PDXMPH  Self-reply: He just wrote back and told me to look for news later this week. Fingers crossed. If it had failed to work on my MacBook, I wouldn't have put Snow Leopard on my primary machine.  
(Version 4.4.1)

PDXMPH  I hope anyone who gets word back from the developer posts it here. I sent a mail a few nights ago asking for some sort of status update and have yet to receive a response.

I paid for the pro version years ago. Nothing quite matches it in terms of flexibility and functionality. For now I'm using the (inferior) clipboard history feature in LaunchBar, but I really miss being able to pass clipboard items through scripts.

It still seems to work on Snow Leopard with the 32-bit kernel (my MacBook 4,1), but it's dead on my iMac running the 64-bit kernel. Probably time to start investigating the new roll-your-own services in Automator.  
(Version 4.4.1)

PDXMPH  ... Adium does Jabber as well ...

Adium does part of Jabber, to the extent you can use it to log in to a Jabber server and talk to other Jabber users.

Adium does not, however, support some features of Jabber/XMPP, like service discovery. So if you're using XMPP transports for sAIM and Yahoo interoperability and want to use Adium, you have to find a client that supports transport discovery (like Psi) to set up your contacts. There are other services besides the gateway transports, too: multi-user chat, the Jabber User Directory and at least one presence server. My understanding is that libpurple/Pidgin (hence Adium) will get transport discovery/registration in the future, but Psi's been doing it for a while.

Jabber.org used to have a client comparison chart, but it seems to be missing now. That's a shame, because it provided a good way to see which clients offered the very best support for XMPP, vs. "you can chat with it."

Oh, Psi also supports PGP (or at least GnuPG) encryption. Some people are heavily invested in that, and Adium does not yet support it.

... and is Universal.

Psi is also a Universal app. They need to update the information. I've got the current version sitting here in my apps folder and it's a UB.

Psi is a bit of an odd fit on the Mac, because Qt apps have that same "this isn't quite right" feel that Java apps are often accused of having. But for a Jabber/XMPP user who is heavily invested in all the features XMPP offers, there's not much choice on the Mac besides, perhaps, Spark from Jive.  
(Version 0.12rc1)

PDXMPH  Regarding saving or not saving data, the developer says "if you like the program, you can purchase it and install a license without ever losing your entered data."

This is financial software. There is no way I'd ever commit to buying or using anything having to do with my money until it went through a few pay/bill cycles. Microsoft offers 45 or 60 days of full functionality with the download trial of Money (last I looked) because it understands that people who are considering a purchase will need time to make sure it does what they need, and works as advertised. Especially in a market space that includes Quicken.

It's not reasonable to expect someone to purchase financial software, or anything that involves interaction over a period of time as part of its core function, on the basis of a single session. That might work for IM clients, RSS readers or other somewhat straightforward apps, but it doesn't make a lot of sense for a financial app.

I was interested in this, but can't countenance buying anything that gives me no way to revisit it in a week or two without requiring a bunch more data re-entry.

Not saying to snark or anything ... just saying that I think a 30 day trial period with full functionality makes a lot more sense. I'd be a lot more likely to give it a spin.   
(Version 1.2.1)

PDXMPH  Keeping in mind that it has been some time since I posted that comment, yes: I tried to fix it by disabling assorted haxies and whatnot. What finally *did* fix it was wiping its preferences and starting fresh.  
(Version 4.2.1)

PDXMPH  Nice app. I've been using GPS to geocache, track bicycle rides and record hikes for about six years, and I edited a book on geocaching (The Complete Idiot's Guide, avg. rating of 4.5 stars on Amazon). Prior to that, I used GPS tech in the army as a communications team chief and led training sessions on the use of the military's primary handheld unit in the mid/late '90s, and through 2004: the PLGR.

During that time I've gone through GPS apps on Windows (Nat'l Geographic's Topo! state series and street mapping sub-version, ExpertGPS) and the Mac (MacGPS Pro, Topo again, Topo's newest city versions) and Google Earth on both.

