Considering that I am your classic, hard-core, lifelong, nerd-brand nerd, working in a nerd industry (high-tech, in the Cloud division at HP) for a couple of decades now, married to a woman who is also working in high-tech, one might think that my kids would be interested in that world, right? WRONG! They are only [...]
Tag Archives: Desktop Software
Google Reader and Google Keep, You Get What You Pay For
Google Reader and Google Keep are two different services, but when placed side by side they offer a cautionary tale for anyone using the web. There has been a good deal of chat among the Gear Diary team on our backchannel, and Judie, Mike, Carly and I have been further discussing the demise of Reader [...]
Google Keep Review – Neat Freaks Need Not Apply
Yesterday Google launched a new service called Google Keep. After playing around with it a bit last night, I have a much better idea of what it can and can’t do, and what it really is. Will it be good enough to replace Evernote? Is it even close? In a word, no. Google Keep [...]
Google Keep Launches – Google’s Evernote and OneNote Answer
I was just starting to listen to This Week in Google live after work, when right before the show they shouted Google just launched Google Keep! I’ve already got it installed on my phones and my tablet. What IS Google Keep? It’s very similar to services like Evernote or OneNote. It’s designed to take notes, make checklists, and more. [...]
Adobe Mistakenly Gives Away CS2 Suite, Then Makes It Legit!
If you are looking to use the state of the art digital editing suite from around 2005, you are now in luck! Last week Adobe shut down the activation servers for their Creative Suite 2 (CS2), but wanted customers of the older version to continue to be able to make use of the software. So [...]
Adobe Creative Suite – Subscription vs. Retail
If you work in a creative industry, chances are you use software programs from Adobe’s extensive creative suite. The issue, of course, is that these applications are insanely expensive. Interested in image-manipulation through Photoshop CS6? MSRP will cost you $700 for that program alone. You can grab it off Amazon right now for $560, but [...]
CrashPlan Backup Software’s Big Black Friday Discount
The only thing more of a pain in the tuckus (or as we say around the ol’ Gear Diary Facebook chatroom, a PITA) than setting up and maintaining a regular backup of your system is when you don’t do it, and suffer a catastrophic mess. In my case, for example, I had been diligently [...]
‘Buy One FileMaker, Give One Free’ Offer Arrives for Holidays
If you’ve been thinking of getting yourself a FileMaker-type software package for your business (or even yourself), well, you should consider: the actual FileMaker itself is now having a two-for-one sale for the holiday season. And you know your pals here at Gear Diary love to put you up on a sale! FileMaker today announced [...]
Slacker App for Windows 8 Launched and Will Livestream ABC Election 2012 Coverage
For those individuals like me who have just started using the latest Microsoft OS incarnation that is Windows 8 on their PCs, Slacker announced the official launch of their music service supporting Windows 8. The free Slacker app is designed such that it takes advantage of the new tiling and UI aspects of Windows 8, [...]
Portrait Professional Studio v10 Review
Let’s be honest here. If you’re over 40 years old, there’s a good chance you’re not looking your best. I’m not saying that you’re a hideous monster or anything like that, but it’s certainly possible you could use a little work. If you’re much older than 40, you could definitely use some work. That’s where [...]
SBCGlobal Users, Are You Having Trouble Sending Your Mail? Here’s Help!
Image courtesy of OrganicKuwait blog Hi there, SBCGlobal users! I’d like to speak to those of you who work on Macs or Macbook Pros; I’ve been off Windows for a while (wow; I make it sound like heroin, don’t I), so I don’t know if what happened to me today is true on Windows boxes [...]
Mercalli Easy Video Stabilizer Makes Fixing Movies Easy
If you are like me, you enjoy taking occasional videos of sundry things, and if you are like me, you are hardly an expert. Far too often there is something going on at the drop of a hat that you would love to get on video, only to later discover on playback that the [...]
AppSense Puts Your Dropbox Files on Lock Down with Free DataLocker Suite
Image courtesy of AppSense Security is pretty much on everyone’s radar these days. With online file services standing up left and right people find themselves syncing their data all over the “cloud” allowing cross-platform anytime access to almost everything. For the most part things are pretty secure, but as we’ve seen in the past [...]
Adobe Premiere Elements 10 & Photoshop Elements 10 Review
If you use a Mac, then you probably use iPhoto for basic image editing and iMovie for basic video editing. But what if you use a PC? The tools included there are not nearly as capable, friendly or integrated. And what if you want to go further than the basic editing capabilities of the iTools? [...]
The Drobo Data Storage System Review
Last fall I applied for and received a grant that will allow my synagogue to build a new technology lab. Within the next few months we will have a number of iMac desktop computers and a host of iPads being used by our kids and adults alike. In fact, I’m working on a special tutorial [...]
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