Favorite Files

1. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Windows
2. Agent by Forte
3. AnyDVD HD
4. ASUS PC Probe
5. ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows Vista
6. BlackMoon FTP Server
7. CSE HTML Validator Pro
8. Disk Explorer Pro
9. FeedDemon
10. FlashFXP
11. FolderSizes
12. GetRight
13. GSpot
14. IsoBuster
15. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
16. Klient
17. Opera for Windows
18. Sawmill for Windows
19. SmartFTP (x86)
20. SnagIt
21. TopStyle Pro
22. Total Commander
23. UltraEdit
24. VMware Workstation for Windows
25. WinRAR (32-bit)

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - FeedDemon

   3.0.0.34 Pre-Release (Sep 8, 2009)

   I absolutely agree with dhry. After all, who in this day and age would use *more than one* computer!?
   And it's completely laughable to think that someone who follows enough feeds to use a dedicated reader would want to keep up to date on feeds on say, a work computer, home computer, and maybe a netbook on the road and still enjoy the benefits of a desktop app.
   And I completely agree that the fact that the synchronization vehicle allows you to access your feeds from any other web enabled device should you not have any of your systems around should be held against it. It obviously lessens the value of the solution. You know, the same way Bloglines integration in Greatnews does...
   
   Oh yeah, since most commenters on bn obviously aren't playing with a full deck; I'm being sarcastic. It's a word, look it up (11 scrabble points)

2. 
   Review - Opera for Windows (Beta)

   10.00 Build 1708 Beta (Aug 14, 2009)

   "There is a reason it is in a perpetual beta cycle..."
   
   So much for your qualifications. It's in a perpetual beta cycle because they're for *different versions*. New releases with new features, features which are usually trend setting for the browser market. And if this wasn't enough to discredit you to anyone who even knows what a browser is (which most web users don't), the claims about IE will fix that. Thanks for visiting, don't let the door hit you on the way out!

3. 
   Review - FolderSizes

   3.6.0.0 (Mar 5, 2006)

   Very nice and effective disk content drill-down tool. I find the commandline interface and xml output particularly useful at it allows me to extend it by making my own web based reports. Also, the developer is extremely helpful and responsive.

4. 
   Review - FeedDemon

   1.6 Beta 2 (Jul 22, 2005)

   "FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 2 NOT released!
   
   Somehow BetaNews found a copy of FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 2 on my site and linked to it.
   
   Unfortunately, this wasn't the final beta 2 build - it was just a private build I made for a few testers. As such, it's definitely not stable..."
   
   http://nick.typepad.com/...07/feeddemon_16_be.html
   
   Just to follow up:
   --begin quote--
   Reviewer: Diam0nd Jul 23, 2005
   Version: 1.6 Beta 2
   
   TomasF you are a cheap i-sell-my-ass-for-a-buck bas****. You sold a good prog and now you making a bloatware outta it? Now we all have to subscribe for a pay-service? Go to hell man.
   --end quote--
   
   I think this goes to show - don't take drugs, kids. Now, I don't know what this guys on, but a combination of LSD and minimal intelligence seems credible. What I posted was a quote... notice the funny-looking little " in the beginning and end? With the reference to the authors blog? Goood, now repeat after me: "A quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else" Ooooh, there's another one! This time from wikipedia!
   
   So I didn't create FeedDemon, and I didn't sell it. But thanks for the namecalling just the same. Now to take some of the other interesting points. Do you even know what bloatware is? The so-called beta 2 installer is 100KB larger than the 1.5 installer. and that's a beta build. Which makes it a monstrous almost half of Firefox.
   
   I can't help wonder if this guy is representative of most of the people here, just worse at hiding it. Anyway, for what it's worth I think Nick made a bad move. I'm not sure I'll continue to use FeedDemon, and I'm already evaluating my alternatives for Topstyle Pro, which is sad for someone who registered Homesite with Nick back in 1996. But this is nothing to go jumping off a bridge over or start namecalling and acting like baboons for. No wait, idiot namcallers like Diam0nd here can go jump off a bridge, it's ok. We'll manage. Get a grip, people

5. 
   Review - FeedDemon

   1.6 Beta 1 (Jul 18, 2005)

   This guy is deluded.
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   Try it yourself, or better - wait for the next beta - due out later this week. The current beta has several activation issues and some other early beta bugs (as stressed clearly in the release notes).

6. Comment - Apple's house rules won't be the death of app development

   1.6 Beta 1 (Nov 18, 2009 - 4:07 AM)

   "the so-called tyrannical Apple, with critics asserting it has a terrible App Store approval process, despite the approval of more than 100,000 apps so far."
   
   Makes sense. China doesn't oppress criticism, cause there's over a billion people NOT in jail, and only a few tens of thousands in jail.
   
   Obviously Apples insane (lack of consistent) approval process won't kill Appstore (or iAnything). But that argument is just silly. But then again rationale isn't what I associate with ze Fanbois

7. Comment - At long last, Microsoft to release Outlook .PST file specifications

   1.6 Beta 1 (Oct 27, 2009 - 7:11 AM)

   Is this Microsoft-speak for "we're dropping .pst support going forward"?

8. Comment - Nokia lawyers up, chooses to fight Apple in court rather than the market

   1.6 Beta 1 (Oct 27, 2009 - 7:08 AM)

   "And it's not how wannabe-market-leaders convince the rest of us otherwise."
   
   Hm, you're talking about Apple now, right? Cause last time anyone checked, Nokia was still the worlds largest phone maker. Yeah, that's right, smartphones are still not mass market, and the US is still not the world. You'd think a Canadian would know at least...

9. Comment - Our love/hate relationship with Microsoft: What happens now?

   1.6 Beta 1 (Oct 26, 2009 - 6:47 AM)

   Let's be frank... Well, I can be Frank and you can be Sly. Anyone who used BeOS at the time of its death knows very well it was nowhere near ready to be preinstalled on any mass marketed system. Especially not alongside something that was actually production ready

10. Comment - Nokia sues Apple, claims iPhone is stealing its innovations

    1.6 Beta 1 (Oct 23, 2009 - 4:15 AM)

    "Apple has been in the tech business for a lot longer than Nokia..."
    
    Really? So which Apple innovation do you feel predates Nokias first digital switch for telephone exchanges from 1970? Or their pulse analyzer from 1962?
    I don't know whether the patent claims are valid or not, but Nokia has been producing military and commercial radio and phone systems since the 60's, the worlds first call over a commercial GSM network was made with a Nokia phone, etc. I'm no Nokia fan, but I know my bit of telecoms history, and so far Apple's just a footnote in the last couple of years of it.