One very nice feature is the way TrailRunner provides useful maps at no cost to you. Nat'l Geographic makes its money on selling sub-par software wrappers around its map data. MacGPS Pro, while a good app, also has a hidden cost in that regard. You can see where you've been very easily ... if you want a map to interpret that, you'll pay for some data. TrailRunner downloads the maps you need on the fly. As the USGS data is slowly pulled behind for-pay walls in "private distribution partnerships," TrailRunner is providing a nice convenience. I also like how easily it produces kml files for use with Google Earth/Maps, which makes annotating and sharing run/ride information online a snap.

I recently upgraded my Garmin Forerunner 101 to a 205 to use for rides and runs, entirely because I wanted to be able to upload information instead of recording it by hand. When I compare what TrailRunner does for how I want to use it with all the other apps I mentioned, I'm really pleased. It took a little bit of time (none spent with the docs) to get it to work. It's under continual development ... several updates a week. All the author asks for is a donation. Compared to stuff I paid upwards of $100 for, that's a bargain.

I still appreciate Topo! for planning hikes (even though it feels pretty clunky and un-Mac-like), but for seeing where I've been and providing some useful information right up front, TrailRunner is great. I can get meaningful information out of it in very little time and with no fiddling.

Since free software is more of a time proposition than a money proposition, rather than asking "should I spend my money to have this" you should ask "should I spend my time documenting any bugs I've found to make this more useful to me?" I'd say that if you've tried it out and something hasn't worked correctly, it's definitely worth your time to take five minutes and let the author know of your problems. That's a small investment that'll pay itself off quickly if you've spent a lot of time trying to wring useful training information out of other GPS apps.

Four stars only because I think the user interface needs some simplifying and refinement. Nothing that detracted from my daily use once I figured out its quirks, but something that, once fixed, will make this app perfect for its audience.  
(Version 1.4v167)

PDXMPH  I'm also having problems with it since 10.4.9. It thrashes for a while then just doesn't work. I only get this log message in the console log:

caladan diskarbitrationd[45]: PTHPasteboard [15480]:55315 not responding.

I wrote the developers last week with that info plus more. No response. Bummed because I paid for the Pro version and depend on it for a big part of my daily workflow.  
(Version 4.2)

PDXMPH  I've been using TextSoap for work for some time now. I'm an editor dealing with an international bullpen that submits material in all sorts of formats and encodings. A big part of my job is normalizing text before editing it for content & style and handing it off to a CMS.

TextSoap was great when it provided nothing more than a GUI for some useful text transformations, but when the developer added regular expression support, it became something I don't want to be without. I can draw on a lot of the knowledge I earned on the Unix command line with tools like sed to handle the edge cases TextSoap's numerous out-of-the-box filters can't.

When TextSoap can't handle something specific, it's trivial to drop it into a larger AppleScript, because it has a clean, usable syntax for doing its thing in that context. If you can't do it in TextSoap but can do it with Perl, sed or similar, handling it with "do shell script" then handing the result off to TextSoap for its much easier AppleScript text processing works like a charm.

I probably use TextSoap 20 or 25 times a day, often to condense workflows that would take several minutes and be much more error prone into just a few seconds.

I could handle a lot of stuff TextSoap does with a little thought, a few raids on CPAN, and a lot of hacking. TextSoap saves me that trouble, and it has paid for itself in terms of time saved on an almost weekly basis for years.

Great tool. Great fusion of Mac simplicity with more powerful Unix idioms. The developer is responsive if something doesn't work, and he answers mail quickly, always looking for a way to help fix or explain things.

For a text-munger like me, who'd prefer to concentrate on content instead of fiddling, TextSoap is indispensable.

The one thing I'm waiting on and hoping for is some sort of interface with external Unix pipes. The developer said he's looking into it. Even if he never implemented that, I'd still be very happy with his product.  
(Version 5.5.2)