Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Programs that are only good for 30 days

I was looking for an alarm program so that I could post reminders to myself and those reminders would have a alarm that popped up on my computer screen. I found such a program on an old disk of mine that originally I got in one of those discounted prices bins at one of the stores.

I found the program on the disk and installed it. It seemed perfect. However subsequently I noticed that the program would only be good for 30 days. Now I don't have anything again such programs EXCEPT they should say that they are these types of programs - I believe the correct term is trialware.

If I would have known that this wasn't a freeware program then I certainly would not have installed it. Now I have to find another program like this - but not trialware or a demo program!

Friday, February 15, 2008

Feedreader

If you are a fan of blogs and have quite a few of them that you visit regularly then you might be interested in this free download called Feedreader. I currently have it but right now I am downloading the most recent current version of this program.

How this programs works is that if you find a blog that you like and want to know when new posts are added you can subscribe to the blog's feed (if they have one) by taking the url address of the blog's feed and pasting it to your Feedreader program. That way when you open the program it will automatically looked for updated content on the blogs that you have added.