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1. 
   Review - LEGO Digital Designer for Windows

   2.1 (Jun 11, 2007)

   Works good. Cheaper than autocad!

2. 
   Review - Wine

   0.9.33 (Mar 18, 2007)

   3D support has gotten massively better in the last few releases; this version worked "out of the box" for world of warcraft.

3. 
   Review - Ubuntu

   6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) Flight 7 (May 8, 2006)

   This distrobution is possibly the easiest "free" linux I've ever seen. The desktop is clean and easy to navigate. I really like the choice of gnome for the desktop. It doesn't feel bloated like other distrobutions.
   
   While setting up proprietary components after installing is a pain on most distrobutions, setting up these components on Dapper Drake was a piece of cake. Setting up my wireless adapter was a breeze with ndiswrapper(included on the cd). The nvidia driver simply had to be loaded from the respository(it's the latest version too!). Installing the codecs, java, and flash player was a breeze thanks to a script I found in their forums called "bumps".
   
   This is the perfect distro for trying out XGL/compiz. I use those tools for showing off the OS to friends. Very fun(if not very productive) tools to have.
   
   What ultimately makes me rate this as a high quality distrobution is the community behind it. The forums as so much more responsive and friendlier than forums for other distrobutions. This is what ultimately made troubleshooting and installing proprietary software easy.
   
   I hardly ever run windows anymore.

4. 
   Review - Mpeg Video Joiner

   1.0 Beta 6 (Jan 20, 2005)

   Does what it says it does. I've had numerous problems with video encoders that seem to find errors in perfectly joinable video. Worthy of paying money for, but I think it's a little expensive for just joining video, but I'd rather see more features for the price, than a lower price.

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

   1.0 Beta 6 (Aug 18, 2011 - 11:58 AM)

   I don't want the WebOS TouchPad to fail. It's the only tablet that actually multitasks correctly.

6. Comment - iOS security hole much easier to exploit than first thought

   1.0 Beta 6 (Jul 28, 2011 - 12:49 AM)

   Especially since a lot of manufacturers STILL don't update to the latest version of android. It scares me what manufacturers would do(or rather, not do) if a major flaw was discovered in older versions.

7. Comment - Is it child abuse to give my kid a Chromebook?

   1.0 Beta 6 (Jun 10, 2011 - 2:09 PM)

   Is comparing laptop choice to child abuse tasteless?

8. Comment - Can you give up Google?

   1.0 Beta 6 (Apr 4, 2011 - 8:22 PM)

   Does flashing your android phone with a rom that doesn't have Google apps count? Yes android was made by google, but it is open source so they don't own it as strongly...is that the right way to put it?

9. Comment - Why is iPad 2 so much like last year's model?

   1.0 Beta 6 (Mar 2, 2011 - 3:58 PM)

   I'm surpised HP's touchpad isn't in the list. That's my first choice.