FOOFOORABBIT  I was curious to see whether your claim was true so I downloaded Expander. I see things have changed. Stuffit Expander used to install engines in /Library but I see this is not the case anymore. Good.

But that doesn't excuse the fact that the installer is asking for an admin password on an admin account to install in /Applications.  
(Version 14.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  JOHN SAWYER CJS - Except that in this case it's unnecessary for Stuffit Expander. It asks for the admin password because Smith Micro insists on installing stuff in ~/Library. It's totally unnecessary. Other apps such as The Unarchiver handle all the decompression engines without having to install them anywhere.  
(Version 2010 14.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  The beauty of this apps comes from the organization it provides as well as the annotation, crop, highlight and blur tools. If you don't require these features, then this app is probably not for you.

It's akin to saying that you don't understand what the big deal is about Numbers and Excel considering you can do everything you want to do with Calculator.app and...it's free.  
(Version 1.5)

FOOFOORABBIT  As of the 10th, Boxer now uses DOSBox 0.73.  
(Version 2.5)

FOOFOORABBIT  Haha...the developer upped the price to 30. I'm sad for the poor suckers that buy this app.  
(Version 1.55)

FOOFOORABBIT  How many varations of this effin' game can possibly exist? Is there really enough dumb people around to buy the same gameplay under a different theme?  
(Version 1.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  Not only is it a ripoff but Leopard supports 512x512 icons and this app advertises 256x256 icons.  
(Version 1.50)

FOOFOORABBIT  sitx is a proprietary format but StuffIt is not the only app that can open it. The Unarchiver 2.0 (alpha) can open sitx through reverse-engineering of at least some of the sitx compression algorithms.

If some of you want to play around with an even more powerful (but perhaps buggy) The Unarchiver, head over to the Google Code page for The Unarchiver link on the dev's webpage: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html  
(Version 1.6.1)

FOOFOORABBIT  No other DOSBox front-end holds a candle to Boxer. Boxer is bar none the best. And while the efforts from other developers are valiant, at the end of the day, Boxer still has the right idea -- making the Finder the actual front-end.

I don't want to rain on the Dapplegrey developer's parade (afterall, I'm sure some people like the Dapplegrey launcher), but there's something a lot more sexy about letting users create their own game bundles complete with icon and documentation, launched from the Finder.  
(Version 2.3.1)

FOOFOORABBIT  It's only as slow as your DVD drive.  
(Version 1.0.4)

FOOFOORABBIT  I used to despise GTD apps. The idea of spending (wasting) time to organize and micromanage things that I have to do within an app was a total turn-off for me. Especially so when the GTD were excessively complicated. To add insult to injury, most GTD apps that I've tried (OmniFocus, Things) had hefty price tags.

Because of this, I've stopped looking for GTD apps since I just couldn't imagine ever paying 50+ bucks to waste time *thinking* about what to do.

Things changed with MacHeist 3 though. When The Hit List got unlocked, I decided to try it out. I hadn't heard of The Hit List until now. Boy, oh, boy does The Hit List not disappoint.

I went from hating GTD apps to loving them...well, loving The Hit List at least. Simple, straightforward, elegant. I managed to learn the shortcuts very rapidly. The 3rd person shooter style "awsd" movement keys are intuitive (at least to a gamer).

This no nonsense GTD app is a must. Of course, with MacHeist 3, this app was essentially free for me. I probably would never have shelled out more than 25 dollars for a GTD app anyway...

...however, The Hit List has won me over. If Potion Factory ever releases a version 2.0, I would not hesitate to pay for this app. Although to be honest, I'm not sure I'd use any new feature since I find The Hit List perfect in its simplicity.

Stable and Mac-like. This app really is perfect.  
(Version 0.9.3.4b)

FOOFOORABBIT  The point of Earth hour is to SHUT DOWN your electronics -- not simply stop using them. You want to cut down on wasting electricity.

This app doesn't do much. It stops you from using your computer, which could be considered a first step to meditate on nature and all sorts of wonderful stuff, but your computer is still on gobbling energy.  
(Version 1.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  Is there a mission where you can spy on the Brits?   
(Version 1.2)

FOOFOORABBIT  THIRTY DOLLARS!?   
(Version 1.0b1)

FOOFOORABBIT  7 bucks to see the first frame of AVCHD clips? Get bent, ShedWorx.  
(Version 1.2)

FOOFOORABBIT  ScummVM is the most amazing open source project out there. While I don't agree with the ScummVM team's GUI design decisions (they refuse to make the app more Mac-like to keep it fully portable and consistant across all platforms), I'm amazed at hard work they've put into making all the LucasArts, HE, and many other adventure games from the late 80s and early 90s work on any platform.

