{"id":4479,"date":"2012-06-22T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2012-06-22T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:26:51","slug":"agonizing-over-freeware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/agonizing-over-freeware\/","title":{"rendered":"Agonizing Over Freeware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week we scour the web for really good, honest freeware. It gets harder and harder each week to find good clean – unbundled software. This week we found a program called GimpShop — and having used Gimp before we were intrigued by this new incarnation of Gimp which promised to be every good as Photoshop — only GimpShop is freeware.<\/p>\n

Now EB and I both know there are few freeware programs that you like better than really good graphics programs — so we were anxious to give this software a spin and make it our freeware pick – if i was anywhere near as good as the reviews we read. But after going through its installation routine — we can’t believe anyone would give this program even a half a thumbs up –because this is one of the most annoying bundlers we’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

Even when I clicked “Cancel” the installation continued — it needed me to click yet another box confirming I wanted to stop. I didn’t confirm I wanted to stop the installation so it continued to download even though I clicked “Cancel”. Normally, with a legitimate program when you click cancel the installation stops and if you confirm you want to stop it the installer closes. Not with this program.<\/p>\n

Instead of babbling on about how bad this program’s installation routine is, we’re going to give you a pictorial guide – and you can see for yourself how unbelievably bad this is.<\/p>\n

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\nGimpShop makes it look like it wants to put a shortcut to GimpShop on your desktop — but not so. Read the text circled.<\/span><\/p>\n

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GimpShop adds insult to injury when, at the end of the installation, they offer to put icons on your desktop so you can take advantage of other great offers. You have to figure that the programs bundled with GimpShop aren’t that great if they have slither their way on you computer like snakes.<\/p>\n

This installation is an insult. If someone accepted all these “offers” there computers would be full of junkware. There isn’t a worthwhile program bundled with GimpShop.<\/p>\n

We don’t care how good GimpShop is — we’ll never know because we wouldn’t trust any company who bundled there software in such a manner. GimpShop’s developers should be ashamed.<\/p>\n

We’d have a lot more respect for these developers if they charged a small fee for the program — because calling GimpShop freeware, is a lie.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every week we scour the web for really good, honest freeware. It gets harder and harder each week to find good clean – unbundled software. This week we found a program called GimpShop — and having used Gimp before we were intrigued by this new incarnation of Gimp which promised to be every good as Photoshop — only\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\/4479"}],"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=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}