WatchX 1.21

Using WatchX is like assembling a pig from a kit — slow, confusing, and greasy. (Where does this long drippy thing go? If I stick it here, will the flow of bodily wastes be reversed? Would that be a good thing?) WaX is apparently designed to record changes to your hard disk, but really, doesn’t that sound about as exciting as a bowl of cold oatmeal?

WaX’s poorly conceived conglomeration of widgets, a.k.a. the interface, merely serves to lightly coat the nasty engine lurking underneath. As I write this review, WaX is still scanning my disk, as it has been for the last hour. WaX be all “Is this fast enough Jan, IS THIS FAST ENOUGH?” and I be all “NO.” There is no end in sight. After scanning one folder for ten minutes, WaX then started on my Applications folder, where it reports there are 66,916 files to scan. Right now it’s scanning so slow, it would have to speed up to stop.

Although my curiosity regarding the eventual outcome is bubbling over, I fear the scan may not finish in time. Mysteriously, the the “Record system state” function completed rather quickly, while “Watch changes” stretches on, almost into eternity, much like the image of Steve “Porous” Ballmer’s sweaty nipples, that is forever burnt into my memory.

The unbaked and doughy engine, mated in an unholy alliance with an adulterate beast of a carbonadoed interface, is deserving of death by watery pumpion, but I’ll let it slide with a 8.0. The foul deformity that is WaX still hasn’t completed its runagate scan, which contributes greatly to its sucktasticness.

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