Comments on: Open Thread: Software Mistakes

By: agedgeNup

agedgeNup — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:38:45 +0000

My test this forum number 2. trfekiol

By: scbnertens

scbnertens — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:39:00 +0000

By: Brandon Zylstra

Brandon Zylstra — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:03:42 +0000

Forget Act! and switch to a Mac so you can use the awesome Daylite. It’ll blow you away once you get over the initial learning curve, which is really not bad at all.

By: Notker

Notker — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:21:43 +0000

Norton Internet Protection Suite — I had an earlier version installed which didn’t uninstall properly (with Norton’s own uninstaller). The new version refused to install.

By: Mike Woodhouse

Mike Woodhouse — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:57:08 +0000

I must have installed Powerpoint as part of Office half a dozen times now, not even beginning to count the number of work PCs that have hosted it. I have never used it and grow less likely to do so with every pitifully bad presentation that I see.

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:05:10 +0000

Act! It is suppose to be the most integrated contact management software and it is a complete disaster. After spending hours building a custom database with custom fields I find out that when I am forced to do a rebuild it cannot save my custom fields so I need to hand convert every contact.

Now I'm basically waiting until something new hits the market so I can justify writing off this expense and moving on.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:49:16 +0000

Hands down - Paint Shop Pro. Had I been willing to read through all the help files, I'm sure it would have been OK, but out of the box I found it difficult to use.

I ended up uninstalling it. Now I use Paint.NET for advanced tools and regular old Paint for mundane tasks.

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:46:09 +0000

An early Macromedia suite – Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver. I bought out of my own pocket at a conference. One week later they updated the whole suite with new versions. One month later I started a new job which provided any software required. A complete waste of what seemed like allot of money.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:48:03 +0000

A game, actually. Myst III. I was looking forward to it for so long after playing Riven and then when I finally bought it I couldn’t even look at it without getting a migraine and feeling nauseous. Let’s just say the jumpy 3D movement was somewhat disorientating. Thankfully things improved somewhat in Myst IV.

By: Victor V

Victor V — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:41:55 +0000

Hmm. Every video(flv) downloader I've come across is pure shitness, except for Sothink ones.

Sothink will let you download any flash on the page, and that's good. The others are pure crap, install crapware and only download from some sites.