BOSSKEV  I hate not tried this company's product. However, having looked at their website, I have two comments:

1) ALL of the voices they feature are sourced from Cepstral, presumably used by TexSpeech Pro via a license from Cepstral. I am very familiar with Cepstral voices as I own and use several of them. And anyone can buy those same voices direct from Cepstral. (BTW, the best ones are David, William, Callie and Diane. Or, for a British accent, go with Lawrence and Millie.) (I LOVE Millie!)

2) Mac OS X has excellent text-to-speech capabilities already built in, and it works seamlessly with the Cepstral voices. No other software required, just the Cepstral voices.

So...uh...why would I buy THIS product? I'm not saying I wouldn't or that you shouldn't, it just is not AT ALL clear to my what added value they bring to the table.  
(Version 3.5.2)

BOSSKEV  Sprint SmartView is a prime example of poorly-conceived and -engineered software that pays no heed to Macintosh standards. While more-or-less functional, it features a terribly designed and quite ugly interface. Given how little the software does (or needs to do), the application window is HUGE and NON-RESIZABLE, measuring approximately 568 pixels by 212 pixels, most of that empty, wasted space (that still manages to use only super-tiny text in its difficult to read buttons) in an ugly layout. It could have done its job in a window easily 1/8th that size. To compound the problem, space is devoted to several pop-up buttons that serve, at best, questionable functions far better served through traditional Web sites/browsers/bookmarks or, at worse, features that are not yet even implemented (as admitted by Sprint).

In addition to the application window, it also gives you the option to place an icon up in the Menu Bar. However, that icon is essentially useless. A proper Menu Bar icon would be available 24/7 and then actually give you constant status information, such as bars of signal strength, or let you do something with it, such as click on it to launch the app and/or connect/disconnect, The Sprint icon only appears after you've launched the application from elsewhere (disappearing when you quit the app) and then is essentially just a big yellow bump in your Menu Bar. Unlike similar network-related Menu Bar icons, the Sprint icon offers no signal strength info or other status information until you click on it--and then the signal strength is reported, not in consumer-friendly bars, but in text form as signal strength measured in dBm, such as "-77dBm", info that will be meaningless to many folks. And it does not even function as an app launcher or connect/disconnect button. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

I could go on and on with specifics of how frustrating this application is, but it's just too much effort to document its vast idiosyncracies when I doubt Sprint will ever read this or, if they did, even care. Still, I would be derelict in my duties if I did not at least say, Sprint, all I want your software to do is let me click a tiny Menu Bar button to launch and connect/disconnect and then display a constant and passive visual report of signal strength in bars, both of which could be done through the Menu Bar icon but aren't. For the application itself--which I'd rarely if ever want to actually see--hire a designer to fix your hideous layout, preferably one that is Mac-aware.  
(Version 2.27.0026)

BOSSKEV  Whoa! $239? Are they kidding? Best laugh I've had this week!  
(Version 1.0)

BOSSKEV  PopChar is an excellent utility. I have been using PopChar as a paid/registered user for many, many years and through many, many versions of the Mac OS. I consider PopChar a MUST-HAVE tool and, while I have to admit I'd like the license key to be just a tiny bit lower than the equivalent of $38 US--blame it on the US economy, not the developer's €29.99--it is nonetheless a product I feel is worth owning. I use it daily to call up those hundreds of oddball characters, such as ® ™ ¶ æ Ω ç and €. I don't have to try and remember any of the keyboard contortions to access these infrequently typed characters, I just pull up PopChar, see the character I want, tap on it and the character pops into my text for me. Hey, look at that...character pops...do I see a product name here? ;^)

FYI, I also wrote a reply to the previous reviewer who I believe misunderstands how the PopChar license key works. Bluntly stated, the previous guy is wrong, see my reply there. I don't want one unfortunately incorrect review to throw people off track and possibly hurt the longevity of a product I consider essential.  
(Version 4.1)

BOSSKEV  NO, you do NOT need to buy a new license every two years. A license gets you the ability to download and use any UPDATE or UPGRADES they may make to the product over those two years, but you are not prevented from continuing it in the version you "own" past two years, it is most definitely NOT an expiration date.

