GUILLAUMEK  iGetter is nice. And it's shareware.  
(Version 1.6.5)

GUILLAUMEK  Use Glims for favicons  
(Version 1.6.5)

GUILLAUMEK  Camino used to be awesome. But it just can't keep up anymore.

It was my #1 browser for 4 years, when Safari was not yet an option and Firefox was too clumsy and bloated.

I know Camino has never been about packing every possible feature, but it's now starting to lag seriously.

I've gone Safari+Glims+AdBlock. It's incredible.   
(Version 1.6.5)

GUILLAUMEK  +1  
(Version 1.0b10)

GUILLAUMEK  The Calculator is nice, but this one has a few extra features, such as having multiple currency exchange rates available instead of having to switch from one to another every time.  
(Version 0.9.8)

GUILLAUMEK  "including Cocoa apps, screen savers, and preference panes. It can even update kernel extensions, regular files, and root-owned applications."

This is the interesting part, where it's better than Sparkle.

This framework seems to handle files without executables, which Sparkle lacks AFAIK. You can't currently update stuff like plugins, drivers, file systems.. in fact, for most of the stuff installed in /Library Sparkle can't help you. I think the only exception are preference panes which can check for updates by themself. You actually need a program or daemon which contains the Sparkle framework to checks for updates.

Now, I'm not too tech savy on all this so don't take my word as gospel.  
(Version 1.0)

GUILLAUMEK  FX 3 is clean and stable for most people. You should try with a fresh profile (/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles).  
(Version 3.0.2)

GUILLAUMEK  Arkaos could really use an update now... it's starting to show its age.  
(Version 3.6.1)

GUILLAUMEK  I hear 10.5.5 fixes the 256 colors issue with Diablo II. Can someone confirm?  
(Version 1.12a)

GUILLAUMEK  It has been reported that this update fixes the bug with Diablo II and Fallout (1&2).

If you have a GMAX3100 you might still experience problems though.  
(Version 10.5.5)

GUILLAUMEK  Everything went smooth.

Remember to clean your system before you update (remove/disable hacks, repair permissions, a little cache flushing, maybe some diskwarrior/techtoolpro voodoo..)  
(Version 10.5.5)

GUILLAUMEK  If you encounter issues with v0.9.2 after updating, try removing preferences files.

There is a script in the install DMG that does it automatically.  
(Version 0.9.2)

GUILLAUMEK  Good point. A special price for students would be nice however.  
(Version 2.5.7)

GUILLAUMEK  Also, though not infected, a Mac can act as a vector for Windows viruses.  
(Version 1.1.1)

GUILLAUMEK  I don't want to lose my play counts and ratings, which I use a lot for smart playlists.  
(Version 1.6b4)

GUILLAUMEK  Like StarCraft, 10.5.3 breaks the game. Btw 1.12a was released.  
(Version 1.11b)

GUILLAUMEK  Yup. Exposé looks fine now.

Office 2008 seems to have finally reached maturity.

Update went flawlessly btw.  
(Version 12.1.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Is exposé fixed?  
(Version 12.1.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Have you used Azureus extensively? I'm really surprised to hear you say it does not work well. Granted its interface isn't really user-friendly, but it's simply the best damn bitorrent client on the internet when it comes to transfert rates, stability and customizability. And that's taking into account the many plugins that are available. Actually, you could rant about its memory usage.  
(Version 3.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Just my 2cts, but you can't expect Yaz to give you a license for the lite version on the basis that you bought the standard version. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that if you ask them, they'll make a commercial gesture.  
(Version 1.0)

GUILLAUMEK  As a former beta tester of EVE Online, I feel you overlooked a few things about EVE which ought to be mentioned.

First, it should be said that the learning curve is quite steep. Think Battlecruiser 3000AD..

Also, unlike WoW, this game is a lot less focused on instant fun. The game is slower paced and it takes a long time and a good ship+stats before one can venture in 0.0 and get a taste of PVP, the core of EVE imo. In a nutshell, you can't just drop in a few times a week, play an hour or two, and still have fun. The stats system reduces that problem a bit though.

That said, EVE is great if you dig complexity and depth over instant gratification. You just need to be unemployed or something to enjoy it I guess :p  
(Version 5.10.56866)

GUILLAUMEK  I had a lot of my AAC files' name truncated during a transfer Mac->PC->Mac. This resulted in a lot of "file not found" issues for tracks with long title.

This could be a life saver.  
(Version 1.6b1)

GUILLAUMEK  Nice, nice... but what's the point?

It looks a lot like iTunes 1.0 actually...

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/14/itunes-from-0-0-to-7-0/  
(Version 1.3)

GUILLAUMEK  Yay!  
(Version 1.1.3)

GUILLAUMEK  Wow. I grew up playing with Kidpix. I really wish I had kept my drawings... :)  
(Version 1.2.3)

GUILLAUMEK  Nice app. I use it sometimes to create weird chroma maps for VJing.

It'd be a lot better though if we had more than one fractal algorithm. I mean it's little more than granular noise/clouds, plus stretching, as of now. It'd be great to have more complex structures.

