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Pogoplug Upgrades Its Network-Attached Storage

Pogoplug Series 4 POGOPLUG LETS YOU turn any USB-attached drive into a network-accessible drive. Pogoplug’s Series 4 is a vast improvement over previous models, starting with the upgrade of the USB ports to the 3.0 standard. In addition, Series 4 offers a SATA/USM slot on the top of the unit and an SD Card slot. Pogoplug makes establishing your own remotely accessible storage easy. Power up the unit, attach it to your network router or switch, and step through a simple online setup procedure using your browser you then can access the unit (as well as any attached drives) from anywhere you have an Internet connection. You don’t even...

Wondershare's Advanced DVD Slideshow Builder

Wondershare's Advanced DVD Slideshow Builder DVD SLIDESHOW Builder Deluxe helps you build slideshows that you can burn to DVDs for playing back on a TV. In addition, you can save the slideshows as video files compatible with mobile devices and Web services. After you add photos, you can easily rearrange, delete, or tweak them with the built-in (but basic) editing tools. Once the photos are set, you can apply a style and other customizations to the slideshow. The software can be a bit much if you just want to create a basic slideshow; but if you're willing to put time and effort into using DVD Slideshow Builder Deluxe, you'll find plenty...

Portrait Professional 10 Lets You Fine Tune Faces

VERSION 10 OF Anthropics' Portrait Professional includes a few nice changes to the interface and controls, but it continues to provide a good platform for improving photo subjects' attractiveness. Like Portrait Professional version 9, version 10 Lets you create minimal to sweeping changes to a face to make it more appealing. Once you upload an image, you mark five spots on it outside corners of the eyes, tip of the nose, and corners of the mouth. Then you adjust the points on the image to correspond to the features of the face, and click. In seconds, the software changes the face's features in accordance with predetermined beautifying algorithms....

HP Omni 27 1015t Desktop PC: Beautiful, Affordable, Boring

HP Omni 27 1015t Desktop PC THE $1549 HP Omni 27-1015t is a glossy 27 inch all in one that could almost pass as an HDTV. It has a high-definition resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, but lacks touch support. The PC’s Core i5-3550S CPU a low-power version of Intel's new Ivy Bridge processor runs at 3.0GHz normally, but it can accelerate to 3.7GHz thanks to Intel’s Turbo Boost. On our WorldBench 7 tests, it earned an impressive mark of 115. The Omni 27-1015t comes with a discrete AMD Radeon HD 6550A graphics card and a 7200 rpm, 2TB hard drive. Other standard features include a built-in webcam, an integrated microphone, Beats Audio...

Asus ET2701 INKI: A Multipurpose All in One

PRICED AT $1299, Asus’s 27 inch, high definition all in one PC carries a Core i7-3770S CPU that runs at a 3.1GHz base speed, with Intel Turbo Boost technology increasing it to 3.9GHz when needed. The 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM makes apps open quickly. You also get a discrete Nvidia GeForce GT 640M GPU (with 1GB of video memory) and a Blu-ray drive. The ET2701INKI earned a mark of 111 on our strenuous WorldBench 7 test suite. Though the 1920 by 1080 pixel screen is Large and crisp, it Lacks touch support. On-screen images look good from most angles, but the LCD is very reflective when viewed under direct light. The system comes with a single...

NTI ECHO 3 Single Minded Drive Cloning Utility

NTI ECHO 3 is a simple and effective utility for cloning hard drives and partitions. Echo 3 can copy data from a single partition, from an entire drive, and from both while filtering out file types you define. You can also have the program dynamically resize partitions to fit a new drive. If a partition took up 33 percent of a 250GB drive, for instance, you can have it take up the same percentage of a 500GB drive. I do have two minor complaints. First, although Echo 3 warns you that it will overwrite any data on the destination drive, the warning comes only after you've chosen a disk from a drop-down list. Best practice would be to...

Acronis True Image Home Offers Friendly Backup

ACRONISTRUE IMAGE Home 2012 supports imaging, file backup, online backup, synchronization (local, online, and remote) and even continuous backup. And the user interface is well organized and well thought out. True Image Home 2012 includes Secure Zone, a hidden partition for restoring your PC without using boot media; a boot manager that adds images to the boot sequence if you’re using Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate; a driver for greater than 2.2TB support in Windows XP; a file shredder, a disk wiper; and a CCleaner like system cleanup utility. True Image Home 2012 Lacks support for Microsoft's dynamic disks (which won't affect most...

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