ARGLBORPS  I used to play WORMs on my PC (yes I was a sinner) many years ago. This is the best clone of it.

It's cross platform and really nicely playable. Having a fullscreen mode would help, so that's why I don't give five stars, but only four.  
(Version 0.8.5)

ARGLBORPS  This is an incredible package. I've been using since the days the application was still called "Moho". Not only can you use bones to do 2D animation, it also let's you use 2D objects in 3D space, you can do blurring even of vector object, mix in bitmap object and use particle emitters to simlate smoke, swarms, snow etc.

It also comes with tools for lip synching. I have even used it for some motion graphics as a "poor man's After Effects".

For the money this is a really great package, it's very stable and you can render your animations to movies in batch process mode.

The only gripe I have with it that the UI and the way it functions is quite unusual, so you really have to take some time to get used to the programme.  
(Version 6.0)

ARGLBORPS  I never really liked iView Media Pro, now that Microsoft have acquired it (and they will make sure it'll whiter and die off as they did with every Mac applications they have acquired until now) I do have a reason to hate it.

Be prepared that it will die a slow death after it got so bug ridden that nobody will be able to fix it.  
(Version 2.0.2096)

ARGLBORPS  Combustion is dead. Better get Shake and be done with it. And Shake costs half of Combustion. Isn't it ironic Shake used to be the ultra expensive monster suite?  
(Version 2008)

ARGLBORPS  Hallon is the Swedish word for Raspberry, so if you want to change the icon you'd have to change the name.  
(Version 1.0.4)

ARGLBORPS  I just bought this gem and I think it's worth every penny.

Not only does it store the passwords in Apple's keychain, so they can be synched between machines, but also is the intregration into EVERY thinkable browser extremely well done. Even in OmniWeb (!) it doesn integrate in a very natural way (and it even supports NetNewsWire and others).

Oh, just shut up and buy the thing, will ya?!  
(Version 2.7.2)

ARGLBORPS  I don't know what "high-end" sites you're surfing to, but I've only seen a neglectable number of sites that really have issues with OmniWeb.

Quite a number of the websites that say they'll only work with Explorer (do they still exist? This is soo 90ies), work fine once you tell OmniWeb to identify as IE on Windows.  
(Version 5.7)

ARGLBORPS  Yes, water is also considered to be free, but selling water is a huge market (and makes even more money than selling browsers whaddayaknow).

And with the non-free browser I get extra bells and whistles you don't have.

Do you get anything extra with your evian except for the bottle?  
(Version 5.7)

ARGLBORPS  The "bug" as you state it isn't one, because the preference clearly says: Default font.

Standard font this is a setting to default back to if there's nothing else set. So the default font is only used as long as there's no other font set in the CSS of the website you're looking at. This is absolutely correct behaviour, unfortunately there is no way to override the font settings in the CSS, so it's an omission, but surely not a bug.

About remembering window positions:

Select Workspace > Show Workspaces then check the checkbox that says "Autosave while browsing" (bottom of the utility window) for your current Workspace.

Next time you quit OW and open it again it will reopen with all the windows open last time, exactly in the positions you had them.  
(Version 5.7)

ARGLBORPS  Unbeatable value for the price. For some things it even beats AfterEffects.  
(Version 5.4)

ARGLBORPS  Window > Save Window size

Default window size remembered.

Also you get all the font control and more than Safari:

You can set font sizes (zoom levels) per page and it remembers those.

In Preferences > Page Appearance you can set your own colours, your own fonts, your own stylesheet and set whether you want to override the web sites settings. Again you can change that setting on a per website basis. So what are you missing?  
(Version 5.7 beta 2)

ARGLBORPS  Greatest present ever! My 1st gen 1GB iPod shuffle was believed to be dead for over 3 years, this little utility has brought it back to life!

It's as if I just got an iPod for free. Thanks, thanks, thanks!  
(Version 1.0.3)

ARGLBORPS  Cool Programme, but why is there no support for DNG, the most obvious format to convert your RAW files into. The spec is open.  
(Version 3.7.1)

ARGLBORPS  Same here. I've had quite a bunch of disks failing, none of them ever reported a bad SMART status.

