http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Tag: comments en Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:26:47 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3173#post-27344 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:47:11 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 27344@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I've used Version Tracker for a few years now and have found the service marvellous. It is a subscription service, which I pay yearly, but it does allow me to keep all my drivers updated. You can run the trail and it will tell you which drivers need updating. You can read about it by following the link below. You'll find a link on the page to the download site. The monthly newsletter I get is packed full of freeware ideas.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VersionTracker" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VersionTracker</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3173#post-27329 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:31:07 +0000 RunesageMagik 27329@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It's a given that new installs will update if required, but developers and manufacturers often update older hardware and software drivers based on known glitch fixes or to better interface with newer peripherals and OSs. It's up to the user to schlep over to their sites periodically to check. It is hoped that these updaters accurately do the schlepping for you, but that's apparently not always the case.</p> <p>Granted, drivers are small files. My point was that in my case, when I had to reformat a hard drive and again when I installed a new primary hard drive, the original installation CDs were quite outdated, and Dell's on-line service (the name changed recently) took the kitchen sink approach by suggesting all sorts of drivers (and ALL their iterations dating back to the PC's build date). Worse, their results table format failed to provide a simple way to identify latest driver for every blasted piece of hardware and software and suggested driver updates for hardware brands and software I didn't even have, and no way to permanently deselect them or drivers I downloaded from the list. Every time I logged onto the scan service to download and install a few more, it'd go through the same scan routine and spit out the same long list. (about 64 upgrades!) I asked the techies if I'd caused the problem by renaming the drivers' main folders (divided into successful vs unsuccessful installs) such that the scanner couldn't/didn't drill down into and recognize the individual file names, but the techies weren't sure. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3173#post-27318 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:34:40 +0000 Archangel 27318@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Drivers don't take up much space. When you install new software that requires and update, they are included and you'll get the popup telling you. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3173#post-27305 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:11:20 +0000 RunesageMagik 27305@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ken, be careful what you wish for, because it may put your computer at risk. </p> <p>Dell offers such a service to their customers, but IMHO (and the gold support techs with whom I've discussed its flaws concur) it is a royal pain in the neck. It scans a computer, then suggests many more "updates" than are really needed. It does a lousy job of scanning, a sloppy job of simply downloading drivers, and even its tabular layout of proposed downloads fails the user-friendliness test. It can't even properly read what drivers have just been downloaded so you have to keep track yourself. The techs know it, they've complained at group meetings, and Dell continues to ignore suggestions.</p> <p>Microsoft is so notorious for mucking up computers with their automatic updates &#38; patches that I and some others disable the automatic and "express" part so we can check closely and control what and when updates occur.</p> <p>Several sites offer updaters and UPDATE downloads. Some have been discussed in these forums. As I recall, one struck me as being either very new or very rinkydink (or both), while another wanted way too much access to a PC to be considered secure and trustworthy. </p> <p>The only one that seemed on the up and up - <strong><a href="http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/">File Hippo</a></strong><br /> I believe that site has a decent reputation for maintaining and archiving <strong><a href="http://www.filehippo.com/">UPDATES</a></strong>, but even there, I wouldn't trust any <strong>automatic</strong> update mechanism. Maybe let it run scans, but do your due diligence on each suggestion before allowing any update installs.</p> <p>You might find this <strong><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/18/battle-of-the-software-updaters/">comparison</a></strong> helpful. If you want to experiment, looks like the FREE <strong><a href="http://www.updatestar.com/">UPDATE STAR</a></strong> is your best bet. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3173#post-27298 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:18:47 +0000 kenpowers 27298@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I would like to see this site give away some sort of program that would scan your system for all your old drivers and then download the new updates.. Im not a tight<br /> wad,but I can think of a millon other things to spend my hard earned cash on..<br /> any feed back is helpful.thx for everyone's time in this matter </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-21724 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:53:46 +0000 HOSS 21724@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I believe I have had one that did not post in the past and I wonder if it's because I disconnected from the internet right after posting it. The post may not have had time to get into the system that way. I wonder if that is what you may have done. I typically wait for a few minutes before disconnecting now and I haven't had a problem that I can remember. Although, I did have one that was cut but I assumed it was because it was not "on topic" at the time and I should have posted it in the forums instead.</p> <p>Just thinking out loud... