Favorite Files

1. ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows Vista
2. ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP
3. avast! Home
4. CDBurnerXP Pro
5. DivX for Windows
6. FileZilla v3 for Windows
7. foobar2000
8. Foxit Reader
9. GoldWave
10. GrabIt
11. HTTrack Website Copier for Windows
12. IE7pro
13. ImgBurn
14. Koepi's XviD Codec
15. mp3DirectCut
16. Mp3tag
17. OpenOffice.org for Windows
18. Paint.NET
19. Pidgin for Windows
20. PSPad editor
21. Ultimate Windows Tweaker
22. UltraISO
23. VirtualDub
24. VirtuaWin
25. WavPack
26. XMPlay
27. XnView for Windows

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Vuze for Windows

   4.2.0.4 (Jul 9, 2009)

   Java.
   
   Passe.
   
   "Let's write a communications client in a language that still has heap issues in a 64-bit world".
   
   Yeah... riiiight...
   
   Bloated, slow, chock full of useless crap like the chintzy media browser.
   
   I'll take uTorrent any day: small, fast, efficient.
   
   I don't encourage bloat or Java (the terms are synonymous).
   
   You shouldn't either.
   
   ONE star.

2. 
   Review - Winamp 5 Full

   5.56 Build 2512 (Jul 2, 2009)

   Not that I'm any big fan of this player but how about WASAPI support From The Developers? Winamp is notorious for piss-poor audio plug-ons so the onus falls on the devs...
   
   I also don't understand why this thing isn't completely free now Like Every Other Player (sorry, I forgot it's owned by A-O-Hell, alias The AntiChrist) and definitely don't get why anyone would pay for it in the face of that fact.
   
   THREE stars.

3. 
   Review - Nero

   9.4.13.2b (Jun 29, 2009)

   Long since got off the Nero bandwagon.
   
   IMGBurn is it. everything important that Nero does in a slim, lightweight and efficient package. Free too. Don't waste bandwidth with this monstrosity - it's the poster child for the typical garbage commercial software of today.
   
   The Nero team should be ashamed given their inspired beginnings crushing another bloated piece of crap: Easy CD Creator.
   
   You have become that which you most despised.
   
   ONE star for bloated, invasive crap.

4. 
   Review - Yahoo! Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox

   2.0.0.20090605061254 Beta (Jun 26, 2009)

   Toolbars Blow.
   
   Period.
   
   ONE star.

5. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox (v3.5) for Windows

   3.5 RC2 (Jun 19, 2009)

   I have to say a lot of people are behaving like the typical ZillaLand fanboiz, right down to the "let me read with what I sit on instead of what my eyes are mounted in".
   
   I like the browser.
   
   I use it daily.
   
   It's my browser of choice.
   
   It's architecture was "designed" (I use the term extremely loosely) by a bunch of 13-year old wannabe propellerheads and is neither intelligent nor sustainable, a FACT highlighted by the broken plugins with each point release.
   
   The fact that the browser has come as far as it has is VERY laudable given its inherent disadvantages BUT IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE.
   
   ZillaLand needs to get its head out of the ground and actually DEVELOPE an architecture.
   
   I've worked in this biz for 20 years and have participated in more software projects than most of you have underwear and the current road is NOT the way to go.
   
   Of course, the average system acumen level as evidenced by the replies here is pretty much in common with those who developed the architecture to begin with (about as deep as the average teaspoon) so it's not surprising that we get l33t l1ttl3 boi gam3r responses.
   
   The senior members here however will note, recognize and acknowledge the truth.
   
   THREE stars for a browser that has achieved what it has primarily by brute force developement rather than intelligence nd no amount of rhetoric, regardless of source or tone, is going to change that simple, blatantly obvious and utterly undeniable FACT.

6. Comment - It's official: Google Chrome, the operating system

   3.5 RC2 (Jul 9, 2009 - 4:03 PM)

   Source?
   
   You Kidding????
   
   Any early version of Chrome.
   
   READ the EULA.
   
   Who says they'd sell it?
   
   It's a Corp.
   
   It exists to make profit.
   
   At any cost.
   
   By any means.
   
   Do the math.
   
   Honestly dude, you're NOT that naive.

7. Comment - It's official: Google Chrome, the operating system

   3.5 RC2 (Jul 8, 2009 - 7:21 PM)

   Obviously this lad has forgotten the Draconian EULA Chrome had where any image uploaded using it could be scammed by Google and sold to the highest bidder for whatever they wanted - because they now automatically had the "rights" to it. That only got changed when people actually read the EULA and b****ed.
   
   And this is the company the wittle anti-MSers want to twust.
   
   Oh yeah - REAL intelligence there...

8. Comment - Vista's dead: Microsoft kills an OS and no one cares

   3.5 RC2 (Jul 3, 2009 - 4:34 PM)

   I see you've forgotten about the original timeline which said that the next version of Windows after Vista was due in 2012.

9. Comment - Firefox 3.5: The need for speed

   3.5 RC2 (Jul 3, 2009 - 4:31 PM)

   OK, find something else to milk - the monotonous Firefox 3.5 coverage is now tedious.

10. Comment - Vista's dead: Microsoft kills an OS and no one cares

    3.5 RC2 (Jul 3, 2009 - 10:06 AM)

    OEM sales ain't sales - they're the equivalent of consumer waterboarding.
    
    Corporate (the other main source of sales and the MUCH more important one because prestige and confidence in the company are linked to that and can result in gain or loss of the more important BackOffice sales) didn't touch it.
    
    Yeah, some high profile sycophants like intel went there - are we surprised? Hell, they HAD to if only for a unified show of force.
    
    However, most corps took one look at it, were decidedly underwhelmed because it offered nothing (not "nothing important" - NOTHING) and said "Cheery Bye".
    
    Windows 7 rushing out the door this soon is if nothing else an emergency attempt to recapture that corporate confidence and restore the illusion of "were the 800lb gorilla".
    
    This is after all the 21st century and perception (read: PR) is FAR more important than reality, especially in the terminally shallow corporate sector.
    
    Gotta keep those Really Important BackOffice Sales.