I have stayed with Kaspersky for my computer protection for several years now, and I think it does a great job. However, the company has taken an annoying turn in their 2012 product in that if you have it installed on more than one computer and are using the license key as an update, be ready to lose days on your old license if one of the computers has an earlier expiration date than the other.

Great price for a renewal activation code, which is all I needed. Once I started using Kaspersky years ago, I haven’t wanted to switch to anything else. Very effective software, although I think the company could work on its startup speed.

I’ve used TurboTax software (physical disc) for many years and have never been disappointed. One year I tried another well-known product and didn’t like it. I decided I had to go back to TurboTax! Another year it was recommended that I use a professional tax person…and he made a major error on my return that required an amended form plus Social Security consequences a few years later! Never again. TurboTax is so good about asking all the right questions and not leaving any stone unturned, but it’s extremely flexible, allowing as much user intervention as is needed, and it’s very intuitive.

Great tax product. I’ve tried others, but I always come back to TurboTax. It allows a lot of flexibility (manual operation), yet always asks every important question and gives plenty of understandable explanations. Intuit received some flak when they didn’t communicate some changes well enough for this year’s product (2014) that caused some people to have to upgrade to a higher-priced version (including me). But they made things right by giving a refund for the difference in price.

As a hobby on the weekends I run an AV team (five crew members) of gaming junkies that help run a youtube channel devoted to gaming and not all of us have enough discretionary income to purchase MacBooks and/or Final Cut Pro X. As such it was a real treat to test out both Corel VideoStudio Ultimate and Pro X7 (for more information on Pro, see respective product for more) and we’ve had very positive feedback on the Ultimate edition.

As a hobby, my buddies and I started a youtube channel devoted to gaming and each of us (crew of five) have editing software of some kind. I use Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) on my MacBook Pro as does our executive producer while the other three use Windows and, unfortunately with the updates from 7-X making it incompatible with Windows, they have to use other software for editing. We were thinking of acquiring a few licenses for Adobe Premier as some of us had used it before, but were very fortunate to be able to try Corel VideoStudio Pro X7 and Ultimate Edition (see ultimate edition for related review).

Multitasking on a computer is a must these days making streamlining the experience all the more prevalent. Voice commands would be the next logical step as our hands are already tied up and vocal tasking allows us to do another set of tasks. Problem is that vocal recognition has never been a perfected science in the consumer market for everyday users and detailed command lists, or lack thereof, make marketing such products even more difficult.

My buddies and I are trying to start a Youtube channel with an accompanying website and that means we need many things, original graphic art being one of them. My crew and I primarily operate MacBooks so our options for software are limited. With the opportunity to try out Corel Graphic Suite X7 I handed the trials over to our artist/token PC user since X7 operates on Windows only and, so far, we’ve been impressed with his work while he’s been intrigued over the ease of use and complete control over what he does.

Been using Kaspersky since last year and I expected the 2012 internet security to work just as well even with the upgrades. So far, so good. One of the biggest things I liked was that once I installed the program it began searching for conflicting programs such as other anti-virus software and, while it found nothing, it’s nice to know that it was looking for them. You never know what conflicts of programs can lead to system failures these days.

Multitasking on a computer is a must these days making streamlining the experience all the more prevalent. Voice commands would be the next logical step as our hands are already tied up and vocal tasking allows us to do another set of tasks. Problem is that vocal recognition has never been a perfected science in the consumer market for everyday users and detailed command lists, or lack thereof, make marketing such products even more difficult.