BRETTD  Infected with DRM (Digital Rights Management). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(computer_game)#Digital_rights_management  
(Version 1.0)

BRETTD  2.0b1 was so unstable, I couldn't run guests for more than 30 minutes at a time. It destroyed beyond repair a Windows XP disk image, and the linux guests I tried to run (Debian Lenny) also became corrupted.

Hopefully, 2.0b2 is better- but I'm unwilling to try and find out with anything I care about.  
(Version 2.0b2)

BRETTD  Boo Hoo, someone's distributing your open source software! You should add underlining, exclamation points, and a "WE MEAN IT COME ON GUYS". Maybe you people should actually make releases of the software once in a while, instead of going for years with no releases because you have no long-term planning skills.  
(Version r273)

BRETTD  By far the most annoying feature of vmware fusion is that it requires capturing both keyboard and mouse. Parallels will send any keystoke to the frontmost window, but vmware won't.

This is a major inconvenience if you're trying to multitask and running guest machines that aren't supported by vmware or parallels drivers...basically, any non-windows OS, especially if you're not using Xwindows.  
(Version 1.1.1)

BRETTD  Still has broken font rendering for subtitles; in MKV files they're giant and pixelated, carriage returns aren't respected (so subtitle "notes" are overwritten and unreadable), and they get cut off- even if they're still on-screen. It was promised back in August that this would be fixed "in the next version", but it's still just as broken as it was 2 years ago...  
(Version 0.8.6d)

BRETTD  To the author: Monolingual 1.3.5 (released a year ago, long since superceded) fixed the Rosetta problem. It also detects the current architecture by de-selecting it. Same thing it does for in-use languages. Monolingual also has version checking built-in.

I don't know if you're ignorant of Monolingual's features (you should know of what you speak), or feigning it to have an excuse for frightening people into using your product. Either way, MU users deserve to know there's a no-cost, open-source alternative.

With the most expensive laptop drives running about 60 cents per GB and desktop drives about 20 cents per GB, the wisdom of stripping architectures to save a few GB is pretty foolish.

If users don't understand how to use either tool, they have no business stripping architectures and languages from their system *anyway*.  
(Version 1.2.8)

BRETTD  Why waste $12 when Monolingual (and other free programs) do exactly the same thing..for free? Monolingual even offers exacting control over which architectures you remove.  
(Version 1.2.8)

BRETTD  Save yourself some serious dough and use Hugin...  
(Version 5.6)

BRETTD  Leaks memory like a sieve on my system and video jutters for a second or so when switching windows.

The player window is still "detached" from the viewer application.

Skip it and use VLC instead...  
(Version 1.0rc1)

BRETTD  Buggy (crashes regularly), annoying (triggers system beeps after almost every operation), horrendous user interface, slow (displays a giant "chicklets" display while searching for album artwork) and last but not least...doesn't do what it is supposed to- the searches are too broad (a search on "artist and album" for BB King's Anthology turned up an album cover for Boys 2 Men, for example), it never actually adds the artwork to the files, and it does a search on EACH FILE IN AN ALBUM.  
(Version 0.6)

BRETTD  Among other problems, the no-typing bug from 1.5 betas has returned. Half the time, I can't type into any text fields- on pages, or in the address/search bar. The only way to resolve it is to switch to another application and back to Firefox.

How can such a major bug be present? Why is Firefox for the Mac so unstable? Why are there still huge memory leaks? At least we finally have spell-check...  
(Version 2.0.0.1)

BRETTD  Wow. Hell thath frozen over and Satan's wearing a coat while checkin' the drives on his intel Mac.

Alsoft should talk to 3D Realms, maybe they can lend a hand with Duke Nukem Forever :-)  
(Version 4.0)

BRETTD  Very odd that they don't mention being able to shrink or grow existing partitions- just delete/add them. That's usually what "non-destructive partitioning tools" do.

Skip this, buy iPartition (which CAN actually grow/shrink partitions) and save $6. OR, don't spend a penny and use a livecd that has gnu parted on it, and can handle more filesystem types.  
(Version 1.5.2)

BRETTD  The "stable" version never went beyond "please wait" with all menu items greyed out. The beta hangs my machine for up to 10 seconds every time it "checks" the temperature.

This seems to rely on that #$@!$ing "SpeedIt" extension. STEER CLEAR.  
(Version 1.0.5)

BRETTD  Universal Binary in all its glory- bravo!

In a few hours use on one panorama, it has yet to crash on a MBP. It looks like all the kinks in the old unoffical 0.5 binary build are gone.

Many thanks to those who made the UB possible- hopefully the build dependencies have been straightened out as well so that the average unix sysadmin can compile it!  
(Version 0.6.1)

BRETTD  "They looked at the source for speedit and didn't like what they saw"

Meaning what? There were security concerns? Buggy code? Feng Shui issues?

Something a little more descriptive would be nice.  
(Version 1.0.5)

BRETTD  Given that intel macs have been out for over 6 months, and the heavy CPU requirements of processing large panoramas...it'd be really nice if Hugin developers produced an intel-native build and made it available for download.

It's clear it is possible- numerous people on the mailing list have done so. I've tried, but the documentation on how to do so is an utter mess of out-of-date kludgery.  
(Version 0.6)

BRETTD  Yyou can't 'save' a new user because you need to assign them hosts. However, you can't assign hosts until the changes to the new user have been saved.

