Nicholas

User Reviews by Nicholas

The reviews and opinions below are posted by SnapFiles visitors. They do not necessarily reflect our opinion, and they are solely based upon the experience of individual users.

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Any Video Recorder

Very useful

Long did I look for a program to make instant shots of live videos from a webcam. Fortunately this Any Video Recorder showed up. And it does exactly what I want it to do: recording videoshots for sharing in social media. Quick and easy. Excellent free software. Thanks!

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Microsoft Security Essentials

Excellent free product

I could not use the paid version of Avast because the built-in firewall conflicted with my PrivateFirewall V.7 which is so good that I never want to uninstall it. So I looked for an alternative and found MS Essentials. It is a good and reliable product. I use it with pleasure.

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Internet Explorer 10 (Win7)

Good but...

After 10 subsequent version IE has matured. Yes, all the features are there. Even those which are inspired by other browsers. IE 10 is good but... so... very... slow...

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Cryptnos

Works well

A fine and handy method to create and retrieve unique (very) long passwords with a few keystrokes and mouse clicks. Works well as long as you remember your own passphrase. However, you have to use a password manager like Password Vault as well if you have password protected web apps on other platforms like Android, Apple or Linux. On these platforms Cryptnos will not run so you have to retrieve your user ID's and passwords from a printed list.

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ToolWiz FlipBook

Could be a lot better

A very nice program that lets you create your own ebooks. However, when working with this Flipbook Builder one gets the strong impression that this product is still under construction. I miss a help file for instance and grouping short stories in chapters seems to be possible but remains a complete mystery. Further: the output file is exe which means that you will not be able to distribute your ebooks as attachments in the email. I do like Toolwiz Flipbook Builder but I await new and better releases with which I can produce representative ebooks.

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Privatefirewall

A real firewall at last

I'm using Private Firewall for several weeks now and I can say that I am impressed. The program is always there being alert and doing its job without bothering me with adds and nag screens and it also never begs for donations. At first it seems a bit overwhelming but after a while you can see the benefits of all the features. One remark: the GUI is sometimes puzzling and could be more helpful. Apart from that: Recommended.

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Bolide Slideshow Creator

Very fine program

After trying some other so-called slideshow creators I finally found this Russian program which does everything I want and need: inserting and deleting pictures, lots of nice graphical effects in-between and inserting music flawlessly. It is obvious that this program was developed with the end user in mind. And this is a compliment.

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ffDiaporama

Buggy

FfDiaporama looks promising but turns out to be rather buggy. For instance, it is not possible to insert pictures or videos. After many hours of editing, trying and compiling the hi-res results (avi, mp4) are of no use. The presentations often show blanks in stead of pictures after videoclips.

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Toolwiz Care

Very impressive

I am very reluctant to let strange programs and utilities enter my system. Let alone that I allow them make changes. After careful trying and executing in a sandbox, Toolwiz Care managed to win my complete confidence. This bundle of utils is not only trustworthy it's also versatile, complete en useful and it comes to you in a very friendly and functional user interface. It looks like I'll need nothing else to manage my system. Best of all: it's free.

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Tonido

Works fine

Tonido works fine. It's a secure bridge between my Win7 pc and my Android Asus Transformer. Amazing that I had program (on pc) and app (on Asus) up and running (co-operating) in no more than 2 minutes. Recommended!

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Shotty

Very nice and useful

There are plenty of screen capture utilities around. I've used many of them. Most of them are freeware and very good. So is this one: Shotty. It does its job very well and it offers some extra nice features. I welcome the possibility to blurr parts of my screen dumps. However, I miss one important feature: a color picker. For that purpose I've to 'step down' to Picpick. Recommended nevertheless!

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Quicksys RegDefrag

Trustworthy

It was not without hesitation that I let Quicksys RegDefrag touch my registry. But it comes from Snapfiles, I thought, so it must be trustworthy. And trustworthy it turned out to be. Indeed: RegDefrag does its job very well and indeed: it speeds up my Win 7 system. Recommended!

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Nitro PDF Reader

Very neat PDF reader

Highly recommended. There are more PDF readers around than Acroread. Nitro PDF Reader seems to be a newcomer and it makes a very good impression: fast, good looking, functional and reliable. It even lets you extract texts and images from PDF files. I did not hesitate long to make Nitro my favorite.

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DocFetcher

Needs perfection

Docfetch does not always do where it stands for. E.g. the doc file BriefAanmeldenSchotman.doc could not be located with the search argument `Schotman`.

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Online Armor Free

Good, but...

A very good firewall indeed, but... I was not amused after installing Online Armor Free. After the installation I noticed a dramatic increase in startup time. More than 50 percent which was unacceptable. The inconvenience was over after UNinstall.

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SyncBreeze

Efficient and very fast

Snapfiles gives this app two to three stars only. That's not enough. I give it five stars. I use SyncBreeze on a daily basis to securely save my hot directories to my external hard drive. It keeps my system healthy and it never misses a bit.

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My Lockbox Free

More than useful

More than useful. Not only does MyLockbox password protect folders and files against spying eyes, it also makes them invisible (non-existent). From now on all my private files are really for my eyes only.

