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Mass Effect 2
January, 2010

$60.00

Pros

character driven
allows you to load your previous save game for a seamless story influenced by your past actions
great graphics

Cons

individual missions are too segmented and short, with no surprises along the way
weapons are a lot less customized and discovery / utilization follows a cookie cutter design, weapons only become 'generally better' with no statistical data supplied
no option to manually select your moral choices if you don't have an original Mass Effect save file - would have been nice if you could at least have picked the major 3-4!

Portal 2
April, 2011

$49.99

Pros

longer than the original, more like a full game than just a proof of concept - more than double in length!
excellent characters with great humour - retains the tongue and cheek nature and memorable quips of the first game
contains an entirely separate co-op campaign mode - play as the robots in all the commercials, work as a team to solve different types of puzzles
available on a large variety of platforms - Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC and Mac
hilarious teaser media leading up to its release

Cons

accompanied by a poorly planned marketing campaign that blackmailed gamers into buying extra games for the early release of Portal 2

Google Chrome
September, 2008

Pros

Extremely fast web-browsing
Very clean interface
Very fast startup time

Cons

Can't switch between custom search engines as quickly as Firefox or IE
Location bar isn't as intelligent as Firefox awesome bar
No "copy link name" feature

VLC media player
February, 2001

Pros

Supports lots of codecs
Does not use much memory and opens quickly
Available for Windows and Macintosh

Cons

Artifacts sometimes appear when skipping through some filetypes.
Can't handle dynamic soft subtitles as well as some competitors.
Can't select multiple objects and have them play in succession

MediaMonkey
January, 2006

Pros

Automatically tag and Album Art lookup
Auto volume leveling
Auto tagging
MP3 player synchronization

Cons

PC Only
Separate for-pay "gold" version

Mirror's Edge
November, 2008

$60.00

Pros

Able to perform some really cool maneuvers
Fantastic animation and sense of weight
Very immersing experience

Cons

Weak plot
If you don't like the time trials, then the game can be short
Some sections are extremely difficult making you repeat them dozens of time

uTorrent
September, 2005

Pros

Small CPU and memory footprint.
Totally free with no ads
Let you select which files inside a torrent to download

Cons

There is no Linux version
Bandwidth choke when not configured properly
Cannot select which files to download off a torrent in the OS X version.

Logitech Harmony 550
April, 2006

$120.00

Pros

great button layout
compatible with a huge number of home A/V components
frequent firmware / software updates

Cons

buttons can be annoying - mushy rubber
uses 4 x AAA batteries
no charging stand

Yamaha RX-V361
May, 2007

$200.00

Pros

Inexpensive
Great value receiver - component switching, surround sound
Performs component video switching

Cons

Obscure menu interface
Only two binding post connectors - the rest are spring-clip
HDMI connections are for Video ONLY

HP Pavilion dv4t Series
July, 2008

$1,238.00

Pros

Trendy looks
Powerful WiFi
HDMI and ESATA ports

Cons

Unreliable and low-quality built in audio/graphics/hardware in general
Extremely bad battery life
Overheats if left on a non flat/hard surface

Mozilla Firefox
November, 2004

Pros

Extensive functional add-ons (extensions) and plug-ins
Tabbed browsing
After a crash can "Restore session" which reopens all tabs

Cons

Websites designed with proprietary IE/Active X code may not render correctly
Windows returns an error if you close Firefox and try to start it up right away "Firefox is still running"
Takes up an inordinate amount of RAM