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Software Reviews

by infowarscom

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.

Dariks Boot and Nuke (DBAN)
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Got rid of that stubborn linux-linspire 5.0  qright

Dariks Boot and Nuke (DBAN) version 1.0.5
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

DBAN is a must have program...I was about to trash an 80gig Seagate EIDE hard drive because I could not remove Linspire 5.0...it was dug into that hard drive like a friggin tick! I typed "hard drive eraser" into Google, eventually found DBAN and that it can be place on a 3.5" floppy...once it placed on a floppy just type "autonuke" return....SWEET! I have found that Linux-Linspire 5.0 is designed to act more like a virus than a O/S, Linspire is the control freak of the linux world and I give it a grade of "F". DBAN is perfect, no more stupid DOS commands to format hard drives. Download it you'll love it. Now I can start testing all those linux distributions, if one wont remove... just format it with DBAN. ....big thanks to the author for making DBAN free!

    Review date: Aug 19, 2005

FastStone Image Viewer
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Eats all memory in 10 seconds....256meg.  qright

FastStone Image Viewer version 1.7
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

Resources meter bottoms out completely in 10 seconds....hope the author fixes this memory hog problem...then I will recommend this super-cool program to anyone....I'm running a 1ghz amd with 256 megabytes ram...Win98SE....this program is too much of a memory-pig for now to recommend....other than that...this program is top of the hill.

    Review date: Feb 27, 2005

Picasa
  • Freeware
  • WinXP/Vista/7

qleft  Functionality suffers.  qright

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

(1)Irfanview is better....but Cam2pc is better than both of those. (2)Weaknesses in Cam2PC???....it cant read my USB Videoman pencam...Cam2pc does good but not great image format conversion....that's why I am search for a Cam2pc replacement on snapfiles.com.....jpg and pdf are my favorite image formats.

    Review date: Feb 27, 2005

PSPad Editor
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Notetab light is better.  qright

PSPad Editor version 4.3.2.2042
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

I prefer Notetab Light over PSPad...why? Notetab Light can automatically takeover your .txt files by clicking Help in the upper task bar menu then scroll down the Help menu and select Restore MS Notepad. /Replace MS Notepad. PSPad does not seem to be able to replace Notepad, so I'm keeping Notetab Light instead for now. Notetab Light supports long files.. ..why didn't I just upgrade too Windows XP from Windows 98 Second Edition? Macrohard has a monopoly so I will switch to either Linux-Linspire Computers at walmart.com or Linux-Mandrake 10.1+.

    Review date: Feb 09, 2005

avast! Home Edition
  • Freeware
  • Win98/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

qleft  Cannot be completely turned off.  qright

avast! Home Edition version 4.5.549
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Terrific program from a consumers eye view... ..my only gripe is that it cannot be totally turned off....it must reside in the system tray.....I'd still recommend it to anyone.

    Review date: Dec 12, 2004

cam2pc - Freeware
  • Freeware
  • Win98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

qleft  Very useable.......only gripe.....  qright

cam2pc - Freeware version 4.4.4
  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 4
  • Overall: 4

Minor gripe: It will not harvest/collect my photos from my Aiptek-Videoman-usb-pencam.... ...when the author fixes this glitch. ..then I'll give it 5/5.

    Review date: Oct 11, 2004

ZipGenius
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  Equal to winzip and free...i kid you not!  qright

ZipGenius version 5.5.1.468
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Use version 5.5 of ZipGenius ....You'll love it...it has never messed up my pc yet. Zip files download faster because they're compressed...this is faster for dailup connections...try to download .zip files every chance you get... ...Zipgenius 5.5 rules : )

    Review date: Sep 23, 2004

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

qleft  Folks.....i am extremely picky.....  qright

Mozilla Firefox version 0.9.3
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

I am extremely extremely picky about what programs install on my pc...I have been racking my brain since 1995...to find a browser that beats IE6....folks many web-surfers are realizing that Mozilla Firefox 9 is a serious competitor to IE6...I dispize IE6...it's plagued with popups bigtime....Firefox 9 does not have that problem....open-source is a much better programing-coding method since tons of coders are working on the code around the world at the same time...this means open-source programs get to market much faster..... translated...many coders make light work... ...power to the people. Firefox rules!

    Review date: Sep 05, 2004

Agent Ransack
  • Freeware
  • WinWin (All)

qleft  A must have program.  qright

Agent Ransack version 1.7.3
  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

If you need to search for files on your hard drive..and don't like what came with Windows 98 SE...you will be delighted with this find-freeware...highly recomended.

    Review date: Jul 31, 2004

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