PHILMAC  If there were notable new features, I would pay to upgrade, as I have in the past. But all that's happened is a switch to 64-bit.

Now, I know that is not necessarily a simple task. At the same time, though, I can't bring myself to fork over more cash for the same user-experience — especially not when there is a free alternative.

I'll keep an eye out to see if Saft evolves: I don't mind paying for functionality. (Textarea backup, for example, would be nice.) In short: the developer needs to get creative again!  
(Version 12.0b4)

PHILMAC  Typinator is great (and now *very* fast). But with the advent of Snow Leopard, we need to know why an app like this is worth installing. Even the names of these apps — Typinator, TextExapander, TypeIt4Me — highlight a function that is now performed by the OS: "for example," says Apple, "'pnc' can expand to 'privileged and confidential,' and your initials can expand to your full name." This essentially the opening sentence of the Typinator webpage.

Typinator can insert images and rich text, and you can use different expansion sets with different programs. Anything else important I've forgotten?  
(Version 3.5.1)

PHILMAC  I'm not an audiophile, but I notice a huge difference in the music quality when using this program -- so much so that I bought AirFoil (as one must) in order to be able to use the plugin when playing music over AirPort Express speakers.

There is one thing that irritates me, though. The "auto-preset" feature adjusts the equalizer to match the genre of your music as defined in iTunes, which is better than nothing. It would, however, be much more useful to me if it matched the "Equalizer Preset" defined in iTunes (when one has been chosen). I don't want to have to choose the "Acoustic" genre for the one song on a "Rock" album that sounds best with the "Acoustic" equalizer preset.  
(Version 2.0.2.255)

PHILMAC  MY MISTAKE. What I wrote above is actually useless advice. Sorry! Really you should just be able to double-click a certificate file in the Finder and Keychain Access will ask you what keychain you'd like it in.

That said, Leopard has in fact changed something about certificates. Namely, new system root certificates do not go in the X509 Anchors keychain, but in the System keychain. (Note however that as of this writing, some Microsoft programs insist on continuing to use the X509 Anchors keychain in Leopard. Google for more info.)  
(Version 0.1)

PHILMAC  I believe that Leopard has changed the way a certificates is made trusted and added to one of your keychains. [DISCLAIMER: I am no expert at this -- just a guy who spent a few hours on this problem and found a solution that worked for him. Backup your keychains and the certificate.]

To accomplish this, I used the "add-trusted-cert" command in Security (accessed via the terminal). I entered a command like this one:

security add-trusted-cert /Users/YOU/Desktop/rootca.der

You will need an administrator password. To import the certificate into one of your keychains, I think that after this you will have to double-click the file. It should open in Keychain Access, which will ask you which keychain you want it in (again asking for a password). Then it should import, and you should see that it is trusted!  
(Version 0.1)

PHILMAC  Also, I would really like to hear someone's thoughts on why this is better (or, at least, $60 better) than FreeMind, which is, well, free.  
(Version 2.0.2)

PHILMAC  Am I wrong, or does this app seem to be more about documenting thoughts than developing them? I would think that the whole thing would work more like the "presentation mode," in which you click on a node and it moves to the center. You can clearly make a very nice-looking document with this, but is that too much of a focus? (I'm really asking, by the way!)  
(Version 2.0.2)

PHILMAC  Neat! Two questions from my testing: 1) No matter what combo of setting I use, I get artifacts aplenty whenever I move a window. Not a big deal for my purposes, but is that normal? I'm on an iMac G5 with spanning enabled via ScreenSpanningDoctor, and am using an iBook G3 (Dual-USB) 600 mHz. ** 2) The main DVD Player window will not display on the 2nd screen. I can drag it there, but it immediately hops back onto the 1st screen. I thought this ability was enabled in Panther -- is there something I should be doing or is this a limitation of ScreenRecycler? (Both systems are running 10.4.10). ** Thanks for reading! Any thoughts?  
(Version 1.0.2B1050)