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Hello Gizmo

I have been a fan of Gizmo for some time now and it has provided me some very useful software, ideas and hints & tips. Sadly installing any sort of "free software" is becoming a hazardous operation as more and more doubtful software is installed alongside the application I would like to look at. OK, I can watch carefully as I choose how to navigate the installation process and avoid some of these nasties but others manage to slip through. I can then spend a happy half hour or two using that excellent free uninstaller REVO Uninstaller - but even this cannot crack some of them and I have to resort to system restore to get back to where I was.

Perhaps there isn't a way of avoiding this but a warning could be placed in a prominent place with a few hints and tips for minimizing the problem and or curing it.

Wondering if posting an edit to the "now hiring" page, specifically regarding syntax of terms "'principle' motivation" compared with "'principal' motivation'", might land me a spot as an editor or reviewer or such??? Thx, cc

Upon following your link to change my password, I was taken to a page that did not address that procedure.

Thanx in advance.....In your article about Malware and downloading TDSSkiller you fail to mention that you might have to disable your Norton or other utilities.When trying to download tdss I got an error message basically stating that the program is unrecognizable or unknown and a possible threat.

Reporting dead link: http://www.dgtalize.com/en/products/pimx

It would help if in emails you hyperlinked the sites you suggest

Thanks for all your hard working creating this site.

My suggestion for the site would be a checklist of the software, with various items listed, such as the ability to use video for the menu, adding text to the screen, if there are add-ons with the installation, if the software is freeware or a trial version.

It might be fun to see what folks are looking for; maybe make a wish list.

Anyway, thanks for all the hard work!

Gizmo's Tab : Resources
Freeware Updates and News

Under Appnews.net Firefox 8.0 is mentioned (twice) ?
Current version of Firefox is 19.0.

Could you please replace this with a website
that brings something new.

I recently was gifted with Windows 8 home edition, and installed it in a dual core 1.8 gig laptop with only one gig of memory. The system hangs frequently which I have ascribed to lack of memory. Being retired on a limited income I have searched for a free program to free up the memory to no avail.

I am a member of the free newsletter and tonight it occurred to me that a listing of W8 compatible utilities would be beneficial to Windows 8 users such as myself. I am forwarding this suggestion in hopes that Windows 8 users as a group would benefit.

Thank You.

Will Atwood

I'd like to see a mouse pad offered in your merchandise section. I go through those things like crazy.

Oh, and coffee mugs too! :)

I find your site hard to navigate. You should be able to get to any recommendation page directly from the page index without having to go through intermediate pages. Get rid of the intermediate pages altogether. They're just confusing. Categorizing these programs is of limited usefulness and we certainly don't need entire pages devoted to each category when it's the individual recommendations we're interested in.

I use Comodo Dragon as my browser, and have accessed the Forum for some time now with no problem. However, when I click to go to Gizmo's home page, a gray shield appears in the navigation bar. When I click on that, it says "This page has insecure content". I then click on "Load anyway", and it displays in normal fashion (the way it displays in Pale Moon, for example)

So today I clicked on "Learn more" and got this webpage:
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"This page has insecure content."
Issue

Websites that ask for sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords, often use secure connections to transmit content to and from the computer you're using. If you're visiting a site via a secure connection, Google Chrome will verify that the content on the webpage has been transmitted safely. If it detects certain types of content on the page coming from insecure channels, it can automatically prevent the content from loading and you'll see a shield icon appearing in the address bar. By blocking the content and possible security gaps, Chrome protects your information on the page from falling into the wrong hands.

What to do if you see this alert

Parts of the page may not display when Chrome blocks the insecure content. You might want to notify the website owner that their site isn't properly secured, particularly if it does not display properly.
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is there a way to filter results by operating system VERSION? i love your selection, but i need to see only the apps that can run on mac os x 10.5 "leopard"... its often quite disappointing to see cool software, only to find out at the last minute, that i can't run it on my old mac.... sigh.

Why does this trigger the spam filter?
I am becoming very skeptical about reviews for free video editors. I have been searching after using Windows Movie Maker to edit a video which left with the sound and video way out of sync. Now votes for that then. Avidemux is widely recommended. It has hung three time on the first use. On the final occasion it took Windows down with it. I have found other programs equally useless and quickly uninstalled them. All the software I have tried is user-unfriendly and very counter intuitive. And, you don't get more by paying. I had the opportunity to try Power Director and found that equally unfriendly producing massive files far bigger than the original and taking an age to do it. All these programs either don't work or seem to assume that the user has a degree in video entering. I want a straightforward interface that uses terms like 'save' rather than 'produce' or render. Another problem is that most of the downloads try to get the user to install malicious toolbars which are a darned nuisance. What's with the people design this software?
Can anyone recommend a program that actually works and is intuitive and easy to use?

Hi,

First off, i like to say thanks for making this forums free and good and useful.

There are lot of good articles which helps average users like myself to protect their PC.

Anyway since internet fraud is a big deal, please do a good article or guide to online banking and what are the best ways to protect yourself using windows and linux livecd.

Thank you.

portable apps
I see you now have sections for apps for the various mobiles, but still don't have a dedicated section for portable apps for zip drives or for computers where we don't want to have to install a program

Why don't you make your email links active?? Everybody else does it. If they can't be active, at least choose a larger font and make them easier to capture.

On this page http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-email-client.htm, the text on the right is cut off making parts of the article pure guessing.
Otherwise what I could figure out seemed to be informative.

make an alert system by email to find new version and apps & recommendation program independent on our search can be helpful

Reviewing software,

I see you use the following format.

1. summary
2. perceived goods
3. perceived bads
4. homepage
5. download link
6. version number
7. filesize
8. 32/64kb
9. freeware restrictions
10. portable poduct
11. platforms

Should add a section describing how frequently updated the program is by its developers.

Also, I see a lot of windows platforms. Windows is not the only platform, there are good reasons to use others such as linux/mac. is this site windows dedicated?

I've been coming here learning and downloading for many years. This is always one of my first go-to sites when I get on the web. Thank you very much - it is appreciated. However, I tried to join and leave a comment but your password facility is so strict that I finally gave up - first time ever. The password "Shelby321!" is not sufficiently strong? Really??

Hi;
I very much appreciate this site for reviews and software.
I would like to suggest a section for older XP machines with smaller resources.
Many of the recommended software work great on newer machines but not so great on older slow computers. Especially security programs and programs that run in the background.

Thank You
and again 2 thumbs up

I am sure this is not the correct place but I could not find where I could post about something on the feed with top articles. I previously liked a wallpaper and clicked on it and it became my wallpaper. Today I saw another that I liked but first saved it and moved it to the wallpaper folder. However, I then discovered that the previous one was not in that folder. So my question is, if I click on a suggested wallpaper and allow the automatic downloading and setting up as wallpaper - where is the file saved and what would the extension be?
Hopefully with this information I can retrieve the one which got away.

KenWA

Hi, I think the Search is no more working as expected.