Activity for April 2

Review - jv16 PowerTools
2012 2.1.0.1119 RC1 (Apr 2, 2012)

@Uriel, or should I say Macecraft. Couldn't you come up with something new or better promotional comment? The last one was almost the exact copy of the many previous ones - the meaningless "I couldn't live without it, ...the wild cards".

Not just here, but when I look up any other review boards I find the same fake promotional post for JV. " I couldn't live without it" etc.

What kind of review is this? Macecraft, your softpack is just the same embarrassment as your unethical kind of marketing, yet you are unable to push the ratings higher.

Please, don't use review boards for marketing, pay the site owner for placing your ads in a professional way.
Review - VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows
2.0.0 (Feb 24, 2012)

Final release. On my platform I had some difficulties with the installation, it couldn't be installed for the first trial, I succeeded with the third.

Another platform, my friend said it K.O.d the sound on his PC an he needed to perform a complete system restore.

Little improvement, it seems to perform the decoding a bit faster and smoother, while sound and video quality is still not very good.

After uninstall I needed to manually remove the program files, VLC doesn't do it, and some leftover registry keys.

I think that was my last attempt with VLC. I appreciate the hard work of the volunteers making this program, but after so many flaws in all version and still poor video and audio quality, I think I give it up.
Review - VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows
2.0.0 RC1 (Feb 20, 2012)

@Hilbert

Thanks, and special thanks for the links on "soft-crisis" very interesting, saved.

Of course it is easier for people to call others an idiot or lunatic, I meet these words too often here on this board too, than taking their time and the trouble to run their own analysis and give us a trustworthy evaluation.

Stay here with us on fileforum. Thanks again.
Review - Mozilla Firefox (v10) for Windows
10.0.2 (Feb 19, 2012)

I see Mozilla is trying hard and I wouldn't contest the fact it has many great features I have always liked, but it seems the development environment is either unwilling or have difficulties to follow Mozilla's new development philosophy and market policy of releasing a brand new main version in every six weeks, not mentioning, they are still buggy and need a lot of fixes.

Upgrading to v10 now, I would lose three main and useful extensions of my Kaspersky internet security softpack, moreover even the latest Java Console 6.0.31 and many other minor extensions in the add-ons as they are not compatible with FF and Mozilla disables them all.

It seems Mozilla doesn't mind upsetting or even losing a a considerable part of its most dedicated and loyal user base if the their business interests of advancing Firefox's features and technologies requires such a scarifies.

No problem. I still appreciate and like FF, but I have a fill of their bugs and headless hasty development project and now as I have to choose between my IS softpack and FF, I opt for my Kaspersky IS soft and I will see where to go as there are always more choices; Chrome, Opera or even if everybody thinks I am an idiot, I will turn back to IE if it is necessary.

I know, that no one is forcing me to use cutting edge that might have compatibility issues, but yes they do if they cease to deliver security updates and go to kill the old one. At this moment I am using v3 until I get security updates or it works and then let me see something else. Many thanks for the nice v3 Mozilla, and good bye now.
Review - LibreOffice for Windows
3.5.0 (Feb 18, 2012)

@Hilbert

Good job, as usual. I was just about to turn to LibreOffice, specifically for its PDF features. Your summary came just at the best time to help me to get to know what I am heading for.

I have O/S: XP, sp3, AMD Sempron 1.60GHz, 2 GB RAM, a bit of poorer than your hardware and I need to run more than 3 apps simultaneously, so I'd better be careful, may be wait or look for something else.

Thanks a lot.