The old adage of "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" has never rung more true than with the Football Manager series. Year after year we’ve been handed pretty much the exact same game, but with just the right number of tweaks to push the enjoyment level that tiny bit [...]
Are you tired of Adobe Reader hogging almost 23MB of your disk space, always phoning home for updates, and not providing such swift performance? (Browse to "Before They Spoiled the Software" at find.pcworld.com/58949 for details.) Make the switch to Foxit Reader, a willowy, 2MB download that’s fast, free, and more versatile than Adobe’s bloatware. [...]
Nowadays, it seems that nearly every new release of a graphics application boasts a "redesigned" interface. However welcome the redesign may be, it usually amounts to nothing more profound than, say, the new "graphite" tones applied to the interface of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. Not so with Corel’s Painter Essentials 4. Not [...]
With the release of its 2008 suite, Trend Micro has dropped the PC-Cillin name (and blue pill icon). The suite is now called Trend Micro Internet Security Suite Pro 2008. New "Pro" features include identity-theft protection, Wi-Fi hot-spot verification, and PC performance tuning; a version without these extra features is also available at a [...]
901__yahooWidget4 Yahoo! Widget Engine (formally known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest [...]
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sQusi is both a free Internet Explorer add-on and a Firefox extension in one package. It is designed to take the clutter out of browsing and to prevent marketers from tagging and tracking you across the web.sQusi combines a continuously updated global database with a local one that you can use to override global settings [...]
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Aside from confusing upgrade numbering (how does X2 follow XI?), the most immediately noticeable change Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 (PSPX2) brings is its excellent “graphite” interface. In addition, a new Express Lab greatly speeds photo editing, and an added Layer Styles feature strengthens the program’s already-powerful graphics-creation capabilities. The combination, along with other improvements, [...]
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With PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition you are protected against the most nefarious cyber-threats attempting to gain access to your PC and personal information. Going online without protection against the latest fast-spreading virus and worms, such as Netsky, Mytob and MyDoom, can result in infections within minutes.
Once infected, the virus will usually attempt to spread [...]
Turn your phone into a high-quality web camera. Very simple to install and configure, Mobiola Web Camera connects over Bluetooth or USB and consists of two software components:
* a client application that resides on the phone
* a webcam PC driver compatible with any Windows application that can receive video feeds from a web camera including [...]
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AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to [...]
