Favorite Files

1. Avira Free Antivirus
2. Google Chrome for Windows
3. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
4. McAfee Stinger (32-bit)
5. Opera (32-bit) for Windows
6. Periodic Table Standard
7. VirtualBox

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Yahoo! Messenger for Windows

   11.0.0.2014 (Oct 2, 2011)

   Will you please provide a full download link. This download is an initial download will take long time to download it from Yahoo! to install. Appreciate if someone can provide a direct link. Although I don't like Yahoo! messenger these days but I have to as friends are still in Yahoo! messenger.

2. 
   Review - Skype for Windows

   5.5.0.113 (Aug 4, 2011)

   You can get a full offline download via http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-full which works fine with Windows 7 64 bit edition.

3. 
   Review - Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 for Windows 7 (32-bit)

   9.00.8112.16421 (Mar 16, 2011)

   Thanks for the longly awiated updated of internet exploer. I hope at some point they will release a light verion for windows xp with all the security updates. I also hope they will not take another 10 years to release internet explorer 10.
   
   Between the artcile shouldn't read as "Internet Explorer 7 in " before the last para, I hope that shouldbe "Windows 7 in"

4. 
   Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows

   3.0.0 Beta 2 RC1 (Jul 5, 2008)

   I am on a dialup link now. Not yet downloaded the program. But by the way is there any way to make silent installer if so does any body knows the switches? Would appreciate if some body makes nLite addon. Further I have noticed conditional formating in Microsoft Excel 2003 has limitation and Excel 2007 doesn't have any limitation at all? has this been changed in Open office Calc? Would appreciate if they make such changes atleast 5 conditional formating. My job makes use of such feature. Thanks in advance.

5. 
   Review - doPDF

   6.0.262 (Jun 5, 2008)

   Great product with excellent customer care. This version address the issues with some of the Tamil UNICODE letters (especially consonants) do not converted correctly with the previous version. Product is awesome.
   By the way does any body know how to create a silent installer with this do pdf? so that I can make an nLite addon

6. Comment - Microsoft-backed group goes after Google search, claims unfair competition

   6.0.262 (Aug 13, 2011 - 8:04 AM)

   My search over the years has gone down dramatically. I use both Bing and Google to do the search. One notable problem with Google is that they are reluctant to support problem with Indic Languges for example I reported http://code.google.com/p...es/issues/detail?id=679 error more than an year ago still not fixed. Further Google Earth is not available in any of the Indic Languages including Tamil my mother tongue.

7. Comment - Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis introduce 'Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference' [video]

   6.0.262 (Jul 28, 2011 - 4:36 PM)

   I used sysinternal to recover a virus infected system which paid version of eset nod32 antivirus didn't recognize. I manged to trouble shoot with autoruns. I send the virus to eset so that they can add to the definition but I never received any acknowledgement. On contract I send the sample to Microsoft but they acknowledge it with in a day time and also updated the virus definitions. I stop using 3rd party antivirus from that incident and I am stick with Microsoft Security Essentials and sometimes with Avira.

8. Comment - How would you like to party with Betanews and Samsung, and win Galaxy Tab 10.1?

   6.0.262 (May 18, 2011 - 3:07 AM)

   Scott, thanks for your promptly reply. Yes, I would like to read more.

9. Comment - I'll take Windows and a good browser over Chrome OS

   6.0.262 (May 18, 2011 - 2:41 AM)

   I do like google docs as well as Microsoft office webapps but the problem here in Sri Lanka is the bandwidth. It's terrible to access these services at the office. I could do the job lot faster from the office installed with my computer. We have VPN (Virtual Private Network) and it looks like not going to be upgraded in near feature. They say it as a security but common sense refuse to accept it. Any I am not a decision maker in this regard.

10. Comment - How would you like to party with Betanews and Samsung, and win Galaxy Tab 10.1?

    6.0.262 (May 17, 2011 - 2:24 PM)

    I am glad to hear that betanews readers are invited. I hope US readers can join and rest like me can hear what's going on from betanews as I am from Sri Lanka.