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Member since April 28, 2008

  • Name

    Steve Markus

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    Algeria

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  1. Review - Weather Watcher Live

    6.0.0.44 Beta (May 26, 2008)

    I'd recommend WWL over WW. It has been very stable on my system, the weather sources are more plentiful, and I haven't found many bugs worth dumping it for. (The main bug I've encountered is that the tray icon sometimes becomes italicized when weatherbug.com isn't available, and stays that way permanently. I guess the question of why weatherbug.com isn't deemed available is also an issue, because whenever that's happened in WWL, I could easily browse to weatherbug.com using Firefox and MSIE.)

  2. Review - PerfectDisk Professional

    Service Pack 2 Build 52 (May 23, 2008)

    I have free (and legitimate) licenses for both the Professional and Server editions of PerfectDisk, yet I use neither. I prefer O&O Defrag Professional.

    Yes, the interface needs work. It also needs to be more responsive.

    And there's nothing wrong with a background defrag monitor if it's implemented correctly. Here, it is not.

  3. Review - O&O Defrag Professional (32-bit)

    10.0.1634 (May 23, 2008)

    Defragmenting is overrated, especially on today's large drives? No, today's huge drives mean many people are storing more and larger files, which makes defragmenting more important than ever. I'm not an idiot who thinks I'm going to get a massive performance boost if I defrag every hour of ever day, but if you add and work with 700-MB+ files as much as I do, defragmenting frequently is very important.

    I've tried most of them, including PerfectDisk, and my favorite is O&O. I like that I can set it to defrag when the screen saver kicks in, and it will simply run--and not stop itself from running just because it ran already during the previous 24 hours.

  4. Review - Weather Watcher Live

    0.0.40 (May 18, 2008)

    When I select a weather source that is identified as "NWS", it displays in the interface as "Weather Bug". I don't want Weather Bug, I want NWS. [Edit: Thank you, Mike, for the clarification. I wish the interface made your explanation unnecessary.]

    I also wish for a more intuitive, Windows-like interface. I'd love to use Weather Pulse, but that thing has always been about as stable for me as a psychiatric patient on PCP.

  5. Review - Central Brain Identifier

    BE 1.0.0.4 Beta 4 Build 12058 (May 18, 2008)

    I just tried this for the first time yesterday. Not only does it look terrible, it crashed. Thinking it had to be a fluke (the crash, not the ugliness), I tried it on my other PC. Same result. Garbage.