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PasteCopy.NET

Buggy and stubborn

The underlying philosophy of PasteCopy.NET may be good but the program does not meet its promises. It stubbornly fails to popup the list of earlier copies. A restart of the program is necessary to retrieve them. The consistency of the pulldown menus is also a bit mysterious. I recommend a thorough rethink and remake.

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Apple Safari

Pretty fast browser

Safari is OK. It lacks the bells and whistles of other (overcrowded) browsers. It is fast and straightforward and it looks and feels like a nice tools for daily browsing.

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Quick Restore Maker

Excellent!

Why does the Snapfiles announcement read 'Fair' for this little gem? It should read 'Excellent' because that's what it is. The only hassle is the making of a shortcut.

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FBackup

Backup plus plus

A complete, easy to use, reliable and versatile backup application at last. I was impressed by FBackup after trying (and uninstalling) so many others. FBackup does all the things I want to be done, so it's here to stay. Recommended!

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Benubird PDF

Impressive

An impressive and very useful program. Benobird PDF easily manages my multitude of doc and pdf files which are scattered all over my (external) hard disks. Benobird indexes all these files and folders in a jiffy. It organizes all and retrieves specific files (nearly) with the speed of light. Very versatile. I like it.

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AbiWord

Conflicting with OpenOffice

I tried almost every version of Abiword, in Windows as well as in Linux. And always there was that nasty incompatibility with OpenOffice. Abi cannot handle docs from OO with pictures, tables, etc. Abi may be nice for simple docs but I'll stick to OO.

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PeaZip

Very neat program

I tried almost every zip/unzip utility but this one stole my heart. PeaZip offers all the functionality you need to pack/unpack files and folders. Besides that there much more. PeaZip does its work fast, secure and reliable. Also important: it's free. Highly recommended.

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Auslogics Registry Cleaner

What's the use?

This Registry cleaner found and corrected more than 700 'problems' in my registry. Good feeling? Not quite. After the scan, [...] registry cleaner found another 400 problems.

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File Shredder

Small, simple, useful

Use this freeware little gem to really get rid of sensitive and/or private files. It's straightforward, functional and very easy to use. Total learning time: 3 seconds.

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Androsa FileProtector

Really amazing

Everybody has files and/or folders for his eyes only. Hide and encrypt are mandatory. There are little programs that are useful in this respect but Androsa FileProtector is one of them. The only one if you ask me. It encrypts and decrypts password-protected files and folders with astonishing speed, using no less than a 256 bit AES algorithm. It even compiles self-extracting zip of exe files. Best of all: it's free. A very fine program!

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Q-Dir

Versatile and looking good

After PowerDesk, FreeCommander and many other file managers I like Q-dir best. It is versatile and user friendly. And it is looking good. Fun to work with. A great help to fight chaos in an ever growing and complex file system. Recommended!

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Mz Ultimate Tweaker for XP

Not perfect

I uninstalled Mz Ultimate Tweaker after the program failed to backup the registry for the second time. Results: system hangs.

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Wise Disk Cleaner Free

Fast, reliable

Very useful. Helps you to keep your logical drives clean and... fast. Recommended.

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DriveImage XML (Private Edition)

Very reliable

I installed and used it to backup (clone) my valuable C-drive to DVD RW. A big job well done! The program is very robust, transparent, reliable and efficient. It clones entire logical drives sector by sector. Then it lets you restore not only the entire drive but separate directories or files as well. Highly recommended.

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UltraExplorer

Nice and powerful

One of the very best file managers I've ever met. Packed with functionality, very fast and very accurate. Due to the abundance of functions it takes some time and practice to master it. Very powerful is the Column-display mode: The whole complicated system within reach. I use UltraExplorer with pleasure and I recommend it as one of the best.

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FolderViewer

Beats them all

After using several file commanders and managers for quite a while like Freecommander, Filecommander, Power Desk, 2xExplorer etc. I finally found the one and only. FolderViewer gives me total command over the Windows filesystem but also over XP's system utils and programs. There is even a built-in web browser. This Dutch program is functional, versatile, neat, reliable and: free. Highly recommended.

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AVS Audio CD Creator

Excellent indeed

This is a no-nonsense, to the point converter that does what it stands for. In my case: without problems burn favourite podcasts to CD R(W). Neat and quickly. And free! Recommended!

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Eusing Free Registry Cleaner

Very useful utility

I do not like registries. They are ugly, huge, complicated and to be honest: they scare the hell out of me. No program may touch my registry but after reading the user reviews here I decided to take the risk of cleaning. After the first scan Eusing Cleaner reported more than 1.000 errors! Then I jumped into the deep and ordered to fix them all. And that is just what it did. A reboot convinced me that Eusing FRC had done a wonderful job. This program is free, neat and fast. And more important: safe and trustworthy. Do not be afraid: Use it!

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StartRight

Works... but...

Yes, it works but... StartRight does not work as promised. It slows down my startup sequence considerably. I clocked it: 2 minutes and 19 seconds with StartRight and 1 minute and 37 seconds without it. If you have to switch frequently between Windows and Linux StartRight is an annoyance.

