Adobe's Lightroom 4 has been available for a couple of months now, and our very own shoot-a-holic Brett Thomas has been using it regularly since its release. The company has been touting much with the program's latest iteration, so join us as we explore whether it's worth upgrading to or if it's just more of the same.
With the next version of Visual Studio soon to be upon us, we're taking a look at what's worth waiting for. While some animosity exists around certain decisions made by Microsoft, VS11 brings a lot to the table, most notably the addition of a robust environment for creating Metro-based apps.
Microsoft this week released the first "Consumer Preview" of its upcoming Windows 8 OS, and despite being far from final launch, what's been delivered here is quite impressive. Join us as we take a quick look at the installation, Metro interface and apps, along with a couple of other notable features tweaked for Windows 8.
Have an Android device that's quickly running out of space due to limited internal memory? Have a large collection of apps that refuse to move over to your SD card? If either of these is true, then you need to know about a simple tweak that can be done to forcibly move over many apps to your SD card - all without rooting.
We're in the off-season for big distro releases, but that hasn't stopped Mandriva from releasing one of its most interesting variants to date. In a bold move to an exclusive KDE desktop, Mandriva 2011 looks to simplify its development and give people a straight-forward and highly polished offering. Let's check it out.
| Title | Author | Date | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| An In-Depth Look at Fedora 15 | Rob Williams | June 27, 2011 | Linux |
| AMD Rejects BAPCo's SYSmark 2012 - Should We? | Rob Williams | June 21, 2011 | Windows |
| Disabling Windows Pagefile & Hibernation to Reclaim SSD Space | Rob Williams | June 17, 2011 | Windows |
| A Quick Look at GIGABYTE's TouchBIOS | Ryan Perry | June 3, 2011 | Windows |
| A Quick Look at Futuremark's PCMark 7 | Rob Williams | May 13, 2011 | Windows |
| Enabling and Testing SSD TRIM Support Under Linux | Rob Williams | May 6, 2011 | Linux |
| An In-Depth Look at Ubuntu 11.04 | Rob Williams | April 29, 2011 | Linux |
| A Look at Futuremark's 3DMark 11 | Rob Williams | December 7, 2010 | Windows |
| VPS: What It Is and How It's Useful | Rob Williams | December 3, 2010 | Software |
| Acronis True Image Home 2011 | Rob Williams | October 29, 2010 | Windows |
| Using SyncBack to Synchronize Your Windows Folders | Rob Williams | October 13, 2010 | Windows |
| Windows 7 Libraries and Network Folders | Jamie Fletcher | October 8, 2010 | Windows |
| Sharing Your Thunderbird Profiles Between PCs and OSes | Jamie Fletcher | September 17, 2010 | Software |
| Five Web Browsers: Which is the Fastest? | Rob Williams | September 15, 2010 | Windows |
| Enabling Auto-Logon and the Administrator Account in Vista & 7 | Rob Williams | September 10, 2010 | Windows |
| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 - A Photographer's Review | Brett Thomas | August 20, 2010 | Software |
| Ripping Your Blu-rays the Easy and Free Way | Rob Williams | August 4, 2010 | Windows |
| An In-Depth Look at openSUSE 11.3 | Rob Williams | August 2, 2010 | Linux |
| PlayClaw - Has FRAPS' Killer Arrived? | Rob Williams | June 30, 2010 | Windows |
| Using Aliases in Linux to Make Life Easier | Rob Williams | May 26, 2010 | Linux |
| A Look at Valve's Mac Steam Client | Brett Thomas | May 19, 2010 | Apple |
| 10 Things Linux Does Better Than Windows | Rob Williams | April 9, 2010 | Linux |
| Using a Thumb Drive to Install Windows 7 | Robert Tanner | February 3, 2010 | Windows |
| VMware Fusion 3 - Windows on the Mac Made Easy | Brett Thomas | January 11, 2010 | Apple |
| Ten KDE 4 Tricks Worth Knowing About | Rob Williams | December 18, 2009 | Linux |
| Sun VirtualBox - Free, Powerful Virtualization | Rob Williams | December 11, 2009 | Software |
| Managing Your Audio to Keep Neighbors Happy | LD Blake | November 3, 2009 | Windows |
| Nero Linux 4 - Still the Best Burning Tool for Linux? | Rob Williams | October 12, 2009 | Linux |
| KDE 4 Isn't Too Bad, After All | Rob Williams | October 2, 2009 | Linux |
| Introduction to Consumer Virtualization | Rob Williams | July 27, 2009 | Software |
| SUSE Studio: The Do-it-Yourself Linux | Rob Williams | July 24, 2009 | Linux |
| GOG.com - Breathing New Life into Old Games | Rob Williams | June 24, 2009 | Software |
