Author Archives: Bill Vincent

I know it’s new, but C’mon

April 15, 2008 – 7:17 pm

    I’ve been scouring around for Adobe Air apps worth breaking reviewing, and I must say, I’m coming up a little bit on the side of disappointed.  Just looking at the list of over 70 AIR apps at the Adobe AIR marketplace, the choices are looking bleak indeed. A lot of what’s there is either [...]

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Adobe Air, What’s this now?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 pm

A few days back, Steven discussed, briefly, Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight. He’s even given the Air Media Player a run. I’ve never been too big on Web 2.0-type stuff, (OK, I think it’s far from the “wave of the future” so many Kool-Aid freaks think it is) so I don’t pay it much attention. [...]

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Software Review: Ventrilo - VoIP

April 6, 2008 – 11:14 pm

I recently acquired Call of Duty 4, a rather engaging FPS (first person shooter, for those of you not hip to the lingo) and was invited to join a few friends who get together to play online. In order to stay in touch while playing, they enlisted the help of a Voice over Internet [...]

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Did Anyone Miss Me?

March 31, 2008 – 7:11 pm

    Didn’t think so, but here I am. Your long lost Software Review writer. I had a spot of financial trouble that necessitated being offline for a few weeks, but I’ve got that squared away for the moment, and the reviews are to resume.
   That in mind, I’d be interested in some input from the [...]

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Software Review: XP Virtual CD

February 26, 2008 – 8:07 pm

   I’ve been having a strange disk activity issue, and I traced it to Microsoft Windows Live Messenger this afternoon. Once I close Messenger, the hitherto unexplained disk activity goes away. I queried a couple other long-time Winextra Forum members about why this app would be accessing the HD so heavily, and the response was [...]

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Software Review: ZipItFree

February 18, 2008 – 12:17 am

    Archived files are a way of life in this day and age. Even with broadband speed, connections are dropped, packets are lost, and time is valuable. So, we use Archival Utilities. WinZip is probably one of the best-known of this genre, it’s the first of it’s kind I ever heard of and used, myself. [...]

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