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1. Weather Watcher Live

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1. 
   Review - Weather Watcher Live

   6.0.0 (Nov 10, 2008)

   "Perhaps" some problems are due to the station. Enter a Zip Code and checkout all the stations in your area.
   
   Of course there are bugs and annoyances. Every programs and OS has them and always will.
   
   Excellent program.

2. 
   Review - Total Uninstall

   4.9.5 (Oct 6, 2008)

   I can only give this a 2. It is shareware and costs 30 bucks. You "probably" can get much the same functionality for the free Revo Uninstall. None of these are perfect - the Cleansweep from Quaterdeck (who bought them??) wasn't perfect and only worked on Windows 3.1. Revo missed the AppData director for Thunderbird - but since most of know Mozilla puts stuff there no big deal. What amazes me about all the "free" programs like Mozilla a truly enormous numbaer of junk registry entries are added to already bloated registry.

3. 
   Review - KDE

   4.1.2 (Oct 5, 2008)

   No matter the lipstick. KDE 4.x is unstable. Just like Vista desktops you can blow away your entire Linux setup with one mistyped keystroke or a mouse click. Use GNOME as your default and change to KDE 4 if you want to play with fire. Or use KDE 3 for stability.
   
   Windows doesn't give a choice - even you use Windowblinds or other toys. With Windows if you install the latest and greatest video drive you can hose your system. In Linux you restore such a mistake from the command line in rescue mood. Just be sure to have backed up xor.con.
   
   Your mileage may vary

4. 
   Review - Sysinternals Suite

   Build 06/24/08 (Jun 25, 2008)

   As the name says a fantastic set of tools to look below the hood (while holding your breath) of Windows.
   
   But you just made up M$? Probably been used for over ten years!

5. 
   Review - VirtualBox

   1.6.2 (Jun 6, 2008)

   This software is great. If Sun continues their work to support 64 bit guest the hundreds of dollars I've spent on VMware is gone with the wind I guess. Besides the Windows version of the program I can run my Virtual Boxes from Debian accessing the Windows partition via ntfs-3g. Great work Sun. BTW the individual who said on another thread the nobody runs openSolaris on the desktop should try it sometime. It's the most beautiful desktop I've ever seen using Gnome.

6. Comment - Google Chrome takes more than just inspiration from Mozilla

   1.6.2 (Sep 3, 2008 - 10:51 AM)

   Itr is up to something - and like M$ is trying to absorb your computer. As I said it tries to add swg to the startup - I deny this using Spybot Teatimer. I'm tempted to sandbox this app when I get a chance.

7. Comment - Google Chrome takes more than just inspiration from Mozilla

   1.6.2 (Sep 2, 2008 - 5:46 PM)

   Agree with the poster below.
   
   1) No options that I could see during install
   2) Wanted to install Google own "phone home" code - blocked using Comodo firewall.
   3) Somewhat chilling indication that Google wants (and mostly has) "own" the Interest. No wonder Ballmer has been reported as having a s..t fit whne Google is mentioned in his presence.
   5) Can't close the browser using the exit tab in the upper left corner of every program. Have to close it from the task bar.
   
   Even after it closed still tried to modify at least 4 protected registry keys. Allowed this (but NOT as a trusted application) because I was sure it would completely fail otherwise.
   
   But most interestingly:
   
   5) Imported all FF bookmarks EXCEPT for Betanews!
   
   Will use Revo Unistaller to get rid of it bye and
   
   It does promise to be pretty fast because according to the video on its home page Javascript was tweaked

8. Comment - Corel Debuts Free WordPerfect Beta

   1.6.2 (Feb 28, 2007 - 10:07 AM)

   Corel.com says no betas are being tested.
   How did you guys get it - or perhaps you are talking about vaporware

9. Comment - 22% of Windows Installs Non-Genuine

   1.6.2 (Jan 24, 2007 - 10:06 AM)

   Perhaps $MS should limit their witch hunt for evil hackers to those aren't genuine??
   
   This sent using gmail on firefox running Ubuntu. Fedora is pretty good as well. If MS$ is to survive they need to open source their spaghetti code

10. Comment - 'Monad' Named Windows PowerShell

    1.6.2 (Apr 25, 2006 - 4:54 PM)

    4NT put's this command shell into the Trash bin