gimpguy

User Reviews by gimpguy

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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LoopJam

It's ok

Well, after spending some time using this, It's not a horrible app by any means but trying to get out of that "default sound" it has sort of irritated me. I tweaked and tweaked and It's rather difficult to get what you want out of it. I've found others that are free and far easier to get a good loop with better and easier sound and interface options. With some work I think this could be a great software but right now "in my opinion" it's a hair puller more than a fun to use app.

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XnRetro

Great look to photos

This definitely has enough options for that retro look, noise, frames, etc... but I liked the lighting effects as well. What really brings it together is learning to tweak each setting to get the most out of it but it's definitely a great little app for giving photos the "retro" look.

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XnSketch

Sketchy

Very good sketch ability and plenty of options. It handles outlining really well which is a plus with any sketch software. I think I gave it a 5 for it's precision more so than the effects themselves.

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RKill

A great utility

I have been using this for what seems over 3 years, I could be wrong as I feel it's been longer than that. Either way, it's been invaluable in some situations where you get a hijack and it won't let you do anything, this will do a great job and ending the offending processes. It does NOT remove infections and it may stop good processes it can't identify so you have to be able to determine on your own what is bad or isn't. A great software to keep around when removing the baddies.

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BrowsingHistoryView

Decent

It will definitely find your history in most common browsers, check which ones you want or don't. Obviously if you don't have the browser you won't want to check it. Anyway, it works fine, no issues, find a history item at specific time or day. I find easy enough to simply look through my history the old fashioned way but this can be far more specific and faster not to mention I love the fact you can save it as html with click able links. So if I feel the need to clear the history but may have some important instances in there, I just back it up. Great job.

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DNS Jumper

Easy

Very easy to handle dns and gives a great list, simple and to the point interface, great little app to have.

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Fotor

Great free quick editor

First of all, lol, yep I was beaten to first rate on this one. I did actually find this really nice for quick but thorough enough photo editing if you need quick adjusts with the ability to add effects and frames. I agree that it doesn't have as many features as some, the ones many need are there and perhaps more. The frames are great for that portrait look and the program's interface is smooth and easy to use so anyone can get the hand of it fast. I myself do like this and will keep it installed, it really is a great editor and the filters are not second rate, they do a decent job. Great work and um... glad I tried it JamJar, lol.

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Calme

Very nice

You get your templates, some have different editable regions as for images, etc... It's easy to use, gives you a calendar without hassle. The only thing that prevented me giving this a 5 was that it should allow formatting within the day boxes. You can't add specific text or anything within the boxes.

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MP3jam

Awesome

While others gave me only 50 of what I would look for, this very "in your face" easy to use app will find what you are looking for. Easy download, easy listening, music to my ears. A 5 star all the way.

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Synei System Utilities

Solid but nothing new

It's a light program, runs fine but the issue with it is that it's the same as any typical all in one and even less than that. I didn't find the interface very intuitive but it's not horrible either. There are far better out there and this feels sort of thrown together. Lacking the registry cleaner is a plus of course and the inclusion of hard disk repair and back up is the only reason I gave it a 4 star. If not, a definite 3. Oh and no install needed, another plus. It has room to grow or improve and could easily get a 5 with some changes.

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DiskBoss

Great utility

No way to explain everything you can do in this review but yes, it's a great utility analyzing disk space usage. You can also sync your files, clean some junk files, categorize and more. It's very fast, easy to browse directories, shows hierarchy of largest files or folders as you go. Works great, free, 5.

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Keyboard LEDs

Saver

Definitely great for those without the num lock lights. I have told a few people about this whose laptops have no indicators and they love it. I actually began using it as well because while my keyboard had the indicator lights, the angle I sit at makes it invisible to view so this actually sits on my desktop as well. Easy to configure, easy to read and use. 5.

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Eudora OSE

Not bad

At first set up, it didn't quite work, I set up my email account and it wouldn't retrieve messages, said there was an error. Final solution was to delete the account and start over which finally worked. It took a while to get messages which is alright since I have a lot of them but eventually did retrieve all of them. The interface could use some updating since the mail icons look a bit retro, no big deal though and not part of how I rate this. Even though I had it set to sort by date, newest first, it still always goes to bottom of page to oldest, I also cannot copy any text or links from the email body. It has a lot of options, very easy to set up an account and manage them, and seems to respond fairly quick. It just didn't stand out amongst other email handlers though. I also didn't like that when I maximize the window, my inbox side window disappears. When I uninstalled it said it was running and had to be stopped, well, ok I know to hit the task manager and quit the process but how many out there that won't and leave them scratching their heads on how to uninstall it? It should have an option to stop the process from the uninstall itself. All in all, a great email handler but needs a lot of improving. With changes made, this could be one of the easiest and best of it's kind.

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7Burn

Works well

The interface isn't very pretty and it seems a bit slower managing. It wouldn't recognize some drives in my computers right off but did after a try or two. Really it's a decent portable burner but could use some work. Worth carrying around but considering most things are going to USB anyway, not sure I would use this all too often.

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HiFiTo

Simple and works

Very simple to use, install, set your hot key, view hidden files and or system files. I never really thought to use something like this but I am a person who constantly toggles so this is perfect. Definitely a 5.

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IconCool FantaPhoto

Not very well put together

Prior, no code I used would work, would not say free at all, thought it wasn't going to either but it's working and the code finally went through. Now, this program isn't very well put together, I found the interface sloppy at best. Has some very basic options which I didn't find all too exciting whatsoever. That said it's a good thing it's free because no way would I have ever paid for it. To be honest, I won't use it now. It's free and maybe ok for someone to use, for me, wasn't worth all the trouble to finally get it working.

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Video To Video Converter

Top notch

Especially for a portable app, this is top notch. It converts to near anything you need and while I agree, the interface isn't beautiful, it works extremely well. I won't say it's the fastest converter but it does an excellent job. I've tested it in near every format and they all work. Great job on this, a 5 star and now on my portable.

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Free Viewer

What can I say?

This has opened many files I've thrown at it including flash pro files, Word, Excel, text, pics,PDF, music, video.... Within reason, there isn't much this WON'T open. Here is something to keep around for any occasion and now the only challenge, looking around for a portable version. Excellent software!

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STP MP3 player

Old but useful

It's a real shame there haven't been any updates I've seen on this player, it's actually far more in-depth than what you would believe yet very simple at the same time. It can simply stay hidden in the system tray or a slim bar on the desktop, can be controlled by mouse clicks, very nice. Scan your drives and folders, add playlists, all the extras. In truth the interface could use a lot of updating, but it still works. I can't say anything really bad about this.

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Wega2

Basic looking but decent

This isn't a bad photo viewer with exif data view, settings for slower systems, and many other options. The downside is that I don't think it's been updated in a long time, either that or it doesn't like to run too well on Windows 7 x64 which explains the interface. It's a bit sluggish even on fast settings. My PC is near top end on everything so that's not the issue. If it was worked on it would definitely be a viewer I would use over others but again, it's just out of date I think.

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MusicZen

Unknown

Well, ok, this does do a sort and organize fairly quickly no doubt and runs smoothly. It has a very easy to use and understand couple of clicks to use interface and it's free. The issue I have is that 1827 of my music files were put in the Unknown folder. Now, every player I use recognizes the tags just fine on most of these songs, it seems MusicZen is a bit.. picky? Not in depth enough to read many tags maybe? I truly think that is a MusicZen issue, not my id tags since again, they are fully read by any player and other software. That said, if that gets worked out, this could be one of the fastest and best made music sorters. Until then, just another 3.

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Configuration Mania

It works

While I did get tired of accessing the settings through about:config, this program has more than enough of everything for me and much easier to access and use. Definitely worth a 5 in my book.

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MiTeC DirList

It's free

First off, yeah it's free and has an easy to use and learn gui. That's about it. I can do more with a 5 min bat file and get better results. There are other free dir listers that include links, sub folders, files, and work faster. So again, it's free, it's not horrible but more of a glorified bat file in my opinion.

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MP3 Diags

In depth

It's definitely an in depth troubleshooter for your music files, letting you know of issues associated with your .mp3 files. It's not a click and fix software. It does have abbreviations in the columns, letting you know what they mean in each column and if you see the dot, well, you have an issue in that category. It also has a copy method in case you fix and screw something up, you can always replace with your backup files. Definitely too complex to explain it here but I do warn, if you are a basic user and expect magic, you will get none. Not until you do some reading first, understand what this does, go from there. Snapfiles already states this right in the description so don't be surprised if you didn't read it. Aside from that it's the best .mp3 analyzer I've used and gives you a great heads up on issues with your files and in fact did fix some of mine quite nicely. 5 star all the way!

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Cyotek WebCopy

It copies

I found that it works well on many web sites but there are many it doesn't, Snapfiles for one and others. I did try to tweak it for recognition of but it still failed and after extensive searching and reading, there are many sites it just won't copy. Of course some sites may take a long time depending on the site you try to copy so that's not really Cyotek's fault, it's just too much data to copy. It seems on most sites with all the ads and links these days, it's just too much to copy a web site, I would rather print it off as PDF or just screenshot it. If you want to analyze a page, seeing how it's put together, images, code, etc... you can open the pages up in Dreamweaver or other program and it's all laid out. There are other methods, I know but thought I'd throw that in there. All in all, I really don't want to go through all the trouble using this program to copy a web site unless it's a very basic one. I have other web site copiers that work faster and will copy near any site I throw at it without the need to tweak until my fingers are wore out. It's a decent software for free but there are better.

