TortoiseSVN 1.6.17

ansvlug

Reviewing 1.6.8.19260 (Apr 27, 2010)

This installer is a little buggy, but if you run it again and click "Repair" everything works as expected.

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DEKSI Network Inventory 9.86

DEKSI Network Inventory provides a complete software and hardware inventory of all your network p.c.s. DEKSI Network Inventory is an extremely powerful, feature rich, advanced, but easy to use software system designed to provide network administrators with comprehensive and detailed reporting on all the software and hardware inventory installed on your networked computers. You can view the Information remotely, generate a variety of different reports, as well as track the changes that occurred since your last inventory was run. With DEKSI Network Inventory you can export this valuable information into MS Access, MS Excel, CSV, and SQL.

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CopyTrans Manager 0.944

netean

Reviewing 0.944 (Jun 1, 2011)

I'm giving this a 1 because it's VERY deceptively marketed. It's plastered all over the site that it's FREE, yet, strangely it's $19.99 in the Store. So in this case it's Free as in "we won't ask you to pay before you download it" but not actually free any any real sense that you would associate with software.

Don't have a problem with paying for good software, DO have a problem with misleading marketing. If it's not free, say so.

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nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 275.33

DudeBoyz

Reviewing 275.33 (Jun 3, 2011)

Testing on my laptop. They added some incredibly annoying GPU ACTIVITY MONITOR thing that shows up in the Notification area and no matter how many times I try to toggle it off, it keeps coming back on its own.

How many little junky things are they going to add and not allow us to properly disable / turn off?

I just want the DRIVER - not all the extra junk that they are putting in. PLEASE let us have the option of NOT installing anything but the core driver. And test all your updates to confirm that they work properly, cause I can't toggle that thing off, and I can't get it to disappear from the context menu either.

Back to the previous versions...

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CCleaner for Mac OS X 1.00.026 Beta

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware.

Publisher

Piriform Ltd.

Homepage

CCleaner

Latest Changes - First Beta Release

- Safari cleaning

- Firefox cleaning

- Cleaning Trash, Recent Files and Servers

- Cleaning Temporary Folder

Other Versions

CCleaner for Windows

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System Explorer Portable 2.8.2

bobad

Reviewing 2.3.8 (Oct 18, 2010)

Excellent program, not perfect.

Text is horrendous. Seems to have a slow refresh frequency, causing the text to appear thin and jumpy with insufficient contrast. Selecting larger font and using Windows ClearType feature doesn't help.

Tray icon is so annoying I turned it off, not very useful to me anyway, you may find it useful.

I love the initial security scan, I wish it could be used every time I start the program. Maybe there's a way to change that option in the INI file!

Gets 4.5/5! Highly recommended!

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Microsoft Image Composite Editor (64-bit) 1.4.4

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats.

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CuteHotspot 2.4

CuteHotspot lets you charge the customers of your cafe, club, shop, hotel, etc. when they connect their laptops, PDAs or any other mobile devices to your access point (Wi-Fi hotspot) and use the Internet to surf the web, read emails or chat via an instant messenger. Setup point-of-sale (POS) for making walk-in and memeber sales, use the built-in inventory system.

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Smarty Uninstaller 2012 3.0.1

idodialog

Reviewing 2.5.3 (Nov 20, 2009)

I previously used RevoUninstaller. Smarty ups the ante a bit detecting recently installed apps and "possibly broken installations", it will also finish incomplete uninstalls.
My only real criticism is its fairly slow and long routine when it starts.

No big deal that it calls the programs uninstaller and runs it!

I let it detect all the rubbish left behind - folders, shortcuts and registry entries and let it clean out the lot. So far (!) it hasn't broken anything - and I've used it a lot over 5 or 6 months - so i'd say it is very safe and reliable - whether it (or Revo for that matter - actually cleans everything out - I'm not about to go hunting through the registry!

