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03 February 2010
Happy Birthday Miranda IM
Miranda IM is 10 . Easily the best IM client available for Windows. Read More...
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10 December 2009
Thunderbird 3.0
Looks great, performs better. Best feature: super-powered search. Next best feature: global inbox. Lightning doesn’t yet work on it though, so I can’t move my main work machine to it. At least Enigmail’s OK. Can’t wait… Update: broke down and installed TBird 3.0 with the Lightning nightlies. Working... Read More...
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20 February 2009
Quinnware is BACK
More than a year after the last test build 120, almost five years since the last official release 4.50, 5.0 is here, baby! I’ll be having a beer in its honour tonight. The skin’s updated a little, but the most obvious addition is album art support in the default skin. Read More...
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29 December 2008
Sueetie
All I can say is, SUEET ! It is a project that integrates best of breed Open Source .NET software to produce an online community suite. That makes it a direct competitor to Community Server and, to a smaller extent, mojoPortal . I’ll be looking at the possibility of migrating That Stupid Club which... Read More...
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16 November 2008
Goodnight, Quinnware
Looks like its lights out at quinnware.com , home of QCD and QMP. I’ve still not found a suitable replacement for QMP yet and I probably was still hoping for that one last release despite the months of silence from the developer, but I guess the search is that much more urgent now. Thanks for the years... Read More...
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25 October 2008
Comodo Internet Security Released
I’ve mentioned that I’m using Comodo Firewall as my software firewall solution. Version 3 was even better than version 2, with low CPU utilisation (even while engaging in heavy P2P sessions) and secure (ranked consistently near the top in the Matousec firewall tests ). And now version 3.5 (renamed the... Read More...
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07 September 2008
Oh, Norton!
So Firefox 3 and Norton 360 2.0 and Internet Security 2008 do not get along at all . This was probably a shock to the millions who use and trust Symantec products but I have to say this, Symantec is not nice. Symantec destroyed the reputation of the brand “Norton”, making the security applications bloated... Read More...
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10 October 2007
Replacements for Spoiled Software
Came across an article about how the newer versions of software may not be better than previous versions, most of it caused by increasing feature sets and thus bloat. I am pretty particular about what goes on my PC as I need all the CPU power and RAM I can get for my weighty development tools. Rather... Read More...
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10 October 2007
Other Database Drivers not provided by Microsoft
Nice post by Joseph Guadagno about database drivers not provided by Microsoft . He missed a few though, so here they are: PostgreSQL PostgreSQL needs no introductions. Probably my favourite open source DBMS. Npgsql is de facto the ADO.NET provider. Performance and stability seems alright. PostgreSQLDirect... Read More...
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22 September 2007
Finally: CDBurnerXP 4.0 Final
Its been three years since the public last release but now CDBurnerXP 4.0 is finally available. The official website features a spanking new design too. CDBurnerXP is a freeware CD and DVD burning software for Windows, in case anybody did not know that. Most exciting new features for me, Unicode support... Read More...
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06 September 2007
Windows Live Writer Beta 3
I am typing this on WLW Beta 3 . I wrote about the first beta, which was already very usable at the time. This is the best of breed in blogging software on Windows. Quite a lot of changes for beta 3, but the best thing for me is "Publish XHTML-style markup". In other news, CCleaner 2.0 is now... Read More...
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27 August 2007
Classic ASP High Jinks: Windows Script 5.7
Its been a long time since I touched any classic ASP, apart from the odd quick fix to legacy projects. Anyway, I recently helped a friend out with a project, and was surprised to learn that there was an update to Windows Script, from 5.6 to 5.7. Wow! 5.6 shipped with XP, so its at least 5 years old.... Read More...
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02 August 2007
The Alternative To The (QuickTime) Alternative
I have been using QuickTime Alternative for a long time, but onegoodmove is crashing Firefox with the last available version of QT Alternative. And given the developers stopped any further development after Apple requested that they remove the package from their website, I needed an alternative. Now... Read More...
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29 July 2007
CCCP 15
CCCP 15 "Chiyo-chan's Cute Player" is released. Whoo! Lots of smashing changes which you can read about on the release thread , but for me the best thing about this is the new, custom MPC logo. Though I guess it would be pretty weird firing up pornos after seeing that face ... ...*cough... Read More...
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29 July 2007
That Stupid Club is now CS 2007-rised
I've been putting this long overdue update off due to some ridiculous workloads and just plain laziness (which would explain the lack of posts too). But yes, That Stupid Club is now running on Community Server 2007 , only with the same stupid theme. The new skinning engine is really nice, but unfortunately... Read More...
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