Freeware
GMail: The Perfect Email Experience
Developer: Google
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There’s nothing like the college email experience to make you hate web based email. Year upon year having to deal with UCLA’s tempramental web based email nearly drove me to toss my computer through my balcony window - but alas, I pulled through and just dealt with the molasses-like […]
Opera: A Damn Good Browser that Nobody Uses
Developer: Opera Software
Version: 9.22
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Nobody uses Opera for browsing the web - and I can’t really understand why. After all, Opera has innovated quite a few features that still are not commonplace in browsers like Firefox [review], Internet Explorer 7, and Safari. Just take a look at everything that Opera has […]
AbiWord: The Tiny, But Full Featured Word Processor
Developer: The AbiWord Team / AbiSource
Version: 2.4.6
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Although I’ve had the program on my computer for some time now, today was the first time that I really sank my teeth into what AbiWord is made of. On first glance, and especially after visiting the AbiWord website, I was a little turned off […]
Microsoft Works 9 for Free?
Ugh. Apparently Microsoft is planning to do a trial run of Microsoft Works 9 for free. One part of me is amazed that such a piece of crap product wasn’t free earlier while another part of me is dreading the possibility of one of the worst office programs becoming free for the masses. […]
Skype: An Easier Way to Communicate
(Current) Developer: Skype Limited
Version: 3.2.0.175 (Windows), 2.6.0.151 (OSX), 1.4.0.74 (Linux)
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During my first couple years of college, I was a complete AIM junkie. Judging by some of my grades, I probably chatted with my friends way more than I should have - but that’s beside the point. In any event, I […]
Audacity: Cut the Crap Off of Your Tunes
Developer: The Audacity Team
Version: 1.2.6
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My music collection is a beast of its own that doesn’t look to be slowing down any time soon. I tend to add a few new songs each week to my playlists, which is all well and good, but not every song I add sounds like I […]
VLC: The Uber-Player
Developer: VideoLAN
Version: 0.8.6c
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Back when I was solely a Windows guy, I never really realized that I needed any other media players aside from Winamp and the built in Windows Media Player. As I got older and realized that there was more out there than MP3s and WMV videos, I quickly learned […]
Ad-Aware 2007: Worse than the Spyware Itself
Developer: Lavasoft
Version: 7.0.1.5
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If you would have asked me a few months ago about which anti-spyware program is my favorite, I would have told you Ad-Aware without any hesitation. Of course, that was back before Lavasoft decided that they needed to release Ad-Aware 2007, a steaming pile of crap that […]
iTunes: Mediocre Media Player, but an Outstanding Organizer
Developer: Apple
Newest Version: 7.3.1
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One thing that I’ve realized after purchasing my MacBook is that there are a plethora of programs to choose from for everything from keeping journals to changing the preferences in your system. But one type of software that developers have been shying away from is the media […]
Firefox: Really A Better Browser?
Developer: The Mozilla Project
Version: 2.0.0.5
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There are few programs that I use every single day, but Firefox is one of them. I really can’t say how I first heard about it, but it was a few years back. I realized that I had outgrown my current browser (IE 6) and I […]