Sarien was merged a while ago to add all the Sierra AGI games...and recently (in 0.14 subversion builds), FreeSCI's SCI engine was merged to add many of the Sierra SCI games. Booya!  
(Version 0.13)

FOOFOORABBIT  The F in Flash is for Fail. F--  
(Version 10.0.22.87)

FOOFOORABBIT  Yes, obviously...but what's with the user interface? I've never seen a developer go through the extraordinary lengths to create a Linux/Windows like custom window to have the window widgets on the right.

Like you said, this is a hex editor...there are already tons of excellent hex editors on Mac OS X (HexFiend comes to mind)...why did the developer feel like creating such an atrocious port when there are already many quality ones on OS X.  
(Version 0.07a)

FOOFOORABBIT  Awesome user interface.  
(Version 0.07a)

FOOFOORABBIT  There's a lot of disinfo agents on the internet.

Yes, it's true. Some people actually get paid to post fake reviews (glowing reviews for their own product and reviews that tarnish the competition.) That said, it's not too hard to tell the fake ones from the real ones.

If you take two recent examples: 69NUMBER69 and SURFSPIRIT ...if you click on their names you can see that 69NUMBER69 has actually filled out some personal info and both 69NUMBER69 and SURFSPIRIT have reviewed many other software products.

Fake reviews are usually from people with only a few reviews under their belts and likely post zero personal info on their profile page.

From another point of view, Transmission is open source. Anyone is free to take a look at how it works. Nothing's secret with Transmission so there's little reason to lie about anything because anyone that could read the source code could eventually know if something is fishy in the reviews.

A lot of people have acknowledged that earlier versions of Transmission had a bottleneck in the way it found peers...it certainly seems to be solved in 1.50.

There's nothing to hide...Transmission is a very elegant BT client. Face it, this client got lots of reviews and not all of them can be from disinfo agents. People like this software.  
(Version 1.50)

FOOFOORABBIT  How is Stuffit Expander still a 'weekly popular'?. Nobody archives with Stuffit any more. So who are the people downloading it to expand this archaic compression format? Please, I really want to know who is downloading this and why...

OS X handles zip files natively...who are the people that are dumb enough to still have proprietary .sit or .sitx archives on their HDs?  
(Version 13.0.3)

FOOFOORABBIT  Remember: "All posts are logged. Note: Developers, please don't unethically post star rating reviews to your own products or you will be added to a public Developer Blacklist."  
(Version 2.2)

FOOFOORABBIT  Instead of combining all the billiard games into one package, baKno insists on robbing its customers another 10 dollars. The poor quality of baKno games leads me to believe that the developer behind the games has little experience in producing quality software and is simply trying to capitalize on his current engine and trying to create as many permutations as possible to get yet another 10 bucks from his customers.  
(Version 1.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  There seems to be a crowd of people that resign themselves to the idea that free software should get a different treatment than commercial software. It seems like "free" automatically means that people are disallowed to post an opinion about the free software because "hey, it's free."

Should everyone be giving Picasa 5 stars because it's free? Are people not allowed to complain about it because it's free?

Just because something is free doesn't mean some people should crap on other people's opinions about background software update daemons, unconventional UIs, lack of color management, non-existent integration to other apps, etc.

If we're going to get into technicalities here, Picasa is *not* free. It's paid by the various ads when using Google's search engine. Sure, you never have to pay actual money to Google, but you're paying them by accepting ads on your search results page.

If we don't want to get into technicalities, then we can continue to say Picasa is free...and so is iPhoto if you buy the Mac Box Set from Apple: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB997?mco=MzA3MDgxNQ ... just pretend like you're paying for Leopard and getting iWork at 1/3 of its normal price and iLife for free. *BOOM* free iPhoto. It's easy to bend the truth about what is otherwise not free into something that could be considered free.  
(Version 3.0.1.321)

FOOFOORABBIT  Good to know it's a fairly native app (with an unfortunately non-native UI).  
(Version 3.0.1.321)

FOOFOORABBIT  Yeah but then you lose all the integration that makes iPhoto a wonder to use.

Peering into the Picassa app package, there's a .exe. So my guess is that it's the Windows app being wrapped in a Mac window ala Cider for games...or WINE. This pretty much means we'll never see Picassa integrate with any other application on the Mac. Shame.  
(Version 3.0.1.321)

FOOFOORABBIT  Fast, stable, works like the Windows version (all features seem to be in place in the Mac version). The user interface could use some work though, it doesn't seem very OS X-ish. It does a few things better than iPhoto but also lacks other features iPhoto has (printing albums, cards, calendars), organization by events, and the integration with other applications that the iLife suite provides.

Picassa is good if you just want to organize and view your pictures but falls flat if you want to actually use them in an integrated way.  
(Version 3.0.0.310)

FOOFOORABBIT  Come on...whoever is down voting my review is being disingenuous or working for Google.  
(Version 3.0.0.310)

FOOFOORABBIT  Intel-only...un-Mac-like...

