I have been using this preference pane successfully for at least 5 years and pre Panther. As opposed to other utilities I use which take a kitchen-sink approach, Macaroni has a tightly focused suite of jobs which it performs seamlessly and flawlessly in the background. I suppose this is a function of its being a maintenance utility as opposed to a troubleshooting utility.

Macaroni automates the recommended housekeeping for OS X, plus adds some other benefits. After initial setup, it requires little or no follow-up or maintenance and has kept up with the evolution of the OS admirably. Set it a and forget it! I credit this little utility with allowing me to use my Mac over these past few years with extremely few issues.

Stable, cheap, efficient, well designed,and truly useful: This seems to be a paragon of what a utility should be.

FileChute falls under the category of utilities that once used, I wonder how I ever got along without. For those with a .mac account, this is a simple, seamless way of electronically disseminating files too large to email. In the two years or so I have been using it, I have never had any usability issues with it, so I can't comment on the developer's customer service.

Easy to set up, easy to use, with a clean, Mac-like interface--and as we expect from the best Mac products, it just works. Indispensable.