OLIPOWER  Interesting little thing. A keeper. Thanks for your efforts!  
(Version 1.0)

OLIPOWER  The whole concept of "unlocking" as a "carrot in front of the donkey" is stupid. All it does is this:

I wait and see whether or not the good apps gets unlocked. BUT, I also:

1.

Become more and more rational as time goes by. As in; "well, I already have this app, and never really liked that app anyway..."

2.

I may even forget checking again before the deal ends. I have a busy weekend ahead of me.

So, all in all, why have that unlocked crap concept? Had all the apps been available from the beginning, we could have already hit way more sales than the few current sales.

Only one thing to call it, and that's greed.  
(Version )

OLIPOWER  I can NOT recommen Ubercaster to anyone. Look at their forums to see the multitude of weird bugs. I myself used Ubercaster since before it went 1.0 (half a year or so), and a few times it worked as expected. Most of the time it did NOT work as expected. CPU would rise to 50-100%, force quit app, it would sometimes not open documents, sometimes FTP-upload would work, the next day not, etc. All in all, expect the unexpected when it comes down to bugs and Ubercaster. And I have healthy macs, a MacBook and an iMac, and several different USB mics, so it is not due to my macs themselves being unstable. Ubercaster is just not stable.

I ended up asking for a refund, which I got, thankfully. But also regretfully, as I've had high hopes for Ubercaster as it offers a unique approach. But to a serious podcaster, it's unacceptable to have a guest ready to be interviewed, when Ubercaster refuse to behave.

Use something else, Audio Hijack Pro, Amadeus or whatever. They're all stable for me.  
(Version 1.1)

OLIPOWER  This app is just what I need after ditching the horribly unstable Ubercaster. However, this SoundByte is a bit overpriced IMHO, and lacks (apparantly, please prove me wrong) features like looping individual sounds (a breakbeat f.e.) and the interface aesthetically leaves a lot to be desired. I also need to set in and out cue points for the individual audio files...  
(Version 3.4)

OLIPOWER  I agree. What a lame way to go by the developer. Why oh why... Piracy? Well, he has a popular app, so I assume he also has a proper cashflow from loyal customers (like me)...

Hmm, then I'd say greed is the answer. But why suffer usability for greed?  
(Version 1.37)

OLIPOWER  Well pmoshay was not referring to the contexts being in iGTD, but simply criticising the whole GTD-concept of contextualizing everything.  
(Version 1.4.2.1)

OLIPOWER  I'm with this guy on this one. I've been on/off GTD since 2004, and also used iGTD, but even though my life is busy and complicated and therefore totally on target for David Allen's advice, I find GTD to be way too much effort to do, in order to have a "mind like water" as David describes perfect flow.

Real "mind like water" according to zen buddhism, which is at the root of karate philosophy, is something else: You try to calm your mind, do what's at hand, trust your mind (not your "collection bucket" / inbox or PDA) just as it is, and overall be in the moment. Not be in some mac app, deferring, delegating, someday maybe, whatever, this, that, being frantic.

GTD is good, but a concept to grasp, and then move on.

A great book on that is marc Lesser's ZBA, Zen of Business Administration. Cheesy title, yet the best book I've ever read, and the one I'd keep if I could only keep one book. If I could keep two, I'd also keep Hagakure, the book of the samurai. It really outlines the concept of true productivity, right effort, and a whole lot else.

All that being said, iGTD is a good app, and a good not too rigid implentation of GTD.

I'm happy using Daylite now. A huge app, but it sure does simplify my life, because it is so flexible.  
(Version 1.4.2.1)

OLIPOWER  I would love to read some reviews of this app. But at $249 I won't even try it out myself, given the multitude of free, superb open source cms's out there. Especially Drupal, MODx and TypoLight graps my attention.

Maybe the developer should consider reducing his price. Who is the taget user? Low-end people use RapidWeaver, and high-end users use one of the many CMS's out there, both open source and commercial.  
(Version 1.1)

OLIPOWER  I used Studiometry since version 1.11 up til the latest version 3.x.x where I got quite saddened by the 4.x.x update. No improvements, only new bloat.