Hard to get too excited about this program - mainly because it does what it is supposed to do without too much fuss. An added benefit (which they don't tell you about) is that it comes bundled with a very good and simple process inspector, a secure deletion tool, and a startup manager.
Runs flawlessly on Win7 too.

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Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection 1.0.3.9

morrig

Reviewing 1.0.1.1 (Jun 22, 2010)

What would make this even better if there where beta versions in suite,no hassle like usually with them?

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Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale 5.0

Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale is a new generation of restaurant management software. It is a complete solution, beginning with taking orders from patrons, and ending with billing and tax reports. The user interface is carefully optimized for high speed input of a patron's order and the prevention of common mistakes. It's designed for using on multiple computers, and contains reliable and secure authorization levels. The layouts of the guest bill can be customized, and the program can be set up for any currencies, taxes, and gratuities. Payments can be accepted by cash, credit cards, or checks. For managers, there is a rich set of reports that shows a complete picture of restaurant operations and life cycles: menu consumption, reservation frequency, hours of high restaurant load, busiest tables, most active employees, payment methods, and automatic tax calculations. By standardizing the entire restaurant management process, the software radically improves serving speed.

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Process Lasso (x64) Free Edition 5.0.0.23

jcollake

Reviewing 4.00.17 (Nov 19, 2010)

This version is even more free than the last. It keeps working forever. Some advanced features are disabled over time (none of the critical ones like ProBalance and default priorities and affinities). This version has no nag timer like the last, which is why I say it is more free.

I call it Shareware so I'm not assaulted by those who prefer Freeware labels only be put on something that is free in every way, and in every feature. It has been labelled Shareware here for 2 years now, so... ;)

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Microsoft Image Composite Editor (32-bit) 1.4.4

AntiochMedia

Reviewing 1.2 (Dec 5, 2008)

Sorry, just isn't useful. I do Virtual Tours as part of my company's offerings. I use PTGui.

While this is free, it lacks the advanced options that are essential for me to actually complete a tour. I've tried several sets and while it can figure out some, when your set doesn't work, you're screwed. PTGui allows control point editing and all of the needed features that will get you from a hopeless set of photos to a full set. Stitching areas of plain sky or blank walls etc -- those tough situations.

I'll keep my eye on this project as I have no love for PTGui beyond the fact that it -does- the job. I was actually excited about this, but much like the auto stitching tool in Photoshop, it just doesn't cut it.

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Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Alpha 1

mancubs

Reviewing 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) (May 2, 2011)

Well lets get to the point , i have bought 98/98se mil/xp pro/ vista/ 7uitmate/ and from xp pro its been down hill. AL the way with Microsoft, and a lot of wasted dollars , crashes , blue screen of deaths , complete hard drive , renew with ,Microsoft, lots of recoveries , massive check and scan disk , need I go on , massive up dates and just about any thing else .So I started with Zorine , a good Linux o s , the moved to mandriva/ then to open suse then to Xubuntu now I am in to the 11/04 Ubuntu , it is by far the best o s I have ever used and I am ruining a state of the art comp it is poetry in motion with NO problems what so ever it is much quicker than any thing I have used before , I WOULD LIKE TO SAY A BIG THANK YOU FOR OR YOU GUYS AND GIRLS THAT HAVE BUILT THIS and I am now moving away from Microsoft ,

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Titan FTP Server 8.40 Build 1301

boulderdrop

Reviewing 6.20 (Apr 22, 2008)

Another G6 clone and it's hideous "tree view" for organizing information. I love BPFTP, I'll stick with it; I just can't stand these "Microsoft Management Console" UIs.

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FairStars Audio Converter Pro 1.46

FairStars Audio Converter Pro is a professional audio file conversion tool to convert WAV, RealMedia(RM, RA, RAM, RMJ, RMVB), AIF, AIFF, AIFC, AU, Creative VOC, PVF, PAF, SVX, IFF, APE, FLAC, OGG, VQF, MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, M4A, M4B, AAC, AMR, AWB, WMA, WMV, ASF to the popular formats - WMA, MP3, AAC, M4A, AMR, AWB, VQF, OGG, FLAC, APE and WAV formats.

