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1. 
   Review - µTorrent for Windows

   1.8.3 Build 15772 (Jul 3, 2009)

   It works.--One of very few no nonsense
   programs.
   I especially like its updater-do you want
   to upgrade? Click yes, two seconds and
   done with no forcing me to say "[Good
   Doggie!! You didn't crash]!"

2. 
   Review - Media Player Classic - Home Cinema

   1.2.908.0 (Dec 8, 2008)

   One of the few no nonsense players: One of the
   even fewer that let me spend more time watching
   a vid than getting it started.

3. 
   Review - Opera for Windows

   9.60 Build 10447 Final (Oct 8, 2008)

   Problem with "Hotmail" not allowing login on first
   visit to livemail page seems fixed.
   
   Here, first run of the day: Opera loads faster
   than GChrome, and much faster than FF (which I've
   loaded down with plugins so not a fair comparison)
   
   The speed dial page is a great feature, allowing
   one to start with a local list of often visited
   pages instead of one on-the-web homepage. (True,
   this is easy to do in the others, just write a
   web page of your fave sites, and make a shortcut
   that looks a tiny little bit like:
   "c:\program files\browser name\file.exe" myfaves.htm

4. 
   Review - ProduKey

   1.32 (Sep 9, 2008)

   It works.

5. 
   Review - KillProcess

   2.43 Alpha 3 (Aug 19, 2008)

   I can't do a real eval of this as I've currently no
   protected (Can't be killed by taskmanager, PRCView,
   Process Explorer or that other one) apps to kill,
   especially none that are out of control and causing
   the system to take subjective hours (20 seconds?)
   to respond to a mouse click.
   Works fine for killing Notepad and MPlayer, works
   better in semi-vicious mode with sounds off.
   I love the list feature--Clean OS could be very
   useful in list info's default mode, and since lists
   can be edited I could add, say, Comodo, WinPatrol,
   Admuncher... to the list to make it even better
   for just my personal preferences.
   
   Hmm, I wonder whether a malware author could edit
   those lists, naah, and if so isn't like I wouldn't
   notice and kill those apps anyway.
   Note that this is not for the type off people who
   shouldn't be trying beta vers.

6. Comment - If Microsoft sites lead time online, pigs can fly

   2.43 Alpha 3 (Nov 9, 2009 - 9:58 PM)

   @ KSzostek
   What's this article got to do with Microsoft?
   It's about ComScore.
   _You_ might think it's about'um 'cause they
   are mentioned, but no. It's about ComScore.
   
   (redacted because I don't think I'm saying
   it well enough)
   
   -IMO, the reports of how much time a person
   spends at a website are either total nonsense
   or an extreme invasion of privacy, and:
   BTW, you did not know that a few months after
   I noticed that The Drudge Report
   ( http://www.drudgereport.com/ ) was auto-
   refreshing the page every ten minutes they
   bragged about how viewership was way up
   (which is kind of a paraphrase of my comment
   about hulu).

7. Comment - If Microsoft sites lead time online, pigs can fly

   2.43 Alpha 3 (Nov 9, 2009 - 4:46 PM)

   Hulu
   Sometimes I'll leave a program paused at
   halfway thru for _days_. ;)

8. Comment - Bad Vista-to-Windows 7 upgrade experiences #2: No TV in Media Center

   2.43 Alpha 3 (Oct 29, 2009 - 5:02 PM)

   What I noticed? Dude's reported about-count
   'em- _two_ problems, which is how many I
   have getting Vista to come out of sleep mode
   (My two are also pretty rare).
   
   (For the aficionado, black screen: Reason
   unknown and yellow green screen: The BIOS
   doesn't like for the USB drive to have a blank
   disk.)

9. Comment - A Sidekick crisis post mortem on cloud confidence

   2.43 Alpha 3 (Oct 22, 2009 - 5:06 PM)

   So far as I can tell the data loss problem was
   not with the cloud, but with the device-yes, that
   particular cloud failed, but that should not take
   data off the device.
   I haven't tried to learn whether it is hardware
   that loses all data on when turned off, or
   software that erases all data and expects to
   restore from the cloud, (to paraphrase that:
   "[Huh, no data on the cloud and it's bigger
   than me so I'll just erase everything here.]"
   
   I discount the possibility that the device did
   not have local storage of the data.

10. Comment - Microsoft's 'Have it Your Way' confronts Apple's 'Have it Our Way'

    2.43 Alpha 3 (Oct 22, 2009 - 4:36 PM)

    Hey! Burger King is the flame broiled one!
    Not greasy, tops in flavor, and uh, tasty!