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Living Room / Is the HDD from your notebook 'clicking' a lot under Windows / Linux ?

« on: February 22, 2008, 06:13 AM »

A friend of mine had some problems like that and in the end he created a small Windows program (that he also open-sourced) that works together with other open-source programs in order to fix those things (but IMHO the program is still only for the more technical users).

The more detailed description can he found on his blog - http://cool-stuff-or...d-problems-with.html - and also links to the actual project on SourceForge.

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Living Room / Predictions 2006 ...

« on: January 04, 2006, 04:29 AM »

OK, give some predictions for the new year - software, computers, technical, political ...

My first prediction is that Windows Vista will be late and will be disappointing - but it seems I am not alone in that one - a quick search shows things like http://cool-stuff-or-not.blogspot.com/

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Best Archive Tool / No offense but one of the MOST important feature is having an "OPEN FORMAT" ...

« on: December 28, 2005, 09:51 AM »

... and that is very often neglected in most reviews ... so from this point of view what do you think would be the real best programs ?

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Best Dialog Extender / A warm HELLO from XFilesDialog authors to all DonationCoders !

« on: December 01, 2005, 07:43 AM »

I am Catalin from www.xdesksoftware.com , our program XFilesDialog is one of the "winners" of the review and if you are a member of this site you can now get it with a decent discount !!! (see the special members-only forums for more details on that).

We can also let you know that we were already keeping an eye on some of the interesting ideas also suggested on this forum (even if for instance some of them can already be achieved with some extra work on configuration - our program is very powerful).

Please let us know what you think about XFilesDialog ... suggestions are always welcome!

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General Review Discussion / For future reviews it might be interesting ...

« on: December 01, 2005, 07:03 AM »

For future reviews it might be interesting if "charter members" could also place a little feedback (ideally on programs that they know very very well and to which they are in no way affiliated) - unlike the review team they might have not seen all the programs so their "votes" or "ratings" will have a certainly smaller impact - maybe something like at least 66.66% for the review team and at most 33.33% for "member ratings" but ONLY IF there are enough such "member votes" so as to make those votes "statistically significant" !!!