MACD  It was cool while it worked and Unsanity paid attention to development. Doesn't work in Leopard, and no updated on the horizon it seems...  
(Version 1.1.1)

MACD  You will be doing restores from TimeMachine, even though you might have problems which DiskWarrior can fix within 15 minutes? Hm.. yeah.  
(Version 4.1.1)

MACD  Prepare to wait for your serial for ages!

The software is nice, but it would be even nicer if I you didn't have to wait for hours. Author doesn't have automatic serial number generation system in place. WTF? Are we still in 1990ths?? And there's a nice message which reads on thankyouverymuch for purchase - "Please contact us if you haven't received your serial in a week after payment. A WEEK?? Oh come on! Every single sharewave program I have bought in last several years had automatic serial numbers generation system (ie you get your number in seconds after you click the "charge my credit card" button). Plentycom doesn't bother spending a few hours setting up such a system (and yes, it's NOT hard to setup, at all - I've been doing it myself several years ago when I was in shareware business)

Still.. waiting.. for... serial..  
(Version 3.9)

MACD  Wow! The search/filtering speed in the new version is indeed greatly improved!!! I can finally start actually USING this feature without thinking twice..

Thanks!  
(Version 1.5)

MACD  Thanks. This update fixed the problem.

Now I wonder if the fix was in the works already or I really had to post the comment on MU to get the problem really nailed down ;) Anyways, thanks for the quick turnaround. Guess I was not in my best mood yesterday.  
(Version 2.5.3)

MACD  Developers of 1Password are very responsible but are not very quick to actually fix things.

There's a pretty serious bug when 1Password doesn't work for Firefox's browser AUTH windows (Firefox freezes when one tries to select a password from 1Password's AUTH window replacement).

I have notified the developer about this bug over a month ago, and there's still no fix.

I would really think that a serious problems like this would get some love ASAP (the bloody browser just FREEZES because of 1Password, so how much more serious it has to get for the bug to gain FIX ASAP status??)

Of course I got a message from developers regarding the bug. But where's the fix? Come on already. It's a small utility for a price it doesn't worth if bug fixes are not fast.  
(Version 2.5.2)

MACD  When it works, it works nice. But when it doesn't, it just takes the whole bloody OS with it. Taking over processor, graphics and hard disk. The only way to remedy the problem is to reboot the computer.

2.5 worked fine for me. 3.0 is a buggy mess...  
(Version 3.0.4560)

MACD  Absolutely fantasic, well-though out tool! Thanks alot! Just what I needed, and even more. I wonder why I didn't stumble upon it before.   
(Version 1.1)

MACD  Well it's cool that the app is getting 5-star reviews, but I'd like to add some cricital input here.

The application is a very nicely made visually and will definitely find its place in many web developers' toolkits.

However, the app is 1.0 and it shows. Basically, Coda no better than tasks-oriented tools.

CSS editor's interface, though is OK, really lacks CSS Edit's layout where you can edit by hand AND using visual tools at the same time. A real show-stopper for hardcore coders (working in not a sec to waste mode ;)

Edit is fine, ok. But the parser is a little dumber than I would like it to be. It's fine for HTML (though I'd like it to parse site's CSS definitions and offer to auto-complete when I enter

For PHP coders, it is not very good either. The "Symbols" panel, where all the PHP functions are being listed, is definitely harder to use than pulldown menu like you have in bbedit and textmate. Also, it doesn't understand <<>>. I hope fix for this problem comes sooner than later.

Terminal is fine, but I definitely like the "detached" stand-alone version more. And I find id pretty useful to have Terminal's window with slightly transparent background so I can see stuff below it when I am typing commands .

There are of course alot of useful features, but I am definitely not ready to shell out even the current discounted price for the software as a whole. Just shell out a little more money and get textmate (or bbedit though it's much pricey), transmit and cssedit - and have a much better toolset in your hands. Yes, you will not have everything in one place, but I believe that multiple-window editing has alot of advantages.

Though the review is critical, Coda has a good potential. Good luck to Panic team with future releases.  
(Version 1.0)

MACD  A very nice app, and it feel fast at first. But just add, say, about 50Megs of PDFs into the database and try to do a search and enjoy it CRAWLS to the extent one might prefer to Force Quit the thing.