Seamless tiling is great btw. Very useful, very nice.  
(Version 1.0.3)

GUILLAUMEK  Too bad this was pulled because of legal issues.. :(  
(Version 1.3c)

GUILLAUMEK  How much faster than NTFS-3G is this? Can someone share their experience?  
(Version 6.5.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Very useful app. Great interface.  
(Version 2.6)

GUILLAUMEK  "# Support https tracker connections

# IP blocking using the Bluetack Level1 blocklist

# Better support of multitracker torrents"

Guess who's finally ditching Azureus..? ;)  
(Version 1.20)

GUILLAUMEK  How stable are these at the moment? I know "alpha" should be self-explanatory but sometimes alpha software can turn out usable.  
(Version 2.4)

GUILLAUMEK  low-tech gaming rocks! ;)  
(Version 0.7.8)

GUILLAUMEK  My mistak. You were talking about innovation. :p  
(Version 7.0)

GUILLAUMEK  Office 2008 was buggy - and still is - but it's rather good software IMO. Plus the Mac BU has a certain degree of autonomy inside Microsoft. They have their own release schedule, are not bound to the Windows interface. I'm not sure the Mac BU folks deserve that bashing.  
(Version 7.0)

GUILLAUMEK  "About the crashing (or not crashing), I can assure you that it's really a completely separate issue. It's a known bug in Leopard's NSAppleScript running under Garbage Collection. It's effectively random, and sooner or later it will crash... until Apple fixes the bug. I've been pretty lucky with this and I only see a crash every few days, but I know others see them all the time: luck of the draw, it would seem.

I'm going to put together a couple of new releases which incorporate this fix for the artwork issue:

* 3.5a7: a new build of the alpha series, which will still unfortunately suffer from Apple's NSAppleScript bug.

* 3.2.1: a new build of the stable 3.2 series, which won't be affected by the NSAppleScript issue (never has been, never will be) because it doesn't use Leopard's Garbage Collection.

I'll try to get those out tomorrow."

Quoted from http://rails.wincent.com/issues/668

So no more artwork issues!  
(Version 3.5a7)

GUILLAUMEK  nice gesture

much appreciated  
(Version 2.6)

GUILLAUMEK  update your flash player plugin. I had the same issue and solved it this way.  
(Version 1.0)

GUILLAUMEK  Yay! Leopard compatibility! I was disappointed when i switched to Leopard that Max would not work. I'm glad it's back!

Best sound conversion/extracion tool available. XLD are xACT are good complements.  
(Version 0.8)

GUILLAUMEK  Nice Dosbox GUI. The interface is a bit messy but it really gets the job done. Dapplegrey also has the simple merit of being in active development. Most of the other GUIs don't see a lot of updates these days.  
(Version 1.9.2b3)

GUILLAUMEK  On second thought, in some cases size can matter.

I'm thinking of Portable apps for flash drives or SSD laptops like the EEE PC.

Then again, flash drives aren't 128MB anymore and 64MB really isn't that much.  
(Version 3.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Quick answer: you're wrong.

Long answer: As always, Mac apps are packages. This means the size of the package is usually way larger than the executable itself. The rest consists of various resources which are loaded only when needed.

Take for exemple the Command & Conquer 3 package. It's 3.52GB...

Now, if you want to discuss the memory footprint of Safari, you rather should open Camino, iCab and Safari. Open some tabs and check the RAM usage in Activity Monitor.  
(Version 3.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Instantbird will have a hard time gathering users. There are already many free IM clients built around libpurple (hence with the same core features). Every major system has its native libpurple+GUI implementation.

Plus, as an implementation of libpurple, Adium is now nearing perfection.  
(Version 0.1.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Yes I should have made clear that 1.2129 did indeed work for me on 10.5.2

Anyway, @Benamu:

I'm not sure updating will help you. You should try the usual troubleshooting (clean reinstall, fixing permissions, isolating if it's user or system-related,etc)  
(Version 1.2216)

GUILLAUMEK  works for me  
(Version 1.2216)

GUILLAUMEK  It's true Sparkle integration would be nice.

As for the DL speed and as i said in an earlier comment, OnyX is hosted at free.fr, a french internet provider. Usually very fast and reliable.

I just tried and I'm downloading OnyX at 800KB/s on a 20M dsl line.

It seems lots of people have trouble DLing the soft though so maybe this is indeed a server-side issue.  
(Version 1.9.4b1)

GUILLAUMEK  Also the sync delay problem is linked to Apple's design choices, not Rogue Amoeba's. It's unavoidable with the current Airport and AppleTV.  
(Version 3.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Use Airfoil vith VLC. You can resync sound & video in VLC using keys F and G by 50ms increments. Not ideal but gdoes the job.  
(Version 3.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Last free Aurora version (3.3.5) available at:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/metaquark/Aurora-3.3.5.zip

You can't get a better deal. It still beats Awaken, Alarm Clock and all others. The right balance between ease-of-use and features.  
(Version 4.0.6)

GUILLAUMEK  OnyX is hosted at free.fr, a french internet provider. Usually very fast and reliable.

I'm downloading OnyX at 800KB/s on a 20M dsl line.  
(Version 1.9.3)

GUILLAUMEK  How long did it took Tiger to get thoses fixed? Anyone remembers?  
(Version 10.5.2)

GUILLAUMEK  Agreed. Gmail's server-side spam filtering is one of the best. With Mail, Entourage of Thunderbird's standard spam filter, i get very little spam.

However, Gmail does give a few false positives from time to time, though mostly useless newsletters I should never had subscribed to in the first place.  
(Version 2.6.6)

GUILLAUMEK  I've been using OnyX since Panther's early days. Never had a problem.

1.9.1 was a mistake. That version was only online for very little time before it was replaced by 1.9.2. The author was very responsive.  
(Version 2.5.1)

GUILLAUMEK  Greatest IM client on Mac.

Glad they fixed the web link MSN stuff.  
(Version 1.2.1)

GUILLAUME