Netflix Freak 2.5 review

Netflix Freak is a full-featured Mac OS X application for managing your Netflix account.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1261K Developer: The Little App Factory Buy Now Price: $15.00 Updated: 30 Oct 2006

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Netflix Freak is a full-featured Mac OS X application for managing your Netflix account.
Netflix Freak offers many unique features not available on the Netflix website.

Here are some key features of "Netflix Freak":
Rearrange your queue using drag-n-drop or copy-n-paste
Intelligently shuffle your rental queue while keeping movie series in order
Push movies to the top or bottom of your queue in one action
One-click adding of movies to the top or bottom of your queue
Select all DVDs that belong to a series for easy rearrangement or deletion
Print any or all of your queues, with or without DVD images
Add notes to individual movies
Unlimited undo of queue rearrangements
Search all of your queues by movie title
Create and assign custom categories to movies in your queue
Create and assign renter names to movies in your queue
Easily look up movies on Google Movies, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, and Amazon
Switch between profiles without needing to re-enter your password
Cut/Copy and Paste to move items from one profile's queue to another
Import your rental history to keep track of more than the last 90 days of rentals
View all Netflix data for a movie in a single-window interface
Super-fast searching of the Netflix catalog
Support for all of Netflix's RSS feeds (Recommendations, New Releases, Top 100, etc)
Applescript access to all your Netflix movie data.

Limitations:
Netflix Freak will run, without limitation, for 30 days. After that, you'll need to purchase Netflix Freak for $15 to use any of the application's functionality. Netflix Freak can be purchased directly from the application by selecting Registration... from the Netflix Freak menu.

Requirements:
A Netflix account.

What's New:
[Enhancement] Netflix Freak now warns you when you try to add movies and you are near the 500 item limit imposed by Netflix
[Enhancement] Updated to new e-commerce software
[Bug Fix] Star ratings sometimes would show up blank in some of the queues and would not be fixed by Reload Details
[Bug Fix] Couldn't search for movies with a single-character name
[Bug Fix] Need to adjust detection for when Netflix is down due to scheduled maintenance
[Bug Fix] Made connections window show and hide when using keyboard shortcut
[Bug Fix] Item count now updates immediately when deleting items from queue
[Bug Fix] Intermittent problem with queues showing up empty