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Category: software

  • My opinion about Microsoft, software piracy and everything

    This post is a response to a blogpost on tudor g’s blog about software piracy issues in Romania, and as such it might not be of interest to you, dear international reader. If this is the case, feel free to skip this post. Disclaimer: arguments are very emotional things. As much as we would like…

  • No codec packs please!

    A recent posting by fellow blogger Claus reminded me of a frequent problem I see on computers I’m called to for “fixing”: codec packs (like K-Lite, CCCP, etc). They are usually installed so that the computer can play back all the video formats which can be found out there. All fine and dandy, right? Wrong!…

  • ScribeFire review (comparison with Windows Live Writer)

    I’m constantly searching for more efficient ways to write blogposts. Currently I’m using Windows Live Writer in a VirtualBox instance running Windows 7, but I wanted to give ScribeFire a try. The short version: it had some interesting features, but on the whole it had too many negatives compared to Live Writer to be useful…