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Official Announcements / Re: JULY 2009 Discounts and Giveaways
« on: June 29, 2009, 04:24 PM »
I think the 85% discount for TheBat! has now disappeared. It's no longer at the link provided in the announcement.
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Trust must factor into the assessment, and if the scanner is just flagging anything that confuses it then it's really more chicken little then trusted companion. Especially when it's hogging massive amounts of system resources like Symantec or McAfee which scored high on said accuracy test.I hate the fact that McAfee is a resource hog--I've thought of ditching it several times just for that. However, I still use it, and I think these results help to show why. They certainly do not suggest that McAfee is "just flagging anything that confuses it." Indeed, it scored 3rd best on false positives, while also scoring very high on overall anti-malware effectiveness.-Stoic Joker (June 28, 2009, 08:53 AM)
I always end up asking Martin after reducing myself to a drooling idiot trying!I'm glad to know I'm not the only one!-J-Mac (June 24, 2009, 12:32 AM)
whaddayathunk ?As far as launch bars go, I'm delighted with LaunchBar Commander. I didn't see anything in True Launch Bar to make me think of switching.-Steven Avery (June 22, 2009, 09:00 PM)
Any chance that Donation Coder can get a discount on Archivarius?Well, I was hoping that perhaps a miracle would happen, but since it hasn't, I went to the Archivarius site to (gulp) purchase the software. But when I clicked on one of the two payment venues, ShareIt, I was told that 29.95 euros would come to $45.62. That seemed unduly high, so I clicked on the other venue, RegNow. It told me I'd have to pay $46.70! I then went to an assortment of conversion sites, all of which told me that I was being gouged by ShareIt and RegNow. According to the five or six sites I used, 29.95 euros should be the equivalent of anywhere from $41.69 to $41.82, which means I'm being charged $4 or $5 more than I should be. I decided not to buy the software after all, since I hate being taken advantage of, and I wasn't all that sure that I needed Archivarius, I simply wanted it. Guess I'll wait until I can get it at a discount or my desire for the software outweighs my common sense.-cyberdiva (May 17, 2009, 08:54 PM)
That solution worked great for me right up until I discovered the Sage extension and started doing most of my daily browsing via RSS feeds. I also keep a special favorites folder up on Firefox's bookmark toolbar for all those other sites I regularly visit. That combination works so well for me that, like MilesAhead, I now just use a blank homepage.Yes, some of what I used to check from my homepage listing I now check instead via RSS feeds. However, there are still lots of sites to which I'd like instant access that either don't have RSS feeds or that I want to view not for changes but for information or services I want (e.g., Jacquie Lawson's impressive greeting cards). And by having these sites all listed on my homepage, I can access them easily no matter which browser I use (since I've set all browsers to use that same homepage file). I also don't have to have yet another toolbar (bookmarks) taking up space in Firefox. So for me, this arrangement is more interesting and more useful than a blank homepage. But to each his/her own.-40hz (June 15, 2009, 09:43 PM)
And clearly you could build your own page, that might be the ultimate solution.Yes, this is what I did a number of years ago. I made a very simple page in HTML and set it to be the page my browsers open on. It has two advantages: I have a ready listing of the sites I want to go to most often, and I am not dependent on a specific Internet site's being up for my homepage to load. Since the page is located on my hard drive, it loads reliably and instantly. Of course, I can easily update the page when I want to add, change, or delete an entry.-Steven Avery (June 15, 2009, 07:01 AM)
@$30 for Archivarius-Darwin (May 27, 2009, 08:29 AM)
OA also seems to have caused some havoc with my system tray, with some icons appearing only on some reboots. My linksys wireless network icon, for example, at times simply isn't there, even though I can access the Internet. When that happens, if I right-click on the bottom taskbar and click on Customize, NO icons are listed! This never happened before I installed OA. I'll probably start experimenting with what I can turn off and what I want to leave on, since all I really want is a firewall.
. However, I also read Michael Horowitz's review in CNET, and I'm not sure whether OA is what I want. Of course, I'm not sure I know what I want. I also wonder whether there's any substantial advantage to getting the commercial version of Online Armor rather than the highly regarded freeware version. Do any DC members have experience with Online Armor, free or commercial?