Mar's Profile

Member since January 26, 2005

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    Mar Ven

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    Indonesia

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  1. Review - Adobe Reader SpeedUp

    1.36 (Dec 10, 2006)

    Adobe Reader - Read: Adobe Waiter - most people use it indeed to read and Adobe made it almost impossible to do so. Use Foxit simply as that. There is no need for a speed up tool ;-)

  2. Review - Opera for Windows

    9.02 Build 8573 (Sep 9, 2006)

    In my opinion one of the best browsers around on the market, screen rendering is very fast even on a slow dial up connection which I can't say from any other brand. Still I can't give a Opera a 5 as many web pages are not able to come out as how it should be or I get the message 'Not Optimized for Opera' Cpanel is a good example where some features not working. MSN Groups WYSIWYG doesn't work and many many more sites just not working well with Opera. Wished the Widgets could be set as an independent part of Opera I hate to have several windows open at once and with widgets Opera requires to stay open. Just a little thing. Great to have a build in BitTorrent. Memory cache is very fast.

    All by all a very professional browser with a professional look and feeling.

  3. Review - Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

    Beta (Sep 20, 2005)

    It took some time to come up with this toolbar indeed but it's there that's the whole point. It is just doing the right thing no more no less, a bit behind on the features find in the Firefox toolbar tough the Firefox is maybe a little to much of the good things.

  4. Review - Paint Shop Pro

    X (Sep 6, 2005)

    I use PSP right from the day it was introduced on the market and still is my number one tool in design. The hype about Adobe products is far over done. Problem is that most pro designers just don't want to admit that Adobe products are bulky, slow and difficult to use. PSP came along way indeed and sure I'm a bit worried not going the same way as Photoshop or Corel getting a bulky thing. And last one is related again to the moment Corel took over PSP. I like Corel Draw very much, that means the idea of this app is very good wan't it that it one of the most slowest and bulky software I ever seen! So pro designers should go less with the trendy hype about Adobe as in real it isn't that good at all. Only thing PSP should handle is their update patches which are far to big for downloads, esp. if you have to relate on slow modem connections.

    A 5 but should be a 9 for PSP

  5. Review - Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows

    1.0.5 (Jul 14, 2005)

    Thunderbird is running now for a while on my PC. I'm happy with it for now however it is a real pain to set up Thunderbird esp. if your having more then one email address and mail servers. Personally I would give it a 4 but I'm a big promotor of user friendly software and Thunderbird just isn't. A 2 for this.

    Cyberguy I'm not writing for myself I'm writing for millions of people esp. a upcoming Internet generation of 50+ and all those who even get dizzy bu seeing the name 'Cyberguy' as for them it is all to much to figure out how to set up account on Thunderbird. It is just not friendly. I know there are lot's of people who want to go with the trend like the whole firefox show, trend runners are everywhere but not really helping to get the real message out. Firefox for example is a pain in the a** by rendering pages, you can blame the web developpers but is the consumer helped by this? THat's all about to make it happening, in a easy way for the consumer.

  6. Comment - DirecTV to Offer Internet Over Power Lines

    1.0.5 (Aug 16, 2007 - 5:35 AM)

    "In terms of speed, the US has already caught up to Europe."

    woehaaaa i think you miss something here... Netherlands is all about fiber optics city Deventer even the most sofisticated in the world where you have speeds you only can dream off in the USA... check your data!

  7. Comment - Sony Shows Off Paper-Thin Color Display

    1.0.5 (May 28, 2007 - 1:14 AM)

    What about LCD spray or paint?
    http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/6/5/2/1

    Or this one

    http://www.geckoandfly.c...gphilips-paper-thin-lcd/

  8. Comment - 35 Million Wiis Sold in US By 2012, Says Nintendo

    1.0.5 (May 25, 2007 - 3:42 AM)

    Right you can talk from here till the moon and back again however it's your personal taste and opinion. The message is about the market out there and see the WII is doing very well. It proofs indeed that just the normal consumers not waiting for fancy bla bla stuff but for a fun to play game console... And see the WII it's exactly doing that! What the heck makes it for sence having fantastic graphics I can't imagine your putting your game on a demo play and just watching your wide screens pixel performance... WII did a good job ;-)

  9. Comment - Please Take the BetaNews Survey!

    1.0.5 (May 14, 2007 - 4:15 AM)

    Well that was not a smart survey indeed smells like Betanews is doing this for someone else and making money out of this in the end. News site is good no doubt.

  10. Comment - The Buzz: iPhone Reaction Mostly Positive

    1.0.5 (Jan 11, 2007 - 9:59 PM)

    What a joke. 'x'phone will be available in Asia somewhere in 2008. By the time it's an oldy ripe to put it behind glass in a museum with some comments like 'biggest joke of the 21st century'There is nothing special on this 'phone' and the big players on the market like Nokia, Sony Ericsson etc. only laugh they get a kind of free promotion for touch screen based phones and let do Apple the dirty work to get it finally sold to a wide public. Big names will come up with their own devices and I'm sure brands like Nokia will build their hardware (like the N95) into a sleek looking piece of Apple look-a-like machine. Let me tell you I would go the Nokia way. Apple wouldn't get a huge ground anyway in Asia, people here are very much into what kind of features a mobile has like 3G/3.5G, WiFi, Wimax, 3 Mega or more camera, Flash Light. Who want's to make a big step back in time with an Apple? So I don't understand why Apple is going this way knowing their 'x'phone will be an oldtimer in millions of ways if it hits the Asian marketin in 2008? Besides the telecom companies (most of them) don't work the same way as in the USA or Europe with yearly plans. Here in Indonesia, one of the biggest markets for mobile phone companies and providers, we don't have such a facilities, better as I'm free to choose what ever provider suits best to me. No blocked phones, yearly contracts or things like that. I wonder how much Apple will ask for their 'x'phone without a yearly contract?