HENRIKTEKNIK  This is a winning app. Wave Editor is an extremely well-adviced craftsman tool for prestigious audio athletes.

It deserves the highest accolade for maintaining an even balance between ultimate simplicity and insane competence. Every once in a decade, a brilliant star will hit the software market—this is my pearl. One that I would swear upon and even be willing to speak in fanatic tongue about, should there be any slandering about it.

I can't see how anyone into sound design using Mac would ever want to look for something else. This is the audio software world's equivalent to the X-Acto knife.

A few examples of its selling points, to me, would be:

- Zero, null, zilch playback stuttering. And I repeat, none.

- Direct MIDI playability of the sample you work with (again, without no stuttering ever; just like having a sampler with very competent editing facilities)

- A single track - Multiple layers. This is a novel approach in the genre, and I think this gives a very organic feel—almost like modeling—to it, when adding and subtracting layers in your project. Even better, all layers can have separate effect plugins attached to them; hell, even multiple sets of audio plugins on each layer. (Which is just one example of how deep this seemingly spartan app can be.)

- Well, read for yourself, the specs on the developer website. The app is actively developed and has been around for a good while now. I've been using it since it first launched, years ago. The developer team is also a very conversational group, who listen well to what their customers have to say.

One note, before wrapping it up. This app used to cost a lot more than 3 times its current price: $250 before, $79 now.

I'm sorry if it looks suspicious, but I can't give this app anything but fives in rating. That is an accurate score.  
(Version 1.4.4)

HENRIKTEKNIK  How do you mean, 'international' games?  
(Version 4.2)

HENRIKTEKNIK  Barbaexpensive  
(Version 4.0.51)

HENRIKTEKNIK  Edit: funny thing, a misleading typo manages to slink into my previous comment ("gooness"). No pun intended.  
(Version 0.7.4)

HENRIKTEKNIK  I don't quite understand what you mean, saying XAMPP doesn't have a gui frontend. (Disclaimer, I'm not a hardcore coding engineer, so I might be totally out in the blue, though, but:) As far as I understand it, the XAMPP Control Panel is just that, a gui frontend to all the XAMPP gooness.

Also, to the best of my knowledge, it seems like XAMPP is updated more frequently and contains more recent components.  
(Version 0.7.4)

HENRIKTEKNIK  Great everything! Except that I'm missing a shortcut key to add more cards instead of clicking the plus button with the mouse.  
(Version 1.6)

HENRIKTEKNIK  Utterly awesome... The feature that lets you move handles along their own axes (keeping their angles) was the deal maker for me. On top of that, this little powerhouse sports a lot of invalueable extras, making it a bezier lover's dream.

One other thing, that really exudes professionalism in this product, is the outstanding documentation. Provided is a great quickstart guide, showing everything at a glance, and a thorough user's manual for every aspect of using the plugin.  
(Version 1.2)

HENRIKTEKNIK  "Deluxe" should be a forbidden word.

(Other than that, this is a stellar application.)  
(Version 4.0)

HENRIKTEKNIK  There's also a similar widget called ladyTax and it can be found at http://www.ladybug.fr/ladytax  
(Version 2.0)

COMPUTERNAUT  This is nice. Clean and concise interface, works properly in my testing.

Missing one feature, though: Spotlight Comments. As far as I know, the only similar app that can handle this, is (the commercial) app, Print Window.  
(Version 4.1.4)

COMPUTERNAUT  The fact that it's not just performing simple whois queries, based on which, it makes assumptions whether the domain is up for grabs or not; and that's it. It does more (less?) than that... To me, it seems like this is more of a storefront for a commercial service, for which the developer takes advantage of the easy/quick way of marketing stuff for free, via Dashboard widgets.

I was expecting this widget to display the searches from within the widget itself, not to act like all those other meaningless widgets that simply points people to a specific website, working as undercover promotion, or pseudo-adware if you like.  
(Version 1.0.4)

COMPUTERNAUT  I have one huge beef with this app:

The toolbar button for Path editing (called 'Sketch') needs to be split into two separate buttons... one for path, and one for smooth path.

