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    Michael Yount

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  1. Review - iTunes for Windows

    8.1.1 (Apr 7, 2009)

    For everyone who seems to be under the impression that iTunes is required for iPod media management, you should really consider SharePod as an alternative.

    It even lets you transfer files in the opposite direction, on any PC you choose... something which iTunes will probably never support. Simply place the executable on the iPod, and you can use it anywhere.

  2. Review - Ultimate Boot CD Full

    5.0 Beta 6 (Dec 9, 2008)

    It really doesn't get much better than this. This is an excellent collection of diagnostic tools and utilities. I'm glad this one includes INSERT, too.

  3. Review - McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool

    2.0.155.1 (Aug 16, 2008)

    This along with Symantec's removal utility is indispensable at our shop for getting rid of OEM pre-installed security software on new PCs and notebooks. It saves a lot of time on the bench by not having to uninstall 3 or 4 separate portions of these suites (with a reboot after each one usually) before they're "completely" removed.

  4. Review - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi

    2.18.000 Beta (Jun 3, 2008)

    Taken from the release notes:

    Added Features:

    * Dolby® Digital and DTS® driver decode re-established for sound cards that included decoding in their Windows XP drivers (Not applicable for products that included a 3rd party software DVD player license in the package).
    * DVD-Audio playback re-established for sound cards that included the application in their Windows XP software suite (For Windows Vista 32-bit only).
    Requires the latest Creative MediaSource DVD-Audio Player Beta software. Click here to download.

    Fixes:

    * Resolves issues of intermittent and random application/system crash when playing games or running applications that use EAX®, DirectSound®, OpenAL and/or ASIO features.
    * Resolves issue of volume mapping leading to very soft volume level in systems using Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.
    * Resolves issue with distortion and noise occuring in systems with 4 GB of RAM or greater.

    Known Issues:

    * X-Fi CMSS®-3D feature is not available in Windows Vista 64-bit.

    These drivers enable the same features of the modified drivers another user recommended from Goat Soup. Also, Creative's own ALchemy software adds EAX support in Vista, and I've found that 3D positional audio works as it did in XP with DirectSound3D games. I'll trust that over hacked drivers any day.

  5. Review - nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows Vista/7 (32-bit)

    174.74 (Apr 1, 2008)

    No... perhaps you'd like to show everyone where you see it:

    http://www.nvidia.com/ob...ta_x86_174.74_whql.html

    The products supported with this particular release are just that... supported, and they include no other GPU family than the ones listed. They may work, but are not supported by NVIDIA if problems arise. That is why the latest WHQL release for any other GPU is still 169.25.

  6. Comment - Early sales figures for Windows 7 nicely high, but do we know why?

    174.74 (Nov 6, 2009 - 4:25 PM)

    Actually, I'm wondering where the "Steve Jobs: Fortune's 'CEO of the Decade'" article is.

  7. Comment - Early sales figures for Windows 7 nicely high, but do we know why?

    174.74 (Nov 6, 2009 - 1:41 PM)

    Perhaps you should have used Chrome instead. I can't quite remember where I read it, but I've heard it's much faster than everything else. ;)

  8. Comment - Performance drain: The first public perception test of the Windows 7 era

    174.74 (Nov 6, 2009 - 1:35 PM)

    Heh...

    Pin. To. Taskbar. =)

    Once it's there, right-click to see the Jump List... or alternately you can left-click and drag up. Pretty groovy.

  9. Comment - Faster or more secure? Microsoft publishes IE patch to Automatic Updates

    174.74 (Nov 5, 2009 - 10:43 PM)

    "Apple's open source Webkit"

    Yeah.. "Apple's"...

    You're quite fond of claiming that everyone likes to copy Apple, especially Microsoft.

    The truth is, Apple merely took someone else's work (KDE's KHTML and JavaScript engine, KJS), made changes to it, and claimed it as their own.

    It seems Apple is quite adept at doing that.

  10. Comment - Faster or more secure? Microsoft publishes IE patch to Automatic Updates

    174.74 (Nov 5, 2009 - 10:36 PM)

    A difference of a few milliseconds seems fairly "minimum" to me. =)