Favorite Files

1. AutoPatcher XP
2. Belarc Advisor
3. Blowfish Advanced CS
4. DivX Web Player for Windows
5. Duplicate File Finder
6. DVD Decrypter
7. Eraser
8. FastWrite
9. Fedora Linux
10. Locate
11. MediaMonkey
12. Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition
13. openSUSE
14. Spybot - Search & Destroy
15. Total Recorder Standard
16. UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) for Windows
17. VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows
18. Windows XP PowerPacker
19. XPlorer

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit

   Beta (Jan 11, 2009)

   Having not been able to download it on Friday, managed on Saturday.
   The interface is nice, the UAC is easily customisable, so that you can get rid of quite a few annoying alerts.
   The task bar has been cleaned up which is good. much less clutter.
   There are a few ideas that have been copied over from Linux which is the jump bar.
   
   Looking forward to the real thing.

2. 
   Review - Belarc Advisor

   7.2.22.0 (Nov 1, 2007)

   58sniper, they do have a business version. They have to make money somehow...
   For the home user, it's a very useful tool for quickly checking your system specs and making sure everything in upto date.

3. 
   Review - USB Over Network

   3.1.7 (Sep 9, 2007)

   Not a bad idea, but I have to say at $99. they could sell it a lot cheaper and get more people to buy it.

4. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v3)

   3.0 Alpha 2 (Feb 8, 2007)

   ref : MickyFoley,
   
   fine, nobody is asking you to use it. If you want to go around the net with no security, then fine by me. But then your PC may be part of some botnet.
   I think a 7Mb download is not bloatware. If you want IE, you have to get the whole OS.
   I've been very happy with FF since version 1. I only use IE, if I need to check that a website that I'm working on will work on it, most times it doesn't.

5. 
   Review - Double Password

   1.21 (Sep 18, 2006)

   A very good Idea. works as it should do. Deducted 2 points as the product isn't freeware.

6. Comment - Signs of a total rethink of Skype in its 4.0 beta

   1.21 (Jun 21, 2008 - 11:44 AM)

   I've been using it for a few days, It's not too bad. But I really don't like the full screen thing. I would at least like an option to not have it open on full screen, but in say, windowed mode or something.
   When someone does send you a chat, you have to go through your chat log so to speak, to find who's left you a new message.
   
   More work to be done on the interface.

7. Comment - Mozilla ships first public beta of Firefox 3

   1.21 (Nov 21, 2007 - 6:46 AM)

   If you get the following add-on 'nightly Tester tools' this will make most add-ons compatible. I wouldn't expect many add-ons to be quite upto speed with updating their add-ons.

8. Comment - Mozilla ships first public beta of Firefox 3

   1.21 (Nov 21, 2007 - 6:42 AM)

   That will be removed in the next SP release as MS have done a deal with EOLAs who owned the patent for the active X like feature. But who wants to use active X anyway? I prefer to be alerted that some website is going to download some software on to my PC.

9. Comment - Mozilla ships first public beta of Firefox 3

   1.21 (Nov 21, 2007 - 6:34 AM)

   I've been using the pre-alpha's for the past 6 months and now the beta, I've never had an issue that caused my PC to crash, Firefox crashing yes, PC no. To take down both your firewall and AV, looks to me as if you had something else running that caused that.
   
   I do really like the Places feature, which is where you bookmarks, history are viewable from one location also all cookies, bookmarks are now kept in SQlite databases. I like it very much. Not quite my main browser yet, but not far from becoming it.

10. Comment - EU: Microsoft Royalties 'Prohibitively High'

    1.21 (Apr 5, 2007 - 4:18 PM)

    Considering the the EU is Microsofts biggest market outside of the US. I don't think they will move out that quickly.
    If they want to trade in the EU, they need to follow the rules of that market. Like any European company trading in the US.