A few people commented about the long time it takes to update the 2011 version. While that's true, it's really a GOOD thing for people with slow connections. The updates themselves are tiny now -- MUCH smaller than previous downloads. In spite of misleading progress messages most of the time now is spent applying the updates. In other words, these are delta updates which when have to be woven in to the existing code, which takes a while.

I agree with many others -- I think the program gets better every year. Yeah, there are annoyances such as occasionally having to answer stuff you've already answered and the early versions (i.e December and January) have some unforgivable bugs but I think these are outweighed by the thoroughness of the program. I just wish they add the full feature set of the windows versions to the mac versions.

Not a free upgrade. The upgrade to version 3 is USD$6.95

What the heck was barebones thinking?

Functionality is stripped out. For example documents drawer replaced with non-movable sidebar which can't get keyboard focus and is missing a "Save" feature. (Yes, you can get rid of it with an obscure command line preference!). "Text Factories" are now "Filters" (though displayed messages still refer to "Text Factories") but can no longer be applied to several files at once.

UI improvements? None that I notice. Just some preferences moved so they are no longer all in one place and a horrible implementation of a preferences dialog added.

Bugs cleaned? I don't know. Seems to me same silly things are still there. Like how come when I search a single file for all occurrences of a string I'm told a "Multi-file search" is completed? Well at least that's no longer echoed onto the console.

New features? Yes. At least some. Zip file editing and packages support comes to mind. That's nice. Gotta give them credit there.

Trying to mess with prices so they can sell a crippled Apple store version makes no sense to me. I think it will not go over well, but we will see.

I've been using BBEdit as long as I can remember and paid for every upgrade. Sadly, both those things are likely to come to an end now.

Astonishingly slow rendering a map. On an 8 core power mac with plenty of free memory it's quicker to go to google maps via a slow internet connection and get the map than it is for Route Buddy to draw it from the internal hard disk. And zoom in a notch? Yup, we wait all over again. Makes no difference if I use Open GL or software rendering. That said, version 3 seems only slightly slower than version 2, which also was horrible.

Entering an address is hit or miss -- generally miss.

Importing and displaying tracks works very well.

I like the company and love they are filling a niche. The product continues to disappoint. I will still support the effort and hope they get it right one day.

Version 2 has distorted graphics for me and was unplayable so I was glad to see what seems like an update. But now this seems to be controlled by bigfishgames and it wants to download some game controller which just immediately crashes.

Guess Runes is still ruined.

Note about updates: Checking for updates is broken. It will tell you there are no updates when there really are. The only way I know to get the updates is to download the free trial, which is the full program. It will ask for a name and e-mail address but they are not verified -- I just give support@srslabs.com as my e-mail address :-)

And don't believe their release notes either -- there are lots of versions and changes not listed there.

Also, if you are getting an error on your console about an invalid iWow plugin in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL then delete the iWow.plugin that's there, then run the latest iWow installer.

Yes, they are sloppy, sloppy sloppy. But the program does work. Eventually.