Favorite Files

1. CDBurnerXP
2. Free Download Manager
3. IZArc
4. Paint.NET
5. VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows
6. WhoLockMe

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - WhoLockMe

   1.04 Beta (Nov 24, 2004)

   This program stays always on top with no apparent option to turn that off, which I'm not a fan of.
   
   Otherwise it does exactly what it says it does, its come in handy for me already.

2. 
   Review - VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows

   0.8.0 (Nov 3, 2004)

   I have to agree with everybody else here. The authors of this program clearly spend more time on making it work then on making it pretty.
   
   Given that I just want to play my media files fullscreen and thus don't give a damn about how flashy a program somebody can make, this is the perfect media player for me.
   
   If you want something that "just works", there is nothing better.

3. 
   Review - SpeedFan

   4.17 (Oct 19, 2004)

   Looks like people are having some problems, but its working flawlessly here.

4. 
   Review - The Bat! Professional

   3.0.1 RC6 (Oct 11, 2004)

   The pricing scheme here is terrible, less then a year before you have to buy again?
   
   Forget that.

5. 
   Review - KaZaA Media Desktop

   2.7 (Aug 8, 2004)

   mmmmm, tasty spyware.

6. Comment - Can it be 8 out of 10 Mac owners don't use anti-malware software?

   2.7 (May 26, 2011 - 6:49 AM)

   Yeah, because antimalware software on the PC is such a roaring success, right?

7. Comment - Don't believe the hype: PS3 users aren't switching to Xbox 360

   2.7 (May 16, 2011 - 12:31 PM)

   It also ignores selection bias in the results, which renders the whole thing meaningless anyway. You can't take a poll tainted by selection bias and apply it to a population in general. That is pretty much rule #1 of doing accurate polling.
   
   All the poll means is that the population of people reading the article on betanews who felt like posting an answer said X. In any context other then that it has zero accuracy.

8. Comment - Don't believe the hype: PS3 users aren't switching to Xbox 360

   2.7 (May 16, 2011 - 12:27 PM)

   This article is total nonsense.
   
   Your "poll" is meaningless. No matter how many people respond to it. Calling it a "large sample size" is not only misleading, it's flat out wrong. This is not a sample, this is people who read this site choosing to answer. For the love of everything holy, learn something about statistics and actual scientific polling methadology before you open your mouth and make yourself look stupid.
   
   Internet polls in general aren't worth a thing, this one included.
   
   It's also amusing that you have a header called "dubious reporting" when you're reporting on a story about the UK, extrapolating it to the US, then being shocked when you find a different result. Countries on different sides of the Atlantic Ocean are different, who knew!?
   
   Honestly, this is just pathetically inept "journalism" and whatever editor allowed it online should be fired and replaced for incompetence.

9. Comment - When will PlayStation Network be back up?

   2.7 (May 9, 2011 - 1:47 PM)

   Sony is probably lucky the PSP Go was such a flop. People with a Go not only can't play online, but since the Go can only buy games on PSN they can't even get new offline games. Oops.
   
   I feel bad for developers who had games scheduled to come out during this. Their sales will be hurt due to something totally out of their control.

10. Comment - If Google hasn't killed the yellow pages yet, Seattle law could

    2.7 (May 6, 2011 - 7:31 PM)

    Dropping a giant mass of paper on my property isn't "speech", it's littering.