I've been using Web Snapper for a long time, and it is simply amazing. As far as I know, there is no other application / plug-in that does what Web Snapper can.

I do a lot of research online, and have learned through experience that web pages are not immortal. Keeping snaps of them is vital to what I do.

And Web Snapper's PDFs are much better than Safari's Web Archives. For one, they pop up in Quicklook. They are searchable. They preserve any live links on the page. You can have the URL appended to the PDF.

And on and on and on.

As of now, I would estimate that I have snapped roughly 30,000 pages with Web Snapper. Yup, thirty thousand. And I am extremely satisfied.

My only caveat is that every once in a blue moon, the snap won't be perfect with one of those Flash web pages that you come across. You know, the ones that are entirely Flash, not the ones that have a Flash movie or some Flash elements embedded.

Finally, the developer has been amazing. I've received fast, thorough and friendly support every time I've contacted them.

I can't recommend it highly enough. A thorough bargain.

(I have no affiliation with the developer. I know my praise is effusive, but it's genuine.)

Hi all. I'm a Web Snapper user and totally love it, but wanted to share some observations.

I just did a full, clean upgrade to Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro, and the first things I re-installed were Flash, Web Snapper and Cosmopod (video downloader for Safari - awesome!).

To my horror (so dramatic!), Safari would crash constantly any time I'd activate Web Snapper. It was pretty rock solid on Leopard, with the occasional crash (maybe 1 in 500 snaps) which I always knew was Flash's fault.

Anyway, I began uninstalling the various components to see if I could isolate the problem. Mind you, this is, again, a clean install of Snow Leopard with all Apple updates installed as of May 10, 2010 (10.6.3).

Web Snapper was fine without Flash installed.

Web Snapper would crash with Flash with or without Cosmopod (i.e., Cosmopod is not the problem).

Finally, I began messing with the various iterations of Flash currently available. There's a 10.1 release candidate, as well as the "Gala" version that adds GPU acceleration.

Both of these would cause Safari to crash anytime I'd try to snap a webpage with Web Snapper.

I finally installed the last "stable" release of Flash, which is v.10.0.45.2. Since then, no problems.

Obviously, I do hope Flash becomes more stable, and I do hope that both Web Snapper and Cosmopod keep up with the changes.

The other reviewers are absolutely correct: Scrivener is just plain amazing!

It is one of the most thoughtful applications I've ever used. And to think this app was basically made by a self-taught programmer!

There's a v.2 on the horizon, and honestly, I'm not sure what they can improve. The only thing I can think of is better annotations, but even now, it's totally workable.

I do wish the developer catered a bit more to the writer who's starting out fresh. I don't mean tutorials on how various parts of the application work (they have a ton of those), but more along the lines of explaining why you'd want note cards and a corkboard, how to organize your writings, etc. In other words, more philosophical than technical.

Bento, as of v.3.0.2, is a frustrating application that does hold a lot of potential. Whether that potential will be tapped into is frankly unknown.

I first bought Bento upon its v.1 release, somewhat blindly, thinking that because Apple owns Filemaker, there's a certain level of competency to be expected. Although not terrible, it was missing a lot of functionality beyond its pretty and yes, accessible, interface. Regardless, Bento quickly fell to the wayside unused.

Then v.2 came along, and with the whole "full upgrade price" fiasco, I didn't bite. Yes, iLife is also a "full upgrade price" package, but it usually brings a level of polish, as well as new features, with each upgrade that Bento v.2 did not.

With v.3, Filemaker offered a very reasonable upgrade fee for both v.1 and v.2 owners, and I decided to revisit Bento. They also had an iPhone app that made the whole idea a lot more attractive. But still, it leaves a lot to be desired.

My primary use for Bento is to create a "film notebook" in which I can catalog and make notes about films I've seen. There's a nice level of functionality that Bento has just for this sort of thing, with offerings of various fields, like checkboxes, drop-down "choice" menus, etc. Since a lot of the data repeats from record to record - e.g., format, like whether 35mm film, 16mm film, Blu Ray, DVD, VHS, etc., - a drop-down menu makes notating this info very easy from record to record.

And you can add media, like JPEGs of posters, film clips, etc., and have it look nice and tidy.

But, once you start fiddling with the software, you run into issues. For example, one new feature in v.3 is the ability to change the icon of your library items (libraries are the overarching database, so my "film notebook" is a library, with each film entry a record within that library). So, instead of a generic "book" icon, my library could have a "film strip" icon that matches thematically.