Good for small notes and stuff like that. Definitely suck at handling PDFs and other large-sized media you decide to throw at it.  
(Version 1.4.2)

MACD  I think that toolbar icons, as well as UI overall, still needs some work. Compare it with Midnight Inbox - and you'll see what level of UI I would like to see.

Of course, the main difference with iGTD and Midnight Inbox is that iGTD works as it should, and Inbox is buggy and unpredictable as hell...  
(Version 1.3.4.2)

MACD  Well I give up. No more star-less comments. I have TRIED REALLY HARD to use this app for last several days.

But it was keeping crashing on me like hell. Simple tasks like emptying the trash, or archiving completed projects kept crashing the app with almost 100% probability. The latest update seem to fixed the archiving projects bug, but try to empty the trash and you got a crash. It tries to process items in Trash.

Non-roman items come imported from iCal with broken encodings, etc etc etc etc..... plus all kinds of unexpected and unpredictable crashes anywhere you can or can not possibly imagine.

I tried. I wanted to use it. I wanted to pay money. Not anymore. Goes to trash and I recommend everyone to save their time and not even try this app. It looks very promising, but it's broken to the point beyond any belief.  
(Version 1.1.3)

MACD  The software is very nicely made, and it's a pleasure to use. However, the biggest problem with Inbox is stability. Even with the new version 1.1 it only took me about 10 minutes of not even real use, but testing - to make it crash. Crash report was sent to the developer, but.. I'm not sure I want to pay the requested price for software which crashes on me on normal use, even though the feature set is great.  
(Version 1.1)

MACD  Wow! wow! wow! Hey hey hey hold on a sec! $25 subscription a year? OR $65 one-time payment. Some inflation happened while I was sleeping or something? I would pay $15 without, you know, thinking if I really have a need to such an utility (I was using it while it was in beta), but at $25/year and $65 full price I'll just run the uninstaller.

Bad, bad, bad move. Greed won't get you anywhere.  
(Version 1.0.1)

MACD  Unfortunately this only sounds better than Bootcamp and Parallels. In reality, you have a couple of dosen of "tested" apps, and a cryptic list of "supported/unsupported" apps on their site, with compatibility status like "Silver Medal" or "Honorable Mention".

Typical Unix leet approach. Make your own leet language and make everyone speak it. "Honorable mention" my ass.. I need "compatible, partially compatible and incompatible" on the compatibility list, not some weird "medals"  
(Version 6.0.1)

MACD  I have downloaded the release version today, just to see how far it went since the early betas (or were those technically alphas?), which had toast for a breakfast. Here are some observations (before it crashed on me in about 3 minutes)

- Man.. black UI sucks. I mean.. somebody have chosen the black on white FOR A REASON! I still have those black circles floating in front of my eyes. :(

- resizable filelist is nice to have (should have been there from the beginning though)

- once in the list, files can't be renamed (huh?)

- tried to image a disk just to get a nice window "Imaging Disk" and a nice big spinning wheel. Waited a couple of minutes before cancelling. Good spinning wheel demo, alas no functionality present in the disk imaging department it seems.

- tried to press the burn button (Insert blank disk). But um.. after all i don't want to burn anything right now. Cancel. Cancel again. "Leave disk layout?". Leave. (transition, transition, transition, crash)

Cool. Have another toast, Disco.  
(Version 1.0)

MACD  Here's one more voice for normal tabs like every other browser on the planet has. It shouldn't be THAT hard to implement isn't it?

I wonder how many people have to write their compains for OmniGroup to actually listen to their clients base?   
(Version 5.5.4 beta 1)

MACD  1passwd became a pretty nice utility for managing passwords, and having the ability to have the same set of passwords shared between all the browsers is very nice.

The only thing why I still haven't bought it yet, and probably won't buy at all is the price. The $30 price tag definitely was set by developers for a good reason (well at least I want to believe there was some calculations involved), but comparing the feature set and complexity of the program to other shareware programs I have bough at the same price (or cheaper) (CSSEdit, JEDict, the excellent Graphics Converter, Yojimbo, though Yojimbo is closer to $40) is leaps and bounds higher than 1Passwd.

