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1. 
   Review - ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP

   6.3 (Mar 10, 2006)

   I have an ATI card in my system, I usually would recommend ATI graphics cards to people but... with the reliance upon a marketing gimmick, namely .NET, I will no longer do so.
   
   My existing drivers will remain until either I upgrade the graphics card, nVidia sounds nice and, I will now start recommending nVidia graphics cards to people who ask what I recommend.
   
   Why? .NET is a gimmick, a bloated, overhyped and extremely slow and pointless gimmick and it should not have anything to do with my graphics card drivers.

2. 
   Review - The GIMP

   2.3.7 (Mar 3, 2006)

   It is a great piece of software minus one thing, the interface.
   
   The interface has needed a redesign for a long time now, if PSP can do MDI with but a single task in the taskbar, why can't The GIMP? Seriously.

3. 
   Review - GX::Transcoder

   2.24.2978c (Mar 3, 2006)

   While the program does what is intended, the UI is rather poorly designed.
   
   I do hope that the 3.0 release has the entire UI revised, redesigned and reimplemented as at this moment, I find it user aggressive.

4. 
   Review - µTorrent for Windows

   1.4.1 Beta Build 418 (Feb 4, 2006)

   I like uTorrent for its size, feature set and resourcefulness but, there is one fault I find highly annoying; the need to suck every drop of bandwidth even when settings are modified to try and fix that.

5. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

   1.5.0.1 (Feb 2, 2006)

   Firefox 1.5.0.1 is a very welcomed update for me as whenever I utilized 1.5 in my normal browsing session (tabs are my friend) that memory bug would creep in and just start clogging up the system.
   
   With 1.5.0.1, I've yet to see that memory bug reappear and to top that, all of my extensions worked without a need to wait for updates to them.
   
   I give 1.5.0.1 a 5 out of 5!

6. Comment - Windows 98, Me Support to End in July

   1.5.0.1 (Apr 11, 2006 - 9:31 PM)

   I run Windows 98SE on one laptop and Windows 95(probably C) on another, don't use them much but I can't really upgrade them either.

7. Comment - Want a Windows Live Messenger Invite?

   1.5.0.1 (Jan 12, 2006 - 1:48 AM)

   In my opinion, Windows Vista should have a feature that allows Windows Updates and other updates to be delivered to a person even if they don't have Internet.
   
   This could be accomplished through an 800/888 number (or equivalent in each country) that is available only for the update software.
   
   Such a feature would prevent computers who have gone online which were not previously online, to have the latest updates and prevent instant attacks when they get online.

8. Comment - Wikipedia Credibility Under Fire Again

   1.5.0.1 (Dec 22, 2005 - 2:50 PM)

   What Wales did should have been flagged as a violation of the ethics of autobiographies, end of story.
   
   Wikipedia is going to have to take more of a hand-on approach to the content available on Wikipedia which would best be structured with check-ins only after verification.

9. Comment - Mozilla Launches Firefox TV Ad Contest

   1.5.0.1 (Dec 22, 2005 - 2:44 PM)

   As far as I know, it was talked about on SFx since Fx 1.0 was released by the fans which would mean that MoFo took up the idea from the fans for the fans.
   
   The contest setup, prizes and the judges may have been purely MoFo's decision but the idea itself came out of the community.

10. Comment - Google Adds Widgets to Homepage

    1.5.0.1 (Dec 15, 2005 - 12:32 AM)

    While Google's personalized homepage technology has been around for awhile, (hint: IG stands for I, Google which came about from I, Robot) it's good to see they're going to focus on it more.
    
    The only thing that would screw Google over is if they take the personalized homepage Google interface and made it a portal platform on Google.com instead of the nice simple, yet powerful interface that exists now.