If asking a simple question resulted in frowny faces, no doubt my review will be unpopular among the fanboyz. Fortunately, the Omni people addresed this issue in a recent (02/01/2012) blog post:
"Also new and notable! We’re getting started on multi-project support."

This had been requested since 2006.

Version 2.0.3 was unable to open a MS Project MPX file, both using File>Open and dragging the file to OmniPlan. I had to Force Quit OP both times. Merlin opened the file in about 2 seconds.
It did open the MPP file of the same project, and that was a bit quicker than Merlin.

Merlin had a much cleaner view of the project, and this applies to Tasks or Activities, Resources, and Calendar. Merlin offers an additional view (Net Plan).

I tried the "Scale to Fit Project" option only to discover there's no Undo for this.

No problems with ease of use or stability. 4 stars for each of these categories. In terms of features and value I can't rate this higher that 2 stars.

I'll give it another try in version 3. For now, FastTrack Schedule and Merlin are clearly a better choice, and Merlin costs the same as OmniPlan 2.

People with simple PM needs will probably enjoy OmniPlan, but for the same price there are better, more robust alternatives out there.

F*&k you MacKeeper.

If anyone has read my comments, they'd know I would never post something like this. Until now.

I restarted Firefox only to encounter a pop-under from MacKeeper. I run MacScan weekly and Sophos occasionally precisely to avoid this type of garbage.

What I considered a set of overpriced, mediocre applications now got worse with their terrible "marketing" tactics. There are also YouTube videos and review sites praising this app, but they seem to be fake. In fact, using the same registration provider as mackeeper.

IIRC, I used this over a decade ago, and probably made some skins and used ResEdit to customize MPlay. Although the interface is rather plain, this customization (or using the currently downloadable skins) is something that was attractive to Mac users.

Eventually I bought SoundJam (currently iTunes), Audion (the best), and Unsanity Echo (promising but discontinued when they focused on haxies).

While there are alternatives that I use like Vox, VLC, and others, MPLay has these (subjective) advantages; interface and mixer.
On the downside, opening the Trackmixer increases CPU usage considerably. Apparently there's no manual. When the player is stopped Quick Reference is available under the Tools menu and can be launched as a separate application.

This looks and feels dated, but still is a fairly good mp3 player for people looking for something different, particularly the mixer feature. It's not something I would purchase, but can't complain with the current price.

Please note that these comments are for version 1.3.3, which runs on OS X 10.5
I have no interest in upgrading to 10.6 or 10.7, so the lack of development compatible with an older OS is a minus. In contrast, Word, Scrivener, Mellel, Nisus Writer, and others, work fine in OS X 10.5.x and, except for Word, all are still offering PPC compatibility.

There’s no button to Save or Cancel Preferences. These are saved by closing the Window.

Working with Tables via a Contextual Menu is clumsy. There’s no Tables menu. There is a sort of Table “inspector” but it is not very refined. There is Table under the Format Menu. If you choose it when no table is selected, it will create a new table. Quite different form other applications which include a Table menu item and commands such as “New Table,” "Insert Table" or “Draw Table”

Opening Word documents results in missing information (e.g., formats, headers, footers, graphics, margins).

The statement from a previous review that “anyone can use this in place of Word” is a bit naïve. As the developer mentions in the Help, “myWritings is not designed and written to replace Word.” This becomes evident when dealing with certain tasks. For example, I found no way to include drop-down lists within a document, or merge data from other sources for letters, labels, or envelopes.

I know it’s popular among Mac users to bash Microsoft. Although I’ve used Macs 95% of the time for over a decade, I actually like Microsoft and use Office regularly. In this case, the developer pretty much says that Word suffers from a cluttered interface and speed issues (among other things). I don’t find Word’s interface cluttered, and interestingly while doing a test of speed myWritings performed very poorly against Word.

I tried to open a 3.1 MB TXT document in myWritings. After 4 minutes of the spinning beach ball I had to Force Quit the application. Word opened it in under 10 seconds.
I gave myWritings another shot, and this time I only waited a minute before doing a Force Quit.
I then tried it with a DOC file saved before with myWritings. It went from 1 MB originally to close to 900 KB after saving, probably due to lost formatting, headers, footers, etc. I was unable to check since after selecting to view the header I only got the spinning beach ball again!
Word opened the file in 9 seconds, and myWritings took 13 seconds. After relaunching the app, using Open Recent it took 11 seconds. In Word this took 7 seconds.
I decided to find and replace some random text. There were 187 instances of the text. Word took about 2 seconds while myWritings took about 6 seconds.

I won’t rate it since MacUpdate does not allow to choose which version is being rated, and my comments are for 1.3.3 and not 2.1. Maybe 2.1 is better.

Does this offer any advantage over the above mentioned alternatives? Perhaps price, but Bean is free.
I prefer Word, Mellel, or Nisus Writer by far. Based on this brief test and the speed, (in)stability, and (lack of) features, I would give this 2½ stars at best. Again, perhaps the new version is better.

I thought it would be interesting to update my review to compare some numbers.
At the end of last year it had found 76 instances of spyware. Seven months later that number is 326.

Updating spyware definitions and cookie blacklists is done pretty much automatically. Set your preferences, and click if you want to download the update(s).
Updating the application itself is a bit more elaborate. You actually make a purchase for $0.00 in order to download the updater. Not a big deal, but an uncommon approach.

Overall I'm very happy with the product. Since I report spam, scams, and phishing Web sites I like to run this at least once a week. Highly recommended.

As an update, I got in touch with Microsoft. Their customer support was pretty good, but unfortunately they were unable to offer any solution. The development team is now aware of the bugs, which include the Entourage pictures bug, as well as the Auto Update bug mentioned by FIVEMINUTEMAC. I had noticed this under Leopard (10.5.8) using a PPC G5.

A poor workaround for the Entourage problem is to resize its window. This makes the "Download pictures" link appear. Unfortunately, it has to be done for every message and the link disappears again when switching to another message. This solution was not provided by Microsoft.

After upgrading to 3.8.4, Contactizer Pro will not launch on my system. Instead, an application called CrashCatcher launches. It's supposed to generate a report to be sent to the developer, but it does not seem to generate anything.
There's an option to "Quit Without Sending" but if I choose it and try to start Contactizer again, CrashCatcher launches instead.
I went back to 3.8.3 even though it has a few bugs.