Favorite Files

1. Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)
2. musikCube

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

   2.10 (Oct 4, 2005)

   flashhh, what BS. NSIS is excellent and its target audience is developers not dumb users; it's a scripting language which provides all the customization programmers want. Inno is good, but this is better. Anyways NSIS has evolved a ton since its left the hands of nullsoft, and there is absolutely no spyware. Winamp is now in the hands of AOL and most of the original developers have left..... it used to be on my need-to-install-first list, but no longer is so; now I use musikCube.

2. 
   Review - iTunes for Windows

   5.0 (Sep 7, 2005)

   Even with my 2Gigs of ram, I consider 50 megs of memory used to have a nice music library complete bloatware.

3. 
   Review - Google Talk

   1.0.0.66 Beta (Aug 31, 2005)

   I was not going to give this 5, but it is the only way to balance the people who are rating based on Google conspiracy theories and not the software itself. If you don't like the product, thats fine, but don't rate it a 1 because you have a theory that Google is trying to take over the world or in this case sell your phone number.
   
   "If you think spam in your inbox is bad, how would you like hearing your phone ring in the middle of the night just to find you have a porn advertisement on your phone or some moron trying to get you to buy a male enhancement drug?"
   
   Getting a list of legit cell numbers is not that hard, Google doesn't need to convince people to do that. Plus, your example would require the violation of several laws.
   
   1) it is illegal to telemarket a cell phone
   2) it is illegal to telemarket in the middle of the night
   3) it would be a violation of their privacy policy
   
   Telemarketers would be stupid to do that, and Google would be even stupider.
   
   If you are concerned for your own privacy from Google, DONT USE IT and feel free to tell others not to because of your concerns not your unproven theories; you admitted the software was great, and therefore you should have given the appropriate rating.
   
   Oh btw, I would not be offended if you just mentioned your concerns in your review and did not give it a false rating AND when I started reading your review I was thinking "why would betanews need to delete a bad review?" as you mentioned. After reading it, I do think your rating should be deleted, as it is irrational and false.

4. 
   Review - MySQL for Windows

   5.0.7 Beta (Jun 16, 2005)

   MySQL is just wonderful, although there may be other more powerful DBs, for most purposes MySQL is enough (and w/ 5 there are stored procedures and more bring it closer to some others such as MS SQL). MySQL is also free unlike MS SQL, which allows it to be used easily widespread because there are no licensing issues.
   
   I'll have to check out MS SQL Express..... I'm guessing it has lots of limits compared to MS SQL since its free

5. 
   Review - musikCube

   0.92.4 (May 25, 2005)

   There is a plugin available on the website to import/export playlist files.
   
   This is not included in the software because musikCube is trying to avoid just bending to be compatible with everything. musikCube is trying to innovate, and text based playlists are not seen as a good way to handle playlists in the future.

6. Comment - Apparent IP routing vulnerability affects Vista, not XP

   0.92.4 (Nov 24, 2008 - 1:58 PM)

   A flaw that requires administrator access to exploit... must be a slow news day

7. Comment - Apple details Mac OS X 'Snow Leopard' at WWDC

   0.92.4 (Jun 11, 2008 - 5:12 AM)

   That's pretty pathetic that a news organization such as BetaNews is unable to find what "OpenCL" is... as it is clearly defined in the press release and by every other news article, and the information was available before publishing, and should have at least been updated in the article by now as this is a website not a printed paper.

8. Comment - ASP.NET AJAX makes its way to Linux via Java

   0.92.4 (Apr 10, 2008 - 1:15 AM)

   "Programmers don't need to be completely proficient in JavaScript"... what does this have to do with JavaScript, don't you mean Java?

9. Comment - Microsoft: IE7 a 'High-Priority' Update

   0.92.4 (Jul 26, 2006 - 6:19 PM)

   I wish that was true.

10. Comment - EFF Suit Against AT&T Moves Forward

    0.92.4 (Jul 20, 2006 - 9:25 PM)

    Thats not exactly how the court system works, but feel free to live in that bubble of belief. He is NOT a state or county judge, he is a federal district judge and he does have the right to make this decision ... its called seperation of powers; he is actually a part of the federal govt just not the executive branch of it. This is the legal route. If the US Govt disagrees w/ his resulting decision from this case they can appeal to a higher court and then a higher court eventually reaching the supreme court. All federal cases begin in district courts; district just means that the court covers an area for origination of a case, not that it is run by the county of state of that district.