yet charges through the state Atty. general's office. This has crossed the line into fraud.

Sorry, James. I don't think you'd have a leg to stand on. Unsanity has never claimed that any of its products have Snow Leopard compatibility. We bought programs to tweak our earlier kitties. It's entirely their call if and when to offer upgrades (and at what cost) for newer kitties.

Though, obviously, none of that forgives the communication problems.

You know something? Originally, I WAS interested in paying again for Windowshade. But now, I'm not. I'm actually getting used to living without it. Admittedly it kinda sucks, but I'm doing it.

I also think that some enterprising young programmer, with much better marketing skills, should develop their own version of Windowshade. If I knew a smattering about programming, I would be happy to give it a shot.

I'm sorry to hear about he/she/it's real-life problems. As a real-life person, who *was* invested in this company's future through the purchase of their software on multiple occasions, I *would* have understood delays *if* proper communication had been made. It doesn't take that much time or energy to say "something difficult is happening in my life, i apologize for the delays, etc... etc..."

As long as Unsanity doesn't own any copyrights to windowshading, there must be someone out there who can develop their own versions of their software.

Everyone should quit whining.

Unsanity is what it is. Hopefully they come through with windowshade, etc. for blow leopard.

If not, just stick to 10.5, or get used to life without it. The products were priced very cheaply so there's no reason to whine. If you paid $1,000 for windowshade, then you'd have a reason to whine

Some comments here are really hilarious.Paying 1000 dollars for Windowshade? I do not think so...when you pay less for Final Cut Studio. Utilities like Windowshade should cost maximun up to 20 Dollars ...In addition ,if customer care is so poor and inqdequate they should be for free...It is unthinkable that people should pay for un update if the programmer sleeps for months before updating and do not care to say anything. So ,do not exchange customer unsatisfaction with 'whining' becuase these are on two different levels.

any news for christmas?

we've been waiting (and suffering) for long!

All I want for Christmas is ... Windowshade & Fruitmenu for Snow Leopard!!!

"All I want for Christmas is ... Windowshade & Fruitmenu for Snow Leopard!!!"

+1

- Jay

Jason mentiones on his post way back in Oktober "Look for posts ... in the near future"

What t.. f... does he mean with "in the near future". Seems it will be again some months... :-(

A x-mas gift would be great, but you have to admit that is always took them way to long to react.

There hasn't actually been a post from Slava or Rosyna since 24th April. I think it's time to put this dead horse to sleep.

R I P, WindowShade.

WindowShade, we knew ye well.

Since Jason is the only person here who both knows Slava and Rosyna in real life and listens to customers posts, maybe could we gently beg him to transmit our demands: 1 update of major haxies; 2 update of information... Hi, Jason?

Gerald - "Demands" is a bit harsh - we're not in the position to demand anything. Our pleas, our cries, our requests, our hopes and dreams for a brighter and more productive Mac experience.

:)

Remind them why they put in the work that they do - to improve the workflow and Mac experience of hundreds of people.

I just wish some other developer would take up these ideas and stick with them. Or better yet, apple build it in.

Very frustrated. I have emailed you folks say, oh...10 times and have *NEVER* received a response.

I keep waiting/hoping for an OSX v10.6 Snow Leopard compatible version of your products. It's been a long time...

I wish you (ever) responded to email...

Ok let's take bets. Closest one to actual date of comments by slava or rosyna wins.

I'm guessing Feb. 25th, they'll write and say, sorry things are delayed, we'll get the updates soon. Betas will be available next june.

Anyone care to try to top this with a more accurate prediction?

Unsanity, can I get some coupons for free haxies if I win?

Actually, you're wrong.

1.) Unsanity continues to sell their products on this website, with no warning that they are not compatible with 10.6 -- and that means they are not compatible with any currently available Macs.

2.) All technological products in CA REQUIRE five years of support from the vendor, paid or unpaid, by law. For them to drop off the map is flat-out illegal, no question about it.