Anyway, yes the developers attitude is stubborn to put it mildly.

And yes, in my years with Studiometry, I never made an invoice myself. Too impossible. Same goes for the "wysiwyg" tool given in SM4.

Now, Billings' invoice tool is something that works. It's not InDesign, but it works beautifully.

And, in the new version of Billings, it integrates with Merlin the super project management app. Together those two apps costs only a tad more than Studiometry. But then you get two Cocoa apps, that both rock in their domains!

Not to push competing products, but Tom the developer of Studiometry has not been the most problemsolving dude in my years of having trouble with Studiometry, with no support, miscalculations, currency-trouble, stability, sync-issues, you name it.  
(Version 4.1.3)

OLIPOWER  Oki doki. Super super duper. And many thanks.

I have another feature request:

Optional conversion to the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 color profile. Reason? I'm using Adobe RGB 1998 but for web use I always want it in sRGB for better colors online, on various users screens.

Thank you again!  
(Version 1.7)

OLIPOWER  Yes indeed!

What a cool and useful application. Been using Gleam, but it's dog slow on my iMac G5, so I started looking for alternatives and found 1001. Happily I discover it has many features that will let me work faster and more efficiently.

Especially the way I can tag images, and send them to groups, before uploading them. Revelation.

Thank you!

See my uploads here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivernielsen

(shameless plug I know;-)  
(Version 1.0.6)

OLIPOWER  I've now tested it some more, and must say I think it is a very capable and impressive vector drawing app - it sure does pack a punch.

Nice to see developers thinking outside the box. Look at the ZeusDraw website for the screencasts - Zeus can do amazing stuff.

My girlfriend and I consider purchasing it - it a lot more approachable than Illustrator.  
(Version 1.1)

OLIPOWER  Works great! Thatk you to the developers for making this! Greets!  
(Version 1.1a)

OLIPOWER  On a sidenote:

I have an iMac G5 myself. first generation. It has quite loud fans, but some things have helped:

Reset the PRAM. See instructions on Apple's support site. It helps.

Use automatic or limited CPU in the energy saver system preferences.

Obviously, repair permissions and all that voodoo;-)

And / or run something like Disk Warrior.  
(Version 2.1)

OLIPOWER  This is a nice app. Thanks to the developer for making it. I wish it would let me output to jpeg format too though.  
(Version 1.5.1)

OLIPOWER  This seems to be a very promising app. It's quite stable for a beta, and works well. There are a few concepts I have to experiment more with in order to fulle understand it. However, looking forward to see the next versions.

Features I'd like to see:

Multiple mics. And the ability to route the mic through a plugin, f.e. a compressor.  
(Version 1.0b11)

OLIPOWER  One of the craziest apps I've ever seen. Demoed it a while back. It's good if you need to do wacky, crazy animations of videos stuck to pies flying in the sky, and that sort of thing.

Good to see creative stuff like that.  
(Version 1.0.5)

OLIPOWER  The developer stated:

"Studiometry also has hundreds of features that billings does not have (including completely customizable invoices), hence the price difference."

Indeed that is both untrue, and... paradoxically... what makes Studiometry slow, buggy, clumpy.

Featuritis. Studiometry can do so much, it just does not do it WELL at all! The invoice feature... The "Planning" feature... the later being a GANTT chart - but an utterly useless implementation of a GANTT chart.

And the developer should have spend more time replying to support-issues and valid user-feedback, than to badmouth reviewers here.

But Tom, the developer, does have a clear tendency to hear what he want to hear, and somehow deliberately "misunderstand" user gripes. Like above where he assumes he has valid answers, yet just plain does not answer the real issue.

And that's coming from a long-time Studiometry user (v1.1 - v3.9) who recently swithed to... Tadahhh: Billings 2;-) And yes, it is indeed better!  
(Version 4.1.1)

OLIPOWER  Thank you for your words. But please read my last line again:

"Typing it once for the whole batch should be enough."

Of course I wanna type my password, but not 30 or 40 times to delete 20 apps! Pretty repetitive task.

