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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.

It crashes most of the time

This program has the right idea, but a ways to go. The graphics refreshing is off and adding an event doesn't always work. Adding a task added it to mail, but not in this app. Also, there is not an easy way to set the date and time of an event (too much typing and clicking to add something). I used it for about 5 minutes and probably came across 5-6 bugs each of which were a potential deal-killer for me. Way too many bugs for a $15 program. I would recommend menuCalendarClock iCal over this program.

Keep up the good work... will check out the next version.

For a free to-do-only alternative, see Anxiety: http://osx.iusethis.com/app/anxiety

There's another free alternative: SimpleToDo.
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/simpletodo
Nice interface and Leopard animation effects to move items.
The only tning missing is a icon. (But you may add one of your choice.)

It's okay. UI could use some work still. Mainly the new event / task dialog needs a pop up calendar or something.