Mar 28, 2013 | games, software
Gaming has been in the doldrums. Oh, sure, lots of people have been buying the latest installments in the war franchises (Call Of Duty, Battlefield, and others like them), but original and creative games have been few and far between. Bioshock Infinite is a new...
Mar 13, 2013 | Adobe, Office, Office 365, Office tips, software, Windows7, Windows8
A new feature in Office 2013 that deserves explanation: Word 2013 can convert PDF files into editable Word documents with a high degree of accuracy. If you browse to a PDF file in Word 2013 and click to open it, you will see this window: “Word will now convert your...
Mar 3, 2013 | Office, Office 365, Office tips, shopping, software
There are three different paths to buy Office 2013. Choose your path based on whether you are: – a home user (or a business that’s so small that everyone feels like family) – a business with an existing Office 365 subscription – a...
Feb 10, 2013 | hardware, software, Vista
Previously: Say Goodbye To Windows XP (2012) Say Goodbye To Six-Year-Old Computers (2010) Time marches on. It’s time to retire computers running Vista. Most of them are five years old, some of them coming up on their six-year anniversary. If you’re running Vista,...
Feb 8, 2013 | Adobe, software
Adobe has never been shy about charging high prices for its products. Artists and designers have long struggled with the high cost of licenses for Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and other creative programs, and the $449 price tag for an Acrobat license has been...
Feb 6, 2013 | mail, Office, Office 365, Office tips, Outlook, software
Previously: Office 365 Home Premium: The View From 36,000 Feet New Features In Office 2013 – UI, Skydrive, Word Continuing our look at a handful of new features in the updated Office suite, in case any of them get you all excited. (Hey, don’t laugh – I have to sit...