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1. 
   Review - XP-AntiSpy

   3.97-4 (Oct 23, 2009)

   Now with eBay adware. Top marks for hypocrisy! Unfortunately, that's not what the rating here is designed to rate.
   In addition, it is still advertised as "freeware", hence a red card.
   Addendum: if like me you block it with your firewall and click the ad by mistake, the process will not close and you'll have to do so manually from the task manager.

2. 
   Review - Atlantis Word Processor

   1.6.4.2 (Oct 18, 2009)

   Pros: very lightweight, you can even carry it on a pen drive.
   Cons: I only went as far as finding one, but a big one: it is very incompatible with Word files. Compatibility is so bad that I found Wordpad to do a better job. So if I wanted something lightweight, I'd just use Wordpad, which is more compatible and you don't even have to worry abut carrying it around.
   For the fun of it, I tried to open a 200 pages thesis, and it hanged. I thought it would just render the formatting poorly, but nope, instead it crashed. In other words, I had low expectations, and it failed to meet them.
   So overall, not worth the money. Either use Wordpad if you want to save cash and not have to install a large package. And if you want the full blown compatibility with support for all bells and whistles, it looks like you'll still have to stick with MS Office.
   I'll still keep an eye on it, but it looks like it will take some time before it can be properly usable. And when they do, I bet that they'll crank up the already high price tag, so I'm not holding my breath.

3. 
   Review - PakMan 2008

   1.0 (Sep 26, 2009)

   Adware, sneakily advertised as freeware in the hope that you won't notice it. There's no mark low enough for such deceitful practices.

4. 
   Review - iTimeSync

   1.4 (Jun 20, 2009)

   Has always been working reliably for me, and I use it quite often since the time gets rapidly out of sync on my machine (maybe a crap oscillator or something?). I tried many free alternatives, but this one does the job very well, is very easy to use, very small and portable.

5. 
   Review - Nero Lite

   8.3.13.0 Build 1.19.0.1 (May 28, 2009)

   I don't know what's with all the low ratings, but I like it. Still the best burning software in my opinion, and this lite package overcomes the only complaint I have with Nero. So a 5 from me, and keep them coming!

6. Comment - Gigabyte's low-cost Atom-powered portable gets a name

   8.3.13.0 Build 1.19.0.1 (Apr 29, 2008 - 10:34 AM)

   Miniaturised hardware costs more for identical technical specifications, which is not quite the case. According to your argument, Pocket PCs should cost well over the eeePC, despite lower processing power and memory (albeit small LCDs surely cost less).
   Even if you are (were?) correct, you could have done so equally well without your holier-than-thou attitude.

7. Comment - Gigabyte's low-cost Atom-powered portable gets a name

   8.3.13.0 Build 1.19.0.1 (Apr 29, 2008 - 5:29 AM)

   For me, the keyword is "slider". If it is, isn't the screen highly vulnerable?
   I'd also like some quantification of "ultra-low-cost", because for example I don't see the Asus eeePC as cheap for what it is.
   Still, can't wait to see Atom based PCs released, it can only be good news for batteries :) And from what I've read, its performance is superior to the Via C7.

8. Comment - China surpasses US as largest online nation

   8.3.13.0 Build 1.19.0.1 (Apr 25, 2008 - 6:45 AM)

   "9down is about the only Chinese website that isn't X rated or a hard sell for everything under the sun"
   
   I get more spams and popups from USA than from China. If you were correct, that wouldn't be the case.

9. Comment - Toshiba president: 25% of notebooks will have SSDs by 2011

   8.3.13.0 Build 1.19.0.1 (Apr 25, 2008 - 4:56 AM)

   If they become as cheap and fast as mechanical HDDs, I'll jump on them like hot cakes. After all, they'd be quiet, consume less... except that "Apparently MLC NAND flash wears out, after roughly about 10,000 rewrites". Hmmm, all better, but less durable :(

10. Comment - New Ubuntu Linux runs in Windows from an emulated image

    8.3.13.0 Build 1.19.0.1 (Apr 25, 2008 - 4:47 AM)

    "it installs Ubuntu onto a disk image that emulates a hard drive."
    
    I'm not sure I understand the advantage over running Linux in, say, VirtualBox.
    Can we share files between Windows and Linux? E.g. if I write/save a Python script in Windows, can I access and run it directly in Ubuntu?