RONALD PRICE  Nope, SafariBock didn't help. Maybe it needs a custom rule to block animated gifs. I may look into it.  
(Version 4.0.3)

RONALD PRICE  Thanks, I'll try SafariBlock. Hopefully it works because I used to like Safari until it began inflicting debilitating physical pain.  
(Version 4.0.3)

RONALD PRICE  Still no way to disable animated gifs. Seizures too painful. Cannot use Safari. Bug report submitted for Apple to ignore, again.  
(Version 4.0.3)

RONALD PRICE  I get the same error message. I'm running 10.4.11 on a G4 so I wondered if this is a PPC specific problem?  
(Version 2.8.5)

RONALD PRICE  Yes, please, normal tabs. I can tolerate some of OmniWeb's other quirks but the cartoon drawer thing is just wrong.  
(Version 5.9.1)

RONALD PRICE  Functionally this build of NTFS-3G does all I need. I tried both the stable and ulibio versions and both allow me to mount ntfs volumes as read/write. I was able to copy files from my Sawtooth G4 to all 3 ntfs drives I tried and read and delete them when I connected the drives to my Vista 64 bit system and vice-versa.

While it does work it takes a while to mount ntfs volumes - an 8GB thumb drive took 8-10 seconds while a 1TB USB hard drive took 30-45 seconds. A 27GB USB HD was somewhere in the middle. Not a major problem but something to be aware of - if you are trying to use a large ntfs volume don't assume there is something wrong just because it doesn't mount immediately.

Another time/nuisance eliminating tip - when un-mounting volumes from the Windows system try to remember to use the Windows "Remove Safely" command, rather then just unplugging the drive. This will save the hassle of having to deal with the warning and "Force/Abort" dialog from NTFS-3G. So pretty much just deal with removable drives on Windows as we already deal with them on the Mac and things will work a little smoother.  
(Version 2009.2.1u1)

RONALD PRICE  Works fine on my Sawtooth G4 with 10.4.11. Also works fine on my PC with Vista Home Premium 64 bit. Pretty much what I've come to expect from iTunes updates.  
(Version 8.0)

RONALD PRICE  Assuming it is even possible, are there any plans to port MLB Schedule and or MLB Standings to the iPhone and/or iPod Touch? Just seems like a natural, pardon the pun.  
(Version 2.4)

RONALD PRICE  A couple of the extensions I use are not yet compatible so I'll be sticking with FF2 for a while yet. I'll keep FF3 installed to play with and see if I can work around or figure out some of the things that don't work the way I'm used to.

I also noted some bookmark issues with FF3. It just doesn't show all my bookmarks. If I run FF2 they are all there. I wonder if maybe FF3 is reading one of the backup bookmark files. I'll try deleting them all to see if that makes it work.   
(Version 3.0)

RONALD PRICE  I'm not 100% certain but I don't think either Celestia or Stellarium can control the nice Meade telescope I got for Christmas. To be fair, I'm not 100% certain Equinox will either as I have not actually tried this claimed functionality yet, but at least this is a listed feature. Now that the weather is nice (and my work schedule has become less debilitating) I plan to see what Equinox can do.

Don't get me wrong, Celestia and Stellarium are fine for what they do but they solve different problems than Equinox.  
(Version 6.8.3)

RONALD PRICE  I suppose the bug is in the standard then. Whatever, I prefer the way Gecko based browsers allow me to force all web pages to display in a font I can read rather than whatever some designer thinks looks cool. This mangles formatting sometimes but I live with it.

As for remembering window position, OmniWeb has not done so for me for some time, probably since the 5 series began. Window size is remembered but it always opens with the window down and right of where I set it. This is 100% repeatable for me. I just assumed it is part of the New World Order, along with the big cartoon tabs, or that it only works properly on the paid version.

At least OmniWeb lets me kill all that seizure inducing animated crap web designers seem to love so much. And the basic feature set gives me pretty much everything I want but need several add-ons to get with Firefox. More annoying, on the rare occasions it uses the font I specify I actually prefer the way OmniWeb renders most web pages compared to Firefox.

If I could get OmniWeb to remember window position I could probably train myself to live with the font thing. The tabs are a no-go though. They just bug me.  
(Version 5.7)

RONALD PRICE  Windows size is remembered, position is not. Both were remembered in earlier versions of OmniWeb and I'm not sure when the behaviour changed. Whatever, broken is broken, probably not important how or when it happened.

