Favorite Files

1. Adobe Flash Player for Windows (IE)
2. Adobe Reader for Windows
3. Adobe Shockwave Player
4. Aim Ad Hack
5. AlphaCom
6. ASCII Generator dotNET
7. CPU-Z
8. DirectX Redistributable
9. DVD Identifier
10. DVD43
11. DVDFab All-In-One for Windows
12. Exact Audio Copy
13. Google Earth for Windows
14. GPU-Z
15. Hex Editor
16. ImgBurn
17. Intel Chipset Device Software
18. Intel Desktop Control Center
19. Intel Processor Identification Utility
20. Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE)
21. Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
22. MAME
23. Memtest86 for Windows
24. Memtest86+
25. Microsoft Flight Simulator X
26. Microsoft Image Composite Editor (32-bit)
27. Microsoft Image Composite Editor (64-bit)
28. Microsoft IntelliPoint (32-bit)
29. Microsoft IntelliPoint (64-bit)
30. Microsoft IntelliType Pro (32-bit)
31. Microsoft IntelliType Pro (64-bit)
32. Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows Vista/2008
33. Microsoft Math
34. Microsoft Virtual PC
35. Monitor Tester
36. nLite
37. Norton AntiVirus
38. Norton Removal Tool
39. Periodic Table Explorer
40. Periodic Table Standard
41. PrimoPDF
42. QuickTime for Windows
43. ratDVD
44. RipIt4Me
45. RootkitRevealer
46. SIW Home Edition
47. Symantec Registry Repair Tool
48. Sysinternals Suite
49. Undead Pixel
50. Windows PowerShell
51. X-Setup Pro

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Microsoft IntelliPoint (32-bit)

   8.0.225.0 (Sep 13, 2010)

   Version 8 no longer supports PS/2 type mice. It may also no longer support non-Microsoft USB mice.

2. 
   Review - Adobe Reader for Windows

   9.0 (Jul 3, 2008)

   Note that this installer, AdbeRdr90_en_US.exe, includes Adobe Air and a beta version of acrobat.com, a web-based limited version of Adobe Acrobat that runs browser-less using Air.
   
   A smaller installer, AdbeRdr90_en_US_Std.exe without these two extra apps, is available from Adobe's FTP website at ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.0/enu
   
   Both acrobat.com and Adobe Air can be removed using Add/Remove Programs on XP, or the equivalent on Vista.

3. 
   Review - Data Lifeguard Diagnostic

   1.09b (Jun 6, 2008)

   This is the same DLG program for Windows from 2006. Nothing new here.

4. 
   Review - Data Lifeguard Tools

   11.2 (Jun 6, 2008)

   This is the same DLG program for Windows from 2006. Nothing new here.

5. 
   Review - CDVD Info

   1.25 (Mar 25, 2008)

   Only works with Plextor drives.

6. Comment - Real IDs to Become Real in 2010

   1.25 (Mar 5, 2007 - 11:48 AM)

   Just for the record, 20 years ago US citizens (and everybody else for that matter) had to endure the same method to change their address that we have today: You filled out an oversized change-of-address post card and mailed it to your old post office. You would get a confirmation letter at your old address a few days later. No proof of citizenship or residence required, no passports, birth certificates or driver's licenses to present to some counter clerk.

7. Comment - Will Voting Machine Integrity Decide the Senate?

   1.25 (Nov 9, 2006 - 10:32 AM)

   Innumeracy:
   
   VA: 4 one-hundredths = 4%
   MT: 2 one-hundredths = 2%
   
   Not considered close at all.
   
   Actual margins:
   
   VA: 0.4% = 4 one-thousandths of the total vote cast
   MT: 0.2% = 2 one-thousandths of the total vote cast

8. Comment - Photos: Vista, Office 2007 Packaging

   1.25 (Oct 31, 2006 - 1:49 PM)

   A DVD-style case is smaller, thinner, and uses less plastic than the thicker, book-style case MS proposes (and Apple is already) using. Cardboard DVD-cases are even better.
   
   This is not as so much a global warming issue as a simple landfill issue. Despite the dubious "life-long" protection the proposed MS cases offer, the lifespan of Vista and Office, like every prior OS, is only a few years, and then it's just trash (some may disagree on the use of the word "then"). Cardboard cases at least have some potential to decompose in a landfill; plastic lasts forever unless it's deliberately recycled.

9. Comment - Photos: Vista, Office 2007 Packaging

   1.25 (Oct 31, 2006 - 12:03 PM)

   More non-biodegradable packaging for the landfill. Reminds me of the polystyrene clamshells McDonalds used to use to "protect" their fast food sandwiches for the 2 minute trip from counter to table. They had to be shamed into reverting to biodegradable, environmentally-friendly cardboard.
   
   When was the last time your Microsoft media succumbed to a packaging-related accident? If a hard plastic shell is required, why not something more efficient like a DVD-style case? It's not like they're going to start including lots of printed documentation to fill that big, empty box.

10. Comment - Microsoft to Issue 11 Security Patches

    1.25 (Oct 6, 2006 - 12:13 PM)

    I recently did a fresh install of XP SP2. It required a total of 61 patches, 99MB over 3 Microsoft Update sessions to get it up to date. While I don't think a service pack is forthcoming soon, an update rollup would really make life easier, especially if you don't have a broadband connnection.