Product: ClickBook MMXPublisher:BlueSquirrelVersion Reviewed: 13.0.2.0Class: Pseudo-printer. Creates banners, booklets, flip charts, brochures, greeting cards, posters, PDF files and more. License: Commercial product. Free trial. Upgrade pricing (from earlier versions) available.Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista , Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit) For years, my choice of programs to create PDF files was BlueSquirrel’s Click2PDF. Ever [...]
A Look at Acronis True Image Home 2010
Product: Acronis True Image Home 2010Class: Hard Drive & Partition Backup ProgramLicense: Commercial product. Free trial. Upgrade pricing (from earlier versions) available.Operating Systems: Windows XP SP3, Windoww XP Professional x64, Windows Vista SP2 (all editions) , Windows 7 (all editions) Version Reviewed: v2010 I’ve recently upgraded two of my computers to Windows 7 — well, [...]
A First Look at Windows 7
Well, the install was a pain. Not really — but my initial install worked extremely smoothly until Windows rebooted. At that point, it simply failed to boot with an ambiguous error message that was less than helpful. It told me to reboot the installation DVD and select the Repair option. When I did selected Repair, [...]
A First Look at Acronis True Image Home 2009
I’ve been using Acronis True Image Home for a long time, as readers of my newsletter know. I started with ATIH 7, then ATIH 9, ATIH 11 and now I use ATIH 2009. Each of the versions included improvements over earlier versions — but when I saw the features of Acronis True Image Home 2009, [...]
Adware Ties into Internet Explorer
I received a query from a reader about a warning message he was receiving: Hi Terry , I was wondering if perhaps you can help me , I have this very annoying adware that occurs EVERYTIME at startup …. not-a-virus:Adware.Win32.BHO.cr Now althugh this doesn’t appeato be causing any problem on my PC and I get [...]
Advertising and the Web
There is a very popular misconception that the Internet — especially the Web — is free. We get that feeling because most sites are freely open to the public — they don’t require memberships fees or subscriptions fees for you to access the sites. Sometimes, we get that feeling because we pay to access the [...]
Adobe Reader 8 Problems – And a Change to Foxit Reader
I started having a bunch of problems this week with my notebook jumping to 100% CPU usage. It wasn’t just a temporary problem either — at one point, I walked away for 30 minutes. When I returned to my computer, the problem was still there — and my computer was virtually useless. After a couple [...]
Administrator Problems in Windows XP
Last month, reader Russ Edwards wrote me about some problems he was having with Windows XP: Terry, This is your old friend Russ again. I know you enjoy pointing people in the right direction. I am having trouble with my admin account. Some things I try to download and install come up and say “I [...]
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