I reluctantly caved in today and did the iTunes and Quicktime update that the Adobe update software has been bugging me about for a while now.

Big downloads later and some screen refreshes, all the software that I never use updated.

The updater asked if I wanted to restart, thanks Adobe, this is why I upgraded to Vista so I didn’t have to restart after every application update, and since I am in the middle of doing other things, no I don’t want to restart thanks. Cancel is my option (what ever happened to Yes and No answers to simple questions?), and off goes the program, checking for other updates…

What? Didn’t we just go through this?

Oh yeah, I forgot, another reminder about installing Safari 3.1.1.

No, I don’t want this software, I have unchecked it before, I have IE and I have Firefox thanks, I don’t need another 23Mb of unused crap on my hard disk that I will eventually need to update.

But what got me even more today was the description of this item (See Pic).

OK, looks a little broken, and if they can’t make a read-about-me text file work in their recently updated updater then how can the application be trusted?

Look Apple, I don’t want this program, I don’t even want iTunes, I need quicktime only because I have a great olympus camera that records in mov format.

Like the DOJ said to Microsoft, “The People don’t want all these other things included or else you will deemed to be anti-competitive”!

How can one company get away with this when another can not, and has already been convicted and sentenced for doing exactly the same thing?

So now I uncheck the Safari item, the Install button goes gray leaving me with just the ‘Quit’ option. Apple, please add another option for me…

‘Leave Me Alone’ – Save my options and my preferences and close the program so that I am never bothered by your application based spam again please. Is that too much to ask?

I haven’t been asked or paid to do it, nor have I been coerced or suggestively steered toward doing this, for no other reason I gave this program a shot and so far I like it. So much so that I feel that I should be willing to say so.

Something made me come back to this and give it another try today, I had a quick look at it a while ago, but this particular program requires two parts. The application which for the most part is simple, and the other part, a web server end, a blog or a place for which it can publish to. Last time I didn’t really have a blog, now I do and now I find this new version is quite nice to use and surprisingly powerful. It found my blog, the type of blog and all the details from it quite quickly. Then I found the extra add-ins they have now and thought, “I should try them out and what better way but to use it, create with it and just go forth and blog about it”.
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