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- Price: Free to try (45-day trial); $29.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: October 27, 2005
- Total Downloads: 171,143
- Downloads last week: 351
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 27 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This Internet Explorer-based browser adds a number of tools to the shell, as its name suggests. Perhaps it's inevitable that the interface of 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser bewilders, with its 30-plus buttons, but it does let you choose to display fewer buttons. Wichio comes packed with a huge number of features, some of which we found useful, such as its network tools; others, such as the ability to add random sounds to mouse clicks, are just silly. We appreciated the tabbed-browsing feature, which let us quickly switch among sites and save groups of tabs as a bookmark. The most useful tool is the download manager, which resumes stopped transfers. The application's features include notification of e-mail and Web page updates, an alarm clock, a pop-up blocker, and automatic connecting and disconnecting. Another group of utilities offers searching, a dictionary, song lyrics, and weather lookups, but you can't customize the links for online resources. We like the new Private Surfing feature that lets you create private URL lists specific to your username that remain hidden when other users log in. The Lyrics Finder, which finds the lyrics to your currently playing song on Winamp, seems frivolous, but some people might find it useful. More advanced surfers will like the Whois, Traceroute, and DNS query tools. All these enhancements make Wichio eat much more memory than Internet Explorer, but high-end Internet users might deem it worth the extra load.Publisher's description
From Revopoint :Wichio is a multipage Web browser with 27 built-in utilities. It's easy to use: to set options for any utility, just right-click its button. If you install the MS speech engine, Wichio will notify you (for the features that give notifications) by saying anything you want. Wichio features screen capturing (multiple captures without pasting), a download manager (for groups of images, audio or video files, flash files, and other files; it also resumes broken downloads), an IP/URL checker (includes Whois, Traceroute, and DNS lookups), e-mail alerts, Web update alerts, a lyrics finder, an auto form filler, private surfing, NetStat, autorefreshing, and the ability to delete the history, cache, and cookies, to block pop-ups, to show your IP address, and to show system resources, autoconnecting and autodisconnecting, a talking reminder, a Web translator, dictionaries, and a weather checker.
Version 4.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 4.4
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 27 votes
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 4.4
"Who (or why) PAYS For A Browser!?"
Pros: It's a nice IE-based browser with a handsome-enough interface and a few handy features. Many of these features Windows already has, but this program does make them more conveniently accessible.
Cons: Sorry, but the program falls flat on it's face by requiring payment! I am NOT going to pay for a browser, it just doesn't make sense. Many of the 27 much-touted features are already available in other browsers that are not only FREE, but that don't use as much memory as this one does. Of the other features, many of those are already available built in to Windows. The few that are somewhat unique are either for the most part useless or certainly not worth thirty bucks. Neither is it worth thirty bucks just to have a few tools that are already included in Windows made available from within this program.
This site's review seems to imply that this program might be a good bet for "power users", but I doubt that a real power user would be gullible enough to actually pay for something like this.
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0 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 4.4
Pros: Its OK
Cons: No way would I pay 30 bucks for this....
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 4.4
Pros: This program is not just another web browser with tabbed browsing like others I've tried, but it does have some useful tools. It's like a one-stop-service program. Besides, I like the way to enable/disable features with green/red buttons. Interesting design. Great job!
Cons: Bars can be removed but not be moved to where I'd like.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 4.4
Pros: good
Cons: none
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 4.4
Pros: the program is great
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