J's Profile

Member since May 9, 2005

  • Name

    J M

  • Location:

    United States of America

Favorite Files

  1. CCleaner
  2. Exact Audio Copy
  3. Mozilla Firefox (v3.5) for Windows
  4. Mp3tag
  5. Recuva
  6. Winamp 5 Full
  7. WinRAR (32-bit)

Recent Posts

  1. Review - Microsoft Windows Live OneCare

    2.5.2900.15 (Sep 10, 2008)

    routinely underperforms in terms of protection, is not highly customizable, uses a subpar defragmentater and the list just goes on and on and on.

  2. Review - Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows Vista/2008

    8.0 Beta 2 (Aug 28, 2008)

    shaj911: "safer than firefox"

    lol.

  3. Review - Microsoft Expression Blend + SketchFlow

    2.5 (2.1.1535.0) June Preview (Jun 9, 2008)

    i don't think design will ever be a fullfeatured photo editing app. it's meant to be more of an "illustrator for the web" ... use illustrator if you don't like design.

    this version seems to squash a few pull your hair out bugs and adds some nice "states" editing (e.g. mouseover, click, etc.) for assets in wpf and sl 2 projects.

    getting better. still has a long way to go though.

  4. Review - Microsoft Silverlight for Windows

    2.0 Beta 2 (Jun 8, 2008)

    Ah, Betanews, source of wordy news articles and reviewers who have no idea what they're talking about.

    First off Silverlight is nearly 3x the download size of Flash player.

    How exactly is Silverlight an "advanced alternative" to Flash? It's not. It's trying to move into the same area as Flash but it's still about 4 years behind in that there are fewer components/assets, no MovieClip equivalent [you have to dump everything on the main canvas making a royal mess], video and animation causes anything slower than a core duo to drop frames, no motion paths, no filters (drop shadows, blur, glow, etc.) and probably more stuff I can't remember atm. Then there's Expression Studio which feels like it's about 8 behind Adobe's Creative Suite but that's a whole other story.

    It certainly doesn't seem to be easier to code than Flash. Let's see, in Flash we have Actionscript but in Silverlight we have XAML and then either C# or VB.NET. How is knowing two easier than one? It's not.

    There are a plethora of amazing RIAs out there for Flash compared to the few that are Silverlight. You will not see photo editing and word processing in Silverlight in the near future. Silverlight isn't some magic bullet that can do anything and why in the world would you want it to either? How about a clever or RIA that helps me prepare for retirement like E*TRADE has (which is built with Flex btw)?

    I digress though, Silverlight is good for quickly dumping a skin over some video using Encoder. It's Deep Zoom shows promise.

    Do you need it now? No. Will you need it in the future? Maybe.

  5. Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v3)

    3.0 Beta 3 (Feb 12, 2008)

    g** d*** it betanews can't you get anything right? Between the ridiculous blabbering of SMF3 and the fact you can't even label betas right I don't know why even visit this useless site anymore.

    From http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b3/whatsnew/:

    "You've downloaded a release candidate of Firefox 3 Beta 3."

  6. Comment - Why is John Hodgman smiling? Data loss isn't the only Snow Leopard problem

    3.0 Beta 3 (Oct 13, 2009 - 10:49 PM)

    i like how this article was written as if the sidekick (a microsoft product) didn't just eat a whole bunch of people's data.

  7. Comment - Mac fanboys should get a life and some Windows 7 common sense

    3.0 Beta 3 (Oct 13, 2009 - 10:34 PM)

    the bias on this site is ridiculous and out of control.

    why don't you people get with the times and analyze all angles in a concise manner instead of writing unnecessarily verbose "commentary"?

  8. Comment - Google Voice controversy continues with melee between AT&T and Google

    3.0 Beta 3 (Sep 30, 2009 - 3:23 PM)

    If you expect someone to take your post seriously (no matter how crazy it may be) the least you could do is spell check it.

  9. Comment - Opponents of Windows 7 IE plan label browser ballot screen a 'threat'

    3.0 Beta 3 (Sep 30, 2009 - 3:20 PM)

    You think the EC would just come out and formally say "EVERYONE MUST USE SOMETHING OTHER THAN IE" ... it seems like that's what they really want at this point. :rolleyes:

  10. Comment - MMS for iPhone goes live, thousands stop complaining

    3.0 Beta 3 (Sep 30, 2009 - 2:50 PM)

    do these "e-mail attachments" appear instantly on other users' phones?