7337 Giveaway of the Day Forums » User Favorites: cvsdave en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:08:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3149#post-40575 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:10:40 +0000 my_name_is_brad 40575@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I generally check the software offers pretty regularly, and find the comments helpful. Occasionally I do post, and rarely even will vote up or down on a comment.</p> <p>I can only speak for myself, but one thing that really bugs me about comments is when people don't get to the point. If you have something to say, say it. If I get to more than three sentences and nothing beneficial is there I just move on. Once in a while I will vote negative if I feel the comment is just completely misguided or useless.</p> <p>I'm not everyone though, and can only offer my opinion on comments. I don't recall yours, so please don't take this as anything personal. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3149#post-40560 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:11:01 +0000 cvsdave 40560@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Heidi:</p> <p>I enjoy GAOTD, and crarefully review the comments. I don not comment, because usually I am downloading and installing shortly before the expiration, and have little to say about my experience. I am sorry to see so much confrontational commenting, and hope that the comments can be made more useful. I rely on the feedback to judge whether the presented utilities might be useful for my clients, and so find comments that directly address the required user knowledge to be especially useful, compared with "this is so simple, the tools already exist in the operating system" or comments of similar vein. I just came across this thread today, so do not know what your comments were, but applaud any efforts to provide suggestions and direction to those seeking to improve the quality of the feedback.</p> <p>Oh, and JoanRC, as a beer swilling loser myself, I resemble your remarks! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3149#post-26933 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:43:45 +0000 heidihopes 26933@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>LOL---alright. I guess I was being a little oversensitive. I don't expect what I find useful about a software to be what everybody else does. There is just something about seeing a "negative" sign right next to something you wrote that is a bit unsettling.</p> <p>You've inspired me to attempt a comment at a future date. I'll try not to take it so personally if it turns out to be useless to the "voting group" ;) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3149#post-26897 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:27:42 +0000 JoanRC 26897@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hello Heidi.</p> <p>Based on my experience in consumer research, I would suggest that you ignore the voting altogether. We have no way of knowing what criteria were used when the vote was cast. Was it a spur of the moment vote? Or did they give it some thought? Were they reading too quickly and misinterpreting what they saw? </p> <p>I gave you a positive vote just to negate one of the negative ones. I thought it was wonderfull that your daughter might have taken a new look at biology after seeing this screensaver; but, I don't usually give positive votes for that type of comment.</p> <p>The people who voted agianst you, on the other hand, (and I have this on unimpeachable authority) are beer swilling losers who spend their days on the internet voting against anyone they don't like because it gives them a sense of power. They can't hold on to a relationship and are jealous because you obviously have a lovely, intelligent daughter who might one day find a cure for cancer. They, on the other hand, can't get off the couch and go change their underwear once in a while, or train their dog to go fetch them a beer out of the fridge(their dog left them and took up residence with the neighbours). And they wonder why they can't hold a job. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3149#post-26893 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:37:34 +0000 BuBBy 26893@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>People who cannot make useful comments, vote. ;)</p> <p>Although it is worth remembering - the comment section is for providing feedback on the games. Comments do not end in a question mark? Users wanting to know how to uninstall or is the "left mouse button", your left, or my left - should probably visit the forums instead.</p> <p>Many people want a "review" or your "opinion" on the software. There are some things (which you learn over time) that no matter what will get "voted down". If a comment is of no use or benefit to anyone else - it will probably get voted down. </p> <p>If a comment is truly useless or pointless - it will probably get voted out.</p> <p>Either way far too many people put too much importance on voting. At the end of the day comment votes don't count for anything, so I don't worry about them at all. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3149#post-26887 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:03:43 +0000 LeKanaw 26887@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Bonjour Heidi<br /> Welcome to the Forum.<br /> Don't let it get to you. Nobody around here does.<br /> If your comment was of value, ignore the rating.<br /> Funky is right, ppl are weird that way, they waste their time complaining &#38; rating negatively.<br /> So please, don't waste *your* time on it :D </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3149#post-26877 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:18:07 +0000 funkymom 26877@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>heidi- ignore this. there are people who just go down the list of comments, marking them negatively, without even reading them. i don't know why they would bother, but they do. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3149#post-26875 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:04:09 +0000 bluhoteyes 26875@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>hi Heidi i think your comment was very positive and not sure why others would look at it negatively or give you negative comments unless they are negative ppl in general and you have to take that into consideration that maybe they have a lower graphic card and unable to view the screen saver. I wouldn't let others hurt your feelings as i would say most of the ones that are liking todays software download aren't commenting and only the negative ppl are. Keep up the good reviews though:) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3149#post-26809 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:06:25 +0000 heidihopes 26809@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Today I made my first post about the GAOTD software and apparently few are finding it helpful.</p> <p>What is the purpose in rating whether or not you find a comment helpful and how can a yes or no type of answer result in any valuable information?</p> <p>If I am wondering how something installs, I may find one comment helpful and another one not. If I am concerned about resources or the quality, there are many comments I would just skip because they do not contain that information. But there is no rhyme or reason to the comment rating part of that section so why is it even needed?</p> <p>I guess I never even noticed that part of it before so it's not like I'm offended because I could care less actually, but I just don't understand implementing a rating system that doesn't produce anything and probably only serves to discourage comments.</p> <p>I know I won't be making another comment. Why spend the time doing it when it only seems to be a bother to others?</p> <p>Just my two cents. