{"id":67581,"date":"2017-06-04T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/when-it-says-free-download-and-means-it\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:14:41","slug":"when-it-says-free-download-and-means-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2017\/when-it-says-free-download-and-means-it\/","title":{"rendered":"When it Says &#8220;Free Download&#8221; and Means It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 9px; word-wrap: break-word;\">I think this is the second time I have been fooled into downloading this software from HP when I have bought new ink for my printer. It is really annoying! I would actually like software to create and print egreetings (greeting cards and postcards for online selling). So I download this, thinking it&#8217;s free and how great that will be. I install it, open it and try it&#8230; only to find I can&#8217;t do much with anything I create. You can save the file but you can&#8217;t export it out of the HP Creation software.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 9px; word-wrap: break-word;\">So, that makes it kind of useless, unless you pay for the export feature. There are other features you can pay for, of course.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 9px; word-wrap: break-word;\">Thanks HP. But, I made the mistake of looking your gift horse in the mouth. This is one gift I will uninstall. (Are you now feeling suspicious and thinking about spyware? Me too.)<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-SZ3QvuBwDwQ\/WZHfvpexOhI\/AAAAAAAAOgI\/rRjqLtEbsTYLpYjinMyE6RF7zq_p7-ImwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/fit-1280x720.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1128\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-SZ3QvuBwDwQ\/WZHfvpexOhI\/AAAAAAAAOgI\/rRjqLtEbsTYLpYjinMyE6RF7zq_p7-ImwCLcBGAs\/s320\/fit-1280x720.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 9px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2017\/when-it-says-free-download-and-means-it\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to When it Says &#8220;Free Download&#8221; and Means It\"><p>I think this is the second time I have been fooled into downloading this software from HP when I have bought new ink for my printer. It is really annoying! I would actually like software to create and print egreetings (greeting cards and postcards for online selling). So I download this, thinking it&#8217;s free and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74622,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67581\/revisions\/74622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}