10.6 was available to developers for a year prior to its release, and Slava and Rosyna (when he wasn't busy playing his jackass game trying to convince people he's transgendered) had plenty of time to test their haxies on it, realize they weren't compatible, and disclose this to potential buyers leading up to 10.6's release. This is tantamount to consumer fraud, period.

I think Rosyna's "personal problems" are about to get a lot more personal. Maybe he'll finally figure out what gender he is when he bends over to pick up the soap in the prison showers.

OK, so somebody is alive enough to delete all the spam posts from earlier today. SO WHY NOT ALIVE ENOUGH TO POST AN UPDATE?

One of the deleted posts had Slava's phone number, please could whoever posted that post it again, I would like to call him.

James,

"1.) Unsanity continues to sell their products on this website, with no warning that they are not compatible with 10.6..."

See: http://www.unsanity.com/products/compatibility

By not listing 10.6, it is assumed that it is not compatible with 10.6.

"2.) All technological products in CA REQUIRE..."

They work out of Arizona.

"five years of support from the vendor, paid or unpaid, by law."

They have continued to support the products for the operating systems for which they were designed.

"had plenty of time to test their haxies on it, realize they weren't compatible, and disclose this to potential buyers leading up to 10.6's release. This is tantamount to consumer fraud, period."

The software is designed to "hack" a particular OS. I cannot purchase a piece of technology for my 2007 Dodge and then claim consumer fraud that it is not supported in my 2009 Dodge.

"Maybe he'll finally figure out what gender he is when he bends over to pick up the soap in the prison showers."

It is never, NEVER, no matter what Jay Leno may think, OK to joke about rape.

One Comment a day, keeps the developer away

I'm really missing Windowshade on Snow Leopard... :(

Get over yourself, John.

1.) There is nothing on the page you linked that mentions anything about the fact that your products do not function on ANY currently shipping Macs. Shame on you.

2.) If you sell products to people IN CA, which Slava and "Rosyna" do, then you must abide by CA law when it comes to those customers. You are providing NO tech support for customers in CA, even for the 10.5 versions of the software. You do not even return tech support emails, though you happily continue to still collect people's hard-earned money. You are breaking the law, and you are a fraud. Period.

And I agree with the above poster that, clearly, you guys are still around, monitoring these boards. Slava's home phone number was pulled off this board, in addition to a bunch of spam. You are alive and well.

It is never, NEVER, no matter what Slava and "Rossyna" may think, OK to defraud consumers.

"Get over yourself, John."

Actually, I have pretty low self-esteem. So, that's easily done.

"There is nothing on the page you linked that mentions anything about the fact that your products do not function on ANY currently shipping Macs."

People generally don't purchase downloadable shareware meant to hack into and change a system BEFORE they've purchased that system or at least know which operating system is going to be on it. If they do, "buyer beware" applies.

"Shame on you."

I don't work here. Like you, I come here every day hoping to see that FruitMenu is up and running for Snow Leopard. And, like you, I'm frustrated by the unethical lack of communication from the crew. The only difference is that I don't believe that they "owe" us SL-compatible software or that there is a legal case here. I just want them to feel appreciated so that they'll do it. (That old thing about bees and honey.)

Why put the time into developing something for an ungrateful mob? I'd rather develop for a friendly mob who shows their appreciation, myself.

:)

"If you sell products to people IN CA, which Slava and "Rosyna" do, then you must abide by CA law when it comes to those customers."

Any lawyers around who can speak to this? I can't imagine it being true, as Slava and Rosyna have no way to prevent someone from CA from downloading their stuff. More than likely, their end user agreement (that you accept by using the software) states that they will operate under the laws of Arizona.

"You are providing NO tech support for customers in CA, even for the 10.5 versions of the software."

Well, I don't provide tech support because I don't work for Unsanity. I can't speak to whether or not they do. Have you actually written to them with a technical support question for 10.5? Asking them about a due date for an unreleased product (10.6-compatible haxies) doesn't count as support. They'd be under no obligation to respond to that. Only if you're having trouble getting your 10.5-compatible haxies to work is it really tech support.

"You do not even return tech support emails, though you happily continue to still collect people's hard-earned money. You are breaking the law, and you are a fraud. Period."

