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Review by B.L.
On the whole, OS X Tiger is a fantastic improvement on what was quite possibly already the most usable and elegant operating system on the market today.
The Dashboard feature – which allows you to run small applications in such a way that they’re only visible when you tap the f12 key (making them very easy to get to when you want them and not at all a source of clutter when you don’t) – is rapidly gaining a library of extremely valuable options that can allow you to look up information on the internet quickly, track useful information (weather, flights, packages, tv schedules), and other small utility functions that might otherwise clutter your desktop.
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Review by B.L.
Corel does some really good work on their graphics software. It’s not quite as robust on features as Adobe’s equivalents, but the price difference is pretty huge.
I wouldn’t actually recommend this for pretty casual use, because you’ll be paying for a lot of features that go beyond what you really need. You could probably get something for 1⁄4 the price or something that would do fine and you’d have something that’s a little easier to use.
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Review by B.L.
I’m a computer software person, but I don’t have a lot of experience with editing photographs beyond occasionally playing around with a new software package for fun. I got this as a review copy, and I had fun using it to edit a bunch of photographs from a trip I took to an NFL training camp.
I was surprised by how rich the feature set was, given the price point this is at compared to some other software that I’ve tried.
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Review by B.L.
I’ve been a past user of AVG products and have generally found them basically satisfactory. It can be a little tough to say that any particular player in the home computer security field is definitely the way to go because for the most part their features and effectiveness are roughly equivalent to each other.
My experience so far with version 9 has been a mixture of good and bad. The scanning speed, and the degree to which it interferes with other things that I’m trying to do, have been greatly improved.
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Review by B.L.
10.5 upgraded from 10.4 like a dream. No difficulties at all on a Powerbook G4.
Time Machine has been a fantastic feature to have, painlessly backing up data for me in the background and saving me the trouble of doing so manually. Typically it does so with no additional drag on the responsiveness of the computer (which is several years old, and I tend to run a lot of programs at a time) though occasionally if I’ve left it unhooked from the external drive for an extended period and it has a lot to sort through the responsiveness will slow for a minute or two while it catches up.
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Review by Baivab Mitra
I love my 2100 Navigon. (Read my review on the same). I loved it so much when it got destroyed I went and bought a 2nd. Navigon. You may buy a 2nd. navigon due to various reasons - like my case, just for upgrading to newer model, vandalism (more & more happening now), etc. So here I am, with just 2 downloads from possible 12 and I try to register my FreshMaps subscription service – REPEAT NAVIGON SAYS IT’S A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE for my new Navigon - 2200T.
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Review by Baivab Mitra
I am writing this review after 8 months of usage. This is a very stable product and has subtle improvements over the previous versions. In some of the earlier editions our organization started facing complaints about stability and higher than usual memory utilization. These issues seem to have been properly addressed in this edition. The new look interface is more in line to the overall direction MS is taking across its own products so it’ll fit well with any future MS product releases.
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Review by Baivab Mitra
I love my 2100 Navigon. (Read my review on the same). I loved it so much when it got destroyed I went and bought a 2nd. Navigon. You may buy a 2nd. navigon due to various reasons - like my case, just for upgrading to newer model, vandalism (more & more happening now), etc. So here I am, with just 2 downloads from possible 12 and I try to register my FreshMaps subscription service – REPEAT NAVIGON SAYS IT’S A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE for my new Navigon - 2200T.
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Review by Baivab Mitra
I purchased this product primarily due to the low cost post mail-in rebates. I am myself a systems programmer and well-versed with computers. Essentially, I was distressed with having too many software products from different vendors in order to maintain a secure and healthy computer. This product had all the products and thus I purchased it. I plan to right now purchase quickly a 2nd. product - anything but this!nn(a) Anti-virus - works well and good.
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Review by Bakari Chavanu
I won a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate several months ago, but for some reason I could never get Bootcamp to install it on my Mac Pro. After trying several times, I just gave up. But because there are a few PC applications (like ProShow) that I want to run on my computer, I thought I’d give VMware Fusion 2 a try.
I just finished installing VMware and Vista right before writing this review, and I am seriously happy that Bootcamp didn’t work.