I'll buy it for $15 or $20 at most, or don't buy it at all (since I'm pretty happy with managing all my passwords and more using free Google's browser sync for Firefox, and .Mac keychain syncing).

I'm sure there are lots of people for whom 1Passwd definitely worth its money, but again, in my eyes, the price vs. feature set just doesn't compute.  
(Version 2.2.3869)

MACD  Wow!! I never though Acrobat Reader could (even potentionally) be THAT fast (I'm on Intel iMac 2.0GHz) A very nice version! Wow..  
(Version 8.0)

MACD  It's at verion 0.2.1 and they already sell it? Oh come on.. they must be kidding right? Things can't possibly be so bad for developers to put a price tag on (and actually sell) a version which is not even a quarter-close to the release, arrival of which is, in turn, is unknown.

Regarding the features, they are currently basic, and regarding the implementation, it leaves alot to be desired (pencil update every 0.5 seconds? one can't actually draw a curve with it! only a series of straight lines!). Come on.. you should make it a time-limited beta, putting a price tag a limiting features is weird at the least.  
(Version 0.2.1)

MACD  Very nice software, and actually the only one usable on Mac in its class, but stability is awful. Basically I can rarely have it running without crashing for more than 10-15 minutes of translating session. It's nice to have auto-save feature and all, but it definitely would be much better just to have a stable version which doesn't crash that often.

Other than that, a very nicely made program. Just please fix the crashes. Please..  
(Version 1.6)

MACD  After reading all the negative reviews, I came to think the software is a complete piece of junk. I remember I had problems with earlier versions (so I have used the SteerMouse instead of the original drivers), but once I purchased my Revolution MX mouse I decided to give the software one more chance and it worked flawlessly! Moreover, I have switched from SteerMouse at my home computer which has MX1000 connected to it. No problems at all.

The only thing which I would like to see improved is the zoom feature (which simply just have keypresses hardcoded into the driver).

Overall, a very nice software. And mouses from Logitech are the best in the world.  
(Version 2.1.1)

MACD  This version is definitely lacks stability. There are no crashes, but complete freezes of the browser, at least 1-2 times an hour during heavy use. :(  
(Version 2.0)

MACD  Firefox 2.0 is fine and all, and I like it, but version 2.0 has some pretty annoying stability issues for me. It was all the way since Firefox 2.0 betas, rolled into release candidates, and now - the release version.

The problem is that after using Firefox for some (sometimes very short, like 10-15 minutes) time, the browser just freezes with the color wheel of death. No errors, no crashes, no nothing. Just freezes and that's it, so it is not even possible to determine WHY it froze and what was the problem.

All the extensions (and there are only 4 of them : WebDeveloper, FireBug, Google's toolbar and browser synchronization plugins) are compatible with the new version, so should not be a problem.

Also, I have tried to erase the Firefox user profile completely, without any results...

The browser is very nice and fast, but since I have switched to version 2.0, I have nothing but timed freezes, WITHOUT ANY WAY TO DETERMINE WHY!! Oh well...  
(Version 2.0)

MACD  Overall, a nice text editor, but there are things which have to be improved in order to make it a good editor, not just nice.

- the editor claims to support UTF-8 encoding text editing, but just try to enter some double-byte characters, and you'll see the broken spacing between characters, and actually inability to enter characters at all, in many cases. What's the meaning of having UTF-8 support if in reality you only support its Roman subset?

- the undo feature is one of the most primitive in the industry. Type undo and it will do it fine, but letter-by-letter! Think about painful undoing

- having the functions list popup menu at the bottom of the editor window makes it pretty inconvinient to access the menu as most of the time you have to scroll thru the list EVEN if the function you need to access is, say.. 5th item in the list

- when every other programmers editor out there (even, you know.. the other one) supports wide range of possible encodings and converting between them (not all projects are Roman-language, or UTF-8 based), TextMate STILL - after how many much time of development? - doesn't support anything except for UTF and Roman (and the UTF-8 encoded text editing is broken, as I have wrote earlier)

- on the good side, TextMate is a nice editor to have, when it works. But making my living developing various stuff for Japanese clients, it doesn't work for me way more than it does.

Resume: I own license to several times more expensive BBEdit, and don't even think of buying TextMate at its current stage of development, even though its price several times lower. I would be really cool for the developer to get his acts together and actually start implementing features users are asking for, rather than adding new language bundles and small fixes.

