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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: February 22, 2006
- 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. 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 tabbed 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 Capture (multiple captures without pasting), Download Manager (for groups of images, audio or video files; it also resumes broken downloads), IP-URL Checker (includes Whois, Traceroute, and DNS lookup), E-mail Alert, Web Update Alert, Lyric Finder, Auto Form Filler, Private Surfing, NetStat, Auto Refresh, Delete History, Cache, and Cookies, Block Pop-ups, Show your IP, Show System Resources, Auto Connect, Auto Disconnect, Keep Connection Alive, Talking Reminder, Web Translator, Dictionaries and Weather Checker.
Version 5.0 includes Map, Currency Converter, Change Web Color, Copy Web Color, Save Flash, Open All Links in This Page, View This Page in Internet Explorer, URL Suffix, URL Alias.
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User reviews of 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 5
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 27 votes
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 5
Pros: Its stupid. Yes, it has built in some good products like pop-up blocker and such, but 90 percent of it is crap that you dont want.
Cons: Too much extra junk
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 5
"May have features, but not worth your time."
Pros: It has 27 very neat features as it said, which are very good features when it comes to surfing the web.
Cons: It is very cluttered and confusing. A hassle to use, and a few bugs. 44 Day trial.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 5
Pros: Useful features
Cons: Nothing that you wouldn't find in other browsers. Clulttered interface
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 5
Pros: Lots of utilities. More than enough for surfing the net. Some features I've never seen in any other browsers. Some features seem simple but after using them, they change my surfing net behavior. Kind of get addicted to the features e.g. Screen capture, Weather, IP-URL checker, Currency Converter, Email Alert and of course Private Surfing which helps me keep my secret from other users. Nice product !
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser 5
"The best browser I have used to date.Lots to learn on features."
Pros: I appreciate the dictionaries(We are a tri-lingual household.Also the translator for the same reason.The currency converter when My wife does business in the USA.Never knew my IP/url until now.
Cons: Until I learn to use voice and reminders I see a great future fr ths product.I would suggest a way to hide or delete features you do not care for.
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