SMART itself appears to be quite useless.  
(Version 2.3.5)

ARGLBORPS  I haven't bought the upgrade to v6 yet. It just doesn't offer anything that rectyfies paying for that again.

Now what I think GC really needs is a UI geek who can overhaul the user interface of GC to something that is less abhorrent.

Functionality is pretty good so it's been my trusty workhorse for converting images, but I think now that we have core image, core video etc. Implementing those technologies and giving it a really well don UI would make this application the killer app.

Until then I'll stick with version 5...  
(Version 6.0.3)

ARGLBORPS  Pixel totally stomps Pixelmator in functionality although the Window-esque everything in one window approach is braindead. Pixel, too, is a Photoshop clone. I always feel like it must be a matter of weeks for the author of Pixel to get sued by Adobe for such a blatant copy.

LiveQuartz is a bit more cumbersome to use but free (!),

ChocoFlop gives Pixelmator a run for its money (it's currently free).

I think even Acorn from flyingmeat is comparable in functionality, Acorn's filter handling is miles ahead of Pixelmator's.

Of course we must not forget GIMP.app, or GIMPshop, very powerful very free, but also very bad GUI and very X11...  
(Version 1.1)

ARGLBORPS  Wow with version 1.1 we have 100 effects, but the type tool is still braindead and I can't apply the effects to type layers, only bitmap layers. Lame.

I can't even apply those effects non-destructively. Several free tools can.

This applications also fails pretty hard in very basic usability and lack of proper keyboard shortcuts. I still hope with version 1.5 or 2.0 I might buy it but for now it's totally overhyped and there are better image editors for the same or less money out there.  
(Version 1.1)

ARGLBORPS  Since I only have an older PPC model on which the application just crashes, I couldn't test it properly for a long while.

I now tested it on an intel Mac and while I think this app is very promising and will probably be sued to oblivion by Adobe, because it is almost a 1:1 copy of Photoshop, I have my problems with it being so completely alien to OS X that I can't use it in its current state.

I might as well us GIMPshop, because that's a free graphics editor that also feels somewhat like Photoshop but doesn't feel like an OS X app either.

If you want to win over the Mac crowd make this an app that looks and feels like a good OS X citizen otherwise you won't have much luck on this platform.  
(Version 1.0b7B699)

ARGLBORPS  Don't get me wrong, I think this is a nice app and it looks pretty well done, but how come nobody is looking at the market anymore?

How many more of those apps do we need? Really. There's nothing new that this application brings to the market, it's just another one of the already 3456 superfluous information collection thingy apps.

If they'd only did synching via .Mac they'd still have a change to compete, but alas they prefer to be completely left dead in the water by Yojimbo and SOHOnotes.

My tip if you don't to synching don't write yet another note taker/information collector app. There are enough, really. Unless you can beat Journler by a mile (that one's free) you'll have a hard time selling.  
(Version 1.0.2)

ARGLBORPS  Does little, but that without a hitch. I paid for this little gem and it's worth every yen.  
(Version 1.2.5)

ARGLBORPS  Very promising 1.0 version. However the one showstopper ist that this application is slow like molasses. I'm on a 1.66 GHz Core Duo Mini with 1 GB of RAM, and I don't think it is such a low-spec machine, but esecially the type tool any many other funtions are unusably slow.

There's no effect for creating drop-shadows. C'mon. I can add them to type using the font palette, but what about shapes etc.

Another thing I dearly miss are layer effects like in Photoshop. Looking at the UI Pixelmator is clearly a Photoshop clone, you don't get any closer than this. Which is fine, but then I'd also expect some of the essential tools. Also I'd need something like shape/vector elements for creating original designs.

Hopefully with version 1.1...

I won't buy this yet, because right now it's unfortunately unusable for me, but if it gets the above mentioned features, I'll get myself a copy.  
(Version 1.0)

ARGLBORPS  Graphic Converter has been a very trustable workhorse and for the money it does a great job. From a functionality standpoint it is great value for the money, but what GC now is in dire need is a complete overhaul of the user interface.

