Software Review

 

Software Review

 

The two main piece of software that I used for this project were blogger.com and PCPartPicker.com. Both of these proved incredibly useful in terms of putting everything together and having an idea of what is required and what looks good.

 

Blogger is the website itself, which I used to create and publish my blogs. I found the website to be super simple and straight forward in terms of user experience, creating and uploading work. The main factor that made me chose blogger over other software was its availability and simplicity. Signup only took seconds and figuring out how to post/upload minutes. The friendly user interface alongside its super responsive servers and functionality made it the perfect and only choice for me. 

I found is very easy to edit out and update mistakes made on pervious posts such as when I accidentally wrongly numbered one of my posts. There was zero delay in between me pressing edit and update. Blogger made blogging seamless, enjoyable, and very pleasant. However, the one complaint I have regarding blogger is it’s style, in my opinion is outdated and retro. But depending on what you’re looking for this could either be a plus or a minus.

 

The second piece of software I used to aid me with my blog was PcPartPicker, this is a software that allows you to choose computer components, customize your computer build fully and displays prices of each component from various difference PC components sellers.  PcPartPicker also gave me a reasonable insight on what computer parts are popular, compatible, and accessible. Their software provides a unique user experience where you have the opportunity to review other peoples builds and see why they chose them. This proved to be incredibly useful for deciding what components are good for budget builds and what components are good for overall performance. 

PCPartPicker gives you full control over your build, they even display the estimated power usage in order to help you decide what Power Supply Unit would suite you best! My by far favourite feature of PCPartPicker is their sheer database of every and any possible component that could come to mind. They give you the ability to pick whether you want a regular fan cooler or even water cooler, as well as displaying all the PC cases which are compatible or come with said cooling devices. The only con that I experienced on PCPartPicker was the lack of buying options on sold out or unavailable components. Overall, I’ve found myself even using PCPartPicker for personal use when I was in the market for a new CPU. PCPartPicker is by far the flagship software for building any desktop device you could imagine. I will most definitely be coming back to PCPartPicker in future ventures for new PC components!

 

-Nikola E.