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<title><![CDATA[By: STEPHEN Barrette]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57971</link>
<description><![CDATA[Igot rid of all your icons but your screensaver still comes up]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:52:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Basil]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57970</link>
<description><![CDATA[Interesting read, hey check out my audio-sharing website http://www.SoundLantern.com/ it's like a "youtube for audios" you can listen to thousands of sound effects and all kinds of cool audios, check it out.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:21:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: SecurityGuy]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57969</link>
<description><![CDATA[There are a disturbing number of programs offered here that 'call home' for no apparent reason. 

Has anyone considered that it doesn't take 'quality' software to get someone to download it if its free? And once downloaded and installed, it doesn't matter whether the program is used or not, because the payload has already been delivered to the victims machine?

I do not accuse GAOTD of course, but only suggest that folks do some more background checking before downloading and installing. These are 3rd party vendors and should be treated with caution at the very least, with suspicion in some few cases, and with commom sense as to what you let happen on your computer.

I'll be interested to see if this post gets deleted. . .]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:16:04 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Rob]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57968</link>
<description><![CDATA[Uninstalled because of lack of support for dual monitors.  If it had it I might have kept it longer.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:52:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Elvis]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57967</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well, actually, I did not even download it as who wants to look at that huge slum, NYC?! I was there and was glad I left. Moreover, the days of screen savers are pretty well over. Save the environment and shut off the monitor or use Power Saver. 

I am not even sure why they have a comments section here. Probably, the best thing to do is have a poll with Good, Fair, Poor...so people can tell the software company what they think of it. Plain and simple. This will help the company decide where they want to take this software. The rest of the noise simply takes up bandwidth and adds no value! If you don't like it, just ask for your money back! :) I never have and never will pay for a screen saver despite how magnificent it might be.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:27:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Universal Cynic]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57966</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even in a music album, there are always "fillers" to supplement the "killers". So, what's the big deal? Here's a screensaver to fill up today's slot. You like it, you download and use it. You're not sure, you download and try it. You don't have a need for it, you ignore it and don't vote. I've tried one of the screensavers and although I think I don't need them, they are not totally useless and it's not like *you* (most of you) know how to build your own.

But I do agree with #54. A tour of New York (or London, or Paris, or whatever nice places) will be more worth it.

Anyway, where else can we sample screensavers like these? It surely seems that most of us here don't care about screensavers. But who knows, we might like one or two. So, thumbs up to GAOTD for bringing us a variety of stuff, even those that we don't think we need. At least now we know about those things that we don't need - expand our horizons.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:55:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: seth]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57965</link>
<description><![CDATA[tottaly #55 you nailed it!!! well.. it runs fine on my windows vista and ive had no technical problems... =) so there lol i did what we supposed to do in the comments section =) lol



There are plenty of places on the Internet where wannabes can post unsubstantiated and misleading babble about whatever the want. Let’s keep the posts here relevant to the download offered. Did it install correctly ? Did it do what it advertised to do ? Did it hose your computer ? What is it similar to ? That is all useful information - but you have to have familiarity with the software and/or publisher to add that commentary.

FWIW - I too would like more in the line of the Backup software and less in the line of screensavers. I personally loved the PowerPoint add-ins because I’ve used the $700 alternatives - but again, I KNOW how difficult it is to line up these kinds of deals. One a week would be bad enough, but one every single day ?? Trust me - somebody is hustling their butts off to find that many titles for us. You’re not gonna get all ‘A+’ downloads when you need 300+ a year.

Finally - fact is, most of these categories are covered - usually as good or better - by some totally free open-source alternative. Finding commercial software period to make the deal with is the first challenge. A lot of what’s out there available is the poorly written, somewhat out-of-date stuff from before the open-source explosion. My guess is that those are also the publishers with fading userbases and declining markets who are willing to do something like this for the PR benefit. Much of the stuff I’ve seen here is somewhat sub-standard, old-fashioned, or otherwise not-as-cutting-edge as much of the Web 2.0 or open-source stuff out there, but that said… there have been some very good giveaways. If they can give us a couple winners per month that’s a nice benefit we didn’t have to pay for, and I’d say they’re batting way ahead of that target. I’m hooked - I check the site every day now. I’ve even purchased some alternate titles from a couple of the publishers featured - so it’s working to their benefit as well. Good job GOTD - keep plugging away.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:09:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Bernard]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57964</link>
<description><![CDATA[I ditto what #27 said and add that these are may favorite freebees to download. I call them Screen Burners because I run them so long.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:14:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Cathleen Moses]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57963</link>
<description><![CDATA[I like the idea, however, when you go the their website you can get a trial--like the one here of ALL the screensavers they have--for free.   Shouldn't we have a registration for the full version if it being offered "free"?  Otherwise it's just giving us a free-free item.   Oh well.  Did I miss the reg. number somewhere?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:38:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Moo]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/around-the-world-new-york/#comment-57962</link>
<description><![CDATA[Phart
I might append my comments to say "if you haven't downloaded OR are not familiar with the publisher - don't post.  

Make you happier? 

My point is random comments that don't relay real experience with the software are a useless waste of everyone's time, bandwidth, and hard drive space.  Ditto flames against GOTD or opinions of whether something is worth $19 or whatever.  Things are worth what the market will bear.  This company seems to have a pretty good business selling "3D Screensavers" (whatever that means) for $20.  You can buy a CD with all of them for $100+.  Maybe there are some people who just like that style of illustration/artwork and think it's the best way to drop a $100 they've ever seen - who are we to question that?  Lots of people like Thomas Kincade too - I don't, but so what?

There are plenty of places on the Internet where wannabes can post unsubstantiated and misleading babble about whatever the want.  Let's keep the posts here relevant to the download offered.  Did it install correctly ? Did it do what it advertised to do ? Did it hose your computer ?  What is it similar to ?   That is all useful information - but you have to have familiarity with the software and/or publisher to add that commentary. 

FWIW - I too would like more in the line of the Backup software and less in the line of screensavers. I personally loved the PowerPoint add-ins because I've used the $700 alternatives - but again, I KNOW how difficult it is to line up these kinds of deals.  One a week would be bad enough, but one every single day ?? Trust me - somebody is hustling their butts off to find that many titles for us.   You're not gonna get all 'A+' downloads when you need 300+ a year. 

Finally - fact is, most of these categories are covered - usually as good or better - by some totally free open-source alternative. Finding commercial software period to make the deal with is the first challenge.  A lot of what's out there available is the poorly written, somewhat out-of-date stuff from before the open-source explosion.  My guess is that those are also the publishers with fading userbases and declining markets who are willing to do something like this for the PR benefit.  Much of the stuff I've seen here is somewhat sub-standard, old-fashioned, or otherwise not-as-cutting-edge as much of the Web 2.0 or open-source stuff out there, but that said... there have been some very good giveaways.  If they can give us a couple winners per month that's a nice benefit we didn't have to pay for, and I'd say they're batting way ahead of that target.  I'm hooked - I check the site every day now. I've even purchased some alternate titles from a couple of the publishers featured - so it's working to their benefit as well.  Good job GOTD - keep plugging away.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:50:19 -0400</pubDate>
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