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Adobe Reader, formerly know as Acrobat Reader annoys me

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:08:21 +0200

... because after every update, it will put an icon on the desktop, even after it has been deleted.
Go away. Stay away.

Very funny, Apple

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:57:13 +0200

Figure 1: the free version (left) and Quicktime Pro (right)

Can you see the difference? It's the German version, but that doesn't matter (I hope), guess you get the point: There is no difference. At least not here.
It implies that you can downlod every movie if you buy the Pro version of Quicktime. But after you buy it, the "save as ..." link becomes greyish and incative.

Not like I was buying it for downloading movies from the net. There's other and cheaper ways (disk cache in Firefox). But if I had bought it for that reason, I would be a kinda pissed to find out that you can't.

Addition from June 14th:
It seems that you have to wait untill the movie has completely finished loading in your browser, before the "save as ..." becomes clickable. This is not very good usability, is it.

Nero 7 sucks

Tue, 23 May 2006 17:47:36 +0200

I am very sorry to say this but I am also very angry right now. I'm in a hurry and need to burn 3 DVDs, but I also have to reboot (another pc, not this one) after every disc, so I have a minute to write this:

Nero 7 sucks

I just paid around 40€ for upgrading from Nero 6 to Nero 7 and I happen to notice that the »all new« Nero 7 is just a buggy collection of software. And I don't mean small glitches, like English text popping up, even though I installed the German version.

I am talking about Nero BackItUp telling me that the rest of my 10 gigs of data won't fit onto the same DVD (smartass). And simply quitting the burning process instead of asking for another disc:

Unfortunately your multisession disc is now full. The remaining free space of 1657 MB on this disc is insufficient to write your data of 1804 MB. Therefore this multisession backup cannot be continued.

What the hell?

I am talking about Nero Burning Rom — the burning software that everything started with, the software you should expect to be working perfectly — becoming completely unresponsive after burning a DVD. Not even killing it through the taskmanager and restarting works. I have to fracking reboot my pc after every single disc I burn!

I used to be quite satisfied with Nero 6. The Burning Rom worked perfectly. Recode was pretty cool and I even used Vision Express to author DVDs.

Well, that's 40€ down the toilet. And I can't even sell it on eBay because it was the download version.

TGT Soft won't deliver Style XP

Sat, 21 May 2005 18:56:04 +0200

TGT Soft, maker of Windows XP theming software Syle XP won't deliver.

Why won't they respond to neither my Pay Pal payment nor any of my 3 emails?
I don't know and as a paying customer, I don't think I have to care about.

Lucky me: I payed by Pay Pal, not directly by credit card.
Thus, I could open a dispute on the payment. And as TGT Soft didn't respond to this dispute within 10 days, the claim was automatically granted.