Kerii updated 10 products

Kerii — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:57:10 -0400

1. updated Safari - May 20, 2008 at 5:57 pm

2. updated Opera - May 20, 2008 at 5:56 pm

3. updated Firefox - May 20, 2008 at 5:56 pm

chose Firefox over Flock
chose Windows Internet Explorer over Firefox
chose Firefox over Safari
chose Opera over Firefox
agreed: "Memory usage and load time are significantly slower than IE."
agreed: "Firefox V2 crashes semi-regularly and uses a lot of computing resources"
agreed: "Websites designed with proprietary IE/Active X code may not render correctly"
disagreed: "In page searching and highlighting is powerful and straightforward. Just slash and type, or F3 refind: easy!"
disagreed: "Page loading can be significantly faster than IE, especially when using speed-enhancing plugins."
agreed: "Open-source project"
disagreed: "Fewer security exploits directed at Firefox vs. IE"
agreed: "Tabbed browsing"
agreed: "After a crash can "Restore session" which reopens all tabs"
agreed: "Extensive functional add-ons (extensions) and plug-ins"

4. updated Windows Live - May 20, 2008 at 5:54 pm

5. updated Yahoo - May 20, 2008 at 5:54 pm

6. updated Google - May 20, 2008 at 5:54 pm

chose Google over Ask.com
chose Google over Dogpile
chose Google over altavista
chose Google over metacrawler
chose Google over Lycos
chose Google over Windows Live
chose Google over Yahoo
disagreed: "Googol is spelled wrong"
agreed: "Ubiquitous search creates a market for SEO which in turn leads to link spam, fake blogs, and other annoying behavior"
agreed: "If Google goes evil, we're all screwed"
agreed: "Free, as in free beer. Or free cake"
agreed: "Excellent search. Fast, clean, simple"
agreed: "Continually coming out with free web apps and services"
agreed: "Not evil, in general"

7. updated Winamp - May 20, 2008 at 5:53 pm

chose Winamp over DivX Player
chose Winamp over MediaMonkey
chose Winamp over foobar2000
chose Winamp over iTunes
agreed: "Still somewhat bloated compared to Foobar2000 and other players aimed at expert users"
agreed: "Auto-Tag feature: good for roll your own mp3s and to correct these collectors items."
disagreed: "Windows Only"
agreed: "Multiple sound card support: listen on your hi-fi card while Windows gets the onboard chip."
agreed: "Customizable visualizations are great "
agreed: "Excellent Internet radio integration"
agreed: "Highly customizable look and feel with skins"
disagreed: "Not a computer resource hog like WMP"
agreed: "Great UI, with easy to access library, playlist, EQ, visualization, etc."
disagreed: "Slick look with cool visualizations"
agreed: "Extensive plugin support"

8. updated Media Player Classic - May 20, 2008 at 5:52 pm

9. updated Windows Media Player - May 20, 2008 at 5:52 pm

chose Windows Media Player over MediaMonkey
chose Windows Media Player over DivX Player
chose Media Player Classic over Windows Media Player
chose Windows Media Player over iTunes
chose Windows Media Player over Winamp
disagreed: "Will not play licensed media without internet connection or licence"
disagreed: "Does not support DVD playback due to DRM in some cases"
disagreed: "Player tends to freeze, pause, etc with lots of codecs on the machine"
agreed: "has all the bells and whistles you would expect"

10. updated VLC media player - May 20, 2008 at 5:51 pm

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