Lifehacker's List of Essential Downloads 2010

Ko0lHaNDLuKe said:
Really? My classmate uses MPC but its always seemed a bit retro for me! Plus I love how VLC can play pretty much anything in seconds...
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Unless I've greatly misunderstood... how can MPC-HC be any slower at playing stuff than VLC? MPC-HC plays anything you throw at it, and unlike VLC it has working (and excellent) DXVA out of the box, meaning a 50GB blu-ray image uses only 2-3% of your CPU. Take that, VLC. :p
 
I had a look at this list on their site earlier. Considering Lifehacker's aims/target market why do they mention Chrome but fail to mention Iron in any way?
 
SiriusB said:
[Cynic Mode: ON]

Perhaps Iron don't pay as well as Google!
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You forgot to turn the cynic mode off!

When a mate told me about Lifehacker 5 years ago, at Uni as it happens SiriusB ;), it was a pretty cool site with useful/interesting tech articles every day. Nowadays I feel its sold out somewhat and I can go days, or even a week or two, without seeing any useful/interesting articles.
 
Just stick to one or two. They all cover the same stuff eventually. Or use Twitter to look out for new interesting stuff!

I dunno. I dun bother with most stuff like that unless I am looking on how to do something in particular.
 
Wow - that really is a disappointing list! Why use Imgburn if you have Windows 7? (The built in software finally works - yay!), Agreed on MPC-HC>VLC (MPC-HC is awesome, great that we don't have to download those horrible codec packs anymore.), never got on with CCleaner - has a tendency to be too aggressive and break stuff for me.

As for the inclusion if iTunes... I should probably just keep my feelings on that one to myself! :eek:

*How funny - just seen the extended pack includes the ubiquitous K-Lite codec pack - VLC really was a poor choice!)
 
CCleaner has never broken anything for me. What can it break? Worst it will do is delete cookies or your browsing history when you still wanted it. All the software it cleans is listed so you can just "uncheck" anything you don't want it to nuke.

It's registry fixing is done after asking if you would like to backup your registry.
 
I've been using CCleaner for a good while and its great, I always use the reg cleaner part of it and never bothered to back up after so many times of it never causing a problem

Also agree on MPC > VLC. I use the K-Lite Codec pack its great
 
cavemanoc said:
*How funny - just seen the extended pack includes the ubiquitous K-Lite codec pack - VLC really was a poor choice!)
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just out of interest why does that make VLC poor? it even says on there that the codec pack is more for people that like to use windows media center
 
no he implied that because of the codec pack being on there it makes vlc a poor choice where the codec pack is nothing to do with vlc
 
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