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-21721 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:34:43 +0000 JDPower 21721@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Can I ask why my comments on the giveaway page keep getting deleted (or not approved for posting)? I thought you were just deleting the negative comments as the last couple that got deleted were critical of the software. That's bad enough as it is but yesterday I left a positive comment on Ingenious and it has disappeared. That's about 4 or 5 in the last couple of months now that were removed or not approved for no apparent reason. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1064/page/2#post-19430 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:11:15 +0000 goodgotd 19430@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'm gonna get roasted, but my opinion leans toward any system is going to be a terrible indicator just because of the spectrum of hit-n-git, don't care, who fills things in honestly users we never see aside from thumbs-up/thumbs down votes based on the screencap, title, and mood.</p> <p>but, if you want how I'd start out, reset the u/d count at 30 minutes, 1, 2, and 4 hours then let it accumulate- and post the u/d ratios &#38; counts from each reset in a line?</p> <p>that should start showing where the 'read it' and 'tried it' crowds start having an effect, without the kneejerk 'collecting personal info' paranoia. and still give *something* to guess from at all times. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1064/page/2#post-19428 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:58:53 +0000 katbirdz 19428@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi everybody,</p> <p>I just posted this in the comments section and read through this topic.</p> <p>Dear Game Giveaway of the Day Team:<br /> -------------------------------<br /> How about letting only the people who download a game have access to making the comments and thumbs up vs. thumbs down?</p> <p>The comments could be entered when the activation page pops up on the activation page.</p> <p>If you can still make the results appear on this page it would work.</p> <p>(Cross-posting to forums)</p> <p>----------------------------------</p> <p>I see it may have been addressed already by folks with more knowledge of the inner workings here than me. Still, it was a good idea eh? Or Hmmmmmmmmmm! Another secret thumbs up and down for downloaders? Nah, new folks wouldn't get it and it would only confuse the results for the kind developers who freely give here. Oh well, it was an idea. Delete if you will.</p> <p>My bad.</p> <p>Bonnie</p> <p>(edited to include date and game - 2/25/08 - Bubble Ice Age - not downloaded) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2481#post-15915 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:51:00 +0000 BuBBy 15915@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I don't really care Whose idea it was, (I could give you a name - but it won't help at all) an extra click is an extra click - and that extra work is wearing my mouse button out even faster now.</p> <p>One effect would be search engines may not be able to index all of the comments (which can be a plus). That's my guess. My gripe - direct linking to a comment is broken now (that can be bad). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2481#post-15811 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:35:21 +0000 BillW50 15811@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Who's idea was this? How does making people click more be better than before? I sure would *love* to hear someone explain that one. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-15438 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:16:59 +0000 goodgotd 15438@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>and I can append later comments, too. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-15437 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:16:03 +0000 goodgotd 15437@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>personally I select the text from "giveaway of the day -" down and use filenote to paste it into a text file- no images, etc. if the oem link is abbreviated I 'copy link location' and paste it in as a second step, but that's the limit.</p> <p>never a problem. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-15423 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:47:51 +0000 JKEngineer 15423@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Problems saving or printing the comments page have recurred today, 1/21/08 for Direct Access.<br /> A "save as" command immediately gives a pop-up alert that "the webpage could not be saved". Using Adobe Acrobat to print the page seems to work, until the output file is examined. It has the first part of the page - up to the comments header, and then 6 blank pages with only the page headers, but no comments. </p> <p>This happens in both IE7 and inside AOL 9. (Previous events were in AOL7.)<br /> I tried it in Firefox, which I only recently downloaded. Interestingly, after informing me that the file name was invalid, it downloaded the page successfully with a different file name (that I specified).<br /> JK </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/962#post-14114 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:29:47 +0000 ldahl 14114@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Bubby, I think what you are doing today is a good idea, telling the ones that are having problems to come to the forum. I know it is more work for you but I wonder if you did that for a week if some of the ones that are having problems would see it often enough that they would come here. Also I wonder if at the beginning of the give away, If you would just start a thread that was named Problems With (insert name of new program), perhaps it would help keep all the requests for help and statements of having problems together in one thread. I know that there would still be those that would have trouble reading*Grin* but it might help contain the bulk of the pleas for help.</p> <p>One of the things that I liked from the beginning is that no registration was needed to try the software of the day, it did make it seem truly free, as opposed to something that might be scammy. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/962#post-14079 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:07:56 +0000 freebird31 14079@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I think a simple thing like moving the forum link to right beside the comment link is just as good as policing the comments. I agree they need to be respectful or otherwise removed, but when you can choose the forum link to comment right next to the software-comment box, it might surprise you how many people will correctly choose the forum instead of the direct comment box. It's searching for the forum link that makes it easier to just fill out the open comment box that's right there instead of that. </p> <p>(uhm,... I think I'm not making much sense.. and in my own language it sounded perfect...) I'll go do the same suggestion on the other forum... