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By: bumdek

bumdek — Sat, 26 May 2007 18:23:19 +0000

it’s that free?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:01:11 +0000

This is a good program but a freeware that is much much better is AxCrypt – http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/
It doesn’t change the file size at all and is very easy to use, though I haven’t been able to password protect/encrypt a folder with this program , can anyone advise the process in which this can be done?

By: i love u

i love u — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:55:26 +0000

Antonio said:
Hello GAOTD, wouldn’t a Financial Management Program have been appropriate today? Anytime you can, please don’t hesitate to offer one, ok?! Tanx :-) Today’s U.S. Tax Deadline is always a good reminder that other things must be attended to in a life? Today one knows the financial “price” of Life-in-America.
Comment by Antonio

hello, hiding files is very IRS orientaded.

By: madman

madman — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:47:33 +0000

Here’s a proposal for “D” from comment #16 and for the GOTD overlords:

GOTD for months has tried two approaches to the task of installing and activating a program: (1) A simple, intuitive one-step process, or (2) A complicated, counterintuitive two-step process, with a readme file supplying instructions.

As you point out, the first approach yields more satisfied users, with fewer complaints of confusion and problems. Happy campers, presumably repeat customers.

Likewise, the second approach yields many more complaints from users reporting frustration. Almost certainly there are still more who simply abandon the effort and do not bother to write in to complain. Not likely to be return customers.

These observations lead you to scold and insult the users, telling them to read the instructions more carefully. I suggest that the better solution is to encourage our gracious hosts at GOTD to abandon the course that doesn’t work, and to use the one that does.

For whatever reason, some users either don’t read the instructions or don’t understand them. Or, as I can personally attest, the routines simply don’t work. Confusing users and then bludgeoning them to read the instructions better is ineffective and rude. Providing smart, simple, intuitive installation routines in the first place is clearly the better choice.

By: Arkad the Camel Trader

Arkad the Camel Trader — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:01:40 +0000

Oh. I guess I was not last to comment earlier. No one has commented after me yet when I wrote my last one. Thanks GOATED for bringing these softwares to us. Many are great to use. Thank you.

By: Gedrean

Gedrean — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:56:13 +0000

Wow. This is amazing. Program looks good, I just grabbed it and spent fifteen minutes on the VM with it, it works but isn’t great, I find that TrueCrypt is a better choice. For free, it’s not bad, but it’s not worth $35 in my opinion.

Oh, and what drama.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:52:37 +0000

its ok…

it only lets you open extracted files, not save them which sucks. i give it a 4/10 because of the nice gui.

By: milanistaboy

milanistaboy — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:53:34 +0000

Thanks so much, GOTD team :DDD That’s really nice, definitely what I am looking for ^.^

By: Count Sheep

Count Sheep — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:42:27 +0000

Not to put too fine a point on it, but had the Truecrypt fanboys taken 5 minutes to actually look at the program offered, it would be glaringly obvious, that it and FileDefender serve completely different functions. Comparing Trucrypt to this thing would be like comparing Stacker or Drivespace to PKZip or Rar.

Truecrypt mounts encrypted virtual drives for large scale transparent on the fly encryption. This program encrypts a few files individually, which can be transported and unencrypted without the encrypting program. Similar to self extracting compressed archives.

As someone else noted, displaying the password isn’t cool. I found the option to change it in View/Settings, but it really should have defaulted to hide. The authors really should change that. And having several unrelated option screens scattered throughout the program, each labeled only “settings” didn’t help in finding it. I hate to agree with the open source fanboys, but there are too many easily broken proprietary encryption scemes out there already. I’d trust it a little more were it open source. But I’m not going to lose sleep over it. It could also stand to be a little faster.

Overall, FileDefender looks good, but not great, for what it does. Though admittedly it isn’t something that I have a lot of use for.

By: Klay

Klay — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:36:38 +0000

I just found out about this site, but seriously folks: This website offers software you would normally have to buy for —free—. And even more so it’s legal. What this website is trying to do is make the companies who make this software known, and if you find even one piece of software you like, find out the company that made it and made it known that this is the company that you think will make it in the business. If they get enough support and they’ll become the bigger business, and with bigger business more revenue and better and more complex products.