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.
In a rare move, AMD has publicly ousted a leading industry benchmark, BAPCo's SYSmark 2012, released mere weeks ago. The company believes both that the benchmark is unfair in its weighting of scores, and also that it's irrelevant for the average consumer. We delve deep into these claims, and offer up our own opinions.
With the storage space offered on traditional HDDs, SSDs can leave a bit to be desired. Making matters worse are the Windows hibernation mode and pagefile, responsible for hogging at least 8GB (22GB in my case) of your precious SSD space. We're taking a look at the caveats of disabling both, and discuss the fixes.
| Title | Author | Date | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| A Look at Futuremark's 3DMark 11 | Rob Williams | December 7, 2010 | Windows |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ripping Your Blu-rays the Easy and Free Way | Rob Williams | August 4, 2010 | Windows |
| PlayClaw - Has FRAPS' Killer Arrived? | Rob Williams | June 30, 2010 | Windows |
| Using a Thumb Drive to Install Windows 7 | Robert Tanner | February 3, 2010 | Windows |
| Managing Your Audio to Keep Neighbors Happy | LD Blake | November 3, 2009 | Windows |
| RipNAS Essentials - Automated CD Ripping with WHS | Greg King | April 15, 2009 | Windows |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Adobe Creative Suite 3 Preview | Rob Williams | March 27, 2007 | Windows |
| 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 |
| Lavalys Everest Ultimate Edition 3.0 | Rob Williams | July 10, 2006 | Windows |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Everest Ultimate Edition First-Look | Rob Williams | May 17, 2005 | Windows |