Favorite Files

1. Google Earth for Windows
2. Skype for Windows
3. Yahoo! Widget Engine for Windows
4. µTorrent for Windows

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - AOL Instant Messenger for Windows

   1.2.37.2 Beta (Apr 8, 2006)

   I felt like Aim Triton needed a real review on here. Not only for this version, but the whole software as a whole.
   
   I've always hated AOL, with their over-simplifying ways. But, I do have to say, that Aim Triton, as well as AOL Explorer are not bad at all. In fact they're quite good. Triton adds logging (although gone for this ver.), ads removed from the buddy list window, and many options to the list itself. I used to use Deadaim (www.jdennis.net), to remove ads and for logging, but I really don't miss it at all. The only ads on the IM window don't bother me at all.
   Another feature I like quite a bit, is that after you close an IM, if it's reopened in the same session, it'll show your previous chat conversation in the same window. Being able to hide buddies that are idle/away and not showing the offline buddies list is also quite nice. Although I don't use the search on the list window, it may be handy for some with lots of contacts.
   
   Other new features include, being able to quickly edit or make an away message with 2 clicks, invisible mode, and sort buddies by.
   
   Seriously, I welcome the new interface, I'm a CS major, and don't care much about the looks of an app, but eye candy always helps. For those complaining about bloat, sure there's things that I wish they weren't in here, like plaxo, or the radio, but even with all this "bloat", I LOVE that I can remove just about everything from the IM window and have it small and slim, no send bar, no formats bar, no tabs. Beautiful.

2. 
   Review - Yahoo! Widget Engine for Windows

   1.8 (Nov 8, 2004)

   Look amazing, very useful, unfortunately not very practical. Like others have said, they're huge memory hogs. Main app ~10MB, then 4-12MB per widget. Javascript probably isn't the most efficent thing to make these thigns, if somehow the memory usage could come down, then I don't see why everyone wouldn't these things. More options per widget would also be welcomed. eg. how often to refresh data, size.

3. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

   1.0 RC1 (Oct 28, 2004)

   Is there a list of changes for this version?

4. 
   Review - Maxthon (Classic) Standard

   1.1.035 (Sep 24, 2004)

   I love maxthon, but to me it's biggest flaw is that it's based on the IE engine. Unfortunately due to that, I've recently moved to FireFox as my default browser. At first, you notice quite a few key features missing in FireFox when compared to Maxthon, but you quickly learn that they are all there in extensions. Including Super Drag and drop, mouse gestures, and even more features that Maxthon doesn't have, like tab drag placement control, rocker gestures and other useful ones that you can personalize your browser to. Like I said, Maxthon is a great browser and I've only recently switched when FireFox reached 1.0PR, at first it was just the great password manager in FireFox (which fills in all your logins and passwords for a website as soon as the page loads, you just need to enter the correct master password when FireFox starts), but now I believe FireFox is overall better than any browser out there. That's my reasoning for rating Maxthon a 4.

5. Comment - Longhorn to Clamp Down on Storage

   1.1.035 (Sep 11, 2004 - 12:06 PM)

   that won't happen. Seems like it'll come enabled by default but there will be registry keys or some sort of lock for corp users if the company so desires.