Posts by Software

Air Mouse Pro for iPhone/iPod touch Review

By John Pastor • October 13, 2010

Attention home theater geeks, there’s finally a great solution to control your home theater PC with your iPhone or iPod touch. The application called Air Mouse Pro turns your iOS device into a trackpad and universal remote for your Mac or PC. How does it work and is it right for you? Find out after the break.

Windows Quick Tip: Switching Between Windows

By John Pastor • March 2, 2009

In Windows Vista, there are a variety of ways to switch between open windows. While one of these may not work in older versions such as Windows XP or Windows 2000, you may not have heard of either of them before. Besides the obvious way of switching by clicking on the icon in the taskbar, here are two ways you may not have heard of.

Windows 7 Public Beta Hands-On Part 2

By John Pastor • January 12, 2009

We covered the new Jump Lists and User Account Control settings in Windows 7, which are cool features, but we haven’t even touched the really cool stuff. Today it’s all about Aero “Peek”, Homegroups, and Libraries. If you haven’t yet checked out part one, check that out first before you head into this one. Peek into Windows 7 after the jump.

Windows 7 Public Beta Hands-On Part 1

By John Pastor • January 10, 2009

Just got finished installing the brand new Windows 7 public beta on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp, and I have to say, I’m pretty impressed. Microsoft has completely changed their game with the new Windows 7, it feels so much snappier than Vista and it’s features make it something to consider later this year when it’s finally released. Microsoft servers are being slammed right now, so you might want to wait until the load settles down a bit, but I’ve been playing around with it for the past couple hours and here’s my take on the public beta.

2007 Holiday Gift Guide: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4

By John Pastor • December 9, 2007

Adobe recently introduced two new versions to their Elements line of software, Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4. They’re a perfect gift to …

Side note: Xtorrent 1.1 released, major improvements

By John Pastor • September 1, 2007

My favorite BitTorrent client, Xtorrent has been updated to version 1.1 and includes many new improvements including:

individual file selection, so you can pick only …

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

By John Pastor • August 7, 2007

Adobe’s latest offering for digital photographers is a competitor to Apple’s Aperture, but how does it perform with RAW images? Read on after the …

WWDC07: Safari for Windows

By John Pastor • June 11, 2007

Today at WWDC07 in San Francisco at the Moscone West convention center, Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s 3rd application to hit the Windows market – …

Spanning Sync: Google Calendar’s best friend.

By John Pastor • May 29, 2007

This is a great utility for all Mac folks out there, it’s called Spanning Sync and it allows you to sync your Google Calendar …

Xtorrent: The latest kid on the block.

By ConnectReviews • April 10, 2007

Disclaimer: I do not condone piracy and am not suggesting that you use BitTorrent for illegal downloading.
If you do not know what BitTorrent is, …

PowerArchiver 2007, the robust Windows archiving utility.

By ConnectReviews • April 10, 2007

Kicking off our first ever software review week at Connect, we decided start it off with a great archiving utility that may look similar …

Roxio introduces Toast 8 Titanium at Expo

By ConnectReviews • January 8, 2007

Roxio introduced a significant upgrade of their flagship Mac disc burning product Toast this morning, bumping it up to version 8. Two of the …