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General Software Discussion / Castlecops 5-Year Anniversary Contest

« on: January 31, 2007, 10:12 PM »

CastleCops issued a Press Release this morning announcing the upcoming contest celebration of our fifth year anniversary.

The contest recognizes its volunteer community achievements and excellence in Internet security with a contest furnished with prizes by well-known industry organizations. “This contest is a testament to CastleCops and its vision for a secure Internet,” explains Paul Laudanski, founder of CastleCops. For the past 5 years volunteers from around the world have come together at CastleCops to aid the community in creating a more secure Internet.

Each participating company has donated their software as prizes. The total estimated retail value for all prizes meets or exceeds $130,000 US. Donations by the following organizations listed with conservative estimated retail subtotals. Details will be posted shortly on the CastleCops homepage including rules of entry and participation. This contest begins at 12:00 PM EST on February 1, 2007.

Note: Stay Tuned for details about what software is available in the contest.

http://www.castlecops.com/

http://www.castlecop...est_Celebration.html

13 more hours!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Mst Defrag 35% Discount

« on: December 15, 2006, 04:31 AM »

mst software launches new web and celebrates this with a 35% discount.
mst software has today finalized their new web presence. Please feel free to leave a comment to the webmaster. To get the discount please use the following voucher code during your order: WEB2006. This voucher code is valid until 12/17/2006.

http://www.mstsoftware.com/en/News

Enjoy this offer!!!!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Raxco 20% Discount November

« on: November 28, 2006, 11:35 AM »

http://www.wildersse...wthread.php?t=155950

Through the end of November, Raxco is offering 20% off of all products purchased from their Online Store.

Use the code BBNOV.

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Living Room / Software Competition

« on: November 20, 2006, 08:46 AM »

Do you guys think it's morally right for someone with the role of "Feature/Concept Input- Software Tester- Website Creator" to openly criticize the software's competitors without telling people his involvement?

What does "Feature/Concept Input- Software Tester- Website Creator" of a product tells you? He's not the developer but he creates the site. So this means he's part of the team?

Will you help create a website for a shareware product for free?????

One fine example at Wilders Security Forum. Can you guess who?

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General Software Discussion / Speeding up Windows

« on: October 20, 2006, 10:31 PM »

Will removing unused drivers/fonts speed up Windows Boot time?

I saw this description: Remove useless/invalid drivers to improve system performance.
From: http://www.vnunet.co...166877/driver-genius

How true are these claims? Also how to go about removing them manually instead of using software?

Tried to delete the fonts but they just keep coming back.

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Living Room / Forum Discrimination....

« on: October 18, 2006, 06:22 AM »

Do you guys have any experience?
The latest one I have blew me off.

I made a suggestion to have a FAQ sticky at one forum. No replies from any moderators. A few weeks later, someone made the same suggestion and wham! instantly(or a few hours later) 2 moderators replied. The FAQ is created.

The only difference is my post count is lower. I have 70+ and he has 250. I don't know why so many forums give priority to high post count users. Doesn't anyone start with 0 post count?

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Backup Guide / ShadowProtect

« on: October 15, 2006, 05:25 AM »

http://www.storagecr...hadowProtectDesktop/

Will you do a review on this newcomer?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Now it's Paragon for FREE!

« on: October 14, 2006, 09:31 PM »

Paragon Exact Image 7 SE ( expire 01 Nov '06 )
http://www.vnunet.co.../2165194/exact-image

Paragon Drive Copy 8 Personal SE ( expire on or around 18th Nov '06 )
http://www.vnunet.co...-drive-copy-personal

Two products for free!

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Found Deals and Discounts / [Offer Now Ended] Acronis True Image for FREE

« on: October 09, 2006, 07:12 PM »

http://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7

Version is old but nice to have!

Edit byCarol Haynes :

Note that as of 5th January 2008 this offer no longer seems to be available

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General Software Discussion / Is AVG really that bad?

« on: October 09, 2006, 07:15 AM »

How come nobody shows any interest in its new security suite? Instead I see people discussing how good NOD32/Antivir suite is and they aren't even out or exist yet!

Topics on AVG usually end up with 0 reply. Does anyone buy the Pro version or its other versions? Why does most people kept saying AVG free is AVG? I think the new anti-malware version will be very different from its free version since it has ewido in it.

Is it really that bad/average that nobody wants to discuss it?

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Living Room / Is Betanews....

« on: September 29, 2006, 02:38 AM »

verification system down? I signed up as a member many days ago and has yet received a verify email.
Tried emailing them but no replies. My gmail spam is empty too.

Do they block gmail?

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Found Deals and Discounts / McAfee for free

« on: September 26, 2006, 08:18 AM »

Found this at Wilders Security Forums

http://www.wildersse...?p=845365#post845365

The shop links are below:

http://www.buy.com/p...c/105/202987887.html
http://www.buy.com/p...c/105/202987884.html
http://www.buy.com/p...c/105/202987884.html
http://www.buy.com/p...c/105/202987884.html

Only for US though. Can't buy it

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General Software Discussion / Opera new bug?

« on: September 25, 2006, 05:03 PM »

Not sure if this is new or old news.
Only for those who use master password.

Here are the steps that make it stop working:

1) Use Wand
2) Cancel Prompt
3) Use Wand
4) Enter Master Password
5) Log Out
6) Use Wand

And no more prompts until you exit and restart Opera. If you share computers, that may be a problem.

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LaunchBar Commander / Borders

« on: September 21, 2006, 06:10 AM »

Any ideas on removing the borders? I tried the thin thick border option but nothing changed.
See the attached image....

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LaunchBar Commander / Update Question

« on: September 21, 2006, 01:22 AM »

Hi,

Can I just use the installer to install over the old version?

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Best E-mail Client / TheBat! Questions

« on: September 19, 2006, 03:26 AM »

Hi guys,

I like to know if updating TheBat by installing over previous version will cause any problems?
Had bad experience with other software although their faqs recommend it. So I like some views from long term users of TheBat.

And do you guys know their version release patterns? Eg: Releasing a major version every 6 months or per year?
Thanks in advance.