FRIDGE  Positives first, it is kind of nice to look at a newspaper layout of your RSS feeds... But the positives ends there. If you are having more then 30 feeds you will go absolutely crazy in a day or two trying to keep up with your RSS feeds. As an example, there is now way to see which are the latest feeds! If the app refreshes every 10 min, the previous "new" feeds gets unmarked. So leaving the app running for an hour going to lunch (having Times set to check for new feeds every 10 min) you come back and have no clue which are the unread feeds (obviously there is now way to tell how many unread feeds you have either). Organizing your feeds is nightmarish. Let say you import 100 feeds (I did 42). The feeds gets placed in a feed drawer, from there you drag and drop your feeds into "pages" you have created (pages being like Times equal to Folders with the difference that you have to put a feed on a page in order to read the feed). So you drag and drop your feeds onto the pages and very quickly you have no clue which feeds you already placed and which other you have not. So you scroll down, look at the other pages, take out pen and paper to keep notes on what you are doing... This is a joke! It will drive less patient people with loads of feeds up the walls in a matter of minutes. It costs 30 bucks and is beta software. Crashes and buggs, beware!!! This is just eye candy without function. The whole point of RSS is to digest information in an easy manner, Times makes it harder then any other RSS reader. This is form before function – bad design! Do not get seduced by the eye candy, take the candy away and you have buggy beta software that does not focus on the applications main objective – reading and organizing your RSS feeds!  
(Version 1.0)

FRIDGE  I guess it all depends on what it is worth to you. If you adopted Quicklook in your workflow and have tons of InDesign documents maybe the steep price for a Quicklook plugin is worth it? — at least until there is a free option! On the other hand, there are free workarounds for for Illustrator and EPS files. I found this site, http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/218/quick-look-plugins-for-leopard  
(Version 1.0)

FRIDGE  What are the options? I really would like to know...  
(Version 9.0v2)

FRIDGE  It is a pretty clear that there are no other alternatives to Filemaker pro, if there were, Filemaker would most likely have changed their product and policys a long time ago. Cross platform and ›anyone can create a database› is a pretty good thing; and as far as I know, the only application of it's kind for the Mac. But Filemaker is in a CPR desperate need for some serious competition. The whole user interface looks like something made for a PC in the 80's — anyone who thinks Filemaker could not be better then it currently is must be blind or having a seriously bad taste. Filemaker's upgrade policy and backward compatibility stinks and that is about it for me. I am no power user but I need to create simple databases on a regular basis. I also like to know that the work I do is cross platform. So in the end of the day, I will still use Filemaker as I have not other alternatives. But if there were alternatives, I would be the first one to drop my money on it and support that product. Leopard came, Filemaker was not Leopard ready. Apple owns Filemaker!? I believe Apple will do something with Filemaker in the future, but maybe that currently is far down the roadmap. Maybe Apple does not have its focus on Filemaker at the moment and this is why it is as it is at the moment. As someone else said somewhere else on the net ›It's like Filemaker is the Bastard child of Apple› but Apple will do something with this bastaard child sooner or later this I am sure of. However, Filemaker in it's current form and shape is a slow sinking ship, it's the only ship in site so everyone is still clinging to it waiting for another ship to show up at the horizon. Apple knows this, and will someday do something about it and create a database application with a user interface that reflects THIS millenium, good support, cross platform and full of features for the power users (stuff I do not have a clue about). It will come, but until then we all have nurse and babysit the bastard child of Apple.  
(Version 9.0v2)

FRIDGE  Wow, what a loveley application. Guess the developers description of the application explains what this app can do. For me, Yojimbo just keeps all those notes and other bits of information that I collect during the course of the day that just do not justify creating a text edit document. You are on the phone, suddenly you get passed on some info you quickly need to keep. Pre-Yojimbo I either fired up stickys or started up textedit that would get saved on the desktop (unnamed). Today I just press F8, type away and it is automatically stored and saved. Its lovely, brought my overall computer experience from a 7 to a 9, on a scale to 10 :-). Only thing I miss, are the possibility to directly from within Yojimbo to be able to send a note to either a bluetooth enable phone with bluetooth file exchange and or to an connected ipod. Good when you need to bring a quick not with you when you leave office. You can off course do it today as well but you need first to export the note and then you can send it to your bluetooth enabled phone or iPod. Bug again I love the application and recomend it to anyone owning a mac.  
(Version 1.4.2)