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• Adobe and Flash

01/05/2008 11:55 PM
Three of my CNET blog postings have gripes about Adobe and the Flash player.

• New Gripes about Transaction Guard from Trend Micro

08/19/2007 12:55 AM
Transaction Guard is a free online service from Trend Micro. I had many installation failures and found multiple errors with the documentation.

• New Gripes about Mozy

07/30/2007 12:55 AM
Mozy in an on-line backup service that gets great reviews from everyone but me.

• Bad Dell Tech Support

05/11/2007 12:55 AM
My experiences dealing with an Inspirion 1150 laptop. Documented on my blog rather than in the computergripes.com. In brief, installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 slowed down a machine that had shipped with SP1.

• I'm Done With D-Link.

03/19/2007 12:55 AM
I will never buy another D-Link product ever again. I say this based on an experience with an external USB WiFi network adapter, model DWL-G120. On the first computer I tried it on, the adapter wouldn't even install. The first response from D-Link tech support was typically useless. I expected that. On the second computer, the software crashed while being installed. Still, on this machine at least, I did get Windows to recognize the adapter and Device Manager to say it was functional. But, it wouldn't connect to any WiFi network. Then it turns out the adapter does not support WPA encryption despite the fact that the retailer (NewEgg) and D-Link both say that WPA is supported. Registering the adapter was also miserable.

• New Online File Folder Gripes

03/13/2007 12:55 AM
New gripes about a file storage company, Online File Folder, that is associated with GoDaddy.