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1. 
   Review - Mozilla Thunderbird (v2)

   2.0.0.22 (Jun 25, 2009)

   I have a couple of webmail accounts from different service providers, yet I just can't imagine letting go of my favorite desktop mailer. I've switched a long time ago from the ubiquitous Outlook Express to Thunderbird, and I never looked back. Yes, the UI is not exactly attractive, but it gets the job done and that's what ultimately matters.

2. 
   Review - IrfanView

   4.25 (Jun 17, 2009)

   Could never understand the "love" for so called "better" yet bloated alternatives like xnView and forth.
   
   IrfanView is THE viewer of choice for Windows. And free, too.

3. 
   Review - ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP

   9.6 (Jun 15, 2009)

   Still truckloads of OpenGL bugs in this release.
   
   Last build with decent OGL support is 8.11.

4. 
   Review - ClamWin Free Antivirus

   0.95.2 (Jun 12, 2009)

   ClamAV is the best free antivirus for Linux. Just because there are better alternatives on Windows (eg. AntiVir) doesn't make this one a bad program.

5. 
   Review - Snes9x for Windows

   1.51 (Jun 12, 2009)

   Ugly screenshot, nice emu. But this version is already two years old.

6. Comment - The Google Revolution begins; Will you join the fight?

   1.51 (Jul 8, 2009 - 5:26 PM)

   Google Chrome + Google Toolbar = Google OS?
   
   Good thing I don't have any of those on my "XP OS".

7. Comment - A Michael Jackson post-mortem on Internet journalism

   1.51 (Jul 2, 2009 - 8:51 AM)

   I heard about the death of my favorite artist ever when I was sitting on the toilet, listening to the radio through the door. That day, something went down the drain. So much for the Web 2.0...

8. Comment - Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 2: Are bookmarks outmoded?

   1.51 (Jun 30, 2009 - 5:17 PM)

   > Two of the search phrases that land
   > Google users on Betanews most often
   > are "beta news" and "Betanews."
   
   It's as pathetic as typing "google" in the built-in search engine of your web browser.
   
   I'll keep my bookmarks, thank you.

9. Comment - Microsoft calls omission of IE8 CSS rendering in Office 2010 a 'powerful' feature

   1.51 (Jun 25, 2009 - 12:33 AM)

   Somehow, "Word" and "HTML" in the same sentence makes me shiver. Word is hardly good at simple hypertext, let alone web browsing. I wonder who at Microsoft thought it would be a brilliant idea to turn Office into an HTML renderer. And we fools thought Acrobat Reader was bloated!

10. Comment - Harris Poll: More Americans own HD DVD consoles than Blu-ray

    1.51 (Jun 25, 2009 - 12:23 AM)

    Those figures don't make any sense.
    
    The LD format too got an unexpected boost around 1997, when the DVD became decently available. Reason: video shops were disposing of their remaining LDs by the truckload, and this contributed to an important surge of activity in the second hand market. It doesn't mean the LD turned popular all of a sudden at the expense of the DVD -- it just took a long time for the DVD to really take off in Europe (more than four years) and during that period, I could still buy new LDs for a dime. For me, the choice was easy.
    
    Yet, although I still have my LD collection as of today, I've got more than 300 DVDs in my movie library... Give the BD some more time and it will gain more commercial ground. That's of course if Sony stick their fingers out of their arse and really start doing some serious marketing around BD...