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   Review - FastStone Image Viewer

   3.9 (Sep 15, 2009)

   I used to use a shareware viewer. Faststone does everything I need for free and the latest version is even keyboard compatible with it. However the shareware felt faster because it prefetched the next photo and cached the thumb nails.
   
   Caution: lossless jpeg rotation changes one dimension of the resolution of the photo into a multiple of 8 on my PC.

2. Comment - Dell lands in hot water over Taiwanese pricing glitches

   3.9 (Aug 4, 2009 - 10:06 AM)

   In the USA companies have disclaimer "not responsible for typo". Is that not allowed in Taiwan? Do all companies in Taiwan have to honor price mistakes, or is it just foreign companies?
   And last but not least, how difficult is it for dell to monitor the top 10 selling items and put a stop when something look fishy?
   
   This reminds me of the msn $400 rebate fiasco in Oregon 7 years ago. It goes to show that even large and successful companies do employ incompetent people.

3. Comment - Western Digital bans sharing of media on MyBooks

   3.9 (Dec 8, 2007 - 12:41 PM)

   This is a class action lawsuit waiting to happen, by people who could not access their own media files. Whether such customer actually exist is not important; the suit will be initiated by lawyers, and all mybook owners will be invited to join. Then they'll get WD coupons as settlement, while the lawyers get cash.