CRUCIAL  You have to recompresss the extracted .TS folder with something like DVDRemaster http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12826/dvdremaster-pro  
(Version 2.6.6)

CRUCIAL  I tried 1.3.1 and found it offered many useful features. I didn't buy it because it was buggy.

Emailed the developer and never heard back.

1.3.2 is now out, and I can not test it to see if it works as the developer gives you a one time 15 day trial period. I wont buy buggy software, and I wont buy software I can't test.

I would suggest the developer re-thinks his 15 day trial period, or makes it version dependent.   
(Version 1.3.2)

CRUCIAL  Just tried this on 10.5.

The preference pane says it is loading, but nothing happens. Thankfully the uninstall script works.  
(Version 0.7)

CRUCIAL  Genius

Like the other reviewer I have tried several GTD apps before, and all seemed overly complex, and incredibly rigid for my needs. Your needs are probably very different than mine, and a task management program / methodology is a very personal thing. There are no right and wrong ways, only ways that work and don't work for that particular user in their particular context.

What sets TaskPaper apart from all the other GTD / ToDo / task management programs is that it does not impose a strict structure on you. By liberating you from someone else's strict structure you are also liberated from having to tab from field to field and feeling like you are doing data entry. Entering information is just like writing notes.

TaskPaper is is based on an incredibly easy to learn syntax that you type like punctuation. Projects are denoted with a : at the end. Tasks have a - at the beginning. Contexts or tags use a @. Thats it. Nothing more to learn. TaskPaper then takes care of all the formating, allows you to search in multiple ways, presents projects in different tabbed views that behave in much the same way as Safari tabs. Click a project and you view only that project in the current tab. Command click and your project opens in a new tab. A couple of pull down acts like bookmarks letting you go directly to a project, or tag view.

Unlike any other so called productivity app, TaskPaper lets you change fonts, font size, font color and background colors. You can personalize it to look right for you. No more forms, with distracting fields all over the place, or columns that are too wide or narrow. It looks like a well formatted intelligent list, because thats what it is.

The back end of TaskPaper is a plain text file. You can move that file to any device, email it in the body of your email, view it in a web browser and even edit it on a PC. Because the syntax of TaskPaper is so transparent you can even create your tasks on a PC then view them on a Mac.

Price:

If this sold for $1.00 someone would still be complaining it was too expensive. I guess those people just don't value their time, or feel like anybody should be able to make a living from their programming skills. If I consider how much time TaskPaper has saved me, it pays for itself in hours.  
(Version 1.0)

CRUCIAL  Looks like a no brainer. I was just about to buy SuperDuper, but this does more for the same price.  
(Version 6.1.1)

CRUCIAL  A great app.

Behaves as you would expect it to, its stable, easy to use, has a totally consistent interface. To be recommended, especially at the price of $18 and often on 'special' for less.

The search, or filter is incredible allowing you to see in an instant what you have spent in any time period, or on any type of transaction.

A few issues though.

1. The icons have to be some of the ugliest I have ever seen on a mac app.

2. Updates are very slow. 2.0 has been promised as any day now for over 9 months.

3. The simplicity of the app creates problems as it is lacking some refinement. This would be ok in a 1.0, but not a 1.8 that has been out for 3 plus years and is still not at 2.0.

4. Types have to be set in each accounts preferences individually, and have to be added twice for deposit and withdrawal. They also can not be copied from account to account. Splits are very primitive, to the point that they are basically useless.

5. Transactions are color coded, but with only three colors it is impossible to see if a transfer is a deposit or withdrawal.

6. Missing the ability to turn columns on and off. All your accounts including loans and credit cards have a check column even though these account types do not normally have checks.

7. Not enough keyboard equivalents means that you are constantly moving from mouse to keyboard while reconciling.  
(Version 1.8)

CRUCIAL  SecretBook is just one of those Mac apps that makes you glad you are using a Mac. Everything works the way you think it should, it looks great, and the developer responds quickly to questions.

I had issues with formating my data so I could move close to 200 passwords out of the unsupported Wallet and into this gem. Of course if I had spent more time looking at the excellent help file would have found my answer there.  
(Version 3.1.1)

CRUCIAL  This looks like just the app I need, something to delete all those .trashes and .ds files on my USB thumb drive so that when I mount the drive in windows, half the files are not junk. It says that it will scan a folder or volume, delete all those pesky files and then eject the drive.

When I launch the app and select my drive it gives me the option to select just a folder (the folder had 5 items, but FC reported deleting 40 .ds files), but it then looks like it deletes all the .ds and trashes file on the drive. When I click on eject nothing happens. The drive remains on my desktop. If I pull it out the system gives me an annoying warning not to do that, and when I mount the drive on my windows machine I see FinderCleaner has done absolutely nothing.  
(Version 1.9)

CRUCIAL  If you want to take a simple operation with a simple and easy to remember keyboard shortcut (Command-E (Eject)) and turn it into a time consuming operation with many mouse movements and clicks, and, adds yet another icon to your menu bar then this is your type of app.

My advice - learn the keyboard shortcuts that are built into the OS before installing software that duplicates existing functionality.  
(Version 0.8.1)

CRUCIAL  Notae is a minor stroke of brilliance. It is not a notebook app that tries to be all things to all people, nor is it an outliner or glorified to do list. The easiest way to think of it is TextEdit on steroids (doctor prescribed) without any of the harmful side effects that steroids often have. It's not bloated, doesn't have mood disorders (its totally stable) or have an interface that gets in the way of doing things. Because it is based on CoreData, searches are instantaneous across all of your notes. Tags let you add as many category markers to a note as you want, and then sort on these with the tag palette. Being able to lock a note stops you from accidentally deleting or changing things. One of my favorite features is auto naming of notes (your first line becomes the note name).

