MACD  No wonder the software is bug ridden and support is slow - that's what happens when you redo everything from the scratch. Personally, I think they shouldn't have been releasing software at this stage - with too many bugs which just had to be caught on the development stage, given a proper testing.

But anyways, the thing is out there in the wild, and though it lacks features (for example, comparing to yojimbo, it can't open a PDF in Preview, which is kinda almost a show-stopper for me, but oh well), a bit on the slow side, I would like to give it a try (esp. taking in account the upcoming iphone client).

Support is definitely swamped with reports, that's why even emergency tickets take days to get processed. Well.. it's still their fault, but at least they have the proper support with progress tracking and stuff! Compare with Yojimbo, or Evernote! I think it will still take a couple of months until things calm down, but the potential is here, features are here, and company is listening to the users (they fixed at least 2 tickets I have filed them).

However, a word of warning - if you need perfection, Soho Notes 8 is not the product for you just yet. Wait till 8.1 or something - and it will probably feed your needs aplenty.

I have tried Yojimbo (actually switched from this barely developed POS, and they won't EVER have iPhone client), and tried Evernote - but for the price (if you are a paid user), the software is underdeveloped, lacks features, has clunky interface (both desktop and iphone versions) and their way of thinking how things should work just isn't for me.

So, I want to believe Soho Notes will get rid of most of its annoying bugs, adds the only feature I need very badly (opening PDF in external viewer) - and we'll have a winner.  
(Version 8.02)

MACD  Excuse me?!? This is called an "upgrade"? Added a few shortcuts, allowed to rename tags? Tag explorer?

AND STILL NO IPHONE CLIENT?

and all this took TWO FREAKING YEARS???

AND! Upgrade form doesn't even work! Upgrading was an impulsive decision, but thanks for stopping me, BareBones.

This is not an UPGRADE. Call it 1.6, 1.7 or something. And it does NOT worth $20, based on features added, EVEN if you call it an UPGRADE.

Really.. what a joke.. upgrade huh.. version 2. in your dreams folks.

give me an iPhone client which could probably require Yojimbo 2.0 and we can talk about upgrading the old dead horse and buying a new piece of software from you.  
(Version 2.0)

MACD  oops.. sorry folks. that was a reply to the comment for the review below. can't delete this reply and reply into the correct thread it seems.  
(Version 1.0)

MACD  Yeah.. figures.

Guess they never expected to be able to sell it for the ridiculous 80 bucks anyway, let alone make the software polished to be able to actually sell it without any promotions. Sad. That sort of confirms that there's nothing to expect from Espresso in observable future (till the next full upgrade)

Oh well anyways, that's how business goes. No usable software - no money. Having said that, I really doubt I would even buy Espresso in its current stage for 4 bucks (that's around how much each software in the package sells for, if you equally divide the total price).

Don't know why I spend my time writing it. Just probably because I really looked forward for the polished release.  
(Version 1.0)

MACD  I am as well very surprised to see the software is actually released at this point.

It is very barren, sugars management is absolute PITA. As in - go to some github site, click download button, download the latest version.. and.. what to do next? Double click the sugar and it opens as a new project!! Guess I have to put it to some magic folder or something?

There's a menu called Help ("No help is available for Espresso"), and there's Wiki - I couldn't find a way to install sugars, anyway.

There's no shortcut for searching for files inside a project.

The app looks totally barren and definitely rushed out for reasons unknown.

It does look good, and there's a chance that I could use it for some of my projects. May be. In the future. Probably a distant one. But at its current incarnation, and at that price tag (come on! 80 bucks for THAT??) it is not going anywhere.. 80 bucks is OmniFocus, for example - and it provides vastly greater and deeper experience, targeting almost the same (in percentage of users) niche as Espresso shoots for.

And honestly, it's a big shame, because I own and a big fan of CSSEdit and was definitely expecting much, much better experience from MacRabbit's new app.. Oh well, back to TextMate/BBEdit/CSSEdit combo I guess.

Big "boo" to the developer for a release like that!  
(Version 1.0)

MACD  I agree the current price tag is like.. hm.. twice as much as I expected developers to ask for the software in its current state. I'll explain why:

- first of all, there's no support for sub-projects. Yes, I know this feature will be added and on top of their feature list. However, it's been like that like.. forever already

- this brings the second gripe: the speed at which the software evolves is slow as hell if you ask me. I have tried Things half a year ago (or even more than that?) and the current version didn't bring much to the table in comparison

- now, how about MobileMe/WebDAV/anything to sync data between 2 or more computers? or to sync data between iPhone app (which I own but don't use) and desktop data on the go (in case I forgot to sync before leaving for home, or for work, or for vacation, or for whatever)

- did I mention sub-projects?

- ah did I mention they told us forever that sub-projects will be supported, but without ANY timeline AT ALL?

