Spotlight, I hardly knew ye. Honestly, I'd disable Spotlight indexing entirely, but Mail.app searches depend on it! (I have everything but /Users excluded, actually...)

I use the terminal heavily, which probably helps as far as not needing Spotlight; I rarely use the Finder, preferring to use the terminal to move files and such for the most part. Combine that with Quicksilver, and hey, I can do almost everything from the keyboard! Yay!

I think my favorite feature (hard to pick, from the thousands...) is the use of triggers to run scripts. I have a few f-key cobos bound to launch various terminals/ssh sessions/etc through the magic of Quicksilver triggers.

For the average user, it's still a great launcher at the VERY least, and I'm guessing most users will get more than that out of it. Even on a pretty recent system with an SSD, I find results pop up faster and better with Quicksilver than with Spotlight... No, it doesn't index random documents as well as Spotlight does, but it's not meant to do that. The two co-exist just fine. :)

The one negative is that for various features, you do need a good bit of advanced configuration. But, hey, it does a ton of stuff even without any advanced config. I've had several friends who used to be primarily GUI-happy but now use Quicksilver at least to launch stuff...and there are far more advanced features than that available, even to the novice. The iTunes, Address Book, etc, plug-ins are all worthwhile.

Oh yeah, and it's free. For one of the very first things I install on any new Mac, I can't complain about that!

"Browser" doesn't look very appealing, enough so that I don't feel like downloading and running it. (The name, to start with. And the overall look/feel of the description give me serious privacy concerns.)

But what caught my eye was "Porn Private Mode." Seriously? PORN Private Mode?

There are many uses for private mode other than looking at porn. (Not that there's anything wrong with using private mode for that either, but still...)

Ugh, a 1.8GB download for a few bugfixes. What ever happened to delta updates, Apple?

The App Store still doesn't display this under "Updates" for me, so I had to click install from the download list. I don't mind a large download when it's a real update, but this is a bug fix!

This update is stupidly large. I suspect it's just an image that your current recovery partition is replaced with... It was the same size from Software Update, so it's not just that the standalone is larger.

How about a proper delta update that's not over 400MB, Apple? Surely you didn't re-engineer the entire recovery setup from scratch.

I don't mind downloading 400MB for an update to a fairly minor component of my system, but I know there are a LOT of people who do.

Sorry, but unless your computer is hooked up to a bank of full-spectrum bulbs, this is better described as an "alarm clock that simulates the moonrise on a cloudy." (And this software wouldn't control those, anyways.)

The minimal brightness levels produced by a computer screen vs the other light you receive from whatever source simply aren't enough to "increase cortisol."

Even if your computer screen was your primary light source, the pseudo-science behind it is still not very convincing for a paid app, especially one with no free demo available. Seriously, I'm sure SOME people would try it, have a placebo effect, and then happily pay! But more app store no-demo-ware for us.

1.5.2 seems to be eating my cookies...when I restart Safari, almost all of my cookies are gone. I have Automatically Manage Cookies enabled and all 4 "Do not remove cookies from" options checked, but cookies for sites in my history and and bookmarks are nuked. I have a week of browser history and plenty of bookmarks for sites that should be retained; I don't actually have any favorites defined.

I was previously running 1.4.x with no such problems; history and bookmark-related cookies stuck around as desired. Using 64-bit x86 Safari 5.0.2 on 10.6.4.

Letterbox allows sending anonymous data, which is okay with me. However, in the list of data to send, it shows a UUID.

So my question is whether this UUID is always the same for a given installation, or if it's uniquely generated for each anonymous data send. (I'm not okay with sending data if the UUID stays the same, because it's really not anonymous anymore at that point.)

I only rarely had this problem before on my MacBook Pro, but I installed the update.

Now, in about 12 hours of usage, I've had a key get stuck repeating for 2 - 3 seconds. The keyboard and trackpad became unusable while the key was stuck repeating, and for about 2 seconds afterwards.

This is quite aggravating. This is a much more annoying problem than the previous issue.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Tunnelblick unexpectedly quits for me sometimes. This seems to happen when changing network connections, but not always. (I'm semi-frequently switching between my Airport and an EV-DO card.) When it happens, it leaves behind a stray openvpn process that I have to manually kill before I can establish another VPN connection. Tunnelblick will actually establish a new connection successfully, but it will be unusable unless I've killed the old openvpn process first.

I'm running 10.5 on a MBP, clean install. Worked fine under 10.4.

Anyone else experiencing this under 10.5?

Upgraded from 7.1.1 to 7.2.1. All of a sudden, I couldn't connect to my wireless network. Checked config, did a hardware reset, no go. I get that "Try Again" message from my MBP.

I normally use 5GHz N-only mode. However, 2.4GHz mixed mode and 5GHz A/N mixed mode work fine!

I tried turning off authentication, with no help. I even reverted back to 7.1.1, and the same problems continued. Right now I'm running with A+N support to get the damned thing working at all.