Activity for April 2

Review - Adobe Flash Player for Windows (IE)
10.0.1.218 Beta (May 15, 2008)

It is a night and day difference performance wise. I could figure out why Flash 9 could have trouble keeping up when playing a silly little 320x240 video.
Review - DD-WRT
v24 RC6.2 (Jan 18, 2008)

Even if the extra features are useless to you the stability is worth the flash to anyone. Put this firmware on your WRT54 and it will be the last time you ever have to power cycle. :) I have been running DD-WRT for years and have literally NEVER had to power cycle. With the OEM firmware it was a weekly event. Oh and a persistent DHCP lease table could be useful to just about anyone too.
Review - Floola for Windows
2.1.1 (Nov 19, 2007)

Nikkie, You have to install FFmpeg to download YouTube videos. To get the iPod to eject you have to hold shift and then click the X but keep holding shift until you see the iPod go back to the menu. The nag screen only comes up after a fresh install or an upgrade. Don't give up, trust me, it is worth it. The dev is also very responsive to requests. He has added about 3 things for me. Donate! I did.
Review - Floola for Windows
Beta 49 (Jun 8, 2007)

This software is great. I have tried many iTunes replacement programs and this is the best one yet. And it is free (I did donate though). I actually like the way iTunes has the columns for Genre, Artist and Album. Floola keeps this interface. I also rely heavily on SmartPlaylists which a lot of other iTunes alternatives don't handle well. Floola has good smartplaylist support. Floola is a single exe so you don't need to install it. Floola's settings are stored on the iPod so your settings travel with you. Floola is fast, it starts almost instantly unlike iTunes. I can finally uninstall iTunes for good!
Review - Mozilla Lightning for Windows
0.3.1 (Mar 1, 2007)

Yes try it again. The last beta I tried shouldn't have even been called an alpha. This one is very usable. It is very basic right now. I have always wanted to be more organized but couldn't stand using Outlook for my email and didn't want to use two clients so I just never kept a calendar. I can't wait to see where they take this! I would love to give it a 5 but at this stage it is very very basic. But in some ways basic can be a good thing.
Comment - How do you follow up after your app is a smash hit?
0.3.1 (Apr 2, 2010 - 11:58 AM)

Interesting article Tim. It seams you always have the more interesting articles. I am still boycotting Joe Wilcox though. He post nothing but flame bait and I am over it. I haven't clicked on a single one of his posts in the past 2 months. I hope others that said they would boycott have followed through too. :)
Comment - How do you follow up after your app is a smash hit?
0.3.1 (Apr 2, 2010 - 11:58 AM)

delete
Comment - Skype gives up on Microsoft, will work with operators on Windows Mobile
0.3.1 (Feb 26, 2010 - 1:46 PM)

He said: "So Skype can't afford to hire people to make software for windows mobile?"

So I think he is well aware that the article was about WinMo.
Comment - Google Chrome 4 goes live with extensions: How much closer to Firefox now?
0.3.1 (Jan 27, 2010 - 11:31 AM)

Who needs a drop down? For history? Just hit Ctrl-H then click a link. There is an RSS extension if you can't live without RSS.
Comment - Microsoft Office is obsolete, or soon will be
0.3.1 (Jan 27, 2010 - 6:28 AM)

Cool thanks! You can normally tell when it is his by the flame-bait subject though. Hahaha.