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1. 
   Review - IObit Smart Defrag

   1.40.10 (Jan 6, 2010)

   Changed to Smartdefrag after Diskeeper refused to install citing I'd exceeded the number of installations (obviously that being one on the same machine) and I gave up trying to get them to allow me to use the software I'd paid for.
   
   After 2 months of using it, I put Diskeeper on and it didn't find anything to do. Its got a far smaller footprint and does the same. I now stick it on all computers I sell.

2. 
   Review - nVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Windows

   182.08 (Mar 9, 2009)

   182.08 fixed a bug for me in Quake 4 where it would go blank screen after 15 minutes gameplay.

3. 
   Review - KDE Software Compilation

   4.2.1 (Mar 8, 2009)

   KDE. Proof that there's next to knack all quality control in Linux.

4. 
   Review - AVG Anti-Virus Free

   8.0.233a1415 (Jan 24, 2009)

   DO NOT USE THIS. Everyone on tech forums I am on who have infected computers even though they're running AV are using AVG 8. The free version has protection for the most prevalent path of infection, malicious or compromised websites, removed.
   
   If you really must have free, go with Avast.

5. 
   Review - AVG Internet Security (x86)

   8.0.233a1415 (Jan 15, 2009)

   Protection is absolutley abysmal. On several tech forums I post to, virtually everyone who is getting infected is running AVG 8. AVG have been trading on a reputation they've long since failed to deserve.

6. Comment - EU opens Google antitrust probe after price-comparison sites cry foul

   8.0.233a1415 (Dec 3, 2010 - 8:15 AM)

   "They are for these trashy "price comparison" services that pop up everywhere in search results these days."
   
   Do you know why they pop up in front of what you are actually trying to find, (i.e when searching for specs on a laptop you get 10 pages of shopping sites)????
   
   BECAUSE GOOGLE TAKES THEIR MONEY AND PUTS THEM TO THE TOP OF SEARCH RESULTS. They are there because Google has placed them there. Google won't get rid of them because Googles business benefits financially from them.
   
   If I had a search business and someone said they'd pay me £100,000 to get put up to the top of the list, they'd get there. When users of the search engine complained, they'd get "tough, its free - this is how we pay for it."

7. Comment - EU opens Google antitrust probe after price-comparison sites cry foul

   8.0.233a1415 (Dec 3, 2010 - 8:12 AM)

   You're dumber than a box of rocks. All the top search engines are American. If they were European or going after all of them, you'd have a point.

8. Comment - EU opens Google antitrust probe after price-comparison sites cry foul

   8.0.233a1415 (Dec 3, 2010 - 8:11 AM)

   Err, no. Thats your view because thats what the US Govt does to foreign companies. Who can forget the massive hiking in import duty on steel to protect the US steel industry? The US is the world leader in protectionism.
   
   And as for the EU, what other leading search engines are European? None. Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, Google, Ask.com - all American.

9. Comment - I sold my soul to Google, can I get it back?

   8.0.233a1415 (Dec 3, 2010 - 8:00 AM)

   "Linux Kernel anyone?"
   
   I'm glad you brought up Linux. Power management on Linux is an excellent example of why doing things for free isn't always good . As its done for free it is done at a time schedule and priority schedule the writers choose as they're not being paid so don't have to listen and as a result power management gets shoved on the back burner. Linux power management is so far behind Windows and Mac OSX its beyond a joke. Stick Linux on any laptop and you've instantly got a 20%+ loss in battery life.
   
   And then there's bugs. How many major data losing show stopping bugs in the Bugtraq have gone out in Ubuntu releases because the unpaid developers couldn't be arsed to sort them in time for the release?
   
   And back to Google, if you've got a problem and are using the free service, their response is "Meh, its free - we might get around to it but then again we might not."

10. Comment - The world doesn't need an Apple tablet, or any other

    8.0.233a1415 (Jan 4, 2010 - 5:53 AM)

    It is. Its sales are miniscule. Hardly anyone in the UK owns one. Outside of the USA, its sales are abysmal compared to the rest of the market, notably LG and Nokia.