purcellsaidthis

In terms of thoughtful design, usability and enjoyment, this app is miles ahead of TrailRunner and Ascent. It made the best first impression of any app I've used before, and is more flexible for reporting by activity/date/distance etc. It's early days, and there are quite a few improvements to be made, but this seems destined to be the app of choice for GPS-using athletes.

Since it's not mentioned anywhere else, I'll note that the trial version is limited to saving only 5 activities, so don't import all your old data, spend time annotating it, and then take a week to think about whether or not to buy.

It's definitely much better looking than Ascent, which really looks ugly after using this for a few minutes. But it lacks the ability to get average HR for a lap and average pace for a lap (or an arbitrarily defined duration for that matter) which are essential features (which Ascent has) if you're going any kind of interval training. An app to watch, but not suitable for serious athletes at this point.

Ok....it is possible to get lap data, but only by selecting on the map. Laps don't show on the graph. And if you do an out-and-back route, selecting on the map will sometimes inadvertently select the out-and-back rather than the segment....but still looks promising.

Still it shares some of Ascent's shortcomings - no automatic elevation correction, no automatic lookup of weather - both of which are available on motionbased. I will wait until MB switches over to Garmin connect (Nov 08 or so) and see what it offers, then reconsider.

Glims provides almost the same functionality and much more, also for free. Glims restores all tabs into a single window, so it's not quite the same, but the search completion and other enhancements give it the edge for me.

@ purcel: it's not completely true what you said about the tabs. In Safaris preferences you can tell Glims NOT to unite all windows and tabs of the last session to a single window ;)

Very questionable usability. Dragging apps onto the "uninstall" area works like a breeze, but clicking to "Applications" or "Widgets" is a confusing experience. One can select a bunch of things to delete, but then there's no obvious "uninstall" button, except for the one in the toolbar which switches to the Uninstall pane and loses the current selection.

It would be much clearer if the "Search" button at bottom was instead labeled "Uninstall selected" or something similar.

I have to agree with the previous poster, on one point. The 'Search' is somewhat counter-intuitive, and I believe it should be replaced with an 'Uninstall' button (or some other similar string).

A very well-thought-out collection of little Safari enhancements, including such gems as "Focus search field in new windows".

Sweet application. Works fine so far. Much nicer than Saft which I could not stand to use.

great plugin, I prefer it to inquisitor and saft

It's great, I mean Glims=Saft+Inquisitor and has better performance than safaristand

Despite the Japanese description above, this widget has a full English translation, and is therefore a good alternative to widsense, which at the time of writing has once again stopped working for me.

Looks promising, but it's still very early days for this program compared to, say, TrailRunner and Ascent. The UI is pretty fragmented, and maps didn't work at all for me.

Hands-down the most sophisticated Mac software for analysing training sessions, with nice graphs and maps, and animated replays. Garmin's Training Center is pretty basic in that respect, but can't be entirely replaced by Ascent for many people because it is needed for planning future workouts and saving them onto the GPS device.

TrailRunner has most of the basics covered, and unlike Ascent it allows one to build a personal database of tracks & routes, and pre-plan routes. Plus, it allows manual entry of tracks and training sessions. Both apps are multi-sport. Ascent's structured scheme for annotating training sessions with attributes such as "Weather" is better. It's not obvious how to filter data based on those attributes, or how to correlate weather with performance, for example, but export options include CSV, so analysis could presumably be done in a spreadsheet.

Both Ascent and TrailRunner have some usability issues, but each is a solid app and has its place.

Great for web development and gimmicks, but for day-to-day browsing Safari is faster and integrates with the Apple Keychain.

do yourself a favor, a big big fat favor: please do not use any windowZ stinky software on your gentle, elegant and one-of-a-kind best human friendly computer on earth.
Why to put this ugly heavy piece of garbage loaded with poisons in a HEALTHY BEAUTIFUL machine called MAC ???
Am I right to assume that majority of FF users and lovers are windowZ refugees ?
I was one, and didn't like FF, because it was as heavy and bloated as IE.
Now I have ZERO windowz crap in my iMac.
I don't need and nobody else has no need.
SAFARI is the BEST light and elegant browser, iPhoto is better than any MS software, iWorks is better and more useful than MS Office and Open Office...etc.

Firefox 3 is an entirely different beast from Firefox 2 on OS X. By that, I mean its actually a usable browser. Not only is it usable, but it works great. I use it more than I do Safari.

I LOVE Firefox 3!! I was nervous about upgrading (why mess up something that's already perfect?) but it's definitely better than 2.0. It makes me want to surf the internet more! A couple particular things I love: that it asks if you want to save a password in a way that allows you to choose to save it only after you have seen that it WORKED. The fact that it has smart bookmark folders. The new address bar that shows me what address I might be typing with so much more than just the URL. Oh, and I seem to be one of the very few, but I LOVE the way it looks, no theme needed! (Except Styles to add favicons to the bookmark toolbar). LOVE IT!

For those looking for an extension that allows to drag a file into the attachment/upload box itself (eg: in gmail), there's dragdropupload.

Also works for multiple files, and: in Gmail only, you can also drag files onto the "Attach a file" link itself,
and they will be entered into the attachment boxes.

More info here.