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Secrets was (and hopefully still will be) a great little System Preference Pane that allows users to make adjustments to their system without having to worry about running Terminal and typing in scary command-line commands. I reviewed it earlier here: "Secrets".
I say was because I am reading text in the Secrets Discussion Group that gives me the impression that the developer has stopped working on it. This seems a little surprising to me since the developer is related to textdriven.com which is the developer that wrote Quicksilver. Although didn't the developer of Quicksilver put the source into OpenSource so that the project could continue?
Anyway, I have a suspicion as to why Secrets may lose development. MacPilot 3.0 has a great new feature that basically looks just like Secrets.
As you can see, MacPilot's General tab looks a lot like Secrets. I guess the big difference here is that the developers of MacPilot are the only ones adding items to this section of their program where with Secrets, anyone could add a new adjustment, if approved.
Now, MacPilot isn't free. It costs $19.95, but along with the functionality of Secrets, it also has a bunch of other adjustments that can be made to pretty much any part of Tiger and Leopard. I had bought it a while back as part of a software bundle and was quite pleased with the way it works. It's my main tool for making Leopard adjustments.
Now that MacPilot 3.x is out, I have removed the Secrets Preference Pane since it's had bugs that make it difficult to work with. Secrets had some great potential, but there just hasn't been any real progress made to fix bugs that have been found.
Its possible that the folks working on Secrets are just really busy with other coding projects and will get back to Secrets soon, but I can't recommend Secrets anymore knowing that MacPilot is out there and works so well.
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May 8th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
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