Activity for January 27

Review - Opera (v12)
12.00.1256 Beta (Jan 27, 2012)

This is a response to "Input Overload" and "d***justice". Have you reported the site to the developers, that you found not rendering in Opera?? You can do it from within the browser menu > Help > Report a site problem.... I did this several times in the past, and let me assure you, I was surprised by the speed with which they sorted it out. The problem vanished in the very next version. And I have not seen the same problem again.

I think Opera developers are really paying attention to what feedback they are getting. I am writing this review in the latest build of Opera in Ubuntu. Believe me I like it as much as Firefox.
Review - MediaCoder
2011 R8 5188 Final (Sep 13, 2011)

Not suited for a layman like me. Tried many of the earlier betas. Just too buggy, and has too many options. For those who need a simple and fast transcoder, use Format Factory. Works great on Win7x64. Has none of these hassles. Just choose your output video format and it just does the job.
Review - FreeCommander
XE Public Beta (Sep 1, 2011)

This new beta version is no different. The x64 context menu is just as buggy and crashes with regularity in my Win7HPx64 laptop. No excuse for not going completely x64 rather than have a work around. Does this developer not see sense in doing this right??? This will only serve to give his product a bad name.
Review - PC Decrapifier
2.2.6 (Jun 3, 2011)

On seeing so many 5 stars, I decided to give this a try. Used Universal Extractor to extract all the files and ran the "portable app" without installing. Can someone tell me what use is this app when all that it can do is remove autorun items, and uninstall applications??? Unfortunately I have already uninstalled everything that I had found useless, for me to try out this feature.

Is there anything that it can do which a full fledged cleaning app such as ioBit Toolbox cannot handle?? Can someone tell me whether this app ever uninstalled anything so cleanly (folders, files and registry entries) as the ioBit utility does???
Review - IObit Malware Fighter
3.0 Build 0512 Beta (May 14, 2011)

In reply to Mr. Brian Johnson, I suggest you try the following to rid your PC of every virus you could possibly accumulate. Download the Avira Antivir rescue disc ISO file and burn this to a CD. You will find it at :

http://www.avira.com/en/...a-antivir-rescue-system

Boot from the CD and select your options to delete all files that cannot be cleaned. Download SuperAntiSpyware portable from :

http://www.superantispyw...om/portablescanner.html

Scan your PC again, this time through Windows using this software. For best long term protection and disinfection, I recommend you use either Avira or AVG as your permanent resident scanner, and use it together with a weekly scan with the free version of SuperAntiSpyware. This combination beats just about everything else you may have seen. Best of luck.
Comment - Microsoft to Drop PDF Support in Office
3.0 Build 0512 Beta (Jun 4, 2006 - 2:32 AM)

This looks like the most likely scenario. Microsoft has a history of trying to acquire rights to a certain technology that has grown enormously popular (where they don't have a significant presence), and then introducing their own versions that are not consistent with existing standards.
They would probably in the meantime introduce their own version of a file format like the Microsoft document imaging format that they have introduced in the latest version of MS office and build the reader into their OS.
Fragmenting an existing technology is the only way they can oust somebody else's technology from the marketplace, if they cannot just buy it out.