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1. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox (v9) for Windows

   9.0 Final (Dec 20, 2011)

   It may technically be the final build, but it still installs as a beta. This is confirmed by the "you are running a beta" welcome screen post-installation.
   
   It's not "final" until it hits the main Mozilla download page.

2. 
   Review - foobar2000

   1.10.1 Beta 2 (Nov 22, 2011)

   There are few things I can say this about with absolute conviction: This is the best of the best. Absolutely nothing can match it on features

3. 
   Review - Process Explorer

   15.03 (Aug 19, 2011)

   Hah! They changed the default graph background color to white. Can't say they aren't responsive.
   
   What an awesome program.

4. 
   Review - Firefox Plumber

   0.0.1.12 (Jun 4, 2011)

   I'd actually be fine with this software if they didn't advertise it as "fixing all memory leaks" which it does NOT do. Firefox's occasionally "high" (relative to what?) memory usage is NOT the result of memory leaks. It's more or less normal these days. Open up a bunch of tabs in Chrome, add up the memory used by each sandboxed process, and it uses just as much or more.
   
   If you do suffer from an ACTUAL memory leak, it's probably because of a faulty add-on, and this software will NOT help you.
   
   A modification that forces all addressed space to be located in virtual memory is all fine and well if that's something you want to do. Misleading potential users with blatantly false promises and descriptions doesn't help anyone, including the authors! They fix this and I'll give it three stars.

5. 
   Review - Process Explorer

   14.12 (May 20, 2011)

   One of the only truly great Windows utilities. Like said below: I can't imagine running Windows without it.

6. Comment - Network admins stunned and reeling from repeated Firefox upgrades

   14.12 (Aug 15, 2011 - 11:03 AM)

   I actually had someone say to me the other day that Mozilla was pissing them off with the rapid version iterations, so they were moving to Chrome.
   
   This made my head spin.

7. Comment - HTC takes majority stake in Beats by Dr. Dre

   14.12 (Aug 11, 2011 - 3:29 PM)

   The only thing "high end" about Beats headphones is their marketing. It's fitting that they're currently distributed by Monster Cable.
   
   I'm really not sure what HTC has planned for this acquisition. Seems kind of a poor match.

8. Comment - Got pirated music? Pay Apple $24.99 per year for iTunes Match and RIAA amnesty

   14.12 (Jun 6, 2011 - 8:13 PM)

   "In essence, a low-quality, illegally downloaded song will be recognized by iTunes Match and 'laundered' into a lossless legal copy."
   
   It is NOT a lossless copy. AAC is a lossy compression format.
   
   That being said, 256kb AAC is probably better than what the vast majority of folks who pirate music or even rip their own CD collections use. I use ~300kb myself (.75 quality VBR Nero AAC encoder), but 256 is more than decent, and offers a good balance of storage space/network utilization and quality.

9. Comment - Dropbox caves on privacy, opens subscriber files to law enforcement

   14.12 (Apr 20, 2011 - 10:05 PM)

   Yeah, it's annoying mostly 'cause it further reveals just how much power "law enforcement" measures have over our society, but honestly, it doesn't change much on a practical level.
   
   If you want the data you store in the cloud to remain private, encrypt it yourself BEFORE it gets sent out. Don't rely upon commercial services to handle the encryption for you.

10. Comment - Tip: share files quickly and easily with CloudApp

    14.12 (Feb 13, 2011 - 1:21 AM)

    Or, you can use Dropbox where there is a total storage limit, but no file size limit and no limit on the number of files you can upload per day. They give you 2GB total for free, but you can jump through some fairly easy hoops to get that up to 3GB.
    
    Drag a file into your "public" directory, right-click on it, "copy public link", paste into IM, email, etc.
    
    CloudApp sounds like a decent service, but there are simply too many restrictions for me to consider it worthwhile.