PCMag picks ten bad application names

Posted January 24, 2007 at 01:44 PM by PJ Hruschak

Section: Computers, Software / Applications, Web, Web 2.0, Websites

From the bowels of the PC Mag staff comes their latest “Top Ten Worst” list (does that actually make it the bottom ten?). Here are a few highlights from their list of the worst names for software and applications:

Crush or Flush - Basically a free “Hot or Not” mobile app. PikiPimp - Pimp your own mug online (though the name just reminds of of Pikmin, which is a pretty fun game) GIMP - A free GNU Image Manipulation Program that some of my web design buddies swear is almost as good as PhotoShop eefoof - (Isn’t that that French for fart?) A YouTube-for-cash site where posters can earn money. Joost - (I guess it’s a play on the term “juiced”) an internet TV viewing app Gubb - An internet-based place to, uh, make lists? (PCMag must love that site. I prefer to pronounce it with a long “u,“ which makes it much more funny).

It’s not really one of their better lists since it doesn’t go going very far back in time and includes several non-apps/web site (without even linking to any of them). I’ll give ‘em “eefoof” as a bad name but a few are just silly misspellings to make sure a business could get the same domain name as their product name ... which, of course, does not depreciate any potential wackiness.

I think Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most hilarious quadruple entendres around, as well as *69 (would that count as an application?). I’m sure Gadgetell readers can come up with a much better list of crappy application names… post away, maties!

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