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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
(Unverified)Jan 1st 2008 9:16AM
So true. I cringe when surfing the web and I click a link that opens a PDF. Just take a break, get a cup of coffee and perhaps when I come back my computer will be responsive again. One of these days I'll have to try foxit.
ITunes works great as long as you don't sync your ipod, which has one of the slowest transfer rates known to mankind.
Realplayer is the devil.
People still use IE?
I've been a die hard Outlook fan for a long time, but recently have committed myself to being rid of it. I'm currently using Thunderbird and Gmail.
(Unverified)Jan 1st 2008 2:53PM
Ok, I still use IE, and I like to think of myself as a little IT savy. Just now getting into Linux and open source stuff. For that reason and that reason only do I consider Firefox.
See my homepage is Google total customized with 4 tool bars; yahoo, advanced tool bar, google, and than the MS menu stuff, and the IE favorites.
The last time I downloaded Fire fox, everytime I started my computer a screen would popup with 2 Mozilla icons giving me the option to launch or go into safe mode (?). I didn't know that browsers have safe mode? I gave up, but I always hear everyone talk about how Fire Fox is so much better. Why? What is it you can do with Firefox that you can't do with IE? Gmail, got that too, but it is also hard for me to figure out, not as hard as outlook! Skype (or something free like that) would probably be cool to. Never figured out Thunderbrd. Ok, maybe I am stupid. I also got my first Linux machine up and running. Ubuntu. Now that I got it what do I do? What can you do with Linux? Yeah, I got books, but I took 29 units last semester and will be taking 30 in spring. Want a good subnet calculator! For some reason Ciscos isn't working. I also like Real Player only for the way that the library is set up. I never use super anything. I hate media player and the fact that you can't get windows to play this or that codec. Ok, I am long winded too.
(Unverified)Nov 4th 2008 3:13PM
O Boy! I've had zero success rate with opening pdf's thru links. Thanks, am gonna try foxit right away.
I liked the article, humorous and informational.
(Unverified)Jan 1st 2008 4:03PM
I'd use Firefox more if it didn't randomly crash and suck up 500MB of RAM....
(Unverified)Jan 2nd 2008 11:46AM
Thanks for mentioning the webmasters in regards to Internet Explorer! We get to ghettoize our code whenever we need it to run in IE. Christ, IE sucks the bag.
(Unverified)Jan 2nd 2008 12:02AM
I had the chance to buy acrobat pro last year and happily installed it on my computer only to find that it took 3 gigs of space. 3 GIGS! Are these people insane? It is acrobat reader for gods sake. The entire adobe production studio (you know photoshop, after effects illustrator, etc.) isn't even 3 gigs. My complete install of MS developer studio for every frickin programming language in the world only is like 2 gigs. To make things even better, if you opt for the slimmer install by disabling almost every feature that would make AcorbatPro worth owning in the first place, you still have to let them cache a couple MORE gigs of stuff somewhere if you don't want to have to fish out the installer DVD ever time acrobat updates. Which of course means I haven't updated the thing in a year because I have better things to do than track down my installer dvd's every few weeks. This is 2008 people! Acrobat should win the bloatware of the decade award for sure.
(Unverified)Jan 2nd 2008 1:13AM
Try FoxIt now. M u c h faster than Adobe.
(Unverified)Jan 2nd 2008 8:14AM
An Outlook Fan? Those always amaze me. Mostly because if you've used any IMAP client in the known universe, you can see what a mail client should look like. Outlook has always amazed me with how successful and shitty it's been at the same time. That's one program I hate.
QuikboyJan 4th 2008 12:17AM
IE7 isn't that bad folks. There's just as many free add-ons you can put to make it better, and I found enough that seriously makes it trumps Firefox. Not kidding here.
(Unverified)Jan 5th 2008 1:02AM
I abandoned Outlook years ago. I tried out the 2007 version only to find it more bloated than ever.
And frankly Thuderbird has a number of features I find important that Outlook has always beeen lacking.
Not to mention there is NO comparison between Outlook's and Thunderbird's spam filters.
Thunderbird's is top-notch. Outlook's is quite the opposite.