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#1 User is offline   PCWorld 

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Posted 12 January 2010 - 08:00 PM

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Posted 13 January 2010 - 01:57 PM

Yes, you did. You now rate right up there with the Geicko 'Cave Man' commercials. Bad, Bad, Bad!!!
I have been a purchaser/subscriber to PCWorld almost since it's inception. Several e-mails arrive from PCWorld daily. Love them all and I profit knowledge wise from many, many of them. But this latest story review of 'Best Portable Hard Drives' placed the 'Straw on my Back'. To require me to click the Show More Button each screen to read the few extra lines of text appears to be a 'Scam Deception' of the click counter paid by the advertiser on each reduced ADVERTISEMENT screen.
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 04:26 PM

I agree with britt3. When I open something like that I expect to see all of the content. That 'show more' link is bullshit.
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 06:49 PM

It is not cute than ours

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Posted 13 January 2010 - 07:02 PM

I have to agree about the "Show More" thing. That is really annoying.
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Posted 14 January 2010 - 10:52 AM

Put me in the annoyed by "show more" as well. When this new format first came out there was, and I used, a link to show the article in the old fashioned text/article format. Bring that back to appease us who hate this format.
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Posted 15 January 2010 - 09:39 AM

I don't really like the whole slideshow thing, especially the "Show More." As a reader it is time consuming to click through a slide show that could have been presented much more efficiently on a full page with pictures and text.
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Posted 15 January 2010 - 10:21 AM

Read the comments!! When I click on "read more" I expect the read an article. Not more ads. If you don't change your format I will find a new source for tech info.
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Posted 18 January 2010 - 03:30 AM

Reliability data would be helpful. Manufacturers need to feel pressure from us customers.
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Posted 18 January 2010 - 03:52 AM

Most annoying. Can't be bothered to look for more information. Too many other things to do. Please make a comparison list easy and informative. Cut the crap.
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Posted 18 January 2010 - 04:34 AM

I won't even look at those adverts any more, much less a wanna be article written that way...

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Posted 18 January 2010 - 05:47 AM

I understand that PC World has to have ads to make money, but the current format for putting nearly everything in this ad-littered form totally annoys me, to the extent that I rarely even look at these any more. It feels like the last gasp of a dying company.

If I can’t bring up the main subject matter with on or at most two clicks, I won’t bother.
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Posted 18 January 2010 - 09:51 AM

I agree with willens. It is highly unlikely that PC World will be around in a year. The best way to ensure its demise is to continually irritate its users - both in the hard copy and web editions. The hard copy continually refers to the web site for additional information - and then presents it in such a crappy format that I don't want to bother with PC World. If PC World does not want subscribers to renew their subscriptions, well, you have succeeded with me.
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Posted 18 January 2010 - 02:07 PM

I really appreciate and enjoy your articles. Your slide shows are awful. It is kind of a bait and switch when you expect an article where you get good info and instead there is this painfully slow, not very informative slideshow. Please do articles and include pictures as part of the article. Don't do pictures and include a few words.

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Posted 18 January 2010 - 08:46 PM

I certainly agree with the negative comments that most of the writers have submitted. Give me the personal library service and the ease of use in the Smart Computing Mag any day. Besides your links are a pain for the time it takes to contact you.
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 05:43 AM

I have already terminated my paid print subscription, for this and related reasons.
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 05:48 AM

What more can I say that has not already been said here. I hope PCWorld realizes what they have and what they are loosing if they are interested in their own survival.
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 06:35 AM

I think the "flash" approach is useless...give me back the days when comparisons were done in a text document with images interspersed. Using a "show more" option should actually show more than another line or two.....what a waste of time...and very poor web design
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Posted 24 January 2010 - 07:51 PM

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Posted 24 January 2010 - 09:23 PM

View PostPCWorld, on 12 January 2010 - 08:00 PM, said:

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With the capacity of thumb/flash drives now a days it would be better, easier, and faster to just use a thumb/flash drive.

Have a look at this bad boy http://www.stootsi.c...?item=639813441

This post has been edited by jasin: 24 January 2010 - 09:25 PM

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