Favorite Files

1. 7-Zip (64-bit)
2. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Windows
3. Agent by Forte
4. AnyDVD HD
5. ASUS PC Probe
6. BlackMoon FTP Server
7. CSE HTML Validator Pro
8. Disk Explorer Pro
9. FeedDemon
10. FlashFXP
11. FolderSizes
12. GetRight
13. GSpot
14. IsoBuster
15. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
16. Klient
17. Opera for Windows
18. Sawmill for Windows
19. SmartFTP (x86)
20. SnagIt for Windows
21. TopStyle
22. Total Commander (32-bit)
23. Total Commander (32-bit/64-bit)
24. UltraEdit
25. VMware Workstation
26. WinRAR (64-bit)

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Windows

   4 Final (Mar 9, 2012)

   A solid upgrade to an excellent product

2. 
   Review - VMware Workstation

   7.1.2-301548 (Oct 4, 2010)

   "Are you kidding me? I wouldn't use that bloated buggy crap if you paid me and I AM being paid for that."
   
   VMware Workstation - Not recommended by people who aren't doing what they're being paid to do.
   
   Nice new improvements in DX in this build, btw

3. 
   Review - VMware Workstation

   7.0.1 Build 227600 (Feb 4, 2010)

   Some people here seem to be reviewing the wrong product, they're comparing Virtualbox on premises where VMware Player would probably fit their requirements better. It's good to hear the Virtualbox developers are attentive to bug reports, because with the number of bugs I've seen in their "cutting edge" (you know, old from VMware) features like Snapshots and such, they need to be.
   
   Workstation is an essential tool in my virtualization ecosystem, with native support for the dominant enterprise virtualization solution, debugging support and advanced api, powerful networking config manager. at work I spend my entire day in assorted VMs connected to different VLANs and with different OSes.
   Now that it supports vSphere as a guest too, it's a powerful test environment.

4. 
   Review - AnyDVD HD

   6.6.0.9 (Dec 28, 2009)

   Nice, one more encryption hack added just days after I bought a BD with it :)

5. 
   Review - FeedDemon

   3.0.0.34 Pre-Release (Sep 8, 2009)

   I absolutely agree with dhry. After all, who in this day and age would use *more than one* computer!?
   And it's completely laughable to think that someone who follows enough feeds to use a dedicated reader would want to keep up to date on feeds on say, a work computer, home computer, and maybe a netbook on the road and still enjoy the benefits of a desktop app.
   And I completely agree that the fact that the synchronization vehicle allows you to access your feeds from any other web enabled device should you not have any of your systems around should be held against it. It obviously lessens the value of the solution. You know, the same way Bloglines integration in Greatnews does...
   
   Oh yeah, since most commenters on bn obviously aren't playing with a full deck; I'm being sarcastic. It's a word, look it up (11 scrabble points)

6. Comment - My problem with Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

   3.0.0.34 Pre-Release (Aug 7, 2011 - 11:12 AM)

   Should've gotten the Asus Transformer. There's just too much weird issues surrounding the Galaxy Tab 10.1.

7. Comment - Apple is a patent bully

   3.0.0.34 Pre-Release (Aug 4, 2011 - 4:40 PM)

   "And MS has paid up every single time they lost."
   
   Rubbish. I mean, obviously any american company will pay the damages they get fined in a final court round, or they're plain and simple out of business. But to your previous claim, MS doesn't license all the technology it uses up front more than most others. And as for this claim, they nearly as often change products to avoid patents they've been deemed to violate, or are in risk of losing, rather than pay up. Obvious examples off the top of my head are the i4i XML issue in Office which is the latest I can remember, and then the lovely browser plugin activation rubbish by Eolas.
   And they've pulled their share of dubious claims on others throughout the years. So you can quit the whole MS=Jesus line...

8. Comment - Have you bought then returned an Android phone?

   3.0.0.34 Pre-Release (Jul 26, 2011 - 8:01 PM)

   Never returned any of my android devices (Desire, Desire HD, Galaxy S2, Transformer) and our return rates are pretty low at work as well, with a fleet of a few hundred.
   
   I have a couple of friends in the business oriented retail channel in Oslo and they say the return trends don't seem to follow OS but brand lines. With Nokia returns increasing proportionally with their market share drop, and certain makers that make both android and windows phones also being above average. But over a beer what they complain about is the time and energy spent on following up returned iphones on behalf of customers who regularly have to wait 3-4 months before Apples service partners cave in and usually just send out new units.

9. Comment - Apple launches new offensive in war on Adobe

   3.0.0.34 Pre-Release (Jul 21, 2011 - 9:32 PM)

   Of course, all arguments in this discussion will be and always were highly selective. Apples statement as such also promotes only one side of of the story and in doing so includes some half-truths (At best) and dubious insinuations. For example, "although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago" which is a silly thing to say since when OSX shipped 10 years ago, the API framework it shipped with was Carbon, not Cocoa, which came later. And Carbon based Adobe apps have been around for almost as long as Carbon. And as for "Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X" (disregarding the obvious Cocoa = OSX fault), since the last major app to have been released in a rewrite to Cocoa that I can remember is Final Cut Pro, a release that has been... less than heartwarmingly received... one could just as well argue that *Apple* is slower to adopt Cocoa than any major third party developer and probably should chose their wordings with a little more humility. But neither humility nor shame was ever Apples strong points...

10. Comment - Google Labs shutting down, taking down brilliant experiments with it

    3.0.0.34 Pre-Release (Jul 20, 2011 - 5:04 PM)

    This is Google announcing to the world that it's stopped being an aggressive contender and accepting its place as a complacent, settled enterprise. Too bad, it was fun while it lasted.