Now, the software is looking good, and parially usable, but in its current state its NOWHERE LIKE in the range of prices they are asking for, EVEN with currently available "early adopters". OmniFocus definitely has its quirks and a good amount of stuff I don't like about it, but at least after (supposedly ungodly amount of time, for some users) customizations, it because actually usable.

Things, on the other hand, does not, because it just lacks the ability to spend that ungodly amount of time on customizations, because there are not that much features inside this software - not even some extremely basic stuff for power/average-users included (see above)

So yeah, speed of development is extremely slow, no sub-projects (they are coming for ages now), no mac to mac sync. Paying (any price) just for eye candy is for folks who just like new toys. Staying with OmniFocus. Don't like it too much, but it's way better now.  
(Version 1.0rc3)

MACD  Yeah and Transmissions guys will of course happily integrate software which searches pirated software torrent servers into their - neutral - torrent client, therefore becoming an easier to kill target for anti-piracy organizations.

Kids these days...  
(Version 1.2)

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   
(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)

MACD  Wow I guess I do will reach for my credit card tomorrow when I wake up :)  
(Version 2.1b5)

MACD  Same here!!

Here's what I get in Console > console.log

Check 2 failed. Can't run Skype

2006-04-26 23:40:03.807 Skype[511]: DebugAssert: Third Party Client: result == 0 Could not lock on a synchronization mutex.[../Aggregates/POSIXThreadAssistant/APW_PTA_Synchronizable.cpp:69]

2006-04-26 23:40:03.808 Skype[511]: DebugAssert: Third Party Client: result == 0 Could not unlock on a synchronization mutex, should never happen![../Aggregates/POSIXThreadAssistant/APW_PTA_Synchronizable.cpp:89]

Back to the drawing board!!! Now!  
(Version 1.4.0.39)

MACD  The old version was just fine. And I actually bought it.

Now, about the support stuff - I haven't received a single bloody word from the author regarding the new version being out, even though as I have mentioned earlier, I have bought the license! WTF???

And yes, I don't really see ANY bloody reason for the upgrade. The thing is not even Universal binary!!! And I don't need a browser.

And what the f*** is wrong with the application not trying to tell me my old serial is wrong and just silently entering the "Unregistered" mode. I don't get it...

And yes, $25 is a price of dinner here in Japan and is not a problem at all to pay for a software which I use every single day. But I'd better take my wife and have a nice dinner here in Japan instead of upgrading to 4.0 for now reason at all.  
(Version 4.0.4)

MACD  I have installed it yesterday, and I'd say it's an absolutely fantastic software! I can finally test my code against Internet Explorer simple anbd easy without jumping between two computers at work. This alone makes my life leaps and bounds easier. And the speed in indeed absolutely amazing, comparing to any PC-emulation software I have used until now. It's just like I have a real PC - everything flies (and as for games, I run them on my Intel iMac at home using BootCamp of course)

Still, sound does not work yet, as well as full-screen mode is not yet implementes. And the user interface (settings etc) are kind of not very Mac-like. But I'm sure these few remaining probs will be ironed out before the final release. And until then, I already have an almost-perfect emulation solution.  
(Version 2.1b2)

MACD  Oh my god, why include a browser?? To justify the upgrade fee or what? This is a dictionary. You know.. dictionaries look up words. And things which browse the web are called anything by dictionaries. Talk about absolutely unnecessary bloat :/  
(Version 4.0.2)

MACD  Oh my god.. This software is brilliant, and you DON'T pay for it. Well year, the developer asks for some donation SO WHAT??? You are not forced to make a donation, as well as not forced to use any "irritating" software. It's your choice. Shut it and enjoy the fact you don't have to pay. And yeah.. growing up a little bit won't hurt either.

And to the developer - don't pay attention to the kids in the forum. It was always like that and it will always be. Kids grow up and stop making such comment, eventually. There are many more people who enjoy your work and grateful for making this software free.  
(Version 1.3)

MACD  Very nice program and the compression ratio is absolutely mind-blowing! At the price of compression time of course :)

To the developer: It would be _very_ nice if the program would ask if you want to replace files with the same name as the ones in an archive in the extraction folder, instead of silently replacing them.  
(Version 1.2)

MACD  FAntastic browser. Clean and fast and standards compliant. The way a browser should be.  
(Version 1.0rc1)

MACD  Launched it on Intel Mac 20" 2GHz (2Gb RAM and 256Mb Video RAM) - the game works absolutely great at highest resolution possible with highest settings everything! Fantastic..  
(Version 3369-1)

MACD  Navicat is a software of absolutely different level than Webmin. And can't really compare them. It's like saying "I can create texts in TextEdit just like I can do it in MS Word". These applications look alike, but the actual level is pretty different.

