Finally, they are alive!

Thanks for the update.

Looking forward to getting Windowshade back, indeed!

Ahhhh, that's GOOD NEWS !

Finally I'll move to 10.6.x

Please let us know by e-mail as soon as we can start testing WindowShadeX beta !

Thanks' !

Haxie heaven is on the horizon! Thanks!

I'm willing to pay for upgrades, if that helps. :)

I'm willing to pay for upgrades, if that helps.


I think we all have to pay for upgrades, since they'll be new products. And I'll happily do that, even if it's $25, because I love WindowshadeX.


And I probably *have* to move to Snow Leopard soon because I expect that Apple is going to require that for the SDK for iPhone OS 4.0 beta.

(Not that WindowshadeX currently works in XCode, you might want to fix that while you're at it. Consider that the first bug report to an unreleased alpha version that I haven't used yet :-)

Great news!

All right Jason, it's time to work your magic. I'm looking forward to February!

A voice out of the wilderness. The cat awakens!

If you had told us you were in Russia, you would have received much sympathy and understanding rather than our on-going rants. Keep up the good work!

Xounds... （´・ω・｀）

Jason:

Nice note...but notes don't do it. Gone to Butler...won't be back. Oh...try to keep up. The entire world is moving more quickly than you.

Slava - I would also like to thank you for letting us know what is happening. I think I can speak for many that the lack of communication was even more frustrating in some respects to the lack of function for those of us who are knee deep in Snow Leopard. Good to hear about the major rewrites and also wanted to let you know I have zero issues with the 10.6+ versions being a paid upgrade. Thanks in advance for more notes in the future as you get closer to fruition.

Xounds...2nd pls

Xounds...2nd pls

At one time or other, I've used nearly all of the Unsanity haxies. While many were still installed on my Leopard system, by the time I moved to Snow Leopard, Fruit Menu and Menu Master were the only ones I REALLY missed.

I've found two functional replacements on Snow Leopard: Classic Menu and System Prefs > Keyboard Shortcuts. Although neither is as slick as the haxies, changing back will be hard because nearly every day I'm investing more in my Classic Menu and Keyboard Shortcuts fine-tuning.

Unsanity, you may have lost me forever.

-- Ward

Glad to hear you are still working on Snow Leopard compatible versions. I'd like to make an impassioned plea for MenuMaster. I've tried some alternatives but there really isn't an alternative that comes remotely close. PLEASE!

too little, too late.

Everyone knows that your stuff is a leading cause of crashes/hangs & other weird behavior (no matter how much you protest).

If u have been sooooo lazy as to wait until PAST the last minute to do tge engineering work you should have started years ago, then you have no one else to blame but yourself! (which applies to all the other toolchain/API laggards too! - hello adobe, hello msft!)

good riddance!

"Publicly"

Спасибо большое! Thanks very much for the update!

Agree with the decision to make the haxies 10.6 compatible, leave 10.5 behind.

Good luck, and let us know when we can send you some more money! :-)

This amazing news. I will tell you however; I am so tired of looking at gray everything and would pay top dollar for Shapeshifter. The current options are awful (Magifique etc.) That would be the single most amazing accomplishment. Thanks for all of your hard work.

Marc

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Yea, not much into "freeze your azz off" winters either

Make you want to move to Brazil or the like

But hang tough, imagine Spring in St Pete must be wonderful (smile)

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Now, glad you're still awake and alive

And thanks for the update for 10.6

Will be looking forward to WindowShade @¿@

A day without WindowShade is a month in a Russian Winter

Just please give us Old Tymers a bit of a "cut" - $o to $peak

Thanks Again
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"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this son..."

... of a bitch they're still alive ! :)

- Jay

hooray!!

Nice news, will be looking for further announcements. Thanks, Slava.

Wicked, nice to hear about you again. Recalling days of LAIR ;)

Silk! Silk! Silk!

For me, the smoothed system fonts of OSX are the blocking point for changing to Snow Leopard. I am not willing to have a menu bar and pop up menus where the font is like prepared with the rubber or like read with the wrong eye glasses.

