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1. 
   Review - Becky! Internet Mail

   2.47.00 (May 22, 2008)

   Sure, the UI is bad.
   
   But Becky is THE ONLY e-mail client allowing edition of received mail.
   
   In some situations, this prove invaluable.

2. 
   Review - Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit)

   Service Pack 1 (Mar 19, 2008)

   This is the 450 Mb version, and there are only 5 languages in this version :
   English (US),
   French,
   German,
   Japanese,
   or Spanish (Traditional)
   
   There is another pack version which is 550 Mb with 36 languages (yes, only 36, you are right. Linux has well over 100 languages currently. Anyway ...).

3. 
   Review - WinSnap

   2.1.1 (Mar 19, 2008)

   File not free, it offers a very smooth workflow and, most of all, correctly capture alpha blending and thus produce true alpha blended png files without any background, contrary to all current freewares in that area.
   Beside thta, it is perfectly portable on an USB key.

4. 
   Review - AM-Notebook

   5.0 Beta 5 (Mar 13, 2008)

   The new 5.0 address book is just out-of-touch with users needs.
   
   But the notes feature keep being great.
   
   And it is one of the few notes software that is portable, doesn't heavily rely on MS-specific stuff, and has proven working perfectly on Linux (using Wine).

5. 
   Review - The Bat! Professional

   4.0.0.22 (Feb 8, 2008)

   Just evaluated the 4.0 a minute ago.
   
   The new Address History tab is amazing ; very interesting in a business context.
   
   The "improved convenient interface" is just bull s**t. I which way do gradients improve a visual interface ? I wonder.
   
   The two most striking lacking features are :
   - HTML templates.
   - received e-mail edition/annotation (the current annotation system is completly out of touch with a business need). I can't understand the logic behind the fact that no e-mail client currently on the market allows for modification of received e-mail. It is a killing features that would stand The Bat above the others.
   
   Shall we have to wait until 2015 to see that ? At the current pace of development, maybe.
   
   So what ?
   I love it and I hate it. And i will keep monitoring the mrket to jump away from the Bat as soon as possible, as I have done for the last three years.
   
   Ritlabs should better work a bit faster than they used to if they want to remain on the edge. And communicate a bit more on what is to come tokeep us waiting. The gapse is rapidly turning to their dis-advantage I am afraid.

6. Comment - Microsoft snags key Photoshop developer from Adobe

   4.0.0.22 (May 2, 2008 - 4:24 AM)

   I am the only one to think that the Photoshop UI (and the whole Adobe CS stuff UI in fact) is bad, actualy ?
   I would not hire Mark Hamburg for a peanut a month.

7. Comment - GroupTweet to blame for Twitter security 'compromise'

   4.0.0.22 (Apr 24, 2008 - 3:37 AM)

   How can this make a news at all ?
   Who in his sound mind would publish a minute-by-minute journal of its own activities on the web ?
   This web 2.0 thing is turning worst minute-by-minute.

8. Comment - Corel's Office competitor gets BI, more PDF

   4.0.0.22 (Apr 17, 2008 - 5:16 AM)

   2008 and still no internaly Unicode-based. Still resort to proprietary codepage... How pathetic !

9. Comment - AMD quad-core Opteron servers claim performance records

   4.0.0.22 (Apr 10, 2008 - 5:30 AM)

   " The return of AMD to any kind of dominant position in the CPU market "
   
   Does Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews writer, really read back what he wrote ?
   
   When is the last time AMD was in any kind of dominant position in the CPU market ?

10. Comment - Adobe releases alpha of AIR for Linux, joins Linux Foundation

    4.0.0.22 (Apr 1, 2008 - 3:38 AM)

    Adobe must face it : if they want to be taken seriously as linux partner, let them roll out a native Linux Photoshop.
    Then we will start to look froward.