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Fighting bloody spammers daily, is it worth it any more? Is ANYONE actually left, other than moderators & spammers. Nobody wants to be the one that says it, but maybe the time has come to say goodbye, we've had a good run, it was fun while it lasted, but even the little quorum of regulars seems...

Burnout CD/file protection scanner Detect many of the protections, and unlike many of the old scanners, this one is reasonably current. I'd prefer to avoid the worst protections on my system, as many of them use system hooks in a disruptive and trojan manner.

Free disc burning software A decent selection, except for one crippled 25MB trial - why review as freeware, it ISN'T.

Giveaway of the Day Project Team’s Blog Blog Archive Online Armor ++ on GOTD Giveaway of the Day will be making Online Armor ++ Firewall, Antivirus, Antimalware a giveaway offer on Jan 29th. It's rare for something this good to turn up, rarer still for it to be pre-announced. Since it can...

Got a new Samsung MY411C phone, and going crazy trying to do (free unless there is absolutely no other way) 3GP conversion for it. The video it makes itself, and will reload, is (as seen by Mediacoder 3GP edition): 3GP -Container: Quicktime/MOV -Video (1): H.263 --Bitrate 95 Kbps --Resolution...

A trend has been noticed at this and other forums... A "helpful" new poster brings along a nicely formatted guide with pictures, typically for some piece of shareware with the absolutely senseless "free download" description. Now it may not offensive as some other kinds of spam, but it's still...

Saw this on CDFREAKS, and though it deserved a wider airing... is this payback for Piratebay taking control of ifpi.com (which is now back to what it was) Warning The domain shareaza.com is NOT, i repeat NOT the official shareaza site anymore. We have changed it too Shareaza - Bringing P2P...

The Flash player 9 (update 3) performance/feature update which has been bubbling under in beta at Adobe Labs - Flash Player 9 Update is now on release. Adobe - Adobe Flash Player The new features: Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs. Multi-core support for vector rendering. Full...

In a domain renewal foulup, the IFPI.COM address has has been collected by their opponents. No longer The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), now the International Federation of Pirates Interests If you have a location that google searches, please googlebomb for...

In the greatest tradition of taking cool/overrated new hardware and destroying it, like smashmyps3 Now the iPhone has an appointment with a blender at Will it Blend There is just over one page of "safe" blender tricks there, and over 10 pages of "unsafe".

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www.securezip.com It's from the makers of PKZIP, it zips, it zips securely, it integrates with email, and the crazy guys at PKWARE are currently giving it away. It opens some other formats, and can compress to formats that many would not consider to be fully compatible "ZIP". But there lies...

Microsoft released the patch for this bug (and a rollup of several other privilege escalation vulnerabilities) on Tuesday the 3rd of April, with no other patches on this date. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925902 Known issues, problem with Realtek Audio control panel, requiring a further...

http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD Simple idea, place the towers to kill waves of baddies, but for a big score, you have to do it cheaply, without letting too many by, and uses a lot of your upgrades (wood) on extra 5% interest upgrades...

http://www.guerillasoft.co.uk/ Encspot 2.2 beta and free pro licence

On http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ today (Dec 26th). VSO Software Blindwrite, current version. Limitations: No support, no free upgrades (point updates not mentioned). Must download from their link, install and activate DURING THE OFFER DAY. As suggested in the comments, setting a restore...

Found this on another Forum: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ 20th December app, Astra32 system Info, rather a lot of problems noted with it, BSODs etc. and also http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/ Not found one I liked today, but it appears you must download, install and get the free licence...

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-20.html Updating to version 8 is "recommended", though version 8 has been criticised as "bloatware" that uses too much disk, RAM and startup preloading. There is also a file replacement patch for V7.0.x, but no automation in applying it...

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=23261 - some nice CGI, just don't read the comments first. http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=23297 - MS Paint with attitude!

And say one thing, to one person, at a critical moment, what would it be: eg. JFK: "Duck!" John Lennon: "Don't open the door" Gary Kildall: "Don't play golf today"