One would expect that with the advance of the internet, buying quality software would become easier. In my experience, it is actually the other way around!

Choosing good software is surprisingly becoming very time consuming and there's simply too much information to look for. There are literally hundreds of sites with reviews, and it's very hard to tell whether the people who wrote those reviews have any connection with the company who creates the software or they're just home users who have tried the product and are being completely honest.

This week I had the need to buy a back up program, and I wanted to get a good one with, apart from all the standards features, at least one other one which I consider essential: incremental/differential back-ups (some people actually quote them as being the same thing but apparently they're not!. I still don't know what the difference is, but basically when you make a back up, if you use the incremental feature, the next back up will only copy the files that have changed, thus saving time and space).

Anyway, I spent endless minutes with very little success. Finally I came across this great site:

http://software.toptenreviews.com/

What's so good about it? Look what they do with their reviews:

Now, I know that this is probably very unfair on some software developers who are releasing some truly excellent software which is never released there, and I'm not even sure what topten reviews gets out of all this, I fear they do get some comission everytime a user hits one of the links to buy software from their site. But guess what? nothing is free in life, and these guys are providing a good service and it's a chaos out there when it comes to choosing software so at least these guys are trying to add a bit of order to this chaos.

Tucows? maybe I'm doing something wrong, but have they removed the option to select software according to best ratings? because I think they have! What a waste!

Anyway, don't blame me, I just wanted a good back up program...