THEBRIX2008  Radioshift has the best user interface and the widest range of available stations of any stream grabber I have used; the sheer ease of searching and bookmarking is great, and the interface for recording has greatly improved since v1.0.

The problem for me (in the UK) is that other products are improving fast; BBC iPlayer, after a poor start, is now a potential replacement for the BBC stream handling, with Listen Again saving the bother of setting up timed schedules and the freeware iPlayer Grabber doing a lot of what Radioshift does anyway, and the schedules are more complete; Radioshift uses a third-party source which offers generic titles such as "BBC Radio 4 Documentary" rather than the actual name of the programme, presumably for copyright reasons.

And the astonishing FStreamer is "good enough" for everything else.

Was Radioshift worth $32 at v1.0? Certainly, because nothing even remotely close to it existed at the time. Will it be worth $32 in the future? More doubtful, especially when it doesn't do video at all.  
(Version 1.1.1)

THEBRIX2008  As others point out, The Tagger is going to have to be good to justify paying anything for it, given that iTunes and now Songbird have the same facility for free.

Certainly filling in tags is much slicker than either of these, and some of the facilities to copy between tags are very useful. (I particularly like the ability to set filenames from tags, which is an easy fix to some horrible messes).

Unfortunately, the user interface needs a lot of improvement; I work with classical music, which tends to expose problems with such packages, and here is no exception; the user interface offers two panes, display on the left and edit on the right, and the sheer length of some tags in the display pane means that the edit pane on the right is pushed partly off the screen. Why not put edit below display or even merge them, allowing edit in place? In addition, some of the fields (particularly Title) in the edit box are far too short and, for some reason, the edit box is fixed width but the display box is variable width, which I feel is the opposite of what is needed.

That is the big issue; the only other major problem is that auto=numbering (e.g. of filenames) doesn't support a leading zero (01,02,...09,10...), which means that the files don't sort properly in Finder and I have to use Name Mangler to rename them again (!)

A decent first try, but I regret to say that there are better freeware packages for other platforms (MP3Tag for Windows, for one).  
(Version 1.1)

THEBRIX2008  This is a massive improvement on v3.x. The most important of all is that the board is easy to read at any scale with the "Gameknot" font; down with bitmaps! The database usage is as slick as ever, and the engine handling is now up-to-date (supporting UCI engines). As well as handling existing games I have no problem playing new games with computer opponents; that is not the case with some other chess database programs.

There are still a few shortcomings:

1. The icons (application and documents) are not up to modern standards;

2. The preferences screen needs clarification (for example, how fonts, board graphics and colours go together is unclear);

3. Some of the font rendering, particularly in the right-hand pane (game score), is messy;

4. Unless I am missing something, it is not possible to set UCI parameters against an engine which means that, for example, Glaurung 2.0.1 cannot be used with its opening book;

5. The game downloader - a nice touch which allows This Week in Chess games to be downloaded automatically - fails with "Where is BOMArchiveHelper.app?"

6. It is not clear where tablebases are stored, although they are referred to by the program.

7. The program insists on recreating a folder ~/ExaChess Games if it is deleted. (It contains various classic game databases and similar).

But these are relatively minor points - although I am not keen on the behaviour exhibited by 7 - and the program, in general, works well.  
(Version 4.0b6)

THEBRIX2008  I am a keen user of OpenOffice (PC/Linux) and NeoOffice (Mac) and I must say that IBM has done a great job here - all existing files load and save perfectly, including those with macros and/or password protection, and the user interface is a significant improvement over that of the other packages, which is frequently muddled or overwhelming. Everything is just easier to get to - grouping of open files in a single tabbed window, the permanently-visible palette with common options on the right hand side (perhaps borrowed from iWork, but never mind), the rearranged and simplified menus and, in particular, the completely reworked Preferences. Finally, jargon has been stripped out, more important and less important options are physically separated, and those for each subprogram (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation) are available at the same time!  
(Version 1.2b)

THEBRIX2008  This is a great application and (nearly) unique for the Mac. I have two old POP3 email accounts which are completely overrun with spam but, occasionally, have a worthwhile email sent to them so cannot be ignored for too long. The inbuilt spam checks look "too simple" but, in fact, work very well and it takes a couple of minutes per day to manage these accounts. Much faster than downloading to an email client or redirecting to a Web mail account to filter there!  
(Version 2.4.9)

THEBRIX2008  Camino still stands up splendidly against the rest - although it may lack fireworks, the basics are done solidly and without fuss and it is fast, particularly with the Core 2 Duo optimised builds that are available. And it still has unique features - I am surprised that the built-in ad blocker is either omitted elsewhere or implemented so poorly the authors might as well not have bothered (Opera, OmniWeb).

Plus - the two make-or-break attributes for me - it has a 1Password plugin and it works with two Web sites I use which fail with all WebKit-based browsers and for which there seems to be little interest, on either side, in fixing. Unfortunately, one is my share dealer and the other is my pension provider, so they have to work ...  
(Version 1.6.4)

THEBRIXTON  RSS menu would be excellent - at face value, it is better than any of the Dashboard RSS readers - if only it were stable! The process has to be killed depressingly often (spinning beachball and 100% CPU usage), and this problem has gone back a long way: I stopped using the application at about 1.3.x, came back at 1.7.2 and was sorry to see it again.

It is frustratingly hard to pin down a scenario where the problem occurs, but I have over 20 feeds updating every 30 minutes and 2 feeds every 10 minutes. It seems to be more likely to happen just after waking from sleep.  
(Version 1.7.2)

THEBRIXTON  GyazMail has become my primary mail client for five reasons:

1. Images, HTML/script content and similar potential problems are unfailingly parsed out of spam, something which Mail.app still does not do infallibly;

2. Very fast at retrieval, even over encrypted connections (gmail/gmx) which other clients often slow down excessively at;

3. Each account is strictly separated in the folder hierarchy - I am not a fan of "universal inboxes" and similar attempts to divert every account into one structure;

4. Straightforward - even slightly old-fashioned - user interface with a lot of customisation possible;

5. Easy integration with Growl and SpamSieve; both "just work" without any scripts or plugins having to be installed.

Overall, excellent, and a reminder that the latest user interface fashions may not last.  
(Version 1.3.8)

THEBRIXTON  Excellent. I used to use Privoxy for ad filtering, but removed it because it became out of date and no longer caught the latest scripting tricks for pushing ads. BFilter is bang up to date and I have had no problems so far. Unlike, for example, Pith Helmet, it works in everything; the trick the author has implemented to do this (Apple menu, then Location, then select your location prefixed with "(BF)" to turn the filter on, or select your location only to turn it off) is brilliant and saves typing the details of proxies into Web applications, as Privoxy required.

The only minor demerit is that the GUI rules editor is Windows-only. However, the default rules are faultless and there should be no reason to edit the text files which contain them.  
(Version 1.0)

THEBRIXTON  Fast, well laid out and an eyeopener (the GB of space taken up by GarageBand and iDVD support files!) ... but derailed by giving incorrect results. My iTunes folder is described by Finder as 32.1GB, but is reported by WhatSize as 23.7MB, and the error propagates backwards through the tree. That appears to be the only error here, but it's a bad one.  
(Version 10.3.9)

THEBRIXTON  Excellent - in many ways, superior to iTunes for ripping. The keyboard navigation is perfect - when dealing with Baroque music, which tends to have a lot of tracks with very similar names, it is easy to fill in dozens of tracks without effort using only the arrow keys and cut+paste. Bravo!  
(Version 0.5.6)