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1. 
   Review - Sysinternals Suite

   Build 12/10/08 (Dec 11, 2008)

   These tools were so good, Microsoft had to buy the company because even they couldn't write utilities this useful.

2. 
   Review - WinSCP

   4.1.4 Beta (Jun 25, 2008)

   Do one thing and do it well.
   
   WinSCP is everything a software package should be. It's simple to use, flexible, cleanly designed and just all around pleasant. This software is everything big companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Corel and others should study WinSCP because they have completely forgotten everything about writing software that this little Open Source wonder does right, and does well.

3. 
   Review - Sysinternals Suite

   Build 02/26/08 (Feb 28, 2008)

   Microsoft couldn't make stuff this good so they had to buy someone who could. These are THE power tools for any knowledgeable Windows admin or user.
   
   If you're familiar with Linux or liked the old Norton Utilities back in the 80s then you'll feel right at home with the SysInternals suite.

4. 
   Review - Paint Shop Pro

   11.11 (Jan 16, 2007)

   Everyone warned us that Corel would ruin PSP, but I didn't want to believe it. It was a solid product that I've been using for over 10 years.
   
   When 10 came out, I immediately bought it, but I couldn't stand the new browser interface and found myself wanting to stick with 9.
   
   When 11 came out I was anxious to see the new features but wanted to check out the trial before buying the upgrade. The new features were totally unimpressive, they were just fancy descriptions for really lame low-tech things you could already do. The "Time Machine" seems to do nothing more than alter the colors (B/W, sepia, etc), and the so-called "Depth of Field" feature is just a blur effect with a hole in the middle. Plus the browser in version 11 would constantly go haywire and peg the CPU at 100% continuously, until I killed the program. And while version 9 is painfully slow to start up, 10 and 11 were even worse.
   
   I didn't want to believe it but Corel did ruin a program I've been a registered user of since version 3. I'm glad I checked out the trial version didn't buy 11 and I will stick with version 9 forever.
   
   5 stars for version

5. 
   Review - Linux Kernel

   2.6.19 (Nov 30, 2006)

   Windows has to be better, it's up to, what, version 5.2?
   
   Linux is only at 2.6?! That's only half as good.
   
   Good thing Linux is evolving about 10 times as fast as that big, bloated, evolutionary dead-end from Microsoft.

6. Comment - Steve Jobs says 'No Interest' in iPhone 4 radiation app, devs release it anyway

   2.6.19 (Mar 25, 2011 - 10:37 AM)

   @billstelling: I'm on the fence here. Given how ignorant people are of the whole concept of electromagnetic radiation... and one would think people in a computer forum would be more likely to understand a science topic than the population at large, I can see why Jobs would not want to promote hysteria, which is precisely what would happen. On the other hand, I also agree with you, he's being a big baby about it. Of course, the whole concept of Apple is "We reserve the right to be big babies, and there's nothing you can do about it if you want to use our products."

7. Comment - Steve Jobs says 'No Interest' in iPhone 4 radiation app, devs release it anyway

   2.6.19 (Mar 24, 2011 - 5:17 PM)

   If you know the specs of the transmitter and can read the current power levels from the firmware, you certainly can make a reasonable estimate of the radiation. Whether you can do so accurately enough to be meaningful is questionable, and based on the responses here, people are so incredibly ignorant of basic science that the app would do nothing but generate pointless hysteria anyway.

8. Comment - Steve Jobs says 'No Interest' in iPhone 4 radiation app, devs release it anyway

   2.6.19 (Mar 24, 2011 - 5:12 PM)

   Sunburn _is_ radiation poisoning. It is physical damage to the body caused by ionization of molecules in the cells caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

9. Comment - Steve Jobs says 'No Interest' in iPhone 4 radiation app, devs release it anyway

   2.6.19 (Mar 24, 2011 - 5:05 PM)

   You do realize that a radio transmission is electromagnetic radiation. Or did you think cell phones use magic to get your voice to the tower? Really, you have filled this forum with incredibly ignorant rants that show you don't have the slightest idea of what you are talking about.
   
   Instead of ranting incessantly, covering your computer screen with specks of spit and getting modded down into the Earth's lower mantle, I suggest you take 3 minutes and learn something.
   
   Here's a summary for you: What we commonly call "radiation" consists of two different things. Electromagnetic radiation or a stream of subatomic particles. Particle radiation is normally only encountered from radioactive substances. Electromagnetic radiation consists of everything from gamma rays through X-rays through ultraviolet through visible light through infrared through microwaves through radio waves and on beyond in both directions. All radiation is harmful to living tissue if it is energetic enough. Certainly anything with a shorter wavelength than visible light can cause harm in relatively small doses because the photons of shorter wavelength radiation have higher energy. But any wavelength can cause harm when you are exposed to enough of it (i.e., enough photons). It is unknown what the long-term effects of exposure to longer wavelengths at the relatively low powers emitted by cell phones, transmitters and other similar devices are. There is no proof that longer wavelength radiation is harmful at that low a dose, but it is also foolish to believe there is no possibility that long-term exposure is completely safe. If you know the specifications for a transmitter you can predict how much electromagnetic radiation it emits and how much exposure (presumably in terms of sieverts or rem) a user of such a device would be exposed to. Of course such a prediction would probably be a rough estimate at best, but given enough information the accuracy of the app could be realistic.
   
   Steve Jobs probably feels the likelihood of the app being accurate is not worth the negative publicity it could generate. We have government departs, including the FCC and OSHA to analyze devices and determine if they conform to safety laws, and I'm sure Apple would rather rely on these determinations.
   
   There, now I have increased your understanding of the situation 10-fold. Have a nice day.

10. Comment - Steve Jobs says 'No Interest' in iPhone 4 radiation app, devs release it anyway

    2.6.19 (Mar 24, 2011 - 4:35 PM)

    Anything that is electronic generates an electric field and therefore emits electromagnetic radiation. You might want to try high school physics class next time.