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  1. Review - AntiVir Personal Edition for Windows

    9.0.0.394 (May 16, 2009)

    I've had this for a few days after removing AVG anti-virus free. A friend recommended this as the best ever.

    The initial database was almost two months behind the current date and yet, it will not update due to a permissions error. I tried to find a solution on the company's web site but there doesn't seem to be another user with the same problem, though there seem to be many users with update problems.

    Their forum registration complained that my password wasn't secure enough when I tried to join to post a topic. Hmm...anti-virus not secure...my password not secure enough...what's worse?

  2. Review - VLC (VideoLAN) for Linux

    0.8.6g (May 29, 2008)

    So far, I can't watch anything but those DVDs without region coding. It's also skittish when dealing with time. It works, though, if you just want to sit through the lot of the content and don't disturb anything.

  3. Review - VLC (VideoLAN) for Mac OS X

    0.8.6e (May 29, 2008)

    It works and it does more than the Mac OS X included application, but it's a pain to use and time-related functions don't seem to work well.

  4. Review - Comodo Firewall Pro

    3.0.23.364 (May 26, 2008)

    I am quite pleased with the software, as it does the regular functionality without problem.

    The developers have minimised the annoying "allow this application" messages since version 3.

    The one thing that is bothersome is the "xxx files to be inspected" functionality. If I approve installing an application or an upgrade, including Comodo Firewall Pro upgrades, should I need to inspect all of the files included in those installations to say that they're safe?

  5. Review - AOL Instant Messenger for Mac

    4.7 (May 16, 2008)

    This one worked correctly with the initial Leopard release, even when iChat didn't work properly. It may be several years old (2001?) but it's a good basic client.

    Having used the version 6.x Windows client, I think I prefer the older Mac client as it can be removed quickly and there won't be many other, associated AOL bits and pieces which refuse to go away.

  6. Comment - What hath Mac wrought? A remembrance after a quarter-century

    4.7 (Nov 7, 2009 - 12:46 AM)

    Oh, good, you've dug up another article from earlier this year and presented it as brand new.

  7. Comment - What hath Mac wrought? A remembrance after a quarter-century

    4.7 (Nov 7, 2009 - 12:45 AM)

    If you're talking about John Sculley from PepsiCo, he worked at Apple, not Microsoft and he was the inspiration behind the Newton Messenger.

  8. Comment - Google Chrome 4: Yes, it's fast, but is it usable?

    4.7 (Nov 7, 2009 - 12:36 AM)

    Remember that a Google representative for Chrome said that the numbers did not really represent anything but a progression. 4.0 might as well be 0.4.0, right? When Firefox was Phoenix 0.4.0, it was fast and light and good to see how quick a Mozilla browser could be and it took its cue from Chimera, now Camino, a Mac OS X browser that is still quite light and quick, though missing the extensions functionality.

    Google are more concerned with giving their online applications somewhere stable to reside and what could be better than a browser that they control.

    Using the developer preview of Chrome 4, I see some things to like but every time I try to type "beta" for instance to get www.betanews.com, I get a huge web search with the bookmark buried somewhere within the first 50 entries.

    Firefox may not be the ultimate speed demon, but it's a better browser overall and it's more efficient than anything else I've used on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.

  9. Comment - Early sales figures for Windows 7 nicely high, but do we know why?

    4.7 (Nov 6, 2009 - 3:59 PM)

    Vista, after SP1 and some satisfactory drivers, isn't bad at all. It's not great and it's certainly not what they were promoting in 2002, but it does work. It just so happens that Windows 7 is the complete version and many people recognise that and are buying.

  10. Comment - Faster or more secure? Microsoft publishes IE patch to Automatic Updates

    4.7 (Nov 5, 2009 - 11:33 PM)

    You mean that Apple took KHTML and fixed it. The KHTML people finally forked it (take that any way you like) and put WebKit to the side when they couldn't aggregate the changes that Apple made.

    KHTML was very broken and buggy and Apple's developers helped a lot. Apple and Google are the main groups of developers on WebKit but several browsers use the engine including GNOME's Epiphany.