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SimpleOCR

Does a wonderful job

I had to convert some paper text from an old booklet to text for a website and tried some OCR shareware programs in vain. I was about to give up but just in time I decided to give the freeware prog SimpleOCR one try. That was enough. I had my text file in a few minutes. And what's more the program assisted me spell checking in the Dutch language. Very satisfying! Recommended.

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Opera

Beats all other browsers

I installed them all: Avant, Firefox, Netscape, IE, E2, etc. Now, after I installed and enjoyed Opera 9.02, I UNinstalled them all and became an Opera addict. What a browser! Fast. Complete. And full of fun! Why hesitate? Download, install and be happy.

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Saintly Folder Zipper

Simple and very fast

I tried them all and I killed or uninstalled them all. But finally I found in this Saintly Folder Zipper what I have been looking for all that time: a simple, nononense, reliable, good looking, zipping backup utility to DVD and CD RWs. But best of all Saintly is fast. Very fast. My website of more than 450 MB is zipped and stored in less than 4 minutes where others let me wait until I die. Best choice!

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The software developer responded to this review on May 03, 2006: Thanks for your feedback :) Please feel free to try out MyZippa, which is an advanced version of SFZ, offering all the same features and a lot more.

Easy Thumbnails

Perfect program

I had a problem. I needed 25 neat thumbnails for my website right away. I downloaded Easy Thumbnails, installed it and after two or three mouse clicks I had my 25 thumbnails. Problem solved. In less than 2 minutes. Perfect program, see for yourself!

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SpywareBlaster

Have my doubts

SpywareBlaster is on my system for a long time now, doing nothing but consuming memory. Does it work? I wonder. Is it effective? I have my doubts. After an outbreak of new nasty spyware I expect it will download an updated reference file immediately. It does not. Day after day it keeps telling me that I have the latest update. Not very reassuring in an ugly world that changes continuously.

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XP Syspad

All-in-one

This utility is great because it comprises everything! I use it every day and with pleasure. ALL WinXP functions, services and info just one or two clicks away. Disk frag? Control Panel? Admin? Sys? .Net? Programs? You name it, it's right there under one of the eight popup menus. XP Syspad deserves it to be always on top. It requires 6 MB of memory but deserves it.

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Thunderbird

Disappointing

I found Thunderbird mail client rather unstable. It confronts me with bug reports. Several times it let me down after composing new messages. And another thing: 13 MB is a lot of expensive mem and waiting 12 secs to show up is a lot of time. Calypso on the other hand asks no more than 2 MB and shows up in less than 4 secs. Sorry: Thumb down.

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KeePass (Classic Edition)

Private fort knox

Yes! This is the one! After trying a few other (awkward) password keepers I discovered KeePass and found out quickly that this program is useful, reliable, user friendly and very safe. It reveals passwords and other secrets only for a very short time on the clipboard, just long enough to paste it into a waiting password field. From now on I never have to click buttons with texts like: Forget Password? Very valuable and free!

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Pablo Commander

Small, neat and beautiful

I used all available file commanders: Norton, ExplorerXP, FreeCommander, A43 and PowerDesk included but Pablo quickly became my daily factotum. It is small, simple, intuitive, neat, fast, reliable and straightforward. It lacks useless bells and whistles. It can be mastered in less than five minutes. No install, so take it or kill it. I will bet you leave it. One small drawback: Pablo always comes up full screen. It cannot remember its last windows size but one can live with that.

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Newzie

So nice but complicated

A very good looking RSS atom news reader with lots of nice colorful extras. I like the ticker tape and the built-in web browser. Newzie performs automatic updates on subscribed RSS feeds during startup. I wonder if this version is still Beta. No real bugs but lots of imperfections. The overall file structure is rather complicated. It will take many users lots of time to fully understand the big idea behind this program. Nice but not too user friendly.

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Fast Defrag Standard

Crashed my system

In a heavy used system with only 512 MB of memory Fast Defrag tries very (maybe too) hard to balance between memory and cache. It frees lots of mem on its fly indeed, but it panicked and lost its balance completely when a very large file was zipped for backup. It crashed my system. I had to look for a reset button to reclaim the system, repair the damage and take Fast Defrag off-line for ever.

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Vista NetMail

Nice but too small

Netmail has all the features and benefits a good email client should have, except one. This version lets you install only one account. Only one! For this reason it is limited to the small user. Of the many email clients I used up to now only Calypso survived.

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avast! Free Antivirus

Safe feeling

This is the very best virus finder and protector I have ever used. It performs far better than all others, McAfee and Norton included. Email protection is no less than excellent. However, the game-like user interface could be better. After installation Avast discovered and eliminated three trojans which 'the others' never noticed. I think I experience a good feeling: safety.

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EssentialPIM Free

Nice, easy, useful and... free

EssentialPIM is an excellent stand alone alternative to the calendar of MS Outlook. All useful calendar functions are available, Address book, ToDo, Alarms, Contacts and editor included. I like the nice looking user interface. A pleasure to work with. On a daily basis, of course.

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