GC has been a usability abortion for most of its lifetime, but with Cocoa and interface builder you've got the tools to make a great UI easily.

I won't upgrade to 6, because I just don't see the point in supporting GC anymore unless the developer will bring the app to a minium level of Mac OS X usability. But then again there's little hope, because even the redesigned website is pretty much an abortion from a usability standpoint. Maybe he needs a partner who knows something about GUI design...  
(Version 6.0.1)

ARGLBORPS  I don't get what this brings to the table adding any eas of use or speed.

Now I lets just forget that I use LaunchBar excessively and I can do all of the above functions with a keystroke or two, but how is launching an app and selecting stuff in a dialogue any quicker for importing stuff into iTunes, than simply dragging and dropping the audio file onto iTunes?

Same with iPhoto: drag & drop is your friend.

DVD playback? Pop in a DVD and that's it you're done. By default the DVD player will automatically play back any DVD you put in your Mac.  
(Version 1.3)

ARGLBORPS  Since the last QuickTime update you can play video in full-screen without a QT pro license.  
(Version 2.4)

ARGLBORPS  Yes! It took a while and LaunchBar is back with a vengeance. This app is worth every single penny and I cannot live without it. Any Mac I have to use without LaunchBar feels broken and crippled.

And no, Quicksilver doesn't even come close in usability (it might have a few more features, though).  
(Version 4.3)

ARGLBORPS  I've heard a lot of bad things about SOSO Notes which were based mainly on a very buggy version 5.x and a very user unfriendly upgrade policy.

I'm trying the 30 days demo and I can only say I'm very impressed with the feature set. The only downside is that .Mac syncing can sometimes consume considerable CPU. Stabilitywise I didn't see any problems and performancewise it's OK. Honestly spotlight searching is faster than the DB approach taken with this app, but the features and UI are in the details far superior to the competition. (I'll be giving up Yojimbo for this baby, and I purchased Notae in the past as well, Journler was a close 2nd, but no .Mac synching didn't make it fly)  
(Version 6.2)

ARGLBORPS  Now if you could put your project onto sourceforge.net or any other place where downloading it doesn't suck a banana we'd be most in your debt.

But anyway great app! Way to go!  
(Version 0.8.5b1)

ARGLBORPS  I believed this little gem was dead ever since OS X. Nice to see that it finally saw the light!  
(Version 0.1)

ARGLBORPS  Awesome, Awesome, Awesome. Even for producing professional Comics this is the be all and end all for Comic creation.  
(Version 1.3)

ARGLBORPS  Great App. Being an ex Video-professional, I can say that this application can create visuals that rival some of the most expensive Video editing and retouching suites.

However the user interface is a complete mess. I'm sure this application would be much more useful if Stone Software would hire an GUI person who knows what he's doing.

Upgrades for life and the functionality of all of Stones Apps is outstanding. The Software from this Software house is really worth every penny, but all of their apps have a rather inconsistent and not very logical user interfaces.  
(Version 2.3)

ARGLBORPS  Looks promising if it would only stay running for more than one minutes. For now on 10.4.8 it's a crashing hog. And I don't have any haxies installed.  
(Version 1.8.1)

ARGLBORPS  I got the new number from there it won't accept that number either. Meh.  
(Version CS3b)

ARGLBORPS  You forgot to recompile this one as a Universal app it is still PPC code:

~/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlHelperApp.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/GrowlImporter.mdimporter

Thanks for this great utitility and I hope ALL of Growl will be Universal with the next update :-)  
(Version 0.7.4)

ARGLBORPS  I have been waiting for this. And it doesn't mess up .zip archives with Japanese filenames I often get from Windows users.

AWESOME!  
(Version 1.1)

ARGLBORPS  Wow, crashing left and right on 10.4.7 on a Mini with Core Intel Duo.

