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1. 
   Review - Logitech SetPoint (32-bit)

   4.40 (Jan 28, 2008)

   @djurbino: Yes, at 54MB they seem to have well and truly lost the plot - considering the software is not even half useful as it comes.
   
   For those that wish to make full use of the software, (i.e. fully programmable mouse buttons on a per program basis), then I recommend installing uberOptions, http://rlowens.googlepages.com/ Current beta works well with Setpoint 4.24
   
   Until Logitech get off their collective butts and give me what uberOptions can in less than 10MB, then at best it's very mediocre software considering how much they charge for their mice/keyboards.

2. 
   Review - Media Player Classic for Windows 2000/XP

   6.4.9.1 Beta 20080104 (Jan 4, 2008)

   @lukasavage: Why does it matter if it's EOL?
   
   I use quite a few programs that could called EOL as far as Secunia's limited mindset goes. As far as I'm concerned, EOL is when it ceases to be useful or a program that does it the way I want better. BTW, Secunia doesn't even detect it on my system - shows how good they're scanning is.
   
   For me, despite it's few bugs, it is still the best player I've tried, (which included VLC, KMPlayer, GOMPlayer, mplayer, etc).

3. 
   Review - Autopano Pro for Windows

   1.4.0 RC2 (Nov 15, 2007)

   An excellent program for creating panoramas from photos, (providing there is a degree of overlap).
   
   For the most part it is completely automatic, however I found that if you needed to tweak the "stitch" points that it was sometimes a frustrating process, eg. you need to select points at the full width of the edges you're trying to join otherwise you only end up with a partial panorama.
   
   For those not interested on paying the $140, AutoPano Pro is based upon the 'free to use' demo of AutoStitch: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mb...ostitch/autostitch.html
   The demo is fully functional, just remember to set output size to 100%

4. 
   Review - Hamachi for Windows

   1.0.2.1 (Apr 10, 2007)

   @DudeBoyz: I don't know when you started using this program but it must of been recently. Those limitations you pointed out between Free/Premium have been there for more than a year.
   
   An excellent program, (even the Free version), that enables you to create a no-hassle vpn - MUCH easier than trying to set up MS's vpn or even OpenVPN, (which is easy also).

5. 
   Review - iuVCR

   4.15.0.379 (Jan 23, 2007)

   @cginzel - If you've never used the program why are you even bothering to comment?
   This program doesn't claim to be a PVR, it also isn't a 12MB download, and doesn't do useless things like display photos, play MP3 files, and all the rest of that rubbish.
   
   This program is designed to capture video using a codec of your choice from an input, be it a tuner or capture card. It can apply various filters to input, apart from the included ones it can use any DirectShow filters also.
   
   I've found this to be the best program for transferring video from tape to disc using my tuner/capture card. Other programs, (VirtualDub included), just seemed to stop or not even start for no apparent reason.

6. Comment - Beta of Live USB Sugar OS opens

   4.15.0.379 (Apr 23, 2009 - 1:02 AM)

   There you go, you're back to being a zero :)
   
   Obviously it was just a case of 'shoot the messenger'.

7. Comment - Australia's future is in broadband, says PM

   4.15.0.379 (Apr 8, 2009 - 9:51 PM)

   You do realise that with only 1 ISP providing this network to start with, (the "Government"), it will make it so much easier to implement their rather draconian ISP-based Internet filtering. And any following sell-off of the network could be made with the proviso that filtering be kept in place.
   
   Don't you?
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/...censorship_in_Australia
   
   This country, (Australia), has gone downhill so much in the last 15-20 years. :(

8. Comment - Downloaders declare open season on OpenOffice 3.0 servers

   4.15.0.379 (Oct 16, 2008 - 12:29 AM)

   I hate to ruin your fantasy world but your perception of the word "broadband" is seriously misguided.
   
   Most of the planet doesn't have access to multi-megabit internet access.
   
   "Broadband" covers everything from 256/64 ADSL and up. Ergo, a 148MB download can be seen as being huge.

9. Comment - NPD: Free Blu-ray player deals led to boosted sales this month

   4.15.0.379 (Jan 24, 2008 - 6:58 PM)

   I'm so apathetic about this whole HD cr@p that I wish I hadn't replied.

10. Comment - Universal: We're staying with HD DVD

    4.15.0.379 (Jan 13, 2008 - 7:17 PM)

    Yes, I'm glad I no longer spend 5-6 hours sitting in front of the cr@p that passes for TV these days.
    
    I now spend 12-14 hours in front of the computer, watching and doing what I want :)
    
    BTW, this new BN comments format is so cool - the more irrelevant responses get to a comment, the narrower and narrower they get. It's just too bad that they don't entirely disappear after the first three.