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Internet Explorer 10 (Win7)

Alright

It's a bit better interface wise but slow? Yes. Since I've installed it has far more trouble getting out of the gate than it's predecessors. It's still IE and while I was truly hoping for some spectacular change, it didn't happen. Sure it has better css support, threading, visuals, along with other improvements and benched better than 9 in every way but as many have said, the true bench is how well it works for users and I was not impressed with it's performance, it seems to lag, takes a while longer to get to home page, almost seems undecided what to do when browsing. Given the fact there will probably be a patch or two in not too long and no one can foresee what will happen on everyone's system so these issues may be addressed. My two other browsers are still far faster in both starting up to home page and browsing. I will say that IE 10 handles flash a bit better once there but again, not enough to make me happy to use it yet.

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Feedreader

The one to use

Feedreader is not extremely flashy (thankfully)but has more than enough options to satisfy. Basically, in my opinion, it's perfect. Other readers have acquired a taste for spyware, adware, simply not supported or bloated, Feedreader has none of this. It was more than easy to import my old OPML feed list. Feedreader does have pop up notifications of new feeds which may be nice for some, I don't like that so it was as easy as unchecking the box in options, no more pop up notification. Adding a new feed is easy, the interface is great, basic options for layout, easy to read and get around. This is what I've been looking for and up until this point, I had given up on readers for the reasons mentioned above, I am happy to have my rss feeds back and happy to use Feedreader for it.

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Photivo

Part time

Prior my review wasn't so high since none of the filters or settings worked. I just now downloaded this again and when I first opened it and began to edit a photo, nothing worked. Everything remained grayed out, settings, everything just as before. I did a restart of the pc "whole new system I'm on" and I managed to get some of it working, but again, no settings or processing, etc... finally I closed it, reopened another image, finally it was all working. There is no corruption on my system, no spyware, etc... and this is the ONLY program that does this. I have over 15 image editors and all work flawlessly. It gets quite buggy at times and skips during use. (Most issues I am going to contact author over and hope they can be fixed) Going from that, when it does work, the filters it uses are simply excellent and I would use this over Photoshop for image enhancing any day. I couldn't believe how well and in depth this software worked on photos, especially poor quality photos. Yes this is for advanced users but I feel anyone could "with some learning" get to know this and use it to do some great photo work. If not, they ware missing out horribly. I wish I could post some of the photos I enhanced here just to show people what this is capable of. Happy to be able to use it finally.

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Fast Duplicate File Finder

Was ok

While it is fast, it wasn't very thorough, finding mainly the same extension names. Aside from this, trying to use any other function to change the finds result in a "Free version" window that prompts you to buy the full version and only 10 names listed if using other settings. So far I am not impressed by this software and have at least 5 other full freebies that do a wonderful job and quite literally put this to shame in regards to the price and function. It's free but be very cautious as default will definitely find extension types but you could easily end up deleting things you didn't want to. I suggest moving duplicates to a folder and not deleting because 70 percent of what it found on my system were not true duplicates. It's free, it's fast but for serious duplicate removal, use something else.

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Easy CSS Menu Free Edition

Great freeware

While I usually create my own buttons, well, I still am in a way using this but it saves so much time and has flexible menu buttons and sub buttons, etc... There are limited buttons you can use, some you have to purchase but there should be plenty for most web page tasks. I know I'll be using it from here on unless a specific button type needs to be made but until then, great program!

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MiTeC Weather Agent

Just ok

Yes, this displays the 5 day forecast. As stated, you can't minimize to tray, all you can do is roll up the other 4 days into the main bar, which still leaves the main bar on your desktop. Has very basic options like Celsius or Fahrenheit but nothing for looks, usage, things of that nature. Oh well, you can have it remain on top always but that's it. It's free, it works, but I can't say anything about this that would make me use it currently.

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Toolwiz Pretty Photo

New review

I gave this a 5 prior, and still do. I felt I didn't quite emphasize just how good this freebie was and it's actual capabilities last time so I mean to correct this. First of all, yes, you can add an image and edit but you can add many things like talk bubbles of many types and put text within them. The picture adjust has curves, levels, brightness and contrast and more which all work great. The beautify has color paint, like masking and image, or focus, soft light, skin changer, all rivaling adobe plugins and work very well, easy enough for anyone to use. The image filters with emboss and many more. There are also numerous effects in the image filter pane that can be stacked in use. It has add numerous symbols you can add along with downloading many cool other pictures to use and just plop into the frame. I have only touched on what this can do and for advanced users, great shortcut methods, for basic users, you'll love it. Even though I am an advanced graphics user, I still use this constantly. Great program.

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Preme for Windows

Not too bad

I suppose this is one of those tweaks that truly depend on what the user finds... well... useful. I do like the Aero Flip, just for kicks as I don't find it that useful but it's easier to use if you need to by dragging the cursor to the corner of the screen. The windows slide, works for me. Hide active window (right corner) won't work for me, tried everything, just doesn't work. Right click on taskbar icons does not point to close. Start menu pop up from lower left corner, works, can use that. So it definitely has some fun aspects, a couple could be used to improve work area and speed. I'm not sure this is something I would use all the time and may just get in the way. Either way, it's free, mostly works, give it a try.

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HWM BlackBox

Ok but far from great

It has some decent info on board, cpu, memory and such but nothing others don't have. Another downfall is the bench test which seems to use Windows rating system and rated my pc at 3.5 (leaving out 4 bench tests for whatever reason) which I laughed at since Windows rates it at 7.4, three are 7.9 ratings on my system. I have a very updated fast system, not the best system out there or course but handles anything I can throw at it. There are far better out there and this isn't one I would keep on my flash drive or use as a main info tool for any reason really. Much room for improvement.

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Puran File Recovery

Recovered

Tested this out on a formatted drive, 490 gig partition. Did a deep scan, took a long time, very normal and not real long considering it brought back 260,000 files and folders. No way I was going to recover them all so I did recover a large batch of them and they all work. I was very impressed by it. I don't judge by micro devices or such due to the fact numerous softwares will recover these easily and are a dime a dozen (not that it's not a great perk of course) but when you take a formatted drive that's been written to many times, then I'm impressed. Great job Puran.

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WizTree

Fast and thorough

WizTree definitely has a lead in the file size view department. It's extremely easy to use and the layout is equally easy to get around. Fast? No doubt. Half a Tera in a couple seconds. Has some other basic options as well.

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Converseen

Good

It's fast, has all the basic functions to resize, choose where you want the images saved, overwrite, etc... It definitely hosts numerous formats to convert an image to. The interface is easy to use, scroll bar on right side of preview didn't show at first, didn't know how to resize or where to save but once I reloaded Converseen, it was there. Really, a fast, handy convert and resize software that will make your life easier.

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Intel Processor Identification Utility

Can't dislike it

I had to give it a 5, it does what it says, free, easy to use.

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SafeIP

Nice

I have to say this does in fact do a great job. It's very easy to set and use and of course, as stated, if it gets slow, just change location. Plenty of options, may even get the pro version.

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Any Video Recorder

Needs improvements

There are a few recorders out there that will do what this does, and better without the sound lag or even video munch you can get from this app. After using 5 screen recorders, this was the laggiest of all, skipping in higher quality video, not real good. I have the AMD Radeon HD 6900 g-card which is flawless in any other scenario, plus quad core phenom, ddr3, I have no lag issues with anything. That said, this needs some improvement.

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Marble

Great for what it's intended for

No, it's not Google Earth, which has been established already. It's great for geographical purposes, not so heavy like GE and if you want to know areas of the world, hey, this is extremely handy. Portable, can't go wrong. It's very easy to use and makes a great carry around with it's small footprint compared to GE. Definitely a 5.

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Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Works great

Can't go wrong if you want to get something uninstalled while removing extra junk from the installed app. Typically I find myself in the habit of searching files and registry manually if I feel a program has been a bit too intrusive for whatever reason and want every ounce of it gone, but this in fact takes care of enough where I just set and forget. I give it a 5.

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Sigil

Wonderful

You really can't ask for more in this program, at least, I can't. It does everything I need it to do. It's not at all complicated to work with, the hardest part would be understanding terms and functionality if you aren't familiar with ebook methods. I can't think of anything negative to say about it. It's fun to use, numerous options, free, the layout makes sense, excellent!

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FastStone Image Viewer

Back to great

After a long time review "back in 2008" I decided to update this. I was getting a lot of lag with this program when viewing images at that time, however, I've been "since 2010" using it again and it's been back to it's great self. Time to give this great freeware the 5 it deserves.

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ScreenBlur

It's good

It's not a bad app by any means and I have others very similar to it. The one downfall with them all is that they are all easily bypassed, this is no exception. BUT these aren't really meant to lock down a system, these types of screen locks are meant to keep, say curious children or granny, or someone who won't bother or know how to get past the screen. In this regard yes, it can be a great security tool to keep someone from messing with files or folders or web sites if you have to take a leave from your pc. FYI, just type the password, you get back in. You can also simply shut the pc down from the screen. There are other options as well. It's nice but nothing I find all that useful.

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Freemium System Utilities

Surprised

I was really surprised at how well this application works. At first I thought, eh... another all in one, intrusive software that would wipe out needed files and leave the junk as others have done. To my amazement this was hardly the case. It has a lot of the same types of cleaners of course, registry, junk files, start up items, things of that nature. It also has file recovery, split and join, encrypt, decrypt and others and they all seem to work very well. It recovered over 4000 files .exe files that is, in working condition for the most part as I wasn't going to install all 4000 but tried the first 20 and all worked, some installers, some portable. As for the cleaners and other options, all worked very well, didn't ruin a system by destroying the registry or needed files. So again, very impressed with this. I know it is stated by Snapfiles that this software tries to install 3rd party software but I haven't actually had it ask me to install anything besides the program itself. Of course the main page is in German but from what I translated, I saw nothing of installing ads, toolbars or anything unless it's changed since it was posted here. Checked my system, nothing installed besides Freemium. Great Freeware here.

