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1. AIMP
2. CDBurnerXP
3. ESET Smart Security
4. PSPad editor
5. SyncBackSE

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Inkscape for Windows

   0.47pre3 Beta (Sep 30, 2009)

   @ gezley:
   
   Yes, that's probably what Dean-Ryan Stone (a.k.a. "dhry") meant when he wrote that. After all, everyone just *knows* that a program written by a John Smith is much better than a program written by some poor guy by the name of Sanjiv Sindhu (or something like that, I can't be bothered with spelling non-English names), right? RIGHT?
   Apparently, Dean-Ryan also likes to make fun of people whose native language is not English when they attempt to write in English, as shown in his website: http://www.dhryland.com/...t.y=0&submit=Search
   However, I've yet to find a post by dhry written in a language other than English. I wonder if he's monolingual.
   Oh, by the way, English *is* my second language, so feel free to criticize my grammar and spelling all you want. just make sure you do it in a language other than your native one, that'd be too easy ;)
   
   As for the program (this is a software review after all), it's simply excellent. Steve Lawson has written a nice overview of it with a few helpful links, check it out: http://reddevil62-techhead.blogspot.com/2009/02/graphic-design-for-clueless.html

2. 
   Review - Free Download Manager

   3.0.870 (Sep 16, 2009)

   Changelog:
   
   http://freedownloadmanager.org/changelog.txt

3. 
   Review - Skype for Windows

   4.1.0.166 (Sep 5, 2009)

   Changelog here:
   https://developer.skype....ndowsSkype/ReleaseNotes

4. 
   Review - J. River Media Center

   14.0.61 (Sep 5, 2009)

   Don't let the astroturfing fool you
   The only "support" you can remotely hope of getting with this software is through their forums .... However, the exceedingly arrogant owner, Jim Hillegass, promptly BANS from the forums anyone who dares criticize the program* .... Kind of a Catch-22, don't you think?
   
   * See: http://yabb.jriver.com/i...318.msg251719#msg251719

5. 
   Review - BlueScreenView

   1.05 (Aug 19, 2009)

   Good program (as usual from NirSoft). But WhoCrashed (http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed), also freeware, is a better alternative.

6. Comment - From the ME: Betanews releases Alpha

   1.05 (Jan 14, 2009 - 8:11 PM)

   I agree 100%
   By the way, the "new" Betanews is bad, very bad .... but the "new" Fileforum is EVEN WORSE
   
   And, since no one has posted it before, and the phrase just begs to be written: "If it ain't broke ..." (you know the rest, don't you?)

7. Comment - Academic libraries pave a new path away from Google

   1.05 (Oct 14, 2008 - 8:09 PM)

   "78 terabytes (738.8 million pages, 1,713 tons, 25 miles)"
   
   After all these years it had to be Angela Gunn who taught me how much a terabyte weighs ...

8. Comment - No surprise: 'Windows 7' will be Windows 7

   1.05 (Oct 13, 2008 - 11:32 PM)

   And after you've looked at the output, check out this list which explains Windows versions:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/...ws#Timeline_of_releases
   
   What I DO find odd is that Windows 7's version will be 6.1 :)

9. Comment - No surprise: 'Windows 7' will be Windows 7

   1.05 (Oct 13, 2008 - 11:23 PM)

   That technology is so dead people can't even spell it. What Western Union used to send for 145 years (since before the Civil War up until two years ago) were telegraMs

10. Comment - Mufin upends musical expectations for curious listeners

    1.05 (Oct 13, 2008 - 7:36 PM)

    "And the process of adding a track is trivial for Mufin -- its system can analyze an entire album in seconds --"
    
    I wonder if they'll keep modifying and improving the algorithm. I guess they will. And, in that case, if they'll have to re-scan the entire database again to update the similarities when they change/update algorithms. If that's the case, adding new tracks won't be so "cheap" in the long term.
    
    Interesting read, anyway