Clay's Blog

This is a great list of those products we all love to hate, at least when we’re reminded of some of these forgettable products. Topping the list is America Online 1989-2006; AOL is such low-hanging fruit it almost seems unfair to point out its fantastic crappiness. Coming in second is another one that’s a personal favorite of mine to hate: Real Player. Real Player like its fellow wart on the ass of computing, QuickTime Player, is a virus I like to keep off my computer. Thankfully there are hacked codecs out there to replace these players for most uses. Interestingly, the CueCat barcode scanner is on the list, but there is no mention of the fact that it’s easy to convert the thing to a free barcode scanner to help with indexing all your movies, books, music, and anything else that has a barcode in your house. See my post on it for details.

Here’s the full list and the article from PC World.