Favorite Files

1. Audacity for Windows
2. CDBurnerXP
3. IrfanView
4. nLite
5. Winamp 5 Full
6. WinZip
7. XP-AntiSpy
8. ZoneAlarm Pro

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - F-Secure BlackLight

   2.1.1010 Beta (Jul 1, 2005)

   Apparently nice product, never found anything on my systesm - good I guess ;-)
   
   Can anyone give a hint as to when this is coming OUT of beta, as the versions expire very quickly?

2. 
   Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows

   2.0 (Snapshot Build 1.9.m71s1) (Jan 19, 2005)

   hello everyone - just my penny for your thoughts - on a 2 Ghz P4 with *only* 256 megs of RAM and an ASRock Mo'board, and general off-the-shelf hardware(including display & sound onboard), OOo loads in 5 secs flat! Of course, on a relatively 'clean' install of XP with only Office XP, some sound/video editing and some CD/DVD writing S/W on it.
   
   cool_guy, it would help if you gave some basic details of your system config - maybe it gives some idea of why it takes so long to load ????

3. 
   Review - VCDGear

   3.56 Build 041219 Beta (Dec 20, 2004)

   Been using it since Version 3
   
   Best DAT2MPG (and reverse) tool I ever saw, esp. for fixing broken clips

4. 
   Review - AVG Anti-Virus Free

   7.0 Build 296 (Dec 11, 2004)

   Been using AVG Free since version 6.0, is keeping on going nicely. PS It is also updating the DOS/Win98 scanner also when some ppl don't give a thought to it.

5. 
   Review - X-Fonter

   5.0 Beta 7 (Dec 9, 2004)

   A very good program esp. its'ability to compare two fonts simultaneously.
   
   However, all new users should be warned that this beta will expire at the end of December. The author's site itself says so.

6. Comment - Opera 8 Surpasses 600,000 Downloads

   5.0 Beta 7 (Apr 22, 2005 - 10:44 AM)

   As someone who has used M$IE, 0pera AND Firef0x from a long way back....
   
   I started off with NCSA Mosaic ;-) anyone remember it?
   
   Then came Netscape and IE If I remember correctly version 2 & 3
   
   Also along came Opera
   
   And Firefox from around v0.6
   
   As I have used all of them through current versions, here's my opinion:
   
   1) FF/Opera - both in the same class. Not prone to crashes like IE, has far less problems and allows tabs(Does not have ActiveX) Now, don't go starting about how useful/convenient/flashy it is. It is all that, it is also a rather very unique risk).
   
   2) Both FF/Opera are evolving and being updated on a far quicker basis than IE. Sure IE has jumped version numbers quickly, but improvements are few and far between.
   
   3) IE is a memory hog, and all versions since 3.0 I consider bloated (3.0 ran decently quite a long time back)
   
   4) IF IE development staff put as much effort into improving the browser as they did in putting out patches every tuesday, it would have overtaken the other two long ago.
   
   ergo, Opera/FF - TIED
   
   IE - some small distance behind. can catch up but needs work.

7. Comment - Firefox Hits 25 Million Download Mark

   5.0 Beta 7 (Feb 18, 2005 - 9:27 AM)

   In response to 'roj' - doing a lot of firefox-bashing: I find some comments downright UNTRUE.
   
   Most IMP: "I find IE faster in my experience."
   
   I question what version of IE, FF and what OS you are using.
   
   I agree with the statement that firefox is no magic bullet, so I disabled java in it long ago. Javascript is restricted to minimal things - closing, lowering and resizing windows is disabled. Software installation by internet sites is also disabled, as is flash/shockwave player.( I never install it if i can).
   
   If you take all these measures+disable activeX, I believe both browsers are more or less secure, but I completely disagree about the speed. IE is slow. compared. to. firefox. mozilla. or . opera.

8. Comment - IE Usage Falls Again, Firefox Gains

   5.0 Beta 7 (Jan 21, 2005 - 2:18 PM)

   Hello everyone again..I seem to be getting a lot more vocal nowadays ;-)
   
   well bourguoisdude and others ;-) I have by now gone through 1 software publishing(small)firm, an advertising firm, a teaching job in an engineering college and now a finance co - and I'd like to share with you all some *practical* figures:
   
   In a nutshell:
   1) The software firm used linux - konqueror and opera and mozilla. IE -? what IE? it does'nt and has never existed for anything other than win/mac. BIG Minus.
   
   2) The advertising firm used a loose peer-to-peer win98/ME network. IE was everywhere, but mozilla(not firefox - the full suite) was used for the sole system used for all *official* correspondence.
   
   3)The engineering college was mayhem - Solaris, SCO Unix, Netware, Linux, Windows (no macs :-( )
   *all* sorts of browsers - from *LYNX* - yes, it's alive and kicking, thank u - to things like Deepne t Explorer were being used.
   
   4)The finance co doesn't have much of a clue on web browsers, so it turns out every system has both IE and Firefox installed, which one gets used depends on the person in front of the net machine.
   
   I think this gives you a very good picture of what actually goes on in the outside world as opposed to statistics alone. (Of course I don't live in the US/UK) ;-)
   
   IE rules, yes, among
   
   i) people who have no alternative
   ii)people who don't care a damn what they use as long as it works
   iii)people who don't know
   
   sorry if my words seem a bit bitter.
   
   In the end the choice of what browser to use rests with YOU, the user - not the marketing people pushing "World Domination" OR "Freedom of Choice".
   I hope you make a good decision.

9. Comment - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Finally Arrives

   5.0 Beta 7 (Nov 9, 2004 - 9:39 PM)

   I have been using FireFox/Bird/Phoenix right from 0.6 upwards, and would like to state that I have no speed problems with it whatsoever - of course, I have not installed flash, shockwave or any such "extras" for the browser, and i browse with sound/videos/animations disabled for the most part.
   
   Mozilla was *slowed down drastically* when I put SP2 on the net machine, though. Did anyone have similiar effects?
   
   Edit: Installing 1.0RC and a general cleaning of the system removed the speed trouble

10. Comment - 10 Security Flaws Found in Mozilla

    5.0 Beta 7 (Sep 17, 2004 - 11:01 AM)

    Just to let y'all know, me and my friends have successfully used firefox with no fewer than three well-reputed banks in our place(we're in India) at the same time using netbanking, and all three worked! not once but for the past 1 year and three months.
    
    So much for the comment that it doesn't work with banking sites- of course one has to be careful with the browser settings - setting the popup killer to kill all popups will for eg. choke 2 out of three of the banks we use regularly - because they open new windows in the browser, etc.
    
    I only wish some people would put more thought into using alternates - I for one have mozilla firefox, opera, deepnet explorer, and offbyone in windows, and konqueror, netscape and opera in linux.
    
    All of them work, some have their gripes, yes but one way or the other they have *some* advantages over IE, *and some disadvantages* too. It's about time everyone woke up to this fact.