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Member since October 8, 2005

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    Sam Maxwell

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  1. Review - UltraEdit

    13.00 (Mar 6, 2007)

    I still refuse to pay for my copy, in v12 I encountered some serious bugs which have partially or totally destroyed my documents. UTF-8 handling has been iffy as well - though much improved over earlier versions. I've brought these bugs to the attention of UE team, lets hope v13 finally fixes them.

    UPDATE: I've installed v13+1 and it just ate my document after 5 hours of editing. The bottom half of my document is all garbage. It's been randomly doing this since version 12 - so I've been using v11 until I upgraded today because of this bug. I'm so upset that I've come back here to warn people to avoid UE until this bug is fixed or you may be the next victim.

  2. Review - eXtreme Movie Manager

    5.5.8.0 (Nov 29, 2006)

    A would concur, this program has all the features I'd ever want. The lookup scripts are a quite clever way to import from IMDB and the like.

    But.

    Its UI is terrible. Totally confusing and often counter-intuitive. Although the author is very responsive to suggestions, there have been some annoying issues and outright bugs which remain unfixed for over a year.

    It's worth a look, and maybe even worth paying for, but be prepared for a huge mess of a UI.

  3. Review - Vuze for Windows

    2.3.0.5 Beta 40 (Oct 8, 2005)

    I've been a big fan of Azureus for ages. When it first came to my attention it was so far superior to any other clients that it was an obvious choice and I've stuck with it, despite the annoying Java slowness and memory usage.

    Just last week I found a new Windows only freeware bt client, utorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/), and the thing is 89Kb and has no installer! At first glance it looks a lot like Azureus and upon using it, I realized it was nearly as powerful as Azureus. Or at least, it did everything I wanted from a bt client, and I'm guessing, what most other people want.

    I've used it extensively over the past week and am impressed by it's super small memory footprint and speed (I'm even downloading faster!). Azureus, in hindsight, has way more features than I'll probably ever need, and it ate RAM like a famine victim at McDonalds. I don't think I'll be going back to Azureus, although I'll keep checking out the major updates.

  4. Comment - Study: Vista to Create Jobs, Revenue

    2.3.0.5 Beta 40 (Dec 11, 2006 - 9:19 PM)

    If you modify that headline just a tad, raise the comma up a bit, it gives an entirely different, but equally valid, meaning:

    "Study: Vista to Create Jobs' Revenue"