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by RandySavage
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
Win (All)
Changed firefox speed, contrary-style 
FireTune version 1.0.2
- Interface: 3
- Features: 1
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 2
- Overall:
I use FireFox and I've got a reasonably hot Internet connection, so this item looked like just the ticket for a "voracious" browser. I followed all instructions to the letter. And my speed did change: with these tweak settings FireFox slowed-down! Surely I must be doing something wrong, so I uninstalled EVERYTHING. Started from scratch, followed the instructions to the letter and the results were the same. A third and fourth try yielded consistently slower load times (per the prescribed test) than stock FireFox settings. My advice: AVOID.
Review date: May 11, 2005
- Free Trial ($499.95)
- Win (All)
Feature-packed but could be easier
602LAN SUITE version 2004.0.05.0223
- Interface: 3
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This package contains an extraordinary complement of network server components: a proxy server with caching, line-sharing proxy, DHCP server, SMTP/POP3 mail server with Web interface capabilities, and more. Free for 5 users or less, I have yet to discern the impact "no support for hyperthreading" has. Could be easier to administer, but for free there are few packages as complete as this one. Requires registration to remove nag pop-ups.
Review date: Apr 19, 2005
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Wow! looks like just what i need!
Nico`s Photocopier version 2.31
- Interface: 3
- Features: 2
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 2
- Overall:
I've got all these tax documents to copy. And Nico's Photocopier even worked ... 1 time. Yep! I got A whole copy out of it before it refused to work and complained of Twain problems. Now why would it do that? I didn't change anything, run twain (or photo) software, didn't reboot, heck, I just went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, I come back, and this is what I get. Maybe Nico's Photocopier is jealous of the drink? Well, this little application is just going to have to grow up before I can recommend it to anyone.
Review date: Feb 18, 2005
- Freeware
- 2000/XP
Mbm is not the best thing since sliced bread
Motherboard Monitor version 5.3.7.0
- Interface: 3
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
But it is gosh darn good. First learned of the necessity to use such a program when a mysterious computer problem was traced to bad power supply and a hot -12v level. HD's would mysteriously power-down, strange system hangs, all sorts of things. Now I monitor temp & voltage health all the time. If you're an overclocker then you already know about temperature monitoring and how important it is. It doesn't take long to cook an expensive CPU. Get MBM today.
Review date: Jan 18, 2005
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Don't bother
LanDiscovery version 1.0
- Interface: 2
- Features: 1
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 2
- Overall:
Does not do what it says. I was looking for a quick & dirty port scanner for LAN discovery, and this one aint it. Have a LAN with 7 network attached devices and it found zero.
Review date: Jan 07, 2005
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Tried a few, settled on this one
Starter version 5.6.1.38
- Interface: 4
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
What hasn't already been said? This is a great startup manager. I particularly like the ability to disable the startup of system (critical?) functions, like the shell for example. Dangerous, but good for drivers that "prefer a stick shift over an automatic." More power, more control, more happy.
Review date: Jan 06, 2005
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Not bad, but misses the mark
Lupas Rename version 4.2
- Interface: 2
- Features: 2
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I need a renamer that is flexible enough to handle any renaming job I throw at it and easy enough to not require a tutorial (who has time?). The very first renaming task I required Lupas Rename for it failed at, truncating trailing characters based on position from the left. It almost seems to have this capability but it doesn't seem to work properly.
Review date: Dec 16, 2004
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
The graphics make all the difference
OverDisk version beta preview
- Interface: 5
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This is the first graphical HD usage application I've ever used that actually made a difference. And it is that weird little pie-chart that makes that difference. It is so instinctively intuitive to use that I actually did! Even the other high-dollar applications all gussied up with their make-up of pretty graphics and multisyllabic words can't compare to the effectiveness of this application.
Review date: Nov 05, 2004
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Still looking some more
ZipGenius version 5.5.1.468
- Interface: 2
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 3
- Overall:
Tried ZipGenius after FilZip to try and unzip multiple archives. Despite promise and a seeming multitude of features, this bloatware also fails to do this. Looks like I'll be using ExtractNow.
Review date: Nov 04, 2004
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Still looking
FilZip version 3.01
- Interface: 3
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Usually I use WinRAR. It's got a lot of features, but is lacking in a couple of key areas related to extraction. I tried FilZip because I'd like to extract massive amounts of archives and have the files within placed into the same source directory without any sub-dir. This program can do that, but you have to add all archives manually going into each sub-directory. Now that might work for a dozen or so archives spread across a half-dozen of so sub-directories, but when you have thousands of archives spread across hundreds of sub-directories, it takes too long. You can't seem to drag and drop anything for extraction, only for compression. So for me, this dog don't hunt.
Review date: Nov 04, 2004
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Don't pay for photo editing/paint software!
PhotoFiltre version 6.0.2
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 4
- Value: 5
- Overall:
There is no reason to pay any $$$ to those well-known paint and photo-editing software developers when there's a gem like PhotoFiltre available for download for free. This software is amazing and BETTER than most of the commercial payware paint/photo editing packages. Instructions: DOWNLOAD, USE, SMILE.
Review date: Oct 27, 2004
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP
Its all in the title
Simple File Joiner version 1.6
- Interface: 4
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This program does just what it says, simply & easily. Works great for those binaries chopped up with a .001 .002 .003 series of extensions. This utility is now a "must have" in my arsenal.
Review date: Oct 25, 2004
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Sounded good but wasn't
Offline CD Browser version 3.1.15
- Interface: 2
- Features: 2
- Ease of use: 1
- Value: 5
- Overall:
By the title this little application screamed to me it could do what I needed. It could not. The interface was so clunky and the ability to have multiple CDs or DVDs in a database so poor that I abandoned it.
Review date: Oct 11, 2004
Create interactive Flash movies and tutorials to show how applications and systems work.
A powerful, yet easy-to-use tool to automate any series of tasks you can do on your computer.
