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Software Reviews

by FlatCat

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.

avast! Home Edition
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

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avast! Home Edition version 4.7.844
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Good piece of software. Whilst the on-access checking can be a bit intrusive, it certainly stops any virus'

    Review date: Jun 06, 2006

Ace DivX Player
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

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Ace DivX Player version 2.2
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

Well this looks like the pick of video player programs on this site. It works, is easy to use, and doesn't seem to contain any spyware/adware (unlike BSplayer). With the DivX pack from sourceforge, main site: http://www.divxtotalpack.org/ I can play all the files I'm interested in.

    Review date: Mar 19, 2006

XVid;-)
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

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XVid;-) version 2.1
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 4
  • Overall: 3

I just tried this software, and while it looks nice and appears to have lots of user configurable parts, I had severe problems with it. The control dialog box was stuck on top of any other window and would not close no matter what I tried.

    Review date: Mar 19, 2006

Koma-Mail
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

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Koma-Mail version 3.42
  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 2
  • Value: 3
  • Overall: 3

Just loaded this program it does what it says but is quite tricky to set up. After a few attempts I finally got it the way I want. I like that you can view emails, and download their attachments, whilst still leaving them on the server. Needs a bit more work but can't beat it for price.

    Review date: Oct 20, 2005

SmartClose
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

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SmartClose version 1.1
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 4
  • Overall: 4

Looks very good, and quite easy to use, and seemed to close most programs and services. Unfortunately, on restart/restore not everything came up properly. My computer no longer had any sound, the volume control was there and working but no sound from speakers. A reboot fixed problem. Avast (anti-virus) on restart all the services seemed to be there (checked in task manager) but the little spinning globe in the task bar didn't come back. Spybot teatimer took ages to stop and the icon was still in task bar (was it really stopped?) ZoneAlarm didn't seem to stop at all is it supposed to? I guess you get what you pay for.

    Review date: Oct 18, 2005

foobar2000
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

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foobar2000 version 0.82
  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

The lite version is just as it says, nice and small, uses few resources. This is an excellent program if you just want to listen to all the mp3s on your system. The full blown special version does just about everything, except make coffee.

    Review date: Aug 12, 2004

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RoboTask

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