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-18622 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:44:08 +0000 cipullofrancesco 18622@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi dears !<br /> I posted 3 days ago the topic: "AMG licence is over":<br /> <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2643" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2643</a><br /> I quote:<br /> "...there is not an expiry date just an unexpected limitation</p> <p>Canrith you are right but the splash screen is not only annoying as I USED TO DRAG AND DROP THE PROGRAM SHORTCUT DIRECTLY IN THE ALL MADIA GRABBER ICON AND NOW I HAVE LOST THIS FACILITY !!</p> <p>I really aspect some words from BuBBy<br /> + please consider to update this great piece of software !!"<br /> Thanks again </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-18584 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:53:44 +0000 cvsdave 18584@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>AllMedia Grabber reports that it is registered to "giveawayoftheday", but reports "This free version of AllMedia Grabber is over. If you want to retain the program please buy it or else uninstall it."</p> <p>There is apparently a misunderstanding on the part of the publisher that giveawayoftheday is a trial distribution scheme only. Or do I misunderstand? I thought I had a durable license. Could we have a clarification?</p> <p>Dave </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-17017 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:44:23 +0000 Canrith 17017@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I don't suppose that Fotis would address this issue? Perhaps we could have a repeat of this offer? The updated version 1.3 might be better behaved. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-17011 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:44:02 +0000 goodgotd 17011@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Zip- musta missed that day, for some reason. Sorry. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-16941 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:20:58 +0000 goodgotd 16941@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>gotta wait for the stupidbowl to be over, I got a nap and then it wuz time to start capture.</p> <p>still sounds strange it says expired and regged too. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-16872 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:31:22 +0000 goodgotd 16872@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'll check my cataogs tomorrow, see what I have in notes- flat don't recall if it's still installed or if the activation is still in the registry- I might have lost the desktop icon and forgot about it still on the drive. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-16869 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:04:28 +0000 BuBBy 16869@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>So the program says that it is both Registered and Un-registered? That's definitely a new one for me.</p> <p>If anyone else has got this - please post. (It sounds like a bug to me). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-16865 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:42:46 +0000 Canrith 16865@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I just started receiving the following message when starting AllMedia Grabber: "This free version of "AllMedia Grabber" is over. If you want to retain the program please buy it, or else, uninstall it." After hitting the OK button, the program comes up and the about box says it is registered to giveawayoftheday. Any thoughts on how to get rid of the nag screen? This was not supposed to have been a trial version. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-11512 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:27:02 +0000 eaLazerBeam 11512@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I believe the giveaway in question is AllMedia Grabber from September 30, 2007</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/allmedia-grabber/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/allmedia-grabber/</a></p> <p>However my copy still works correctly, I'm not sure why the software is asking for the code to be re-entered.</p> <p>eaLazerBeam </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-11481 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:39:56 +0000 maritmanelleke 11481@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>There was a file to download, and it was called AlMedia Grabber. I do not recall what date I could download it, but it was certainly not the programm you wrote about.<br /> Greetings, Marit. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-11149 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:13:20 +0000 BuBBy 11149@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'm still not entirely sure what program you are referring to when you talk about "the mediagrabber".</p> <p>I've gone back (based on the date of your original post) and as best I can determine, the program you are referring to is "Web Stream Recorder Pro" by Sytexis Software.</p> <p>The original giveaway was held on October 2, 2007<br /> <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/web-stream-recorder-pro-20/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/web-stream-recorder-pro-20/</a></p> <p>The program when started prompted users to downloaded a newer version (which veteran GOTD users would know reverts the program back to a trial version).</p> <p>This is probably what happened to you.</p> <p>Then on October 16, 2007 a "fixed" version was offered.<br /> <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/web-stream-recorder-pro-20-rerun/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/web-stream-recorder-pro-20-rerun/</a></p> <p>If you had got the giveaway on October 16 - you problem would've been fixed. Now as that giveaway is over, your options are limited.</p> <p>Perhaps contact Sytexis - <a href="http://www.sytexis.com/contact.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.sytexis.com/contact.php</a></p> <p>Sytexis might have the fixed Giveaway version still available that you can install over your existing copy. But there are no promises - providing this fix for you is entirely up to their good nature. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-11148 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:44:52 +0000 maritmanelleke 11148@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I will try. I installed and activated this program. When I started it again the day after GAOTD offered it, I was asked to aregister this program, so I cannot use it anymore. I have to re enter the activation code, which will not work anym,ore, because GAOTD is no longer available , at least this program not.<br /> I have used it, I liked it, but now it won't work for me. May be you understand what I mean now?</p> <p>Marit. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-10780 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:13:29 +0000 Archangel 10780@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Can you be more specific? I don't know if your using some type of langauage converter or not but its not actually clear what your asking. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-10776 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:33:37 +0000 maritmanelleke 10776@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>No one can help me? Well, if not, I have to uninstall this programm, sorry for that. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1690#post-10543 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:03:49 +0000 maritmanelleke 10543@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi,<br /> I downloaded and activated the mediagrabber from a few days ago. Now I started it again, and now I have to re enter the code. Which I donot know and even if it would not work anymore. Is this problem more heard? Because I liked this program, and used it several tiomes, even yesterday!<br /> Hope you can help me out?</p> <p>Marit. </p>