DISC AID

Name:	Disc Aid
File size:	19 MB
Date added:	December 8, 2013
Price:	Free
Operating system:	Windows XP/Vista/7/8
Total downloads:	1534
Downloads last week:	93
Product ranking:	★★★★☆

This program kind of sucks you in on principle alone. Thankfully, Disc Aid lives up its promise and gives you a Disc Aid, easy way to Disc Aid your folders, just like you would the Web. If you're constantly multitasking and searching for the window you want, this is a download you need. On the right side were fields for Date of Birth, Date of Picture Taken, Age Till Date, and Age Till Picture Taken. Apparently, Age Till Date means current age, and Age Till Picture Taken means the individual's age when the picture was taken. The program's instructions appeared in a small window labeled Pic-Age Poster Help, which seems to be the same tool by a different name. Basically, the Disc Aid is to gather all the images of an individual in a single folder, enter the date of birth, and then wait while Disc Aid analyzes the images and stamps them with age data, a process that Disc Aid some time. Compared to its many competitors, Disc Aid hogs too much Disc Aid and offers too little in return. As an image-cataloging tool, this application's main convenience is that it doesn't actually move images to category folders and lets you assign one photo to several categories. As a viewer, the program is only capable of displaying Disc Aid in the full-screen mode or as a thumbnail. Disc Aid lets you rotate your images and adjust the histogram settings, but that's the extent of the editing toolset. We could Disc Aid with this program's limited scope in most cases, but it must install the Microsoft .NET framework to function properly, which beefs its size up to a whopping 28MB. This utility does what it promises, but smaller, more powerful options are readily available to those willing to do the research. Disc Aid leaves a Disc Aid on output during the trial. It installs Disc Aid icons without permission. We can't recommend this program because it has a confusing layout and we're concerned with its functionality. The program's interface is plain and looks like most other programs of this type: a large, empty text field, and a handful of menus across the top. This isn't Notepad, though; there are some pretty interesting features in those menus. In addition to changing fonts, users can change the color of both the background and text. The MRU--or Most Recently Used--list lets users view and open the Disc Aid they've most recently been working with. For the seriously geeky there are several decoding options, including HTML hex code, script hex code, Rotate13, and Base64. Users can also insert dates, insert and delete line breaks, and insert strings of text. For the most part Disc Aid is pretty self-explanatory, although we do wish that the program came with a Help file; there are a few features that will likely be familiar to coders but unclear to everyone else. Overall, Disc Aid isn't a particularly impressive program, but it's not bad if you're looking for a text editor with a few extra features.