They clearly list which operating systems are supported by each haxie. Should they stop selling it, preventing someone who has a computer on Tiger or Leopard from having the ability to enjoy their software?

"And I agree with the above poster that, clearly, you guys are still around, monitoring these boards."

I'm around once or twice a day waiting to hear about FruitMenu, but I assume you're talking about Slava and Rosyna. They may be around, but I'd suspect that it's Jason keeping an eye on the board to keep things from getting too ugly. He's a good guy like that.

"Slava's home phone number was pulled off this board"

And shame to whoever posted it.

"It is never, NEVER, no matter what Slava and "Rossyna" may think, OK to defraud consumers."

Now you're mocking my serious statement about the indecency of joking about rape and about wishing it upon someone else? No matter the tone or content of the rest of your message, it would really have been nice to hear you admit that that was taking it too far and apologize to Rosyna.

Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's dad

Why should I apologize for something that somebody else posted? You're one weird dude.

Frankly, I would like the sex in the shower.

"Why should I apologize for something that somebody else posted? You're one weird dude."

Sorry, boss. It sounded like you were the same person as James. It's tough to tell on a board like this where someone can type in a different name every time.

My apologies!

:)

Wow, Slava's phone number was pulled within a couple hours. Unsanity is clearly monitoring these boards day and night. Hi guys!

Has the person who posted Slava's phone number actually tried ringing him? What did he say? Are we sure it's the same Slava?

I can'ttake it anymore. I need windowshade even if I have to take snow leopard off this machine!

So Rosyna, any word on updates ?

- Jay

Possible alternative to FruitMenu:
http://www.lobotomo.com/products/MoofMenu/

While it doesn't work from the Apple Menu, it is menu bar driven. Now if I can only retrain myself. ;)

C'mon Rosyna, you can show up to make jokes, but you can't tell us what's going on ?

- Jay

Anyone can be Rosyna here.

Peter

I know, but it was the same day as Slava's phone number got deleted, so I was hoping it was the real one.

I'm sure the developers are out there lurking from time to time, seeing how restless the natives are.

- Jay

If all you are looking for in a FruitMenu replacement is the ability to open an app or document from a contextual menu try the excellent FinderPop...
http://www.finderpop.com/

seeya
eidolon

eidolon - Why mention Finderpop when the developer's site clearly sates it is not Snow Leopard compatible. THis blog is for those of us who want FruitMenu (etc) for 10.6.x. I was extremely happy with FM on 10.5 and would never have considered FinderPop then.

HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU USELESS UNSANITY BASTARDS! :D

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr what else to write, shame on you . . . yoU INSANEty
happy 20.10. bla bla bla

Hi, just a tip if Unsainty is working on something I think you should do some crisis management here and do a new blog post telling people that you are alive. Otherwise, if you stopped developing you might consider releasing the sourcecode so other people could take over the developing. If you are planning to sell the company, you might consider that the value of your sell would be greater if you treated the brand a bit better during the negotiation phase. Just some thought.

Hi qb and all,

The link was for the benefit of Posted by: Joseph on December 28, 2009 8:58 PM.
Click on line 6 words 8,9&10 on the linked page. You will discover this magical thing called a hyperlink that actually takes you to a different page on the world wide web. Almost every thing you see on the new magic page has to do with, wait for it, .... Snow Leopard.
Almost like;
"A Yellow triangle () means beta. (These sometimes are available for download on our blog. Any public beta download links will be posted in the YHBT category.)"

Now where did I get that quote?? 1D10T?

seeya
eidolon

This page seems to not have spam on it. No captcha either. So a human being is at least processing the info enough to determine if posts are spam vs. non-spam? Perhaps the extra leap could be made to the provision of actual information about development timescale?

Look, they just don't care. End of story.

Oh to have Labels back again - I'd given up hope (and to be honest, won't hold my breathe...) However, a faint glimmer of light!

Any word on when the App store version of i2Reader will be out? The jailbroken version had been out for a couple of days. Would like to know from Digital Stealth.

SnowShade for WindowLeopard in 2010!