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oCam

Great free recorder

I was very impressed by both how simple, yet effective this software is. You have the basic record, capture, resize for capture and of course more in the options menu like which codec to use, quality, time set of a recording if needed. Very simple 3 hot key setup, capture, record, stop. Doesn't get any easier. I do suggest downloading the codecs for this as I found Xvid and VP8 to work the best. This records very easily with a simple adjust target window. The best part of course is that it records great and doesn't seem to bog the system as others do. Now, if you want a bunch of flashy editing, movie making or whatever some come with, then you are barking up the wrong tree. This is an easy to use, free, quality recording software and does the one thing well.

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Process Hacker

In depth

There is no way to explain everything involved or options put into this software so I'll try to sum it up as well as I can. If you want to view what applications are doing or errors happening or search for .dll's or... well anything you can imagine right down to sending info to virus total and others, this is an app you won't ignore and quite honestly, will become an integral part of any PC for users that work with computers on either a daily basis or just for your own monitoring and repair. This is not for basic users whatsoever. Unless you plan to learn about processes, how your system works, what apps are doing on an in depth level, don't bother because you will be both disappointed and lost at first opening. For others, a must have and something I know I'll be keeping around for a long time. And yes, it does have a pause function as well as process update speed settings which was a concern of mine right off but it's there. It also has an option to replace task manager, highlight options, graph options, view mem usage, all the perks which are great but not even the best part of this software so the best statement I can make, "just try it." Excellent software.

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WinMend Folder Hidden

Problems

I want to warn others of this software (at least until I get a reply from support) I used this on my prior system, noticed my hard drives, "back up drives" were sluggish, I scanned, formatted, even replaced on, and then the issue began again. I recently upgraded to a new motherboard, drive, g-card, etc... and still experienced extremely slow transfer, copy, etc.. between drives and usb. I found a folder from my LAST install on my backup drives called WinmendFolderHidden. Upon deleting, it wouldn't, just crashes, explorer, Ccleaner and unlockers. I managed in safe mode to move it to the RB but can't get it out of there. I get more crashes until I restore the folder. They need to fix this and soon. It's worse than a damn virus. Ran it on my other system, test system, same thing happens and oh my, to think I recommended this (Fixed) downloaded FilExile from sourceforge, wonderful, deleted all of the darn folders!! So if looking for a fix this will do! One last thing, they didn't appear until I enabled view hidden files and folders and now my drives are back to their speedy selves.

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Toolbar Cleaner

What the??

First of all, It's intrusive, doesn't work, installs it's own garbage and is a total and complete waste of time. It's on the verge of being spyware itself. It must have known where to draw the line to get hosted by Snapfiles because anything further, it would need anti-spyware to remove IT. The funny thing, I didn't install Amazon toolbar, suddenly it's there lol. I use the AVG and Yahoo bars for tests, never had Amazon install! Aside from that, try getting rid of it's own toolbar and start page, I uninstalled, it's still there. I of course finally removed it but it's embedded in the registry. It broke AVG, Yahoo and ASK toolbars, it more or less directs you to use the remove programs, DUH, and if you don't, again, as stated in the description, it breaks the toolbar, not really removing it. It also now causes my IE to crash upon opening. Well, luckily I don't run most things on my main system so it's not really a problem but goes to show. I personally would not host this but it's free and so far not a threat but will keep an eye on it.

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Multiple Image Resizer .NET

Easy

It's very easy to use, you tab through your options, output is fast, does a great job batching the images, a definite keeper.

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ToolWiz FlipBook

I have to agree

This seems like a beta stage software. It's extremely easy to use, and with risk of being redundant, you can't sort chapters, etc... and again, .exe which sure, you can distribute as a self running book. There are no book cover options or looks wise that I could see in any settings. All in all, with some work, this will be a great software but I do beg the author to polish this up as I feel many of us would be anxious to use it.

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SterJo KeyFinder

Found ms keys

Found most MS software keys, nothing more than any other or less.

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VidCoder

Decent

Eh, it's alright for ripping to the posted formats, however, it does tend to say there were errors quite often (non-protected disks) and is a bit slow at the couple I did rip. If I use a DVD ripping software I use freebies that have most of what I need. As stated by others, alright for converting but that's about it.

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Media Preview

Works mostly

Well, it does one thing really, it gives you previews instead of blank files which is great really. You can set which file types, bright, dark, set at which point you want the preview to be at in the vid file. The problem I'm having is that it will not show .mov (quicktime) movie files. They stay blank and yes, they are chosen in the options, I even custom put .MOV in caps just to be sure, did a restart, moved the thumb into the target, everything but it remains a blank. Basically, I have what I had before, previews of my video files with a twist except all the blank .mov files. Dunno, would have liked to rate this higher but really, it's not doing what it claims.

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Wise Care 365

Good but...

It destroyed my browsing. I had another cleaning app that did the same. Download this, make a restore point or backup first, run the regular cleaning and fix, then open Firefox and go to snapfiles, it gives you a list on the side with no images except the logo and links and other sites as well. Again, trying to figure out just what it's cleaning that's causing this, well, I ended up uninstalling Firefox, reinstalling it, was the only way to repair it. Even in IE, Snapfiles would not load correctly or other sites. Ok, try number 2, uncheck any browser cleanings at all, should leave it alone right? Nope. Still did it. I knew this was a familiar instance so I went to Wise Disk Cleaner, guess what? It was that application that caused this grief to begin with and I merely forgot when using this all in one system they put together. Still didn't clean basic things, all left behind except this time, there is an option to choose the recycle bin. The registry cleaning is still the same, gets great reviews but I doubt people understand what it's actually cleaning because it doesn't do that great of a job. Same crap, nicely wrapped. Give it a 2 for decent interface. I won't use these tools again unless the developers actually take some time to fix these utilities or get them to work better. It's free, soz the black plague.

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BleachBit

It's good

While being this is portable and very thorough, caution when using this. First of all, it terribly needs a backup option which if there is one, I couldn't find it. Preview first, yes, but backup still needed. It selects all drives by default, may or may not concern you or apply to anything bad but would watch for that as well. These things need to be changed for an in depth cleaner. Aside from that, it's actually very fast and thorough.

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ImageToAVI

Worked alright

It does a good job creating the .avi but there are not much more options than that. I set mine to 0.5 so the pics didn't fly by, but that would be for slide show, if you want sequences, then yes, keep it about 20 or more. Still decent and I see this getting better.

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Eusing Cleaner

I didn't know what to say at first

Ok, I am fairly sure they copied the interface right off Ccleaner, lol. Aside from that, it's (here we go again) a more in depth Ccleaner, loll. Aside from the clone factor, it's actually an excellent cleaner with more options like defrag, better registry backup option, things of that nature, else, it's...... lol... Ccleaner.... sorry, can't help but laugh. Ok ok, I will keep this one for sure but it needs a new interface, not like... oh I won't say it lol.

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See Through Windows

It was ok

Alright, it makes the windows transparent, but I didn't find that all too useful. I also tried to get the window maximizer to work, up and down keys, no go. I would rather minimize all windows than have a ton of transparent layers on my desktop but others may find it useful.

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Eusing Free MP3 Cutter

Gave it a fiver

I was torn between a 4 and 5 but what the heck. It does what it says and does a darn good job. Easily splits and .mp3, shows you where it's at, has playback and is fast so I can't fault it. If you want a simple splitter, well, this will work.

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Eusing Internet Window Washer

As stated, caution

I second the "caution" statement, you may inadvertently get rid of something you didn't want to. The cleaner is in depth and if you don't know what you are getting rid of, you should read up FIRST. Other than that, it's very good, in depth.

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Eusing YouTube to MP3 Converter

Did what it said

Ok, it's not the fanciest but does cut out the middle man by not having to download the video, it will simply create an .mp3 out of the video, decently fast, works well.

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JPEGview

Does what it says

It's a great viewer and views more than just jpeg. It does have numerous options to customize and will do so as you browser through images. Aside from the stated facts in the review, I will touch on one, it's FAST. It skimmed through my pics easily and they are not low res images. Click of the arrow, on to the next pic, that fast so yes, it's definitely on with the speed.

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FlashTray

Another good one

For something that allows you easy right click access and macros, look no further. I easily customized my list of what I want in the right click area, like my documents, other drives, etc... set keys to do what you want, macro options, free, can't go wrong. Definitely a 5.

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Libre Office

Not that horrible

I and others have used this numerous times and yes, there are some bugs but I can't give it lower than a 4 star for what this offers. Some respect on my part for the complexity of this application for free. As far as usage, It handles it's own documents as well as office documents, .docx and others just fine. The problem, one time I can import a docx and it will format it fine, headings, etc... but sometimes it won't. (one bug example). There have been other hiccups along the way but really, if looking for a free full featured office software, this is. I won't say I will use it over others because I won't. OpenOffice and AbiWord I'll use over this, even MS Word. I can't fault other peoples' reviews on this either, if it won't work as an office software(which it was intended), it's not much good then. I still feel it's better than it has been, and still a great substitute for Word if need be.

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Rainmeter

Decent

I wouldn't call this "easy to use" at least not for most typical users. Creating and modifying an .ini file to add drives to your list may not be on the easiest list. Customizing your own skin is time consuming unless you get one of course. Basically, this whole thing is customizable so if you don't mind learning, this can be set however you want it (or close).

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Rainlendar Lite

Simple and useful

If you're like me, you'll appreciate this simple calendar. It has enough options like skin changer, events, todo, etc... but at the same time, remains a calendar, not full of useless tools just what I want.

