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1. 
   Review - Advanced SystemCare Free

   2.01 (Oct 12, 2006)

   Not a bad program for a home user, but be very careful if you're a business user/domain user.
   
   Most of the registery items it found on my system are actually totally legitimate and should not be removed or changed. They will break applications. The rest are unneeded registry entries, however they would have no effect on system performance if removed.
   
   All of the speed optimizations come from modifying the UI settings, which reduce visual appeal of XP.
   
   It is a _must_ to create a restore point before running this application.

2. 
   Review - Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder

   1.5 (Aug 7, 2006)

   Just want everyone to know that this does _NOT_ contain a malicious trojan.
   
   Some AV Firewalls and AV/security applications will flag it as a Trojan, especially at the corporate level.
   
   By definition: A trojan is "A program that appears legitimate, but performs some illicit activity when it is run."
   
   By definition the program in itself is a trojan. It is a peice of software that appears legitimate, and performs an illicit function (getting product keys).
   
   In a corporate environment, this would be a security risk, as it would be able to get the product code of a corporate site license, which could then be installed on home PCs which would not require activation.
   
   Your software is detecting it correctly for the corporate world. The sysadmin on the network should be notified that such a program is being downloaded and take necessary actions to prevent the theft of product codes.
   
   The program however does have legitimate uses in backing up product keys and does _no_ harm to your PC or attempt in any way to steal data.
   
   Please don't make such alarmist post unless you can back up and verify that the application is a trojan.
   
   This is an excellent application that our company has used for years to back up product codes of legitimate licenses for our clients when we reload their PCs.

3. 
   Review - Microsoft Windows Vista (64-bit)

   Beta 2 (Jun 8, 2006)

   Having problems dowloading with IE 6 or 7? Use FireFox instead and you'll get the whole file. For some reason, IE can't handle such a large download. Go MS. :~)

4. 
   Review - Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit)

   Beta 2 (Jun 8, 2006)

   Having problems downloading via IE 6 or 7? Download with FireFox and you'll get the whole file. For whatever reason, IE can't handle such a large download. :~)

5. Comment - Beta 2 of iPhone OS 3.1 adds Wi-Fi, kills tethering

   Beta 2 (Jul 15, 2009 - 1:46 PM)

   It's not the same, but they released both the new OS beta and a new SDK version to coincide with the OS beta...new OS isn't going to do much good if you don't have a new SDK to expose the new features for programmers.

6. Comment - Japan Gets 1 Terabyte DVD Recorder

   Beta 2 (Aug 25, 2005 - 6:22 PM)

   There really isn't a heck of a lot of difference between the Hitachi device and TiVo really.
   
   They're both hard drive based video recorders. The only difference is that Hitachi's is 1TB (2x500GB hard drives).
   
   The heading is misleading (as can be seen on slashdot). It's not a 1TB DVD Recorder. It's a 1TB hard drive based recorder with a standard DVD burner in it.
   
   Not to mention that it is capable of recording HD to the hard drives, but not to the DVD burner.
   
   So there really isn't any reason to want one of these things. Not to mention they're priced around $2,100. Not exactly anything worthwhile.

7. Comment - Microsoft Updates Graphics Suite Beta

   Beta 2 (Aug 16, 2005 - 10:35 AM)

   I don't think it's necessarily growing its monopoly, but Microsoft is definately starting to spread itself thin. How many more markets can Microsoft grow into before they fall on their face? The recent announcement of Acrylic, Expression, start.com, Microsoft Accounting (to rival QuickBooks), Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus and existing CRM and Point Of Sale, and I'm sure there are more projects out there that I'm either forgetting or no one knows about yet.
   
   How is it possible that one company can produce so many varied software packages in all veins of business and home use and still maintain a high quality product? Throwing more money at developers isn't the answer when the top brass don't really care about their bread and butter Windows. Removing from Vista all the features that originally excited people and was driving their marketing just to meet their deadline. And now the recent announcement that MIE7 won't pass the acid test for CSS. Does this mean that Microsoft doesn't care about standards? How can a company not fully comply with a standard, yet go off and create the own standards (Office's open file format) and expect the world to jump at it just because they have the largest market share?
   
   Don't get me wrong, I like most Microsoft products, I use them and I sell them to my clients, but this is starting to get rediculous. They really should fix all that's wrong before they open a new can of worms.