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by Defconn1
The reviews and opinions below are posted by SnapFiles visitors. They do not necessarily reflect our opinion, and are solely based on the experience of individual users.
- Freeware
98/ME/2000/XP
More bloat for your buck! 
Yahoo! Messenger
- Interface: 2
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 2
- Overall:
Download: 8MB, Install: 26MB, RAM: 31MB. Uninstalling quickly: Priceless. ... But seriously now, those are real stats. Yahoo all by itself takes 31MB of your resources just to run (idle!). Add in that it's only for one protocol, they keep adding "features" which I admit are cute, but really are not required. They have these audio emotes which are fun.. the first time. Then I just wanted to turn them off. They had other little games and stuff, nothing that had much to do with communication and instant messaging. Lots of clutter, lots of stuff that gets in your way. Companies gotta learn not to overwhelm their users with features before they are ready to use them.
Review date: Nov 12, 2005
- Ad Supported (Free)
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Lesser offender of the bunch...
ICQ Lite version 1300
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 2
- Overall:
Now if you only use ICQ (and maybe a little AIM) then perhaps this is the right choice for you. But I warn that there are (annoying) ads. One on the main window, and another on the bottom of message windows too. Xtraz are stupid. They seem specially designed to allow for sneaky advertising. Just the feeling I get when I was looking at them. "Send a card!" right? Okay, how much spam you gunna send them too? You know what I'm saying? Hard to trust sometimes. Maybe I'm just being edgy about this, though. Either way, Xtraz are not required. I'd turn them off if they'd let you. Lots of options on how you want messages to get handled. Not great, but better than the previous versions and if you need official, this is the way to go (vs. Yahoo, MSN or AIM).
Review date: Nov 12, 2005
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Ready for plug-ins!
Miranda IM version 0.4
- Interface: 4
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 4
- Overall:
This is a nice little program, very little. Only about 1MB in size, installs in under 2MB and only uses 5MB of your RAM when you run it which is about 7MB less than anything else I've tried). This program is made for people to customize it by adding plug-ins to it. I'd have to say, though, that the starting product is very barren, too stripped down if you ask me. Though if you are willing to spend a little time, you can surf through Miranda's site and download plugins for the client. Then you can add what you like, keep out what you don't. This program has the potential of being the best on Windows, if you can spend enough time installing good plug-ins that is.
Review date: Nov 12, 2005
Create interactive Flash movies and tutorials to show how applications and systems work.
