daveusaidthis

The WordPress built-in editor liked to eat up, chew, and spit out weird things whenever I edited a post. I went looking for a solution and found this. Now I am happy. When the developer adds support for editing Pages as well as Entries, I'll be ecstatic.

Tried this and liked it but it's a little short on features. i found ecto to have a better feature set but at the cost of a slightly less attractive interface. Ecto is also quite a bit cheaper.

really great application. makes keeping a blog tolerable - very fluid.

this app -as someone else says - makes blogging as easy as sending emails - takes the pain out of keeping things up to date - and it avoids (i use wordpress) the temptation to endlessly tinker with themes and sidebars etc. as someone else said tho' if it could take care of pages as well as posts it would be near perfect.

I used it for about 15 minutes and then promptly whipped out my credit card and purchased. It's exactly what I have been looking for. So simple to use, and does (smartly) what the big complicated programs just can't manage to do without confusing the heck out of you.

Downloaded this app and bought it after only ten minutes of testing. Initially had some odd results in reports, but a quick email to the developer resulted in a fix within hours. This app is going to save me $17,000 so it's well worth the $15 purchase price.

Couldn't possibly live without this!

Well, PithHelmet is fine, never had to add/change anything from the default configuration.

With this installed, Safari is hands down the best Mac browser.

WOW!
Far far better and more user friendly than Pithhelmet.
Using PithHelmet, after half an hour of trying, I couldn't get the flash animations or the ads to disappear from the http://www.lyricsdownload.com site.
Even checking the "block ads from @@@@......." options didn't work. Checking them with wildcards also didn't work. etc
I got fed up after 30min.

I then downloaded SafariBlock and within 3-4 clicks (10 seconds or so) I'd succesfully blocked ALL the annoying flash ads and ALL the other annoying ads.

If you want a slower Safari, and feel the need to delve into dozens of little check boxes for each rule and filter set (and remember what they all mean, and why you have a minus sign meaning default as opposed to never, and no examples on the authors site to help you along etc etc) and also like having dozens upon dozens of options for each rule, use PithHelmet.

If you haven't got the time for all that and you want a simple, no nonsense, mac-like experience, where 'right-click' and '*' is all you'll ever need to block ads and flash...use this app with Safari ...flawless

I guess if you only use Safari this would be a good idea but I prefer Privoxy which works as a system-wide web proxy. It's also the only way I've found to block the video ads at the beginning of Comedy Central video clips.

Now, this is exactly what enabled me to finally switch from Firefox to Safari for my regular browsing. Happy truly I am. :)

I use both this and PithHelmet.

I never see an ad. Great piece of software, even more great together. PithHelmet blocks most of the ads before you even add the filters, and then SafariBlock is there for everything it misses. Very easy to use.

Unfortunately the new version for Safari 3 is hopeless. It still blocks ads well, but has numerous other issues. For instance, you may find yourself:
Randomly unable to enter any text in any text fields - disabling SafariBlock "cures" it
Safari simply hanging/crashing - disabling SafariBlock on restart "cures" it again
Right clicking a link can crash Safari - disabling SafariBlock on restart "cures" it again
Conflicts with other plugins (eg iGetter for instance) etc etc

...plus, the unfortunate attitude of the author towards users. On macupdate, someone politely pointed to concerns that safariblock tries to send info to seemingly unconnected websites via cookies (linked to the enable updates feature). In of itself not a worry, but the fact that the author also makes keylogging software was a worry to them. The author wrote a rude reply denying all knowledge, only to (on closer questioning) do a U-turn and admit that they are "his" cookies after all (the author says they continue to "have an interest" in keylogging,hacking and cracking as well).

So a combination of numerous Safari bugs coupled to the authors behaviour have made me reluctantly switch back to pithhelmet.

Re: my previous comment on the "complexity" of PithHelmet's rules, I have since learned the basics of RegEx and am happy in it's use now. The basics of how to create Regular Expressions are here - http://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html.
Version 2.7 of PithHelmet works fine with Safari 3 - nil problems so far. Plus the ability to use ⇧⌘R to reload a single page with PithHelmet turned off is indispensible to me (allows you to track down whether sites aren't displaying correctly due to your filter rules or another Safari problem).
v2.7 is also does not slow down Safari any more - in fact, pages load faster than ever with it installed - so a thumbs up for PithHelmet there.

Overall, SafariBlock used to be a great plugin in Safari 2, but the newer version has too many issues so I've gone back to a stable adblocker in PithHelmet.
Maybe if these issues can be "ironed-out" I might switch back, but until then no.

I use 0.2.1 and it seems to work pretty well, though it doesn't do a perfect job of blocking ads. Now I would never expect a perfect adblocker, but I do expect ad blockers to allow you to make simple adjustments to them in the event that an ad slips through. I simply see no reason that such functionality should be left out. However, the developer of Safari Adblock disagrees. All we need is a simple right-click > block image option, and then a text field to add wildcards. That's it. But you won't be finding that feature in this program any time soon, judging by what it says on the site's FAQ:
"How do I modify Safari AdBlock's filters?
You don't."
Well hey, thanks. I love having zero control over a plugin that has a direct effect on the web pages I view. I emailed the developer about a month ago asking about this - no response.

The instant I get PithHelmet to work on Safari 3 in Leopard is the instant that I permanently ditch this plugin. It would be great if the developer wasn't so adamant in his stance that we shouldn't be allowed to manually add blacklists. Oh well.

Please disregard my previous post. I was intending to write a review for Safari AdBlock, which is a different ad blocking solution than SafariBlock, but with a very similar name. =) I apologize for any confusion.

my girlfriend refers to this as sleepy man. as in "can i have sleepy man?" and then we doze off with a little assistance. this is a simple, powerful, and clever program. highly recommended.

it totally freaked me out that this thing actually works. im still usin it lookin for a way that its bs, but its not. it really does help you sleep. crazy huh?

I love Pzizz and should really use it more than I do. But like the others have said, it works or at least seems to.

Going forward I'm calling this mr sleepy man.

I was skeptical of this program when I first heard of it, and when I saw the first few words on the website stating "Personal Life Coaching System" I thought "oh no!" An acquaintance had a copy, and sent me a sample of the output. Within about 10 minutes I was asleep. I've since purchased the program, and can state that it works. I've had the best few nights of sleep the last few nights since I've been using it, and will continue to use it from here on in. If you can put more than $65 as the cost of a good night's sleep, then this is well worth it.