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The Best Open-Source (or Freeware) Alternatives to Photoshop
Posted 10/01/2008 at 04:44:53pm
I third that! Paint .NET is one of the best photoshop alternatives imo and its free! Wake up MPC staff!
Asus Xonar D2X
Posted 08/08/2008 at 02:19:15am
I think this review is flawed based on what OS you are comparing! The X-fi cards will take the cake with the native EAX 5 in XP while the D2X has to use it's version of interpreting the output into it's own output. But when it comes to Vista, the D2X takes the cake! It offers far better stability than the X-fi and since the X-fi's own EAX is screwed up going through the OpenAL with Alcemy, it's basically doing the same thing that the D2X is doing! Instead of Creative fixing drivers for their cards to work, they release a new card (Titanium) that is broken and they make us pay extra to use extra features such as Dolby Digital! Plus, people are still complaining about problems with it's use in Vista x64!
IMO the Titanium should not have been used in DM08 and MPC needs to do a better job at reviewing sound cards.
Are Users Ready For 64-bit in Prime Time?
Posted 08/06/2008 at 12:58:10am
I recently loaded up Vista 64 after hearing more positive things about it. It is definitely an improvement over what x64 oses used to be. It allows for more memory to be used and more power-user programs work natively in a 64-bit environment.
I am quite disappointed at how finicky it still is with drivers. Understandably, drivers are still not optimized for it but I see many BSODs caused by quite a few drivers that claim to work with Vista 64. I dislike that it uses a programs folder and programs(x86). I like to be organized and this really makes a mess of things. Some programs only install to one directory and some may install to both. You MUST know what is being installed because whatever logic the installer uses is not always correct at picking the right folder. I run a lot of programs in XP x86 environment that seem to have issues when running in Vista x64. Something else that I have seen is this, many programs will claim that they have 64-bit support but all that means is that it will install into the x86 folder and it supposedly works on Vista x64. A lot of people think that because a program says it supports x64 that it runs as a 64-bit program.
The one thing that really bothered me was trying to get an Audigy 2 ZS platinum sound card to work! I tried EVERYTHING and I could not get the soundcard to work correctly! There are a few people that say they had no issues so I followed everything they did to a 'T' and still could not get that card to work. But Creative and it's support for Vista is another story. A story I wish MaximumPC would cover better. There are many other sound cards out there and MPC doesn't seem to cover that area too well.
All-in-all it has greatly improved in usability and stability but with so few applications taking advantage of 64-bit computing the only useful thing to get out of it is more memory usage. As others have stated, if you're a hardcore PC addict, you'll want to be ahead of the curve and enjoy working out the bugs with 64-bit computing. But for anyone else, it is a couple years away from being advantageous in anyway.
Delicious 2.0 Really About To Launch or Another Trillian Type Tease?
Posted 07/29/2008 at 02:53:49am
LOL, don't forget about TeamSpeak 3 to go along with those comparisons! That was suppose to be released years ago. Earlier this year, they claimed it would be released "very soon". I guess very soon to them means about a year.
eBay Snubs Smaller Sellers in Favor of Large Retailers
Posted 07/14/2008 at 05:00:01pm
From a sellers stand point - As stated, the ebay/paypal fees have gotten ridiculous! The new rules not allowing sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers is insane. I fully believe in "one man's trash is another man's treasure" and that's what made ebay what it is. Now, if selling something small that goes for basically nothing, it's useless to a seller after paying all the fees b/c they either did not make anything or come out paying. Ebay used to be all about getting rid of things you didn't want anymore and paying a small fee for someone else to enjoy. Having a nice competion to drive the price up was great. Now everyone just waits until the last minute to put in bids and items do not go for as much.
From a buyers perspective -Ebay used to be all about finding little things that you couldn't find anywhere else. You couldn't beat the prices of finding used items, or even new items at that, at discount. Now there are too many businesses that sell Buy It Now items and they are usually no deal! There have always been shady sellers but a wise buyer will almost always stay away from them.
Craigslist is good but it doesn't offer the worldwide, auction type of site that made ebay what it used to be.