Favorite Files

1. Advanced Diary
2. Mozilla Firefox (v2) for Windows
3. nLite
4. Opera for Windows
5. Pidgin for Windows
6. Trillian

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Opera for Windows

   7.60 Build 7263 Preview 2 (Nov 8, 2004)

   Well i will give it a 5/5.
   
   I have used Opera since 7.0 and i must say this browser is extremely good. I was on dial-up for almost 2 years, and it loaded webpages very very quick (compared to IE or other browsers).
   
   I have tryed the new Firefox RC2 and i must say they are improving, however many websites still dont work. The connection refused thing is really annoying.
   
   Here my comparision:
   
   Opera:
   
   Good side:
   - Fast webpages rendering
   - Almost ALL webpages work
   - Very nice and clean look
   - Tabs
   - Back button brings cached page instantly
   - Bookmark managmenet
   - Password manager
   - Good in-built mail client (no matach for Thunderbird tho)
   - Allot of options
   - Skins
   - Address book
   
   Bad:
   - Cookie handling (needs improvement, when i disable all cookies, and then go to the cookie manager and edit a cookie, and set the domain to allow it, after i close the window it goes back to as it was again
   - Cache (i would really love to see a system like Firefox has. Having several thousands of files in your cache is not very good and slows the pc down)
   
   All in all its a great browser, and there is really no point of telling if Firefox or Opera is better. It just depends on what you like, in reality you cannot see a very big diference betwen rendering in either of them.
   
   Also if you have a fast connection this might help you ALLOT (note that certain webpages might not work, however all webpages have worked for me so far):
   
   Tools --> Preferences --> Network
   
   Set:
   
   Max connections to a server: 16
   Max total connections: 32
   
   It should improve loading of webpages allot if you have a fast connection. I would not recommend doing this with dial-up.
   
   You can also try higher values.

2. 
   Review - Trillian

   3.0 Alpha 1 (Nov 8, 2004)

   This is a program i have been waiting for a very long time. I installed it and it works like a charm!
   
   No errors of any sorts, no disconnecting, all contacts are there, MSN file transfers finally work!
   
   This is just sooo GREAT! When the Final version comes out i will sure buy it.
   
   5/5!

3. Comment - Report: Firefox Takes IE Browser Share

   3.0 Alpha 1 (Nov 23, 2004 - 5:18 AM)

   While i do welcome the "succes" Firefox had untill now i keep returning to Opera at the end. Firefox just has way to many "strange" behaviours that need to be fixed.

4. Comment - Ballmer: Linux May Violate 228 Patents

   3.0 Alpha 1 (Nov 20, 2004 - 8:12 AM)

   Even if Linux would be broking a billion patents MS just cant do a thing about it :P