iStat Menus 1.3 doesn't support Snow Leopard.

Maybe it will support Snowy, but now we have .113 beta release and still lots of problems with System UI Server! It's enough to click on the clock filed in the manu bar and everything at least hang up or crash the entire UI Server. You have to go and manually kill the process from the shell or Activity monitor. Do you know that's a problem with iStat Menus. Every beta update has the same problem - click on the clock in menu and crash! ( Delete or Edit)

Any hope of a beta of 2.0 ? Not much time left before SL releases and some of us miss our iStat Menu! ( Delete or Edit)

It is released now.. ( Delete or Edit)

I got this comment forwarded to me by e-mail and thought it meant 2.0 was released. Curse you Disconnect ;-) ( Delete or Edit)

You and me both. ( Delete or Edit)

You can upgrade to Snow Lepoard safely. iStat Menus just won't work until you upgrade it to 2.0. ( Delete or Edit)

On my MacBook Pro when I upgraded, iStat Menus 1.3 would attempt to startup and crash over and over and over, I could barely use my MacBook until I managed to get the uninstaller and run it, so for my other macs I un-installed it before updating. ( Delete or Edit)

Thankfully, it just... didn't work. No issues. No need to run the uninstaller. It was non-problimatic. Look... I don't mean to sound like a douche here, so I'm going to say this two ways... One, your original message says it'll be out well before the launch of Snow Kitty. But... it didn't happen.
Now, this is what I'm trying to say here - okay, you might not have AS MANY people download Istat menus if it ain't free... but c'mon... I'd pay a buck for it. Hell, I'd pay TWO dollars for it. If you have twenty thousand people using it, you're doing PRETTY WELL. Yeah, then you gotta pay taxes on it and whatever... but I know you guys are probably slammed with requests, now. What about all the people who aren't smart enough to find the "get satisfaction" page? There are tons of people who are moping because of istat's incompatibility with snow kitty.

Okay, let's get down to brass tacks, here... HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU NEED to finish this project in a timely (one week or less) fashion? I'll get out my check book, because I know a lot of people aren't able to donate. Hell, I'll go one step further and ask how much I have to donate so that you'll make an iStat widget for Windows7 / Vista so I can use it in BootCamp. I crave my little icons! My bar is NAKED without them!

-Ken Weaver ( Delete or Edit)

I didn't post this comment so I could get your approval Zaphon, all I was doing was saying thank you to bjango for giving us a great app. Also I don't quite understand why you feel the need to quote build numbers either, anyone who reads macrumors could give you the build number of the GM.
I could understand if you paid for the app to be a little frustrated that it is not compatible but it is a little small minded to complain about something that you get free. Someone has obviously put time and effort for no real return to provide you with something useful and all you can do is complain. Just be patient ( Delete or Edit)

I'm right there with you, I'd happily pay for this app. I have the iphone app, but the only thing I really used it for is now gone (as honestly the only time I went into it was when things were getting slow, and the first thing I would do is Free Memory). Now 2+ days with out iStat Menus (which was the only app I had that didn't work with Snow Leopard luckily) and I'm wondering how I ever worked with out it. ( Delete or Edit)

Done. :-) ( Delete or Edit)

Play here? ;)

Would playing help get it done faster? :) ( Delete or Edit)

I'm guessing not at this point (it's already out in beta), but I donated none the less. In a way I would have rather paid directly for the app, to support it versus the whole team, but in reality, no matter what, it still goes to the company, and get's divided out appropriately. *shrugs*. ( Delete or Edit)

DAYS! JOY! ( Delete or Edit)

I just want to clear the air of some things.

First I love iStat Menus, I have now donated (probably 2-3x what it's worth, but as I said I love it), and am suffering without it. I have found multiple links to the "unofficial" beta now, but I refuse to download them, I will wait for a public beta, or an "official" beta before I think about putting it on my macs.

But, to those who keep saying that the release of Snow Leopard caught them by surprise, I disagree. Snow Leopard was announced on June 8, 2008 at WWDC (that's 14 months ago by my calendar). It has been available for download for the majority of the time since than to ADC Premier and Select Members (those who actually pay Apple).

It was announced that Snow Leopard would be available for purchase in September (not that it would be released than, that's never what they said, it was a carefully crafted quote). The GM version of Snow Leopard was made available via ADC around 8/11/2009, and on 8/16/2009 the rumors started floating around of an August 28th, 2009 release date on all the big sites.

As I have said before, I upgraded to Snow Leopard last Friday on release. I had one major app that didn't work, that was iStat Menus. All my other apps either just worked, or I received updates in the past few weeks with "Snow Leopard Fixes/Tweaks/Optimizations." As people were prepared, and had been working with Snow Leopard for quite some time.

So in closing, I realize this is a Free App, but to even remotely think that Snow Leopard snuck up on them is a tad silly, they would have had to have been living in a dark isolated world to not have known it was coming.

P.S. I still love iStat Menus and can't wait for the release, just want to clear up some misconceptions. ( Delete or Edit)

Thanks for the amusing post. Unfortunately you're wrong, I know plenty about the problem, heck I even know how to get iStat Menus 1.3 working in Snow Leopard (you can either strip the x86_64 version of the SystemUIServer from it's binary (not recommended), or you can set it to run i386 (32-bit mode) as default, than logout/login). So while you may think I know nothing about it, you are very wrong. You shouldn't assume what others know. I just got sick of sitting by and listening to people act like snow leopard coming out was some kind of big surprise, when it wasn't. ( Delete or Edit)

I never said that's what they were going for, you simply said I have no idea what's going on. I'm sure you wouldn't have believed me when I told you I'm a software developer, so I didn't bother saying it. I'm sure you still won't, I don't develop for the Mac directly, as the software I write runs on UNIX boxes, but I work from a Mac, even testing on my Mac. But ultimately it runs on a UNIX server (FreeBSD to be exact) in a Colo across town from me.

As for MenuCracker updates, looking at SourceForge, there were patches available as far back as 4/18/2009 to get it working. The 2.0 version is in the iStat Menu Beta and is also being used by other apps that are working with Snow Leopard as well (for example MenuMeters).

And if you go back and read what I said, I never said anything about it being simple. I was simply saying and I'm still saying it, Snow Leopard was no surprise. It's been known about for 14 months. People have been working on it for many months now (evidenced by the ticket on SourceForge for MenuCracker back on 4/18/2009 where a developer submitted a patch to make it work with 10.6 (that is over 4+ months ago)), so saying it snuck up on them due to an early release still remains an invalid statement. ( Delete or Edit)

I was only saying that as an example. I had quite a few apps that did indeed get updates a week or two before Snow Leopard arrived that don't work without these updates (Crossover Games for example). I have never doubted that there was work to be done, just saying it could have been done months ago. But it's clear their a small group, they've been hyper focused on other apps (I would assume iPhone apps primarily since they make money from those), and they thought they had more time to get this done. As I said before, I love the app, I don't doubt the new version will be great. All I have been trying to say is there's no need to act like Snow Leopard just dropped out of the sky unexpected, as it didn't. ( Delete or Edit)

This is fair enough. Rightly or wrongly thanks to a poster on this forum, I've seen version 2.0 beta and its an absolute cracker. Well worth the wait and definitely worth another $20 in the tip jar. Can't wait for the official release now! ( Delete or Edit)