Trend Micro is one of the top security programs out there and it’s a constant battle among Norton, McAfee and Trend Micro. The 2010 version, similar to Norton, shows lots of improvement. Faster and less intrusive. Also, I like the fact you can download the trial and then activate with the code from the box. A few annoyances about the program are the fact that it forces you to activate the program–which some consider a privacy violation.

Windows is Windows. How much can you expect - maybe that it doesn’t fall over too often. Actually, once it too often. I bought it for too much money because I couldn’t escape Quicken for Windows (on my Mac) until I found another tool that runs better and can actually add. (Quicken has a problem with adding.) So long as the new financial tool works I’ll likely not be running much Windows/Quicken.

This package is a very good value, but has a couple of shortcomings. For one thing, Pages, the word processor, doesn’t have a word count function. That may seem trivial, but any obscure function that you need isn’t trivial. That said, I’m glad that I didn’t spend a bunch of money on MS Office for Mac.

If you ever find yourself with nothing to do just check the Quicken registers for missing/incorrect entries and incorrect categories assigned to the entries. A true balancing act that should give you two or three hours of maintenance work pretty much any day. Just don’t expect to get through it with a sense of fulfillment.

The other reviewers have talked about the quality gameplay. I’ll talk about how to play it as an adult with a 6-year old:nn archetypes config.toml content data layouts public resources static themes Write down the clues yourself, showing her what you are doing and why. archetypes config.toml content data layouts public resources static themes Let her explore the mansion. That’s the most fun part. archetypes config.toml content data layouts public resources static themes Read the books and letters out loud.

I am a first-time Dragon Dictate user, having recently installed it on a MacBookPro Retina running OSX 10.8. I wanted to try it because speech recognition on iPad and iPhone works pretty well and saves lots of typing in text messages and emails. The voice recognition results have been good so far. My very first test was a long, detailed email where I had to describe the history of a particular project, over 800 words total.

We used QuickBooks through 2003 at my previous company. It was a clean and simple way to keep detailed, accurate books for our business, which grew to the $2 Million level. I ordered the 2010 version for a new organization, and checked it out to make sure that Intuit had not somehow ruined it in the last few years. No worries. QuickBooks is better than ever. It has struck that unique balance between ease-of-use and raw power that many software packages attempt but most fail to achieve.

I am not a full-time draftsman, far from it. What I’ve always wanted was perfect AutoCAD compatibility for occasional use, without paying for the full version of AutoCAD that I don’t need. AutoCAD LT 2010 finally fills this requirement, and does it very well. I was able to open and edit AutoCAD 2010 files with no issues at all. Whether I was reviewing someone else’s drawings, or creating drawings of my own from scratch, this package delivers nicely.

I’ve been involved with a couple of businesses using QuickBooks, one on Windows for many years, one on Mac for about 4 years. We upgraded the Mac users to QuickBooks for Mac 2012. The good news: QuickBooks for Mac 2012 is a substantial upgrade, with great new features like incremental project invoicing, project timesheets that autofill like checks do, and cool new customer summaries for when you have a lot of projects and invoices with one customer.

I installed this scanner on my 6 month old Dell laptop running Windows XP Pro. The installation was quick and easy, and it integrated automatically into Microsoft Office. The first document I scanned was a two-page contract. In 20 seconds, I had a PDF version on my computer that I could email to the customer. This alone is worth the price of the product: not having to drive back to the office to use the scanner to make electronic copies of signed contracts.