MMUECK  Unlike the wonderful X11 project, this project does not have any prebuilt OS X installer. I went to the Samba website and there's no way your average (heck, even above average) Mac user will be able to get this up and running. Shame, I need to access stuff at work via Samba all the time and I definitely notice issues that presumably a better version would fix.  
(Version 3.4.3)

MMUECK  Yea, I paid $200 a while back for this and it was just awful - no easy corrections or dictionary expansion capability. It was a buggy, sloppy port of DNS to the Mac. Then they fixed some of those bugs and had the hide to charge some outrageous upgrade price shortly afterwards that truly bent the majority of their user base out of shape. At the very least they should include a big "L" sticker and a tube of lubricant in every box.

To the makers of Dictate: How do you take a quality product like DNS, that Mac users have been craving for years, and turn that golden opportunity into something that consistently seems to draw the anger of your users. Way to go...   
(Version 1.5.5)

MMUECK  I'm with GCOGHILL - I really don't like the coupling to APE. In fact, that's the only reason why I don't own this product (but I'd like to own it). After being royally bitten by APE stuff many times in the past I avoid it like the plague. I wish the developer was able/motivated to remove APE dependencies.  
(Version 3.2b1 SL)

MMUECK  I'm a time traveller from 10 years in the future and I'm stuck here until I can repair my broken time machine. Anyway, I'm having issues with version 0.99.99.97.401 and can't connect to my computer back home. Eagerly awaiting the next pre-release version...  
(Version 0.98.40)

MMUECK  Agreed - $150/decade (plus the cost of the app) is just too much for an iTunes visualizer. I let my subscription go after a couple years. These guys are way too greedy...  
(Version 3.9.2)

MMUECK  That's because most of us are probably using Final Cut Express, which has been abandoned (it seems).  
(Version 7.0)

MMUECK  Can somebody please comment on how well this integrates with OS X (and Leopard in particular). This is software is not provided as a Mac binary but as a wad of source code. I have to use Samba at work, and there are several issues with either the Mac's shipping version of Samba or the way Samba works at my employer's site. I'm guessing the problem is on the Mac's side... On the Samba website, they have binaries for just about all platforms except for the Mac :-(.  
(Version 3.4)

MMUECK  Thanks for the tip - it worked (I was using filevault). Strangely, I've never had a problem installing software within filevault before. Perhaps you're doing something non-standard...  
(Version 2.2.3.7)

MMUECK  Not sure what's up, but when I try to install this it gets most of the way through and then asks me to insert a disk to continue the installation...  
(Version 2.2.3.7)

MMUECK  I completely agree with you that TypeIt4Me is both a text expander and a highly infuriating text mangler. I've long been tempted by TextExpander and over the past 18 months to 2 years have repeatedly passed along my feedback and specifically requested that the developers implement two key TypeIt4Me features (both fairly easy to do) . However, I have found them to be quite unresponsive, and of course the features weren't implemented...  
(Version 2.6.2)

MMUECK  I decided to pass on this - if you want to see all the options you have to load up the menubar with all the numerous individual function icons and it takes up way too much space. I'd rather have a more minimalist approach whereby there's one menubar item I can click on (that perhaps shows only CPU usage) and from there I can access all the rest of it.  
(Version 1.3)

MMUECK  I'm hopefully going to get around to checking this out over the weekend, but I did want to pass along a huge thank you for your efforts porting this to the Mac!!  
(Version 20090202)

MMUECK  I'm running 12.1.3 and when I Check for Updates within Word it says there's nothing to update :-/

Don't be too hard on Microsoft - writing a good updater is an incredibly difficult task and requires considerable resources. Clearly we're all not paying enough for this software. I'm off to the Microsoft site to find their PayPal link for a donation. That poor overworked guy who writes all the MS Office software needs to know his efforts are appreciated...  
(Version 12.1.4)

MMUECK  Installation problem - at the final part of the installation it asked me to insert a disk with the same name as my user account!? Had to force quit, and I'm not clear if everything went OK...  
(Version 2.2.1.11)

MMUECK  I have tons of old Word documents containing graphics that display as garbage in Word 2008 (including this new version). They display fine in all previous versions of Word. Pictures are either bounding boxes with a big cross, wrong magnification, upside down and backwards, light gray instead of black... Good Grief!

