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   Review - PeerGuardian for Windows 2000/XP/2003

   2.0 Beta 5b (Apr 26, 2005)

   PG2 has come a long way since the first beta (which I hated). The latest release is a massive improvement. For one thing, it works, which is always good, and for another, the interface has been substantially improved. Blocklist management is easier as well.
   
   I'm very impressed by how effective PG2 is while using under 1 meg of RAM and an immeasurably small amount of CPU time, even during high-traffic Bittorrent downloads when connections are being established to hundreds of peers.

2. 
   Review - PeerGuardian for Windows 2000/XP/2003

   2 Beta 2 (Feb 26, 2005)

   What a horrible UI. What's with all the wasted space? Whoever designed this interface must suck at Tetris.
   
   It seems like very little thought went into providing a good user experience. Good luck trying to figure out how to run the blocklist setup wizard a second time; it's just not possible.
   
   And then there's also the fact that the program just doesn't work. It claims the blocklists were downloaded successfully, yet it's blocking zero IPs.
   
   That said, it is true that the program uses virtually zero CPU time. Of course, that's because it's not actually DOING anything, but hey, at least there's *something* to like about this program.

3. 
   Review - BitSpirit

   1.0.6 Beta (Oct 12, 2003)

   So I start downloading a torrent, and what does BitSpirit do? It immediately deletes my entire downloads folder AND my entire torrents folder without prompting me. That's not what I'd consider a useful feature.

4. 
   Review - Popcorn

   1.50 Beta 3 (Sep 10, 2003)

   Why would you use POP for this? This is exactly what IMAP was designed for. POP was designed for offline mail reading.

5. 
   Review - NFTP for Windows

   1.72 Beta 2 (Mar 12, 2003)

   NFTP runs on BeOS, Digital Unix, FreeBSD, Linux, OS/2, Solaris, and Windows. Text-mode is the best way to get that kind of cross platform compatibility without a lot of work. Obviously, there are many prettier Windows GUI FTP clients, but the beauty of NFTP is that you can use it pretty much anywhere, which is damn cool when your work requires you to deal with lots of different hardware and OS combinations. NFTP rocks.

6. Comment - Amid Flood, Big Easy Paper Turns to Web

   1.72 Beta 2 (Aug 31, 2005 - 4:38 PM)

   Preserves? I think you mean perseveres.

7. Comment - New Batteries Last Twice as Long

   1.72 Beta 2 (Jul 28, 2005 - 10:51 PM)

   1.5 != 2

8. Comment - ICQ Wants Your Opinion on Ads

   1.72 Beta 2 (Mar 15, 2001 - 12:24 PM)

   You didn't read a word I wrote, did you?

9. Comment - ICQ Wants Your Opinion on Ads

   1.72 Beta 2 (Mar 15, 2001 - 10:57 AM)

   It's not the ads themselves that bother me, it's the merciless wastage of my valuable screen real estate that pisses me off. I sometimes stack ICQ message windows with people I chat with often, and I keep them on top of other windows for convenience. But now that the ads are taking up huge amounts of space in the message windows, I can't stack them without covering half my screen.
   
   I, for one, have switched to using Trillian, which supports ICQ, AOL, Yahoo, and MSN and has a nice clutter-free, adless interface.

10. Comment - ICQ Wants Your Opinion on Ads

    1.72 Beta 2 (Mar 15, 2001 - 10:54 AM)

    He obviously does.