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1. 
   Review - Google Chrome (v20)

   20.0.1123.1 Dev (May 3, 2012)

   Sadly, this browser still has major memory leak issues. Open 10 to 15 separate tabs and the entire system will bog down to a crawl. Close those tabs and the system still drags. Close the whole browser down and the system STILL drags! That's a memory leak, and when you claim to be at v20 of a modern, advanced web browser from one of the largest, most powerful software companies in the world, there is absolutely no excuse for that to still be occurring, especially on a 64-bit Windows 7 system with 4GB of RAM. Come on Google, you guys HAVE to know how to better manage how your apps utilize memory (and subsequently relinquish it back to the system when tabs and applications are closed) than this by now. I love this browser but shouldn't we be long past resolving memory leak issues now? This is May of 2012 now after all, right?

2. 
   Review - Google Chrome (v20)

   20.0.1115.1 Dev (Apr 26, 2012)

   I love this browser, but please Google, call it what it REALLY is: v2.0, not v20.0. This childish race to ramp up the version numbers ridiculously fast so as to appear more substantial, significant and established, relative to the competition which has been around a lot longer, is just plain laughable. (You do realize that at this insane rate, this browser will be at around v55 by Christmas, right?) This is a terrific browser, no question about it. But it has no business being at v20 right now and absolutely everyone knows it. Please Google, stop embarrassing yourself and dial the version number back to v2.0, where it actually belongs. You can relax, I promise no one will think any less of you for being honest with your version numbering.

3. 
   Review - Opera for Windows

   12.00.1256 Beta (Jan 29, 2012)

   I absolutely love Opera, but still can't get this new version 12 to run properly on my quad-core 64-bit AMD Windows 7 system. It installs, but will only show a blank, black box when run. Is this version not 64-bit capable yet?

4. 
   Review - Google Chrome for Windows

   15.0.865.0 Beta (Aug 30, 2011)

   I absolutely love Google Chrome, I really do. But their version numbering is one of the biggest jokes in the computer software industry today. Version 15? Hardly. Try version 1.5 to be more realistic and honest. At this rate Chrome will be at Version 79 by Christmas of this year. Come on guys, you guys know better than this. You are embarrassing yourselves in front of the entire software development community by racing your version numbers up so high so fast to try and artificially create credibility. Move the decimal point back over to the left one space, where we all know it belongs, and focus on your product winning in the marketplace based on it's actual merits of design...not its laughable, artificially high, entirely premature version numbering. Please.

5. 
   Review - Maxthon (v3)

   3.1.6.600 Beta (Aug 18, 2011)

   I love the program but unfortunately the integrated screen capture tool isn't working properly yet. You can screen capture something to the clip board, then past it into an e-mail message, and it will appear correctly on the screen (unfortunately in a reduced size from the original screen capture though, not full size like it should be) but when you send the e-mail with the attached image, it comes through as garbage on the other end. Still need to work some kinks out on this feature guys. Other than that, this version is terrific.

6. Comment - Too soon to call HP's TouchPad a failure? We'll see tonight

   3.1.6.600 Beta (Aug 18, 2011 - 8:28 PM)

   Right, but whoever HP gets to buy their WebOS operation, will have to absolutely support and continue that platform, or no one will have any incentive to buy the remaining 270,000 units that Best Buy is holding. If their won't be any further development for the platform by some new company that buys that division from HP, you won't be able to get customers to buy those tablets at all...at any price. That would be really sad if that happened. Now, the key question becomes who will HP get to buy it's PC and WebOS operations? I could see Lenovo as a possible buyer for both possibly, at the right price of course, as they are getting much more aggressive in both the PC and mobile spaces lately.

7. Comment - iPad kills HP TouchPad, is BlackBerry PlayBook next?

   3.1.6.600 Beta (Aug 18, 2011 - 5:37 PM)

   This move illustrates two very big mistakes on HP's part: 1.) Buying Palm. Why would you buy a dying platform that was obviously on the way out and had not chance at all of standing up against it's massive competitors? 2.) Launching the TouchPad. Why would you roll out a table using an OS that no one had any interest in, when your two very well established major competitors (iOS and Android), that already had 90% plus of the tablet market wrapped up? Had HP not made those to huge mistakes, one right after the other, they would be a very different company today and would be in a very different position than they are today. Now, you can peel that onion back even further if you like and look at other previous major mis-steps on their part if you like (Compaq merger/buyout) which don't seem to be such smart decisions today, in retrospect. It seems like the list of bad decisions at HP just keeps getting longer and longer.

8. Comment - We want your Windows XP memories

   3.1.6.600 Beta (Aug 18, 2011 - 1:27 PM)

   Memories? What are you talking about? Every system I run is still on XP today. Why? Because it still has the best user interface design of any OS that MS has produced. It's much easier to use (and better designed) than either Vista or Win7. When you use Vista or Win7 you just feel like MS couldn't get out of it's own way on the design and totally over thought it. The user experience on Vista and Win7 is a step backwards in my opinion. I know that Vista and Win7 are more advanced and secure, but that doesn't mean that users will enjoy using them and want to use them. If I was MS, I would have done a few more focus groups before releasing those OS's. They just feel like a step in the wrong direction when it comes to usability. Sticking with XP for as long as possible, because it's largely just a better design, all the way around, from an user stand point.

9. Comment - Think eBay is the top retail or auction site? You'd be wrong

   3.1.6.600 Beta (Aug 18, 2011 - 1:21 PM)

   ebay is it's own worst enemy today. They keep raising fees on sellers every time they turn around (out of sheer greed) and then wonder why they are jumping ship en mass to go to other platforms to sell their goods. eBay got way too big, way too fast and thought they would always be the only game in town. They got way too big of a head and forgot to actually be competitive. Their fault.

10. Comment - Too soon to call HP's TouchPad a failure? We'll see tonight

    3.1.6.600 Beta (Aug 18, 2011 - 1:15 PM)

    HP is about to learn the same valuable lesson that Logitech just learned with it's Revue product: when you drastically overprice something right out of the gate, no one is going to buy it. Price isn't HP's only problem with this product though. It's also based on an OS that no one knows about and no one cares about. HP should have been smart enough to realize that we don't need any more mobile OS's in this world. We already have too many now (are you listening Microsoft?). Unless it takes very drastic measures right now, HP will fail on this product for the exact same reason that Google will fail on Google+: there are already way too many other very capable, well executed and well entrenched competitors out there. The market may not be saturated...but it is satisfied. The world didn't need WebOS when it launched and it still doesn't need it today. Android and iOS are more than sufficient for the mobile platform buyers of the world. It goes back to the old saying: just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. The ONLY hope that HP has to save this product in the market place now is to DRASTICALLY cut the price of it down to $199 or lower so that people (and developers) will actually have a reason to take it seriously and pay some semblance of attention to it. If they don't do that very quickly (like this month), the platform is essentially finished, because it's largely a platform that never really should have come to market in the first place!. It clearly can't survive on it's merits alone, so the only chance it has left to survive and thrive now will be on (low) price, and even that's no guarantee. Hopefully HP has learned something from this mistake (the way Logitech has now) and won't be foolish enough to repeat it.