For a company that is swimming in cash and developers...no, just no.  
(Version 3.0.0.310)

FOOFOORABBIT  Seems like a decent image editor. However, it doesn't handle nearly the same amount of image formats as Pixelmator, doesn't have nearly the same amount of features as Pixelmator, applying CoreGraphics filters is an unintuitive copy of Photoshop's way of applying effects.

Yet Gus is charging almost the same amount for this image editor as the Pixelmator team is charging for Pixelmator.  
(Version 1.5)

FOOFOORABBIT  "Without valid, constructive criticism, Pixelmator will never be truly great, it will only be mediocre. I'm happy to say that the developers on the other hand, seems to work hard at fixing these issues."

What do you consider 'constructive criticism'? Do you consider comments like "Pixelmator is a joke" constructive criticism?

If you wanted to be serious and helpful, you'd go onto the Pixelmator website and talk about the problems you're experiencing in the forum instead of saying things like "Pixelmator is a joke" and then camouflaging your hatred by saying you're engaging in 'constructive criticism'.  
(Version 1.3.2)

FOOFOORABBIT  So, umm, you want people to stop using the best torrent client and start using the second best one?  
(Version 1.41b2)

FOOFOORABBIT  What are you talking about?  
(Version 0.3.2)

FOOFOORABBIT  This can't be popular...it's just the default Unity 3D stuff rehashed into a crappy shooter.  
(Version 5G)

FOOFOORABBIT  TWENTY DOLLARS for THIS!? Bye.  
(Version 1.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  Pixelmator has come a long way since 1.0. People that expect a perfect Photoshop clone will undoubtedly be disappointed but if one looks at Pixelmator's progress in a year's time, you can be sure that the Pixelmator team will have a product that meets or beats Photoshop's feature set in every way in a few years.

Photoshop has 20 years of development by a team that is probably 20 times larger that Pixelmator's team. Yet, in its first year of existance, Pixelmator does everything Photoshop 3 was capable of doing at the time, except it does it better and it also does things that Photoshop CS4 can't even do today.  
(Version 1.3)

FOOFOORABBIT  My computer doesn't even have wireless and I'm scoring 86!!! WOW!  
(Version 1.2)

FOOFOORABBIT  TesticlesUp Light!? Sign me up!  
(Version 1.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  I always feel like gouging out my eyes when I see a screenshot of Path Finder.  
(Version 5.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  hmm...make that "it *didn't* take me long"  
(Version 1.1.4)

FOOFOORABBIT  Very fun game. However, it take long for me to understand the system and exploit its weaknesses.

In most cases/games you can make the orcs run a zig of arrow towers on one half of the playing field (and then add fire towers, nuclear towers, etc. on the center line of the playing field, and mirror the zig zag on the other side of the playing field...then you can artificially 'trap' the orcs in this maze of zig zags by closing off on end of the zig zag with a wall, making the orcs turn around to head for the other exit. The once they get close to the other exit, you close up that exit (by first selling the wall that's blocking the other end).

Exploiting this flaw, I can beat all games on Impossible difficulty and can reach Wave 185 on Infinite on Open Warfare (at this point the orcs are simply way too fast and I can't properly close up the maze on one end without having some orcs leak out the other end.)

Still...anyone can attest that reaching Wave 185 is impressive and impossible without using the strategy I've provided.   
(Version 1.1.4)

FOOFOORABBIT  Use The Unarchiver instead for all your decompression needs. As people say, everyone has to stop using .sit as a compression format because it's proprietary and unnecessary with the better performing non-proprietary compression algorithms out there.  
(Version 13.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  Wish I could edit my last comment..."would" = "wouldn't"  
(Version 1.0.1)

FOOFOORABBIT  Although a very cool game, I would call the computer players "highly intelligent" (as described by the author). In fact, the computer players are downright retarded with basic concepts of the rules but no strategic abilities.

For example, the computer will in no way attack the player in the lead and will only behave according to what is good for the computer player and never for what is globally good.

The game is frustrating because of this. As sometimes one computer or a human player is on the brink of winning while the other computer players can't grasp that a player's win is imminent and will 'switch' or 'oops' players that aren't even close to winning instead of the one that is very close to winning.  
(Version 1.0.1)

FOOFOORABBIT  It worked. Thanks for the tip.   
(Version 1.0)

FOOFOORABBIT  Ok, I was hoping I wouldn't have to register to write something here but I'm so interested in this game (possibly because it's the first to make use of CoreAnimation/CoreImage or so it seems) that I really, really want to see it in action.

Here's the deal...Strip.dmg seems corrupted. When trying to mount it, I get a "filesystem not recognized" message.  
(Version 1.0)