Favorite Files

1. AC3Filter
2. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Windows
3. ASCII Generator dotNET
4. Better File Rename
5. Catalencoder
6. CPU-Z
7. DirectX Redistributable
8. DirectX Tweaker
9. DivX Web Player for Windows
10. eMule Plus
11. FFDShow
12. FireTune
13. Foxit Reader
14. FreePOPs for Windows
15. Gizmo for Windows
16. Google Earth for Windows
17. Google Sitemaps Generator
18. Google Talk
19. GSpot
20. GX::Transcoder
21. IrfanView
22. Mozilla Firefox (Beta)
23. Mozilla Firefox for Windows
24. Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition
25. Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows
26. The GIMP
27. VirtualDub (32-bit)
28. VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows (64-bit)
29. WinRAR (32-bit)

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - IrfanView

   4.22 (Dec 22, 2008)

   Absolutely superb - loads quicker than you can click and does everything I need of a handy picture viewer - for free! If I need more, I've got Photoshop.

2. 
   Review - QuickTime for Windows

   7.1.6.200 (Jun 30, 2007)

   Once brilliant, simple and cheap with endless upgrades thrown in. Now rivals RealPlayer for undesirability on your system. I wish I could install the player to use for video editing since my ****ing Nikon camera insists on taking movies in .MOV format, and I'd like to edit them losslessly, even if I had to pay the pro price (there's nothing else on the market that can do it) - alas, QT wants too big a slice of my PC for that functionality, so I will have to find workarounds. I actually have a Virtual PC with Windows XP SPECIFICALLY for using QT to edit video, so I don't have to have this overwhleming crud on my 'real' PC.

3. 
   Review - PicturesToExe Deluxe

   5.01 (Jun 24, 2007)

   A disastrous idea - getting people used to running EXE files to see pictures is just asking for trouble.

4. 
   Review - ASCII Generator dotNET

   Beta 0.8.0 (Jun 9, 2007)

   Best generator of it's type I've ever seen. well done! This will come in useful in my graphic design work.

5. 
   Review - Nero

   7.9.6.0 (May 22, 2007)

   Anyone know how to auto-update without the Nero SmartStart? I hate system-tray crap and have disabled it, and now cannot find any program in Nero program folder called smartstart.exe or similar.

6. Comment - Real partially patches 'highly critical' RealPlayer flaws

   7.9.6.0 (Jul 30, 2008 - 8:49 PM)

   Can't understand how they got nearly 10 years out of that invasive piece of crap.

7. Comment - Flash and DRM: Does Adobe really have any choice?

   7.9.6.0 (Feb 22, 2008 - 11:55 AM)

   Nice to embed, but I can tell you from experience that the bandwidth bill following a popular locally hosted video isn't so nice.

8. Comment - UK concerned over Facebook's profile deactivation methods

   7.9.6.0 (Jan 21, 2008 - 3:13 AM)

   I had to contact Facebook's ad sales team and give a budget for my 'campaign' (I chose about £50,000) in order to get to an online email form to tell them to delete my account. I wasn't terribly active on Facebook anyway, so it only took me half an hour to delete all my 'content' (a requirement before Facebook will truly delete your account). Not a trustworthy company.

9. Comment - Can Microsoft Make Vista More Compelling?

   7.9.6.0 (Oct 28, 2007 - 10:02 AM)

   with hidden agenda's
   
   Careful with that possessive apostrophe, mate, you're a journalist!

10. Comment - Australia May Restrict Plasma and LCD TVs

    7.9.6.0 (Oct 11, 2007 - 3:04 PM)

    This has been coming for a long time...