This is a very nice video editing program. I live right beside the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area and have been telling everyone about how nice it is. My dog and I get to hike in it everyday. So I made two sets of videos, one using my Samsung Galaxy s4 and a second one using my Hero3+ camera with a chest strap. Editing each one was intuitive and easy using the software for the first time.

Innovation is a good thing when the point of innovation is to improve one’s products and to enhance the experience of ones customers. But innovation as a way of creating a false impression of progress to mask a need to perpetually carve out market share is vile, and it has long driven Microsoft’s business plan and service model. But two other marks of Microsoft has been its attempt corner a portion of the market, give the consumer no real alternative, and then force them to pay through the nose, meanwhile making it harder and harder to use previously purchased versions of the product.

To be honest, I was not tempted to get WinZip since the last time I used it about ten years ago. At my day job I’ve used a really old version for years. Corporate America is always very hesitant to upgrade their software to more recent versions. So I was unaware of the amazing number of features in the latest versions. I had been using ZipGenius, which is a very nice piece of software, but it is nothing like this version of WinZip.

I can’t say much bad about this product but neither can I say much good. After a full month’s use it has notified me that a string of sites are OK to visit. I’ve never gotten any notification of a bad site, only indications that several have never been tested. Is it worth the investment? I am sceptical. I would focus instead on software to protect you from trojans, malware, and spyware rather than this.

The basic problem with this software package is that there is so much competition out there - eve free software - that you really have to do some great things to make yourself stand out. This package is good, but the truth is that if you have ever bought a camera or camcorder, you probably have software that will do at least 80% of what this does. So the question is, how badly do you want that additional 20%?

This is the third version of Pinnacle that I have used and I’ve found it an easy yet relatively robust video edition program. I use Nero as well for a lot of video editing, but I find this easier to use to produce discs with videos for the family. It is definitely not a top end professional program, but for most of us this will be more than adequate for our needs.

I have Trend Micro’s Internet Security on one computer at home and Bit Defender on another. I have to declare myself thoroughly delighted with both of them. I knew Trend Micro from 8 or 9 years ago when I got to know it as a free online system scanner. I used it several times to rid myself of pesky viruses that McAfee could not deal with. The specific thing I like about the Trend Micro is that it really doesn’t slow the system down at all, while providing apparently great protection (I’ve had no virus problems that I’m aware of).

This is a product that one should both review and then later revise, because if there are problems, they will likely only arise in the long term. I installed this and ceased using Avast, which was possibly the worst antivirus problem I’ve ever used (it kept identifying valid files as viruses, so that whenever I used my computer I got nonstop Avast pop ups, with a voice telling me that Avast had located an infected file).

I’ve used Nero for a decade now and will probably continue to do so, but I more and more find it to be difficult to use. It does more than it used to, but for the most part I don’t want to do most of the things it alleges it is capable of. It seems to be less intuitive than it used to be. And it still has some irritating features, like not blowing past disc protection.

It did not work.