Favorite Files

1. 7-Zip (32-bit)
2. 7-Zip (64-bit)
3. CDex
4. Eraser
5. EverNote
6. Exact Audio Copy
7. Google Earth for Windows
8. Google SketchUp for Windows
9. IrfanView
10. iTunes for Windows
11. Microsoft ActiveSync
12. Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)
13. Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows
14. OpenOffice.org for Windows
15. Paint.NET
16. Picasa for Windows
17. Pidgin for Windows
18. Proxomitron
19. PuTTY
20. RapGet
21. Spybot - Search & Destroy
22. Spybot - Search & Destroy (Beta)
23. Spybot - Search & Destroy Detection Updates
24. The GIMP
25. Total Commander

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Spybot - Search & Destroy

   1.5.2.20 (Jun 6, 2008)

   @roj: you seem to "the author" is a single person (listed by name only here on BetaNews is a bit misleading I admit), and one person really couldn't keep up - but there's actually a larger team creating detection updates.
   
   Anyway, if you take a look at the latest news on the Spybot website, there are still some TBAs open for 1.6 ;)

2. 
   Review - Spybot - Search & Destroy

   1.5 Beta (Jun 19, 2007)

   The reason why there's no list of changes yet is probably that this might be the version Neowin "found" by trying a few likely URLs before the list was compiled. Should appear today or tomorrow though...
   
   (sorry for the self-praise in rating, new comment wasn't possible without giving a rating at all *g*)

3. Comment - Last.fm enters the iPhone realm through the back door

   1.5 Beta (Jun 20, 2008 - 12:48 PM)

   MobileScrobbler has been available for months, but it's surely worth the news even now, since it's a well-made and useful (if last.fm is useful to you, that is) app, e.g. if you want to play similar artists radio stream over WiFi without turning on the PC.

4. Comment - Russinovich's Windows toolkit goes live, quite literally

   1.5 Beta (May 29, 2008 - 3:22 PM)

   And now, it's just a question of time until malware get's "live" as well.
   
   I mean - this obviously isn't meant to bookmark and use, but to run on machines where you haven't got the tools yet, where you'll type the URL from memory.
   
   If you visit a page to download a tool, you at least can recognize a typo in the URL by recognizing the fake page.
   
   But if you're running code from a URL that includes a typo, you'll notice it only AFTER the code has executed.
   
   How long will it take until the first malware appears on \\live.szsinternals.com\tools\procexp.exe or \\live.sysinternal.com\tools\procexp.exe ?
   
   The very small benefit of saving two clicks to download something and run it are discarded for the huge disadvantage of Microsoft teaching people that it's ok to run code directly from the Internet (hello???).
   
   Isn't it hard enough to educate people to not click dialog-like image banners that advertise necessary system updates?
   
   And don't tell me you've never mistyped a URL, everybody does that from time to time.

5. Comment - Lavasoft broadens its malware scope with Ad-Aware 2008 releases

   1.5 Beta (May 22, 2008 - 9:53 AM)

   Unless of course it's not for sale, in which case not even a thousand AOLs could buy it ;)
   I think there've been enough "grim reaper" offers turned down to prove that SSD will remain free.