OWL  Disagree about NeoOffice. I find current versions are quite spiffy when loaded (and how often do you plan to load it?).

The only reasons to use Word for me are that (1) occasional documents from other people don't look right in Neo, mainly ones with a lot of formatting and track changes, and (2) fonts still look better in Word.

For most people Neo is a reasonable replacement.  
(Version 11.3.4)

OWL  I love this software and was missing it in Intel land. Apple does a horrible job supporting keyboard usage and MM makes it all right with a perfect interface. Just wonderful... it should be a part of OS X.  
(Version 1.4)

OWL  Absolutely brilliant. Many of the icons made me laugh out loud (Network = an old telephone switchboard..., iChat = old telephone).

Kudos!  
(Version 1.0)

OWL  So far, workin great on my new MBP. Apple should pay this guy for his work; Mail should have had this all along. For such a smart company, Apple sure has a blind spot about keyboard navigation.  
(Version 1.3.2)

OWL  Doesn't work on Macbook Pro yet. :(  
(Version 0.2)

OWL  1.5 is something like build 902. 902 is WAY different from release 1.1, but not so different from 898, since you were clearly keeping up with the cutting-edge development versions.  
(Version 1.5)

ANONYMOUS  Sorry, the url was in brackets: http://one.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/2005-January/002420.html  
(Version 1.1b3)

ANONYMOUS  I like this program a lot. But I'm writing to post a fix, in case you have a problem with no syntax highlighting in your 1.1b3. Go to for a fix from the mailing list.  
(Version 1.1b3)

ANONYMOUS  The thing is gorgeous. My one issue: no groups or folders. I don't always want to read every article in every feed. Sometimes I just want sports, or politics, etc.  
(Version 0.22)

ERIC HSU  This browser is brilliant. I have about one crash every few days with 5.0. Complaints about page-rendering are 99% unfounded. I have had some occasional issues with CSS and snarky Javascript, but no browser really does that right, and it will get better when they upgrade to the latest Webcore.

The per-page preferences are killer. The ad-blocking spectacular. The visual tabs exquisite. The source viewer clever and convenient (load a page you're working on, tweak the source, redisplay it right in the browser). Shortcuts excellent.

I haven't gotten the hang of workspaces yet, and I use NetNewsWire for RSS instead; but overall this browser is wonderful.  
(Version 5.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  Very charming tennis game. Still has some rough edges, but it has a very nice tennis feel, with the mouse control. The particle model has a genuine feeling... I make the same mistakes on the e-court as I did on live courts!

I think it's still too easy to beat the Pro, but it's only version .53...

The author is very responsive, too!  
(Version 0.53)

ANONYMOUS  Wow. This is one of those rare updates which actually fixes almost everything annoying about the previous version. I've tried both Notetaker and Notebook and I'm now using Notebook every day. It's rock solid and speedy and now has some of its eye candy turn-off-able.

Big thumbs up.   
(Version 1.1)

ERIC HSU  Acquisition is the first Gnutella on Mac that works for me. I'm not a company shill, thank you very much. Limewire was okay, but it's gotten more and more bloated. The other all-in-one's I've had trouble setting up, your mileage may vary. But Acq worked wonderfully out of the box. I can't believe it's still a beta.   
(Version 0.65)