| RipNAS Essentials - Automated CD Ripping with WHS | Greg King | April 15, 2009 | Windows |
| Audio Archiving Guide: Part 1 - Music Formats | Matt Serrano | September 10, 2008 | Software |
| Chrome - Google's Attempt at the 'Ultimate Browser' | Rob Williams | September 3, 2008 | Windows |
| Reallusion Crazy Talk 5.0 | William Kelley | June 6, 2008 | Windows |
| ASUS Shows Faith in Splashtop | Rob Williams | May 14, 2008 | Linux |
| Nero 8 Ultra Edition | Nate Marion | December 17, 2007 | Windows |
| e frontier Poser Figure Artist | Jen McPherson | December 12, 2007 | Windows |
| Futuremark PCMark Vantage | Rob Williams | October 18, 2007 | Windows |
| Backing Up Your Linux | Rob Williams | August 27, 2007 | Linux |
| Xtorrent 1.0 for Mac OS X | Don Williams | July 31, 2007 | Apple |
| Thirteen OS X Widgets You Should Be Using | Don Williams | July 20, 2007 | Apple |
| Elgato Turbo.264 | Matt Serrano | July 11, 2007 | Apple |
| Customizing OS X: The Easy Way | Don Williams | July 6, 2007 | Apple |
| Top Utilities For Enhancing OS X | Don Williams | June 27, 2007 | Apple |
| Top Five Amarok Tips | Rob Williams | June 19, 2007 | Linux |
| Game Emulation In Linux | Rob Williams | May 28, 2007 | Linux |
| NeroLinux 3 | Rob Williams | May 24, 2007 | Linux |
| Gentoo 2007.0 | Rob Williams | May 12, 2007 | Linux |
| Cedega 6.0 | Rob Williams | April 11, 2007 | Linux |
| Adobe Creative Suite 3 Preview | Rob Williams | March 27, 2007 | Windows |
| SabayonLinux 3.3 | Rob Williams | March 22, 2007 | Linux |
| Windows Home Server Preview | Colin Huckstep | March 20, 2007 | Windows |
| Windows Vista Gaming Performance Reports | Rob Williams | January 29, 2007 | Windows |
| Laplink PCmover | Rob Williams | January 26, 2007 | Windows |
| Windows Vista System Performance Reports | Rob Williams | January 25, 2007 | Windows |
| Windows Vista Version Comparison | Rob Williams | January 24, 2007 | Windows |
| Top 8 Vista Annoyances | Rob Williams | January 23, 2007 | Windows |
| Should you buy Vista Ultimate? | Rob Williams | January 22, 2007 | Windows |
| Beginners Guide to Linux Desktops | Rob Williams | December 19, 2006 | Linux |
| Sabayon Linux 3.2 | Rob Williams | November 26, 2006 | Linux |
| Top 10 Free Linux Games | Rob Williams | September 19, 2006 | Linux |
| GParted LiveCD 3.1-1 | Rob Williams | September 15, 2006 | Linux |
| Gentoo 2006.1 | Rob Williams | August 30, 2006 | Linux |
| Sabayon Linux RC2 | Rob Williams | August 11, 2006 | Linux |
| Freespire RC1 | Rob Williams | August 1, 2006 | Linux |
| Kate OS 3.0 Beta | Rob Williams | July 25, 2006 | Linux |
| Lavalys Everest Ultimate Edition 3.0 | Rob Williams | July 10, 2006 | Windows |
| SuSE Linux 10.1 | Rob Williams | June 29, 2006 | Linux |
| Windows Vista Beta 2 Performance Reports | Rob Williams | June 14, 2006 | Windows |
| Manga Studio Debut 3.0 | Jen McPherson | June 6, 2006 | Windows |
| Dragon Naturally Speaking 8 Preferred | Matthew Harris | May 31, 2006 | Windows |
| Look at Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD | Rob Williams | March 1, 2006 | Linux |
| Diskeeper 10 Professional Premier | Matthew Harris | February 10, 2006 | Windows |
| Steganos LockNote 1.0 | Rob Williams | January 26, 2006 | Windows |
| Nero 7 Ultra Edition | Rob Williams | January 25, 2006 | Windows |
| In-Depth Look: Futuremark 3D Mark 06 | Rob Williams | January 18, 2006 | Windows |
| Steganos Security Suite 2006 | Rob Williams | December 14, 2005 | Windows |
| iolo System Mechanic Pro 6 | Matthew Harris | November 4, 2005 | Windows |
| Look at Flock Developer 0.49 Build | Rob Williams | October 24, 2005 | Windows |
| Steganos Internet Anonym 2006 | Rob Williams | September 16, 2005 | Windows |
| Internet Anonymity - Anonymizer vs Steganos | Rob Williams | August 8, 2005 | Windows |
| Internet Anonymity - How you can stay safe online | Rob Williams | August 3, 2005 | Windows |
| Mozilla Firefox Extensions You Should Have! | Rob Williams | July 15, 2005 | Windows |
| Iolo System Mechanic 5 | Matthew Harris | July 1, 2005 | Windows |
| Futuremark PC Mark 2005 | Rob Williams | June 28, 2005 | Windows |
| Enthusiast Look: Windows XP 32-Bit versus 64-Bit | Rob Williams | June 8, 2005 | Windows |
| SuSE 9.3 Professional | Rob Williams | May 30, 2005 | Linux |
| Everest Ultimate Edition First-Look | Rob Williams | May 17, 2005 | Windows |
| NeroLinux: In-Depth Look | Rob Williams | April 5, 2005 | Linux |