Favorite Files

1. Avant Browser
2. FastStone Image Viewer
3. Media Player Classic for Windows 2000/XP
4. Mp3tag
5. OpenOffice.org for Windows
6. POP Peeper
7. SpeedFan
8. Startup Delayer

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - SpeedFan

   4.33 (Sep 30, 2007)

   I used it for years. 5 stars.

2. 
   Review - FastStone Capture

   5.4 (May 14, 2007)

   5.4 is now Shareware.
   It's a very good app, but there are other good freeware utilities out there if you just use this occasionally. Price dropped this from a 5 (excellent) utility to a 3 (value).

3. 
   Review - Yahoo! Widget Engine for Windows

   4.0 (Mar 24, 2007)

   If you have v3, KEEP IT!
   This version is bad. The widgets do not reload in the same location, if they show at all.

4. 
   Review - Avant Browser

   11.0 Build 6 (Sep 27, 2006)

   The best IE based browser around gets better and better.
   
   Search engine?
   Just go to TOOLS/Avant Browser Options/Search Engine
   You can choose whichever one you want.
   Heck, you can choose any 5 you want.
   
   Useless URL bar??
   Drag the search tool bar to the same row as the MENU bar.
   Your URL bar will be full width.
   Assuming you're not in Compact mode.
   
   It's all about options.
   You have access to all the IE options PLUS a multitude of AB options.
   (Maybe too many for some people to handle)

5. 
   Review - PopTray

   3.2 (Beta 5) RC1 (Sep 5, 2006)

   This used to be a five star program.
   If you have 3.1 and like it, keep it.
   3.2 is way bad, unless you like annoying pop-up error messages.
   I realize this is a technically a beta.
   But I checked their "support forum".
   There are quite a few posts reporting the same error I keep getting at random (Socket Error 10054 connection reset by peer).
   
   The offical response is "there's nothing wrong with the program, it's your connection".
   It's hard to believe so many people suddenly have bad connections. Especially when this is the only program having errors.
   
   This same error has been reported for at least four months now.
   
   There's to many good free notifiers out there to put up with these annoyances. Pick a different one.