Five handy network apps for your portable toolkit

I do not know what the fascination people on the Internet have with using slideshows like this in place of actually writing an informative article to convey some useful information. The screenshots really add very little to the information and only serve to slow the whole process down.

Instead of an article that can be read in less than a minute, I get to spend 5+ minutes clicking through useless screenshots of useless information just so I can read the one paragraph blurb at the bottom that will actually tell me something about the application you are advocating.

The only possible explanation I see for using these slideshows is to force your reader to click and refresh the page numerous times to drive advertising. Again, extremely annoying, and I will not participate in this blatant attempt to drive revenues through annoying your readership.

Tech Republic is getting less and less usable and more add rich which as far a I am concerned worthless.

I dont know what happened to TR. They seem to be getting held by technology so much that they are too lazy to write up a nice article?. You are supposed to embrace technology in an interesting way so your readers keep coming back for more. I do not see that happening. I stopped reading TR annoying articles for a long time now. I still get emails about them, thus, this is why I'm here reading replying and, it will be my last post. Either hire better people to write your articles or find another niche.
And Yes, the slideshow is annoying.

Argh, well, CLICK here, not lick here. Typo, but I didn't see any edit button either so that's just unfair I say.

I remember reading this 5 apps aarticle a little while ago, and remember telling myself no need to bookmark it as I can just search the keyword (tcpview) and it'll likiely find this article for me. Sure enough the search did, but all I get is this one for tcpview in the image gallery, and where I"m used to seeing "lick here fo rthe 5 apps blog version", that isn't here.

This image galleries method of presenting info is just terrible. Unfortunatley I've seen many signs of poor design and even have seen actual article writers comment IN THEIR OWN ARTICLE on how they are unable to do something due to the limtiations of the content input system.

Bottom line, either TR has a money problem hence why they don't invest in improving this web experience or they're just unaware of how poor we are finding this site to be. It's not the worse site ever, but there are multiple signs I've seen over th epast few years that all add up to a lack of attention to your web presence.

But totally fail to comprehend that you have an option to the Blog Entry as shown here.

NOTE: If you'd prefer to view this information as a blog post, check out this entry in our Five Apps blog.

The Bold Text is a link tot he Blog Entry which isn't a Slide Show but as you fail to see that link I will suggest to the Powers That Be, that they stop providing Blog Entries as most people are only too happy to complain bitterly and are completely unable to open their eyes and read the very first line.

Col