Brian's Profile

Member since February 10, 2002

  • Name

    Brian Howard

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    United States of America

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  1. Review - DivX for Windows

    6.6.1.336 (Sep 9, 2007)

    What? It's still not Vista ready? When are these guys going to catch up?

  2. Review - Comodo Antivirus

    1.1 Beta (Jul 10, 2006)

    Slower scanning engine than others but it could be because it's more thorough. Excellent product otherwise. Threw everything at it I could find and it found all issues. Use it with their firewall and you have a very effective arsenal against computer baddies.

  3. Review - ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP

    5.13 (Dec 22, 2005)

    Gimme back the Control Panel! Guess I'll just go back to 5.10. It was working fine for me anyway.

  4. Review - KCeasy

    0.16 (Oct 21, 2005)

    Excellent program though I will agree that BN was a little slow on this one as it was released on 10/4. There's also a Fasttrack plugin avaliable if you search for it hard enough. ;)

  5. Review - Avant Browser

    10.1 Build 20 (Aug 8, 2005)

    Been using this program since version 9. It just keeps getting better every time they release a new build. Quick to fix bugs and the site has a wonderful forum where people there are glad to help you with any problems that you might run into.

  6. Comment - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 now scheduled for Q3

    10.1 Build 20 (May 27, 2008 - 4:48 PM)

    The fact that they are giving developers time to catch up is a good thing. If IE8 was released today the uninformed user would think it was flawed because so many pages viewed in it would still be messed up. This is more to cover Microsoft's butt than anything else.

  7. Comment - Nintendo to End Support for Original NES

    10.1 Build 20 (Nov 3, 2007 - 3:46 AM)

    Thanks to this article I once again have that hypnotic music from Super Mario Brothers stuck in my head. It took years for it to go away the last time...

  8. Comment - Microsoft Patches Critical IE Flaw

    10.1 Build 20 (Nov 30, 2002 - 1:13 PM)

    I've tried installing this patch from both the Windows Update site and by trying to do it directly by downloading the installer. It tells me that the patch has been installed and restart my computer. Windows update tells me that it still needs to be installed. Another example of fine Microsoft technology!!!

  9. Comment - Trillian Fights Back as AOL Boots its Users

    10.1 Build 20 (Feb 10, 2002 - 1:55 PM)

    AOL isn't the only company who is blocking third-party chat software. Yahoo has been partially blocking others from using voice chat in clients other than it's own Messenger software for quite some time. Check out this site: http://nowayinhell.net/~.../yahelite/yahelite.html for the full story on what their users have been going through. The bottom line? AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, and MSN Messenger are FREE. What right are we, as non-paying users, expressing when we try to tell them how we want them to run their FREE service. I hate AOL. Don't get me wrong. But, in this case I fell that they have every right to block whatever they want. Rather than looking at it from the users view, look at this situation as if YOU were the software designer and supplier of the server. How would you like it if someone stole your work and server space without your permission? At least there should be an agreement made between AOL and the makers of Trillian so that this dispute can end. Trillian is a good idea (as was Odigo) and the future of IM's and compatability should be addressed but done so with consent.