First a big thank you to Corel for providing Paint Shop Pro X for this Review.
Recently I had the chance to look at Corels latest paint program called Paint Shop Pro X and I have to say this is one of the best paint programs on the market that I have seen. Paint Shop Pro X can handle pretty much anything from simple tasks all the way up to the more complicated stuff.
First a big thank you to Sonic Solutions for providing Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 for this Review.
Anyone looking for a program that can handle most of their CD/DVD burning media needs should check into Roxio easy media creator 8. For those that don’t know, it can handle Music, Photos, Video, Data, and Backup.
First a big thank you to SageTV for providing SageTV 4.0 for this Review.
I first found about SageTV when I was looking on the Hauppage site for the PVR 350 I would later Review. At the time I figured I would see if I could get SageTV for Review and see how well it worked with the Hauppage PVR 350 card. As this Review shows they go hand and hand.
First a big thank you to www.fraps.com for providing Fraps 2.6.4 for this Review.
For those of you who don’t know, Fraps is a program that runs in the background of windows. With this software you can hit a hot key and record a video of a game your in or you can capture a screen shots of the game your in. It Also has the ability to tell you how many frames a second your getting in game.
Over the years I have used these three utilities from time to time and have found them quite use full. All three of these utilities are free and they are not crippled or have any type of nags in them. The three utilities I will cover here are all for the Internet. If you don’t have a Internet connection then none of these programs will be of much use. However if you goto the Analogx web site you will find all sorts of utilities that range from audio utilities to system and network utilities as well.
First a big thank you to Techsmith for providing Camtasia Studio for this Review.
If your into making Video Tutorials, Software Demos or Presentations then look no further then Camtasia Studio. This program is built to do one thing and thats capture your desktop and all your mouse movement that you do on it and then turn that into a video. If you wanted for example to show someone via video how to use a program then Camtasia Studio would be for you. Not only does it capture your desktop and mouse movements but it can also record audio at the same time if you have a MIC plugged into your sound card.
For some time i have always been impressed with web sites that go above and beyond in terms of trying to help people learn certain software. One such site that does this is 3D-Palace. The sites main focus is based around 3d studio, and if you have ever looked at 3d studio you will soon understand why you need someone to teach you how to use it.
In the last week or so i have come across four programs that some people may find use full.
I really hate Updating programs any more , in the past you would look forward to a update or a bug fix but today its like these companies are more interested in adding more bloat and not to much of anything else.
This program i picked up a few days ago off of SourceForge .
Some encryption programs i have tried out have been single file encryption of they could do a folder of files. TrueCrypt does that as well as it can do entire hard drives. Along with being able to encrypt drives on the fly it can also basicly emulate a drive in a single file. So for example i may only have a few text files or the like that need encrypting and to encrypt a small section of my drive isn’t worth doing. However with TrueCrypt not only can i encrypt my hard drive i can also setup what is known as a container.
