2009-03-20T22:45:58Z 49289 0 I love how Chrome is so lightweight. It starts up almost instantly, as opposed to a wait of a few seconds for Firefox or IE7/8. As far as features go, it's just a little lacking. There are no plugins, but that's not a big issue for me. I used too many plugins when I used Firefox and that bogged the browser down *a lot*. I use a browser to browse the Internet and Chrome does that just fine. The interface is excellent. It's sparse, sure, but I like how it doesn't get in the way. The Web pages are the main content, right? I don't want half my window taken up by menu and toolbars. 2147483647 2007-06-13T05:16:01Z 34255 2019-11-12T12:13:09Z Google Chrome 20049 2009-12-02T02:29:47Z http://www.google.com/chrome http://wakoopa.com/software/google-chrome http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/006/977/normal.png?1238578445 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/006/977/thumb.png?1238578445 10267 Google Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/google-inc Check what's happening on the web 1 Browsers http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/browsers mac win Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. It builds on components from other open source software, including WebKit and Mozilla, and is intended to provide greater stability, speed and security than existing browsers, while presenting a simple and efficient user interface. 2008-06-10T00:21:26Z 10300 5 Awesome game. It does require a high-end system to play it in all its glory, but the excellent plot and good integration with the Xbox 360 controller makes it worth it. 16370063 2007-08-20T07:09:22Z 54696 2009-12-18T13:36:10Z BioShock 1058 2009-11-28T18:07:00Z http://www.bioshockgame.com http://wakoopa.com/software/bioshock http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/149/139/normal.png?1253985577 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/149/139/thumb.png?1253985577 1020 2K Games http://wakoopa.com/developers/2k-games 41 Action http://wakoopa.com/categories/games/action win BioShock is an action-adventure, survival horror first-person shooter video game. The game is based on exploring the dystopia of an isolated underwater city called Rapture in 1960 and surviving the mutated beings and mechanical drones within it. 2008-06-10T00:19:34Z 10299 2 I've tried this software before, but I don't think it's worth $30. I haven't had any problems with the default Windows Explorer, so it'd be silly to replace it. 13667558 2007-05-02T11:16:43Z 796 2010-06-12T18:06:00Z xplorer² 795 2009-11-12T22:13:20Z http://zabkat.com http://wakoopa.com/software/xplorer http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/125/958/normal.png?1248782683 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/125/958/thumb.png?1248782683 129 ZabKat http://wakoopa.com/developers/zabkat Managing your files 58 File Management http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/file-management mac win xplorer² is what windows explorer should have been. Unlike explorer, xplorer² allows you to browse more than one folder at a time, using tabs and dual panes. Sorting out and copying files becomes a breeze. You can navigate your shell namespace quickly using favorites, clickable paths (breadcrumbs), easy access to root folders, a tree and a bookmark pane etc. You can even save and restore folder groups whenever your workflow deems necessary. xplorer² browsing model scales up well to large folders with thousands of files. It reads fast, offers visual filters and a variety of selection mechanisms that allow you to manage your files effectively. 2008-06-10T00:15:40Z 10298 5 Definitely my favorite browser. The ability to extend it with add-ons makes it awesome. My only beef is the memory leaks it experiences when used for a long time (still not fixed by Mozilla), but it's a relatively minor problem when compared to the benefits Firefox has. 2147483647 2007-04-18T13:21:12Z 15 2020-05-01T02:42:26Z Firefox 54389 2009-12-01T23:13:16Z http://www.mozilla.com/firefox http://wakoopa.com/software/firefox http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/133/764/normal.png?1250310044 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/133/764/thumb.png?1250310044 95 Mozilla http://wakoopa.com/developers/mozilla Check what's happening on the web 1 Browsers http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/browsers mac win linux Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 24.07% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of October 2009, making it the second-most popular browser worldwide, after Internet Explorer, which is the factory default browser on all Windows computers. In 5 months, Firefox has gathered steam and now owns more than 25% of usage share of web browsers closing the gap between it and IE. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements some current web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards. Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine. Functions can be added through add-ons created by third-party developers, the most popular of which include Adblock Plus, Video DownloadHelper, NoScript, Personas, FlashGot, and Greasemonkey, along with many others. Firefox runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows (version 3.5 supports Windows Vista and XP; although not officially supported as of November 2009, Firefox is compatible with Windows 7), Mac OS X (10.4 or later officially supported), most Linux distributions, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release branch is version 3.5, first released on June 30th, 2009. Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license of GPL/LGPL/MPL. 2008-06-10T00:13:43Z 10297 5 Compared to other music player programs I've used, iTunes is the easiest to use. It has a nice interface and I like the library management. The integration with iPods, iPhones, and the iTunes Store certainly helps. People may complain about the proprietary library, music, and video formats, but considering that I use an iPod, I don't have any problem with it. 1207091948 2007-04-19T11:36:06Z 46 2018-10-24T11:08:52Z iTunes 29520 2009-12-01T21:48:05Z http://www.itunes.com http://wakoopa.com/software/itunes http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/142/838/normal.png?1252537197 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/142/838/thumb.png?1252537197 14397 Apple Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/apple-inc Manage your audio and video 26 Management http://wakoopa.com/categories/audio-video/management mac win iTunes is a digital media player application introduced by Apple in 2001 at Macworld Expo in San Francisco for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store (provided an internet connection is present) in order to download purchased digital music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, various podcasts, and feature length films. 2008-06-10T00:09:49Z 10296 5 My favorite free antivirus program. I've tried plenty of free and paid antivirus programs, but avast! is the best. Norton is a system hog, AVG Free doesn't have on-access detection. avast! is always the first thing I stick on a new computer. 4667742 2007-04-22T13:04:27Z 176 2017-07-08T07:06:22Z avast! Antivirus 8530 2009-11-30T10:11:27Z http://www.avast.com http://wakoopa.com/software/avast-antivirus http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/124/874/normal.png?1248619781 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/124/874/thumb.png?1248619781 89 ALWIL Software http://wakoopa.com/developers/alwil-software 35 Anti-Virus http://wakoopa.com/categories/security/anti-virus win Avast Home Edition is a complete ICSA certified and Secure Computing Magazine awarded antivirus software for home noncommercial use. Its free edition is efficient and even sufficient for personal home use concerning Windows as well as web. It is also an anti-spyware. Avast includes the following components: On Demand Scanner with skinnable simple interface--just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button; On Access Scanner--special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant Messaging--ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic--intrusion detection--lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield--monitors and filter all HTTP traffic; NNTP Scanner--scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; Boot Time Scanner--scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does. 2008-06-10T00:07:43Z 10295 5 ThreatFire is a very nice piece of software. I wouldn't use it without a full-featured antivirus program, but it's nice because it works a different way. Instead of scanning files and folders for infections, it monitors the behavior of programs and prevents them from doing things they aren't supposed to. Very useful when combined with other antivirus and anti-spyware programs. 384255 2007-08-18T20:24:33Z 54254 2011-10-13T09:37:10Z ThreatFire 469 2009-11-19T14:18:15Z http://www.threatfire.com http://wakoopa.com/software/threatfire http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/140/059/normal.png?1251645106 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/140/059/thumb.png?1251645106 675 PC Tools http://wakoopa.com/developers/pc-tools 35 Anti-Virus http://wakoopa.com/categories/security/anti-virus win ThreatFire constantly monitors the activity on your PC to detect signs of malicious behavior commonly used by malaware threats. It is able to hunt down and paralyze threats that are too new or too clever to be recognized by traditional security software.