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DVD Decrypter

Not updated but still good

This was top notch at one time. It doesn't have all the fancy looking interface that some do, it may not even backup everything anymore, however, it was excellent and still is. I've had DVDs that won't backup due to scratches or bad data, dvd decrypter can skip bad data spots and make a possible working copy and has. It's not a one button click and go but it gives advanced options many would just scratch their head at. If you know how to work it, then you know it's potential. It still has it's place.

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Zimbra Desktop

Good to a point

First of all, this is an excellent email client. It handles live and hotmail, gmail and even has an option to add twitter and facebook. Manage everything from one area. You will have to know the setup for hot or live mail of course. The setup for these types could have been better but therein lies the problem, it will NOT sync your junk folders or extra folders you create in hot or live mail. Gmail, yes. I found this to be a major issue in my case plus it keeps dropping the authentication to the hotmail or live accounts. I would lean toward MS mail servers as they give most handlers big issues but then again, some of the issues may be Zimbra's. I can get the extra folders and junk folder downloaded from other email clients so that's definitely Zimbra's issue. It's also a bit sluggish sometimes. All in all, I really did like this but simply due to the problems with folders and losing authentication to hotmail or live, I can't use it. Hopefully this gets fixed.

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Remote Utilities Free (Viewer)

It works

I could access my son's pc from our neighbor's house as a test. Very cool. The portable seems to work flawlessly for viewing and does work well with firewalls. Of course you need the main host RUT program running to use this but this is a compliment to it. Although, not sure why these are two separate entities as far as downloading goes, either way, it's great.

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Remote Utilities Free (Host)

Remotely great

After a test run with this, I can only say it's awesome. I set up RUT on my son's pc, set up the viewer (portable) on mine, so not really set it up, just run it. Anyway, it didn't take long to scan the host computer and connect and in seconds, I had full control over his desktop (which I will fool him with when he gets home). You have to have it running on the host machine or the viewer will not pick it up. It did integrate into the firewall just fine. BTW, those with the Windows 7 network sharing issues of slowness, this will make your life much easier as it tends to transfer files much faster. It was also a breeze to install software onto the host. I do like the chat box as well, it makes things easier if helping others. I will definitely keep this on my pc, awesome.

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IObit Smart Defrag

Works good

As most defraggers, for free, it's very good, deserving of a 5 in this regard. It works well, fairly quick, does a decently thorough job. The interface is good, no issues.

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IObit Uninstaller

Very good

While it's still not what I would call as good as a couple of others, it's good enough to be a 5 and for free. It did uninstall programs fast, found leftover data, cleaned no issues. Has a forced uninstall as well. It's interface is smooth, easy to understand. No install, runs right off the .exe.

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ClickOff

Clicky

Well, this works with some windows, some times. I found for many windows it would simply ignore them, even after setting it, just didn't matter. Maybe for those who have constant pop up windows and know where they will be, but for every day use, nah, I couldn't find this to useful or to even work that well. Still free, worked sometimes.

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TweetDeck

Great freebie

I set this up to my Twitter account and it's very easy to use, easy on the eyes and what I liked more than the layout of columns was the fact of how fast it updates. If a tweet is made, it's there immediately. Great application, will be keeping this one.

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zeZebra

Different

I do believe this is still in it's testing stages but for the most part, it's very different. A very likeable application. It's all too easy to select a file, send it through email. It's a bit slow IMHO. Better than trying to send other ways I admit, very handy. Will be keeping this on my pc and keeping an eye out for all future releases but yes, again, slow, needs some work and as stated, zeZebra needs to be installed on other pc. Create a self extracting zeZebra tiny app to go with the sent file please? No need for recipient to have to install zeZebra at that moment. Thanks!!

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Jajuk

Cool

When it comes to juke players, this has to be one of the best. It has all types of mixing options, lists, etc... don't know where to begin. This has a simple view as well as the advanced in case you simply want to just listen to music. Create any kind of playlist mix you want, very nice. I do know that my son is DJing his friend's wedding and guess what, he'll be using this. 5 star all the way.

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xps2img

Ok but...

I am really not getting the gist of this. It's alright to convert to images with, it works, however, why not use the standard viewer, save as .png or whatever, print to pdf, etc... works for me and see little need for this unless I missed something.

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Touchpad Blocker

Not fancy

This isn't a hard to use utility for sure, ctrl+F9, on or off. It worked on the wife's lap top, tried it for kicks with my Bamboo drawing pad on the pc, it didn't work, lol but that's ok, was just an experiment. Not bad.

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Textarea Cache

Worked sometimes

This worked on and off. Sometimes it would cache the text, other times, no. I feel there are better options like clipboard managers that will grab whatever input has happened and keep it. This would be great but again, worked only sometimes.

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DVDFab Virtual Drive

Great for free

It's not spectacular but it works. I simply right clicked on my .iso, mounted drive i:, played a movie. It really was that simple and it's useful.

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BCTextEncoder

Now we're talking..

This is simply great. You can setup a public key, password your encoded text, send it by email, save it as a file, whatever you choose. It's very easy to use and it works. I sent my son an encoded email, let him know the password, he opened it, worked great. This is a must have for anyone who thinks their emails or other files are being read by someone or even (as in my case) just because. Definitely a 5 here.

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BCArchive

Nice

Well, it encrypts and compresses folders and other data, allowing you to open it only by a password if you choose. Personally, I find some on demand file and folder encrypters to be much easier. This has some decent options but nothing I would use for home.

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Earth Alerts

Wasn't what i expected

I was expecting some ad-ridden application with a bunch of pop ups and what not. What I got instead was an awesome weather center right on my desktop, viewing globally everything that was going on. Right as I'm typing this, I got a pop up stating two volcanoes were active and hurricane Michael was catagory 1. You can view your own location, add locations, view earthquake and other weather happenings. It has numerous options like pictures, radar, etc... so don't expect desktop weather, that's not what this is. This is a global, in depth weather and other natural happenings alert that goes far beyond desktop weather. Awesome application!

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Desktop Central - Free Windows Tools

It's good

It's not a fabulous software and even when entering the domain name, it didn't find it. It does host some decent tools but there are better out there, some I recently used have a ton more options but this is free and if you can get it to recognize the domain name, a fairly good software.

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Click.to

Not too shabby

This is an interesting software for sure, creating links to words, documents, programs. It works fairly well, although it can be somewhat confusing at first, there are tutorials for it. It can save you clicking I guess, although, a toolbar with programs pinned or shortcut keys to bookmarks and pages and such can be even less clicking, in specific environments, I think this is ideal.

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streamWriter

Great

Now I'm torn, using two of these types of radio -slash- recorders already, this is no exception to greatness. It has plenty of radio stations, genres, easy to record, play, listen to. One big issue, do I keep all 3 now or don't I? Darn you for being a great software! 5 stars.

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Express Burn

Booo

I boo'd this software for a few reasons. 1. It's 60 bucks when there are a ton of freebies that will work just as well, have as many if not more options and have yet to fail me. Where is this special? I used it, it's good but not spectacular. 2. Don't click on the (Other Software Products) links by them, it installs the software automatically WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT. A big NO NO. Don't put things on my PC without asking NCH, NOT appreciated! (LUCKY for me, I am running the install on a virtual) "raspberries to you" 3. Windows keep popping up from this going to their site, I'd click it off, every time I'd go to use something, get another, ridiculous. Will not touch another software by them.

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Free Registry Jump

Maybe good for someone

It's very simple, enter a registry key, jump to it. If you have registry keys you need to jump to, well, this is for you. Free, works.

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LastPass

Why oh why

Do I have to create an account?? I don't want my passwords sent anywhere, encrypted or not, trusted or not, I want to store my stuff LOCALLY. Plus I get a pop up saying my passwords will be less secure if I use LastPass to store my passwords. Seriously, what the....? No thanks. While the interface and setup looked so promising, I don't care for the funky way this is run. I did try to store them locally but found absolutely no way to do so. I'll use something else.

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icon sushi

It's alright

This isn't fancy but it's interface is easy to use. You simply open an image, save as an icon. Well, there are size options, etc... One mention, it says it only supports 128 x 128, fortunately, this is not true, it supports 256 x 256. I created a 256 size(not color) icon in Gimp, saved as png, opened it in icon sushi, saved as 256 X icon and it did a fairly good job. Not too bad at all and a great small app for basic icon creation.

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Kapow Punch Clock

Very good

While most may not get use out of something like this, I myself find it handy. When I'm fixing a PC or other device or creating icons or banners, what have you, it's nice to keep track of actual time (as it usually gets away from me). Also, from my other job, I can use this to keep track of hours so it's good there too. Even with that, it may not be something constantly used but it's handy.

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Speed Dial for Firefox

Excellent

I can now hit CTRL+ num and bring up my bookmarks, rather, go right to the page. It doesn't get any easier both in use and setup. Yep, pick a box, edit it, put in the desired url, done. Now, this is just a basic setup, there are numerous options on how to open tabs, windows, etc... This is one of those addons that will remain in my Firefox browser. Two thumbs up and 5 stars.

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MiTeC Mail Viewer

No open live

Nice, I don't have to open Windows live mail to view my mail folders. I have many backups done with live mail and this will open (not the main folder) but every sub folder, sent, inbox, etc... each at a time and I can view every detail about those emails without opening them up in live which is great.

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FotoSketcher

Excellent freebie

Upon using, I quickly discovered how many more options this actually has, and there are a lot. It does a better job than some paid for plugin types. I had a photo that actually (by the time I was done) looked like a painting on canvas and I was actually impressed by this. Nice app.

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PDFsam

Really nice

I had the opportunity to try this today and it's great. The interface is a bit (just a bit) tough, not horrible but you'll get how to work it in no time. After the fact, it combines, splits and works with pdfs wonderfully. It's fast, light and does the job.

