Activity for April 10

Reviewed a program

Activity for March 17

Watched a program

Pedro Moreno's Profile

Member since January 22, 2005

Name
Pedro Moreno G C Costa
Location:
Brazil

Favorite Files

Recent Posts

Review - foobar2000
0.9.6.5 Beta 1 (Apr 10, 2009)

How many times will I have to say this? And I hope a good many will agree: Foobar2k's interface is not ugly, it's simple! Perpahs too simple to suit the taste of some, but I actually like it. Sound quality in F2k is great, and the GUI does its job in a clean, simple way. If simple is ugly my friend, then that's only a matter of taste.
Review - LAME
3.98.2 (Oct 3, 2008)

Quit badmouthing ogg!!! It's not widely supported because most companies are plain stupid, period. Open source rules! Always will!

As for LAME, lol, it's great! Mp3 has come a long way since its birth, and LAME is an excellent encoder.
Review - 7-Zip (32-bit)
4.33 Beta (Feb 6, 2006)

7-Zip is NOT ugly! Come on!

Plus, it's light, reliable, fast and very effective. As for icons, 7-Zip gives each archive type its own icon, provided that it is your default archive handler, which makes file identification much better.

And the 7z format rules.
Review - GMail Drive
1.0.9 (Dec 7, 2005)

Mr. Aegis69,

'Is anybody this desperate for an extra gig of space when we have 400 gig hard drives for 150 bucks?'

What if people, say, wish to retrieve their files from any computer — for free and without any kind of expiry date? This is a useful tool, even for people with gargantuan hard drives.

The only thing I'd add to this utility would be an automatic splitting feature for files over 10MB. Nonetheless, it deserves a healthy 5!
Review - AntiVir Personal Edition for Windows
6.29.00.03 (Mar 2, 2005)

Antivir is a GREAT antivirus software. It's passed the last Virus Bulletin test, on Windows NT, and received the VB100% award. McAfee, a big reference in the antivirus world, has failed to pass the same test. Among the three main free antivurus programs avaiable (Avast!, AVG and Antivir), I recommend Antivir. My reasons are: 1- I don't like advertisements of any kind. AVG displays buttons and functions that are only avaiable in Pro version and once you click them, you get a message telling you to purchase a license. Avast! also does something similar. That bothers me. Antivir, on the other hand, doesn't disable important features in PersonalEdition, and only shows a small message in the 'about' dialog box recommending you the Pro version in case you're not a non-commercial user. 2- Antivir is lower on system resources than both Avast! and AVG. 3- Antivir also scans for dialers and other unwanted programs. (Maybe Avast! and AVG scan for some of these too, of course.) 4- Some people complain about Antivir's interface being ugly. I totally disagree. I much prefer a simple, functional interface over a Winamp-looking Avast! skin. So, it's simple, not ugly.

Downside: Antivir has a big update file (around 2.6MB now and growing), that may be a problem to dial-up users. And sometimes the server is too busy or just taking a nap or something. But usually works fine.

NOTES: - Antivir doesn't feature POP3/SMTP scanning like Avast! and AVG. However, it will definitely not let you open an unsafe file, as its Guard automatically scans every file movement.

- malcolmsuperstar said that Avast! features script protection. That's not correct: Avast! Pro features script protection.

- Antivir version 6.30 has already been released, but BetaNews hasn't still updated its entry here.