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1. 
   Review - Winamp 5 Full

   5.35 (May 15, 2007)

   To Stisev:
   
   I think you completely forgot there's a "Basic" download of winamp, with just classic skinning, mp2/mp3/aac/mp4 and not much more. So if you are going to rate it "just" because you get the wrong link, then it's you who has to change.
   (That, aside of the fact that the installer does give the option of what to install and what not).
   
   About bugs, these come and go in every software ever coded, and using an older version doesn't put you safer than using a newer one. If you're happy with 2.9x versions, that's ok, and not strange at all. Yet, i don't think your bashing of the current versions is that much reasonable.

2. 
   Review - MediaCoder

   0.3.7 (Apr 1, 2006)

   Source here (In SVN): http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediacoder
   
   It's a useful program, either when you need to encode audio, video, transcode... Some of the options are not at fingertips to say so, but overall does the job.

3. 
   Review - TED Notepad for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista

   4.5.2 (Mar 29, 2006)

   Another Vote for this program. It is not meant to be a "do it all" editor (PSPad, PN (programmer's notepad), UltraEdit...).
   
   It is a notepad replacement: a fast, simple enough, and filled with the utilities necessary to manipulate *text*.
   
   I have both, PSPad and this one. Tex notepad replaced "editor2" (from xplorer2). I use PSPad mostly for its HEX editor, and Tex notepad to replace text, change UNIX/DOS format, or simply view a txt.
   
   I don't understand the people rating it so low either.

4. 
   Review - Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall

   4.0.2 (Aug 31, 2003)

   Used Zonealarm long time ago, and kerio since the 3.0 beta days. I am quite satisfied of it. The functionality, as some suggest, is similar between these two programs, but kerio is more configurable (at least compared to that other version). They have removed the "full version free for home users", but instead, after the trial period, some things (web filtering, internet gateway,...) become disabled. In the end, if you don't need these, it is still quite a strong firewall.

5. 
   Review - WinBar

   1.2.95 Beta (Dec 25, 2002)

   Attention. The leak reported a few posts below is true. It's about GDI objects. Open the configuration and jump between the tabs. You'll see the GDI objects increasing like mad (or, if using a Win9X/Me setting, you'll experience a system crash after some jumps, since those OS's have a limited number of resources).
   
   Also, it seems that deactivating the modules doesn't free the GDI objects related to them, but I am not completely sure of this.
   
   I hope the author fixes these leaks, which are quite important. ( To say it in numbers, IE is using right now 483GDI objects, and WinBar 924, and 1229 with the Configuration dialog opened )
   
   Last, a bug report and a suggestion: The "General" tab doesn't show all the options, the Opacity is almost hidden because the dialog is not big enough. And I wish I could have the modules shown from right to left, instead of left to right.

6. Comment - iTunes Preview doesn't go far enough to create Web-based option for store

   1.2.95 Beta (Nov 14, 2009 - 7:17 AM)

   The only reason why there will never be such a feature is crystal clear:
   
   They will not be able to force you to use an iPod/iPhone. Hell. How could they left out Palm Pre if not?

7. Comment - You can say 'netbook' now, the Supremes will look at patents, Tetris turns 25

   1.2.95 Beta (Jun 2, 2009 - 2:45 PM)

   Heheh, indeed. Checking out, it turns out it's a copy&paste issue. The real value i 10^12 (10 power 12). That mostly comensates your 10^13.

8. Comment - Top 10 Windows 7 Features #5: Multitouch

   1.2.95 Beta (May 15, 2009 - 1:18 PM)

   You like to be negative, don't you?
   
   Like you say, touch screens have been used for long in many places for quite long times (I was repairing those back in 2005, and of course they weren't new then).
   
   What you seem to ignore is that the technology has evolved a lot, and that there are different types of touch screens, just like they did with PDA's (Remember when you had to use the supplied pencil, because using the finger or another thing didn't do it?).
   
   By the same thinking, you could say that touch phones are absurd, and you need a keyboard.
   
   Scott was pretty clear on his article, and you missed the whole point. Multitouch is not a goal, it's a path. A way to get to something bigger.
   
   I am a coder. I definitely don't think voice recognition or virtual keyboards onscreen could help at all to write code. Yet, i know the advantages that touch screens already provide, and now those possibilities will go beyond replacing the mouse pointer.

9. Comment - Sun expands OpenSolaris to laptops and data centers

   1.2.95 Beta (Dec 10, 2008 - 3:13 PM)

   
   Since releasing the first edition of OpenSolaris some six months ago, Sun has been working with students and other developers to "build out the ecosystem" for OpenSolaris, Boyle said
   

   
   
   Either him, or you, made it seem as openSolaris was a new thing. It all started in 2005
   http://news.cnet.com/Sun...100-7344_3-5745120.html
   
   I guess the real meaning was the "beta period of the current release" started 6 months ago

10. Comment - PDC 2008: What did we learn today?

    1.2.95 Beta (Nov 2, 2008 - 5:53 AM)

    Julie Larson-Green does something we've always wanted to do with multitouch: write on a virtual postcard.

    
    
    Sorry? You can do that even on a PDA, as it only stands *one* point of touch.
    
    

    a lot of attendees would be pleasantly surprised if Windows 7 were to Vista what XP SP3 was to Windows Me.

    
    
    Haven't you exaggerated that by a lot?
    
    Windows Me : Year 2000, kernel win32
    Windows XP SP3 : Year 2008, kernel winnt
    
    Windows Vista: Year 2006 (actually 2007) kernel winnt
    Windows 7 : Year 2010, kernel winnt
    
    That, aside of the win Me characteristics (a bridge between win98 and win2000, that didn't have the best of both).