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Anything related to the PC platform.

Topaz Star Effects Released – Photography Plugin

Photographers have a new plugin to add to their collection with the release of Topaz Star Effects.  As the name says, this app which is compatible with Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, and more gives you the ability to create star and lighting effects in your images.

“Topaz Star Effect™s pairs powerful… Continue reading

CCleaner v3.15

CCleaner is one of the best utilities you can have for Windows, and they have recently released the v3.15 update.  CCleaner helps your PC by removing unwanted junk from Windows.

This version offers many fixes and additions:

  • Added Chrome Canary Omnibox search shortcut cleaning.
  • Added option to only clean… Continue reading

Stardock Tiles 1.0 Released

Tiles works by creating a side-bar on a user’s display. At the top of the side-bar are labels for each page such as ‘My Tiles’ or ‘Documents’ or ‘Apps’. Users can then drag and drop programs, documents, or website URLs onto Tiles. When the program is inactive, it appears as… Continue reading

Lightroom 4 Public Beta

With all the news coming out of CES this week I didn’t see this until now.  Given that Adobe has been putting significant discounts on Lightroom 3, I knew LR4 wasn’t too far off.  Yesterday they finally unveiled news and the public beta for Adobe Lightroom 4.

Some of… Continue reading

500px Releases their Lightroom Plugin

Users of the popular Lightroom app and 500px.com photo site will be glad to know that 500px has finally released their Lightroom export plugin.

http://500px.com/lightroom

Artisteer 3.1 Released for PC and Mac

Artisteer is an application for both Mac and PC that lets you create complete websites, WordPress themes, Joomla and Drupal themes, and Blogger templates.  Artisteer starts out with a basic template and there are a wide variety of settings that lets you customize and create your very own theme.

New… Continue reading

Review: Norton Internet Security 2012

I was really happy for the chance to review Norton Internet Security 2012 for several reasons.  Norton was probably the very first anti-virus software I ever really used.  Over the years I switched between applications, and I’ll be honest, I didn’t care much for how the resource usage grew and… Continue reading

Review: TuneUp Utilities 2012

If you are a PC user then there are certain chores that can be done to make Windows run faster and better.  While there are tons of apps available to handle each task, I prefer to keep more of an all-in-one solution instead of keeping up with which app does… Continue reading

Stardock Tiles Goes Into Public Beta

Stardock has released the public beta for Tiles today.  Tiles is an application that lets users organize their desktop applications into pages of tiles.  You can quickly view and manage your running applications with Tiles as a customizable sidebar.  The look of Tiles can also be customized further with additional… Continue reading

New Nero Kwik Media Software Updated with Photo Products Service

Nero has updated their Kwik Media app with a new photo product service integrated with it.  Kwik Media lets you create beautiful photo products like photo books, calendars, greeting cards, etc.

Nero Kwik Media streamlines the whole process so you can get started faster and spend more time having fun… Continue reading