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Best Apps of 2012: Top Entertainment Apps for Android and iPhone
With Turntable.fm, Tweetbot, and other just-for-fun apps, you can stay entertained wherever you are.Reviews
Android Phone Updates: A Comprehensive Guide
Is your phone on the list to receive the next major version of Google's Android OS? Consult our handy chart to see which phones get upgraded next.Reviews
CyberLink Media Suite 10 Ultra Review: Efficient Design, Complete Multimedia Editing
This comprehensive multimedia playback suite comes with full 3D capabilities but suffers from some small oversights.Reviews
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Review: Speed and Interface, Enhanced
Unmatched performance and updated interface keep Premier Pro at the top of its game.Reviews
Trendnet SecurView Pro Outdoor PoE Megapixel IP Camera Review: As Complex as It Is Powerful
This camera delivers maximum performance–and maximally complex software to support it.Reviews
Logitech Alert 750e Outdoor Master System Review: Terrific Resolution, but Supports Only Six Cameras
This surveillance system's cameras are easy to deploy, configure, and monitor, but you're limited to six of them.Reviews
Keeping an Eye Out: We Review Three Video Surveillance Systems
Software can protect your business from cyberthreats–but these tools can help keep it physically secure.Reviews
Free Desktop App DoubleTwist Syncs Your Tunes ‘Twixt PC and Phone
Android users, alleviate your iTunes envy with DoubleTwist, a free desktop app that syncs your media to your phone.Reviews
Chrome OS Grows Up
The latest incarnation of Google's Cloud OS works much more like a Windows or OS X machine, though still with some quirks.Reviews
Android Phones: Which Companies Do the Best Job With Android Updates?
Are you choosing a new Android phone? We evaluate which carriers and manufacturers have the strongest track record for delivering Android updates.Reviews
Rip and Convert Files With Free MP3 Toolkit
MP3 Toolkit easily handles a number of MP3-related chores, including ripping and converting file types.Reviews
Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 Review: CPU Optimization and HTML 5 Output
This package is the first video editor with Sandy Bridge and Fusion CPU optimizations–and the first with HTML 5 output–but if you don't have a new PC, you may be disappointed with the performance.Reviews
Samsung Optical Smart Hub Review: An Interesting Idea, Poorly Executed
This unusual external DVD burner acts a Wi-Fi hotspot and can stream DVD content via a mobile connection, but its implementation leaves a lot to be desired.Reviews
SoundBest Audio May Improve Music Playback
SoundBest attempts to optimize the sound on your system via an interactive listening test…but the results may not impress you.Reviews
Spanning Backup Backs Up Gmail and Other Google Services
Spanning Backup is a cloud-based service for backing up Google data such as Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and more.Reviews
Bring Disapproval to Your Desktop With “These Pets Disapprove” Win7 Themepack
The disapproving pets Internet meme inspired this themepack, but no one expects you to like it. These animals certainly don't.Reviews
Build Virtual Lego Constructions With LDraw
LDraw is a suite of free applications for designing and viewing LEGO models.Reviews
Magix Audio Cleaning Lab MX Removes Clicks and Pops
"Friendly" is the key word for audio editing and restoration utility Magix Audio Cleaning Lab, which delivers average results.Reviews
PlayLater Lets You Watch Your Shows on the Web–And In Your Own Sweet Time
Watch your favorite shows and videos whenever you want with PlayLater.Reviews
CyberLink PowerDVD 12 Ultra Review: An All-Purpose Media Player
The best DVD/Blu-ray player software available is morphing into an organizer/player for all types of media–but it is also becoming more resource-hungry.Reviews
The Best Browsers for Your Android Phone
Here are five of the most promising browser apps to use with your Android smartphone or tablet.Reviews
Which Browser Should You Use?
