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It's identica support leaves a little to be desired, but it's a very solid messaging application anyway. I'm sure, once it leaves Beta, these issues will be resolved. - Remy Porter

Great game. The online play makes it a lot of fun. It definitely takes a lot of getting used to, but despite the steep learning curve, it plateaus pretty quickly. From that point forward, it's all refinement. - Remy Porter

Best writing app, hands down. A writer's word processor, it doesn't let you get bogged down in stupid things, it doesn't try and foist its interface on you, it doesn't crowd the screen with toolbars. It gets out of your way and lets you do the task of writing. Love it. - Remy Porter

I hate installers to begin with. In OSX land, where I live, applications shouldn't need installers. I don't care if it's a cross platform application and it needs an installer on other platforms- there is no reason TurboTax needs an installer on OSX. But it's worse than that. No, for some reason, when an application launches a Vise-X installer (say, when TurboTax updates), it leaps to the front and takes focus. Why? Why do I care? The fact that I might be doing something more interesting than watching a progress bar is irrelevant to Vise-X. - Remy Porter

Not a lot of glitz or glam to Tomato torrent, but it does its job and it performs well. - Remy Porter

Ugh, I hate it. HATE IT. I'm no fan of Flash to begin with, and this damn thing lets Flash run as a native application. The big problem with that is there is no canonical widget set for Flash. No default buttons or drop downs. Everybody makes their own. This makes it inconsistent with my OSes visual theme, and that upsets me. A lot. Flash should burn in a firey hell. Air can feed the flames. - Remy Porter

Numbers isn't suitable for big-time crunching like you can do in Excel. There's no macros, no UDFs, and a somewhat limited subset of the more powerful statistical functions that some people absolutely depend on. I don't need any of those things, and that means Numbers is incredible. The UI is stellar, the price is right, and for lightweight financial management it's fantastic. - Remy Porter

It's Google Maps. AND my town has Street View. This is pretty much the best app for mapping out there, for end users. - Remy Porter

The OSX variant of X11 does not include OpenGL. This is incredibly annoying. - Remy Porter

I adore Pandora. I mostly use it via the iPhone app they distribute (I haven't put any MP3s on my iPhone). But it's a great desktop media player too. Everyone loves Pandora. - Remy Porter

This game is pretty weak. The textures on the sprites are great, but the animation is stiff. The whole game feels really stiff and the gameplay is sloppy. The fact that it looks so much like Super Mario World only serves to remind me that I could be playing a much better game. But hey, it's free! - Remy Porter

This game is pretty weak. The textures on the sprites are great, but the animation is stiff. The whole game feels really stiff and the gameplay is sloppy. The fact that it looks so much like Super Mario World only serves to remind me that I could be playing a much better game. But hey, it's free! - Remy Porter

Twitter is a walled garden, where Identica is wide open. The decision is clear- Laconica based microblogging is superior to Twitter. - Remy Porter

I'm happy to be one of the small number of users investigating Prolog. The UI on this tool sucks. But it does its job well enough. - Remy Porter

Aperture is a great tool for prepping photos. It's pricey and a resource hog, but it's still a good package. - Remy Porter

Best OSX IM system, hands down. Makes iChat look horrible in comparison. - Remy Porter

I'm specifically talking about the OSX variant. It's a good game, but the single player mode is crashtastic. It bogs down hard on certain actions in multiplayer, and custom maps can kill performance. Also, in Mac-land, we get no expansions, which makes me a sad panda. - Remy Porter

I don't use a television. I use Miro. It's the best way to get video, hands down. The only problem is that performance-wise, it sucks. It's a little buggy. - Remy Porter

The must-have vedio player on every platform. - Remy Porter

Citrix on OSX is okay. Performs well, but hell, I only use it to log into work. It does that job, well enough. - Remy Porter

I've been an LJer since the early days. It's the core of my social network, but it's ceertainly got its issues. - Remy Porter

I adore Identi.ca. Vastluy superior to tTwitter in most measures. - Remy Porter

I absolutely love NNW. With the web based syncing, I can read the same set of feeds on my phone, my work computer, and my home machine. It does its job well,. - Remy Porter

I've learned to love Evernote, especially now that they have an iPhone version. For the first time, I've ad a real need to sync information across machines. Love it. - Remy Porter

Growl is something that should be part of OSX. - Remy Porter

What Spotlight wishes it was. I can't live without it. - Remy Porter

It's a cute toy, but not terribly useful. Puts a picture of an inserted CD on your desktop, complete with little insert/eject animations. - Remy Porter

It's good, addictive fun. Not the greatest game on Earth, but I got it in a bundle of other software. - Remy Porter

I'm not a big fan of doing work. Organizing my files? That's work. Thank goodness I have hazel to do that job for me. - Remy Porter