Software Reviews

  Not perfect, but...  

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

...its a nice program for nothing! I found that I liked the rename, resize, contact sheet, CD executable. I did not like the way the text looked on the contact sheet, way too large. Overall, as a freebie, it packs a nice variety of graphic enhancements normally found in expensive programs or the user needs multiple programs in which to achieve renaming or resizing or contact sheets. I give this program a "B" for great effort. Thanks to the developer for this FREE program which I intend to make good use of.

  Very impressive !  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I try to stay away from computer sticky notes because of their lack of ease of use and their overkill of options. However, this "IQ Notes" was done with some "IQ" in mind. Its ease of use, small memory footprint, and options are worth every FREE penny spent on this great program. One thing I would have added would be, to change the font, font color and its characteristics such as BOLD, italic, etc. For a FREE program, its wonderful, and I plan to use it from now on. Thank the developer for their FREE present.

  Its so easy, even I can work it!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

My photo collection is now in the thousands, and I need some order to find the ones I like best. Every batch rename I have encountered seems to have lots of variables and learning curves. This program is simple and ready to work for you in matter of seconds after install. Select your files, choose a name, add a numbering count if you want, and click "Start" and before your mouse is off the START button, you are done. Its fast, simple and uncomplicated. Thanks to the author for this wonderful FREE gift!

  Pretty good program!  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I liked that you could add pictures to contacts or your notes. Notes have sub folders which can have your choice of icon to identify what sort of info is in that folder. There are many other options which surprisingly, are as good as a pay for program. The instructions are clear and easy to understand. GUI is excellent, and because its portable, it has a small memory foot print and doesn't need any registry entries. Thanks for to the developer for a FREE program which is impressive!

  Bravo !  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Wow, what a nice little shell program. Easy to install, no demand on memory, and works like a charm. Its FREE, thanks to the developer for this gift.

  Too complicated  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 3
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Two things that disappointed me about this program, first, its not that easy to use. It could be more user friendly. Secondly, it stores your thumbnail pictures on your disk and eats up disk space. I was also disappointed by its lack of undo features. The undo features only went back a few steps, then you are stuck with the last change to your photos. Tried to put a watermark, and that too is complicated and cumbersome.

  Someone needs to tell you about this  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 2
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I have tried this program and found it to slow my computer down. Also, it has an update feature which by design, wont go away. It gives you the option to not have it pop up at inconvenient times, but then you have to click for it to proceed with its update search..kind of an oxymoron. I am not impressed with this and am uninstalling it.

  Not bad !  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is embarrassing, but it only took this program five minutes to find over 700 registry errors on my computer. I plan to use it more frequently. Thanks to the developer for this FREE program.

  Only one use for this  

• Interface: 2
• Features: 2
• Ease of use: 2
• Value: 5
• Overall:

As the previous reviewer stated, Windows already has a multiple pane option. I found only one practical use for this, and that is, to organize my Start Menu folders which seem to have grown out of control from so many downloads. I found this program has somewhat of a learning curve in the setup process which in some cases made no sense. The idea is good, the FREE price is great, but the end product isn't impressive and there are better programs out there to do the same. Thanks to the developer for making this available non the less.

  This saved me  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

My computer began to start windows installation program to install Office 2003, which I dont have. It happened at startup and when I right mouse clicked on a folder or file. Couldnt even unpack RAR or ZIP files with right mouse click. I downloaded this program, and within 2 minutes was able to disable the Installer in the "Services" tab. I appreciate this FREE program and how fast it works.

  Everything but the kitchen sink  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Yes, this baby has everything you need to convert. For a small lightweight program, it sure packs a strong punch. Not only does it have the many conversion options, but if you click on the "Expanded" option, you get a calculator and a save to clipboard option. Very impressive! Thanks to the developer for this FREE program.

  Handy little calendar  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is so much easier than having to open some program just to get to a calendar. I used to right click on my tray properties to bring up the calendar just to get a date in future or past. This program is right there, just place your cursor over the time on system tray, and there is your calendar. Its easy to get from month to month and year to year. Great idea, thanks to developer for this FREE program.

  Good for passwords  

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

This is a nice small program for your Flash Drive for private info and passwords. Two things I noticed that make this program somewhat almost perfect but not quite. It has no help files, which it may not need due to its simplicity, and two, it will only allow one instance of text saved per file. It will allow different file naming, but when you save one, it saves the others with the same info. Also, one instance of password per file folder. Cant use different passwords in same folder, but can if in different folders. I'd still recommend it for anyone wanting to maintain their privacy while using their flash drive on another computer.

