Times change, PCs change, people change, and software changes. Things once useful and good turn sour and it’s our job to keep you informed. Just because we once recommend something in 2005 doesn’t mean we recommend it anymore — so we’ll try to keep you updated on things which have fallen from our good graces and give you reasons why.<\/p>\n
I’m trying to cut back on my yammering. EB is always after me to be more concise. She rubs me the wrong way sometimes — but she’s right – I’m too verbose. I’ve been spanked!<\/p>\n
So here’s today’s (short) list of software we used to recommend but don’t anymore:<\/p>\n
1. IncrediMail IncrediMail is a flaky, poorly running program that’s just not worth the bother — and with each incarnation it gets worse. No matter how cute you think the mail notifiers are or how pretty the stationery is, our advice is to use something else. IncrediMail just keeps on getting worse. That’s it for today’s once good, gone bad programs. We’ll be adding more to our list of programs we once found useful but don’t anymore.<\/p>\n How’d I do? Brevity is beautiful, sayeth EB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Times change, PCs change, people change, and software changes. Things once useful and good turn sour and it’s our job to keep you informed. Just because we once recommend something in 2005 doesn’t mean we recommend it anymore — so we’ll try to keep you updated on things which have fallen from our good graces and give you\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>We were against it before we were for it — and we’re against it again. IncrediMail has always been teetering on the edge of badware. The free version is a hijacker — ripping off your start page, installing toolbars, and junking up your desktop with icons for other IncrediMail products. Folks those cute emails just aren’t worth installing this resource-hungry, flaky, application on your computer.
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\n<\/strong>It’s more than an email program — the free version is a virtual billboard. And the paid version is now a rip-off. Instead of buying it – you now rent it by paying an annual subscription fee.<\/p>\n
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\n2. Secunia PSI
\n<\/strong>Once a really good program you could trust to keep your software updated has turned into bloated application that gobbles resources, runs in the background constantly, and often freezes and crashes. We wonder — why don’t software developers make their software better — not bigger? We don’t know and we’ll never know the answer to that question. Maybe they go to MSP — Microsoft School of Programming. In any case, Secunia is a resource sucker that runs constantly in the background. Our advice? Get rid of it — install something else like\u00a0Patch My PC<\/a>.<\/p>\n