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   Review - Google Chrome for Windows

   0.2.149.27 Beta (Sep 3, 2008)

   Very good backend, AWFUL UI that pretends to re-invent the wheel (and make it a little squarish). You cannot have bookmarks without an stupid bookmark toolbar (full of microsoft ads!!! because it imported it from firefox who imported it from IE; I've never used that toolbar and just wanted to import and use MY bookmarks folder). Very bad integration in the S.O. because of its "reinventing" of the tab bar, but that it adds nothing, the tab-to-process very good idea would work exactly the same with a standard, more useful, tab bar.
   
   Also, it installed spanish version (I live in Spain, but I want and selected the english version), and cannot be changed.
   
   a top 5 for the backend, a bottom 1 to the UI, a mediocre 3 overall.

2. Comment - Media goes crazy over Amazon deleting '1984' from Kindle, but 99-cent ebook was illegal copy

   0.2.149.27 Beta (Jul 19, 2009 - 8:07 PM)

   Betanews has it completely wrong here. The details you seem to be so proud to point are of no importance. What *REALLY* has importance is the fact that Amazon has revealed its "big brother" spy&attack capabilities precisely with "1984"!. If this had been a *REAL* book, illegally sold etc etc, amazon could NOT do anything to prevent the buyers (that no doubt bought the book in good faith) to keep and read the book except doing something like entering the houses of the people that bought the book and "stealing back" the book. Also, in a *REAL* case, those books would perhaps be very precious collector items (just by the fact of its irregular edition): things like these show another reason why the "ebooks" are much less worth than physical ones.
   
   Also, what about the fact that if Amazon "discovers" something wrong in the digital rights zone acts upon it without warning nor permission? from now on, it MUST act that way, or else defend itself in court: you have the ebook, but you do not have the right to TTS-process it and so Amazon acted upon it forbidding that right even in books previously sold. Maybe some authors would decide you do not have right to *READ* a book (perhaps you can own a copy in your Kindle but you cannot read it... does it *clearly* and *beyond any doubt* say so in your contract?) and at that point Amazon must prevent any owners of the book to read it. Or perhaps some distribution rights or some litigation about a book makes Amazon unable to sell it, and after that moment, all the kindle users are affected... this puts the Kindle owners in a extremely weak position. What they think they own they maybe not own at all.

3. Comment - Welcome: New BetaNews Launches!

   0.2.149.27 Beta (Jun 7, 2004 - 6:42 AM)

   The new design is not bad, but there are a few things I do not like.
   - All concentrated in the center of the screen, with too small letters (had to Ctrl+ twice) and lots of wasted space in the left & right. This is really a BIG flaw that NEEDS to be corrected somehow.
   - Swapping news and betas is a little annoying
   - The files MUST have an entry for "homepage". The "publisher" lin is NOT enough. Also, a link to the homepage from the "what's new" windows, as it was, should be great.