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I'm all about open source and indie software, but there are times when you can't deny how great an application is. As much as I've looked for alternatives to Photoshop, I've yet to find one that wouldn't leave me jealous for those still using photoshop. Even with the price, I can't imagine using anything else for serious design work.

Sorry Gimp and the others, you're just not there. Sometimes you just need professional grade software. There are great open source/indie text editors, you just don't find it in Photoshop alternatives.

Hehe. This is a fantastic program. Submitted v3 icon.

Huge and expensive, great if you know what your doing, overwhelming if you don't. I wish there was a more consumer version of this application that was a Universal Binary.

This fu%#&ing app is still completely broken on Leopard.

The cursor disappears and selecting anything is impossible.

Do not buy. Do not use. Adobe has no respect for their customers.

I've used Photoshop for Windows professionally in all its versions since 5.0. Moving to the mac, I was looking forward to finally using the app on it's 'home turf'. But somehow they have managed to make Photoshop even less pleasant to install, configure and use on Leopard than it was on Windows. That's got to be some kind of engineering miracle.

Leaving aside the myriad interface woes, which there is not enough time in the day to describe, what galls me most about Photoshop CS3 on the mac is how un-neighbourly it is. After installation I found my Applications folder cluttered with Adobe subfolders, one for each component of the application - including several I hadn't agreed to install (Adobe Bridge, anyone? Adobe Device Central? Adobe Stock Photos? "Adobe Help Viewer 1.1", an application I am never going to run separately in my life?) Each of these folders was full to the brim with licensing agreements I'd already agreed to, and support files that should be living in /Library/Application Support/. None of these folders or applications can be renamed or moved after installation, otherwise the applications stop working. None of these components can be uninstalled without uninstalling the whole application - and you cannot even start the uninstaller without closing all your browsers first. This same casual, careless contempt for the user and their system extends to the design of the entire application.

After 7 years, trying it on the mac was the last straw; I have come to thoroughly resent this application and Adobe's attitude to software design. I'm frantically exploring alternatives because I do not want to be beholden to Photoshop for another minute of my professional life.

The only way Photoshop will get measurably better, faster or more pleasant to use is if they start again with a clean sheet of paper. I'm not holding my breath.

I'd love to avoid it but the competition is far behind !

There simply is no alternative to Photoshop. For every one person who knocks on PS because of a problem that specific user had/has, there will be hundreds if not thousands working perfectly fine with this beast of a program. That's simply the nature when the said program is at the top of the pyramid.

Pretty fun, simple game. Well simple to play, I pretty much lost everytime that I played. If you're into zombies, and who isn't, you'll more than likely enjoy playing.

This widget pretty much made me turn Dashboard back on. I had been very down on Dashboard but seeing this made me want to try it out. Liked it so much that I couldn't not use it.

Sadly, it stopped working with the new Google Analytics refactoring of reports etc.

What do you mean? It still works for me...or at least it appears to.

mine had a hickup when google changed my account to the new analytics, I just added the username/password again and it has been fine ever since.

There's a new version on the way which will take full advantage of Google's new reporting

Unfortunately it doesn't work.

Love it. Is it perfect, probably not. But what is. I've never experienced any of the crashes people here have mentioned. And like another person mentioned, KIT is like Notational Velocity on Steroids, and I love Notational Velocity.

But in the end, I use KIT and would recommend it to anybody.

What's the difference with DEVONthink?
The only difference I've found is the option to keep original format.
In DEVONthink, all text files change into RTF file, even Word file or Nisus file. Is there anything else?

With the latest release it became very useful and "stable" software. Now it doesn't lose documents when it crashes. Crashes seems to happen due to corrupt rtf and pdf files.

To compare it with devon: I like it more than devon because you can open and change your files with your favourite programs (i don't like editing long texts in the devon workspace).

Alas: there are two more changes which i would like to see in further versions:
a) hierarchical folders: i have too much stuff to get it organized in a plain way.
b) there some filetypes i would like to see added: mainliy Omnioutliner

I just bought this last night to keep a central repository for items related to my next vacation. I wish it had spotlight integration but other than that I like it.

The 2.0 version of (Keep It) Together is a major improvement. It combines some new features Now using QuickLook-technology it shows the content of files in a very fast and convenient way. There is also a dropper (which resembles some other organizers, which used this feature earlier. I think Together is the #1 app for browsing a huge amount of files. In the difficult field of organizing information, there are some features which are not implemented and would be able to make this app complete.
What's still missing?
1. The ability to tell the application to auto-write tags and labels into the spotlight-comments (like e.g. nifty box or punakea). That would be nice for people who switch between computers or working in groups on projects or for people who decide in a year to leave Together. If you do so, all your organizing tags and labels are gone, they are in no way attached to the files but only stored in the app's database.
2. Folders, groups and smart groups. Together now supports folders and folders packed in folders. That helps holding the list of items which belong to a special case (etc) short. But it doesn't support groups or smart groups packed into folders. I don't understand why. I think almost all people want to have at last a folder called archive which holds some goups (e.g. customer-groups or project-groups) and all files which are tagged "archive". It's hard to scroll through 300 groups and smart groups on an macbook. With the support of folders holding groups and smartgroups one can reduce this to 10 folders each containing a bunch of groups and smart groups.
3. Here's a "sugar on top"-suggestion: it would be nice when the files could be previewed in full screen mode and the comments field would be a floating field (watch the app "Papers" to see what i mean), that would be a nice feature to add comments and notes to long pdf-files).
So here is the summary: Together is a great app for conveniently storing tons of information and for browsing through it. It has nice labeling and tagging features. The organizing features are not fully sufficient, there are some lacks which limit the freedom of the user in organizing the stuff the way he likes, another problem is that you cannot switch to another application without loosing your tags. (I write this last point because i had the problem after using an early version of k.i.t. which collapsed orgainizing 800 mb of pdfs and rtf-files).

Needs .Mac syncing to be useful for me.