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AKVIS SmartMask

Love it

Of all the AKVIS plugins, this is my favorite and one I use the most. For truly great image removal, I do so manually, with a good eye and patience, nothing is as good. HOWEVER, the closest and easiest method I've ever used would be this plugin. You won't find better. For the most part, it's very accurate and has other options to fix up areas manually. Very great plugin, highly recommended.

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AKVIS Sketch

One of the better ones

I do like this plugin. There are a lot of sketch type programs and plugins but I found this to be one of the most specific and detailed out there. I've taken images of my kids faces, created an almost coloring book image out of them where they can color their faces or other images right on the pc, so it creates some fun aside from just making sketch photos. Great software here.

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AKVIS Retoucher

This is great

This plugin is excellent for touchups and removal of blemishes and other photo issues. Used along with Photoshop's image fix, where it replaces parts of an image using surrounding data, it works great and can repair just about anything.

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AKVIS Noise Buster

Right on

I find that most snapfiles reviews are right on and hard for me to elaborate on something when it's already said. So with the risk of being redundant, yes, it works well and yes, it's a very sluggish plugin. There are plugins for free as in Gimp that will do a better job, or even stand alone freebies so taking that into consideration v.s. the price of this, eh... I guess one can try it out but personally, I don't feel it's worth it.

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AKVIS LightShop

Easy to use great effect

This is one of those "fun" plugins, it really does a great job when it comes to lighting effects, the fireworks effect is awesome. I don't find that I use it all too often and for the asking price, I'm not sure it would be worth while for most to buy unless you will be using it constantly. Alternatively, I can use other free .png light shots, implement them myself into an image and create my own effects, but for many, this may be great. Try it and judge if it's worth it. Off the software itself, a 5, with price, meh... 3.

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AKVIS Enhancer

Awesome but not the best

Well, it may be one of the better image enhancers but I can find others that do just as well. I will say though, it's very easy to use, can truly enhance an image and again, it really is better than most but I don't feel it's worth the asking price.

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AKVIS Chameleon

Nah

This is another one of those AKVIS plugins that I don't suggest, most I do but this is nowhere near worth the price, barely would use this over other freebies. AKVIS has great software but a couple of them are not so good, this is one of them. I don't suggest using this for the price at all. Still try it maybe, I have the full version and still don't like it, lol. Ah well, most of AKVIS is top notch.

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AKVIS ArtSuite

Plenty of options

This does have plenty of effects and such but I won't say this is worth the price. There are freebies that will do just as well. I own most of the AKVIS plugins -slash- stand alone sofware and this is not one of the better ones. Don't judge all of them by this.

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AKVIS MultiBrush

One of the best

When it comes to touch up cloning or even replacement, removal, etc... yes, this is likely the best out there. In most cases, as mentioned, it can be nearly undetectable on an image depending on what you do. Sloppy work is sloppy work, this is not a cure for that but if you seriously use this, expect excellence.

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GreatNews

Fast

Probably the fastest RSS reader I've used. Easy to get going, imported my opml files from others just fine, and boy does this update quickly. Easy to browse around, to read, plenty of options, I've got a new reader :-)

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Snappy

Great

This is a full featured capture software with plenty of options, hot keys and editing functions. It also has an automatic capture setup which you can choose to capture at specific times or when specific happenings occur like mouse clicks, keyboard usage, etc... very cool. It's fast, easy to use and just a great little software with a lot to offer.

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EMCO MoveOnBoot

Great for moving

This is not only great for deleting files and infected files, but also for moving files, it's much faster to move them upon reboot than while in system, especially if having problems with the pc. Great software, a must have.

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EMCO Network Software Scanner

Get software

This was very easy to use and set up. Getting software that was installed was a breeze. Can monitor for software changes as well, export list. Great setup, just wish I had more use for it currently so it would be a permanent software on my system.

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EMCO Malware Destroyer

Decent

This is definitely a scanner with many options. The interface may scare some users to the point of not liking it but it gives you a choice on what to scan, very in depth. I don't know how it actually detected since I don't have anything on this pc to catch, will have to try it on something infected later on. So far, seems fast, easy to use basic scan, great options.

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EMCO Ping Monitor (Free Version)

Ping ping ping

It's pings and also has statistics view, layout views, real time monitoring, not bad. Mostly it has a lot of visual options as I noticed with EMCO's software in general. This could use a few more options unless you get them with an upgraded version. Still a great pinging utility.

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EMCO UnLock IT

Awesome

Great unlocker, has a target you can use to see if the file is locked , plenty of options, plenty of skin options. Basic but very good.

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EMCO Remote Registry Exporter

Exported

Easily scanned network computers, export is easy and painless. I like the interface, it's easy to get around and to find out exactly what you need to do, great help files. Definitely a 5!

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Windows 8 Release Preview Setup

It's gotten better

I've had the opportunity to run the newer release for a while and my prior review was rather horrid about Win 8 with good reason. It's better now. It actually (currently) is out performing Windows 7, running faster, installs software quicker, the lan sharing actually works, not kicking out my internet, etc... I still don't care for the menu. I wouldn't mind it so much EXCEPT when you go to look for a simple program you installed, it's like having everything on your desktop in icon format trying to find where the damn program went. If not for the fact it should be changeable to list format, at least, the menu wouldn't be THAT bad I guess. I still say it should give users the option, those with touch, fine, those without, gimme back my start menu or again, give some view options for pete's sake. While it's fast now, as with every Windows OS, once the updates begin rolling in, and they WILL, the system will be sluggish I'm sure. One other small factor, many programs I had would not work with 8, but many did at the same time. Currently, it's not that bad but we'll see. Still needs lots of improvement in my opinion.

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GSpot

Great for free

This shows a lot of codec information, albeit a redundant statement, it truly does. This software highly depends on the user, basically, will you need it? When working with some odd files I've run across, this would have been great to tell me what codec I needed. The interface is easy enough, you can even drag and drop a file into the search and it will give you your information. Very nice.

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GameSave Manager

Great backup

This does find a lot of common games and does back them up. It did find Plants VS. Zombies, and a few others and created a decent backup that actually works. I created a batch script to back up PvZ and used numerous methods to backup other game saves and such but this is much easier and works on more games obviously taking the work out of it if you will. It does take a while to scan the system but worth it.

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SymmTime

Good when not freezing

Upon installation, Win 7 X64, this program froze my pc to a halt. When I tried to end the task of it's install, it decided to then continue and finish installing. Aside from that, ran alright, decent interface, easy to add clocks and different zones, has an alarm as well, nice. Upon uninstall, oh wait, it won't. It freezes up yet again. I then finally got it to uninstall, tried to reinstall, froze everything again. Why, I have no clue. Only this program has done this to me. I've tested over 900 from here, kept many, plus downloaded many from other sources and so far, this is a first. I use a clean test system with both virtual and non and it has the same effect on both. Aside from that, it's a great software.

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Puran Defrag

Always been decent

I've switched between this and Auslogics disk defrag a few times, depending on version but yes, Puran has always been great. There are times where it's left some fragmentation as where others didn't but as stated by others, it's slight. Lately it's been right on with no leftovers and regardless, it's not something you can lose out on trying. Free, works great.

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Puran Utilities

Nice

Well, you get a decent group of utilities to defrag, clean up, get rid of empty files and folders, registry cleanup and compact along with many more. There are quite a few softwares out there like this and this one is no better or worse in my opinion but still good. Their defrag has been around for some time and has always been considered good. Free, great tools, 5.

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WinBin2Iso

Basic

It's very basic, works. Aside from that, numerous others will do the same but yes, it's free.

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Anti Tracks - Free Edition

Hang on

At first you think you are getting some basic cleaner, then you go through, pick out what you feel should be cleaned and when done, you get a slew of tools in this program like a Disk wiper, file shredder,uninstaller, startup manager, the list goes on. Took me by surprise. That said, the cleaner is very in depth, I wouldn't recommend this to newbies unless you do some reading FIRST. (won't take long to learn IMHO) Aside from that, it's a very thorough and great multi-tool utility, definitely a keeper.

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Geek Uninstaller

Decent

Aside from the fact that it uninstalls, it has a viewer to see where the items reside in the registry. You can export the list to html, remove entries, force remove and Google search to lookup an install. It's a good uninstaller but I wish they had the option to collapse the list or choose which installs to view.

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Advanced MP3 Converter

Convert away

Well, it's not your standard output converter in some ways. You will find a basic list of .mp3, .mp4, etc... but also of formats you don't always see. You can set a custom output and the interface is good plus you can set the audio quality. It's easy to use, does a fair job at conversion, not too slow works well.

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Image Tuner

Easy and works

Well, it's nothing too fancy but it's very simple and quick. Add a folder or single file, choose your output, choose what size you want them at. Again, so very simple, yet so very effective.

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Sound Lock

Worked great for movies

I tried this with Wrath of the Titans. We watch a lot of movies and at night, (when the wife is sleeping) I usually run over for louder parts of movies and have to turn it down, typically end up sitting in front of the PC to hear it. This worked wonders. It did keep the volume down during loud parts. Has some basic options, master or channel but regardless, it's extremely easy to use, free, saves me from having to run over to the volume control.

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WinScan2PDF

Works

It's not hard to take any document these days and create a pdf out of it, however, this does take any extra steps out of it all. Scan, goes to pdf and in that regard, hey, it's great, free, works.

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Funny Photo Maker

Funny

This program is great for those who don't do this manually and has a lot of funny blends with faces. You can download other templates as well. This basically takes a face, puts it into the template, some are funny, some odd, some cute, some OK. It has some basic blending options but either way, this should make for a fun time or to even print calendars or money with someone's face. I do all this stuff manually so it has no flexibility for me but others will definitely enjoy this.

