Well..ok..I said I would come back and share my thoughts...so..like it or not here it goes.
*disclaimer....Iam old and I call'em as I see um*
This software is being used on a older toshiba a105 with a fresh install of xp home and a 10mb downline with a 800kb upline.
1. Purchasing...painless...easy checkout no issues
2. Activation..considering this was done manually..surprisingly fast..less than four hours ( remember the seller is human and Im sure times will very from person to person)
* also should noted the application seems to call home at start-up to verify license*
3. Small test run on one of my personal blogs
Found myself a list of proxies...mostly crap I found via google and imported it
Edited the the website.txt, comment.txt,etc. and loaded them
In the harvester section I entered "site:mysite.com"
for the radio button I choose wordpress and in the search engine/proxy section I choose google, use proxies, and 100 results.
OK..its set and Iam ready..lets harvest!
......seems alittle slow...but I would assume that would be because of the crap proxies that Iam using..but nonetheless it has found my site and all the pages that I know are indexed on google are there...export url list..and load it in the comment poster section....now..the moment of truth..lets see if it works..click start posting..hey look.it seems to be working.
about 50% success
40% failed
10% not found...not found?!?..* I have to assume this is due to the crap proxies*
Now to check see if it really worked..log into the blogs back-end and SSSCCCOOORRRREEE!!! I see my posts waiting to be excepted..nice!
Now..personally the auto posting is what Iam after with this app and I have proven to myself that yes it does work, that said ...I do have issues with it hanging while harvesting, posting and pinging...this to I could blame on the proxies Iam using...so I dont blame the app at all on that BUT...man-o-man..it sure does seem to crash alot..there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the crashes..but they are annoying...yes Im saving the crash logs and when I have collected a bit more I will send them to the seller.
*should be noted that sense I have purchased this there has been 2-3 builds released and as this gets more and more refined Im sure the issues I have personally had with it will be ironed out*
What I would like to see
a little more stability
a clear video tutorial on the uses of the program and a explanation movable type setting ( sorry ..Iam sure this is obvious to some..but Im clueless on this)
Over all this is well worth the money, If I were to give it a grade it it would be a B-..only because of the crashes I get...nothing like harvesting for 30 minutes and have it crash when I go to export the list lol.
Basically this is the poor-mans Xrumar