  I found a use for this  

• Interface: 3
• Features: 3
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This product is rated "Fair" by Snapfiles and poorly by raters with a score of one. Snapfiles suggests this wont stay in system try, thats true, but you can add it to your "Quick Launch" tray next to your Start button. I did find a use for this which I think is very practical. This program accepts URL code links, and when you copy your favorite web site, which is Snapfiles of course, you can click the link to get there. Categorize your favorite links and you have a great easy to use bookmark that you can pull up directly from your Quick Launch. And if you really like this program, you can rename a second version of the executable program and use it for your notes, also to be launched from your Quick Launch.

  Good deal!  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

As a freeware, this program has more features one would expect from something free. As a photo editing program for the novice, this is a great way to start and have fun with your photos. For someone with more extensive experience, this makes a nice addition or great for quick editing or batch renaming or resizing. I recommend it, and thank the developer for making this FREE to us.

  Very impressive !  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Its a great program! What more need I say? Oh...Thanks to the developer for this FREE program!

  Nice program  

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

I have been searching for a "Stay On Top" utility program and now I finally found it. This is a great program. I have one problem with the ease of use of it, once you hide a program, you have to go through a few nested choices to make it reappear. It should be simpler. Thanks to the developer for a nice FREE program.

  Too complicated  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 1
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I already have two note savers, GSNotes C-Organizer Por, but I like to try new things, especially if they are FREE. I found this program difficult to work with. The page shows a third of it only and if you want to see more of it, you click "CTL+Click" (click being the button you see on the program). I tried it and nothing happened. I tried using the shopping list and it hid my list which were only three items, I had to scroll down to look for my second and third entries. I found other problems, minor ones, which made me disinterested in a program which either doesn't deliver or is hard to get to work. This one did both.

  Its great!  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is a nice and easy to use program. I like the notes and the Explorer features best. I thought the calender would allow some appointment setup, but its just as the author says on his web page "a simple calender"....that it is. Thanks for the FREE program.

  Snapfiles says fair?  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 1
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 1
• Overall:

Thats too much of credit for this lame program. My computer has two people sharing two desktops and this program wont log off because of this.

  A must have!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Are you worried about which web sites have potential virus scans? Do you surf on the web reluctantly and afraid of "stepping" on a hacker web? If so, this FREE program is for you. It warns you in a subtle way using color codes and mouse over information about each web site. RED is BAD, Green is GOOD, etc. I love this handy and very necessary program!

  Nice touch  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

If you use Firefox, and you have several windows open at same time, this program is for you. Its easy to install and easy to configure. Shows you thumbnails of open web pages instead of you having to click each tab on Firefox. I'm glad I got this and thank the developer for this FREE program.

  Too cumbersome!  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 1
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 2
• Overall:

I tried this program with my Firefox 2.0 browser and had to download a tool bar to switch proxies. The configuration took forever on the Jap program and in the end, it still didnt work. Too much is involved in this "FREE" program to get it to work. Not sure what SnapFiles did that they claim its a "Very good" program, but for the average user, this is not something to consider. Plug and Play, it is NOT! It is way too complicated for what it is designed to do.

  It may be rated excellent, but...  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I was so eager to try this program and add it to my USB drive, but the program has a "requirement" of "Java". My computer has Java in several places, and yet, this program requires you to write a Batch file addressing the Java.exe so the program can locate it. I have written a few batch programs in my time, but I feel the days of DOS and Batch processing manually are over. These days, we do "PnP" or Plug and Play. If this program needs to be configured via batch processing, its not appealing to the average PnP user. I know I could make this work, but I dont need it bad enough to go through all this. I want to share FREEware with people I might help with their computer. This is not one I'd bother to install.

  Two things wrong with this...  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 2
• Ease of use: 3
• Value: 5
• Overall:

...First, I am working with 1Gig of RAM, enough to support this program, but OFTEN, when I try to open it after having downloaded a program, it seems to show in Task Manager that its "Running" but the window wont show. By clicking it again it wont come up either. Trying to "close" it from the task bar doesn't work either, you have to use the task manager. Secondly, when you want to create a zip file using the "shell extension" it doesn't allow for creating a new name. It offers an existing name based on files in the folder, but wont let you create one. Other than that, it works quite well and supports many compression types. I just feel that the failure of window to appear is a bug. It never happened to me when using WinZip program.