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WS_FTP LE

Good ftp

It's a good ftp handler, it does transfer very quickly, very easy to use, standard old looking interface but it gets the job done.

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SPEEDbit Video Accelerator

Would be great if...

...you weren't hit with advertising from every corner. When you install you can obviously opt out of the home page set and such, the plugin I installed which then gives you links to Amazon and others, yay. : I also (after restarting for the video plugin in Firefox) get another plugin that wants to install (Search Predict), no thanks. Really, this is a bloated software with more advertising than Google. I will say that it does well to enhance video playback on the web, my videos were sharper, non skippy, etc... Download and convert, fairly standard speed, nothing spectacular. All in all, if it was a straight up program without all the fluff, I would enjoy it, maybe... for now, I'll stick with others.

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Xnews

In depth

All I can say is, if you want options, you got em. I don't care for the interface nor do I need something this blown up. If I want a news reader, it's going to be simple. To read the news. Now, don't get me wrong, I think this may be excellent for others but personally, I don't need all that, just a simple news reader will do.

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Open++

Great but read on...

...you may run into trouble if you want to delete openxx.dll or openxx64.dll, it remains running even if you uninstall open++. My suggestion is get Unlocker, or use task manager to end explorer.exe, then run new task (run), type in explorer.exe, enter, so it restarts the gui, then you can delete it. Another issue, if you add another command prompt to the context menu, try to use a command to open, it mucks up the normal command prompt add as well. Otherwise, this is a great addition to the right click menu and would be extremely handy. Still worth using and will use but again, there are some bugs that need to be worked out. NOTE: If you are running X64 Windows, then you MUST get the X64 version of this else it will NOT run, rather, will not install to the context menu.

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Exif Reader

Nice viewer

Shows more Exif data than most anything I've used, however, it will NOT attempt .png which for me, (bites). I have many of my pictures in .png format. Still gets a 4 for a great viewer.

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Stickies

Does more than you think!

This has plenty of options when it comes to text, color, attachment, clipboard and more but read on... I suggest, right clicking on the sticky icon in the notification area, here you will get a SLEW of cool options including but not limited to.. networking, alarm with sounds, email, and more but I suggest looking through all the options yourself. FYI: If you are someone who has no idea where to find .wav (sound files), go to C:WindowsMedia, you will find plenty in there to choose from. I haven't touched half of what this can do and still having fun with it. Definitely the best sticky note app ever.

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Desk Marker

Was alright

With the use of a couple of keys you can easily draw and erase. Has basic color and transparency choice. I've used much better but it's free and works.

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Appetizer

Nice!

Ok, this is a nice looking toolbar with plenty of options, easy to import near whatever you want into it, shortcuts, folders, computer, etc... and has downloadable skins you can use to enhance the way it looks. It can auto hide after app launch, use hot keys to hide and unhide, be left on top of all other windows, and it's a very quick interface with low mem usage. Quite honestly, it fits perfectly for what I use and while I have another installed, this is now going to replace my Windows Task Bar. Great work by the developer.

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Coolbarz

Love it!

For one, this is not a fancy shmancy toolbar, it doesn't bounce, glitter, rain, explode or do windows (the kind you have on your home) What it does do is hide itself very well if you choose, has some basic opacity and fade, along with color options as well as position of the bar, text and position, etc... It displays tab formats when adding programs, directories or shortcuts to it so when I move my mouse to my right side of the screen, a few tabs pop out with my shortcuts. Point being, it's more basic but it works flawlessly and integrates great. Again, it's not a flashy memory hog but a great addition to the Windows Desktop environment.

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SMPlayer

Great player

For one, this has a great playback and is fast to load. There are some minor effects like flip, mirror,etc... albeit, I cannot get the color adjustments to work, they simply... won't. Aside from that, it also has a snap shot capture and constant snap shot, where you can yep, capture numerous frames of snapshots to create whatever you want, gif, etc... but no, this does NOT create animated gifs, I'm just saying, you can. It played .iso, dvd, cd, everything I threw at it and hey, it just works. It's free, great player. I do hope the developer addresses the color control, eg.brightness, contrast.. not working. Still a great player.

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System Ninja

Great for portable

I actually found this quite packed with options and a great utility. You can first scan junk files of course and in options, you have the ability to exclude items as well as a check list in the right pane. There is a decent little startup manager to use. A process manager which FYI, WILL shut something down faster than Win Task Manager. A decent pc analysis and other options. The only thing I am having an issue with is plugins. I can't get them to load with a 502 error. It says 2 installed finally but can't find them anywhere in the ui. Aside from that, I feel it's a great portable app.

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RarZilla

Don't waste your time

While it's fast with .rar, you can find many many many other apps that handle rar and zip and numerous other formats and are just as fast. Some faster. This would have been great years ago but now? Nah. The interface is horrible in my opinion, just one of those I feel is a waste of time. It's free but so is heartburn.

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Gizmo Drive

Wow

It definitely does more than just .iso management. Virtual drives, database, mount, burn, plenty of behavior and looks options, and more. I almost feel there are too many options as far as how it looks and behaves to be honest. But regardless, it's been flawless, works great, fast and one of those programs you find you must keep on your computer. Free? Yes and a must have.

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MP3val

Have used this

And will continue to. It's as said, it's fast, fixes my .mp3s, great little software.

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JavaRa

Great for removing java

This works great for removing old installations of Java left behind, it's easy to use, works great, never had an issue.

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Resource Hacker

Got to try it

I meant to try this a while back and never got around to it. I have to say, this is pretty cool viewing, modifying and just poking around the software. I have to agree with the old post prior to mine, it's neat to change some ugly icons. You can do so on many anyway but this will allow you to on apps that don't have that option. You can change bitmap etc... This isn't something for everyone but I find it fun to use and is still working with most applications I've tried it on.

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Clickteam Install Creator

Have seen it

I've seen the installer with numerous other software but never realized how cool it is. It gives you more than enough options and is fast and stable, that's more than I can say about some. When my program gets created, I'm using this installer. Period.

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Yet Another Process Monitor

Absolute best

Of all the process monitors I've used, this is the best. The layout is spec, right on for most users. It's easy to get to other tabs and options, easy to right click and save a log file, easy on the eyes and to understand. You can view files, processes, view tasks currently being used, jobs, services, network, searches, it's all in there and more. I can't begin to describe the options, would take a lot of room and time but I can guarantee that anyone who would like something other than the standard task manager, will simply love this. I know I do.

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3RVX

Nice little app

Definitely a good volume control app and I typically don't use one. You can choose skins, set keys, where it's located and more. I truly would have given this a 5 if there was a way to make it stay without fading, I would like to have it show constantly but it simply won't no matter what I set it at. Aside from that, yep, will definitely be keeping this one.

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GreenForce Player

Good player

You may get a warning about an update, I did. Either way, I found it easy to use and actually has great playback quality. Easy to choose to DRM protect, no issue. Personally I don't have any need to password protect any videos, nor do I lug them around but if you do have a need for this, you may want to give it a shot. Great utility for free.

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Paessler Site Inspector

Simply awesome

If you want site information, this is the tool to use. You can view the rendered page, basically having icons to choose from for images, scripts or links and more. This will give detailed information on scripts used, images, links, style sheets but a word of warning, some style sheets can take some time to load which of course depends on the site you are looking at but when it finishes, you can view the style sheet in the bottom adjustable window. You also get image previews in the bottom window when viewing the image information. All in all, it's actually very easy to use and gives you a lot of information. A spectacular freeware in my opinion. 5 stars.

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AM-Notebook Lite

It's great

I have to say, AM-Notebook is pretty neat. What I liked was the spreadsheet ability, that was different. It's not up there with Efficientpim but it's still an excellent software and should be plenty for what most people need in one great package. AM seems to have some very good software.

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AM-DeadLink

Greatness

Very easy to use, check all, choose to get favicons, delete, export list, etc... it's all there. Works with Firefox but the "get favicons" do not. IE, yes. All in all a great little software, 5.

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Windows Explorer Tracker

Great tracking

Open the window, watch the magic, keeps logs of everything going on and a while down the road, you can view past happenings, log files, etc... I think this is a great software to see what's going on, especially if you do something and forget, like move a file etc... definitely worth a 5.

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Email Checker Basic

Nice

Doesn't get any easier to test an email, enter it, test it. It will let you know if the email is legit or working or not. Simple, nice, works. 5.

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Pneumatic Tubes File Router

Different but not

The layout is unique, I give it that, however, I found this to be far slower when moving files into the tubes. Maybe the tubes are plugged? Drain-O time. Either way, it's not something I am going to use but others may like this.

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WinGuard Pro (Free Edition)

Got it working

My prior review was bad of this software and with good reason, it wouldn't work. At all, could not get it to ask for passwords, reinstalled, uninstalled, restarted, shut off all security and programs, nothing I did would get it to ask for a password. That said... It began JUST WORKING. Why, I have no idea, I didn't change anything. I just went to open My Computer as I've done 100 times since my last review of this and it finally asked for a password. Huh. Suddenly all the passwords are working. Hmmm. Given the fact of the trouble I had and that it just began working for no apparent reason, I will give it a 3 but if it's this buggy, not sure I'd trust it

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Web Historian

It's a nice viewer

Off the bat, this is truly nice for handling history and such but found it won't find anything in my Firefox history which was disappointing. I was also getting program crashes when scanning. I did have Firefox marked and made sure it scanned for it. So as far as browsers went, I ended up with basically nothing since I only use Firefox. Searched for a fix, didn't find one. Last I checked, the solution to the crashing was to not check Firefox which defeats all purposes of me using this. Others may get some use of this, however, I won't be.