I could, like you say, log into my admin account, delete the apps I would like to delete. However, that's not clever, as that would not get rid of the user-related files, them being in my normal user-account!

I guess the purpose of AppZapper is to get rid of all the app-related files right? Then your solution is a bit half-hearted.  
(Version 1.8)

OLIPOWER  Robert > I'm pretty sure you have to buy it today if you want the special promo price;-)  
(Version 8.5.1)

OLIPOWER  Hmm... I really wanted to like this app. I was a bit disappointed with the FTP features: No SFTP / SSH. Only SSL which I was unable to make work for me. Same goes for WebDAV.

And I really needed an "Edit With..." contextual functionality, to be able to edit files directly on the server. F.e. CSS stylesheets and so on. But that feature is not implemented.

Apart from that I really liked the interface. Though the prefs was a bit daunting.

And yes I did spend more than an hour testing this app, and reading on Google, the developers site, and my webhosts KB, in order to find help with the setup issues outlined above, but with no luck.  
(Version 4.1.9)

OLIPOWER  Pretty insane logic for a logo design.  
(Version 1.0)

OLIPOWER  A quite overestimated app. It almost never finds all the files related to an app.

Even similarly named files, containing the apps name!

And ever since I started using my computers non-admin as a standard-user, AppZapper will ask me to write my admin password once or more for each and every app I delete.

So whenever I feel like cleaning up my applications folder, I have to sit there and feel like an idiot typing my admin username and password like a zillion-times.

Typing it once for the whole batch should be enough.  
(Version 1.8)

OLIPOWER  This is a Jumsoft product. Jumsoft also makes the list/notebook app called Process, which looks so nice from the outside, but so many people have lost data due to data-corruption in Process. I had a major problem when my final exam writings document suddenly would not open due to an error! And their support has never answered any enquiry, not even pre-sales questions!

Relationship seems to be same story with a different name, judging from the comments below. And yes, I did try Relationship, and it does not integrate with Apple Address Book, which makes it a no-go for me, since AB provides sync with mobile devices via iSync. Gotta have my contacts on the road.  
(Version 1.0)

OLIPOWER  version 1.2 been running fine on my iMac G5... Using it with Audio Hijack Pro...  
(Version 1.2)

OLIPOWER  I can't really recommend Studiometry any longer. Was using it, but switched to Billings, because of several episodes of zero support - literally no replies for months (other customers same experience) which is totally unacceptable.

What is acceptable but annoying, is the addition of new features while neglecting to fix old known bugs, and clean up the interface. the result is just clumsy.

Additionally, the price has increased to silly heights. It is more expensive than such fine tools as Merlin, OmniPlan and Daylite - but it is no Cocoa app at that - it's a RealBasic app!  
(Version 4.1)

OLIPOWER  Yep. And the weird syncing in Daylite made it a no go for me, when I tested it out a few months ago.  
(Version 2.0b3)

OLIPOWER  Yeah, their support... Luckily I've not needed it this time round. But I sure do agree with you. If they prove to provide bad support once a problem arises, I will spread the news like a wildfire;-)

Trust me - I can badmouth as hell. I can't stand bad service;-)

Would like to go with iRatchet - but ... it's just so daunting, so many options here and there, and I believe strongly in this formula:

Number of options/features x bugs = many bugs.

But on the other hand, an app like On The Job is way too simple for me. Featurewise, Billings is perfect.  
(Version 2.0b3)

OLIPOWER  Maybe I should elaborate a bit on the features I like:

Billings has Address Book sync - whereas many competing apps provide "copy from Address Book"...

But imagine, your co-worker/freelancer receives a call from a client, the client says he moved. Ok new address is put into Apple Address Book. Next day I send that client an invoice, to the wrong/old address, because the app was not synced with Address Book.

Or, the other way round, I'm visiting my client, but the address I have on my phone is not up-to-date because the phone syncs with Address Book, and Address book was not synced with the app, in which I put his new address.

