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by sazhazman
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
2000/XP/Vista
My new favorite 
PicPick version 2.1.2
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I was a dedicated MWSnap user for years, but recently I found the need to open a separate image editor to perform additional functions. I downloaded PicPick about a month ago and never looked back. It has everything you could want in a screen capture program with an easy to understand user interface.
Review date: Sep 21, 2009
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Great Adobe replacement
BullZip PDF Printer version 6.0.0.865
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Bullzip does a fantastic job for everyday conversions from any format without the expense of Acrobat Professional. This is a "must have".
Review date: Sep 11, 2009
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Great for web developers
Lunascape version 5.1.4.5
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I'm impressed, but this browser is definitely not for the average user. Lunascape gives me all three rendering engines in one open browser. As a web developer, I need to view each site I'm working on in all browsers. Using Lunascape, there's much less switching involved, just set up each tab with a different engine and compare the results.
Review date: Aug 31, 2009
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Just what I needed
Free Zune Video Converter version 1.1
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Performs flawlessly, no loss in quality and it's very fast - a 4 minute video was converted from .mov to .wmv in about 60 seconds. I am very impressed.
Review date: Apr 22, 2009
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/Vista/7
Just `okay`
BatteryBar version 3.1 Beta
- Interface: 3
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 3
- Overall:
It gives more information than I would have expected, but I'm not really sure if it has any real usefulness. Does it really matter how fast my battery is draining? I can hover over the icon that Windows provides to determine how much time remains. It's not that it's a bad program, I just don't see a reason for it.
Review date: Mar 19, 2009
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Hard to set up, but worth it
Synergy version 1.3.1
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 3
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Every now and then I need to view something on a spare computer that's about 10 feet away. Rather than rolling back and forth throughout the day, this has saved me a tremendous amount of time and effort. I agree, the documentation is horrible, but after playing around with the settings for about 10 minutes (go to the website and read it carefully) it was all worth it. A fantastic piece of software that has proven very useful for the past several weeks.
Review date: Feb 17, 2009
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Amazing Photoshop replacement
The GIMP version 2.6.4
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I have been a dedicated PhotoShop user for years, until last month when PS started crashing upon saving, not fully loading every time, eating up all my resources and slowing my computer to a crawl. I heard a lot about the Gimp and decided to try it. I am truly amazed. This software can do everything for which I purchased PS. I'll stick with this instead of shelling out another $300 for the latest version PS.
Review date: Feb 17, 2009
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Amazing software
SyncBack version 3.2.19.0
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I have been using SyncBack for about 2 months now, I can't find anything I dislike about this freeware. As a web developer, it's imperative that I have a fresh backup and/or synchronization at the end of every day on my external drive, along with a synchronization to my laptop. This solution has worked flawlessly.
Review date: Feb 17, 2009
- Freeware
- 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Saves time
ReNamer version 5.30
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
I had 200+ files on a website that needed an extension change. What would have taken an hour or two by hand was accomplished in under 2 minutes (including the time needed to set up the filter). Very intuitive and easy to use program.
Review date: Sep 05, 2008
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Fantastic and free
XnView version 1.93.6
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This is a great piece of software that I have been using for years. Each upgrade adds more functionality for which I find a use. Highly recommended, and I can't believe it's still free!
Review date: May 03, 2008
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Not impressed
CodeLobster PHP Edition version 2.1
- Interface: 2
- Features: 2
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 2
- Overall:
Sorry, but I'm not impressed. It's little more than a text editor with a highlighter, preview function and a debugger.
Review date: Apr 29, 2008
- Freeware
- Win (All)
I use it daily
MWSnap version 3.0.0.74
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This great program is a must have for all Web Developers. Many options with an easy to understand interface.
Review date: Mar 31, 2008
- Free Trial ($36.95)
- 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Good until version 2.5
SmartFTP version 3.0.1011.16
- Interface: 4
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 1
- Value: 1
- Overall:
I used this often in conjunction with FileZilla - I couldn't pick one over the other until SmartFTP Version 2.5 arrived. Loading the program was hit or miss on all 3 of my XP machines (all of them less than 3 years old). Some days it would load, others it would hang after the nag screen. After playing these games for months I became so frustrated that I finally uninstalled it and started using FileZilla exclusively.
Review date: Mar 29, 2008
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Great tool
Color Cop version 5.4
- Interface: 5
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
As a web developer, I am always looking for a tool that will tell me exactly what color I need to match to an image and Color Cop is the perfect program for this job. It is not as full-featured as CPick, but gets the job done without the bells and whistles.
Review date: Jan 01, 2008
- Freeware
- Win (All)
Works...sometimes
ClipMagic version 3.2.3
- Interface: 3
- Features: 3
- Ease of use: 2
- Value: 2
- Overall:
I've been using ClipMagic for about a year. For the first few months, no problems. I'm not sure what changed, but for the past 4 - 5 months, it takes over 2 minutes to load and brings my Win XP machine with an AMD 3000 and 1gb Ram to a crawl until completely loaded. No change in behavior after a clean reinstall. I then tried it on my Laptop, same issue - over 2 minutes to load. I've tolerated it so far because it has a great feature set, but as another reviewer pointed out, it doesn't always pick up everything that was copied, and I noticed it also shows every PDF file that was opened as a clip (pdf logo only). Very strange behavior that has caused me to seek out an alternative.
Review date: Jan 01, 2008
- Freeware
- 2000/XP/Vista
The only ftp program you need
FileZilla version 2.2.9
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
Outstanding features, very intuitive. I use it daily and I have yet to find a bug in the past 2 years. What more could you ask for?
Review date: Dec 14, 2005
- Freeware
- Win (All)
If you run windows 2000, you need this
AutoRuns version 8.43
- Interface: 5
- Features: 5
- Ease of use: 5
- Value: 5
- Overall:
This is the only way I can view, stop and start services on my Win 2000 machine. Outstanding piece of software.
Review date: Dec 12, 2005
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