Change settings >> crash

Change transparent background appearance >> crash

Change Button bar >> crash

Breathe >> crash

Hmmm... I'd not even call this a beta.  
(Version 3.0)

ARGLBORPS  Wow finally an OmniWeb beta that's quite stable! In the 5.1 beta phase the betas were crashing so often, that I gave up and waited for the final.

OW 5.5b2 is now my default browser. It's faster than Safari, and gives me all the fine grained control over how I want to have websites displayed, without giving me any clutter.

The only downside, the source view won't allow me to use a font that can display Japanese even if its monospace. Maybe just a beta bug, but I'd like to see that fixed.

This is finally the speedy and powerful version of OmniWeb I've been waiting for. And since I've paid for OW 5 already, I feel like my belief in Omni has been rewarded nicely.  
(Version 5.5b2)

ARGLBORPS  If you are ready to shell out money for this functionality, you might as well, want to take a look at OmniDazzle. It does the same and much much more, yes it costs more, but such is life.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ARGLBORPS  I wasn't really happy with the previous version, but with the new features I happily paid for the upgrade and I am a happy camper ever since.

Buy this app, you won't regret it.  
(Version 3.0)

ARGLBORPS  As someone stated there are still some apps that AppZapper can't successfully zap yet. But I want to put the emphasis on not YET.

This app has been getting updates almost every week. If you buy it you get free updates for life and at the current updating pace they'll have covered most, even quite exotic apps (meaning installing their files in exotic places ;-) within a few months.

Big thumbs up, this is a very helpful app and it really encourages to try out more software and therefore actually buying more software.  
(Version 1.3.1)

ARGLBORPS  I think it's great when people write some software and decide to offer that software to others for free, but I wonder, why not use SharingMenu, rather than reinventing the wheel?

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11985

With this one you can switch file sharing on and off and other nice things.  
(Version 1.0)

ARGLBORPS  I started using LaunchBar when it was still at version 3. something. LaunchBar was definitely one of the first if not the first of the launchers where you'd type parts of names of applications to launch them.

LaunchBar is very good in guessing your ad hoc abbreviations and coming up with the right file or data.

The other great thing is that it scans your disk automatically for relevant data, so you don't really have to create any "aliases" and such tedious stuff to get all the apps in you want to launch. Furthermore more recent version also can scan your bookmarks, address book, browser history, you name it so more or less everything is acessible in a no time via LaunchBar. And you can even do "drop" Finder selections onto LaunchBar via keyboard shortcuts and then do all kinds of things like opening the selected file in another app, renaming it, deleting it, and so forth.

LaunchBars shortcuts and user interface is very well thought out and because of that I can do things much quicker in LaunchBar than with QS or Butler. Especially in Butler I find the configurations screens so badly organized that I always take ages to setup certain things. In LaunchBar it all makes sense without a manual even.

If I had to go on an island with my Mac, iLife, iWork and one utility only. I would choose LaunchBar, it has become indispensable for me and even the idea of having to go back to point and click app launching feels so backwards I might as well go back to OS 9 (doh!)  
(Version 4.1b3)

ARGLBORPS  Funny little app. The phenomenon actually tends to fail, when you group the vowels and the consonants together and don't intermix, and it mostly fails with languages that tend to have longer words than English (e.g. German), but I digress....  
(Version 2.0)

ARGLBORPS  Actually if you're running 10.4 you don't need any VNC server, just start the Remote Access Sharing, it functions as a full-blown VNC server.  
(Version 1.7)

ARGLBORPS  Wow. What a surprise, a free font tool, full Cocoa glory and no cheesy port from elswhere or Carbon uglyness. And even more, they adapt some of the cool ideas from iTunes (integration with Online Store and simple browseability) and make a utility that might as well be called the iType or iFont for OS X. The guys at Linotype finally got the OS X drift completely.

I have been shelling out bucks for font managers that sucked really badly, so this time I get this app for free from Linotype, and it doesn its job just wonderfully. I might as well get a bunch of new fonts for the money saved. This is how you make business.  
(Version 1.0fc4)