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Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Adobe Reader Lite

   9.0 (Jul 3, 2008)

   Coover, thanks for the info about the author. I did not find anything about him on his website (http://shark007.net/), how did you find that out?

2. 
   Review - Revo Uninstaller

   1.34 (Nov 29, 2007)

   Ok so I don't have anything bad to say about this but I haven't played with it too much. Question for Flemens - which uninstaller are you talking about?

3. 
   Review - RealPlayer for Windows

   11.0.0.183 Beta (Oct 28, 2007)

   RealPlayer has improved a lot over the old days when it used to take over all your file exts and generally was a pain. That being said, the only reason I have this is because its the easiest way to download youtube and other web videos - I've tried out countless firefox extensions and scripts and this beats them all.

4. 
   Review - Flock for Windows

   0.9.1.2 (Sep 27, 2007)

   Flock - an answer looking for a problem. Any Firefox developer (god bless their souls) knows that its internals are a nightmarish mess of XUL+js which are impossible to maintain (hence the feature bloat and slowing down and memory leaks) but also infinitely extensible. There is pretty much nothing that can't be done with an extension, as the entire UI is itself an extension written on the core.
   
   So the flock guys could have written a nice extension to do all this but that wouldn't have given them the exposure. But using a whole new browser is just too big a change for very little added benefits.

5. 
   Review - ACDSee

   9.0.108 (Mar 13, 2007)

   AcdSee is meant for a different segment than just an image viewer like XnView. Its supposed to be an organizer that will let you manage your pic collection. The most imp aspect of this is proper support for image metadata and making a UI that lets you filter/tag based on that, and here both this product and Acdsee Pro manager fall short, because they don't have any support for IPTC core (IPTC4XMP). Instead, Acd persists in stubbornly using their internal database, which doesn't sync the picture metadata and is cumbersome. There are a million freeware apps to view images but only a handful to properly tag them, and nothing really decent.