...AND, I really don't like that it automatically switches to the Select tool once you've closed/finished working on a path.

In other words, I'd like to click the path button and then directly start working: i.e. _not_ having to choose between normal path or smooth path editing.

And again, I can't stress this far enough: please make it so that you keep the path editing tool activated after making a path!!

Other than that, the application is slowly beginning to take form.  
(Version 1.2.1)

COMPUTERNAUT  Just horrible. Install this and it's like bringing hell into your precious Mac. Each and every program crash I had since installing this, has had something to do with this abomination for a driver. Steer clear.

Try Steermouse.  
(Version 2.4)

COMPUTERNAUT  Although I might be mistaken of the intended concept behind Clockwork, I'm desperately looking for a function to make it work as an alarm clock as well...

I can't for the life of me find a way to set an alarm at a specific time!

Sure, I can calculate in my head, that, if time's 8.26 in the morning, when I'm about to set my recurring (once a day) Lunchtime alarm, I will have to set it to 03:34:00 in Clockwork's 'alarm' mode.

I think the definition of 'alarm' in Clockwork is somewhat misleading, as it more resembles the functionality of a 'countdown' timer. An alarm, per se, (at least for me) is something you set, to go off at a specific time.

On a final note, about the application itself. It looks georgeous and I really want to find some use for it. But again, I was hoping it could work as a tea time, lunchtime, bedtime, morning coffee, etc. alarmer, which is easy to set up and easy to change in terms of such a schedule. Another thing I'd wish for, is a way to set off AppleScripts or open files at the alarm time.  
(Version 1.4.2)

COMPUTERNAUT  Is there any way to permanently dismiss that obtrusive Activity Monitor window at startup?  
(Version 1.50c)

COMPUTERNAUT  The most elegant, feature-rich, robust journaling app I've ever come across.

I found it to have the highest "feel-right-factor" to it, among the apps in the competition.

MacJournal has an equal potential for corporate and private needs respectively, and I've put it to good use in both areas.

I certainly use it almost every day!  
(Version 5.0.3b5)

COMPUTERNAUT  I have the same problem with GammaSlamma 1.2.

My system setup is a Mac PPC dual 2.5 Ghz, 1.5 GB RAM, OS X 10.4.11.

Opening GammaSlamma doesn't do anything. And it doesn't show up in the Open With...-list in the contextual menu.  
(Version 1.2)

COMPUTERNAUT  I would suggest the introducing of a small "vote for removal" button next to comments and reviews. There's a minimal drawback with that, sure, but it would put an end to reviews like this, which doesn't reflect anything about applications' qualities or lack thereof.

10 people voting for removal will bring it away, plain and simple.  
(Version 2.1.5)

COMPUTERNAUT  Also check the free, QuickAccessCM, which does similar things.

http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/quick_access.html  
(Version 1.0.4)

COMPUTERNAUT  2 major drawbacks:

- Finder will stall and show the beach ball cursor for the time it takes to upload file(s) to the ftp server... This is the major flaw that makes it useless for me.

- Interface is kind of non-intuitive and confusing. For instance, when entering ftp addresses, I think that the username/password and rest should have specific input fields for it, instead of having the program's website state half-way down the webpage, what format should be used to enter ftp bookmarks.  
(Version 1.0.6)

COMPUTERNAUT  Very humorous app, indeed.  
(Version 1.0)

COMPUTERNAUT  Been using it for some weeks and it works perfectly!  
(Version 1.0.9)

COMPUTERNAUT  Is the developer out of business? Their website seems to be gone.  
(Version 2.5.7)

COMPUTERNAUT  Edit to my last comment:

It now works for me and it truly has the best drawing feeling of all apps I've tried so far.

Definitely keeping my eyes open for this app!  
(Version 0.9)

COMPUTERNAUT  Such a bummer that Tooldial has been abandoned... I was looking for a neat way of using a dial menu along with the use of a Wacom Tablet and graphic programs... This seems to have been the very last sign of hope for that purpose. Appears it was a dead end. :(  
(Version 1.2.1)

COMPUTERNAUT  Wave Editor is the most powerful, impressing audio editor I have ever seen. It's my bread and butter of all things audio.

