After doing a clean installation, I found that was no longer there. I was unable to buy it at Apple. That’s being there in a pinch.

I’m by no means a Photoshop wizard, but I do have some experience with advanced drawing and photo editing software, such as Paint Shop Pro. Keeping that in mind, I found the software surprisingly easy to use. After some brief trial-and-error, I was already creating some unbelievable effects. The tutorials help even more. There are a lot of features with CorelDraw that you won’t be able to find with Paint Shop Pro.

Since Microsoft Office has virtually no competition and is pretty much required for students, workers and those who partake in the 21st century, it’s not especially surprising that they are now embracing the annual fee concept. With this ‘Personal’ edition you are allowed access for 1 year on 1 computer and 1 tablet. Upgrading to the ‘Home’ edition allows access on up to 5 computers. It’s basically a rip-off, but since Office Suites become outdated so quickly it’s not as bad as it sounds.

I use word processing software all the time. Lately it’s been either Microsoft Word or Open Office. I’ve been pretty happy with both. Word is significantly better if you’re doing any kind of fancy formatting, but Open Office works fine for simple text stuff - and since it’s free, that’s the one I use when I’m not at work. I had not tried WordPerfect before but was excited to, since I’d heard good things about it.

Corel VideoStudio Ultimate is basically as pro as you can or need to get, if you’re an intermediate to advanced movie maker. It’s pro enough to where you could edit an actual, moderate budget movie and it would look great. At the same time, it’s easy enough to use that just about anyone familiar with computers can get the basics down in seconds. There’s plenty of advanced features, too, though. I feel I’m a fairly advanced tech guy and I still discover new effects and tools, so there is definitely a lot to learn and play around with.

Since Microsoft Office has virtually no competition and is pretty much required for students, workers and those who partake in the 21st century, it’s not especially surprising that they are now embracing the annual fee concept. With this Professional code, you don’t actually have to pay an annual fee, but it’s also only valid for the life of your PC. Your ONE PC. This is definitely not buy it once, have it forever software.

The only real question is - does this card work? It’s the lowest priced way to buy Office 365 so that’s a reasonable question. It’s a 100% legit Microsoft issued card. Punch in the code and they take it just like any other card. A few minutes later you have office on 5 computers and 5 tablets. You and your buddies have 100 gig of One Drive to play with, and you can make random Skype calls all over the world for 60 minutes a month.

I used Norton AntiVirus for over 10 years and finally got tired of the way it slowed down my PC. Switched to PC-cillin and it’s like having a new computer. There are better firewall, spam blocker, and spyware programs out there, but this is the best antivirus program, in my opinion. Try it. You’ll like it!

This software has a nice interface and plenty of features for the home/consumer video enthusiast. There’s also a great user support forum linked to the publisher’s website. Unfortunately, I found the program to be somewhat buggy and cannot recommend it. The most significant issue was that my PC’s DVD drive wasn’t recognized by the program when it was time to burn a disk. There were numerous, time consuming workarounds and fixes mentioned on the Video Studio forum.

This software has a nice interface and plenty of features for the home/consumer video enthusiast. There’s also a great user support forum linked to the publisher’s website. Unfortunately, I found the program to be somewhat buggy and cannot recommend it. The most significant issue was that my PC’s DVD drive wasn’t recognized by the program when it was time to burn a disk. There were numerous, time consuming workarounds and fixes mentioned on the Video Studio forum.