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   Review - Thundertray

   0.7.5 Beta (Oct 12, 2003)

   Glad to see a program like this released. Email clients that don't minimize to the sys tray have always irritated me, which is why Outlook Express, Mozilla Mail, and Thunderbird never lasted long with me. I've found TheBat though, and I'm going to stick with it. Still, it's nice to see Thunderbird becoming more functional, although this feature really should be standard in the mail client itsself.

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   Review - Pidgin for Windows

   0.71 (Oct 10, 2003)

   This is a very nice application. I'm using it right now. I had been using the original applications and Trillian Pro. I'm really impressed at how far this program has come. Don't let the BetaNews screen shot fool you as it's terribly outdated. This latest version has a wonderful-looking GUI.

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   Review - Napster

   2.0.4.0 (Oct 10, 2003)

   Wow, that's a lot of money for an mp3 album. I's rather just order it from an online store that doesn't charge shipping. Only a few dollars more and you get packaging and CD-quality sound. SoulSeek and DC++ are great, free sources for 192kbps audio. Napster is for the lowest common denominator though, so it probably will do well. Irrelevant to me though, as I see that it's not a great deal.

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   Review - Mozilla Firefox (v2) for Windows

   0.6.1 (Sep 23, 2003)

   Just gave this another try today. Now I remember why I gave up on it to begin with. I tried to manage my bookmarks but could not; if I drag a folder, it won't go where I drag it to, it skips to some seemingly random spot and my other bookmarks get scattered as well. Firebird wouldn't recognize my proxy settings for Proxomitron, the same exact settings that work fine in Mozilla proper. Well, that was just the icing on the cake, because I couldn't even browse the way I like to.

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   Review - Opera for Windows

   7.20 (Sep 23, 2003)

   Not a completely bad browser. I don't like its adware, incompatibility with many pages (lots more than Microsoft-affiliated sites), and suspicious phone-home connections. I like what the email client stives to be, how tabs work properly by default (unlike in Mozilla), and aesthetics w/ some skins. Overall, I find it to be a great browser as far as looks and some bells-and-whistles go... but when I need a functioning, professional-grade browser with acceptable compatibility, I have to turn to either IE or Mozilla/Firebird.