JEFF NAILEN  Thanks MacUpdate for providing a link to download the combo updater. VersionTracker, of course, didn't bother to do so.  
(Version 10.5.7)

JEFF NAILEN  Looks good, but way too expensive for most free lancers and small businesses--probably why there's so few downloads and no reviews yet. If the price point were $49 or so they'd sell a lot more.  
(Version 2.0.2)

JEFF NAILEN  Great idea. If this app were combined with Hyperspaces it would be killer!  
(Version 2.10)

JEFF NAILEN  Great idea to work with and extend Apple's Spaces--seems to be a better approach than the virtual desktop alternatives to Spaces.

One thing that would make it essential for everyone: integration of spaces and the dock so that each space can have it's own dock full of apps and files appropriate to that workspace.

Dock Spaces attempts to do this but seems to be limited to 4 spaces.

Keep up the great work!  
(Version 1.0fc1)

JEFF NAILEN  I've had major problems with Data Backup over two versions: version 2 and the new version 3. I've really wanted to like this app as a highly recommended alternative to Retrospect. But I've had a series of problems over the years including executor problems and 'internal errors' once I finally got past the executor problems. What's worse, when I contacted tech support they just wanted to sell me the upgrade to version 3 rather than help with my problem. I had to be persistent and send more emails before they would actually provide tech support. Bad sign.

Like a fool, I went ahead and upgraded to version 3 anyway (hoping it had been improved with the upgrade) after the executor problem had finally been solved by tech support only to encounter 'internal errors' when making routine, albeit extremely slow performing backups with version 3.0.5 (on a system I keep clean and running smoothly by performing routine weekly and monthly maintenance with the best utilities and no hacks).

When this happens the backup stops. When you resume the backup after having to quit Data Backup and restarting, it doesn't pick up the backup where it left off, but starts over making it extremely slow. But it never finished a single complete backup due to 'internal errors' that are never explained so there's no way to solve the problem.

Needless to say, I no longer use it because it simply doesn't work and tech support is slow and unresponsive. After doing much research including reading Joe Kissell's excellent Take Control eBooks, I now use dedicated apps for dedicated backups: Time Machine + an Apple Time Capsule for automatic hourly archive backups; the excellent SuperDuper for automatic bootable duplicates to an external drive; and CrashPlan Pro and BackJack for automatic offsite backups over the Internet. Once it's all set up as explained in Joe's eBooks it works consistently like a charm with no hassles. That's the way it should be.

Don't buy this product; there are better ones out there with better tech support.  
(Version 3.0.5)

JEFF NAILEN  Thanks A.J. and team for listening to your users! Integration with an accounting package is something I and many others have been asking for. This will put Daylite way ahead of alternatives. As usual, MarketCircle seems to have chosen it's partners wisely. MoneyWorks has the best reputation among the major commercial accounting packages for the Mac platform. It has the highest user ratings on MacUpdate as well. Well done. The new integration with LightSpeed seems to do the same thing - integration with best-of-class point of sale on the Mac.

Daylite is turning into the indispensable hub of my business, integrating with all the apps I need to run my business from a central location. There's nothing else like it.

Jeff Nailen

BioFit Solutions  
(Version 3.7)

JEFF NAILEN  RapidWeaver is the pioneer 3rd generation website creation tool. If the 1st generation was text editors requiring coding skils and the 2nd generation was WYSIWYG graphics apps like GoLive  
(Version 3.6.3)

JEFF NAILEN  I can't believe I'm giving a negative rating to an Apple product, this is a first. But only to warn people not to buy iWeb/iLife until they get the bugs fixed in iWeb '08.

My small business site I created in iWeb 06 is not rendering correctly in iWeb '08 2.0.1

I didn't start using '08 until the 2.0.1 fix was issued, so this is all under 2.0.1. I didn't move or rename my site, I opened it in 2.0.1 which had made a few changes to the '06 created pages. I went thru and corrected the changes, mainly font & spacing changes until it resembled the site I created and saved.

In iWeb the pages look great. But when I publish the pages several font and spacing changes are made in the published pages different from the changes I corrected in converting a '06 site to '08, mainly: some fonts are converted to bold and spacing changes are made so that it is no longer WYSIWYG: the pages in iWeb still look great, the published pages look terrible and unusable.

The process of publishing the pages is changing fonts and spacing so that the published pages are far different than the unpublished pages. It's no longer WYSIWYG like iWeb '06/1.x was.

I've given this feedback to Apple and posted this on their support forum which is full of many similar and other complaints on iWeb '08.

iWeb '06 1.1.2 was great, but this one needs much work!

Unfortunately I can't recommend it unless they issue a major fix.

In the meantime, RapidWeaver, Sandvox, and iWeb '06 are good alternatives.  
(Version 2.0.1)

JEFF NAILEN  See their feature comparison chart on their website to see how Mellel compares favorably with Word and a couple other common word processors on OS X.

And no, they didn't just list features Mellel has, surprisingly for a vendor they listed many, many features others have that Mellel does not have, at least yet, and it still scores higher than Word.

More importantly, beyond the quantitative counting of features, the quality of Mellel is top-notch. I've been using Mellel for well over a year and it hasn't crashed one time. Not once. Compare Mac users' rating of Mellel with that of Word—no comparison, Mellel's user rating is twice that of Words and at a fraction of the cost.

We all know how it feels to lose text in Word when it crashes—it feels like losing part of your brain. Mellel is such a solid Cocoa app that it frees your mind to think about writing rather than worrying about the tool. While Word is a pain in the ass, Mellel is a pure pleasure to use.

Since Mellel also imports and exports Word docs for interchange with those still held hostage by Word, Mellel is the most obvious no-brainer choice in Mac software today.  
(Version 1.9.1)