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Where Inbox stands out from the current small crowd of GTD apps is that it tries to computerize as much as possible of the entire GTD process, and not just act as an electronic version of your notebook and filing cabinet. For instance, in addition to letting you enter items with a global hot-key at any time, it can also monitor Mail, iCal, bookmarks, or files, and collect everything new for you automatically, so you can sort through it to identify tasks at a time of your choosing.

Inbox is quite usable now, though not quite 'rock-solid'; say, 'oak-solid'. The few glitches are minor, like drag-and-drop re-ordering of lists not always 'taking', not like losing stuff.
They are working on Inbox 2, now, and will offer it as a free upgrade to Inbox 1 owners. The Inbox 2 development process is a lot more disciplined, so Inbox 1's disappointingly long beta phase should be much shorter for its succcessor.

The free demo is large enough to give a fair impression of the whole, but it's far from the best part of the game, so if you like the demo you won't be disappointed by the rest.

The graphics and such are well executed old school: isometric, with modest but decent animations and sound effects as candy coating on turn-based mechanics. It's a long game with a lot to see and explore, and an absorbing storyline (with several significant variations depending on player choices). It lets you smash monsters and gain levels, and explore a huge subterranean world. What makes it seem real is not cinematic visuals, but the way it makes you think so much about what it would take to survive in such a harsh place.

Actually I find the graphics are still quite good and yet the game runs well on an old flat-panel iMac G4 700 MHz. If you want a nice-looking shooter to liven up an older mac, this is surely the one.

For me the key feature of Trampoline is that it appears right under my mouse cursor, wherever it happens to be. Overflow looks very nice indeed, but since it pops up like any other window, it would still leave me raking my mouse half across my 23" screen whenever I wanted a Finder window. So to me that makes Overflow more suited, as its name and homepage suggest, for rarely used items that don't deserve dock space, rather than for the frequently used items that Trampoline targets.

I suppose that if your frequently used apps are actually running most of the time, then CMD-TAB and judiciously populated Finder sidebar and menubar could do much the same job as Trampoline. Somehow I've never quite gotten the keyboard-mouse co-ordination needed to make that kind of thing work well, though; I was always swinging the mouse down to the dock for things.

Does anyone see any real difference between Bullseye and Trampoline? I notice that it's now UB, as already mentioned, and that it looks a little sleeker than Bullseye did, and now additional "discs" can be opened to represent folder contents, but... I dunno, it seems like not a lot to justify doubling the price. Maybe it's just me, but there are so many launchers out there. I use Trampoline because of the free upgrade from Bullseye, which I registered before I knew that the free Quicksilver can do radial menus; had I known that, I probably wouldn't have been able to justify Trampoline's cost.

Quicksilver can do this too with the constalation plugin.And its free.

cough cough Quicksilver's Constellation cough cough free

I'm not a trampoline user and I've only messed around with Constellation menus plugin but they seem to be two separate things. In QS you are given a constellation of action items (not really applications). Trampoline is an application launcher. You could say that it and Quicksilver are similar but I'm not sure about the Constellation menus. They both have circular menus with pie shaped slices but it really seems to be an apples and oranges comparison to me. Maybe someone can enlighten me here?

This has got to be something like the twentieth note-collecting program I've seen lately. Every one of them seems to have its aficionados, so they probably all basically work if you want them to. What I'd love to see is a big comparison of them all.

I love all the features of this app, but it's so damn slow. For reasons unclear to me (I'm just a user), once I launch it, I sometimes have to wait a minute or two before I can enter text into a note. This occasionally occurs at other times, too -- it's hard to switch from typing into one open note to typing into another and I'm just sitting there looking at the beachball. Also, although you can do a kind of Searchlight search of the notes from a menubar icon, that is also weirdly slow, considering it's spotlight. Opening a category of notes from the collapsible sidebar window, also really slow. And it doesn't support tags.

Still, this is useful as a miscellaneous collecting tool, partly because it allows you to create a note while in another application using just a keystroke, without ever having to switch over to SoHo.

I'm still looking for a note software that I can use on a book project manage lots of and lots of text clippings with tags. It has to be fast and Notae looks good for this, although it seems kinda buggy.

Warning: If you're still using version 5 and upgrade to Leopard you will find yourself with unusable SoHo Notes. I stopped upgrading after the last one which gave me no usable functions. I didn't realize I'd be stuck in this quandry.

BEAUTIFUL DIGITAL COFFIN

I've been using SOHO Notes since it was StickyBrain and being given away free via .Mac. There are lots of things to like.

