I admit the bundle is a bit weak.

I already have MacJournal, Picturesque and Opacity but I was hoping to
pick up Vinoteka as it makes it easy to document what you liked/disliked
about a bottle and it facilitates wine tasting in groups. I'll probably end up
buying it at full pop.

HoudahGeo mildy interested me along with Morph Age. This bundle really needed more mainstream apps

Enough with the "Delicious Monster hasn't been the same since Mike Matas left" Mike's not a programmer folks he's an art guy. You want to talk about what Will had to deal with how about losing guys like Mike Lee or Lucas Newman, Drew Hamlin and Scott Meier to Apple? Will didn't excessively whine about it either he did what he needed to get DL out. Some of you are clueless.

Worth is relative. Parallels may not mean squat to a PPC owner but it may be a great deal for the Intel Mac owner. The reason for the bundles is to expose Mac users to new software. The easy part is creating the application, registering and putting info up on a webpage. Those are relatively fixed costs. However the one thing that rules the commerce landscape is the need to advertise and gain new paying clients. There's a reason why printers today are so cheap (the money is in the toner/ink) or why razors are always on sale in the Sunday paper (the money is in the blades) software developers have to build up a mass of paying customers and if it costs them sending out their software for next to free then that's the way it is.

Think about it..a finished software product is a sunk cost so giving it way is far less financially damaging than paying beaucoup dollars on fancy advertising at least up front.

It's also a way for some newbie developers to gain marketshare against the established incumbent program.

You'll probably like DVD Remaster Pro then if you're a Handbrake fan. It's interface is pretty solid and I haven't heard many complaints about the performance either. I have it already but I don't have a Apple TV or iPod Touch yet so I don't need to compress video as of yet but it's there waiting for me when I do.

Spendy for sure but the thing I like about this HTiB is that it offers 2 HDMI inputs. Let's face it if you've got even one more HDMI device many of these integreated HTiB don't handle such a system well. You may have a cable box or a HD Tivo or any other the other HDMI based devices that you want to switch to.

I'm awaiting the reviews on this to see if it's more than gloss and the Levinson name.

Right clicking what? You mean to get a contextual menu of some sort?

It looks like Overflow but it's not an app launcher. It seems to run Applscripts or some sort of script when a file is dropped onto an icon. Hence the reason why 3rd party developer support is needed.

Ignore the dication comment that was 1password doing its thing.

Voice dictation has a much brighter future than multitouch IMO. I've used and trained people with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and once you get the hang of it you can easily get %90 accuracy. This version doesn't use Macros and that will need to change as Macros really begin to display the power of voice recognition.

I just picked up 7 new HD DVD today for $35 at Fry's Electronics. Formats don't stop existing because they no longer have new titles. Today I saw first and second generation HD DVD players for sale on craigslist for 50 and $80 respectively. Since i'm in no danger of not being able to play my discs I and others are clearly looking for great deals and we're finding them. Any movie that I can buy for 6 bucks saving me shelling out 2-3x the money for the Blu-ray version is a win for me.

Come on Darren stick to delivering the information. Engadget isn't the place for witty humor though you guys feeble attempt at it is amusing. I know plenty of people that still have a bunch of HD DVD discs in addtition to Blu-ray so having dual support is still a decent feature.

Though I won't purchase because most of these prefabbed HTPC are ungodly expensive.