For a 1.0 product it is remarkably mature and nearly all of its features work exactly as you would expect them to. The exception to this is using the search bar to search for a tag, but since you can do the same thing with the tag palette that is not a big deal. The developer is responsive, and gets bug fixes out fairly rapidly, he is also aware of features that need to be implemented like viewing only the columns you want like the Finder, Mail and iTunes allow. At $15 Notae is worth every penny.  
(Version 1.0.4)

CRUCIAL  Buggy, buggy, buggy. This thing crashes on me every few minutes. Miss a button by a few pixels BLAM its gone (as has your work). Change a group icon BLAM the damn thing crashes - and you lose everything AGAIN. This after not being able to install the thing because I had an old version on my drive and had to delete all the old preferences and associated files before 2.5 would even launch.

To release this as a final build and charge for it is criminal, to call it a beta would be stretching it. Alpha would be closer to reality. STAY AWAY until 2.5.1 or 2.5.2.

Look closely at their site and you see Waterfall Software is a bunch of teenagers. Thats probably why support takes several days, and registration numbers are often not mailed out. Where do I get a refund ?  
(Version 2.5.1)

CRUCIAL  For the developer to release this as a 1.0.1 app is giving themselves to much credit for creating a real app.

The developers claim this as an aid for grandma, so you would think that the app would be both supper simple AND well though out. It is not.

This is the first app I have ever seen that did not have a Save item in the file menu. Close your working window, and you lose everything. No dialogs or warnings. Closing that window also quits the app, which is good, because it means you can drag it straight to the trash where it belongs at this point in its development.

I would rather use TextEdit to auto generate my HTML by using the Save As HTML functionality that is built in, then copy and paste that into my blog. The HTML is clean, and it has this incredible ability to behave as you would expect a Mac app to behave.   
(Version 1.0.1)

CRUCIAL  Absolute genius.

Tofu does not get nearly the attention it deserves. Tofu makes reading long documents on screen totally painless, and in some ways is better than reading a paper based document as you can see both the page before and after so you can easily scan for things and adjust column width for reading comfort.

If it has bugs, like sometimes spotty connection to services they are of so little consequence, compared to the simplicity and elegance of this app. My biggest gripe is that this is not built into the OS so that I can chose to read web pages without having to switch to it, or compose notes in TextEdit using the same concept.

I just wish there was more software out there that re-though problems and came up with such elegantly simple solutions. Solutions that remove barriers and have interfaces so simple that they need no toolbars, or other extraneous icons. Interfaces that just get out of the way. A lot can be learned from the elegance of this application, when it comes to software, less is often more.  
(Version 2.0a2)

CRUCIAL  Just like everyone else says, its powerful, fast and way better than spotlight which never gives you enough information with it's pretty but useless interface.

Moru suffers from one big problem (unless I am missing something) it is an application that you launch and sits in the dock. Its functionality goes beyond spotlight, but it is not integrated into the OS as a spotlight replacement so every-time you want to do a search you have to launch the darn thing (a total pain in evaluation mode as it sits there with a nag screen for several seconds) before you can search. There is no system wide hot key, aand there is nothing in the preferences that will put it in the login items (not hard to do manually, but it should be a preference). And then there are the saved smart searches (like smart folders). I don't want every search I do to be saved and listed like a folder in mail, I just want to search.

I have found a better (for me) alternative in the form of Command-F Find. It allows you to search with several criteria, it shows file paths, is as fast (or not) as spotlight and its built into the OS.  
(Version 1.3)

CRUCIAL  Love it and hate it

Love that it is so simple, just a bare bones outliner with no frills, no extraneous features, no cluttered interface. Just the sort of application I like (I use TextEdit instead of Word or any other gargantuan overblown word processor for day to day notes etc.)

Hate:

Undo deletes the line above the line you are typing so you have to retype two lines.

Occasionally it gets stuck. It wont let you type anything or move items, but it has not crashed. The cure is to quit and restart.

I find all the keyboard short cuts for siblings and children above and below the current line very confusing. Children are sibling's.

sibling

each of two or more children or offspring having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.

child

a son or daughter of any age

I find that parents and children get created in all the wrong places (incest) making the app very unpredictable which makes me lose all confidence in the thing.

Printing. It will print, but you have no control over margins.

I initially found this app as it was created by the same developer who developed Tofu - an absolutely revolutionary text reader. Possibly one of the cleverest pieces of interface design I have seen in years. Its a pity his other apps are not as well crafted.   
(Version 1.3)

CRUCIAL  What more / or less could I ask for.

This thing does what it says it does. It wakes a remote computer connected to a LAN so you can print to it, share files or anything else you want. It requires no software to be installed on the computer to be woken up, or other arduous setup, and waking the remote computer really is as simple as selecting it on a small dashboard widget.

The simplicity of WakeOnLan is refreshing, it might have lots of bells and whistles, but if you don't need them, you don't see them or have to deal with them. A truly polished piece of software, and, unbelievably it is free.

My only gripe is that the widget either needs to be larger, or resizable so that you can see more information, something that can easily be hacked by modifying the widget image file in PhotoShop.  
(Version 0.70)