Also, just an advice though.. there are pretty big and willing to pay markets here on the asian side of the world. It might be pretty good idea financially to do something to support these markets (double-byte support, localization?)  
(Version 1.5.3)

MACD  The most professionally made password generation widget for Mac. Excellent idea and realization. Keep up the great work!  
(Version 2.4)

MACD  looks like the new version fixed the Safari keychain import problem. Thanks :)  
(Version 1.4.2928)

MACD  Well.. two point versions come and go, and there is still no support for choosing which keychain Safari uses by default. I guess there are more important things on developers' list than adding full support for most widely used browser on Mac. I just wonder.. what these top-priority features are.  
(Version 1.3.2535)

MACD  This might be a very nice browser. But I don't see any acceptable support behind it. I mean.. how many MONTHS it took them to update it to the latest WebCore version? How many MONTHS it took them to make it faster? Or should we be counting in years periods in this case?

How many months it took to move to universal binary? a year after intel development kits because available?

The browser is indeed nice and has some good features, but you just CAN'T rely on it. Come new WebKit version with bug and security fixes and all such stuff - and let's see.. we have 6 months of waiting for Omni to catch up again?

Price.. well it MIGHT BE fair, but only if the development pace is up to this price.  
(Version 5.5 beta 1)

MACD  I will echo the other reviewer saying "Wow!". Absolutely fantastic software. Slick and polished to the death. Fantastic. Now if I only had any friends on Yahoo Messenger... :/  
(Version 3.0b1)

MACD  One star reviewers here are either too lazy to spend 10 minutes of their time actually learning anything, or just plain dumb and therefore don't have a privilege to use this wonderful IDE.

I tell you what - yes, it's JAVA, and yes, the interface is much more complicated comparing to BBEdit and TextMate, so yes you can't bloody learn this thing in 3 minutes. But once you do, you have every-bloody-thing you need to craft your PHP code! Errors highlighting, functions and variables auto-completion (so you don't have to bloody remember all these parameters of zillions API functions, or all these functions you have put into your class 2 years ago), you have even basic MySQL console so you can make queries from inside the single application! You can set your favourite font for the text editor (think Consolas which I think is great), you can change highlight colors, you have projects which remember their last state after closing and reopening. You EVEN have bloody classes links checker for you will be notified if some file which is supposed to be included in some of your other files can not be found inside the current project. Oh and did I forgot the excellent tools like debugger and profiler? You one star reviewers even know what are these two for??

Jeez.. some reviews just drive me mad.. :/

Zend Studio is an excellent IDE for PHP. Nothing exceeds it in functionality. Support is great. And it saved me hundreds of hours of work. Highly recommended.  
(Version 5.2)

MACD  Why isn't it reasonable? They charged real money when I preordered the software.

And of course I understand the software is beta etc etc.. but it least I expect the support personnel to read your emails carefully enough not to suggest you to reinstall the software in reply to an email from you stating that you already have actually done it 3 times before asking for help.

The software it very nice. The support (at least at the time on writing my previous comments) needs some tune up.  
(Version 2.2.1842.7)

MACD  Parallels is a very nice software and I have bought it when it reached beta5. Unfortunately, my network broke with beta6 release. I don't really have much time to search thu forum threads and after trying to reinstall Windows and Parallels (several times), I have sent an email describing the problems I was having, as well as pointing out that I have tried to reinstall Parallels and Windows in a hope to fix the problem. The initial reply from Parallels was indeed fast. And it read basically "Try to reinstall Parallels". HUH? Haven't I wrote in my support request that I have done it already, and actually several times?.. They don't seem to read mails very carefully it seems, so I have wrote another email, basically stating AGAIN that I have already did try to reinstall Parallels. Once the mail was sent... I was waiting several days for any sign of reply in my mailbox just not to find one. So, in my belief that if words don't help try the money way, I have sent a request for refund. The reply was not very fast, but at least it reached my mailbox before I thought I won't get the refund at all.

The response was from a different member of Parallels team, stating that the refund is on its way back to my credit card, as well as apologies.

So well.. it was my experience with the Parallels support as a paid user.  
(Version 2.1b6)