glances

Legend – (2015 movie)

2016-02-27

abandoned, Christopher Eccleston, crime entertainment, crime movies, disliked, entertainment, fiction, glances, movies, R rated, the past

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3569230/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190402165441/https://www.legend-the-movie.com/

Set in the 1960s, two brothers are gangsters.

Incomprehensible. I can’t hear through the accents.

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Swagbucks

2016-02-25

dead, disliked, evil, glances, privacy, projects, websites

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.swagbucks.com/

An personal information collection website which rewards with a trickle of money.

I found surveys which were broken, offers which were suspect, items which wanted my credit card information or to install random software. Overall, the hype that others give this website makes me think less of humanity.

After this glance, I expect I’ll be getting a lot of junk mail. Sigh.

It’s sometimes unhappy with Pale Moon.
Some of it might be unhappy with Bluhell Firewall, though disabling that didn’t help when I had problems.
Account cancellation

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Advanced SystemCare

2016-02-24

dead, freeware, glances, payware, proprietary software, software, Windows 7 software, Windows 8 software, Windows software, Windows Vista software, Windows XP software

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.iobit.com/en/advancedsystemcarefree.php

One of those “PC problems” programs.

Whatever this is supposed to be, it’s insultingly simplistic and opaque.

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HDD Guardian

2016-02-24

abandoned, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, loved, open-source software, software, utilities, Windows 10 software, Windows software

TODO – make a proper page
TODO – add my notes

Software >
was https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=hddguardian

A windows GUI which uses the smartctl backend.

Abandoned – Website gone, archive gone.

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BeCyIconGrabber

2016-02-20

freeware, glances, GUI software, image software, image viewers, media software, proprietary software, software, Windows 10 software, Windows software

The irony of not having an icon.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180709162321/http://www.becyhome.de:80/becyicongrabber/description_eng.htm

BeCyIconGrabber is a small utility to view icons and cursors of any sizes that are contained in EXE, DLL, ICL, OCX, CPL, SRC, ICO and CUR files. The icons/cursors can be saved either individually as an icon, cursor, bitmap, png file or collectively within resource libraries.

(and more awesome features)

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Adobe Acrobat

2016-02-16

Adobe, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, image software, image viewers, media software, proprietary software, software, Windows 10 software, Windows software

(on Wikipedia)
was https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/

A PDF reader. Many people mistake this as “the” PDF viewer, but PDF is an open format, and Adobe just happens to make a popular viewer.

While I don’t use it, I keep it in my toolkit: Win10 enGB – 2015.009.20069
offline installer

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WinSCP

2016-02-15

freeware, glances, GUI software, open-source software, software, the kit, Windows 10 software, Windows 8 software, Windows software, zombie

(on Wikipedia)
https://winscp.net/eng/index.php

An SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SCP client.

Windows Secure Copy

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WinContig

2016-02-15

freeware, glances, GUI software, proprietary software, software, the kit, Windows 10 software, Windows 7 software, Windows 8 software, Windows software, Windows Vista software, Windows XP software, zombie

https://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm

A defragmentation tool for individual files.

Note that defragmentation is irrelevant with an SSD, and even with a HDD, Windows will auto-defragment if you leave it alone for a bit. For windows 8 and Windows 10, my administrative settings are so aggressive that when I’m inactive for five minutes it pokes around to see what it can defragment.