So, what I'm getting at:

Such a small difference in an app can make a huge difference in daily worklflow. As of writing iRatchet does not support Address Book sync, while Billings does. I like that a lot;-)  
(Version 2.0b3)

OLIPOWER  Having been a longtime Studiometry user, I was slowly getting disillusioned by its buggyness, bloated featureset, unanswered support tickets, etc. The recent version 4 made me start looking for alternatives.

I find Billings 2 a viable alternative. It has the features I need, in a clear workflow, intuitive, and not bloated. I've been indecisive between Billings and iRatchet, but iRatchet is just too... featurerich... and yet lacks some of the features I find most important - features readily present in Billings 2.

Now, I hope MarketCircle will develop and support this version 2 a lot more than I can see from the previous comments they've done on version 1.  
(Version 2.0b3)

OLIPOWER  Yeah. I'm with you on this one. I've been sincerely interested in purchasing this app, but I can't use the 100 MB demo limit for testing the app, and after too many stupid purchases in the past, ending up just wasting money, I've stopped purchasing "the cat in the sack" so to speak.

So, I kindly wrote the developer. And got a kind reply in return. To summarize:

"People only defrag every few months and a fully functional demo would therefore not lead to a purchase because people would just use the demo"

and furthermore:

"In order to use the 100 MB demo, you can just create a 100 MB disk image with Disk Utility"

Say what man? Will I then be able to see the speed gain afterwards, on my 100 MB disk? No. So, the demo is useless.

At least they could offer a 100 GB demo, so people could defrag their laptop drive or a smaller partition etc.  
(Version 1.5.7)

OLIPOWER  I like the ones in Smultron better.  
(Version 1.1)

OLIPOWER  Oh man dear developer, did you read what MacGizmo wrote? Haha, man, to sum it up:

General convention is:

A theme is not just an icon-package.

An iconpackage is an iconpackage. And a theme is called a theme. A theme is more than just icons.

CandyBar from Panic software does what your software does, better and in a much nicer interface.

Panic Software calls their iconpacks "iContainers" which is a nice, descriptive term.  
(Version 2.0)

OLIPOWER  Considering the non-existent quality of the non-existent support during the latter 6+ months, free support sound to me more like support-free!  
(Version 4.0.1)

OLIPOWER  I'll second your comment on the wooden stuff. No reason for that - it does not blend with the otherwise fine interface.

PS: now at version 0.9.5 Midnight Inbox starts to look more usable, the database being sorted out, and many bugs ironed out.

It is however still not finished, but it holds a lot of promise, and will deliver many features new to the scene of GTD on the Mac.

Kudos to the developer for having the will-power to do so much work in so little time. He should have initially called it an alpha-version though.

But, that's just words. When it works it works. I'm looking forward to using it.  
(Version 0.9.5)

OLIPOWER  Latest 2.1.x versions are wuite unstable. crashes f.e. when I lick the "red cross" mac os x close button in the top left corner.

Sad, because Smultron used to be very stable, at least for me.  
(Version 2.1.2)

OLIPOWER  Works for me, but woah not very mac-like user experience. I cannot just drag the flv to the dock-icon, i have to "choose folder" in the application. And you cannot resize the window. Only make it full screen by clicking the green +button. That makes the app look weirder though.

But, it does show me my flv's... And it's free;-)

So thanks to the developer for making the effort;-)

Well... on a scond thought... It made my CPU go quite high, even though not playing anything. Not cool.  
(Version 0.4)

OLIPOWER  I got interested in Life Balance a few years ago. That was before the whole David Allen Getting Things Done GTD wave started.

I've been wanting to use Life Balance for a long time. They offer a unique approach to life management and general productivity.

However, I've got stuck on many attempts to use it, because of a multitude of issues, issues which other users / testers, have also asked the developers to implement:

Syncing with iCal. Why? That would enable me to sync todays to-do list with a multitude of other things, including my cell phone. I don't want or need a PDA. PDA's are for business people. And geeks. Normal people just don't need PDA's after cell phones have become to refined and advanced.

Interface overhaul. The interface is too cumbersome to use daily. I cannot be scaled down in any way.

Easier input of tasks. For example via a menu in finder.

More frequent updates. This would bring more attention and momentum to the application. And a chance for them to weed out the illegal serial numbers floating everywhere. Let's face reality.

