Activity for March 9

Review - ManyCam
2.4.63 (Mar 9, 2012)

ManyCam has sold out and it has become a shareware program. The new version 3 (which is what will download) is crippled compared to the old 2.6.x line. You now have to pay to remove the watermark, preview video effects, etc, oh and many of the downloadable effects now cost money!

A real shame, I will be sticking to the old 2.6.x line...
Review - GetRight
6.5 (Sep 16, 2011)

Sadly this once great program is now virtually abandon-ware. There are several serious bugs in it that can lose your downloads that are likely never to be fixed.

Maybe one day someone will take up the mantel and it will again become a koing amongst downloaders...
Review - Foxit Reader
5.0.2.0718 (Jul 23, 2011)

Foxit now forces you to choose from 4 garish colour themes, black, blue, orange and purple. It also now uses non standard Windows as well.

Functionally the Navigation Toolbar has gone. It's also becoming very bloated with unneeded features and bundled spamware...

Quite frankly it looks hideous and is harder to use.!

Used to love it, now hate it and will start looking for something else...

I have now gone back to the official Adobe version!
Review - Mozilla Firefox (v4) for Windows
4.0 Beta 12 (Mar 1, 2011)

This new version of Firefox is shaping up nicely. Unlike others, I don't like the new interface. I prefer my menus at the top, then a toolbar, then the tabs, and finally a fixed status bar at the bottom. However, I'm sure the extension makers will have one to put it all back where it belongs!

For a beta this is pretty good, there are the odd crashes, and memory usage is a bit high, but the days of programs running in KB of memory are long gone and as we demand more and more features and support so the programs will get bigger.
Review - Foxit Reader
4.3.1.0218 (Feb 24, 2011)

Been using this for years no complaints.

@SoundMix: The download is 7.5 MB, and the installed program is 11.5 MB so I don't know where you get your 5KB from?! However as Adobe Reader is a 22MB download alone, the point is the same!
Comment - Near Field phones come one step closer to replacing cashiers
4.3.1.0218 (Mar 4, 2008 - 7:54 AM)

Fine as long as they keep the usual methods of payment for those of us who don't want to nuke our brains so don't have mobile phones.
Comment - New Chinese Involvement Could Trigger HD DVD Price Plunge
4.3.1.0218 (Sep 8, 2007 - 11:08 AM)

All I want is a reasonable cheap Player with reasonable quality above and beyond normal DVD. It HD DVD is better quality than DVD and cheaper than BR DVD then I'll go with HD DVD. It's impossible not to think about the Beta/VHS war and those that got stung by it. The mass market wants cheap and reasonable quality NOT expensive and ultra high quality. I won't be buying into this new war until a winner emerges or all players are multi format.

All I watch on a DVD is the film, not the extras or alternative endings or commentaries. Just the film. I, like many, still have a tube TV of under 36".

I will get a flat screen TV when they are £250 for the same size as what I've got. I'll get a new generation DVD player when I can afford a screen worth watching it on.

As for Sony, their biggest problem is greed. Their licensed products tend to be niche market items due to expense and lack of penetration. Their mini disc was more expensive than CDs, their memory sticks were more expensive than SD cards, Beta max was more expensive than VHS. The expense wasn't just to the consumer, it cost way too much for the other manufacturers to license the technology. Their big success was the walkman, and that was because you could buy lots of other makes at cheaper prices. I've never known anyone who had an actual Sony made walkman. Mine was a cheap store make.
Comment - Researcher: US Gov't Editing Wikipedia Entries
4.3.1.0218 (Aug 19, 2007 - 4:54 PM)

I can't believe people use Wikipedia as a viable source of reliable information! For all we know, every single entry on there may be pure fiction. Remember the old adage as well "History is written by the victor". All the entries on there will be one sided in the extreme. When I want reliable information on a subject I go to blogs, related sites and "official" sources and the correlate the information myself.
As for the US Government, they've been fooling their people for years.
Comment - Sprint Hangs Up on Problem Customers
4.3.1.0218 (Jul 6, 2007 - 8:43 AM)

Way to loose customers guys! You're not going to last much longer with that kind of attitude!
Comment - Waiting for iPhone: Reading, PA
4.3.1.0218 (Jul 1, 2007 - 3:46 PM)

I don't understand them. I have never wanted anything so bad that I would sit outside a shop for hours waiting or queue if there's more than a couple of people in front! It can always wait. And this thing, it's just a phone for gawds sake, OK it does other thing, but I bet most people have already got all the gadgets, so it's a gimmick.