I've been using PopChar for many, many years as a registered user, paying the fee every 2-3 years. The last time I paid for a license key was in February of 2006 and, when that license key "ended" in February 2008--meaning I could no longer take advantage of any updates/changes to the product--I chose not to renew it, at least not yet. And here's what my PopChar registration box says right now:

"PopChar is registered with the license key above. This license key entitles you for free updates and upgrades until 02/2008." Until I DO update my license key--which will probably be with this release--I have continued to use PopChar freely and properly.

PopChar is, from my perspective, a MUST HAVE utility and, while it is a bit higher priced than I'd like to see--29.99 in Euro currency works out, as you say, to about 38 American dollars--it is a fee I am happy to pay when the updates merit a renewal of that license key.  
(Version 4.1)

BOSSKEV  A caution before updating: be aware that the 7.x software does NOT support several older but still commonly used Olympus recorders. From the 7.0.1 ReadMe file:

Note : DSS Player for MAC V7 does not support the following discontinued recorders DS-3000/2000/660/330/320/150/10, DM-1 and the RS-25 foot pedal. While direct recording is supported, Direct Recording in DSS LP mode and WMA fomat are not.

On a test machine, I tried installing the software anyway just to see what would happen, and the 7.x software DID NOT work with either my DS-2200 or DS-2000 recorders, nor did it work with the RS-25 pedal--just like the ReadMe indicated. Very sad as these devices just are not that old.  
(Version 7.0.1)

BOSSKEV  I don't believe anybody was exaggerating and there's really no need for you to try to disparage other people's comments in this thread. I can appreciate your point that you can use the internal check for updates feature to find the "official only" releases, but:

(a) As you yourself discovered that may or may not be 100% effective; and

(b) That ONLY works for people who ALREADY have a working 3.x installation, meaning people who want to do the trial download won't know what they are getting.

in any case, many people rely on MacUpdate and similar Mac sites to provide timely and accurate information about new releases; a smart publisher will make sure these servies are given good information. With Parallels, services such as MacUpdate don't seem to be given enough information as to know HOW to label the version--and this is definitely not a fault of nor limited to MacUpdate.

If you read the voluminous comments on this and similar sites, you will see there are many, many, many people very confused about these releases. It is NOT the job of the public to be clairvoyant in getting information about a particular release. It IS the job of the publisher to provide it in an easily accesible manner, i.e., beta vs. release candidate vs. final release, along with release notes.

Parallels would do well to take comments in threads like this to heart as the confusion about their product is widespread and damaging.  
(Version 3.0.5160)

BOSSKEV  It most definitely has NOT been clear which of the myriad releases have been betas vs. non-betas. I don't see this as the fault of MacUpdate or any of the other web sites that track releases of software updates--it seems NOBODY has been able to, definitively, make heads or tails of Parallels release statuses and version numbers.

I place the blame squarely on Parallels for the confusion due to their lack of user-friendly and complete versioning information. Heck, I'm running what is supposed to be version 2.5, yet when I launch Parallels and go to the "Get Info" window, all it reports is that it is "build 3214", NO version information. Umm...OK. What the heck does THAT mean? Even if you then click on "More Info", you don't get the version number.

So, while I believe Parallels is (or, at the very least, has been) a good product, the information that accompanies each release seems to be quite shabby.  
(Version 3.0.5160)

BOSSKEV  Yes, I got the same thing, but it wasn't a real crash at all. After clicking "yes, continue" or whatever the prompt was, because you are apparently making substantial changes to your setup, FontExplorer X brings up a system dialog box askng for your password to continue. Unfortunately, it brings up the system dialog box HIDDEN BEHIND the FontExplorer X window so it LOOKS like a crash has occurred. Just move or minimize the FEX window and see if there is a dialog box lurking there waiting for you to enter your password, and I'm betting things will be OK. That's what I found, anyway. A minor bug that looks like a major bug; still needs to be addressed.  
(Version 1.2.2)