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Ath's Software is where DC Member Ath keeps the software he has written and shared.
- Number of programs available: 10+
- Last updated: 2018
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Mini-reviews on the forum
This page collects various reviews that have been posted by users on our forum. To browse a more complete and up-to-date collection of mini-reviews, check out the mini-review section of our forum here.
Rasterbator: Mini-ReviewPrint huge posters of your digital images. Rasterbator (free) converts your images into tiny little dots, and then creates a multi-page pdf that you can print, assemble, and hang on your wall. When you are close to the poster, you will see the little dots, but at a distance, they will blend together, and you will see the image in all its glory.
Rasterbator is a fun application that does what it says it does. I am looking forward to decorating my office with these posters. I wish the program would allow you to modify the default settings so that I wouldn't have to select the language, paper size, etc every time; but it is very quick to make the changes as it is. I'll give it a 4.5 because of the lack of retainable settings. |
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FirstDefense-ISR: Member Mini-ReviewThe ISR in FirstDefense-ISR stands for Instant System Recovery, and that is what this program promises. Let me tell you, it delivers in an astounding way. While at first glance, it may appear that this program is little more than a disk imaging program a la Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost, it is a completely different concept. While the program does provide peace of mind that you can recover from an application gone bad, virus infection, or just plain user error, it does it so quickly that you may find yourself inviting disaster just for the chance to fix it as fast as it takes to punch the reset button on your PC (I am not, of course, suggesting that you infect yourself with a virus or abandon safe hex, but if that kind of thing is your idea of a good time, ISR can and will protect you from most mishaps. Please see my "Needs Improvement" section below).
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SuperboyAC's Ranting DC Blog #1MP3 Players And Associated Annoyances I'm a big music guy. I listen to a lot of music, I'm a musician myself, it's one of the things I really love. I'm also a huge computer geek and a gadget-a-holic. Putting all of this together, one would think that I would have some mp3 player by now (like an ipod or something). But I don't. Why is that? It's because there's a whole bunch of little things about these players that annoy me and they just aren't implemented well at all. For someone like me (and a lot of the people here at DC) who are computer "powerusers" and are really picky (er...anal) about every minuscule detail, these annoyances are intolerable. OK, I'm exaggerating a little, it's not that bad, but it's still the reason why I haven't bought an ipod yet. OK, OK! The real reason why I haven't bought one is because I'm a cheap bastard. But for the sake of this blog, let's just blame it on the annoying features. Proprietary Multimedia Management Software But why is the software necessary at all in the first place? Think about it, the files are already on my computer, and all I want to do is transfer them to this device. I don't use special to transfer files to USB sticks, so I shouldn't need one for these mp3 players. There are a variety of reasons why the companies do this:
Replaceable/Rechargeable batteries Music Storage The main issue in storage is the portability. With flash cards and flash memory, the players are very small and extremely portable. Some of them are ridiculously small. There's this tiny little cube mp3 player that holds 1 GB of music literally in your fingertips: However, these little drives can only hold a few gigabytes of music (which, of course, is plenty for most people). But for hard core collectors, you're going to need a hard-drive based player, like an ipod. These are significantly larger (although, realistically speaking, they're not all that big...it just goes to show how spoiled we've become ). They are also heavier, but can also do a lot more things by virtue of a larger screen, better navigation controls, and more advanced features. Personally, I've never considered a flash player because the amount of music I have is enormous. Besides, I like things that have a little heft to them; I don't like those super-light plasticky players. Another question I have is why do ipod's competitors keep coming out with hard-drive players with 20 or 30 GB of memory, when ipod is now up to 80 GB? Geez people, if you're going to compete, compete! Maybe there are some technical details I don't know about, but I keep shaking my head at the Microsofts, Zens, irivers, Sony's, etc. when they come out with yet another hard drive player that can hold about half of the largest ipod. From what I know, the hard drives aren't too much different than laptop 2.5" drives, so there shouldn't be too much of a problem, right? Edit: Zen finally came out with a 60 GB model, about freakin time-->Zen Vision M You know what would be really cool? A player where the user can buy whatever 2.5" drive he wanted, and just slide it into the player (kind of like the flash cards). That would be awesome! Until next time, SuperboyAC Random Ranting
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Locate 3.0 - FAST HD search toolPublisher's Description: Check out http://fileforum.bet.../Locate/1044509669/1
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Tray Management Utilities Mini-ReviewThis mini-review will cover two of the better tray management utilities available for the microsoft windows platform. The two reviewed are XDesk's SysTrayX and PS Soft Lab's PS Tray Factory.
What is a tray management utility? These program's are designed to alleviate some space in your system tray by replacing many of your less commonly used or accessed icons with a single icon (or none at all). They give your more real estate in your taskbar and can add another very useful function that allows you to minimize any running app to the system tray. |
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WhyReboot? - Freeware Tells You Why Your Computer Needs to RestartWhyReboot? This tiny little freeware program is very simple but i find myself using it constantly, whenever some program tells me it wants to reboot to "complete the install". Can usually give you some good insight into what operations are pending the reboot: Tiny, simple, risk free; doesn't change anything, just reports on what it finds in the registry settings that are used to perform operations on rebooting. http://www.exodus-de.../products/WhyReboot/ |
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