The Investment Portfolio X-ray feature alone is worth the purchase price. This feature allows you to easily pinpoint where changes in your portfolio should be made to have a balanced investment strategy. Helps you to manage your investments like a PRO.

Makes tax filing almost bearable.

Love the face that my documents integrate fully and seamlessly with One Drive so my important docs are available anywhere I am.

I have been using the business product since 2010 and this is the first time that it has let me down.nReceived notice from IRS that my 2014 return was not filed.nI have screenshots from TurboTax which shows it as having been submitted on 2/2/2014.nI never received a confirmation email from the product showing the returns acceptance by the IRS, now I know why… the product dropped the ball.nWhen I go back into the product and check the status of the return it shows ACCEPTED……it’s a shame the IRS does not have the same point of view.

Makes tax filing almost bearable.

While Pinnacle Studio may not win any major movie editing awards it is pretty killer for home use. I have used final cut pro on macs and that software is pretty easy but highly complex, Pinnacle Studio is a little more challenging but is really not that much more difficult. The installation went well on my year old computer, it took about 30 minutes to get it installed and be up and running with minimal drag on my system.

The company I work for is big into 3rd party applications. However the last company I worked for we wrote everything because it allowed us better control and we could design the exact systems we wanted, not buy a solution off the shelf and then adapt our processes to fit it. So I was able to convince my supervisor that the company could benefit if I got this software and we pulled the trigger.

I have an older macbook so I can’t take full advatange of this upgrade, but I still bought it. Why you might ask?nnI am always impressed with Apple and when I heard that they had cisco vpn built in along with Microsoft exchange support it was a no brainer for me. I am a Systems Admin and lug my windows laptop to and from work daily because I needed the ability to vpn into the office to support servers after hours.

Ok, so I am not a big fan of security software for PC’s because normally it bogs the system down. This particular software from McAfee seems to actually do a pretty decent job at protecting the user on the internet and I like the simplicty of it. HOWEVER, what I hate is that you have to register to use this software, that really is typical these days but the thing that I really don’t like is there is an auto renew option that is selected during the installation, if you don’t catch that then you won’t catch the next option where it installs a lot of extra junk on your system that you may not want.

Antivirus software is one of those that you have to trust is working, it’s hard to actually say it’s working without knowingly putting a virus on your system. So when I had the chance to try out this item I did. I’ve used Norton in the past on windows PC’s and it’s always been somewhat cumbersome in how it ran. It would use system resources and slow down the system. My fan would kick on at all hours of the day and night as scans were ran and it just made using my PC unbearable.