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PhotoMeister

Great for handling

It's not much in the way of editing, has some basic features but it's good at handling photos and making albums which is what this is mainly pointed at doing. It's easy to use interface makes it so everyone can use it and not have to be a photo expert . For more in depth editing, it has the ability to open the photo with a default editor so you don't really lose out there either. It gets a 5.

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Comodo Programs Manager

Warning check backups before uninstalling

I first tried this in a virtual system, all was fine, and FYI: most all of this is a shortcut method to what's already in Windows but makes it easier to get to and has a backup option...which brings me to the main issue... The backup was not working. I set the settings to do a backup, set the backup location, uninstalled a bunch of software, not one is backed up. I did a restart, tried virtually again, nothing. I then installed on a non virtual system, uninstalled a few software items, there are still no backups of the uninstalled software at all, not drivers, not anything. Win 7 X64 on both. I am not getting a pop up box asking about backups according to the help site, I made sure 3 times that the options were correct. I uninstalled, reinstalled, restarted, again, same issue. So yes, make sure YOUR backup is working just in case because mine sure isn't. Aside from this, it's a decent uninstaller, but I am going to stick with Revo.

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Comodo System Utilities

Excellent cleaner

Great job with cleaning, registry, disk cleaner and you can have a profile to remember your settings. I do caution what you choose to delete or clean. If you choose everything in firefox for example, you can delete your bookmarks or aside from that, other important information like passwords to sites, etc... so while this is a very thorough cleaner, make sure you look over what you are cleaning. One more thing, the program will say "11 Issues Detected!" probably leaving some to think, "oop, an issue? Must be serious!" No, it's not. Just anything that it picks up that CAN be cleaned it will show this way so don't clean it JUST BECAUSE. Aside from that, it seems to work very well, no issues, a good freebie.

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TextCrawler

Changed rating

I rated this a 4 prior, meant to give it a 5. This program is a great text find and replace tool for anyone who needs to replace large amounts or multiple amounts of text in documents. You can also add to or add after a block of text and it also works with batch files which is a great feature. You can choose multiple folders or file, it shows you replacements in the bottom viewer window and works fairly fast. I found this extremely useful and may keep it around for a long time.

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SurF

Interesting

I found this to be completely interesting to use. It makes browsing directories a bit more fun and easy to view. I was reluctant as to how well this would work but it's great. I like having my C:,D:,E: and all other directories viewed where I just tab over to the next one. I can also monitor changes to directories, view hidden files, pretty much everything and more than you can do in Explorer. Two thumbs up and 5 star for this one.

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MacroMaker

Simply great

Starts off with an easy to use interface, easy to create macros and just plain fun. I created hot keys for some batch files, easy to run now and again, I just feel it's fun as well as extremely useful. If you don't know how to create some macros, just read up on them, the rest will fall into place. Just a great software.

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WackGet

Wouldn't waste the time

This is obviously out of date and with the download managers now, this holds little to no interest to me or likely others. Yes, it holds the url, it will then open the link to the download which can be done numerous ways without this. BUT, someone may still find it useful and it's free.

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BufferZone Pro

Great virt

This is just one of those great virtual tools to run things in. It is a lot like others where yeah, stop the program prior to doing anything else and restart if it says so else booting can get rather funny and the pc can run badly. I've had this happen a few times now but learned my lesson. Aside from that, this reminds me more of Avast Sandbox but BufferZone actually has control and works great. It doesn't hog your resources, you can safely run applications within it, it's FREE so that's a major plus, especially for keeping your pc clean and virus free. You can't lose out by running this, test all your stuff safely. I want to note, as with Toolwiz Timefreeze which I also use, some programs may not run the same in a virtual environment which is why I have a dummy laptop to try things on if they have trouble, to justify it's the program and not the virtual environment. Great software!

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CSVed

Definitely worth while

I can't go through and explain even half the options in this software so I will simply say this, if you need to edit a CVS file, you have everything you need and more. I don't think there is an option that was left out. It's a bit confusing at first, a bit of a learning curve maybe, not too bad but just take your time, use a dummy CVS and begin working your magic. Currently, I'm having fun just using this for the heck of it, at least until I get serious and tackle my real CVS files which will be soon. Excellent app.

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CSS-BuMa

Many options

This has many options to create CSS web nav buttons for sure. A bit redundant as to the explanation but it is what it does. I think the user interface could be laid out completely different, far more user friendly. I am putting myself in the shoes of others who don't know CSS and would probably like a better interface. I know CSS and create my own graphics. However, it may actually save me time in some respects, depending what I have to do. I am thinking for basic layouts prior to creating final buttons and such, this may be very useful. I think for many who don't know code, this would be an excellent tool to use. Free? Can't go wrong.

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Homedale

Works alright

Right off the bat, comparing to other free wireless viewers, this doesn't rank quite as well but close. Definitely needs a better graph and the one pet peeve I have with this is that it hangs. On every system I tried it on, it takes forever to close until you finally hit the "close program" due to it not responding. I feel this could use some improvement.

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Doro PDF Writer

Worked well

This did a fine job and last options of print were better than doPDF. I do feel though, that this program is nearly a CLONE of doPDF, pretty much everything except, again, the last options box but I could be wrong. Either way this works great for printing PDF files and good enough to where I can't say much bad about it at all, it doesn't have the options of some pdf software but enough to get anyone by if need to print pdf files.

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Index.dat Analyzer

If needed

For the most part, some cleaners do a great job removing this anyway and Index.dat Analyzer will no longer find the index files, assuming your cleaner does it's job like Ccleaner. I'm not sure this program will be highly needed but it's free and still does what it says.

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SE-TrayMenu

It's a nice app

Well, first of all, I am giving this a 5 because it's very easy to use, non intrusive, customizable and free. I would like to ask the developers to give it an easier access to settings though. You can't right click on the icon in the tray which left me scratching my head and clicking on the desktop icon didn't always put the icon in the task bar. That being said, yes, if you can double click the main desktop or programs icon, you get a little bulb in the taskbar and you can then right click for your options. I think this is one of the best easy access small apps I've used, again, it's never in the way, it's not over full of ridiculous options, just enough for what's needed here and would love to see that one minor detail fixed. (please?) Anyway, great program, will definitely keep.

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Alarm

Would be alright

Without a default repeat on the alarm, it's all but useless to say, wake someone up. I tried my own .wav sound, hit repeat, still went off only once. Maybe this can be used for a one time alarm when on the PC but let's face it, when you install an Alarm, "typically" it's to keep alerting, not just one popup and sound. So that said, if you need something to actually wake you up with options, use get Free Alarm Clock, if you want something just to alert you once (even though others do this anyway) this would work. The sad part is, a few more options, this would be an excellent alarm clock, I do love the interface but again, not much use for it. Wish I could rate 2 and a half but that's not an option, so I give it a 2.

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Snap2HTML

Wonderful

There are only a couple of softwares that I consider excellent that do this and this one is definitely the top. Very easy ui, nothing to it, quickly creates the html even with large directories, has an excellent layout in the html which includes the linked files and also a handy search feature. Doesn't get much better than this.

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Glary Registry Repair

Decent

I won't say it's the best but it's one of the better registry repair tools I've used. Option to backup registry is key. For free, still a 5.

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LookDisk

Well done

Just to keep up to date on this... The software developer responded to this review on Aug 13, 2012: " Hi, thanks again for your additional review comments and glad to know that LookDisk performed better with the changed options. The latest version (5.5) now has the checkuncheck all functionality included." First of all, this is my 3rd review on this software and the developer has been, not only kind enough to acknowledge the reviews but to work with, listen to and to actually implement options into the software (within reason I'm sure) that users request. For that I say thank you. With the option to check and uncheck all (drives or partitions)implemented into this great search utility, it's the best I've used. For whatever reason, the install version on my pc is faster than the portable, way faster, as a matter of fact, I have gotten rid of my long time favorite, Agent Ransack and replaced it with LookDisk now. That being said, again, thanks to the developer for listening, says a lot about a software as well. Definitely a 5 star.

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DeKnop

Ok but basic

It can create some decent "rectangular only" buttons with bevel, texture background, etc... Has plenty of bevel and color options along with font options. If you are looking at getting into serious web design, I suggest staying away from programs like this as they won't help your cause. That being said, for those who aren't seasoned designers, this may be what you are looking for and will be quick and painless but by no means is this an advanced software for web buttons.

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EaseUS Todo Backup Free

Works great and beyond

Typically I use Paragon Backup, yes, it has excellent free versions to download and it does backup everything, restores system just as you backed it. I really doubted EaseUS would come close so decided to check it out. For one, you are able to (in basic terms) back up your OS the way it is, restore it, the way it was. That alone is worth using this software. Let's add clone the drive to the list, create a rescue disk, recovery, it has it all. It created a whole disk image in very little time and it's very easy to use. The UI is extremely well put together and I have to say, I am very impressed with this and all for FREE? Wow. My suggestion, if you have not used something to backup your whole system, you are missing out, literally and this will do just that. Download and use it.

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AnalogX Extension Changer

Handy

This does come in handy for file extension changes that work with another file extension handler, initially, if there are a bunch of files with wrong extensions, this will fix em up. That said, it does well for what it was designed, not a WOW type app but again, it's handy.

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SlimCleaner

A slew...

...and a slew you shall get. This thing has a lot of different options, all the way to disk space usage. The downfall, while some of these options work fine, they are all second rate options. Even after setting the cleaner settings, Ccleaner still found a load of things this didn't. The Windows Tools are nothing more than shortcuts to what is already there. The browser plugins and extensions manager is alright, there is also the Software tab with an uninstall list, but again, nothing more than a shortcut to what's already there. Aside from that, there is (again) the cleaner, with other tabs to check options of what you want to clean and the registry cleaner, both OK at best. So, all in all, it's more of a, "We took Windows tools and put them into a fancy gui for you." type software with a few other options.