A lower price. Follow the market - sell more!

The developers response is, and always has been, a combination of denial, know-all, conservatism.

To the above, their response would probably be:

"Well, Oliver, we are very dedicated to the continued development of Life Balance. Actually, last month we received an intel-mac to be able to work on the universal binary, and we're also developing some AppleScripts now. And about our business model; well we have been in business for so many years now, so we know well how to stay in business... blah blah"

Well, just tell me straight that your cup is full, and you don't wanna listen.

Ok - what bugs me is just that Life Balance could be so cool, and a lot more usable, would they just listen to their users. I've seen on their forums many times, I'm not the only one voicing these needs. And has been for like ... 2+ years!  
(Version 3.2.7)

OLIPOWER  Frankly, I could not make it calculate any cost. I put in my default hourly rate in the preferences, then started timing. It was timing, but not calculating anything. I then tried manually inputting a few hours work. Still no calculation. When makin an invoice, it still said 0,00 sum total. Aha, that must be very good for business;-)

Additionally, despite the super simplistic interface, I could not find where to put the clients address.

Sorry to say, but it left my harddrive 10 minutes after install.  
(Version 2.2.1)

OLIPOWER  Well, I for one like the new icons better than the old ones. And also better than forrestwalker's replacement icons.

The new ones are fresh - maybe a bit too vivid for some peoples taste;-)

Don't get me wrong, I don't think they're particularly beautiful, but I don't see them as being ugly.

About the app itself;

Smultron is a good, stable editor. The developer is responsive and all ears for suggestions. This new version is a much welcome update to a wonderful, even free, program.

Well done!  
(Version 2.0.4)

OLIPOWER  The simplest and best approach to getting your music and playlists off your iPod, in case your iTunes has lost your music due to a crash or whatever.

Not to name any, but I've tried the other options, and all of them are mediocre, and simple does not work.

This one does the job in an intelligent, stable way.  
(Version 1.3)

OLIPOWER  Uno is simply beutiful. It works amazingly simple. I use it on my iMac G5 and Macbook - both work great - and no problems whatsoever.

Really nicely done software! Thumbs up!  
(Version 1.3)

OLIPOWER  Oh man - what an interface.

Not to be discouraging, but that screenshot would make most mac-users run away screaming.

Why that blue background?

Why that horrible "diary" typeface?

Why the horrible buttons?

Really, I'm not trying to put you off here. Just get some help from a friend or someone else, who knows about graphic design / interface design.

It will help a lot;-)  
(Version 1.2.8)

OLIPOWER  Like the comment below, I also have the feeling Studiometry is a good, versatile application.

I wrote support a ticket like 2 months ago, and it was answered swiftly. I then had a follow-up question, because the first reply did not solve my problem.

That question was never answered. The ticket is still open. I then, 14 days later, posted again, asking why my question had not been replied to. No answer.

A few weeks after that, I submitted a new ticket, and referred to the first one. No answer yet - and that is like a week ago.

But Studiometry is a versatile app, and useful for my company. I've been a registered user since version 1.x ...

That said, as can be seen from the above - Studiometry also has bugs and idiosyncratic behaviors. Now that version 4 is on the way, I feel a lot like not upgrading again.Stuidometry support is really bad. Always has been.  
(Version 3.2.3)

OLIPOWER  Oh well. Sorry, but frankly; What a waste of time and trust of a potential buyer.

First of all, even though my ipod was plugged in and mounted on the desktop, the app told me no ipod was connected. Well, hurrah for that one.

Pressing various options in the app all revealed "only available in retail version" ... aha?! On your website it says: Unrestricted trial!

Morons!

And to spice it all up, there are so many spelling errors spread everywhere in the app and on their website, that one has a hard time taking it serious.

I'm writing this review to help other people find another app to help them recover the music from their ipod.  
(Version 2.04c.57)

OLIPOWER  I've been a registered user of Accounts for more than 4 years, and have to say it has saved my butt many times, accounting-wise. The daily bookkeeping is easy, and so is the yearly reports.