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1946#post-11994 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:58:10 +0000 TK 11994@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/defensewall-hips/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/defensewall-hips/</a></p> <p>Only the first 3 comments are viewable, the View All Comments link does not work as advertised from IE 5.5sp1 on windows98 to IE7 on Vista Home Premium.</p> <p>Is it possible there were too many comments that caused Wordpress to fall over?</p> <p>There's supposed to be 144 comments on that offering!</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong> it is now working, thanks </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10547 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:24:46 +0000 jinkazama 10547@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>you might want to wait for that giveaway to be over first then save that page. may help :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10541 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:22:35 +0000 JKEngineer 10541@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Have not tried the other browsers.<br /> Did try printing to pdf - hangs the browser. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10523 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:49:00 +0000 jinkazama 10523@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>have you tried Opera browser or firefox? have you tried printing it into pdf instead? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10521 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:00:25 +0000 JKEngineer 10521@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>BuBBy -<br /> The first instance of the problems occurred on FlashSpring Pro 2.2 (Sept 7). You will see 2 comments from me (and comments from others on the same page) about saving the page. Comment 42 reports I cannot save the page. #82 reports restored ability to save it. </p> <p>I found the problem using both the AOL browser and IE 7. The more recent problem, which instigated this thread was worse, in that trying to print resulted in a browser hang. I am pretty sure it is not my machine or set-up. After all it goes away without my changing things, which I infer results from changes by GOTD. It is also reported by others. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10514 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:54:11 +0000 BuBBy 10514@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>JKEngineer, when you find one of these pages - it would be helpful if you can post the details (which giveaway / date etc) and the exact error messages you are seeing.</p> <p>I've just gone back several days and managed to save the comments pages for all of these days without issue. I'd like to be able to help but without being able to reproduce or see the problem myself - I can't really determine what is causing it.</p> <p>Also, which browser are you using and if you have any plugins/extensions loaded - do you get the same results by disabling these? Also is there a complete copy of the webpage in your browsers cache? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10513 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:32:57 +0000 Jucati 10513@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>is the browser 100% finished loading the page before you try to save it?</p> <p>Do the advertisements on the page affect whether you can save it or not?</p> <p>etc. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10497 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:45:41 +0000 JKEngineer 10497@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have sent the same message thru the contact form. </p> <p>Maz - Please contact my law firm, Dewey, Cheatem, &#38; Howe, to set up an appointment to discuss terms and choice of seconds. </p> <p>The inability to save is not driven by the filename. Using the menu to select file&gt;save as, causes (when the problem occurs)an immediate popup box saying the webpage cannot be saved. This was discussed on the comments page a week or two ago, by me and others. The problem then went away. It has come back. And as of today, gone away again. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10489 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:37:37 +0000 jinkazama 10489@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>but are all comments useful?? i doubt so... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10487 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:11:21 +0000 maz 10487@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Lee,<br /> Yeah, but you can't buy a sense of humour for double that... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10486 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:53:39 +0000 Lee 10486@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I hope you have a spare £500,000 k floating around.</p> <p>Thats what you will be shelling out to get the case to a court. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10485 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:38:23 +0000 maz 10485@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Anyone who wants to save MY comments in any form whatever has first to obtain permissions from my solicitors: Plankt, Pursegurdle &#38; Lumpe of Gray's Inn, London. Any copyright infringement will be vigorously pursued through all the courts of the United Kingdom and other available authorities, including, but not restricted to, detailed appeals to the House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10483 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:30:02 +0000 admin 10483@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hello guys,<br /> try to save the page using different file name (instead of default), this might help. I guess the problem is caused by multiple dots in end of file name. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1676#post-10482 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:18:30 +0000 jr46 10482@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>JKEngineer, is this a temporary problem? Have you checked to see if any of the previous pages you had trouble with are copiable now in the archives? It seems unlikely that GAOTD is doing this intentionally to prevent us from saving the pages. Maybe they were working on the page at that particular moment, or something.</p> <p>Can you use the "View/Source" menu? Saving the source will give the same results as saving the page. </p>