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JD Auto Speed Tester

Really nice

It has a lot of good options, mainly the speed test but unfortunately, it can sometimes state your upload isn't working when it is. You also have options like MTU testing, tracert, etc... and it does give you a decent graph, import and export settings as well as many gui options. Choose for it to start when Windows does, etc... maybe too many non-essential options here? But yes, this is an all around decent software and worth a try, at least you get a good idea of what your connection is doing.

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Duplicate Cleaner

Thorough

I am highly impressed with this and one of the ONLY duplicate cleaners I trust to multi-select and delete my files. With many decent in depth comparison options, the easy to use interface and selection, the fact that it is very accurate compared to others makes this one of "if not THE" best duplicate finder and cleaner I've used.

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Doc Scrubber

I found this useful

While this isn't some amazing software with a gazillion options, it does one thing well, allows you to view all data from a word file. Sort of interesting to see what's attached to some older doc files and to scrub it out if need be. I wish it had this for more file formats, then it would really be a great software. Right now, it's OK.

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doPDF

Works fine

It's easily set as default printer if need be. It prints documents to pdf very easily and quickly with option to open up with default pdf reader. It also has convert to pdf which is good if you don't have the option to print as pdf for whatever reason. I myself prefer it's advanced counterpart nova pdf where it will auto rename files and has many more options but as long as you don't mind naming every file, this is an excellent pdf printer.

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Tiny Burner

Not bad but sure aint good

This has plenty of options for burning, oh wait, I take that back, I didn't see any. Well, maybe .iso. The interface is easy, the program is extremely slow loading up a list for whatever files you choose to burn. The interface is dull and buggy and program likes to stop responding. It will burn files to DVD very fast, I'll give it that but that's as far as it goes. I don't recommend this, there have to be 100 free burning softwares alone that do a better job. Don't waste your time with this, get something else you don't have to dawdle with.

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JetStart Free

Eh....

At it's core, I see what they are trying to accomplish here and it's not half bad. I agree there should be some settings backup in place here. The program is nice to set custom items and quickly browses through programs and system options, however, do not hit the system options or right click and choose open, thinking you will get options like hibernate because it will simply put your computer into hibernate. It's alright for some custom settings but really, I don't care for it and find it to be just another program I don't need running, but that's my opinion, others may find this useful, can't hurt to try.

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Kastor Free Audio Extractor

Very good

As it's stated, it extracts music, sound from video. Ok, YouTube video, easy enough, simply convert, however there are others that aren't so easily converted, not to mention if you want a portion of the music or sound. That being said, KFAE is a perfect tool to do just that, extract it and convert at the same time, great piece of software.

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SimilarImages

The best I've used

In my opinion, this is the best image duplicate finder there is. I've used many and gave up over time due to having so many that were, simply put, NOT a match to an image. Others with preview have in the past, made the preview to look just like the supposed matched image, yet when deleted, it was a different image. Very untrustworthy. Some were good but lacked speed or options. Along comes SimilarImages. It has an extremely easy to use interface that anyone can understand, has side by side "trustworthy" preview, plus a host of previews on the side when more than one duplicate is found. You can then choose to see the images in the side by side by simply clicking on them. You have the option to delete on demand as well. There is another feature, "Threshold", where you can adjust the value of when pictures will be deemed similar. There is also the auto delete feature (which obviously requires caution) but if you know you have duplicate files, but scattered, you have numerous options to auto delete these files, by size, date, etc... I have 20,000 pictures and this... this is EXACTLY what I was waiting for, the BEST duplicate image finder out there.

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Chameleon Folder

Nice shortcut

It gives you a list of recent files (sounds familiar there) but you can customize others, filters, and more. It's easy access from the task bar, works great, does what it says.

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JPEG 2000 Compressor

It's alright

Yes, it does compress JPEG2000 files, took longer than expected for a 600 kb pic, BUT JPEG2000 is more resource intense than jpeg, but if it had batch convert, you'd be there a while. Another thing, you can't load a JPEG2000 photo into JPEG2000 compressor, it won't take it so you can't really view what you have using this either. (HINT)include a JPEG2000 viewer in this, may get a higher rating. That said, yes, Jpeg2000 has better compression, yes, it supports lossless and lossy, yes, you get a far better image with less size. The problem is, Windows does not support it. I could not get a JPEG2000 to open in Photoshop (can get a plugin however) and maybe newer PS will open it, I have an older version, or Gimp, neither recognize it. You can get things that view it, or plugins for current programs so all is not lost and I'm sure there are many ways to work with JPEG2000. I believe Irfanview supports it as do some others. Currently, until everything catches up with it, there may be little use for this program. Not sure how far back Jpeg2000 goes, I think 2001. If it hasn't caught on by now, it may never but who knows?

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RetroShare

Talk about cool

Well, where to begin? File share locally? Ubetcha! Private messaging? Yep. RSS? There. Public options? Check. There is so much to this that it was actually overwhelming. Not because I don't understand it but I was expecting a more basic network sharing application and when I got into this, I simply couldn't believe what this held in store. Pretty much everything. Does that cover it? Yep, would give this more than a 5 if I could.

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Pencil

Needs more options...

This program needs more options and a fix on a small quirk or two. One, when drawing freehand, the lines tend to break or rather, quit whenever they feel like it. I tried with both a drawing pad and without, same issue. Also, I've lost a whole drawing by clicking on a tool, just random happenings, sometimes I click on paint brush, the drawing disappears, or bucket fill, etc... The selection tool works erratically as do other tools. What's up with the modify curve? More like, try to modify, kiss it goodbye, just disappears as well. As far as options, I do feel it's lacking. Some basic shape options would be nice, something modern, something unheard of, like, oh.... a circle select. The only thing keeping me giving this a rating at all is the fact it's free, has some OK options, and decent export.

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Swiff Player

Doesn't get easier

While still not my fav, it's still an awesome player in it's own right, click on swf, play, done. I would still recommend this to anyone.

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FontPage

Was ok at best

Well, it's a decent viewer but nothing special. It's also a bit slow bringing up fonts opposed to others. It does have some good features, albeit the useless 3-D view is NOT one of them. Viewing fonts are great but why would I want to choose a TYPE to view the fonts in, could be misleading as to what the font truly looks like so I don't understand the need to bold them or anything else if you can't apply it in any way. You can print a list or selected text. Either way, it's free, it can view your fonts but I was really arguing with myself to give this a 2 or 3, I went with three, wish there was a 2 and a half though.

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BurnAware Free

Still decent

I have used this on and off for a few years now, mainly on my kids' systems and my wife's since they like a more basic type burning software, plus I recommend it to many who are new to burning anything. This has always come through. After a few years of using it, only had a couple of coasters, nothing more or less than any other software (likely a couple of bad CDs) so it's doing well. If as others say had many coasters, it may be another issue. I have it installed on 3 systems plus many people who I suggested this to and they are still happy with it. Also, it's been updated since most reviews were made and it's far better than it was in my opinion. It's not the most complicated software for sure and I do use others but I have to use this one enough to know it very well. Currently, you can burn bluray, image, boot disk, audio , video, works well, nice software.

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Freemake Video Downloader

Great downloader

FYI: If you install the Firefox plugin for this, don't look around for it, it should be in the upper right corner. I had no notice from the program that it resided there. Just find a vid, click on the icon, it loads the url automatically or you can past the url in manually. It has plenty of convert options or mp3 from the vid. Usually I don't use something like this but I'll make an exception in this case.

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XnView Shell Extension

Awesome little extension

Based off the X64 version, this is a great right click enhancement, you can convert an image, rotate, send to imageshack and when you click on the options, you get, well, a lot more options and you can back up your settings. I feel this has just the right amount of options for this, nothing too fancy, else it would just be another program, yet enough for a right click option on the go. Very well put together.

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TreeSize

Very nice

You get a nice bar graph type list to work with and it's actually easier than others I've used, some have this type of view as an option but I will admit that Tree Size was very fast, extremely easy to find large files or any files for that matter. You can in fact work with files right from TreeSize's interface which is a plus. This is definitely a top notch viewer.

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PerfectDisk

Works perfectly

I would have to say this is the most thorough defragmenter out there. The whole program is very stable, runs great, has other great options like the space management report and others. Stealth patrol works great, optimizing as it goes, had no issues with slowdowns. Not often do I feel a software is worth the asking price, but I would definitely say this is. Two thumbs up and 5 stars.

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Saleen File Pro

Everything in one

This is definitely a top notch file viewer, size viewer, file and folder compare and more. Initially,you get a really cool tree map view which looks more like a Google map area, everything labeled nicely, easy to get around. I love the fact you can use the file and folder compare within the system, no need for a separate software to do this. Awesome program, a must have.

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LiLi USB Creator (Linux Live)

Works great

No problem installing and creating a bootable Linux drive. The interface is likely one of the easiest to get around, mainly for newbies. There are others that do the same IMHO and while this is nice, in my opinion, no difference beneath it all but works very well. Still a 5.

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QuickGamma

Got my gamma

Even with the video card I have, getting the gamma settings just wasn't right. This little gem set my gamma just right. No matter what I did, the folders on this monitor were too bright around the edges, if I enhanced them, they would be too bright, too dim or too colorful. Again, this fixed that issue. NOTE: You have to have a good eye for this else it may not even look like you are changing anything. Open up a documents folder or something you can adjust by, you WILL see the difference. Definitely a 5.

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