I just received a PowerPoint presentation from a co-worker - it displays fine on everybody's PC but when viewed on my Mac all the graphics contain offset magnified double-images that extend off the page. I'm in complete awe of M$'s legendary hopeless quality control.  
(Version 12.1.2)

MMUECK  I just downloaded the Office 2008 12.0.1 updater and was unable to install it. It scanned the disk for quite some time and eventually marked my drive as unavailable, citing:

"You cannot install Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update on this volume. A version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume".

The above makes no sense because I can in fact run my fully registered Office 2008 on my machine. I did a permissions repair prior to the install. I also had the recent Microsoft auto-updater update installed. Possible contributing issues might be:

- I also have the full Office 2004 suite installed on my machine - a necessary requirement because Office 2008 mangles so many of my Office 2004 Word documents.

- I am using FileVault.  
(Version 12.1)

MMUECK  The vast majority of my older version of Word documents that have anything more in them than just plain text have issues. Word 2004 displays these documents just fine - Word 2008 butchers them. I even tried saving the documents in Word 2004 as varying formats and Word 2008 still mangled them upon import. Diagrams that I created outside of the M$ universe and then pasted into Word now either don't show up at all or have annoying artifacts. Equations that worked just fine before are now replaced by the word 'Error!'. In short, a completely useless upgrade for me. I can't believe I gave those guys my money. Oh yea, even though I purchased Office 2008 as a brand new package, if you have any issues it'll cost you $50 per incident to deal with THEIR bugs. Now that's classic Microsoft service for a new customer who just plonked down a few hundred dollars!  
(Version 12.0.1)

MMUECK  I've been using this product for over a year and have been at the developer for most of that time to deal with an infuriating issue with the text expansions. I've found the developer to be much more interested in adding features than fixing issues. On the average, about once in every couple dozen expansions (I have a library of over 2500 expansions) the expanded text gets all mangled e.g. the result is some combination of the abbreviation and the final text, or it fails to include the trigger character, or the expansion occurs in the middle of the following word etc. It's true you can really blast along typing at higher speeds (although I'm just a medium speed 4 finger peck and shoot typist), but I'm sure spending a lot of time having to meticulously proof read the result of my typing to fix all the expansion mangling. I also own Typinator and TextExpander and they don't have this problem. The ONLY reason I've been putting up with TypeIt4Me is because it does single-character expansions and the competition didn't. I've been urging the developer of Typinator to implement this feature and he's finally released a version that does it! However, his implementation has a couple killer limitations that must to be addressed before I jump ship, but he's getting there.  
(Version 4.0.2)

MMUECK  AT LONG LAST !!!!

It's going to take a couple hours to convince me this fix worked. Thousands of MacBook Pro users are poised to rejoice...  
(Version 1.0)

MMUECK  Can somebody PLEASE send this software version to the MacUpdate guys so it can be accessed through them and by NOT having to visit the Cisco site. That site is so horribly broken, the best you can do to get to the downloads page is to enter an infinite loop of logging in after successfully registering. I've tried 5 different browsers including IE on a PC.  
(Version 4.9.01.0090)

MMUECK  Bugzilla is also very good and free.

http://www.bugzilla.org  
(Version 5.1)

MMUECK  Like other posters here, I too own the previous pro version and balked at the upgrade price to the extent that I've gone off looking at other products. I feel like a fish that nibbled on the bait, got the hook stuck in my lip and then the developer gave the line one god almighty yank and lost his catch just like that...  
(Version 4.0.3)

MMUECK  I tried this out by editing a 99 page pdf file that I wanted to mark up and cull a bunch of pages. I have the latest MacBook Pro, and even then working on this document was excruciatingly sloooow. By comparison, Apple's Preview was able to navigate this document at near instantaneous speeds. Didn't much care for some of the user interface polish either (some of the toolbar icon sizes and graphics). I don't know if this is the best software out there for this task, but I've definitely been motivated to go ahead and look everywhere else before paying anything...  
(Version 3.2)

MMUECK  This is a really good program with all the features you'll ever need EXCEPT, like the previous poster mentioned, it has zero practical barcode scanning capability with the new computers that have built-in cameras. I ended up having to hook up my firewire capable camcorder to my mac and using that for the video input. Even then you had to work at making it be recognized - I had to give up on autofocus and hold the barcodes at a very specific place to get them to read reliably. At least the developers acknowledge this problem and are supposedly working on it...

I also wish the default movie rating would come from IMDB and not Amazon. People who rate stuff on Amazon are usually biased to liking the movie because they purchased it in the first place (hence the ratings always seem higher). IMDB ratings aren't biased in that way and they also have many more votes to average things out.  
(Version 3.1.3)