Portables Fashion Victims

I’ve started using portable softwares recently and I’m really liking it. By portable I mean self contained minimized versions, they’ve got all the functions minus all the bullcrap. I’ve got portable Nero 8 which is like 50mb stead of 300, portable PhotoShop, portable office, Dreamweaver and all kinds of crap I can’t live without. Of course you have to learn the procedure for making portable softwares, which is fairly complex but totally worth it if you are plaque with constant disk space constrain like yours truely.

Speaking of softwares, especially in relation to throttling as much juice as you can from your modest specs, for the past few years what has been constantly nettling me are these memory resident passively active statistical monitoring crapwares, that even trusted manufacturers like Apple bundled in everything they give out for free. I’m not an Apple hater, I think the iphone is really interesting and all but after such a big hype over their fagoty ipods and i-whatnots, I was really hoping they’d strip quicktime and itunes of their bonjours and home-calling crap.

What’s the deal with Apple and their hide-the-ugly-plumbing products anyway, seems to me like as the years went past they seemed more and more intent on sugarcoating their overpriced products with sleek and attractive design, without backing them up with enough inside spunk for the money. Personally, I think that’s pushing the envelope in the wrong direction, technology-wise. See the direction Microsoft is taking on Vista for instance, they’re simply making people dump almost half the computer in the world and for what?!! so they can make vista more theoretically functional and look as good as a Osx. It’s like all af a sudden they’re emulating Apple’s design because they think they’re in a push-come-to-shove scenario where people are ‘waking up’ to the fact that simplicity is the solution. What they don’t figure is that not everyone content on being another dumb fashion victim and they want a robush scalable OS that’s gonna work on their current specs and have a little more to offer then some UAC panel popping up so frequently its drives them nuts.

It’s not that I’m overly concerned about what these softwares can do to my system given the fact that I don’t use them and don’t plan on using them anytime soon. It’s just that we have two systems running here and my girlfriend’s planning on getting one of those Vaio lappy and apart from mending the wounds on the homefront, I’m sick and tired of people calling me about their system suddenly ‘hanging by a thread’ after they installed one of these things. I could seriously make a living disabling self starting ‘services’ if I start charging for it. Last time I checked even simply getting your system looked at and I mean, literally LOOKED at without doing anything could have you approximately 500 bucks poorer. And most of us have to pay because there’s no other way, because we’re too lazy or too ‘outgoing’ to familiarize ourselves with what we own. You can call yourself victim of conformity or you can blame manufacturers for their flawed insights but when you get down to it, it’s the majority and the people who did the most yapping in the general media who gets to decide our fate eventually in these kind of situation.