SCOTTISHWILDCAT  "allows you to convert Open XML files that were created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows so that you can open, edit, and save them in earlier versions of Office for Mac."

Where does it say anything about TextEdit or Pages?  
(Version 1.0.1)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  There's nothing the application can do about that. The BBC's servers block http access to iPlayer from non-UK ISPs. Your only hope is to find a web proxy based in the UK and go through that (but the BBC are getting wise to that, too).  
(Version 2.1)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Why would you pay for this when you can do it with Automator for free? (And probably Preview too, in Leopard.)  
(Version 3.6.8.1)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Certainly some nice enhancements in 2.0, for Mac users... the native interface isn't much to write home about, but full screen mode works a lot better (especially with Spaces/Expose), and seamless mode now works properly on secondary displays.

Not being limited to NAT networking any more is cool, too..  
(Version 2.0)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  I'm not sure which is scarier... the fact that somebody can charge $100 for this, or the fact that any school would use iWeb as a way to teach web design.  
(Version 2.0)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Great little lightweight vector design tool, but (for my purposes) let down by poor quality of SVG imports.

LineForm costs roughly the same amount and imports even complex SVGs perfectly, but has a less polished UI.

I guess I'll be sticking with the (free) Inkscape.app for now, which has the advantage of saving natively to SVG too...  
(Version 1.4.2)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  No, StarOffice 9 includes some proprietary technologies that aren't in OpenOffice 3.0, so Sun has to charge for those. Other than that, the two products will be mostly identical.  
(Version 9.0b)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  (MBP, 10.5.3) Install the huge download, select File->New... nothing happens, except that it crashes a couple of minutes later. Waste of time and effort.  
(Version 1.0)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  There's also an Aqua version of OpenOffice that doesn't require X11.

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html  
(Version 2.4.1)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  On the other hand, OpenOffice runs a lot quicker than NeoOffice, for me at least. So the Aqua version is a very welcome addition to the list of choices.  
(Version 2.4.1)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Ok, I spoke too soon... it downloaded lots of nice .mov files for me, but neither QuickTime nor VLC can play them. VLC's error is "mp4: MP4 plugin discarded (no moov box)", QuickTime just says it's not a movie file.

Am I missing something...?  
(Version 1.1)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Works very nicely so far, just wish I'd known about this last month when I was desperately faffing around trying to hook up my virtual Windows machine (running in VMware) to my telly to watch a couple of programmes before they expired!  
(Version 1.1)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Can't you set the resolution to whatever you like just by making the guest window bigger? I have a Solaris VM quite happily occupying all of my 1920x1200 24" monitor here in 1.6.2...  
(Version 1.6.2)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  VirtualBox is free, and it's just as easy to use as VMWare or Parallels.  
(Version 2.3.7)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  If you believe that, then I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken... however, using srm instead of rm will do the trick.  
(Version 5.8.2)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  All this app does is turn on a preference that Apple have hidden and turned off by default.

The reason it's off by default is that it has serious bugs-- I have colleagues who have (completely) trashed their backup disks using it, when turned on.  
(Version 1.1)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Have to agree. I've been trying to get it to do something, anything useful all morning, and so far haven't got it to do anything. The documentation, especially the Quick Start guide, is awful.  
(Version 2.2.3)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Since Apple bought CUPS earlier this year, why should we have to download somebody else's version any more?  
(Version 1.3.4)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  A bit strong, perhaps-- I consider myself a power user of usenet, and have never used a binary newsgroup in my life!  
(Version 0.8.184)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  It may feel like one, but it sure doesn't look like one-- I hope they manage to put a more Cocoa-like UI on the main player window before it's done. It's a real 1990's Motif/Windows 3.1 flashback at the moment.  
(Version 11.0 Beta (build 631))

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  This will probably come as news to the many companies and government administrations who are running StarOffice or OpenOffice on all their machines...

http://www.news.com/2100-1001-949913.html

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1637434,00.asp

http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/soa/Linux-StarOffice-slash-IT-costs/0,139023731,120279555,00.htm

http://uk.sun.com/sunnews/success/finance/2003/115.html

etc...  
(Version 2.2.2 patch 2)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  The native Mac port of gtk+ is well underway, that should remove the need for X11 with apps like this.

http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx  
(Version 2.6)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  If you don't want to use X11, use (or write) a Cocoa app that's built on the GIMP libraries, rather than GIMP itself. That's how Adium did it. "If you build it, they will come."  
(Version 2.4rc3)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Obviously enough for VMware to make the effort :) I know a couple of dozen people who run Solaris in VMware, and most of them tried Parallels first-- that sort of word of mouth can't be good for business...  
(Version 3.0.5158)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  Still no Parallels Tools for Solaris guests... VMware Fusion way ahead here.  
(Version 3.0.5144)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  +1 for VMware, especially if you're *not* running Windows in the VM-- their VMware Tools for Solaris are great (providing on-the-fly desktop resize, clock sync, drag+drop/copy+paste between OSX and the Solaris guest OS etc.), whereas Parallels provides nothing at all for Solaris.  
(Version 3.0.5060)

SCOTTISHWILDCAT  RSS works fine here, although it's a pretty limited feature compared to standalone RSS readers like Vienna or NetNewsWire. Just choose "RSS News and Blogs" in the Create New Account window.   
(Version 2.0rc1)