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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager
« on: May 29, 2009, 10:14 AM »

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Nice! :Thmbsup:

It's speedy and the presentation (even the list view) looks good.

A couple of comments/suggestions:

1) Consider renaming the Active Hotkeys tab or having separate tabs for Active and Inactive hotkeys.  I was a bit confused when seeing inactive hotkeys listed on the active hotkeys tab until I found the Show Active Only option.

2) While selecting the modifiers and key groups before scanning allows you to scan for less shortcuts, checking everything didn't seem to take that long.  It might be more useful if you just scanned for everything and then allowed the user to filter the results based on selected modifiers and key groups.

2a) Extending that a bit it would be nice if the user could filter it even further by somehow entering keys.  Say I wanted all shortcuts that use F1, I could sort the list, but I think a filter would be better.

3) While you cannot determine the program associated with the hotkey, you could allow the some user entered data.  In particular, if you allowed the user to group hotkeys, enter the program they are associated with, and maybe a small note of what they did, it would become so much more useful.  Obviously, it would fall on the user to ensure this data is updated and accurate.  Granted, you'd probably have to replace the list view to do this cleanly, but with such a feature it would turn the program into something I might even consider purchasing for a small fee.


Keep up the good work!

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Most people are probably aware of it, but you can always get a very recent version of Gooogle Chrome from which all the auto-update and call-home-to-mama-google features have been surgically removed. Works great for me and it is my standard browser for the laptop (since the UI is so space saving)- even online banking is no problem.
The tamed chrome version is SRWare Iron:  
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
I've always found this (and similar projects) a bit ironic.  "Don't trust Google? Well try this version from someone you know even less about!"

It's great that Chrome is OSS and thus the community can fork it however they please, but as a user I don't feel any more comfortable.  I don't have the time to diff the source and ensure they're removing evil and not adding some of their own, and with there being multiple forks (and growing) it's rough for any of them to develop much of a community.

(I'm not targeting SRWare in particular, but all of the Chrome forks that claim to be less evil.)

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Living Room / Re: Conficker - The Facts
« on: April 09, 2009, 07:32 AM »
It's a curious time to release the update, well assuming it's from the same people and not from someone else who has created a way to exploit Conficker itself.

The last two variants took about a month from their "activation" dates to be updated, this one is within 8 days.  I'm betting they've already reached the maximum infections and unless they refocus on infecting rather than updating, those numbers will continue to decline, so it makes sense to release the update sooner.

However, I'd think waiting just one more day would have been more beneficial with the Christian holiday and people having/taking off work.  It raises an interesting question of which spreads faster the actual updates or the news about the updates?


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