  Works for me  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Ok, so Snap's reviewer didn't think there were enough "formats" in this program. I think that the amount of formats, twenty in all, are sufficient for the average user. Also, I liked some of the extras, such as a lot of frames, balloons, overlays, text, slideshow, and some others. I think my problems were with two, the overlays were not resizeable, and the balloons (those showing someone thinking or speaking) were also non-resizeable. Otherwise, it was very quick in batch resizing, and renaming. Thanks to the developer for a nice FREE program for us leechers.

  Great program!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Been using this program since it was first offered as a "Freeware" and have been very happy with it. Thanks to the developer for making it FREE for us.

  Two things wrong with this...  

• Interface: 2
• Features: 2
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

...first, it wont save multiple icons, you have to save one at a time. That takes way too long. Secondly, I had it search my system files for icons and clicked on one of the choices it produced, and it turned out to be a system file which reacted adversely to my selecting it. I got something like 20 error messages as a result and the program shut down. I have deleted the program already.

  Free, but...  

• Interface: 2
• Features: 2
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 5
• Overall:

...not so easy to use. No way to clear viewer of icons viewed. You have to restart search to clear viewer.

  It does what its supposed to do  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Its working and my menu bar is on TOP...for a free 1k download which took a whole five seconds to install, its worth it. Get it, and dont forget to thank the developer for the FREE program.

  Nag, nag, nag...  

• Interface: 2
• Features: 3
• Ease of use: 2
• Value: 1
• Overall:

This guy who made this "Free" product nags you soon as you close the program. I have Zone Alarm which keeps track of programs connecting to a server, and it wouldnt let this program connect. Well...did it cause havoc!! Got lots of little windows with error messages because it wasn't able to connect to its mother ship. If its free and it nags, its not free!

  Waste of time  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 1
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 1
• Overall:

The author is more concerned that you purchase his Delux version instead of using the free one. His HELP is also full of heavy sells to buy the Delux. This program will ID tag songs, but wont save the tags. Whats the use? I want to tag my tracks and then save it to file....not copy and paste. Sorry, but no Delux or free version for me.....its deleted.

  Thank you to the developer...  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

...of this great program!!! Seems 49 people commented before me, and I just had to throw my hat in the pool and have my say. I wont repeat all the benefits of this fine program. You'll just have to download it and try it. I am SURE you wont regret it!! Lets not forget, this great work took time to create and unselfishly, the developer lets us use it. What a guy!! Thanks!!!

  What a great program!!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

It captures, allows you to crop, highlite, and add text before you save. Its easy to use and its FREE! Thanks to the developer for making such a program FREE for us.

  Practical and easy!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

After having paid for MusicMatch $20.00 to have the program not work unless I update and causing my computer to freeze up, I've decided to find a simple and effective music player. Spider can play whole files or single albums, and you can create your own library to recall favorites to be played again. Only advantage MusicMatch has on this program is it can tag song names and CD graphics. Otherwise, this program is great. Now Im off to find another program to help me tag and find graphics for my CD's. Im sure there are free ones out there that can do it. Thanks to the developer of Spider for making this FREE for us.

  What more can i say?  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Everyone who has commented seems to love this program. So do I! Its great, and easy to use. Oh...thank the developer for their kind FREE program!!!

  With this you don't need the weather channel  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is a nice little program thats visually easy to understand and gives you various ways to view weather, by day, week, hourly and has lots of other nice features. I highly recommend it! My thanks and compliments to the author for this nice FREE program.

  Waste of time  

• Interface: 2
• Features: 2
• Ease of use: 2
• Value: 4
• Overall:

This program gave me a "server error 404" four times when I tried to find CD covers, and two times when I tried DVD covers. I deleted it from my computer.

  Practical and simple  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

What a great program, it shows the picture as soon as you right mouse click. Installs in seconds, and works instantly. I highly recommend it to anyone doing graphic work or even the novice photographer who has a collection of photos but doesnt want to open a program (which eats up memory) to view thumbnails of the photos. Don't forget, its FREE, thank the developer for their gift and their time.

  Slows down my web surfing process  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 1
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 1
• Overall:

This program works as it says it does on my Firefox browser, but it also makes anything else I do virtually impossible. ANY download that I make, regardless of its size, causes me to be unable to view web pages as I am downloading. Whats the point of using all the possible download channels if it uses up your capability to surf? I prefer the old way better, letting Firfox download while I surf. Im in no particular hurry most of the time and prefer not to have something slow me down.

  Not bad  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Just downloaded this program and tried it out. It is not loaded with features, but what little it has to offer, is done well and is quite easy to use. If you make web pages or have a need for a personal picture of yourself on some profile like Yahoo, this is great for enhancing what the picture will look like. Dont forget to thank the authors for their FREE products, its through their kindness that we get these gifts.

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