Archive for November, 2006

Softpedia is fooling everybody, 100% guaranteed by me

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Not many readers heard of the Softpedia seal “100% clean”. Some Romanian readers have read the interviews Softpedia founders and owners gave to the Romanian media like Evenimentul Zilei, where they say both that they would like better skilled employees, but they pay 300 dollars a month, while shamelessly evaluating their website at a few millions.
With 300 dollars a month, it is hard to keep even a good personal assistant in Bucharest these days, so no wonder that the seal comes together with a button to help you report spyware, which is also read “do our work”. Now, why would I report ad/spyware, when the software is supposedly certified by Softpedia as “100% clean”? Probably their pirated Lavasoft Ad-aware Pro copy stopped working, and you can see that they even certified Sopcast 1.0.1 as clean. (more…)

Adi de Vito rulez

Friday, November 10th, 2006

I never thought that the day will come when real Romanian music will be available online. Censored on the Romanian media, despised by the people who like to think of themselves as smarter than the average, it stood no chance. Nonetheless, if you use Windows Media Player and MSN Music, you will be able to find Adi de Vito (more…)