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  1. Review - KeePass Password Safe Professional Edition

    2.02 Alpha (Apr 11, 2007)

    I love KeePass, it is a fantastic app. I am also a little confused as to why they switched from a C++/MFC codebase to C# however the performance difference (from me testing it just now) is very minimal. As all Vista based machines already have .NET 2/3 installed that isn't so much of a problem (although it will be for some).

    I am very impressed with how complete this Alpha is though. I was expecting just the core features to be implemented however they pretty much have everything working well. No crashes from half an hours use of playing with everything which is nice. Due to the nature that the databases are very small encryption performance doesn't really make any different even though it is .NET based however initial execution time was about 2 seconds compared to about 0.2 seconds for the old C++ based version. After the initial run though (when the assembly was cached) start up times were in the 1 second range which is perfectly acceptable.

    Portability is still there however however, as mentioned, .NET 2 is required on the system but this is no different to when we first saw VB apps back in the 90s and Windows 95/NT not having the VB Runtimes installed.

    All in all still an excellent program. Still fast, powerful and easy to use. I fail to see exactly what benefits switching development language brings to the end user however so far it doesn't seem to have caused any major problems.

  2. Review - Diskeeper 2011 Professional

    10.0.686 (Oct 17, 2006)

    Never had any problems with Diskeeper since I first started using Diskeeper Lite back in 1997 on Windows NT (it didn't come with a defrag tool).

    It does the job it is designed to do well, what more can you ask for?

    Quick note to klingon379: The 64bit version is a seperate installer, I have not requested the trial version in years so I do not know if they offer both the 32 and 64 bit versions for trial however both are on the CD I got with my purchase, not that this helps you much, I just thought I would let you know they are seperate installers.

  3. Review - Tor for Windows

    0.1.2.2 (Oct 12, 2006)

    Superb application. For a simple, out of the box (and portable!) Tor system check out http://www.torrify.com/ it is Tor and Firefox bundled in a single archive that doesn't require installation and is portable (ie can run from a usb pen drive).

  4. Review - Dr. DivX

    2.0.1 Beta 2 (Oct 4, 2006)

    yokozuna: You need the very latest DivX codec so unless you installed that in the past day you don't have the latest codec. I am guessing you have an older version of the DivX codec installed.

  5. Review - Mozilla Firefox (v2) for Windows

    2.0 RC1 (Sep 26, 2006)

    This is a nice, simple update. Nothing major is new, mainly nice UI tweaks and smoothing out some things which were not that polished in 1.5

    Over all a great product. I don't use it because its "more secure" than IE, I use it because I like its features and UI more than IE (including IE7) and it has some brillient extensions such as Adblock, Mouse Gestures and Slashdotter. Firefox is not without its problems however I find using it much nicer than using IE. IE7 is a step in the right direction but Firefox still wins for me.

  6. Comment - Virtual PC 2007 Beta Now Available

    2.0 RC1 (Oct 13, 2006 - 7:54 AM)

    I was expecting a lot more from this update, after all it has been a few years since VPC2004 was released. My guess is that Microsoft do not plan on making VPC a serious competitor to VMware Workstation, etc. now that it is a free product and it will only see new OS support and have no real new features. This is a shame but kind of expected in a way.

  7. Comment - Virtual PC 2007 Beta Now Available

    2.0 RC1 (Oct 13, 2006 - 7:52 AM)

    edit: this is a reply to SpaceQ, for some reason it didn't reply to his post??

    The graphics card that Virtual PC emulates does not support the features required by Vista so Aero will not work within a VM.

    VMware Workstation has some 3D acceleration stuff but it is in development and does not support Aero either, although it looks like VMware may support Aero in the future (perhaps with VMware Workstation 6?).

  8. Comment - Yahoo Selling DRM-Free Album in MP3

    2.0 RC1 (Sep 19, 2006 - 2:37 PM)

    It is still better than $10 for a lossy rip with DRM.

    For people who would have either bought a DRM copy for $10 or people who would buy it on CD only to rip and play on their iPod it isn't the worse deal in the world.

    I applaud Yahoo for doing this, while it is most likely a gimmik it is good to at least see someone try it. Maybe it will fail, maybe it is designed to fail. Who knows.

    If I were Yahoo I would put some big spin on this and the fact that Zune will not play PlaysForSure protected content yet their music will always work anywhere.

  9. Comment - Zune Set to Make First Appearance

    2.0 RC1 (Sep 14, 2006 - 4:20 AM)

    Good time to release it IMHO, people wanting an iPod for christmas may change their mind. I know I am in the market right now (was waiting for new iPods) and I am keeping a close eye on the Zune. If it hits Europe before November (so I can read reviews, etc.) it might be on my christmas list ;)

  10. Comment - Microsoft Adds AMD to Virtual Server

    2.0 RC1 (Aug 31, 2006 - 4:30 PM)

    While this is great to see hardware virtualization has not been the holy grail of virtualization performance as it was originally sold to be. While it makes development of virtualization products easier (which is still a very important thing) the performance gains are little to none, at least in real world setups and not Intel or AMD's labs.

    Still it is nice to see both AMD and Intel supported :)