Deaf Medicine

Country: 94.136.44.226, Europe, GB

City: -0.1224 , United Kingdom

I am a long time Acronis user and have been using 2010 flawlessly for some time with a whole suite of backups that run nightly and write to a removable disk for disaster recovery. I recently upgraded to 2016. What a mistake. I purposely chose the non-cloud version. Out of the box, it tries to force you to log in using a non-standard port. This doesn't work for machines that are either standalone or behind properly configured firewalls. Further, a local only solution should not require any login anywhere. Per Acronis support, there is no way to remove the login prompt as there is only ONE software package, and the license specifies whether you have cloud or local only capability. So the only option non-cloud users have is to X out of the login prompt every time the application is started. How will this work for automated backups? I don't yet know. The interface is totally redesigned and now completely non-intuitive; it has multiple options that you would *think* would be what you would use but no, these options only work if you have the cloud version. Gone is the very simple and easy to understand table of scheduled backups that you can modify and or select from to run intermediate backups. Gone is the ability to create a backup file name that you can actually read on the screen (now the file name is the same as the backup name and is in a LARGE font in a column that displays only the first 8-10 characters). Gone is the ability to create file names that automatically contain the date. In all, I'm unimpressed and looking for a refund. Acronis was once very good software. Bad move, Acronis.

This provides a fine surface to use with my rotary cutter, but I have only used it a few times and already there are several gouges in it. I guess I was expecting a little more "healing" from the "self-healing" cutting mat. Also I would say that I am disappointed in the thickness/clearness of the lines on the mat. I have a hard time seeing them through even a thin quilting cotton, and anything thicker and it is impossible. I bought this with the grid thinking it would help with laying things out and ensuring straight cuts. But the markings are hard to discern, which leaves me measuring, marking, and drawing lines still before I cut anything. Finally, as other reviewers have stated, this product gives off a very strong plastic smell that is pervasive and persistent. It smacked me in the face as soon as I opened the package and has continued even after three washes and sitting in my garage to air for a couple weeks. All in all I would not recommend this item to anyone, but it serves the purpose of saving my counters and cutting boards when I need to trim fabric, so I will not completely knock it.

Exactly as described and a perfect fit for me. Fantastic price, great value and no hassles on shipping.

The product does work, but only for certain snakes. The deal breaker for me is that it gives off a very strong smell of mothballs. Mothballs themselves would probably work if you ground them up. They cost more than the Snake Away. We unknowingly put it where the fumes could get into the house via the air handler and it was pretty awful until the stuff wore off.

Very nice case offering protection against drops on edge. I would have rated it higher but the opening for the lightning connector port was a little too small to allow charging plug. I had to shave a little on the plastic with a knife to enlarge the opening a tiny bit.