Archive for October, 2006

Acronis True Image 9.0

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

This software program is an image based backup solution geared towards the home user. I have personally been using this software to backup my computer for several months now and for the most part have been very happy with the software. Acronis True Image is considered to be a big competitor to Norton Ghost and […]

Which Linux to pick for your business servers?

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Which Linux to pick for your business servers? Traditionally these have been run on UNIX machines with HP UX from HP, AIX from IBM and Solaris from Sun. Linux is less expensive as an OS and allows commodity x86 hardware to be run, providing savings in both software and hardware. However, not all Linux distributions […]

Photolighting - Digital Photo Enhancing

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Photolighting is a great digital photo enhancer software. The cost is $39.95, and you can download a free 30 day trial. It performs many functions such as retrieving and organizing photos, but I find the photo editing feature extremely valuable and easy to use. I always have a problem with back lighting in photographs.

This software […]

Final Cut Pro From Apple

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Final Cut Pro is an excellent and (relatively) user-friendly digital video editing program. It provides an easy way to cut, copy, and paste clips for beginner editors, as well as offering more advanced features for experienced editors. Some of those advanced features include color correction and image manipulation.

It’s a bit of a costly program […]

Change Default Open & Save Shortcuts with PuppyPC

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

I I have always hated the way Windows XP manages open and save dialog boxes, it gives me choices on the left of the dialog, but those are not the places that I need, I frequently save, and load files from/to:
My Desktop

e:\

A mapped network drive (Linux through Samba)

A webdav access […]

Quicksilver - Quick Launch MAC Utility

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Quicksilver is a nice quicklaunch utility for Mac OSX. Currently available from http://quicksilver.blacktree.com at no cost, Quicksilver is what OS X’s dashboard feature was meant to be. Quicksilver allows easy access to a variety of information sources via a hotkey and is infinitely configurable. A variety of plugins extend Quicksilver’s feature-set and make the program […]