You did great work on that until Leopard. So I am looking forward for another great edition of the Font Customizing Haxy.

Thank you in advance!

Where is the fucking ShapeShifter I payed just one month before to switch to Leopard?!
Everytime I see a new post on this site on my feedreader, I hope .... and everytime this post talks about some other stupid thing....let us know about shapeshifter, please, you're ignoring my emails and this is really sad (hoping you read this, 'cause I'm sure you will filter this comment!)
I'm not the only one, I'm sure, just tell me when I will have shapeshifter again!? And don't forget it!

Slava:
I am a HUGE fan of haxies: been complaining of Apple's ugly colors for labels since ... don't know when. I am a lawyer, have lots, lots of files, and Labels makes it easier to distinguish between them. So, I couldn't be happier when I read your post. FruitMenu and MenuMaster are a must too. I think you should focus on these. Then comes windowshade, and probably silk.
You should think of a bundle price for all of them, and a price for all us loyal fans who paid for everything before.
I also agree with some readers in the communication issue: your long silence made us look elsewhere, usually poorer alternatives. PLEASE, make use of the russian winter to warm up programming!!! ;)

Menu master please please please.

I can't wait to lovingly suck WindowShade's cock.

windowshade! windowshade!! please!

Unfortunately, you folks kind of dropped the ball the last couple of years, and it's going to take some effort to gain back the ground (user enthusiasm and loyalty) you've lost.

I've been a Mac user since 1988. Back in 2003, I waited to move from OS 9 to 10.2 until I found a way to restore the usable Apple menu that had been unaccountably dropped from the new OS; I was happy to find FruitMenu, on which I relied heavily until it wasn't updated for 10.5.

Whereupon, after a reasonable wait, I found an alternative, Devon's free XMenu, which has served me well the last couple of years, and to which I've become accustomed. Meanwhile, a 10.5 version of FruitMenu did eventually appear, but I've never installed it. After some months of training myself to go to the right side of the menu bar rather than the left, will I be up for retraining myself back to the left side? And paying for it? Maybe.

Several years back Unsanity offered a bundle deal, and I bought several more haxies The one I do still use is WindowShade, and I expect I'd buy it again, so I guess you can add my vote for that one.

Another haxie I've used regularly since 10.2, but which was never updated for 10.5, and which I sorely miss, is CLEARDOCK. Having the Dock's icons simply floating on the desktop is far more elegant than the cutesy shelf or -- since my Dock has always been on the right side -- the ugly dark grey background box. I'd happily pay (a reasonable price) for an updated version of this functionality.

Look.

I have been using WindowShade since it came out for Tiger.

Which happened to be about 2 months before Leopard got released.

Bought a copy of it and FruitMenu.

I love WindowShade as it brings back functionality from the OS 9 days. As does Fruit Menu.

It's invaluable and it helps me greatly.

HOWEVER - that being said - the Leopard to Snow Leopard transition has been going the same way as the Tiger to Leopard move did. SL has been out for half a year now (almost) and there are still no updates in sight for Unsanity products.

The Devs do not keep anyone in the loop (road map - something) and not responding to email inquiries doesn't help much either.

My guess is that when the successor to Snow Leopard is announced and near release - that Unsanity will announce compatibility w/ SL. While everyone moves to 10.7 (or whatever).

Then the cycle starts again.

I paid for Fruit Menu and Window Shade. Im not buying it again. Not with the rate of upgrades shown by Unsanity or the lack of communication with their customers.

I do freelance on the side and I market it at times more as a business than not - but I dont have customers waiting on updates or upgrades for long periods of time without some communication.

Unsanity's website reads to me more as a business than a freelance gig. But this may be the facade they want to project. If that is the case - they are doing a good job of it.

If Unsanity is in fact a business - then they really should start acting more like it and provide feedback to their customers regularly. Set deadlines.

After this Psuedo-Announcement that really tells us that we must wait at least several more months (for the Beta of all things?) - I for one am moving onto SL and not waiting for Unsanity to play "catch-up" again.

