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1. XAMPP for Windows

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Process Monitor

   1.22 (Aug 17, 2007)

   It seems Sysinternals stopped providing changelogs since they were bought by MS.
   
   One point less for this.

2. 
   Review - Locate

   2.99.6.12100 Beta (Dec 11, 2006)

   Does it support Unicode?
   
   I'm looking for Greek and accented Latin characters in .txt files with UTF-8 encoding, and it does not return anything...
   
   Other than that, it seems to be an efficient program. Very quick!

3. 
   Review - Adobe Reader SpeedUp

   1.36 (Dec 11, 2006)

   People, this is not the place to rate the Adobe readers! :-)
   
   I installed Adobe Reader 8, and found it used a massive amount of RAM. After running ARSU, things are better (and faster).
   
   Foxit is not a solution for me, for three reasons:
   
   1. Not ideal font rendering w/ ClearType
   2. Not fast rendering of images
   3. Issues with search

4. 
   Review - AVG Anti-Virus Free

   7.5.432a861 (Dec 7, 2006)

   Not the most effective antivirus among the free ones according to the tests, but, in my opinion, the most useable. Maybe I wouldn't give it a 5 normally,* but I do it to balance the low ratings of those who misread the announcement.
   
   * I reserve this for a program that would be as effective and light as NOD32, and the same time free to get. I think *personal* antivirus programs in general are too expensive for what they offer (i.e., nothing more than what you get by practicing safe and sane computing).

5. 
   Review - IrfanView

   3.99 (Nov 17, 2006)

   The best and fastest viewer (and light editor).
   
   I use it since 1996 as the default viewer for all image files, and can't do without it.
   
   A new set of icons and support for Unicode file names would be nice additions. :-)

6. Comment - Expect 22.8% performance boost from next week's Firefox 3.6 beta

   3.99 (Oct 12, 2009 - 2:34 AM)

   The current stable version of Camino uses Gecko 1.8.1, which is the same engine Firefox 2.0 used. It is slow, more so in pages with lots of JavaScript and especially when compared with browsers like Firefox 3.5, the latest Chrome or the latest Safari.
   
   Camino 2, which is still in beta, uses Gecko 1.9.0, the same engine Firefox 3.0 used. That is, Camino still lags considerably behind.
   
   I’d say that, as far as Gecko browsers go, it sucks much worse to be on OS X.