STUGOTS  If it's advertised as being available for my country, and it doesn't work in my country, that's an EPIC FAIL. Get over yourself.  
(Version 0.9.1)

STUGOTS  As supplied, this doesn't work for North American names. Fail. (if you live in NA.)  
(Version 0.9.1)

STUGOTS  I installed this update, but the About page says it's b207. Is Macupdate out of date or does the app not report the correct version?  
(Version 2.6b221)

STUGOTS  This does exactly what it needs to do, no more and no less, and another review noted. I'd used it all the time, except that I have a paid subscription, and I can't login to my account via the app.

The "account" pulldown is displayed, but it's not functional. I'm running SL.  
(Version 1.0.17)

STUGOTS  For alternatives, I looked at Shrook and Vienna. With Shrook, you can sync to their optional $20/year service. Vienna doesn't have syncing yet, but it's on their wishlist. And Vienna is open-source. I switched to Vienna because syncing isn't important to me right now.   
(Version 3.2b13)

STUGOTS  Some of them might say, I paid for this software a year or so ago, and a major feature will stop working in August. And that's unreasonable.  
(Version 3.2b6)

STUGOTS  Delve deeper, and you'll find that some people paid for NetNewsWire before it went free.

At least one pointed out that he/she never got a refund for their payment. So now, rightly or wrongly, they're a little perturbed that they have to pay again to not see ads.  
(Version 3.2b6)

STUGOTS  So you give it 5 stars before you've even run it? Brilliant.  
(Version 3.2b6)

STUGOTS  I switched to this from NetNewsWire, after the NNW Beta update nuked most of my subscriptions.

I find Vienna to be very stable, with a cleaner UI than what I've been used to with NetNewsWire. There's a better use of real estate. The overall visual design looks far more polished than what you usually find in an open-source project.

The default fonts are OK but there are better choices, IMHO. They are easy to change in the preferences.

The only feature I miss is synchronization with a service out on the web, so I can share my feeds between work and home. (*Not* Google Reader, TYVM.) From what I gather in the support forum, synchronization is one of the new features being considered.  
(Version 2.3.3.2304)

STUGOTS  I've used NetNewsWire for over a year, and never had a problem with it. When I read the update notice, I immediately updated.

After the update, 3/4 of my feeds disappeared. And my clippings folder disappeared. Pfffffft, gone.

I tried making a new folder to start recreating some of the lost feeds from memory. And discovered that a folder name containing a "," made it take a big dump over some of my remaining feeds.

I know its a Beta update, but geeze. This thing should have gotten more testing before being released.

Adding insult to injury, there's no, zero, naught new features or UI improvements. They changed the Dock icon, very nice. Everything else is the same. So, NetNewsWire is now just a UI front-end to Google Reader. Except that it nukes some of your feeds.  
(Version 3.2b6)

STUGOTS  "Don't know, why so much people are bashing this product (is it, because there is no choice?)."

No, it's because it doesn't work. It's still very unstable and hard to use.  
(Version 8.0.608)

STUGOTS  I've used Retrospect for years, and tried most of the 8.0 Betas. Retrospect 8.0 is *not* yet ready for production use. It was rushed to market. Check their support forums (there are two, one for general questions and one for bugs), you'll see it has a lot of problems. Network performance is extremely slow, optical devices don't work, scripts get randomly mangled, and it crashes a lot for some users.

When they've debugged it, this may be a great product. They've dreamed up some nice new features, and the new UI may one day be great. But for now, stay away.  
(Version 8.0.608)

STUGOTS  same thing here... fail...  
(Version 1.3)

STUGOTS  It's way too easy to permanently delete a note. I hit the delete key, thinking I'm deleting a character in the note, and -poof- it's gone. No trash can, no delete confirmation message. This app needs preferably both, but definitely at least one or the other.  
(Version 1.21)

STUGOTS  The UI doesn't have all the Mac touches (no shift-select to select a range of sites, selecting and updating bookmark fields is a tad idiosyncratic, etc.). And, I got different results on some bookmarks each time I ran this, which could have been caused by network conditions, or conditions at the target sites, but maybe not.

However, this does the job, and it's free. It's hard to ask for more out of a free app. Using it, I cleaned out a LOT of dead cruft in my bookmarks. It's not perfect, but it's hard to beat the price.

If you're going to run this repeatedly, you want to also have a terminal window open on ~/Library/Safari so you can delete the Bookmarks_saved-by_sbc.plist file before each execution. I found it useful to open open the preferences and crank up the site timeout value, and increase the number of simultaneous requests outstanding value.

Basically, you run this, click a button, and wait for it to finish. Then, click the status column header to order the status results (Eh, this was a little clunky IMHO), and find all the 404's, 500's, 301's, etc. bookmarks.

You can also order the window by name or URL, which is a poor-man's way to find duplicate bookmarks.  
(Version 1.30)

STUGOTS  Three limitations make this less useful than it could be...

You've got to click a button to send your tweet. It would be more convenient if Return could send it. The widget window isn't resizable (Hmm, is this a limitation built into dashboard widgets?), so the display window that shows e.g. your friends' tweets can't grow. I wish I could, say, extend the widget's height to be the height of my display. Lastly, and maybe this is also due to the Mac dashboard, there's no system notifications (e.g. Growl). So I won't know that a friend said something interesting unless I happy to flip to my dashboard and happen to see it.

It's a nice looking widget, and I really like how you can select the service, e.g. identi.ca, instead of being hardwired to use Twitter. I'm looking for micro-blogging client for my team to use at work, and this comes close to what I want us to use.  
(Version 09)

STUGOTS  Will do.  
(Version 1.0)

STUGOTS  Elegantly done, and works very well. Notes should have icons for creating lists and checkboxes, at the bottom edge of the note -- Little check-mark or list icons ought to fit. I managed to crash it within the first 10 minutes (OS X 10.5.6), which is a slight cautionary sign...I wasn't doing anything tricky, at least, I didn't think so. I was just flipping between a few notes I had created, and boom it crashed.

The design's great, and the functionality is quite nice. I think it's a tad overpriced, though. $17 is a lot for this functionality, as good as it is. I'd buy it for work and home right now, if it were priced a bit less.  
(Version 1.0)