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LibreOffice for Windows 3.4.0

KuHGl

Reviewing 3.4.0 RC1 (May 25, 2011)

I can't believe it... since several weeks I only found many small bugs. Now I wanted to work on some documents and... I can't find any.

LibreOffice k i l l e d several documents (I assume this happened as a result of the last crash. So I only can reume, LibreOffice is simply for those people, who are brave enough to risk even severe data loss. Not only the last letter has been killed, also some *.ott (which means Templates), which I now can create completely new - very b a d!

I wanted to give LO a 'chance', but under the given circumstances I'll removit from my disk.
All of you, who go on using it: Make security copies of every single file you use and - important - don't open these copies directly with LO (so that the path to these copies can't be found by LO), but copy the to your working folder.

Also I had several severe problems using a very simple printer... with files, I worked without any problem before (*odt).

Perhaps I give it a try after a major update (4.0 or so), but for now I'm fed up with this software, which generated a few hours of u n e c e s s a r y work.

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LinkAssistant Enterprise 3.16.1

LinkAssistant Enterprise is powerhouse SEO software created for link building and management. It's a must-have SEO tool for webmasters and professional SEOs who want to catapult their sites ahead of the competition in search results.

Publisher

Viktar Khamianok

Homepage

LinkAssistant Enterprise

Requirements

Java Runtime Environment 1.4

Uninstaller

Yes

Latest Changes - New quick-filter option Does Not Contain was added

- Export of tags from LinkAssistant project to another is now available

- The number of tasks that can be performed simultaneously is now 25

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Kantaris Media Player 0.7.5

wodez

Reviewing 0.6.3 (Nov 4, 2009)

"13Mb? Get real. KMplayer creams this"

What do you have? 120MB harddrive?

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IpfilterX B21-MatMania Beta

Blue Joker

Reviewing B21-Bioship Beta (May 11, 2011)

I think we will see many updates coming now enforcing effectiveness of the ipfilter itself ;-) .

@anomoly
I will trust to one of the first ones that worked on the ip blocking , this since 2001,
second , I ' m sure that in those junklists there's also the range of your isp among the ranges of tons of normal users .

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Photo Toolbox 1.0.14.3

Latest Changes - Add a check-box in Options dialog to control whether a message-box will be shown when a new version is avaiable

- The show/hide states of tool-bar, side-bar and status bar can be saved and resumed

- The Floating toolpad window's states, size and position can be resumed when startup

- Application main window's states, size and position can be resumed when startup

- When the selection is in some special situations, cropping operation can not be performed

- Set default values for application settings/options when the first running

- Application title is not changed immediately after registration

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Download Accelerator Plus 9.6.5.2 Beta

baki_princ

Reviewing 10.0.0.3 Alpha (Feb 5, 2011)

I dotn understeadn whats the point besides JDownloader, why other downloaders even exist?

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LibreOffice for Linux 3.4.0

Se7enIs6

Reviewing 3.3.0 Beta 2 (Nov 12, 2010)

The OpenOffice.org Team left Oracle and decide to do LibreOffice !
"Viva la LibreOffice", said Guy Lunardi, product management Director at Novell.

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LibreOffice for Mac OS X 3.4.0

Se7enIs6

Reviewing 3.3.0 Beta 2 (Nov 12, 2010)

The OpenOffice.org Team left Oracle and decide to do LibreOffice !
"Viva la LibreOffice", said Guy Lunardi, product management Director at Novell.

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Wireshark 1.6.0 RC2

64ninjas

Reviewing 1.1.2 (Jan 16, 2009)

excellent program, does what I need and helps me resolve connection issues and more..

UI on this site sucks, if I wanted neowin.net I'd go to neowin.net

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DEKSI Network Monitor 8.8

DEKSI Network Monitor is a tool that monitors servers located on your local network and the Internet. After problems are found on the monitored servers DEKSI Network Monitor will first try to correct the problems. If DNM cannot correct the problems it notifies the administrator about the problem via e-mail, sms or a network messaging service.

