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Excellent! It does flv playback.

Coupled with Quicktime Pro, this becomes the ultimate conversion software.

Essential.

@ecable: try mplayer

THIS IS THE BEST.

I just banned VLC, not because VLC is bad, but beacause I only want to have one media-player :-).

Video showing how to download a Flash Video file from YouTube, using only Safari and its activity window, then watch the flv file with quicktime:
http://perian.org/#watch

I don't see .wmv support on the list. So this won't interfere with Flip4Mac then, right?

@oldsystem: No, Perian will not interfere with Flip4Mac's WMV Player

if you watch many videos, this is a must-have!

It's so slow on my macbook so i run it in parrallels desktop

I use Photoshop a lot and I don't think I'll be replacing it any time soon. There is nothing out there with it's relative usability or versatility. It is however a beast, as the comments below confirm. For basic image editing I use ChocoFlop. Yes its still in Beta, but it looks very promising. Oh and its fast.

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.