I gave up waiting for FruitMenu and Menu Master and upgraded to 10.6.2 as a Christmas present to my Mac. I figured I'd find something to take their place.

FruitMenu: Butler, SunnyMenu and Classic Menu seem to be the closest to FruitMenu ....but Butler gives new meaning to glacial performance and the developer's site is gone ... and SunnyMenu was looking promising, but after 30+ minutes of customization it crashed and I was back to square one .... and Classic Menu is a newly found mystery that hasn't been updated in 2 years.

Menu Master: Apple's Keyboard Shortcuts mostly works ... but setup is remarkably tedious.

If UnSanity isn't professional enough to respond to these posts with at least a notice of their intentions then why should we remain loyal? Yes, WS and FM were great. I miss them, too. But enough is enough. I've learned to live without Fruit Menu by using the dock more efficiently and I've retrained myself to use "Spaces" as a sort of "poor man's WindowShade". It's not so bad once you get used to it. At least I don't find myself checking this blog 10 times a day in hopes that Slava may have thrown us a crumb.

This place is becoming like resexcellence.

"This place is becoming like resexcellence."

That is so true, and really sad, on many levels !

- Jay

JudieKaren wrote "At least I don't find myself checking this blog 10 times a day in hopes that Slava may have thrown us a crumb."

To save myself the frustration of no news, I've been using ChangeDetection to tell me it's time to come back for something new:

https://www.changedetection.com/

-- Ward

Fell victim to this today as a new customer and only OS X 10.6 to run.

Reportedly, Unsanity has the only worthwhile and working utility that implements window roll-up UI functionality. I let my guard down because it was just cheap enough and I like supporting smaller developers. Now I'm only noticing how fraud-like the whole thing is: Misleading statements, a price that pushes the envelope of impulsive buying, a return policy that attempts to directly exclude precisely my situation, and from what I read here, dropping off the face of the earth while still processing credit card transactions.

You can't do that.

OK, so they just released an app for the iphone.
Proves they're still alive, and just ignoring us !

- Jay

The following is just a test of whether human beings are reading this system. This is only a test.

Get free viagra, make your penis larger, dont be ashamed of your small penis, urgent notification from the central bank of the world, an account of 10 billion dollars has been accidentally transferred in your name, collect now by sending us your personal data or it will all go to the government, genuine rolexes and stuff

This has been a test of whether intelligent life is monitoring this forum. If this were a real spam, the messages you just heard would be followed by some form of contact information to sell you stuff or scam you. This is only a test.

So there you have it.

If you go to the i2reader page: http://www.unsanity.com/i2reader

- you will see that the page was just updated, and the latest version released 7th January.

That means, officially, that Unsanity simply don't care about their Mac customers at all. In fact, they're insulting us.

HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE TO POST A SIMPLE STATUS UPDATE? Five minutes? Ten at a push?

Epic fail, guys. Beyond epic. Legendary.

Yes i2reader has been updated and here no answers to unsanity's consumers. This is not unusual however. When Leopard was issued the wait for the update was simply too long and at that time no one cared to give an answer. this is very unprofessional but as long as no-one carries legal action against them, which will be difficult to win in any case, they will continue to use this silly policy. My suggestion in future is either not to update to apple new OS if you want to keep unsanity products because these people have clearly shown everyone how UNDECENT they are.

hmm. there is now Twitter icon on the front page and this is what is said on their Twitter feed. ( I guess they do have erection observing our useless conversation about possible updates.)

"Just seeded 4.4b1 to the internal team. Which means whole three people. More bug squashing and we'll have something useable at last.
about 4 hours ago from Tweetie

Hello world. No, we're not dead yet ;)
6:13 AM Jan 4th from Tweetie

at last . . .

http://unsanity.com/products/compatibility/

""""Just seeded 4.4b1"""""
SOMEBODY, GIVE ME IT!

Could it be ?
Is there progress ?

- Jay

Good news or another bad joke? You fill a column and give the software to three people , put a compatible mark on windowshade and maybe by 2011 it will be available.... Hope my pessimism will be false.

