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1. 
   Review - Opera for Windows

   9.02 Build 8573 (Sep 11, 2006)

   Hey all you asses with your it's getting better/worse one line comments, hows about some real reviews and thoughts about the actual application.
   
   Maybe an actual writup of your experience when you used it (assuming you actually downloaded and installed it).
   
   As for my thoughts on it, I've given it a 4 because even though it has very little market share it manages to reproduce most websites very well. Of course some sites will not render too good but even then that's not all Opera's fault.
   
   And Opera can't do a damn thing (just like FF) on sites that implement ActiveX.
   
   I agree that Opera could have a better default layout for beginner's and I think lately the company has got sidetracked from what makes Opera a brilliant browser (speed and truly USEFUL/innovative features) and become overly focused on headline grabbing features (think .torrent support built directly into the browser with no way to turn it off).
   
   They should really consider dumping their widgets feature (so useless) and implementing a FF style extension system that a few other reviewers have suggested as well. With Opera's loyal and passionate userbase the extensions would quickly build up to rivil that of FF. And if their worried about losing some security or increasing the file size/memory consumption of Opera why not release a lite version with no extension support or fancy features etc.
   
   Give the user the choice.
   
   Overall but I have been using Opera for years upon years and even though I sometimes envy some new cool FF extension or IE only site I never stray or have been unfaithful to the big red O (o yea the logo could do with being changed as well).
   
   Take half an hour to try it out, you can only gain.

2. 
   Review - MyTunesRSS for Windows

   2.2.4 (Sep 1, 2006)

   This is great software.
   
   Simple to setup, nice clean interface. I use it to stream my music from my home laptop to my placement year job PC. Works with no problems, and I have a wireless LAN and am connecting through a D-link router so it's not even the simplest setup.
   
   I've also tried other software such as slimserver, I personally like MyTunesRSS interface far more.
   
   And all for free.
   
   Get it. It saved me shelling out for a 40 gig HDD.

3. 
   Review - FairUse4WM

   1.1 (Aug 25, 2006)

   It removes the MS DRM version 10 and 11 from protected music files. For example Napster.
   
   So you can play them on any OS etc.
   
   I've heard it works 100%. Get it now before MS get on the phone to their lawers

4. 
   Review - Pando for Windows

   0.8.8 Beta (Apr 21, 2006)

   From the FAQ.
   
   Where do the files I send go?
   
   Via a secure, end-to-end 128-bit encrypted transfer, your files are uploaded to our storage proxies (Pando servers), and an email is sent to your specified email recipients. As soon as they open the “.pando�? files attached to the emails they get, the files are transferred to your recipients' computers simultaneously from your own computer and our storage proxies. No one, including us, has access to your encrypted files except for you and your intended email recipients. IMPORTANT NOTE: As with any email attachment, if your recipients forward packages to their friends, they will also be able to download your files. Please keep this in mind when emailing private files.

5. 
   Review - iTunes for Windows

   6.0.2 (Jan 10, 2006)

   Ok I have to say that i am not the biggest apple fan, don't like their machines, nor did i admire the ipod up until the nano (which just managed to hit my sweetspot).
   
   But when i moved from WMP to iTunes (just to see what it was like) i found a far simpler experience. Too simple at first but i gradually got used to the nice clean interface and only having features that i need.
   
   As for the performance of iTunes it's not a problem for me. (50megs used when playing on a 1 gig system).
   
   The only bad experience i have had with it so far is that a few times now it has given me an error that it can no longer write to the iTunes music library as i don't have sufficient rights (i'm the admin).
   
   One question though, is that whenever iTunes consolidates the library does it copy or move the songs. Consolidation is the solution to the above problem.
   
   Anyway overall a very competent player i just wish apple would cease bundling QT with it.

6. Comment - BBC launches iPlayer 2.0

   6.0.2 (Jun 26, 2008 - 5:30 PM)

   Yes it is pointless for people outside the UK imafurby, but why even post a comment stating that when a massive amount of all the other news stories are pointless to people outside the USA.
   
   You get one story that isn't centred around you and you start crying. Wow.

7. Comment - AOL Opens Up Xdrive

   6.0.2 (Jun 14, 2007 - 9:12 AM)

   Please someone create a backup app that replaces the AOL one.
   
   BTW, can anyone tell me if AOL now supports drive mapping now?

8. Comment - Music Service Lets Customers Set Prices

   6.0.2 (Mar 6, 2007 - 1:11 PM)

   Have you used the service?
   
   Songs start out free. START OUT FREE. I don't see this as a bad thing for independent artists. It allows a number of people to download the songs and see if they like the artist. If they do they start tracking and buying from that artist. You caould say they become a fan. If they don't like the artist that try someone else, cause they ain't lost anything (read money).
   
   The fact that artists allow some free downloads of their songs means that they encourage people to listen to them. THIS IS IMPORTANT. If the songs weren't free or really cheap and the person hadn't heard of the artist/band before they would probably not buy from them. And once a few people download the free song and start reccommending it then the artist starts to make money, and they make money from EVERY download from that point on.
   
   I've been a member of this service from almost the start and I love it. In my opinion if they can get a system that combines independent talent with established talent it could be the one stop shop for many people when buying music.
   
   They also have reward type schemes for people who find, listen to and then reccommend music. So if I reccommend a song and 40 cent and it increases in price I get some credit to spend on other songs.
   
   EVERYONE try it out. You'll not lose anything.

9. Comment - YouTube to Add Three BBC-Branded Channels

   6.0.2 (Mar 2, 2007 - 1:09 PM)

   You're an ass. This is totally different from the other story. Go do something usefull like nutering yourself.

10. Comment - Apple's Steve Jobs Calls for End of DRM

    6.0.2 (Feb 6, 2007 - 6:29 PM)

    If your referring to Microsoft giving a cut of HW sales as delaing with the devil then let me ask you this.
    
    Would you go to the devil and willingly give him your soul, or a percentage of it?
    
    If you answer anything other than NO then you are very much in the minority (& in need of mental help call 0800-CRAZY).
    
    Microsoft willingly went to the labels and offered them the cut of HW. WHY? (yea to get at apple etc) but WHY? All they have done it open a massive can of worms that will be tough to close if the lables get stubborn.
    
    I do want to say that it's not as if I believe Jobs 100% when he says this. But the very fact that he says it in public shows that he supports the idea of DRM free music.