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Member since April 18, 2005

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    Kramy Yramk

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  1. Review - Paint.NET

    3.01 (Mar 25, 2007)

    v3.0 no longer supports Windows 2000. A bit sad, since Win2k suffers from MSpaint as well, but nothing we can do about that.

    Found the last version to support Win2k:
    http://tinyurl.com/2opk6n

    Would be nice if betanews mirrored it, for people with Win2k.

  2. Review - Diskeeper 2009 Lite

    7.0 Build 418 (Jan 5, 2007)

    Pros:
    -Doesn't use Microsoft's defrag engine.
    -Takes as little as 30 mins for a whole drive. If you defrag regularly, under 5 mins all the time!
    -Runs in background - you can defrag while playing games or doing other tasks without it interfering with anything.

    Neutrals:
    -It pops up requests that you buy the full version to access disabled features.
    -Interferes with Folding. May interfere with other idle priority processes.

    Overall, there's not much negative about it. It's free, resembles the XP defragger, and is a hundred times faster!

    Edit: Download seems dead right now. Snag it off Majorgeeks.

  3. Review - CPU-Z

    1.36 (Aug 19, 2006)

    Latest version has broken voltage monitoring for my Socket-A Athlon XP, and also starts up slower. Still a good program.

  4. Review - cFosSpeed

    3.01 Build 1140 Beta (Jun 27, 2006)

    Y'know...cFosSpeed has been on sale for over 6 months now. Why not just lower the price on betanews? :P It's not like $29.00 is accurate anyway; it's €29.00.

    I wonder if they found out that they had more buyers if they lowered the price?

    Anyway...I now use this for voice chat. I editted one of the ini files to put Ventrilo on lowest priority. Now whenever hosting games, voices randomly blitz out from time to time, but the alternative is having people lag out of the game. Overall I'm finding cFosSpeed very useful as I expand which programs I use daily, and for customizing just how my bandwidth is used in realtime.

  5. Review - MediaCoder

    0.5.0 pre4 (Jun 27, 2006)

    This makes media encoding easy...and though less featured than VirtualDub, at least it doesn't complain about missing VFW codecs.

  6. Comment - Sony Strikes Back with PS3 Price Cut

    0.5.0 pre4 (Sep 23, 2006 - 10:45 PM)

    It's true. I know someone that had to send his XBox360 back to MS twice.

    The first time the optical drive burnt a hole through a collectors edition of a game.

    The second time something happened to the GPU, and it would no longer send a signal to any display device.

    Unfortunately, his warranty ran out just before the second time it died, so he had to pay lots of $$$.

  7. Comment - Another Dell Laptop Catches Fire

    0.5.0 pre4 (Jul 28, 2006 - 7:22 PM)

    1:600,000 roughly, I'm guessing. Many people experience insanely hot Dell laptops. All they have to do is leave them running in a hot location, and they're screwed.

    Recently it was over 40C here for a week. My Athlon XP briefly idled at 59C, which is insanely hot. I imagine if I had one of these Dell laptops in this weather, there's no chance it'd stay in one piece. It's at least something to consider.

  8. Comment - Intel Plans August Core 2 Duo Launch

    0.5.0 pre4 (Jul 27, 2006 - 2:36 PM)

    First decent Intel processor. GJ Intel.

  9. Comment - AMD, ATI Merge in $5.4 Billion Deal

    0.5.0 pre4 (Jul 25, 2006 - 3:19 PM)

    Intel is trying to cut everyone else out of the market by integrating "mini-core" GPUs right into their 1010 32core CPU. It would potentially provide ~128 times the processing power for graphics that we have today.

    This merger is strictly so that AMD can develop a countermeasure. ATI/nVidia cards and chipsets will still be produced for the masses in the meantime, although ATI stuff may be under a new name. ATI will also have access to better fabs now.

  10. Comment - 103-inch Plasma TV to Cost $70,000

    0.5.0 pre4 (Jul 21, 2006 - 3:40 PM)

    1920x1080 too low for ya? Might I suggest this close to monitor DPI Quad-HD TV?

    Sit 10 feet away and it'll look damn near perfect...assuming you can get TV or videos at that resolution.