How wonderfully useless.  
(Version 1.1.10)

BRETTD  Why does it seem like every day there is a new version? Just a day or two ago there was a new version. Every time, it's the same generic fixed- fixes for "problems" with this or that scanner model.

Why does it seem like they're bumping the version just to get hits on Macupdate?  
(Version 8.3.51)

BRETTD  I thought it was a proprietary format as well, but Wikipedia says the 7z format is GNU licensed. It seems to be akin to the MKV video format, ie a container.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z  
(Version 1.4)

BRETTD  $70 for what Qemu (Q Project) does for free? No thanks...  
(Version 1.9)

BRETTD  Tidy Up helped me consolidate several "I'll drag this folder to this fileserver" backups, and helped me make sure I got everything off my old Powerbook when I moved to a Macbook.

File Buddy wasn't very helpful, as I only wanted to delete copies on one particular drive. Tidy Up did that flawlessly; I create a smart folder with a "Tidy Up label" set for the drive I'm removing duplicates from. I then tag the contents of the Smart Folder, then look at "all files found" and make sure it's doing the right thing. For photos, I use filename, data fork size, and data fork contents.

I think a couple of the prior comments are outdated; the trial didn't seem to be time-limited, but rather wouldn't let me take action on more than a few files. It was plenty to show me it'd do what I wanted it to.

I gave a "5" for reliability because it has not crashed once; I've compared folders with 100,000+ items without much difficulty.  
(Version 1.1.1)

BRETTD  Doesn't support USB devices.  
(Version 4.0)

BRETTD  Doesn't support any USB-based devices.  
(Version 3.40b7)

BRETTD  Works with brand new Garmin GPS units (namely the Cx/CSx units) which none of the other programs seem able to do without making me buy a serial cable and a serial->USB adapter(Is this 2006 or 1995?), so bravo on that point. Downloaded 4 routes and about two dozen waypoints very quickly.

However- you have zero control over what is uploaded, and for that resaon, a "1" on features. I can understand downloading all the waypoints, but really, why can't we get an option to only download certain routes?

2/5 for ease of use; it'd be nice to see any detected USB devices listed, and one of the routes did not show up in Google Earth or Trailrunner unless others were deleted, which I had to do by hand in a text editor (ugh.)

3/5 on value+stability; seemed stable the two times I used it, and I can't judge value since there is no price point announced.  
(Version 027)

BRETTD  An Aquanox wannabe with twitchy, unadjustable controls, a horrible view/camera system, no documentation/hints/getting-started mode, an infuriating save system, and enemies that half the time you can't see before they instantaneously blow you bits.

If you like the premise (underwater rover/fighter, exploration, et al), go buy a yesterday's-news PC ("top of the line" from 2000-2002 should be fine) and track down a copy of Aquanox; it's a thousand times better done, with really nice music and graphics that blow Deep Trouble out of the water (seriously. It's breathtaking) and an actual plot line.

The control system is horrendous (you don't even get sensitivity adjustments and it is very twitchy).

There are absolutely no explanations about how to use even the one weapon you're given when you start. For example, are your torpedos fire and forget? Will they home themselves onto new targets? Nope! But nowhere will you find that mentioned.

The water is so cloudy you can't see enemy ships until after they've fired at you. Some are apparently equipped with weapons that are impossible to see/avoid; on the first level, I couldn't even tell why my ship kept exploding. The view is, for some incredibly stupid reason, fixed in 3rd-person camera mode, and the camera is ALWAYS putting the view of the ship in the way of where you're going or what you're (trying) to shoot at.

Your shields arbitrarily stop/start "recharging". They seem hopelessly underwhelmed compared to the first "baddies" you meet. You have no way of telling where incoming torpedos are coming from. It's damn near impossible to aim/get a lock on enemy ships.  
(Version 1.1.7)

BRETTD  WARNING: I ran the installer on my Macbook and it promptly locked the machine, HARD. Not even the caps lock light on my keyboard responded.

I then tried to run the Parallels program, and it complained that a kernel extension wasn't loaded.

I was running 10.4.5 at the time (been procrastinating on 10.4.6) and that may have been the reason, but I'd still urge lots of caution on this one (ie, close down all other apps, make sure critical stuff is backed up.)

I know others have run it successfully, and I've heard great things about the speed. However, I've also heard that it has no hardware-3D support, can't read DVDs or CDs, and has no sound support. That's still better than Qemu which is a dog and darWINE which can't handle anything more complex than Minesweeper...  
(Version 2.1b)

BRETTD  I was extremely displeased to see Acquisition "take over" the BitTorrent filetype without my permission.

Also- any chance David can release a new version no more than once a month? These updates on practically a weekly basis seem to be little more than an attempt to constantly "bump" Acquisition in the "what's new today" display...or poor QA.

At the very least, tell us what the "misc fixes" that seem to be in every version are...give us the power to decide if we really need to download the update. Does it fix a data corruption bug? Is it a network protocol bug that causes Aquisition to be a bad "netzien" and we should download immediately? Etc.  
(Version 129.2)

BRETTD  Hugin OSX provides more functionality, and it is free; for example, you can feed it a set of images and have autosift create control points for you automatically...and there is a preview window.

You have to install mono (warning- the intel-native build is missing libraries) if you want to use autopano...and you need to run the included applescripts to "package" autopano (and enblend, which is highly recommended) into hugin.  
(Version 4.0v74)