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25 worst Tech gadgets

May 26, 2006 6:49AM PDT

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Welll...
May 26, 2006 7:06AM PDT

I did have RealPlayer on a past machine. I used to have an Iomega Zip drive, which worked perfectly until I dropped it on a cement floor, and it's kind of hard NOT to have Internet Explorer 6, even though I never use it.

Aside from that, clean.

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I'm surprised....
May 26, 2006 7:08AM PDT

no Norton's stuff is on the list. Won't let that garbage NEAR my computers.

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Agreed.
May 26, 2006 7:10AM PDT

Years ago I LOVED Norton SystemWorks but now it is garbage!!!!

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I hated RealPlayer for most of the reasons mentioned.
May 26, 2006 8:53AM PDT

It was installed once, but never again.

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The worst thing about Real Player ...
May 26, 2006 9:03AM PDT

... was that you could set the privacy settings pretty well, but they somehow seemed to magically go back to default after some time with no notice to you. Sad

Evie Happy

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I noticed that too,
May 26, 2006 9:15AM PDT

Realplayer is NOWHERE to be found now on any of my machines !!!

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Nor mine anymore.
May 26, 2006 9:18AM PDT

For a while I needed it for some online teaching apps. No longer.

Evie Happy

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The first time I had Real player working,
May 26, 2006 9:59AM PDT

it was able to disable my firewall. So that ended using realplayer and it was too bad because there are some podcasts I can't listen to

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Had ME ...
May 26, 2006 8:21AM PDT

... came pre-installed on a computer. Bad bad bad.

I did like Priceline for groceries, however.

Evie Happy

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IE6.........
May 26, 2006 8:22AM PDT

I guess I am lucky I never had the othersHappy

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I had one of the Iomega drives, and it was replaced under
May 26, 2006 8:52AM PDT

the computer's extended warrantee. That one now sits in the basement. I also use IE, but it is behind at least two firewalls.