Favorite Files

1. Ad-Aware
2. AOL Instant Messenger for Windows
3. ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP
4. AVG Anti-Virus Free
5. BitComet
6. BitTorrent for Windows
7. Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)
8. Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows
9. Trillian
10. WASTE Unofficial
11. Winamp 5 Full

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - ImgBurn

   1.0.0.0 (Oct 22, 2005)

   The best lil' burning app known to man.

2. 
   Review - Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows

   1.1 Alpha 1 (Jun 2, 2005)

   Overall a great app, and the new features in this version are appreciated, however, I can't resize the Options menu and the way it's designed now, a lot of stuff is cut off.

3. 
   Review - Microsoft Windows Defender (32-bit)

   1.0.501 Beta 1 (Jan 6, 2005)

   I'm satisfied with this, I've been using Ad-Aware, Spybot, and SpywareBlaster. After running this, it picked up some things that neither of the other scanners noticed. Some were low risk factors, but never the less, this seemed to be more thorough. And this time, I don't mind its integration into Windows as long as it's keeping me safe and doesn't adversely affect performance.

4. 
   Review - BitTorrent for Windows

   3.9.0 (4.0 Beta) (Dec 21, 2004)

   Jesus christ, stop being so melodramatic, the BitTorrent protocol is NOT dead. If you want to illegally trade files, there are plenty of good tracker sites left. But regardless, BitTorrent has promise, aside from illegal filesharing. Grow up.

5. 
   Review - Spybot - Search & Destroy

   1.4 Beta 1 (Dec 7, 2004)

   This is the best release sine 1.3 public. I suggest the upgrade for fixes to TeaTimer specifically.

6. Comment - Death Knell Sounds for Nullsoft, Winamp

   1.4 Beta 1 (Nov 10, 2004 - 3:40 PM)

   A damn shame is what it is. But, I'm satisfied with Winamp's current feature set to use it for awhile longer. I probably would only replace it with a winamp clone that allows me to sort by audio length. :)

7. Comment - AIM Beta Gets Rich with Features

   1.4 Beta 1 (Aug 11, 2004 - 3:19 PM)

   AIM can now classify itself as bloatware, according to my standards. This is ridiculous. Nothing that AOL has done to AIM in the past year or two has been anything but the addition of non-productive bloatware.
   
   There have been no performance enhancements, no support for alternate clients, they obviously haven't been listening to their users because if they had, they would know that the majority of AIM users don't need to do their taxes through AIM, heh.
   
   Come on, we just want a concise and straightforward app to communicate with friends and family and AIM is doing everything they can to divert that with sloppily added bloatware inducing features.
   
   If you don't appreciate the practices of AOL, I would suggest the alternate client, Trillian which is available in a fully functional free version and a Pro version with enhanced support and functionality. It's incredibly simple and functional, www.trillian.cc

8. Comment - Firefox Inches Toward 1.0 Milestone

   1.4 Beta 1 (Jun 16, 2004 - 9:09 AM)

   I'm running Firefox 0.9 on Windows XP and this is what is displayed on the Abot tab:
   
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
   
   I'll report this to the development team, and perhaps it will be fixed in a future build. But this is a fairly insignificant quip. :)