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   Review - jv16 PowerTools 2009

   1.9.0.520 (Feb 3, 2009)

   Used to be free. Bait ans switch. quality has gone down since going paid. Also makes mistakes and removes things that cause issues.

2. 
   Review - SUMo

   2.3.4.60 (Sep 29, 2008)

   Really awesome well maintained program. This and filehippo's system/software update checker seem to be the only good free games in town. VersionTracker is a one time-use trial that costs huge money and doesnt work nearly as well as SUMO. Hats off to SUMO. Death to versiontracker charging fees.

3. 
   Review - Pidgin for Windows

   2.5.0 (Aug 19, 2008)

   Cant resize chat window. Arrogant rude unprofessional criminal developers who should undergo physical attack refuse to simply add a checkbox.

4. 
   Review - eMule

   0.49b (Aug 1, 2008)

   Best P2P along with Azureus. I get a lot of stuff from Kademlia. Be sure to use emulepawcio or some blacklist to protect yourself from AntiP2P, and find a reliable safe server and make it static. To the clown (Qlib) that keeps getting LOW-ID, this is YOUR FAULT. Don't down-rate a program because you don't know how to use port-forwarding or setup an utterly simplistic home router.

5. 
   Review - FlashFXP

   3.8 Beta (3.7.2 Build 1266) (Jul 23, 2008)

   This application calls home. This application sends encrypted information about your computer to a third party. Crackers are often puzzled by Inicom's complicated crack prevention techniques, some state that it is likely here is Trojan code in there (They bypass the routines with NOPs/Jumps, but there is a lot of poorly understood code that is likely back-dooring in nature.). Encrypted packets contain data to which a packet sniffer cannot "read" due to the payload of the contents being encrypted. What IS known is your computer WILL talk to inicom's IP addresses. Inicom is actively paying off message boards and other forums to erase any and all content which they refer to as libelous accusations [incorrectly so, it is my contention that it is likely FlashFXP is a Trojan, source code would settle the dispute. If they want the source code as a matter of public record, a libel suit would be interesting indeed]. I have analyzed the sections that the cracks "patch out," and there is more code there than would be needed to lockout or blacklist pirated copied of the software. This program is doing something else, something insidious, and because the author strips the binaries [removes variable names, etc], it is very hard to tell what is going on. I pray for the safe future of computing, but with spyware and Trojans and backdoors out there in pandemic levels, I fear the hapless computing public will only be renting time on a computer that they no longer own.

6. Comment - Jobs Demos Panther, Power Mac G5

   3.8 Beta (3.7.2 Build 1266) (Jun 24, 2003 - 2:28 AM)

   Despite being 64 bit and much faster than previous Apple computers, the SPEC marks clearly show that even at 2GHz Xeons and Opterons blow the doors off of the thing. Go here and see for yourself. BTW, SPEC_RATE isnt nearly as important as SPEC_FP_peak and SPEC_INT_peak. http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/cpu2000.html Read it and weep, but its kind of too little, too late. I'll grab an opteron when the next set comes out.