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Quicken Deluxe 2012

IntuitBart Koslow1/13/2012FinancialQuicken has been the quintessential personal finance program for about thirty years, and I have used it for that entire time. It is probably the program I use the most, with the possible exception of my email program. There is very little in the personal finance area that is not well covered by this program.www.intuit.com

Perfect Photo Suite 6

onOne SoftwareBryan Anslow1/9/2012Digital PhotoPerfect Photo Suite 6, produced by OnOneSoftware (www.onOneSoftware.com), is a collection of 7 image enhancement utilities. Perfect Photo Suite 6 can be used as a stand-alone set of utilities, or the utilities can be invoked from within Adobe CS4 or CS5, PhotoShop Elements 9 or 10, Lightroom 2 or 3 and Aperture 2.1 or 3www.onOnesoftware.com

RoxioRoxio Creator 2012

RoxioSteve Hall12/16/2011Digital MediaEnhance, preserve, capture and share your digital mediawww.roxio.com

PaperPort Professional 14

NuanceBryan Anslow11/22/2011Digital MediaPaperPort Professional 14 combines fast, easy scanning with powerful PDF creation for simplified management of all your documents.nuance.com

 Degunking Windows 7

McGraw-HillBart Koslow11/17/2011BookWhen your fast new computer begins to slow down after a number of months, how do you bring it up to speed? Degunking Windows 7 supplies the answers.www.mhprofessional.com

Acronis True Image Home 2012

AcronisSteve Hall10/22/2011BackupAcronis True Image is the premier image and file backup program.www.acronis.com

Windows 7 Annoyances

O'ReillyBart Koslow9/12/2011BookI have used similarly titled O'Reilly books written by David Karp for Windows XP and Vista, and found them very helpful in customizing and optimizing previous Windows versions. I was hoping that this one would provide a similar level of help. Unlike Windows books written by or for Microsoft, these books take a more critical look at Windows and make many suggestions about how to fix or supplement many Windows features that are inadequate or a problem.www.oreilly.com

Avid Studio

AVIDJohn Lee6/20/2011Digital MediaAvid Studio is a new consumer video-editing software program released after Avid acquired Pinnacle Systems. Most of the workflow material is essentially based on the popular Pinnacle Studio application. However, the program interface has been completely re-designed. avid.com

PaperPort Professional 12.1

Nuance Inc.John Ferrito4/28/2011Digital MediaPaperPort is a unique, one of a kind "Document Management Program". PaperPort Professional makes it easy to scan or convert documents of every kind — paper, forms, photos, electronic files, and more — into accurate and searchable industry-standard PDFs that can be easily organized, repurposed and shared across the enterprise. nuance.com

RoboForm 7.2.8

Siber SystemsBart Koslow4/14/2011UtilityIf you constantly use websites that are password protected, RoboForm is an essential utility. I have used it for years to quickly and easily access sensitive bank, credit card and other similar sites. Just open your browser, click on RoboForm, click on the site name, enter your master password, and RoboForm does the rest. www.roboform.com

Auto Print

Sperry Software Inc.Ed Shuttleworth3/5/2011ApplicationAuto print is used to automatically print email to a printer from Outlook: 2010 (x64 and x86) | 2007 | 2003 | 2002/XP | 2000. The software is only usable with Outlook It offers setups to print either incoming emails, out-going emails or both by using various user set filters as well as being able to “Print Now” for selected files. Its application is primarily for business purposes although it may be used elsewhere.www.sperrysoftware.com

System Suite 11 Professional

AvanquestBart Koslow1/17/2011UtilitySystem Suite Professional (SSP) is a complete utility to fix, speed up, and protect your computer. It will help you keep your PC in top working order.www.avanquestusa.com

VHS to DVD

Roxio division of Sonic SolutionsRobert Peltzman11/27/2010Digital MediaRoxio says they give you everything you need to help you transfer your VHS tapes to your computer. The file can then be burned to longer lasting, easier to store, more compact DVD's.www.roxio.com

System Mechanic 10

Iolo Technologies LLCEd Shuttleworth11/26/2010Utilityiolo claims System Mechanic (SM) is the #1 PC Tune-up Software for the entire USA. www.iolo.com

Roxio Creator 2011

Roxio division of Sonic SolutionsHarry Norkin11/23/2010Digital MediaRoxio Creator 2011 is a complete media suite. Rip and copy audio CDs, convert audio; copy discs, capture and edit video, burn the resultant product to DVD, and edit photos. www.roxio.com

Quicken Deluxe 2011

Intuit Inc.Harry Norkin11/4/2010FinancialI’ve been a Quicken user for a number of years, and I have found it to be an excellent program to keep my checkbook in balance and to track investments.www.intuit.com

Paintshop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate

Corel CorporationJohn Ferritto10/18/2010Digital PhotoI am amazed at how much one receives for a list price of $99. Amazon.com sells it for $55. It has all the tools necessary to process a file from any high-end DSLR camera although the arrangement may take a bit of adjustment. Many areas are comparable to the leading program costing substantially more. www.corel.com

True Image Home 2011

AcronisDave Burde10/15/2010BackupThis version retains the basic backup capabilities of prior versions while adding several new features. www.acronis.com

Nero 10 Suite

Nero Inc.Harry Norkin7/5/2010Digital MediaThis multimedia suite from Nero consists of the following elements: Nero Vision Xtra for music, photo and video organizing, media player and slide show creator; Nero Burning Rom for disc burning; Nero Backup and Burn for data backup and recovering, optical disc burning, and copying and file recovery; Nero Multimedia Tools for copying discs, recoding discs, digitizing music from vinyl or tape, and editing music files, and more.www.nero.com

Quicken Deluxe 2010

Intuit Inc.Ed Greenwood3/23/2010FinancialThis is the latest version of Intuit's personal financial software.www.intuit.com

vReveal

MotionDSPJohn C. Lee3/10/2010Digital MediavReveal is video enhancement software developed by MotionDSP with the sole aim of improving the quality of flawed video clips captured from video cameras or camcorders, cell phones and other handheld devices. The program performs enhancements to videos such as fixing dark, shaky, noisy, pixilated, or blurry video clips just like a photo-editing program does for still pictures.www.motiondsp.com

Diskeeper 2010 Professional

Diskeeper CorporationBart koslow3/1/2010UtilityDiskeeper is a utility that prevents and corrects hard disk fragmentation, which results in optimization of your computer’s speed in reading and writing to its hard disks. www.diskeeper.com

System Suite 10 Professional

AvanquestBart Koslow1/19/2010UtilitySystem Suite is an all-in-one PC Tune-Up, Repair, and Security program that consists of over 60 individual tools. www.avanquestusa.com

Creator 2010

Sonic Solutions - RoxioGordon Huff1/16/2010Digital MediaRoxio Creator 2010 is today’s best-selling "media creation suite." The number of applications over the sweep of media stuff is simply amazing. If you want a multimedia suite with everything in one package, this is it! www.roxio.com

True Image Home 2010

AcronisJames Nelson Brown1/6/2010BackupAcronis True Image Home 2010 can back up your operating system, applications, settings and all data (which it can later securely erase). It can back up your entire disk or just selected files and folders, even Microsoft e-mail. www.acronis.com
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