Not all Web browsers are created equal. Some are faster; some are more versatile; others are especially secure. We tested six leading browsers to learn where each one excels…and fails.Reviews
Motorola Droid 4 Review: Snappy Performance and a Great Keyboard
The Droid 4 is the device to buy if you're looking for a smartphone with a physical keyboard, though the blurry display has room for improvement.Reviews
Create Stop-Motion Animation With Fun-to-Use Animation-ish
Learn the basics of stop-motion animation through Animation-ish's clever three-level process.Reviews
Snappy Z-Maestro Offers Affordable–but Limited–Audio Editing
A lightweight and affordable, but immature, audio and MIDI sequencing program.Reviews
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate Review: Easy and Powerful, but Not Perfect
This video conversion software creates output for every mobile device on the market, including Windows Phone 7 phones. It's packed with extras, too–plus a few hiccups.Reviews
Buffering Too Slow? Watch Videos When They’re Complete With Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper is a free Firefox add-on for downloading videos from YouTube and others.Reviews
Software That Does It All
Edit your photos, organize your finances, access your computer remotely, and do even more with these essential software packages and Web apps–a mix of established favorites and indispensable up-and-comers.Reviews
HTC Rezound Review: A High-Performance Android Phone
The HTC Rezound has it all: speed, specs, and style.Reviews
RIP Technology: 10 Products and Services That Died in 2011
From the Flip to Google Health, these tech losers showed promise–just not enough to keep them alive.Reviews
A User’s Guide to Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Ice Cream Sandwich adds some delicious upgrades, but it still requires a bit of a learning curve. We’ll walk you through the good, the bad, and the ugly of Google’s latest version of Android and provide some tips to get you all set up with the new OS.Reviews
Quick-and-Dirty Video Editing With Free Avidemux
This free utility offers easy video editing, plus encoding to a number of different formats–when there's no easier way to do it.Reviews
Amazon Cloud Music Player Lets Your Music Roam Free
Amazon MP3 Uploader for Amazon Cloud Music Player lets you upload your music to play via the cloud.Download This
Downloads Digest: Carbonite 5, Fade In, AeroFS, Cloud9 IDE, Studio One Artist
The five most recently reviewed files include screenplay software, a fabulous file-sync program in invitation-only beta, a promising IDE that needs some work, and a music and audio recording program.Reviews
Studio One 2 Artist: Must-Have Tool for Beginning Audio Engineers
This is the best entry-level audio and music recording software available, but it's pricey.Reviews
Freemake Audio Converter Converts Almost All Audio Formats
Quite possibly the best free audio converter available, Freemake Audio Converter is certainly the easiest to use.Reviews
Xilisoft iPhone Magic
Xilisoft iPhone Magic is the ideal iPhone manager to transfer iPhone music, videos and pictures to your computer and copy your iPhone contents to iTunes library. On top of this, this iPhone transfer can also convert and copy nearly any video and music format to iPhone, as well as rip DVD movies and transfer them to iPhone. You can even treat your iPhone as a portable hard disk with this amazing iPhone Magic software. Key features: 1.Backup iPhone contents to computer. 2.Synchronize iPhone with iTunes library. 3.Convert and copy any video/music file to iPhone. 4.Rip DVD movies and transfer them to iPhone. 5.Manage iPhone as a portable hard disk. 6.Supports iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch. 7.View your device's properties and information on the main interface: type, generation, serial number, format, version and others. 8.Synchronize files between iPhone and computer at fast transferring speed. 9.Edit the ID3 info of several files at one time: name, artist, year, album and others. 10.Play iPhone videos/music and DVD movies in the built-in resizable player. 11.Create playlists for your iPhone and edit them as you wish to manage your iPhone files by categories. 12.View your iPhone files in thumbnails like album artwork or list view for easier organizing. 13.Filter your files by genre, artist's name, album name, album year and others; search the files you want by your keyword. 14.Support multiple iOS devices simultaneously 15.Read and export pictures and videos recorded by the device 16.Resume playing of the transferred videos on the device 17.Directly preview the devices videos, music and other files less than 8MB on the computerReviews
SRS Audio Essentials
Add life, bass, and clarity to your music and video playback with this utility.Reviews
SoundTaxi Professional
Easily convert any music files to MP3, AAC (M4A), WMA or WAV formats. 50x conversion speed. SoundTaxi Professional is very easy to install and has a simple user interface. With just a few mouse clicks you can enjoy all your music on iPod, any other MP3 player, CD player, mobile phone or PC – without any restrictions.Download This
SRS Audio Essentials Enhances Sound to Awesome (but Addictive) Standards
Add life, bass, and clarity to your music and video playback with SRS Audio Essentials.Reviews
Panasonic Makes Big 3D Push With High-End Z10000 Camcorder
The Panasonic HDC-Z10000 camcorder promises excellent 3D macro capabilities, 1080p video in both 2D and 3D, and wide-aperture F1.5 lenses.Reviews
Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11
To be a true bargain, this inexpensive yet powerful video editor needs more refinement and less clutter.Reviews
Google Apps Review: A Capable Online Productivity Suite at a Good Price
Google Apps has a comprehensive suite of tools, and powerful real-time sharing and collaboration features. But it doesn’t work well with Microsoft Office file formats–a huge handicap for a productivity suite.Reviews
Google Apps vs. Office 365 vs. Zoho Docs: Cloud-Based Office Suites Showdown
The battle for supremacy in online productivity suites is raging. We look at the three leading choices–Google Apps, Microsoft Office 365, and Zoho Docs–to determine which is the best.Reviews
Best Free Entertainment and Social Media Apps
Use these eight handy downloads to streamline how you handle photos, movies, and music on your PC and to optimize sharing content over social media. They're all free!Download This
Stoik Video Enhancer: Good Idea, Poor Implementation
Turn mobile phone video into something approaching camcorder-quality (or fill your hard drive trying).Download This