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LimeWire, formerly the premier demonstrator of bad UI design on the Mac, is at last obsolete. With the release of WebCopier, MaximumSoft Corp. has beaten down the competition to become king of the hill. Sadly, being king of this “hill” is about as desirable as being king of a pus-encrusted goiter.
WebCopier parades itself as an offline website viewer, meaning it can download all the files on one website once, then allow you to view them later. Useful? Perhaps. Assuming that the application has an impeccably designed UI, and that you have a great need for this sort of thing, you might be willing to pay $30 (237.75 South African Rand) for it. But alas, the GUI is quite possibly the worst we have ever reviewed, assuming you excuse Mach Ten Metas, of course.
From the stacked, upside-down tabs to the blue-grey window background, WebCopier is an excruciating violation of UI Guidelines, not to mention basic human decency. Particularly amusing is the label text that eagerly truncates itself into uselessness, much like a gopher that flees aboveground danger, only to discover that his formerly comfy den has been converted into a busy subway tunnel.
Should you be brave enough to download it, many more discoveries await you, such as the freakish highlighting on the “toolbar” buttons, rough-hewn splitter, and more. As they say in Cataract, Wisconsin: “Oh sure, I seen WebCopier. Oh, must have been four days ago now, it was out by the Snitztler farm, chasing those cows around. You betcha.”
MaximumSoft Corp, the mere mention of your company name is enough to induce internal hemorrhaging in test weasels. (Perhaps a better name would be MinimumSoft Corp! Ha ha! Get it?) Your software might work pretty well at the core, but the putrid interface makes any sort of meaningful relationship impossible. I’m sorry. Now take this 11.0 and begone, thou beslubbering urchin-snouted hugger-mugger!
Posted by jan at June 11, 2003 10:03 PM | TrackBackI would gladly use this software to download anything involving gophers or pus-encrusted goiters.
Posted by: Durf on June 12, 2003 01:54 AMKING RICHARD III: A pus-encrusted goiter! My kingdom for a pus-encrusted goiter!
CATESBY: Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a pus-encrusted goiter.
Posted by: 2b | ~2b on June 12, 2003 01:59 AMHey kiddies, didn't your mommies warn you that you would go blind if you played to much with your pus-encrusted goiter?
Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on June 12, 2003 02:17 AMI have a big weiner.
Posted by: longdongsilver on June 12, 2003 10:19 AMListen, chaps and chapettes. Forget this tasteless pus-encrusted goiter. Hussle your buttocks to VersionTracker, where you?ll find version 1.0 of Typewriter Keyboard.
It has everything going for it (that is, absolutely nothing), and as an added bonus, guess who has perpetrated yet another crime against humanity? The Developer Stasi at AlphaOmega (?First with the Worst?). Oh please, please, please! Rip them a new sphincter! I want to watch!
Posted by: Aussie Boy on June 12, 2003 10:48 AMWe're sorry, new sphincter ripping is not avaialable at this time.
I feel there may be some rating inflation going on here. True it has an incredibly ugly and offensive GUI but the reviewer admits that it may have something useful at its core. That should be an automatic one point deduction.
Unless of course it sticks the landing.
Posted by: Wisconsin Cow Chaser on June 12, 2003 05:06 PMWhat is a hugger-mugger?
Posted by: ??? on June 12, 2003 05:17 PMAny chance this thing is a port of something else? That window looks suspiciously Windows-like to me.
Maybe it's just the funky shade of blue that they use in the tabs.
Posted by: Leibnitz, N. on June 12, 2003 06:11 PMIsn't 2b | ~2b always 1? Hey, I feel smart now!
Posted by: black belt in logics on June 12, 2003 07:07 PMWisconsin Cow Chaser,
You may be on to something. That 11 looks suspicious. I think there may be a French judge or Canadians involved.
Can't talk right now. I appear to be hemorrhaging internally ...
Posted by: test weasel #3 on June 12, 2003 08:07 PMHey "black belt in logics,"
Don't you worry your little head off. That smart feeling will wear off soon.
Posted by: 1 on June 12, 2003 08:27 PMClearly a "hugger-mugger" is a person who mugs people who hug each other.
Posted by: The Valrus on June 13, 2003 01:42 AMI hugged a mugger once. He kneed me in the groin. I won't do *that* again ...
Posted by: aussie boy on June 13, 2003 02:56 AMI think this is a winner. If you want to save a web page, complete with banners & flash advertizments - in IE hit "Save As" -and default option is "Web Archive". Which is free, and been around for years....( I dunno Safari too?)
Since we can already do this free, it's 100% useless to BUY something to do the same thing, but look uglier, and scare young people!
ROFL!!!
Thx 4 the laughs!
Posted by: Prince of darkness on June 13, 2003 09:58 AMI found it!
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Oh crap! Here's another and it's different.
Now I'm confused again.
-???
All this talk of huggermuggers reminded me of an old Mason Williams poem (he wrote and performed "Classical Gas," if anyone remembers that):
How about Them Toad Suckers,
Ain't they clods?
Sittin' there suckin'
Them green toady-frogs.
Suckin' them hop-toads,
Suckin' them chunkers,
Suckin' them leapy-types,
Suckin' them plunkers.
Look at Them Toad Suckers,
Ain't they snappy?
Suckin' them bog-frogs
Sure makes 'em happy.
Them huggermugger Toad Suckers,
Way down south,
Stickin' them sucky-toads
In they mouth.
How to be a Toad Sucker?
No way to duck it.
Gittchyseff a toad,
Rare back and suck it
-tc
Posted by: trudyscousin on June 13, 2003 08:44 PMMore on Mason Williams' poems:
Look at them moose-goosers!
Ain't they obtuse?
Sneakin' through the backwoods, goosin' them moose.
Goosin' them big moose, goosin' them tiny.
Goosin' them middle-moose in they heiney.
Look at them moose-goosers -- ain't they dumb?
Some use a umberella.
Some use they thumb.
How to be a moose-gooeser?
(This'll turn ye puce.)
Loosen up yer gooser,
rouse a drousy moose.