Favorite Files

1. Ad Muncher
2. AnyDVD HD
3. CCleaner for Windows
4. CuteFTP Professional
5. DVDFab All-In-One
6. Epguides.com Watcher
7. FFDShow
8. FlashFXP
9. Google Chrome for Windows
10. Homer for Windows
11. HWiNFO32
12. HWiNFO32 (Portable)
13. Koepi's XviD Codec
14. mIRC
15. Paint.NET
16. Process Explorer
17. PuTTY
18. RoboForm
19. Sysinternals Suite
20. VirtualBox
21. Website-Watcher
22. WinSSHD

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - RoboForm

   7.6.6 (Dec 10, 2011)

   I was upset at first regarding the reneging of the lifetime license scheme. However, I contacted the RF team regarding my dissatisfaction and am very happy with the outcome. I have been using RF since well before V6 and am still satisfied with my investment. It took a bit to get a fully functioning chrome adapter, but it works beautifully now and on all sites I use. There have been a lot of updates to this product. That said, an auto-update function would be nice where you didn't have to open the web browser to do it.
   
   I would like to see the ability to enable auto-fill on individual passcards. I would also like to see customized security settings where you can define the maximum age for any passcard, or exclude certain passcards (forums, for example), from those restrictions. The ability to say that a passcard can contain a password for X number of days before changing would be nice. The ability to also require passwords to have certain characteristics (X number of upper case, X lower case, X special characters (which can then be limited as to which characters can be used since not all sites support all special characters), and X numerals) would be nice!
   
   While many here appear very upset over this licensing change, and I surely understand their frustration, I am no longer one of them. Bill Carey, listed below, requested people contact him and I took him up on that offer. This does not mean email him and yell and rant and rave, but be professional. I have found this works with many software developers and can alleviate many of the issues. Maybe not to the extent, in this case, of free updates for life, but it could end in a solution which works out for many.
   
   As for bugs, there have only been one or two times where I have encountered a bug which has actually affected me. One of these was with my bank and chrome. It took a bit to fix but that was also during the initial testing of the chrome adapter and understandable.
   
   Since I know this will be mentioned by one of the constant negative reviewers of this program (as is typical on betanews when someone posts a positive review in midst of a slew of negative reviews), I do not work for, represent, or work with roboform, siber systems, or any of their partners. I am an individual user who has been using this product since well before 2006 and have more than gotten my money's worth.
   
   5/5 for a great product, since that is what we are rating.

2. 
   Review - Ad Muncher

   4.93 Build 32869 Beta (Oct 21, 2011)

   All we get from this developer is "it's coming". This has been going on for way too long. It has been at least 5 years since "http 1.1 support" coding supposedly had started with v4.7.
   
   Here we are at the end of 2011 when http 1.1 and gzip has been standard for how many years? well over a decade? before this product made it big?
   
   This 5.0 release feels a lot more like vaporware with constant broken deadlines, feature delays and feature promises. The developer keeps asking for more patience for features which should have been implemented a long while ago.
   
   You CANNOT use many of the Google features with ad muncher running as it breaks them. +1, domain filtering, many google+ features, gmail functionality, all broken with ad muncher running.
   
   Stop lying to your users. As someone who paid for a lifetime license before the price increase which is raping current users, and someone who has bitten his tongue and had several people purchase licenses under the new "subscription" model...I am sick of the lack of information being provided by this developer. If you are telling me you cannot take 5 minutes and write up a post to your website and/or forum to inform your users about development status, then how am I to believe that you will ever deliver on the features promised to those of us who purchased or are considering purchasing? A once a month status update is not too much to ask and would help keep your users informed.
   
   1 star for a product that will likely never produce a final version with the functionality promised to its users many, many years ago.

3. 
   Review - Ad Muncher

   4.93 Beta Build 32739 (Jul 17, 2011)

   The lack of HTTP 1.1/GZIP functionality is causing many websites to break unless you exit ad muncher. Simply disabling ad muncher does not fix this.
   
   Several Google products are broken with ad muncher running. Several facebook features fail to work with the same situation. The team continues to blame websites for these functions being broken yet they are only broken with AM running.
   
   There are several features which have been promised for several years which are still not present. USB portability might make an appearance but will likely include a hefty price tag given the recent stance of price increases and licensing changes.
   
