Favorite Files

1. FastStone Image Viewer
2. Maxthon (v2)
3. Paint.NET
4. PowerStrip
5. PSPad editor

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Viewpoint Toolbar

   2.6 Beta (Mar 12, 2005)

   This could be a really neat search bar but the spyware aspect of it as well as the search engine itself just make this a bandwidth hog, piece of junk. Look at the example picture, this is indicative of the search results you get when using this bar, ads ads and more ads. I've tried to make this thing do good searches but it proves itself as nothing but a directed ad feeding mechanism.
   
   Clean up your act, let people use it without having to phone home to you, provide a real search functionality and you would maybe have a good contender in the search bar arena. Maybe license your interface to a real search engine company as an alternate interface product.

2. 
   Review - Game XP

   1.5.2.2 (Feb 3, 2005)

   Warning!! Believe the disclaimer that the author writes in his README! Do NOT use this program if you do not have a method of restoring your computer from the point where it will not even startup in SAFE mode!! I say that because if you look at all of the stuff that this program does (have to go to the website and go through the forums etc. unfortunately) the above scenario is a possibility, in fact, it is probable. If you DO know what you are doing, then this program is probably not for you as you would be a power user that would want to have more control over their settings than this program gives.
   
   Suggestion: Make every setting explicitly "click-able" and tool-tip understandable with links to why you turn something off in order to gain performance. Have warnings for particularly scary service shutdowns and reg changes. Basically document document document! Your target audience is apparently NOT the power user so don't expect 'regular' computer users to understand what gun they are pulling the trigger on. Good luck!