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1. 
   Review - DD-WRT

   v24 RC6.2 (Jan 17, 2008)

   mattep, I have to agree with Diam0nd. This is the place where something like this should be!
   
   Anyhow, I have been using DD-WRT since back in the 1.x days and love it. The amount of features that you can wrangle out of some old Linksys wireless and wired routers. I currently run this beta on 2 WRT54GL routers and have had nothing but ease of use with both builds.
   
   The only knock I have against DD-WRT is the IPV6 implementation. It was a nightmare to setup and still continues to be that way. Aside from that, 5 stars!

2. 
   Review - X-Ray Mail Assistant

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Jul 18, 2006)

   The program execution is fine... I had no problems running it or using it. Which is why I gave it a 4.
   
   My concern lies in the fact that it can mangle outgoing headers. In today's soceity, anything that we can do to help spammers do their craft really needs to be limited or stopped altogether. This tool allows almost anyone to become a spammer with little more than a legitimate mail client and a little bit of imagination.
   
   Outbound email headers should , IMHO, be read-only for this very reason. Not that someone wouldn't find a way around it, obviously, but at least it's a little bit of deterent for the less experienced, would-be spammers out there.

3. Comment - Will you buy an Apple iPhone 4?

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Jun 10, 2010 - 3:14 PM)

   So says yet someone else who has yet to try Android on a 800~1000 mhz processor... lag doesn't exist here...

4. Comment - Will you buy an Apple iPhone 4?

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Jun 10, 2010 - 3:11 PM)

   "it does have many features other phones missing including its design as well, 2 cameras, flash, etc.."
   
   LMFAO!!! Seriously? Have you lived under an iRock for the past iTen years? Nokia, Samsung, HTC, etc have all done these features for YEARS and done them well. Nokia, for instance has been using Carl Zeiss graphics for years and produce some of the best pictures on a mobile device to date.
   
   Get your facts straight before you drink any more kool-aid...

5. Comment - Will you buy an Apple iPhone 4?

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Jun 10, 2010 - 2:54 PM)

   "However, most users are using their phone cameras for taking snapshots...not doing "true" photography."
   
   True, but does that statement really apply to iPhone users that seem to think they can do everything with their iPhone? Apple has pushed this digital hub crap for years now and more and more people I see seem to think that the iPhone (or any phone, for that matter) is going to replace a true DSLR.

6. Comment - Will you buy an Apple iPhone 4?

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Jun 10, 2010 - 2:51 PM)

   "And what finally made me even consider an iPhone now is multitasking. A smartphone without
   multitasking is a joke, so with iPhone 4, Apple is back in the game..."
   
   Considering what Apple calls multi-tasking... basically, it's allowing selected applications (what Apple deems is acceptable to run in the background, mostly all their own applications) to run background tasks. Not true multi-tasking where you can have 2 or more apps running simultaneously as you can on Android and WinMo. Apple will never get that part right.
   
   for someone like me that uses my device HEAVILY, multi-tasking is a must. At any given time on my phone I have web pages loading in the background, alerts, tweets and some custom network monitoring apps that I wrote for my business. I can't do any of that on an iPhone and I doubt I would be able to do this any time soon.

7. Comment - This blog post could save you from Steve Jobs' iPhone 4 Reality Distortion Field

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Jun 10, 2010 - 2:40 PM)

   10 hours of battery life for video or wifi? Hmmmm, my HD2 get almost 12 hours playing continuous video and almost 20 hours on wifi... what is the big deal there?
   
   And, um, 326ppi on a 3.5 inch screen, really? So, things may look sharper, but you are still restricted to a tiny display. The HD2, Evo, and the other newer phones coming out have 4.3" or larger displays.
   
   As for the "world's most advanced smart phone with html5 along with 100,000+ apps"... Wow, where to begin with that one... first off, html5 hasn't even been finalized!!! Secondly, 100,000+ apps means nothing when 70% of them are pretty much useless.