bissap updated 21 products

bissap — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:53:50 -0400

1. updated Spybot Search & Destroy - September 2, 2009 at 3:53 pm

new pro/con: Misses some more recent spyware
agreed: "Free to use"
new pro/con: Includes registry protection utility (TeaTimer) which can prompt user before making registry changes and remember previous choices

2. updated Avast Anti-Virus Home (Free) - September 2, 2009 at 3:52 pm

disagreed: "Some functionality gimped"
disagreed: "Slow"
new pro/con: Works much better as prevention than cure (starting from clean install works better)
new pro/con: Conservative use of system resources
new pro/con: Realtime protection works well
agreed: "Free!"

3. updated AVG AntiVirus - September 2, 2009 at 3:48 pm

agreed: "A bit too paranoid, detects false viruses on certain files that don't have any Trojans or viruses"
disagreed: "doesn't sap computer resources like other anti-virus suites"
agreed: "Free and works well"
new pro/con: Heavy resource usage

4. updated Avira Anti-Vir Personal Edition - September 2, 2009 at 3:47 pm

new pro/con: Does not cooperate very well with other virus packages - you may have to choose
agreed: "Simple and clean GUI"
agreed: "Very high virus detection level"
new pro/con: Does not play well with other installed antivirus packages (e.g. will not turn off real-time scan to allow only on-demand scanning)

5. updated GMail - September 2, 2009 at 3:43 pm

disagreed: "Saves my college $250,000 a year, and it's better than the old email system."
new pro/con: Does not deal well with low bandwidth or poor connections
agreed: "Best spam protection"
agreed: "Free IMAP access"
agreed: "Fast, powerful searching of your emails"
agreed: "Organizes emails into conversations"
agreed: "Free, easy POP, SMTP access"
agreed: "A ton of storage capacity (almost 3GB)"

6. updated Python - September 2, 2009 at 3:40 pm

7. updated Perl - September 2, 2009 at 3:36 pm

8. updated Ruby - September 2, 2009 at 3:35 pm

9. updated Google App Engine - September 2, 2009 at 3:24 pm

added a related product: Python
new pro/con: Limited to Python or Java and Google's proprietary database interface
disagreed: "Limited to Python for your development language and "Datastore" / "GQL" for your Database interactions"

10. updated Sony Playstation 3 - September 2, 2009 at 3:21 pm

11. updated Audacity - September 2, 2009 at 3:19 pm

12. updated Snes9X - September 2, 2009 at 3:16 pm

13. updated ZSNES - September 2, 2009 at 3:16 pm

14. added bsnes as a stub - September 2, 2009 at 3:16 pm

15. added SnEM as a stub - September 2, 2009 at 3:16 pm

16. updated MediaMonkey - September 2, 2009 at 3:10 pm

17. updated Windows Media Player - September 2, 2009 at 3:08 pm

18. updated Winamp - September 2, 2009 at 3:08 pm

19. updated foobar2000 - September 2, 2009 at 3:07 pm

20. updated iTunes - September 2, 2009 at 3:07 pm

agreed: "Available for both Mac and Windows"
agreed: "Clean, slick, easy to use interface."
agreed: "Excellent support for podcasts, mostly free podcast subscriptions. "
agreed: "Easy-to-use synching with iPod device"
agreed: "built to promote a proprietary online music store"
agreed: "part of a closed system - intended to keep users locked to Apple hardware (iPod), software and media outlets"
agreed: "No native support for Linux "
agreed: "High startup time on Windows"
agreed: "Annoying reminders pop-up to upgrade all the time"
agreed: "Slows down Windows"
agreed: "Installs many services and bloatware"

21. updated Nintendo Wii - September 2, 2009 at 3:06 pm

agreed: "Nintendo doesn't upgrade system like PS3 or XBox (i.e. media centre, Mii's etc)"

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