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1. Kaspersky Internet Security 2010
2. Miro for Mac OS X

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Winamp 5 Full

   5.2 (Mar 1, 2006)

   Yeah they blew it this time. Online stuff has gone to hell - now I have to go back to shoutcast.com to find streams because the hacked, embedded version doesn't give enough info. What was wrong with the old version???! So much AOL s*** going into this thing now. I've been a long time user and supporter but I fear it will not last much longer. Slowly the good points of winamp are disappearing. Put the old shoutcast listing back!! Fix BUGS, like locking up when it can't find a file on a remote system..

2. 
   Review - Hot Corners

   2.21 (Aug 31, 2005)

   ALMOST exactly what I wanted. A low resource usage way to turn the monitor off when I'm going to lunch. Only problem is, at least on my XP SP2 system, while it does launch the screen saver ok, it doesn't turn the monitor off. Instead it locks the system but leaves the monitor on. Damn - so close!

3. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

   1.0.6 (Jul 20, 2005)

   You know, it's odd that there's an update, even if it's only for Windows, but it goes almost unmentioned.: http://ftp.mozilla.org/p....0.6/update/win32/en-US/
   
   As for loading FF quickly, don't forget that your link (again, in windows) has to be:
   \Firefox\firefox.exe /prefetch:1
   
   And lastly, I find it funny that people rate a browser based on how quickly they do or don't get virii and spyware, how fast it loads, or what the buttons look like. These are the same kind of people that must be writing the new versions of Windows - all sorts of crap to do with media players and popups when you plug in an mp3 player.... yet if want any sort of options when you copy a set of files, you still have to use XCOPY?! Thanks, XP.
   All that crap is secondary. The things that should matter the fact that it RENDERS PAGES PROPERLY. Before you go and say IE renders pages properly, please realize how much BS proprietary code they expect people to use, and how they still manage to screw up basic CSS and DHTML type things. And Windows IE STILL can't display a g-damned PNG image properly. As a developer that's all I've wanted for YEAAAARS. FF does it just fine. Firefox isn't perfect in the CSS arena but it's a damn lot better than IE.
   Just had to rant again. Sorry. :)
   For me, personally and as a developer, Firefox has saved my web-based-life.

4. 
   Review - Vuze for Windows

   2.2.0.3 Beta 33 (Feb 21, 2005)

   "..isn't the primary reason Azureus is such an excellent and high quality BT ...because IT is based on Java code?"
   
   No, writing something in Java does not magically make it great. It "can" make it cross-platform compatible. And slow. Features are there simply because they are bright designers/programmers who take the time to keep improving the product instead of giving up once they got it to download a file.
   The biggest fault, to me, is Java itself. I personally don't think Sun gives a much of a sht about java on the PC so they don't bother to write a tighter, more efficient library. But who knows.
   Can't Java be compiled into a runtime exe by now?
   
   Still a kick a** client - tho I wish I knew why suddenly my peersafe plugin locks it up if I try to load a peer txt file (ie: make it useful).

5. 
   Review - Vuze for Windows

   2.2.0.3 Beta 32 (Feb 18, 2005)

   c4p0ne said it all. And yes, it WILL be the death of them as soon as someone does what they did with a better language. We have Java for our enterprise level apps at my last job. Slow, 512megs of ram upon startup, etc. Ridiculous. Java was a good concept and certainly has SOME uses, but people try to make it do everything and.. well... it just ain't up tot he task. Until hardware "java processors" come around (ie: never), it will continue to suck.. both in overall experience, and your computer resources. So sad that so many programmers and companies think it's such a great solution.
   as a side note, you want to see a real web app that would have been done in java back in the day? maps.google.com... now THAT's the way to build an app! hehehe (nothing to do with azureus but it is very impressive and not a java client app).

6. Comment - Symantec Struggles to Separate 'Exploit' From 'Vulnerability'

   2.2.0.3 Beta 32 (Feb 2, 2007 - 4:53 PM)

   damn you beat me to it. ;)
   Symantec is good at one thing: gobbling up good, smaller companies and making their products disappear or overbloating them with garbage.

7. Comment - Flickr Users in Uproar Over Login Policy

   2.2.0.3 Beta 32 (Feb 1, 2007 - 4:32 PM)

   I have to agree with pv845. And it's been going on for years. Early on it was chat rooms going to pot, then some things like maps (good, but google's was much better). Then the weird changes to profiles and the half assed moved to push people to myspace-ize their stuff in Y360. Now a great TV listing page which was fast and searchable destroyed by a forced use of "web2.0" junk and Flickr getting thrown into the acquired-and-forgotten collection. Does google have an answer to flickr yet?

8. Comment - Yahoo, Symantec Partner on Net Security

   2.2.0.3 Beta 32 (Jul 25, 2006 - 8:50 PM)

   aaahahahhahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!
   Norton-enhanced. Yeah, OK.
   This is like the poorman's version of a Google/Kaspersky partnership.

9. Comment - French DRM Law Revised for iTunes

   2.2.0.3 Beta 32 (Jun 21, 2006 - 7:52 PM)

   "Appe's FairPlay format, which is closed to third party developers" ..... not very fair then, is it?
   Perhaps they should have called it FarePlay, which is closer to the truth.

10. Comment - No Wait for 'GTA IV' on Xbox 360

    2.2.0.3 Beta 32 (May 10, 2006 - 5:27 PM)

    downloadable content. whoopty-doo. They're f'ing idiots if they can't make that game an online game by now. How can you not see the potential for online GTA? I tried it with the hacks for the PC and it was fun. But it hasn't really gone anywhere to be fully playable - it needs to be part of the game. We'll see...