About ProR

Update February 2008

This blog was originally called My Free review and if you look back through the posts for February 2008 you will see the reasons for changing the blog name – Pro Reviewer – It’s Hard to Find a Good Domain Name! . So references to My Free Review in the following text relate to this original name choice.

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The aim of My Free Review is to provide more independent information on various software programs than may be generally available from most blogs at present.

There are several web sites and blogs that provide descriptions of the programs as they are released or updated but this is usually a brief resume taken from the developers site or “press release”. (Although there are some notable exceptions).

Quite often when a program has been downloaded and installed it doesn’t really quite do what is expected or it may do several useful things that were never even mentioned. So I thought that reporting the details could be a useful guide and time saver for other software “junkies” like myself.

The reviews that will be presented are going to be predominantly freeware and shareware. I will review programs and updates that have been recently released whenever possible. Also there will be reviews on some older favourites that deserve a mention.

I feel that the more commercial programs produced by the big software companies are adequately covered by the mainstream PC web sites and magazines. However, I will try to include some personal comments where they seem relevant as well as reviewing some of the free plugins and add-ons that become available.

I am now a big fan of “portable” programs. That is programs that can be run without touching the registry and therefore can easily be transferred from one machine to another complete with all settings or run from a “memory stick”.

I also have an interest in Firefox add-ons which seem to never be adequately described or reviewed at addons.mozilla.org.

Being something of a gadget freak I also thought I would provide a little insight, where relevant, on some of these. Again this may help others from making bad choices or point to some products that have performed well.

All the reviews will obviously be personal opinions and I will welcome comments and discussion from those of you who wish to add something more, disagree or correct something if it is wrong.

For anyone who is interested a little relevant background on myself can be found at “Why I Decided to Write this Blog”

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