Favorite Files

1. 1by1
2. AkelPad
3. Amaya for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
4. AutoGK (Auto Gordian Knot)
5. Autoruns
6. AutoVer
7. Billy
8. CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack)
9. cFosSpeed
10. ComicRack
11. Comodo Firewall Pro
12. doPDF
13. EVEREST Ultimate Edition
14. FastStone Capture
15. FastStone Image Viewer
16. FastStone MaxView
17. foobar2000
18. Foxit Reader
19. Gom Player
20. Google Chrome for Windows
21. Internet Download Manager
22. iuVCR
23. K-Lite Codec Pack Full
24. K-Meleon
25. Local Website Archive
26. Mask Surf Pro
27. Maxthon (Classic) Standard
28. Maxthon (v2)
29. MediaCoder
30. Miranda IM
31. Miro for Windows
32. Mobicue
33. Mozilla Firefox (v3.6 Namoroka) for Windows
34. Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)
35. Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v3)
36. Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition
37. mp3DirectCut
38. MPlayerGUI
39. Net Transport for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
40. Netscape Navigator for Windows
41. Nokia PC Suite
42. Opera for Windows
43. Paint Shop Pro
44. PeerBlock Interim Release
45. Portable Start Menu
46. Process Explorer
47. Process Lasso (x32)
48. Process Monitor
49. QT Lite
50. RSS Bandit
51. Safety.Net
52. SeaMonkey for Windows
53. SLAX
54. Soulseek
55. StaxRip
56. SUPER ©
57. System Explorer
58. The Bat! Professional
59. The KMPlayer
60. TinyResMeter
61. UltraEdit
62. VirtuaWin
63. vLite
64. WinContig
65. WindowBlinds
66. Xplorer²
67. XPredit
68. µTorrent for Windows

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Process Monitor

   2.5 (Jul 26, 2009)

   wow, streamentry! makes live more interesting, immediately.

2. 
   Review - VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows

   0.9.8a (Dec 15, 2008)

   arrrrgh. at first i thought it had improved since my last try a year ago. but after 5 minutes that familiar pain was back. worst interface ever.

3. 
   Review - Process Lasso (x32)

   3.23 Beta 2 (Nov 20, 2008)

   this can interfere with applications in unwanted ways. i believe, it's mostly the feature that toggles priority for foreground windows.
   
   a year ago fastone image viewer turned out to be unusable, when lasso was running. it got stuck with 100 % cpu for like 10 seconds on each mouse click (selection). i bugged the faststone author with a bug report. later noticed that the lasso core was to blame.
   
   recently picasa 3 crashed all the time. i thougt it was because of a beta update, but when i killed lasso, it stoped from crashing. i have not done all tests to proove the connection in this case.
   
   anyway, .. lasso is allways the last thing i would think of, when something goes wrong in any application. especially when i dont have the GUI running at all.
   
   when it should be the first thing to think of.
   
   you may blame the authors of picasa or faststone for not thinking of how soemething like lasso could interfere ("hack") with their programs, but that does not change the situation.
   
   so maybe lasso should come with a warning, or maybe the bad feature (which one?) should be off by default....
   
   i wont install it again. have no need on my system. media converters used to be the only need, but the ones i use now run on low priority by default.

4. 
   Review - Picasa for Windows

   3.0 Build 57.52 Beta (Nov 15, 2008)

   aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. latest beta crashes all the time, like randomly after X seconds.
   
   now i have to give a bad rating :p , not because a beta is buggy, but because they shovel those betas into my throat (notifer and all) without allowing downgrades (no old download available, exept V2 which might not be compatible, i dont want to risk messing up my database, cause you loose the sync-assosciation to online albums each time you rebuild the database, which is actually the real problem)
   
   thats not "testing"
   
   now i cant use picasa until next beta :(
   
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   edit: well, turned out picasa was crashing each time process lasso was trying to interfere with it. a year ago, when i tested process lasso for the first time, it made faststome image viewer unusable. so process lasso sucks. set it, forgett it, have it stalking your system.
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   still, i will never delete a picasa setup file again, until two further versions are available.

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

   3.1 Alpha 2 (Sep 8, 2008)

   BruddaMan, while i agree that the internal version system of addons is a pain in the butt (because it categorically forces restriction of compatibility, where compatibility is actually given under the hood), you should know that this is easy to fix with the "nightly tester tools"-addon.
   
   i use firefox but i will always downrate it a little, because there are so many stupid things about it, that could be fixed so easily, if someone had a vision and authority. how do you translate "zu viele köche verderben den brei"?
   ah, yeah, google knows: too many cooks spoil the broader .. (lol, mash pap porridge whatever)