You got my money 1 time. If you ever want it again - you need to get up to speed quicker.

The final Beta for SL was not so extrememly different from the GM this time around. So you all should be a little more ahead of the curve than you were for the Leopard release.

If this is in fact a freelance gig - then you should really put out a notcie on the Unsanity website to that affect so that we know to expect changes whenever the devs feel like it or have time to squeeze it in.

Utterly ridiculous.

The most useful 3rd party app you provide and it's still not ported for use in 10.6. Wake up.

There is an old Russian saying: "Its not nice to keep your customers waiting"..... ;-) At least you're back.

please please please: MENUMASTER. it's hurting every day..

Please update font card!

Sounds good. Updates to the most popular haxies for 10.6. Both 32 and 64 bit capable will be a bonus. Can't wait for the beta stages to become public.

As for the ranters below. Don't forget to get mommy to change your diapers before you shit yourselves again. nOObs!

I appreciate the update but I find it absolutely ridiculous that they’ve been working on this stuff, presumably for a month or two at least, and couldn’t even be bothered to share their development plans with their customer base. Many of you rightly called them out for this behavior, which is nothing short of holding their customer base in contempt, but now that you have a few bones thrown your way you’re back lapping up whatever scraps they’re willing to throw your way. It’s pathetic.

The last line of the blog post above is just stupid. If we are genuinely their inspiration and they genuinely think we rock, then how about getting off your ass and maybe giving your customer base (which has paid you good money for apps that became absolutely worthless) some basic idea of your plans. Instead, silence.

How long does it take to write a blog post saying “sorry for the lack of communication, will write more later but just wanted to let you know we WILL be updating APE and many of our haxies, stay tuned for more info shortly.” seriously, they could’ve written that in 1 minute and been done with it, but they don’t feel their customer base merits even that level of communication.

I’ve purchased 5 haxies from these guys. And with EVERY new OS, they leave us hanging and they refuse to communicate.

If this behavior is acceptable to you, and if you want to encourage this kind of irresponsible development, then by all means, continue to support Unsanity. I think their products are pretty good and their customer service is about as bad as a software company can get, and I hope they are rewarded accordingly.

Just a word of encouragement. Love Windowshade and Fruitmenu. Can't wait to see them on Snow Leopard.

A fascinating selection of comments- most of which I totally agree with. Thoroughly bad form to have kept your loyal customers in limbo for so long, shame on you.

I wouldn't mind so much if your stuff wasn't so GOOD. God, how I miss WindowShade! My work involves having lots of web/dreamweaver pages open at once- having them neatly lined up at the top of the screen or minimised-in-place down the side was, for me, just the best way to get things done. My screen is a shambles now and everyting takes So much longer...

I loved FruitMenu too but have got used to XMenu now so you've probably lost my custom on that one. If anyone else made a WindowShade replacement I'd have been long gone there too.

But let's hope the extreme patience of your registered users is going to be rewarded by a decent discount price for the new versions of your stuff...

Label X. JOY. 10.6 (shame about 10.5) This has all ways been a life saver for me in tiger, and one of the reasons I have had to hold back from leopard with the the work I do.
Without it the screen and window refresh/update for the thousands of files I have to label is a nightmare...

So thank you for finally updating it

I am one of many who have grown so accustomed to Xounds that we are staying with Leopard 10.5. We hope you will make every effort to make Xounds work with Snow Leopard 10.6.

Thank you!

10.6 without windowshade is VERY unpleasant. Also, when these "haxies" appear I will send some cash your way.

It is worth the cash for my sanity.

I do appreciate hearing from Unsanity, I'd kind of given up. Although everyone lobbies for the thing they find most useful, I would nevertheless like to second a prior commenter's request for Silk to get on the list. I really appreciated the ability to save my screen (and particularly menu bar) real estate on my MacBook under Leopard. In most applications, the menu winds up obscuring some of the menubar widgets. I can't be the only one this happens to. Even if there were some small specialized version that did only that (change the font/size of the menu bar text), I should think it would be relatively useful to a lot of people.

