I love Pagehand! It's got great attention to typography and layout, and I've been using it pretty often to write different kinds of documents. (There are a few kinks, though, like an 'unexpectedly quit' error that pops up when I use a particular font in the program, but not in other apps.)

I am disappointed, however, that the developer axed the program and won't be updating it further. Well, c'est la vie. It was still worth every penny and it's staying on my computer.

FontLab, *please* edit your software. Fontographer is not a replacement. You charge nearly $700 for a product that is not a universal binary. The price is bad, but the fact that you cannot be bothered to update your software to run on recent Macs natively shows a gross lack of concern for your customers, especially considering FontLab's widespread use in typeface design. This is industry standard software. This is like Adobe not updating Photoshop for five years, even when many people rely on it.

Even Glyphs, which I consider overpriced as it is, is around $400 less than your offering, and it's Intel-compatible. FontLab is still, even after five years of Intel Macs, not a universal binary, and therefore cannot run on Apple's most recent OS. The website says that there will eventually be an Intel binary, but it hasn't materialised yet, even though it was purportedly to be released in "July 2011." It's September—where is it?

Windows users don't have to deal with this, even though most typographers and font designers work on Macs.

I'm not amused, especially since I preferred FontLab to other font editors.

I've had a registered copy of Amadeus Pro for about a year, and it's incredibly usable, and it's probably my favourite sound-recording app for simple work—I don't need the bells and whistles that come with other programs, so it's perfect for me. The interface is intuitive, and it's incredibly zippy and stable. I do think, however, that the developer's recent pricing tactic is not the best way he could have gone about it—I paid $40 for this app last year, and I am not inclined to pay yet another $40 to upgrade to 2.0. I agree with the other commenters that he probably should have lowered the price or kept it where it was ($40 was a fair price, in my opinion), in keeping with most developers' stances on pricing these days.

A great tool! I've had Cinch installed on my MacBook Pro for the past nine months or so, and it's been an invaluable tool in managing my windows. It's one of the features that Microsoft got right in Windows 7, and it's good to see it brought to the Mac via this tool.

Ack. I want to try it, but I don't have $100 to spare for any one application, and I don't see anything about academic discounts, which I think is kind of effed up. I think that a lot of developers charge insanely high prices for their applications, especially in the Mac community. Unless you're buying from a big company like Apple, Microsoft or Adobe, it's pretty much impossible to get one.