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Something is up with this program. It's absolutely beautiful and fun and comprehensive, but it caused my system to get really sluggish - expose, spotlight, dock, all animations were jerky. Maybe it's related to the sketchy MenuCracker hack that it secretly installs.

you'll definately want this compared to other solutions doing similar tasks. the menu items are highly configurable, movable and you are free to choose which icon sits where (thats not the case with all menu items out there!)

one thing worth the mention is, that some of the items have access to system items like the activity monitor or the network preferences... each attached to the connected item, like lets say you may launch the activity monitor from the cpu meter menu and the network preferences from the network one. not a biggy, but it'll save you space in your dock, if you have the activity monitor in there.

make sure to check out the other software by islayer. they're all slick to look at and very speedy to use. no memory hogs or alikes.

absolutely liquid piece of software worth each minute of its use! donation is awesome as well!

Times is beautiful and innovative, and takes some serious risks by being so different. Maybe it works for you, maybe not, but you can't deny that it's apps like these that make the Mac platform fun and exciting. I think it will be very useful in handling my "browsing" feeds like Digg and Engadget, where I just don't have time to read every single story.

It does LOOK good but it crashes repeatedly.

I really like this RSS reader. The way I see it, this isn't an RSS reader for those who want to read every little article, but for those who just browse headlines and such; wanting just to keep up with what's going on rather than reading up on the details. Good idea and well implemented. As for the crashing issues, I haven't been running into them, but I've been barely been using it.

For my own personal use, I'd just use NetNewsWire for all of the feeds that I want to read all the way through and Times for feeds on subjects that I'm not as interested in, but would like to know about (Politics, Entertainment, etc...).

Note: I haven't bought the app, but I probably will at some point in the future.

This app has a great user interface, but is lacking in functionality. A very promising app though. Looking forward to future enhancements. Until then, I will save my $$ and use one of the free RSS readers.

30 bucks for an RSS reader? Even if it would make coffee along with it that's too much, considering what it does. And it'll have to compete with the now free NetNewsWire. 15 bucks and I would probably consider it, once it's out of its growing pains.

Great interface and nice functionalities.
but this thing is still very much in Beta state. It crashes repeatedly, not just the program but twice brought down my macbook. You can file as many bug reports but the developer never replies.

My recommendation - WAIT for version 2.
Definitely doesn't deserve $30 for what it is.

Just to note, I think the developer has clearly worked to make it more stable, and it doesn't crash nearly so much now and I can easily leave it in the background without too much bother.
I really like how it works and the whole idea behind it. You need to approach it with an open mind, and not be wanting to use it just like NetNewsWire or whatever (I used endo before).
I seriously cut down the amount of feeds I had, and then grouped them much more rigorously, so I found I had enough feeds in a 'Politics' group to fill more than one page in Times, so split it into sections (World, U.S., U.K. and Europe) I did a few more pages, so I guess with about five or six feeds page I probably subscribe to at least forty feeds, across eight pages.
I turned off marking new articles, because I didn't really want it - it kinda interferes with the whole way I read now with this. I also turned the page curl off, as pretty as it is, it kinda got in the way.
Since I got this I started to spread my feeds around, more applicable to the application. Some work very well in Mail.app I feel, a few in Safari and I now use XTorrent for rss torrent feeds.
This app is great if you look at it as almost starting again with your RSS, but if you really don't want to live without being able to skim over 5000 technology blogs, then it certainly isn't for you.

Nice idea... still needs work.

It's a nice looking interface, but the functionality is limited... I'll stick to NetNewsReader. $30??? For limited functionality This should be Beta at the least. I label it crippleware...

Just wanted to note that there is nothing inherently 'limited' in Times other than the fact that it is a 1.0 product and growing. We're always open to suggestions and feature requests (times@acrylicapps.com), but labeling Times as 'crippleware' or suggesting it is a beta product is simply misleading and wrong.

So glad I found this. It's perfect! Goodbye iMote!

Wow. the betas were spotty but the 1.0 release is just outstanding. I was running Parallels forever and recently started wondering why my machine was so slow: disk thrashing, pageouts, swapping, even with 2GB of ram! Turns out Parallels just can't manage memory. Fusion has no such problems and my machine is glassy smooth again. Kudos!

Fusion works flawlessly. Booted up my Boot Camp with no troubles (Parallels didnt work and the error message pointed to a broken link).

The UI is amazingly simple. I've been running my image in the background for the last couple days with no noticable performance problems at all on my mac apps (Macbook Pro). The Windows apps seem to run native speed.

Highly recommended

I love this app! Set-up is straightforward and easy, and Unity rocks.

Not perfect, but I am happy with Fusion. An occasional lock-up (requiring a reboot as Force Quit does not work) and failure to release external USB drives back to OS X are the many problems. However, those are rare. Unity is simply superb. For those of us who, for whatever reason need to keep one foot in the Windoze world or who want/need same computer access to other flavors of UNIX, it is hard to beat.

Unstable waste of money. I really wanted this to work, but it didn't.

Faster then the "other" virtualization solution for Mac. Unity is a ver nice way to integrate both world

I have licenses for both VMware and Parallels, and compare them head to head with each major release.

Other than a period after VMware 1.0 final was released and Parallels 3 was in beta, Parallels has always been faster to resume and restore, and has a much more polished user experience.

I tried the recent VMware 2.0 beta, and other than the new printer setup tool, it doesn't surpass Parallels in any way I can find. Some comments here about how Vista runs better on VMware, but can't say; Vista is too painful on either product IMHO.

So once again, I'm sticking with Parallels for now. Nice to see the two companies push each other, though!