I was wary of this purchase when it had no reviews and those of other Roxio DVD convert/copy/create products are consistently appalling (see the Easy Media Creator Suites and Easy CD/DVD Burning packages reviewed on Amazon), but I took a chance. I'll grant one star as it has managed to convert some home videos to a format I can load onto my iPod, although I've read there are various legitimate programmes that can be downloaded for free to do the same.
But I have now tried to burn a DVD from some of my home clips--nothing complicated, just various very short simple clips with no fancy features or editing, and every single time, it stalls at 9% of the 'creating DVD' job, no matter what (and renders the DVD unusable despite writing ... Read More:
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I was wary of this purchase when it had no reviews and those of other Roxio DVD convert/copy/create products are consistently appalling (see the Easy Media Creator Suites and Easy CD/DVD Burning packages reviewed on Amazon), but I took a chance. I'll grant one star as it has managed to convert some home videos to a format I can load onto my iPod, although I've read there are various legitimate programmes that can be downloaded for free to do the same.
But I have now tried to burn a DVD from some of my home clips--nothing complicated, just various very short simple clips with no fancy features or editing, and every single time, it stalls at 9% of the 'creating DVD' job, no matter what (and renders the DVD unusable despite writing ... Read More:
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A few months ago I bought a new laptop which came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I've now had the opportunity to compare Vista to my desktop PC's XP installation. In summary Vista doesn't make a compelling upgrade. Memory usage is considerably higher, the default User Account Control setup is so overbearing that I disabled it completely and from the perspective of the end user the new features seem to be mostly related to visual tarting up and transparency effects. These new features add nothing much to productivity. The frequency and volume of critical security patches to apply seems to continue as with XP. There are some useful features but most of these can be added to XP by using existing free applications. Not a worthwhile upgrade.
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Whilst the interface is quite intuitive and easy to use, I was most disappointed with the inability to import or export data.
You can export items to a spreadsheet, however the inability to import data in CSV, QIF or other formats makes me wish I had kept my £20 and just carried on using a Spreadsheet or Access. Be aware the website is now Accountz (with a Z - version 6) this is version 5...
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If you're like me you live with windows XP because you have to,
in an ideal world, all those games and applications you want to run would work on something more stable like Linux.
But Unfortunately because they don't, so I couldn't honestly recommend anything else for the typical PC user.
"Prepare yourself for the most reliable, secure and responsive Windows yet."
admittedly that's true it is the most reliable WINDOWS yet. Out of the box though, you would be very wise to add a few security features yourself.
I suggest that when you use windows you MUST have a virus scanner, AVG is a good low cost option as they have an adequate free edition. Like it's competitors (Viruses scanners are pretty much all the same) ... Read More:
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I tried this with a little trepidation both as I was moving up to Vista and had heard scary comments about it and also some of the comments on here which were less than optimistic. I was not helped because initially i only used on monitor and one internet connection!
Still, that all being said, this product worked exactly and I mean exactly as it said on the box, with only a little bitty leaflet to tell you what to do. I shifted 90GB (yes, really, bearing in mind that it compacts the files by around 50% as it loads it (quirkily!) into the 'removal van', unpacking at the arrival end) by setting it going overnight. When I came down in the morning it was done, with my new PC showing the desktop picture that previously was on the old PC.
I find Memory Map a very useful mapping product, it's support for windows mobile/pocket PC devices and GPS support (on both PC and windows mobile versions) makes it particularly useful for me.
There are quirks in the user interface, but once you get used to them they don't really get in the way much.
The software is in general very stable and bug free.
The only real problems I've had are that to load large region maps (such as this one, the south of England, onto a mobile device, you need to manually split them into smaller chunks. This proceedure is described on the Memory Map website, but one shouldn't really have to do it yourself. Also, if you are short on available memory on your mobile device, you may need to split the maps ... Read More:
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I find Memory Map a very useful mapping product, it's support for windows mobile/pocket PC devices and GPS support (on both PC and windows mobile versions) makes it particularly useful for me.
There are quirks in the user interface, but once you get used to them they don't really get in the way much.
The software is in general very stable and bug free.
The only real problems I've had are that to load large region maps (such as this one, the south of England, onto a mobile device, you need to manually split them into smaller chunks. This proceedure is described on the Memory Map website, but one shouldn't really have to do it yourself. Also, if you are short on available memory on your mobile device, you may need to split the maps ... Read More:
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