Sure there are people who are just fine with simplicity of Webmin's MySQL management tools, but when you need powerful, industry-strength database management solution - Navicat is the best solution available (and believe me i have tried all clients available for Mac, including buggy mySQL's one)  
(Version 6.1.3)

MACD  Very nice software, and I like it very much, BUT it slows down to crawl on my PB G4 1.25 with 1Gb RAM when I open or save file. And overall speed is something I would like to see LOTS of improvements in the future.

Other than that, nice software for painless publishing your stuff to the web :)  
(Version 3.2)

MACD  Not to say this widget is no good or anything like that, but it's way too simple and I wouldn't say it's easier to use than search in browser - just enter php.net/ and will go fetch description for .

For people who really need a very nice free utility which performs realtime PHP functions lookup, locally on your computer, just follow this link: http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/16077

I won't rate the widget I won't use and which I consider a learning project for the developer. We need better ideas and more complicated widgets, not just another interface to browser's URL field.  
(Version 1.0)

MACD  Now too bad but I'd say its "chat" functionality is pretty far from perfect for me.

The biggest question is: how about text encodings support? At this age, almost every IRC app got such support. Not all IRC channels are available in English ;)

I'd also would like to have text input field somehow integrated into the chat window. Of course all these drawers are cool but drawers are kind of for displaying information you want to see may be sometimes, definitely not all the time. Putting the text input field in a program created specially for typing text messages into a drawer seems a bit strange for me.

I'm staying with Conversation for the time being.  
(Version 1.0)

MACD  Well I don't know about highjacking.. The developer worked really hard to make this as stable as possible. Added lots of features. And if you really "got hooked" (which means this tool is undispensable for you, you use it everyday, you can't live without, it improves your productitivy, etc...), then I don't see any reason for not paying for it. May be psychologically the price is about $5 more than many would pay without thinking twice of thrice, but it's still priced fairly, considering all the features it offers.

And I guess anyone in civilized world, even a lazy student, can make money to pay for this shareware just by working for about a couple of hours on almost any kind of part time job. So again, I see no problems here, of course taking into consideration you really GOT HOOKED to this util.  
(Version 1.0)

MACD  I've been beta-testing this product for a long-long time before if finally evolved into what is not called version 1.0 and I must say this tool is now one of a few utilities I can't really live without. Of course I use mouse with my PowerBook lots of time, but if for any reason I don't have mouse to use, or just too lazy to plug it in, I don't feel like I'm loosing control over the cursor behaviour, scrolling, control-clicking..

I can scroll, and control-click, and actually have any level of extensive control over my trackpad, and sometimes in much more natural way than using a mouse. Stability is top-notch for me, too.

And I think the price is just right, too. Anyway, if you have invested a couple of thousands in your notebook, $15 is not really such a big price for a tool you will use literally everytime you touch your trackpad.  
(Version 1.0)

MACD  Lots of useful features and very nice interface all KILLED by its slowness. Anything.. Safari, Mozilla, Firefox, Camino.. you name it.. is much faster than OmniWeb when using tabbed browsing.

I even turned off the preview-enabled tabs view, and it still CRAWLS when opening my usual set of 7 Mac-related news sites.

Since this is already RC2, I'm going to give up on OmniWeb until next big update.  
(Version 5.0rc2)

MACD  Looks like a promising browser.. I try every beta which comes out, and unfortunately stop using it in about 10 minutes, switching back to Safari and Mozilla.

2 things:

- crashes pretty often under heavy load (beta 7 crashed on me in about 5 minutes after the launch - and I spent about 4 minutes checking preferences before loading anything)

- slows down to almost spinning wheel of death when I try to load a set of pages into tabs (7 different sites set). Safari doesn't have any problems at all rendering all these pages at the same time - I can switch between tabs etc.. fast and easy. OmniWeb crawls.. making the process of loading a set of pages at the same time pretty annoying and therefore useless.. More than that.. Loading set of pages into tabs is that when OmniWeb crashed on me. Doh.. Back to Safari of course..

I'm looking forward to the next beta, but bloody hell.. it not only crashed and crawls, it also ASKS FOR MONEY! Annoying..  
(Version 5.0 beta 7)

MACD  A very good update IMO.

The only thing which really, really, really disappointed me is Entourage STILL doesn't support standard Mac OS X Address Book!

This is crazy! I have all my contacts stored in Apple's address book so I can sync them between various devices like my mobile etc.. I really don't get Entourage's lack of support for Address Book which is built into the OS X.. blah..   
(Version 11.0)

MACD  Bloody hell! What did those guys do to the code? It just almost flies my Mac off the Earth when I launch it! So fast! I think another update and we will reach 3rd space speed and fly off to Mars or whereever.

Just want to say - the best update from Macromedia, EVER!  
(Version 7.0.1)

MACD  I'm not sure but it looks like Video chat with Windows AIM users requires both sides to have direct connection to Internet. I failed to connect to my friend using AIM 5.5. May be that's how AIM works.. I don't know..  
(Version 2.1b)