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Mozilla Thunderbird (v5) for Windows 5.0 Beta 1

DudeBoyz

Reviewing 5.0 Beta 1 (Jun 3, 2011)

You can tell it's a beta. It has some screen artifact issues (moving the mouse over all the text, etc cleans it up), lacks some IMAP folder functions (like being able to hide folders locally while leaving them still existing on the IMAP server), lacks some feedback options (such as detailed status when checking multiple accounts) and it's about 40% bigger than version 3.1

Still, it's promising. I'll test it on one machine but probably use 3.1 on all the others.

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Mozilla Thunderbird (v5) for Mac OS X 5.0 Beta 1

Other Versions

Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows

Mozilla Thunderbird for Linux

Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac OS X

Mozilla Thunderbird (v2)

Mozilla Thunderbird (v5) for Windows

Mozilla Thunderbird (v5) for Linux

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Process Lasso (x32) Free Edition 5.0.0.23

tin_yeuk

Basically, Process Lasso is a VERY VERY light weighted software. I have tried several other similar softwares, but they really cannot achieve what Process Lasso can achieve. Basically, Foreground Process Thread Priority Boost is unique, and cannot be found in other similar type of softwares. One software called "Process Priority Master" which claims itself to be the best, I have tried it myself but it's nothing but just a bloatware, a real example of bloatware. It takes like 30%+ CPU in the background all the time !!! Jeremy never claims his softwares are the best, because Jeremy has a good and professional attitude, which we all should learn from him. I can tell, no other similar softwares up to the current date, performs better than Process Lasso.

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Windows 7 Manager (64-bit) 2.1.4

pjafrombbay

Reviewing 2.0.9 (Mar 17, 2011)

Generally I don't like software products like this that tend to cost $19.95. But this one which costs $40 is an absolute rip-off.

Try these free alternatives:
1. http://www.google.com/ and
2. http://www.annoyances.org//

Regards,
Peter

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Photo Slideshow Creator 2.67

Photo Slideshow Creator allows you to create cool slideshows of your photos, complete with music, animated transitions between slides and fancy designs. Using the program, you can create a great last-minute slideshow gift for a holiday or a slideshow that can be shared via the Internet or on mobile devices.

Publisher

AMS Software

Homepage

Photo Slideshow Creator

Limitations

Yes - 10 day timeout

Uninstaller

Yes

Latest Changes - Create Full HD video slideshows

- Supports English, German and French

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Mozilla Thunderbird (v5) for Linux 5.0 Beta 1

Other Versions

Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows

Mozilla Thunderbird for Linux

Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac OS X

Mozilla Thunderbird (v2)

Mozilla Thunderbird (v5) for Windows

Mozilla Thunderbird (v5) for Mac OS X

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Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs for Windows 2.61

DudeBoyz

Reviewing 2.58 (Mar 4, 2011)

These seem to cause trouble on my Windows XP systems but help on my Windows 7 system. Mixed bag, as usual.

Given that Microsoft has pretty much ripped out the sound code and rewrote it all in software, and that multi-core systems are in place in many homes, onboard sound can give very, very good results compared to dedicated cards.

Given how inconsistent Creative drivers have been over the years, it's no wonder that most people are not upset about the change in the way sound is processed in Vista and Win 7 and the push for onboard sound has taken hold so substantially .

Regardless, I'm not that happy about the combined codec download and codebase. I wish that they would optimize code for each chipset on each platform. As it is, if they tweak stuff for Win 7, they sometimes goof up something in Windows XP, and that kinda sucks.

But it is what it is and it works ok for now I guess. I can always just leave the XP systems at the earlier versions.

NOTE:

R257 = version 6299
R258 = version 6316

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System Explorer 2.8.2

jayarkay

I love this tool, and have been using this for a long time. A couple of things:

When I select a process from the process list, the list scrolls to bring my selection to the center (or as close to the center as it can). There may be users who find that feature nice - so, maybe you guys can add an option to turn scrolling on/off?

