PCHARLES67  Ideal for when you can sneak into a workmates office on the evening of March 31st!  
(Version 2.0)

PCHARLES67  What kind of company quotes 30 Euro for an application and then tells you "Oh! There is also a 20 euro handling fee?" Just be honest and charge for the application instead of lying to your customers.  
(Version 2.6.3)

PCHARLES67  Most universities are still windows-centric and so we use Powerpoint, and to be honest I find Powerpoint to be far superior for science and technology presentations that Keynote. Apple has clearly not targeted the science community with its iWork package because it lacks any ability to generate equations, and any ability to present graphs with line fits and regression lines.

Couple that with the fact that Keynote's audio output to files is so full of bugs you cannot even create an audio slideshow most of the time. I am not sure what Apple was thinking when they added this feature and did not check that it worked, but their response has been lacking for some time now.

So, YES, profcast is still needed.  
(Version 2.2)

PCHARLES67  Might have to agree with most of what you said, however, for an Intel user there is a definite speed boost over PPC versions. Not sure if I need those new feature though, so I am looking at alternatives, even with my educational discount.  
(Version 6.0)

PCHARLES67  I've tried this application on and off for a while now and still find it incredibly clunky to use. I think the problem I have is that this is not a WYSIWYG editor in the same way that most modern editors in this category are (iWeb, Goldfish, Sandvox). The need to switch back and forth between the edit and preview modes is incredibly annoying.

I also found myself extremely frustrated by the way changing a theme applied the theme to my whole site. In iWeb and Sandvox the theme was associated with the site, but you could select pages from different themes if you wanted to give different parts of your site a different feel. It may be present in RW, but over the various tests I have still not found it. I was also frustrated by the way I am locked into a themes layout with RW when applications such as iWeb allow me to move content around much more freely.

I understand from many reviews that the code for RW is considered superior to that produced by iWeb, but as a general user I am more interested in ease of development than geeking out on clean code since most readers will be interested in the content and not the code.

Finally, I am not sure why this product is so much more expensive than the competition and often requires costly plugins to make it do interesting things.  
(Version 4.1)

PAUL92  After playing with this and its partner Yep, I find myself struggling to integrate it into my daily workflow and have just deleted it from my drive.

The problem I have with it is that I just did not find it really sped up my ability to find the document I was looking for. The tutorials are amusing, but I do not usually find myself looking for something when I do not know what I am looking for. I usually know what keyword and then can refine it from there. I am also pretty good about keeping work in work folders and play in play folders, so I always know pretty much what I want.

Yep, however, is superb. If only Leap worked like Yep, where I could create smart folders for a certain keyword it would be more useful, but I can do that with the finder anyway.

It is hard to know whether I should rate this on use to me, or on its quality. It is a nice looking application, a little slow in places when you have as many files as I do, but seems stable. So, I think three stars is a reasonable compromise.  
(Version 1.0.4)

PAUL92  I've been using this on and off for a while and thought it was functional enough to register, but it seems to have a nasty side effect. It seems that when I use this software the hard drive B-Tree becomes corrupted. The most recent was so severe that I could not fix it with disk recovery software and was forced to reformat.   
(Version 1.1v52)

PAUL92  I am not sure what it is about this software, but I cannot get into it. While it seems to have many features, I feel restricted by the themes and the need to type in that ugly textbox, rather than laying out the text nicely. I like iWeb and I like Sandvox, both of which seem to offer more sophisticated text layout options. The problem with these is that iWeb lacks many of the features, including embedded HTML, and nested pages, while Sandvox (and RW) seem to limit you to one theme per site, and it charges extra for HTML embedding. I really hate that RW requires I switch back and forth between the code and preview modes, among other things.

The term Rapidweaver is a little miss leading because you can get up and running much quicker with iWeb or Sandvox. Both are more like page layout programs, which means you can drop pages in and start typing, but not so with RW. The interesting thing about iWeb and its themes is that they are all totally customizable, which means you can change them to suit a particular page. On top of that, you are not stuck with one theme per site, which is really nice.

RW's does seem to generate much tighter code than iWeb or Sandvox, but to me the difference is not significant when compared to useability. However, I am sure that people who are familiar with the program are happy with the program, but I feel that if I need to learn a program requiring code (versus iWeb) I should just use Dreamweaver.

Anyone considering this application should probably wait and see what the new iWeb has to offer.  
(Version 3.6.2)

PAUL92  This is a pretty credible piece of brewing software, although it really could use a little work on the usability front. Its real strengths over other Brewing Apps, for the Mac, is its ability to import recipes into a database, suggest recipes from ingredients if you have a recipe, export to a web page, and send to your iPod if you want to brew with your iPod.

The main problem I have with this software is how you enter the recipes:

1. Choose New Recipe from the menu and you would expect it to open a recipe blank to work on, but unfortunately you have to rifle through your recipes to find the new recipe and then double click to open.

2. Entering ingredients requires selecting from a menu, which I found to be incomplete in both the grains and the hops, and it was not immediately obvious how to change those.

3. Once a recipe is entered, if you want to make minor tweaks to the volumes or ingredients you can work with sliders for the ingredients, which is nice, but it is much more tricky to work with the volumes.

There are several other problems, but this are all generally minor and you can learn to adapt to them, or you can take a look at Beertools Pro. Although I have a registered copy of BeerAlchemy and use it for importing and viewing a list of recipes, I fear that the new unreleased version of Beertools Pro will trump all of BeerAlchemy's current advantages. It already trumps Beer Alchemy in terms of Usability and available recipes.  
(Version 1.5.2)

PAUL92  The problem I have with this application is that instead of just joining movie clips together, it renders a completely new clip, which takes a very long time even on my dual core G5. Spitfuse and portfolius allow you to create referenced and selfcontained files and operate much faster.  
(Version 1.1.4)

PAUL92  I was a bit concerned after reading some of the reviews, but so far I have had no problems combining H264 clips into one playable file regardless of whether it is a referenced file or a self contained one. I am then able to use Viddyup to convert the combined file into something for my ipod. Unless I find a major problem I intend to register this because it will help me develop files for the AppleTV.  
(Version 1.1)

PAUL92  Despite everyone's whining, Quicken is still the most comprehensive package and essential if you do anything other than just your checkbook.

I cannot remember the last time Quicken crashed on me.

Although I find the interface works well for me, I would like to see a more standard (perhaps one piece) interface, a PDA application that was not third party, and iPod integration.

I would also like to see a better upgrade path. Right now I refuse to pay every year for the minimal upgrades. In fact I have not bought a copy since 2005 because I got one free with my new Mac. I am not sure whether 2007 really offers a lot of upgrade value for the price, but I will probably upgrade in 2008.  
(Version )

PAUL92  I am not sure whether I am just a happy lucky person, or everyone else is unlucky, but I have never had any problems with Quicken.

I have tried pretty much every alternative out there, including Money Dance, and I keep coming back to Quicken. Moneydance is a really nice application, but when you are tracking stocks and mutual funds as I do I find Quicken is much more helpful. I really like its web based integration.

My experience is based on Quicken 2006 because that was my last upgrade. My next will be Quicken 2008, if it comes out.

Quicken seems to be one of those applications everyone like to bash, even though it is the only realistic solution.  
(Version R2)

PAUL92  The main attraction this application, for me, was that is is one of a very few that works with networked SMB shares.   
(Version 3.0)