I usually tend to write fairly long reviews, but in this case, I don't know where to begin.

I'm just going to say, here's my 5 stars, and thanks to Wave Editor, I have found my way home.  
(Version 1.3)

COMPUTERNAUT  Very nice and elegant design! Easy to use and just great.

One feature request, that I'm missing, though:

- Organize recordings into separate tracks!

Otherwise, it's a pretty solid app!  
(Version 1.3.2)

COMPUTERNAUT  Would like to try this, but it unexpectedly crashes each and every time I try to start the application.

I'm using Powermac G5 dual 2.5 Ghz / OS X 10.4.11 / 1.5 GB RAM / ATI Radeon 9800 Pro XT (256 MB)  
(Version 0.8.1)

COMPUTERNAUT  Version 2.0bx (I'm currently using 2.0b6) seems to work flawlessly! Not a single glitch or bug as far as I can see.

I love the way it has evolved since version 1.x. One thing would be great to improve, though. I'd like to be able to drop applications onto the image well when adding a new app (disclaimer: I'm not sure if that's in the works).

This is one of the few apps I gladly give 5 stars in all cathegories (save for when I'm receiving bribes).  
(Version 2.0b6)

COMPUTERNAUT  Very inspiring application. And it's carried out in a nice and simple, minimalistic way. WriteRoom, to me, has a very geeky appeal. Feels like being on top of what you're doing, and it makes you realize how smart you really are.

Something that's often times remained unthought of, is the user experience; do people actually get anything produced (in this case written) with the apps they're using? And if so, is that because they were never distracted by cluttery, feature-packed user interfaces? Sure there are other apps that might succeed in the same regard that WriteRoom does, but there is none that resembles the looks and strictly minimal concept of this fine application. Also, I'd like to regard WriteRoom as being a writer's 'tool', rather than a full-blown word processor. It is reachable from pretty much anywhere, and jumps in as a refreshing aid in times when you need that extra focus to concentrate.  
(Version 2.2)

COMPUTERNAUT  The scheduled updates doesn't work for me. When I view the update logfile, the dates are out of order, displaying such dates as 2007.25.25 (in YYYY.MM.DD format, that is). Hence, it never updates on regular basis and I'm currently having to manually update each day.

Would be awesome if this could be addresses. As well as having the daemon update once after each computer restarts (that is, if it doesn't already do that).

Otherwise, No-Ip is a winner! I love everything else about it. Thanks.

Note: I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.10 on a dual G5 2.5 PPC with 1.5 GB RAM.  
(Version 3.1.2)

COMPUTERNAUT  Nice app. But it would be awesome if it could flip/rotate images too. Batch processing would be nice as well, but not paramount.

Thanks!  
(Version 1.3.2)

COMPUTERNAUT  There's nothing like it. Astonishing piece of software. One of the few 5 star scores all-around I've ever given on MacUpdate.  
(Version 2.4.8)

COMPUTERNAUT  This, and PDFView (also free) are on par, and I tend to use them both.

PDFView's advantage is that it's very fast and clutterfree, plus its unsurpassed abilities to show as much of the PDF contents as possible.

Skim's advantage over any other reader I've tried, is its bookmarking features.

Which one is the best? I haven't made up my mind, yet. But I had this one grief in PDFView, not being able to bookmark different parts in the document.  
(Version 0.5)

COMPUTERNAUT  The latest update (1.1.1) adds a nice feature, the 'Do Include vs Exclude'. If I understand it correct, that option will simply switch the behavior from Excluding the apps you have in the list, into just Include those applications and let any other process be unaffected by Keyclick's sounds, right? My problem is that the "include-only" function doesn't seem to work. I can still hear sounds in all processes when I'm in "include-only" mode.

Also, are the Mouse Button click sounds "global", eg. not possible to set on a per-application basis? I would very much like to be able to set up Keyclick to, say, only be activated in TextMate and similar apps. Otherwise, I think the app is getting better and better, good job!  
(Version 1.1.1)