Nice done software. Does what it should, does it really well. And nothing else. Just do your work, and use Accounts for the tedious chore that accounting often is;-)  
(Version 1.9.1)

OLIPOWER  As much as I hate discouraging the developers from working on an otherwise promising piece of software, I hereby join the choir of people who have lost data while working with Jumsoft Process. Therefore I say DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM AS YOU WILL LOOSE DATA IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME!

Only use it if you regularly back-up your data;-)

All of a sudden I could not open the program today, since it had somehow corrupted the file I was working on.

I lost an essay, some ideas, and finally a school exam report (of which I have a back-up (RTF text-export) from yesterday, thank GOD!) ...

And no, I've never received any response to the 3+ emails sent to two different Jumsoft email adresses (sales and info) a few weeks ago, concerning educational pricing ...  
(Version 2.0.1)

OLIPOWER  I tried this for my Epson 1290 stylus photo, for which Epson only offers a broken 2 year old driver.

However, Gutenprint was SO SLOW. Printing 5 lines of text in a white shadowed box took it literally 15 minutes. The sound from the printer indicated that the printer had smoked a joint too many. Zzzz Zzzz Zzzz

(I know printers don't smoke weed, but it was as slow as the slowest max cannabis smoking dopehead)...

And then the printer dialog settings for Gutenprint:

Something more un-useability one has to look for for a looong time. Instead of meaningful labels for the sub dropdown menu items, it simple said:

Special features 1

Special features 2

Special features 3

Special features 4

etc etc

So setting up the color etc was a real no go.  
(Version 5.0rc2)

OLIPOWER  A nice editor - easy to use, and has pretty much all the features needed for raw text-editing, web-development etc. I use it happily almost everyday.

It is stable, and free! A great alternative to TextMate.

And the dockicon (a strawberry) is refreshing to look at ;-)

... And the developer seems very friendly.  
(Version 1.2.5)

OLIPOWER  Stability has ceased somehow. If it is due to a Mac OS X update, or the latest version of CSSedit I'm can't know, but what I do know is that it has crashed 5 times today. have mailed the developer some days ago, yet not received a response as of writing, even though I'm a registered user.

And features:

It needs some obvious features like support for live url's for the preview. As is now, I have to save an html version of my php-based sites, in order to be able to use the preview feature. Would be much easier to just type in the url.

StyleMaster supports this feature.

It also lack the ability to see the xhtml elements outlined in the preview, for easier identification of which tags and dividers belong to what.

StyleMaster supports this feature.

CSSedit seems to have frozen its feature set for more than a year now...  
(Version 1.7.1)

OLIPOWER  Having used Studiometry since it's initial 1.0 release, and faithfully upgraded from there to 3.0, I can say Studiometry has improved vastly, and often I've been wondering wherefrom Tom (the developer) gets the energy to develop, support and even comment on the blah blah and complains here and there.

I have followed Studiometry from being a flaky, newborn 1.x to the better 2.x to the powerful and indeed nice 3.x.

Studiometry is the most complete creative studio / small / medium business solution. Period. I've tried literally ALL of the competing products, but either they lack something or focus a lot on one area, a few examples:

Daylite = Customer Relations.

Merlin = Project management.

Timenet = Lacks features. F.e. client can only contain one contact.

iBiz = unstable and confusing as hell despite its apparent simplicity of operation.

StudioBoss = Toys'r'us Filemaker DIY kind of solution. But may be good for some.

iRatchet = Looks promising, but lacks features. No to-do's, only one contact per client etc..

Studiometry is complete. Has everything I need though.

Room for improvement but very good indeed.  
(Version 3.1.1)

OLIPOWER  Curio is worth every penny. Though I do agree the Pro version is to expensive at $129 - and the Basic version at $39 a tad too basic. But keep in mind that there are good apps and bad apps in the world of software. And that every developer may charge whatever they will for their software. Curio is GREAT software. Room for improvement - but the developer is listening, and improving Curio according to user feedback, which I think is great. And I purchased the Pro version, paying only $65 as I am a student (multimedia designer). Great value, as I use it and enjoy it every day.  
(Version 2.4.3)