Packed with great features missing from iTunes.

Pros: Adds a tiny dropdown icon and controller to the menubar at the top of OS X's screen that lets you: pause and play iTunes, skip back or forward, change volume level, access playlists from the dropdown, apply star-ratings, and buy the album from Amazon.com.

You can do even more if you open the Preferences pane and poke around, like one-click access to album artwork from Amazon.com which you can then apply to your iTunes library (well, maybe it's two clicks).

Overall, a very cool little app, well designed and discreetly small and unobtrusive.

Cons: I like that themes are available, but I wish more than one theme came with the installer.

I also really like that it retrieves album artwork, but there needs to be an option in the Prefs panel to make it automatically apply the artwork to iTunes' library.

Another suggestion: The dropdown that shows the ratings doesn't actually show my current rating of the playing song. Just the ones that I can apply.

The Volume Mute option needs an un-mute option, otherwise I have to switch back to iTunes to do it; and the Volume Up and Down options are kinda worthless without a slider.

The Song Information option doesn't seem to do anything at all.

Posted: 28-Oct-2005 02:41:28 PM

Best I've used

Pros: More feature-rich and customizable, and a TON more easy to use than that other FTP program which rhymes with "kvetch."

Posted: 14-Jun-2005 10:58:01 AM

This ancient software is NOT standards-compliant. The CNET reviews are OLD.

Pros: It's 2005. There's absolutely nothing good about IE 5.1.7 in 2005.

Cons: Enter the 21st century, get Firefox or Safari or some other web-standards-compliant browser. This ancient, clunky, tired old workhorse was indeed on the top of the heap for a while. But that was four years ago, and IE's star has fallen like a meteor.

Full of non-standards problems, prone to ActiveX hacks, and not even capable of tabbed browsing fo crying out loud, poor IE has lost the battle on the Mac side.

I'm not just a Mac partisan, I'm telling you that if you're still using this piece of software, you're missing out on everything good about the Internet in the modern day. Come out of the Dark Ages. Frefox beckons you...

Posted: 01-Feb-2005 06:19:08 PM