I especially appreciate being able to save web receipts with a simple keyboard shortcut - never having to go near the app at all. But therein lies the trap! What I've found is that I almost never go near this app. In other words, it's a glorified digital coffin: what goes in rarely comes out. I actually go INTO the app to retrieve or consult things I've clipped perhaps once every two months. And I almost never create my own notes in it, only clippings. Crazy! But that's the truth. It's become a simple repository. Which is one reason I haven't bothered with the most recent upgrade.

The other way I use it is as a backup/syncing location for Memos on my Palm (rather than using Palm Desktop). But again, I create/read/refer to the notes on my Palm and almost never in SOHO Notes, which is just a backup - although once, when I wanted to do some mass editing on a whole set of memos, it was very convenient to do it in SOHO Notes.

It can, as pointed out elsewhere, be a bit slow. Especially since it backs up the database every time you open the app. This may be another reason why it isn't as integrated into my workflow as perhaps it could be.

As I get behind on updates I'm seriously thinking about alternatives. For example, Yep tags and manages my pdfs very nicely, so I no longer need SOHO Notes for that; ReceiptWallet handles web and other receipts very well (and has some nice specialised touches); and there are alternatives for simple backup and syncing of Palm notes, including one that comes with Missing Sync, which I use. And I know there are other clipping/note collecting tools that are worth trying. I've also been exploring Google Notes, which has the advantage of giving me access to my notes at work and home. So SOHO Notes could be on the way out for me. We'll see.

PS. gdnss - thanks for the warning. I've yet to upgrade to Leopard - the so-called benefits aren't sufficiently compelling so I figure I'll wait till the bugs are ironed out and more apps have caught up. But it's good to know in advance that I'll definitely need to do a SOHO Notes upgrade as well (or that migration...)

An update. I upgraded to Leopard having forgotten about the good advice I read here! As a result I was obliged to fork out for the upgrade to SOHO Notes 7 in order to retain access to all my old notes.

And I'm glad to say there are some improvements. You now have the option of backing up on quit instead of start up, which makes a big difference.

Unfortunately (and this may be to do with my upgrade to Firefox 3 around the same time) SOHO Notes no longer captures the web page title when clipping from the web in Firefox. Every note clipped from the web comes out "firefox-bin (Grabbed)", which isn't very meaningful. Chronos tells me this is because Firefox doesn't use the same standard as, say, Safari, and so SOHO Notes can't capture the title. That seems odd, since version 5 (with Firefox 2 under Tiger) managed to do this fine!

Another downer: it no longer handles synchronisation of notes on my Palm. (I've turned to the elegant Notes app that comes with Missing Sync to do this now.)

Overall, still a beautiful digital coffin. But I'd also be the first to admit that I definitely don't exploit its potential or make use of all its features.

This has been one part of my solution to the problem of using the Apple German keyboard with TeX and Mathematica. I used Ukelele to turn off a few 'dead' keys, and to remap some umlauted vowels into convenient brackets for Mathematica. (For TeX I only needed the dead keys restored to life, since TeXShop and LaTeXiT have great auto-completion features that work even better than keyboard remapping.) Then I was able to use OS X preferences to make CTRL-^ toggle between my different keyboard layouts. The only thing more I could wish for would be a way to make this switching automatic upon changing focus to and from Mathematica.

No, version 1.1 only came out in February 2007. Enigmo 2 is a different game from the original Enigmo. It's truly 3D, it has laser beams and plasma streams instead of lava and oil, and it has a bunch more parts. Also the background is outer space, with slowly orbiting planets and asteroids and stuff, instead of the simple wall of Enigmo. Both games are good, and although similar in concept have quite different gameplay.

I just picked this up, and it is, by far, the most beautiful puzzle game I've ever played. Normally you'd have to play an RPG or Adventure game to get that feeling of being transported to another world, but this has that quality tenfold. The graphics are superb, the music takes over your mood, and you feel as though you're trying to repair alien technology in space.

Two thumbs up! Great work, Pangea.

this is amazing eye-candy, and a soberb puzzle!
apple should buy this game and bundle it with every mac they sell.

I apologize for hogging bandwidth here, but it seems worth emphasizing that Unison is just a fantastic program. I use it almost daily. After years of hype about the glorious future world of network computing, I've become cynical over how hard it still is, how often, just to get two devices to see each other over a local network, and how dangerous automated back-up stuff can still be. The effectiveness of Unison is spooky: it works the way the hype said everything would. It's like finding you can download a free jetpack.

Great software. I'm pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to set up powerful multi-machine syncing. And it's free. Thank you!

Deeper is nice, but it's just a subset of the things included in OnyX, which is also available free from Titanium Software. Since OnyX puts all the under-the-hood stuff I want to do into one package, I like it better. The only reason I can see to use Deeper is that OnyX makes you authenticate when you open it.