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1. 
   Review - MediaCoder

   0.6.2.4240 (Jan 1, 2009)

   The browser requirement is a pain, thus 4 points.
   I used this quite a lot and it works well.
   In cases where this did not worked well, handbrake made it.
   
   Banguo, The coder is helping a lot of others by wrapping together huge amount of good tools and making them to work together.
   If you know similar setups, please point those out. Media transcoding is a mess, so all transcoding apps are "messy". Do not blame these apps. of that.
   
   Documentation is poor, but I am not blaming the coder for that. I wonder if Internet has any good up to date single site/document to guide transcoding.

2. 
   Review - Sumatra PDF

   0.9.1 (Aug 28, 2008)

   Project is moving fast. Excellent.
   Last v got destinations and now links work.
   This is enough for me. This is default pdf reader now. Adobe only for back up and maybe for printing.

3. 
   Review - TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus

   3.0.16.1718 RC1 (Aug 25, 2008)

   In addition to other superb things, this is portable, indicating that this may work also in Linux through Wine.
   Massively good stand alone, but offers tabbed embeed clean nice net browser which shows easily parallel pages from net and you can add dictionary /translation sites.

4. 
   Review - Time Zone Calculator

   1.0 Beta (Aug 17, 2008)

   Provides what it promises.
   mukerjee... Maybe your suggestion might be option, but I think the main target users are travellers and business guys who need to time differencies to set up meetings and calls.
   Registered laptop location data from the O/S helps very few.

5. 
   Review - SUMo

   1.10.0.047 (Jul 1, 2008)

   Does what it says.
   Takes time to go through programs.
   No database and things start over again from zero too often.
   Finds programs very well allso from USB stick.
   Note that "green" does not mean that you have the latest version. It means that nobody else submitted newer than you have... Functionality depends on users.
   There is also some corrupted version numbers in the database and there is no way to give feedback to database.
   By adding some database, feedback to note about corrupted entries and speeding up things, this would get 5.

6. Comment - The DTV launch is a shambles, say FCC commissioners

   1.10.0.047 (Jan 11, 2009 - 4:04 AM)

   I have the digital TV. Below few beauties you will get
   1) "see - no see". With weak signal analog gets grainy, but you can still watch. Digital has very small signal amplitude range where you get squares and then nothing. Antennas and boosters are crucial.
   2) Digital picture is possibly better (no ghost pictures), but transmission charge (with rented transmissions) is based on the bit rate. Guess what happens. If you want to see a good picture, you pay. Common channels have very low picture quality, worse than with analog. If major channels own the whole transmission infrastructure, then this is not a issue, but all others will have troubles.
   3) Old people are badly lost. They do not understand the difference between the box and TV and channel. This needs major effort, believe me.
   4) After this mess starts, lot of people will actually switch off from TV. Timing is good. Internet provides content. Some percent of the younger population may do this.
   5) Text content may cause nice mess. I suppose many channels are waiting to have a chance to add text streams (spanish, many Asian languages). Unfortunately it depends on the customer box if streams come out. Several issues on both sides tranmission/receiver. Both must match to see...
   6) Concerning picture quality. Good analog is better. Digital signal removes transmission related errors. I do not know US details, but I suppose they had to do same as in Europe, keep line count same as before. So in theory you can not get better picture. In reality most people will see a better picture, because transmission channel related errors (ghosts, color) are eliminated.

7. Comment - Survey: 6 in 10 Americans know about the DTV transition

   1.10.0.047 (Mar 25, 2008 - 4:59 PM)

   Hey, we got the DTV some months ago and now the analog is dead in the whole country (Finland). Some comments:
   1) Picture quality depends on the bit rate. High rate is expensive. Quess what, quality of the Analog picture was superb compared to current DTV in most cable houses.
   Ghost pictures will fade away and it will be replaced with boxed pictures (MPEG2 boxes) due to low bit rate.
   Nice thing with this digital stuff is that you see it or not. Low signal level means black screen.
   2)More channels, yes, but who supplies more programs? Nobody... More channels to show repeats...
   Every channel will have LESS watchers than before.
   3) Not to speak about technical problems with DTV receivers (and transmitters). Horrible mess.

8. Comment - Europe Lays Framework for Mobile Satellite TV by 2009

   1.10.0.047 (Aug 25, 2007 - 3:00 AM)

   Who is lobbying this? Satellite service providers (Astra, Hot Bird..), content providers (Sky, Channel+), Phone makers (Nokia, Ericsson), Chip makers (ST, Philips), advertising companies (Few big ones), XXX industry (others), some egotripper (Mr. Mep Y) or who? The most interesting thing is to see what the content will be and who will watch it and pay for that?
   Digital TV came, resulting just more trash. Chips and TV´s made in Korea, content in US.
   Optical telecom caused bubble because they lost the idea how much human beign can use the band. Most of us have few hour max. in a day for the content from TV, net, etc. Maybe they are targeting just for the time when we are moving from plac A to B? Watch TV when you are moving? or when you are waiting something. Most probably it is this waiting sector of our lives which is the target?

9. Comment - Patent Reform Legislation Aims to End Massive Settlement Fees

   1.10.0.047 (Apr 23, 2007 - 2:47 PM)

   Patent does not give protection. It gives right to sue. Small guy can never sue, it is just too expensive.