SteerMouse is a great utility for empowering your mouse, but one little thing has always bothered me about it. It's just awfully peculiar that the System Preferences pane for SteerMouse does nothing except launch another application for setting the configurations. Why not make a normal preference pane that does it all right there? USB Overdrive does it the "normal" way now (it used to be exactly like SteerMouse) so there doesn't seem to be a sensible reason for SteerMouse to continue doing it the current way it does.

I've used IceClean since early on when it was first released, and generally speaking I think it's a very good tool. Much like Onyx, it has most of the typical maintenance tools most users may ever need, along with a few extras that Onyx is lacking, though IceClean too is lacking a few extras that Onyx offers. As a system maintenance tool, some of the extras that IceClean offers really are out of place. It's not the type of app that I would expect to do a traceroute, whois, and other internet lookup tasks that have zip to do with my computer.

One big problem I have with IceClean is the interface. It's just really bad. For starters, all of the system maintenance tasks are run from the menubar, and is lacking in any explanations of what the tasks do before run. This is a fine option for automation because, unlike Onyx, all of those tasks can be run with keyboard commands. If one desired, you could very easily use Apple's Automator app to launch IceClean and run some tools at specified times/days without being present. For the average user though, Onyx's interface is friendlier with the tools right there in the main window with explanations of what many of them do. And speaking of the main window, the tools that are there are mostly tools like Lookup, Netstat, Whois… tools that, as before, aren't the central function of this app. It's just very out-of-place.

IceClean also doesn't do well with providing a clear indicator that a task is underway, or how far it has to go. You get a subtle spinning wheel in the bottom corner, and sometimes a sound when the task is done. That's typically it.

So when it comes right down to it, I see IceClean as a tool better suited to more experienced users who are comfortable with what the tool does and want to take advantage of the greater ease IceClean offers in the sense of automation and keyboard commands to run the tools it has. With some more work and extensive refining of the user interface, this could in time become the must-have tool for novices and experienced users alike.

It was more than a little disappointing to learn that AirPrint would only work with specific AirPrint-compatible printers. Buying a new printer just for that feature was not an option, and workarounds to get documents to our Mac to print was rather tedious. AirPrint Activator made all that go away! We can now print at will from our iPad or iPhones just as easily as we would have from the Mac. The minor downside is that the Mac must be on, but that's a limitation that can't be circumvented short of new equipment, or perhaps jailbreaking. I'm good with it.

Glims has become virtually indispensable for at least a couple of the expanded, helpful features it brings to Safari.

I have the full, paid version of this on my iPhone and was quite happy with it… till they released an update AND started running ads in the game. I'm not falling for that again.