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Software Reviews

by ex-programmer

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.

CyberSky
  • Free Trial ($32.95)
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

qleft  Best of all astronomy programs  qright

CyberSky version 4.0.4
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Been using this program for 10 years on 98SE and XP after trying most of the high dollar programs. This program has every conceivable astronomy math functions you would ever want. Also the best for accuracy of all details and math functions. Beautiful screen display of the sky with all celestial bodies. I guarantee you won't uninstall it after trying it.

    Review date: May 07, 2008

ThreatFire
  • Freeware
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  No good for dial-up  qright

ThreatFire version 3.0.14
  • Interface: 1
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 2

If you are on dial-up forget it. It constantly autodials and connects when you don't want it to. No way to disable it when not connected. Will dial up but won't disconnect when its done. However it's a very good program if on DSL or cable.

    Review date: Feb 27, 2008

Ashampoo Burning Studio
  • Free Trial ($49.99)
  • Win2000/XP/Vista

qleft  A great burner  qright

Ashampoo Burning Studio version 5.51
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Suports the UDF format automatically for over 2 GB files. This is a very important feature not found in a lot of burner software. Easy to use very user friendly interface. You won't go wrong on this one and it is well worth the purchase price.

    Review date: Nov 20, 2005

Photo DVD Maker
  • Free Trial ($59.95)
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

qleft  The best of all, this one works.  qright

Photo DVD Maker version 6.10
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Been looking for program to make Photo Slide Show on a DVD, well this is the only program out of approx. 6 that I have tried, that actually made a Slide Show. Have made several since the first one with no problems. The only complaint, I have it's a little on the slow side, but then again I'm using a old 1998 Asus mother board with a Pentium II 350 MHz, which has it's work cut out for it trying to work with video. Very good program.

    Review date: Nov 17, 2005

Photo2VCD Studio
  • Free Trial ($39.95)
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  When you go to burn cd you get fatal error  qright

Photo2VCD Studio version 4.8.6
  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 1
  • Overall: 2

Everyhing seemed to work OK on my trial version until time to burn CD and got Fatal Error and program was not responding anymore. Glad I didn't pay the $29.99 to register it. I spent 2 hours trying to make a CD and got the Error every time. I would not recommend this program to anyone until the author fixes it. If it would just burn a CD it would be a good program. I only tried to use 32 photos for the slideshow. Useless as it is now. Running Pentium with XP. BTW I tried it on both my SONY CD drive and my SONY DVD/CD drive and same thing on both.

    Review date: Nov 05, 2005

602PC SUITE
  • Free Trial ($39.95)
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  602 suite a "dud"  qright

602PC SUITE version 4.1
  • Interface: 1
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 1
  • Overall: 1

I tried this software to see how useful it was for substituting for MS Office. Wow what a dud when you can get Open Office for free. But, what really ticked me off was it infiltrated my whole C: drive to the point that when I uninstalled it, it would still show up all over the Registry and Windows XP OP System. After spending many hours fooling around with the Registry and the OP system I finally got rid of it. It's a bad dream that is worse than some spyware and Trojans. I only wish you lot's of luck if you try it. Ex-Programmer

    Review date: Sep 22, 2005

Ace Utilities
  • Free Trial ($29.00)
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP

qleft  Exprogrammer  qright

Ace Utilities version 2.42
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Before downloading several programs to test I used Acronis True Image to make a Image of my C: drive (I recommend highly before testing out any program that fools with the Registry). I then ran my ... and found 16 errors in the registry, then ran ... and found 3 errors, then ran Ace Utilities and found 412 errors. I thought about this long and hard and then deleted all the errors. All my programs worked great afterwards with no problems, my computer was faster on load and operating than ever before. I takes 20 minutes to scan the registry with ..., ACE Utilities did the scan in less than a minute. I registered ACE Utilities right away and have no problems with it, and it's other features are better than programs I have used in the past. I highly recommend this for any one. It's user friendly and fastest of them all.

    Review date: May 18, 2005

CM DiskCleaner
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Great registry cleaner  qright

CM DiskCleaner version 1.8.0.0
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

If you want to clean up the registry this one will do it without crashing your computer. Also allows you to clean up remains of uninstalled applications. Cleans up un-needed temp files, zero byte files, etc. I have been using it for over a year without any problem. Tried several other registry programs that claim to clean up the registry and several crashed my computer. Glad I had a Image of my C drive before using these other programs. If you want an absolute clean computer, use the following: CMDiskCleaner, PestPatrol, Symantec Drive Image 7, Norton Anti Virus, ZoneAlarm, MailWasher and you will never get a Trojan, Virus, Pop Up, Spam, or anything. I do not recommend SpyBot or Adware.

    Review date: Oct 27, 2004

MailWasher Free
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Only spam program that auto dials server.  qright

MailWasher Free version 2.0.40
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

I can only get access on a dial up line and this program will auto dial up my server if not connected, all others tested you have to be on line to connect. Also great for dial up as you can delete the spam at the server without waiting forever for it to download and be processed by other spam programs. If you have more than one account use MailWasher Pro it works great also. Those of us on rusty wire lines will be quite pleased with this program.

    Review date: Oct 26, 2004

Auto Movie Creator

Auto Movie Creator

Create movies using video clips, photo images, and music files.

Demo Builder

Demo Builder

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

RoboTask

RoboTask

A powerful, yet easy-to-use tool to automate any series of tasks you can do on your computer.