Now, again, this is a minor, cute feature. Currently, there's a bug that prevents v.1 libraries that have been upgraded to v.3 to change that icon. In order to do so, you have to export your v.1 library as a blank template, then re-import it, and then add your records to the newly recreated library.

The problem, then, is that moving records from one library to another involves exporting all of your data, which PRECLUDES any media files. For my purposes, that is disastrous.

Luckily, I only had a couple of records, so manually recreating this wasn't a huge problem, but what happens in the future? As of now, my media-rich data is basically locked in to Bento.

To be fair, Bento offers CSV, as well as options for Pages, Numbers and Excel exports, but again, this is just for textual data.

Other problems have cropped up as well. There's a very strict adherence to a grid system for positioning your fields. The spaces between the fields cannot currently be adjusted, and so, your layouts often have a ton of wasted space.

There's a new "Simple List" field that acts like a simple table, but its implementation is horrible. You cannot currently adjust text size in the table, and it inexplicably always adds an extra row and column to this table.

The media fields do not respect the aspect ratio of video files, and reformat them to a near square. (Hey, I'm nerdy enough to keep a film notebook. Did you think I wouldn't be utterly insulted by this?)

As easy as the layout is to create, you can't lock your forms/ layouts, so it's very, very easy to accidentally move stuff around and screw things up. Click slightly outside the text box, and it shifts into edit mode...

There are other issues which are covered in the Bento forums, but as I haven't experienced them, I won't discuss them either.

If Filemaker was more responsive to its users, I'd feel a lot more confident that these issues would be addressed. But given the past, I don't know if it will happen. They're a lumbering beast of a company, and although their forums have become more responsive to users' feedback, there's still a long way to go.

Bento is fun to use, and certainly yields attractive results, but the functionality doesn't match.

I'm not sure there are any other choices in this type of program, other than Filemaker Pro itself, which is $300. I'm going to dive into DEVONthink Pro and see if it can do what I need it to.

First of all, let me say that I agree with the other commenters here: Equinux's policies are idiotic, antagonistic to their customers, and annoying as hell. They make you jump through so many hoops just so you can buy their software. It's really flabbergasting.

Then, they are incredibly stingy with their licensing. Basically, you get to use their software with one computer. That's it. And you have to go through the same rigamarole to activate, deactivate, etc. In this day and age, the only other company that I personally know of to use these same draconian measures is Final Draft. And if you're unfamiliar with how they're doing, well, let's just leave it at that.

Finally, their upgrade pricing is even stingier. I own CoverScout v.2, and they give you a $10 discount to upgrade to v.3. That would be very generous if the price was, say, $20, but it's not. It's $40, meaning an upgrade price of $30. (BTW, I've written to the company, expressing this.)

Now, after all of that, let me say that SongGenie is the only app of its kind that really works. I have a bunch of songs that don't have names or any usable metadata, and I was hoping to somehow figure out what they are.

I tried Jaikoz ($22 ugly ugly ugly Java app) and that didn't find any of my songs that didn't have good metadata. None. Its audio fingerprinting is totally useless.

I also tried MusicBrainz Picard (free), and well, that was only a bit better. It found a couple of the songs in my test, but strangely, it kept throwing out suggestions that were obviously incorrect.

I even tried using Shazam on my iPhone to see if it could find out who any of these tracks were by. It did okay with more dynamic tracks, but not so hot with softer, more ambient music.

SongGenie did very well. In my test, it only failed to identify one track. Pretty impressive.

It's also decent-looking, although it could use a nice whack from a subtlety hammer. The interface has some garish colors, and they have various column headings stuck together, so they blend into one big blue blob.

Some other design choices need to be reconsidered too, like the lack of the ability to just open a folder. You have to add folders and directories in the Preferences, which is silly. And the tiny little warning message in the bottom right corner could be more informative and easier to see and read.

However, the little flags it pops up are cute, and overall, the app is fun to use. Seriously. You can't help but get a little thrilled when you finally find out who that one song is by!

The big frustration, then, comes strictly from the company's policies and treatment of their customers. I really, really didn't want to give them any more of my money. But I did, since SongGenie was the only application, in my experience, that did what I needed.

I hope this helps others, and if you do end up buying any of their products, please be vocal about your displeasure with their policies if you do indeed agree with what I've said here.