I'd of course be happy to see WindowShade X again, too, though I've fallen out of the habit of using it. For me, Silk is the main thing I've been waiting for.

Thank you MUCH for the update!!

No thank you! Too f-ing little, too f-ing late.

Let's see how many rubes these con-men dupe into buying haxies for 10.6, only to have them break 6 months later when 10.7 comes out, and Slava and "Rosyna" disappear again for a year. It is counter-productive to your workflow to become accustomed to using a haxie (say, Windowshade), only to have to "unlearn" the habit EVERY time Apple upgrades their OS, while Slava and "Rosyna" decide to take a year vacation.

Anybody who drops another cent on these guys is a fool. If "Rosyna" spent less time pretending he's gender-confused (the joke is old, dude -- nobody cares about your penis or lack thereof) and more time actually WORKING for the money we are paying him, these haxies would be updated much more quickly. But until we effectively boycott these losers, they won't learn.

Thank you for the updates. I will happily pay for an update to use these in SL!! Currently lack of Windowshade and FruitMenu are the only 2 reasons I'm not on SL (well also Quicktime X which I hate).
What can we do to make it easier for you to implement? Like a write-in campaign to Apple to make APIs that you can work with easier? I'll gladly put a bug report or feedback for you as a concerned customer.

I have update to Snow Leopard as soon as it came out and most of my apps were compatible after a short period. The only ones which are not compatible are all the unsanity pack and some software made by a certain Donelleschi. Now considering that the wait has been for seven months I totally agree with people who feel they do not have to pay for an update for unsanity products. This is probably justified by the continuously and repeatedly long awaits for a software renewal, I may suggest Slava or Rosyna to dedicate more time to their customers and develop updates more quickly, I also own a company of my own but if I have to work for my clients I reduce my free time and try to give a result

When will we have APE, Fruitmenu and other haxies we are waiting for ? Can you give us the date of a future public beta for all of them ?
Apple anounced Snow Leopard in june 2008 and sold it more than a year later. And we're still waiting for you product 6 months after the first sales. One year and a half, a sufficent delay for you to adapt your haxies, accroding to me.
And you're still working on it ? Great.
So, when ?

another cry for Xounds...

Can't wait to get Fruit Menu and Windowshade back!!!!! Thanks for the update - I'd even re-buy them for the update to Snow Leopard! Let us know of some tentative dates if you have them.

Please get Shapeshaper going for Snow Leopard! I hate all this gray.

Wow, some rude and ungrateful comments here. 10.6 ≠ 10.5 and the difference is significant. The blog post is perfectly explanatory and to me, your reputation is increased by not putting public dates/schedules on tasks relating to compatibility. Thanks.

The thing that I most look forward to is, hopefully, ICeCoffEE for Snow Leopard.

I also am looking forward to ICeCoffEE
In fact I am waiting to upgrade to SL til then

I wrote the developer and he said he was going to work on it last month....yet still no word....???

Considering you took my money for something that just didn't work and ignored my request for help or refund I'd be pleased to see Mighty Mouse working. It's a shame you don't seem to feel a sense of rush to us who have paid you!!!!

I am using Tiger, and really look forward to the new version of
Windowshade. I became very dependent on it. Keep us updated.

I've dumped Slow Leopard until all of the Haxies are compatible... just love them and can't live without them! If nothing else, they keep me awake whilst working on my Mac. 10.5.8 is just fine until....

Im a sick of LUCIDA GRANDE and would like to see SILK for 10.6

There is no excuse for this-developers have had access to 10.6 for 7 months now

I would gladly pay for another version of Mighty Mouse for Snow Leopard that lets me move the hot point on the mouse cursor right to the tip of the arrow! Plus, Apples cursor is too small, giving me only the option to enlarge it into a huge pixelated mess on the screen, which in turn puts the hot point yet even further away from the point of the mouse cursor.

I love Mighty Mouse's help in Tiger and Leopard. Will you please update it to work in Snow Leopard?

Thank you,

Adam H. Berkey