Also, is there an option to hide or turn off the left pane? Or maybe switch between having a pane or showing them as tabs (as in the older version). I don't want part of my window being taken up by a pane that I don't need after I have made my selection. In the pane itself, there are expand/collapse buttons, but it doesn't allow me to collapse a section.

Under some of the sections like Modules, Services, Drivers etc, clicking on View --> Select Columns... throws an error saying "Active control does not support this function!", whereas I can still right click on the list and select/unselect columns that I want. The first two were more of "feature requests" while this third one is probably a bug in the code somewhere.

Thanks!

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phpMyAdmin 3.4.2 RC1

Orbitration

Reviewing 2.11.1 RC1 (Sep 17, 2007)

Not to be argumentative, but.......
You're obviously not using php v4 Windows, and I am.
There is no fix for this yet, nor will there be it seems.

Why am I still using v4 ? because every one of my realtime Linux website servers is still using it along with mysql 3 or 4.
EVERY one.

They don't seem to be using any PHPMyAdmin later than 2.10+, either.

Why am I downgrading PHPMyAdmin?

Either the message needs to be removed, or whatever, but my PHP/MySQL combo works perfectly, and the only thing reporting an 'error' is... this program, versions 2.11+

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Linux Kernel 3.0 RC1

Artem S. Tashkinov

Reviewing 2.6.35-rc6 (Jul 26, 2010)

2Slipped it in:

Just because you cannot find a changelog, doesn't mean you should underrate this software.

Human readable changelog is available on http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_35 shortly after the stable kernel has been released. Raw changelog is always available on http://kernel.org/.

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PC Decrapifier 2.2.6

Vivek Kowshik

Reviewing 2.2.6 (Jun 3, 2011)

On seeing so many 5 stars, I decided to give this a try. Used Universal Extractor to extract all the files and ran the "portable app" without installing. Can someone tell me what use is this app when all that it can do is remove autorun items, and uninstall applications??? Unfortunately I have already uninstalled everything that I had found useless, for me to try out this feature.

Is there anything that it can do which a full fledged cleaning app such as ioBit Toolbox cannot handle?? Can someone tell me whether this app ever uninstalled anything so cleanly (folders, files and registry entries) as the ioBit utility does???

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µTorrent for Windows (v3.0) 3.0 Build 25345 RC4

Blaxima

Reviewing 3.0.25234 Beta (May 4, 2011)

Actually johnk119, the controversy started when BitTorrent bought utorrent and not because it's user base has grown slightly. It always has been rather popular.

With the old utorrent I could minimize it to my tray and let it do its thing while I did mine. With these versions I notice it impeding on what I'm doing. It's definately getting a little resource hungry and that was one of the main reasons I used it over Azerus. I also noticed that when finished with it my bandwidth was still very sluggish. I had to reboot my modem and router but as soon as I used this version the bandwidth was throttled again.

I've gone back to 1.6.1 and have no more issues with my system and my bandwidth. Looks like I'll be sticking with that seeing the direction they are taking this software.

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Lock Folder Lock File! 1.3

Lock Folder Lock File! gives you a whole new level of security, allowing you to lock access to specific files, entire folders, or even entire drives. It also allows you to protect your Windows desktop from unauthorized modification and all the features of the program can be easily accessed from the system tray. This way, only you will have access to the files you protect by using your master password which you specify when you set up the security options.

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Miro for Linux 4.0.1

Dwiebelhaus

Reviewing 0.9.9.9 Public Preview 3 (Nov 6, 2007)

Top Notch grade A stuff here.

Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

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Recover My Files 4.6.8.1091

shodan816

Reviewing 3.9.8.5813 (Nov 12, 2007)

I have tested both Recover My Files and Recuva extensively. Recover My Files is far superior and discovers far more recoverable files than Recuva does. In all fairness, however, Recuva IS FREE, so that accounts for a lot. RMF should be priced less than it is, for sure. $70. is WAY out of line for a file recovery utility. The author would be far better off charging, say $20. and having far fewer people using cracked copies of it. My opinion, of course. The only reason I gave this a '3' instead of a '5' is the absurd price...

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Elcomsoft Facebook Password Extractor 2.0

Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

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Kantaris Media Player Lite 0.7.5

Bala7

Reviewing 0.7.0 (Mar 24, 2011)

This Lite version has opencandy and other adware removed.
uses VLC engine.

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Mp3tag 2.49

roj

Reviewing 2.47a (Nov 22, 2010)

Love this software with one caveat:

Managing user-defined strings for the various file tagging and renaming drop boxes (specifically deleting unwanted strings) desperately needs work. Deleting those strings one at a time is completely unacceptable, especially since they don't necessarily stay deleted.

Other than that, this is perfection.

FOUR stars for an utterly indspensible member of my music management toolkit and extreme kudos to the author.

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Sothink Flash Downloader for Firefox 1.5

jetz

Reviewing 1.5 (Jun 2, 2011)

ch!nk converter spammer!!
This junk is not free!!
SCAMWARE!

Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

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Google Chrome (v13) 13.0.782.1 Beta

Input Overload

Reviewing 13.0.782.1 Beta (Jun 2, 2011)

Installed & running without issue on 5 PC's today. An excellent browser that will be the default in the near future as it’s leaving Firefox in the weeds.

Note: this is a ‘Beta’ – I hope you are listening at the back... If you have issues which I haven’t had go to the Chrome homepage & install the stable.

@Urinal - it sounds like you have a Boot Sector Virus \ Root kit. You probably got this from using 'keygens' to get a serial for programs instead of actually buying them. 'Mil Shield’ perhaps?

Norton do an excellent free Malware removal tool that should sort it. This is the only logical conclusion to your many spyware outbreaks as you will be redirected to crap if you have such Malware on your PC. I would also recommend you buying the full version of ‘Malwarebytes’ or ‘Prevx’ which should prevent re-infection.

One of your many (5 as I know of) clean installs will not help as the Virus will survive by hiding in the boot sector & will resist a format. This answer is free, unfortunately I'm going to have to charge you for more advice @ £350 GBP per day.

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Maxthon (v3) 3.1.1.900 Beta 3

- * After logined the browser manually, the Status Bar information displayed even when disabled it

- [Webkit]

- * Fixed the possible crash problem caused by using AdHunter

- * When the title attribute value of url was longer with mouse over it, ToolTips might blink and CPU usage would go up

- * Fixed the problem that CUP usage too high caused by continually loading resources might make the browser unresponsive

- * Sometimes there would be "Failed to connect to the website" when went back

- * Failed to call the third-party download sometimes

- * It might go back to a invalid blank page when input illegal IP address for direct visiting

- * Releasing on a link when pressed the mouse wheel to drag the window, it might make an error on opening a new one

- * Favorites sidebar would turn to blank white after Webkit crashed

- * Going back to the previous page by "Backspace" invalid sometimes

- [Favorites]

- * In "Add to Favorites" window,drop-down button for choosing the folder was invalid

- [Smart Address Bar]

- * The scribed rules might cover user rules sometimes

- [Split Screen]

- * Fixed the problem that enabling Split Screen might cause browser crash

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Windows 7 Manager (32-bit) 2.1.4

Uriel

Reviewing 2.0.3 (Dec 1, 2010)

The other day I saw a herd of pigs flying south in a V formation and I said, "what the hell? "

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Firefox Plumber 0.0.1.12

niknetpc

Reviewing 0.0.1.12 (Jun 3, 2011)

WTF? Nothing changes,this program also use same resources like Firefox, increase it twice! :) Crapware

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Auslogics Duplicate File Finder 2.1.0.0

CyberDoc999

Reviewing 2.0.4.40 (Dec 24, 2010)

junk

Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

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