I agree OW offers more finely tuned font and font size preferences than Safari. For the most part minimum font size choice appears to be honoured. User font choice is mostly ignored by WebKit as far as I can tell - web pages display in whatever the site designer specifies in most cases. This is a major annoyance with Safari, Shiira and a couple of other WebKit based browsers I have tried. Safari on Windows has the same bug.

Even so, I don't think OmniWeb is a bad browser. It renders pages quickly and legibly. Once upon a time I even paid for a license and don't regret it. OmniWeb used to be the best browser for OS X, period. Things change, that's life. Some people really like some of the features which have turned me off OmniWeb. That's cool.  
(Version 5.7)

RONALD PRICE  Not bad, lots of features, decent overall performance. The preferences allow lots of customization and the individual site preferences make this even better.

Unfortunately OmniWeb has gone in a direction that is no longer relevant to me. I want things like the ability to remember my default window size/position. Some control over fonts would be nice too, though this is a problem with every WebKit browser I have seen. The big cartoonish tab drawer makes me wish I could disable tabbed browsing altogether.

So, while it works well enough, OmniWeb just doesn't work the way I want.  
(Version 5.7 beta 1)

RONALD PRICE  It has been ~6 years since I purchased my GraphicConverter licence but I seem to recall some mention of unlimited free updates until version 6. Sure enough, each new version has been a painless update until now. Considering how inexpensive it is, how well it works and how much I use it I don't mind one paid update after all this time.  
(Version 6.0)

RONALD PRICE  As a browser Navigator is pretty much just Firefox. So I just copied my Firefox profile over to the Navigator profile folder and it works just like Firefox - all my prefs, bookmarks and extensions just as I like them. Navigator did warn me CookieSafe is not compatible but it works fine. That is the biggest issue I have had. Netscape Navigator 9 is a simple drop-in replacement for Firefox as far as I can tell.

This is subjective but I like the new theme. It is very clean and minimalist but the buttons are clearly legible and their functions are obvious for the most part. For some of the new stuff like Linkpad not so much but only because I didn't know what a linkpad was. Now I know and the button is easily recognised.

I haven't monkeyed with the mail and chat-social networking stuff so I can't say how well they work. The News menu brings up the stories listed in the menu/sidebar but I have not tried adding/removing feeds.  
(Version 9.0b1)

RONALD PRICE  Everything works fine here.  
(Version 2007-004)

RONALD PRICE  MediaFork doesn't usually crash gracefully enough to cause a kernel panic here. On my 2 G4 Macs it usually just locks the system up completely. A few times it threw an olden tyme kernel panic. Only a couple of runs have yielded a new style, multi-lingual kernel panic.

I guess we know why it has beta release number. ;) Looks promising though, if the stability issues can be resolved.  
(Version 0.8.0b1)

RONALD PRICE  Checking the developer's website I see SpotMeta is GPL'd, so I guess we don't have to worry about the cost of the final release. It just gets better.  
(Version 100)

RONALD PRICE  Very cool. Now I can easily add ad hoc, arbitrary metadata to any file in a whimsical manner and use Spotlight to search for my deranged tags. This is how indexing and searching is supposed to work. Assuming the final price is reasonable I would pay for this tool.

But I won't be surprised if Apple "invents" this sort of functionality for Leopard.  
(Version 100)

RONALD PRICE  Works fine as far as I can tell. I don't see .sit or .sitx files very often but Stuffit Expander is free and opens almost everything else as well which makes it worthwhile to have around.  
(Version 11.0.2)

RONALD PRICE  I purchased VueScan over 4 years ago and it has worked fine with 2 scanners on both my Macs and my PC whether I'm running Windows or Linux. No problems, it just works. The licence at the time was a flat price for lifetime use and upgrades on 4 machines - an incredible bargain. Even with the current price scheme VueScan seems like a pretty good deal, considering what it can do.

To be honest I usually use the OEM (Canon) PS plugin/driver via GraphicConverter as this works quite well for 90% of what I do. But the last 10% is where VueScan really shines. The app gives far more control over the scanner, letting me pull crisp, clear scans from stuff the OEM driver sees as blank pages. Knitting patterns in 2 point grey ink on glossy, wrinkled yarn sleeves are the worst.

VueScan can be a little harder to use than the OEM driver but the extra features that make it harder to use are what make it do what the OEM driver can't.  
(Version 8.3.87)

RONALD PRICE  No problems, everything is as it was.  
(Version 2006-008)