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Software Reviews

by DoctorTofu

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.

NetSetMan
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista/7

qleft  Exactly what i've been looking for  qright

NetSetMan version 1.10
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Very simple, yet tremendously useful program - I move with my laptop between office and home and manually changing all the network settings was a pain. Using this software makes it as easy as clicking on a profile tab - makes me wonder why something like that is not a default Windows feature - it sure should be.

    Review date: Apr 25, 2005

PhotoCleaner
  • Free Trial ($12.95)
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Very good results.  qright

PhotoCleaner version 3.0
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 4
  • Overall: 4

For the price, this program is the best I found. The options seem very simple at first, but they work surprisingly well. Most of the times the results are perfect and a few times I was really surprised how good the pictures came out. From time to time the program misses horribly and makes the photo unwatchable, but such occurrences are rare and easily remedied with a quick change of settings. Overall a really nice program definitely worth a try.

    Review date: Jan 18, 2005

VisualRoute
  • Free Trial ($49.95)
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Great, but much too pricey  qright

VisualRoute version 8.0f
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 1
  • Overall: 3

This piece of software is great, there's no doubt about it. Many features, ease of use, nice interface and so on. But charging almost $50 for it? Sorry, but that's way too much. There are other programs on the market with similar functions that are either free or very reasonably priced. I don't see any reason to pay that much for a software with fairly limited uses. If the price would be cut in half I'd probably buy it, but as for now I recommend trying some cheaper alternatives - this one is simply not worth the price.

    Review date: Jul 10, 2004

HTML Compress
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  No point in using this one  qright

HTML Compress version 5.3
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 2
  • Value: 1
  • Overall: 2

I sincerely don't understand why anyone would need this program. Sure, it compresses HTML, but first, does 10 kilobytes of saved space really matter? Then remove one animated gif from your webpage and you'll save more. Then there's another thing - did you ever try to make corrections in a compressed code? I did, and I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy. Sure you can keep an uncompressed backup, edit it, then compress it again and upload to the server - it's not worth the hassle though. Just stick to image compression - in my opinion the concept of HTML shrinking was made redundant even by 56k modems - simply put, why bother if the difference is unnoticeable?

    Review date: Jul 10, 2004

PopTray
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

qleft  Simpy the best  qright

PopTray version 3.03
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

This is my email checker of choice. It also takes care about spam, has a nice, simple interface and is really stable and easy to use. Haven't seen anything better yet and I've probably tried every other checker on the market.

    Review date: Jul 09, 2004

MWSnap
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Does everything competition does - for free  qright

MWSnap version 3.0.0.74
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

This one is easily the best free screen capture tool I've come across. Clear, configurable interface, many features and very easy to use. In my opinion it is even better than all the paid software on the market - does everything other programs do (plus more - for example it has a built-in color picker and a ruler tool among others) and it's completely free. Great software I can recommend wholeheartedly.

    Review date: Jul 07, 2004

foobar2000
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  Mybe not a beauty queen, but it's worth it  qright

foobar2000 version 0.82
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

I'm using this one from the very early stages of development, when it was just a really simple player with almost no impact on system resources. Now it still is not at all resource-hungry, but you wouldn't call it simple, no sir. To be honest, the number of features exceeds any other player I've seen. It can be intimidating at first, but fortunately this player works very well right out of the box, without fiddling with preferences at all. If, on the other hand, you want to fiddle... the fun never ends. You can customize almost every aspect of playback - custom sorting routines, multiple playlists in a tabbed interface, resampling, replaygain (setting the volume of all your files to the same value without any loss in quality), visualizations (there are plugins enabling the use of the ones from Winamp too), the list goes on and on. This player does exactly what I wand and so much more. I recommend it to anyone - try it and you won't regret.

    Review date: Jul 07, 2004

Mozilla Firefox
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  In my oppinion the best browser around  qright

Mozilla Firefox version 0.91
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

I've switched to this browser from IE about a year and a half ago and I don't regret it one bit. For a novice user it may seem a bit confusing at first (not too much though), but after you play with it for a while you won't want to go back. The feature list is huge, and there are tons of plug-ins (called extensions by the developers) that enhance it even further. You can install mouse gestures-based navigation (extremely useful), additional ad-blocking capabilities, menu enhancements and much more. Simply speaking - everyone should definitely try this one.

    Review date: Jul 04, 2004

disclib
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

qleft  Extremely good, but slooooooow  qright

disclib version 1.0.4
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 3
  • Overall: 4

This software would be perfect if the search function was not so painfully slow. It has a good interface, is very easy to use and does exactly what I want it to do. Unfortunately, if your collection is larger than, say, 10 CDs or so it takes AGES for the search to complete... You can still browse the volumes fine and I usually do that instead of searching, but problems start when you look for this one file you remember you had, but can't recall where... If the author fixes the search function this software will be the bes one on the market in my opinion. Until that it's unfortunately only one of the good ones.

    Review date: Jul 04, 2004

Tanida Quiz Builder

Tanida Quiz Builder

Create educational quizzes in Flash format that can be distributed online or as standalone .EXE file.

Spytech SpyAgent

Spytech SpyAgent

A powerful monitoring solution to record PC activity, including keystrokes, email and more.

Demo Builder

Demo Builder

Create interactive Flash movies and tutorials to show how applications and systems work.