   Like others, I used to recommend this product. However, that is a thing of the past. At least with browser specific ad block plus extensions (opera, firefox, chrome, IE), I can use the websites I like without fear of breaking functionality because they all support many of the features the developers of AM have been promising for years.
   
   1/5
   
   UPDATED: Now this program breaks my college homepage and prevents a login from occurring when ad muncher is running. A "No filtering on URL" filter does not fix this. AM must be shutdown before the page will login properly.
   
   Also note: While Jeff, list maintainer, was on a "business trip", those users who paid for the premium license did not get list updates for a full week. The sole purpose of buying a premium license is to receive updates more than once per week.

4. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox (v5) for Windows

   5.0 (Jun 18, 2011)

   Betanews, GET YOUR RELEASES RIGHT!
   
   ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/5.0/win32/en-US/index.html
   
   Please note that this link says:
   
   "hanks for your interest in Firefox 5
   We aren't quite finished qualifying Firefox 5 yet. You should check out the latest Beta.
   
   When we're all done with Firefox 5 it will show up on Firefox.com."

5. 
   Review - Ad Muncher

   4.91 Beta Build 32500 (May 8, 2011)

   Like the last two reviewers, I can now confirm after extensive testing that browsing WITHOUT ad muncher is noticeably faster on many http 1.1 enabled sites.
   
   I went for 1 month without using ad muncher on my systems, despite owning several licenses, and can confirm without a doubt that loading pages without ad muncher, even with advertisements, is faster. Now, these are not breakneck differences, but they are noticeable.
   
   That said, various web features which I did not know existed are now present and I can actually make use of them. Google Instant is present and works just as it should. There are several facebook features which now popped up that I did not know existed before. These are but a few of the things I have found while browsing without ad muncher.
   
   I can also tell you that techniques such as persistent connections, pipelining, and content compression can and DO speed up page loading times and make the experience better for the end user.
   
   By not supporting this decade old technology, you are hurting site administrators and forcing them to pay more because the server providers hosting these sites are getting increased load and have to charge more to their customers. This increase in usage and charges on the web hosting end will be off-loaded on the site administrator which will in turn be passed on to the user after it gets too high. Serving up an 8kb compressed page over a 32kb uncompressed page DOES make a difference.
   
   1/5 until http 1.1 and compression support is added, along with all of the other "5.0" features promised more than 5 years ago.
   
   If anyone wants to use google instant, domain blocking, +1, or other google features, and happens to be using ipv6. Try http://ipv6.google.com
   
   Google IPV6 is not touched by ad muncher, so all of these features work beautifully.

6. Comment - Apple does it again? Doctors Samsung images in court filing?

   4.91 Beta Build 32500 (Aug 19, 2011 - 4:14 PM)

   Image doctoring...Yep...there's an app for that!

7. Comment - Skype 5.5 for Windows released, integrates Facebook features

   4.91 Beta Build 32500 (Jul 30, 2011 - 9:01 PM)

   Get rid of the damn home screen at startup!!!!

8. Comment - British police apprehend the public face of Anonymous

   4.91 Beta Build 32500 (Jul 27, 2011 - 6:04 PM)

   "Unlike past arrests, a quick scan of Anonymous' various Twitter feeds showed no mention of Topiary's arrest, just business as usual, including several mentions of its continuing retaliation against PayPal associated with the aforementioned arrests."
   
   Because it was NOT ANONYMOUS, it was LULZSEC!

9. Comment - British police apprehend the public face of Anonymous

   4.91 Beta Build 32500 (Jul 27, 2011 - 5:55 PM)

   http://www.zdnet.com/blo...ore-cyber-attacks/53302
   http://gizmodo.com/58251...ss-arrested-in-scotland
   http://onespot.wsj.com/g...ec-top-boss-arrested-in
   http://www.guardian.co.u...uspect-topiary-arrested
   
   LulzSec Top, NOT anonymous

10. Comment - Is connecting to WiFi from Windows really as hard as MacDonalds claims?

    4.91 Beta Build 32500 (Jul 26, 2011 - 12:12 PM)

    MDGeek, can you not realize that these spammers simply copy part of a previously posted comment and auto-spam the rest?