What can I say, it doesn't get any better than this. Any developer would be priviledged to be able to work with the Panic development team.

3 or 4 years ago I thought the OpenGL interface was kind of cool, now it just looks tacky to the max!  The solitaire on Windows 7 actually looks much nicer in my opinion and has a nicer layout that is easier to play than this game.  The background animations were always hideous overkill.

You can't argue that the sheer number of solitaire variants is impressive and based on what the developer wrote here I'm sure they're all well researched and implemented.  I think the asking price is fair for this many unique games but unless the user interface gets a major overhaul and refresh then I can't see myself playing it any more, even though I bought a license.  I'll try to find another nicer looking and more civilised Mac solitaire app.

We're well past the stage of being impressed by 3D for the sake of it!  And it's not a bad thing to read Apple's user interface guidelines either.  3D and animations can be used if they provide valuable visual cues but I can't see why a card game needs to be entirely 3D.  Maybe consider replacing OpenGL with (limited) core animation for an updated look and feel and breath fresh life into a dying Mac app.

This company seems to be copping a lot of flack for their pricing, but I actually think $299 is pretty reasonable. I've only been testing it for a couple of weeks but am pretty impressed so far by its speed, stability, and feature set.

If you're considering spending $99 on Bento, I'd strongly advise against wasting your money on a rubbish product. If possible, you'd be better to stretch your budget and get a proper robust database with great data transforming and import/export features. Filemaker even comes with templates for things like CD and movie libraries.

For me, Filemaker seems to fill a need left vacant by spreadsheet software like Excel, and the even more limited Numbers.

It seems there were download and registration problems early, so maybe they underestimated the popularity of the trial. A 30 day unrestricted trial gives you plenty of time to asses it also.

WARNING! Avoid this update! Without warning it istalls another Pref pane called MagicMenu that screws up your track pad! It took me a while for me to figure out why my trackpad was f*&#ing up! Turning it off didn't seem to matter as it was still screwing it up (yes I was restarting many times)...after restart it appeared to be OK but then something was causing MagicMenu to turn on and it WASN'T me!!! Deleting it didn't matter either because MagicPrefs just installs it again every time...i.e. you CAN'T use MagicPrefs now without it installing MagicMenu and screwing up your trackpad...WTF!?! If I wanted MagicMenu I would have downloaded it and installed it myself.

EPIC ANGRY AND UNCOOL!!!

Won't install under Snow Leopard without having Rosetta installed. I'm not installing Rosetta just because this company can't release a reletively recent installer...it's not that hard. Didn't even get to try the software hence the 1-star rating.