WTF? Where is this beta for WindowShade? Can someone share it?

it might help if you put a "being worked on/guestimate" on the compatiblity table for 10.6
and each app
ie

..................10.6*.....10.5.....10.4......10.3....10.6
SILK/APE: RED|GREEN|GREEN|GREEN|YES*|ETA:JUNE 2080

*being worked on/or not

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What a weird company this is.

Well it's nice to see there's at least a column for Snow Leopard on the compatibility page. So, Unsanity is aware that 10.6 exists... it's a start. lol

Anxious user

Ah, sweet (Windowshade) progress... :)

C'mon guys don't tease us !
How about a beta version of something !!

- Jay

Hi GIVE ME THE WINDOWSHADE BETA,
No 82 times,

seeya
eidolon (\/)
.............(';')

This is a serious issue. A yellow triangle close to Windowshade meaning that it is compatible in beta version could lead some unexperienced user to download and possibly pay the application without knowing that what is downloaded is UNCOMPATIBLE with snow Leopard. Although this is clearly shown in the Windowsshade Application page, it is not shown if you try to buy the app...therefore ,an unexperieced user could buy the app when reading that''since 4.2 version is compatible with Leopard''....one could assume that 4.3 version is compatible with SL.... I think that unsanity is using this technique to try to sell their products anyway .But AS FAR AS the beta version IS NOT DOWNLOADABLE ,the yellow triangle should be replace by a red dot.

GIO Willis,

"I think that unsanity is using this technique to try to sell their products anyway"

Please tell me you're not serious? I've dealt with the Unsanity crew for years now, and they have NEVER tried to sell something along the lines you are advocating. NEVER.

[b]F451[/b], yes, you're right !

I first purchased WindowShade in 2002 and that serial is still working !

[b]Not[/b] the kind of behavior described by GIO Willis !

Since then I purchased several new licenses as a show of support, one at every major update.

I will buy at least another license when the SL version becomes available. In the future I would really appreciate a faster response time.

Although I suspect the delays is Apple's fault since SL 10.6 is a major update to 10.5 (not much is "visible" but many things have changed when you look "deep in the guts" of the system).

Several other software companies have difficulties with SL, just one example : [url=http://upek.com]Upek[/url] and their "protector suite" that serves the Eikon finger print scanners.

Hmm... I suspect the delays were waiting for Apple to approve the i2reader program for the app store. It seems that right after i2reader was added to the app store, progress resumed on the rest of Unsanity's programs. Just my guess though.

- Jay

As an alternative to Fruit Menu on Snow Leopard give MoofMenu a try. Downside - not part of the Apple Menu (has its own menu bar location). Upside - menus can be structured (for the most part) like FruitMenu

http://www.lobotomo.com/products/MoofMenu/index.html

Like a fool I just went ahead and downloaded newest release of Windowshade. I did read at least the description...Improved support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard v10.5 and later. It is the "and later" part that I don't get. I am a little put out it has taken so long and support is slow or no response, but I have enjoyed WS for a few years now at a very low cost. So, all in all, I can't complain too much. I would like to know if there is a plan and if so a est time. Like I have said I plan to open a rehab center for WS junkies from reading all these posts. ~Brian

Unsanity is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/haxies

I can't get this to work with Snow Leopard :'(

I'm glad to see that you are still giving attention to theming since Leopard broke Shapeshifter. Thanks for all the hard work. However I was really dissapointed to notice that ThemePark is Intel only. Is there some fundamental reason that makes it difficult to produce a universal binary? If not, I know that I as well as many others still in the PPC world would greatly appreciate it if a PPC version could be made.

Just one week shy of Snow Leopard's 6 month anniversary.
Any more news guys ?
C'mon Tweetie, some news please !

- Jay

O.K. Tweetie, thanks for the (sort of) update.

I see there are now 3 Snow Leopard compatible betas listed on the compatibility page.

You have literally hundreds (if not thousands) of willing beta testers waiting. Why don't you let us test them for you ?

C'mon guys, throw us a bone here.

- Jay

I'd love to beta test too...

Give us beta!!!1111

They are too busy redesigning their blog. Where has the beta area gone?

Hurry up! It's time to publish.