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Nero’s latest revision beefs up its video-editing capabilities, adds a fast media manager, and simplifies its multi-module user interface. It’s a great buy for newcomers to Nero.

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In addition to new natural-media painting tools, Photoshop CS5 sports an impressive array of useful new features that take much of the tedium out of editing.

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With a well-designed interface, a workflow that reduces the hassle of choosing footage, and intuitive editing tools, Premiere Elements 8 is a superior consumer-grade video editor. Our only quibble: occasional crashes.

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Version 8 of Adobe’s consumer photo editor may add few new editing features, but its enhanced Organizer makes it great for users with large photo collections.

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Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Friday 16 October 2009 at 00:00:00

Watch online TV from your desktop

With the increasing popularity of broadband, video on the web has never been
easier to enjoy. Websites like YouTube can be a little hit and miss so the Miro
player offers a more specific way to enjoy the videos you want.
Miro organises videos into [...]

Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 12 October 2009 at 00:00:00

Complete burning & media solution

This is the software publisher’s description.
An all-in-one solution for the management of data, audio, video, photo and TV
content, Nero is a comprehensive tool for today’s digital home. Nero Burning ROM
and Nero Express enable Blu-ray data recording that is readable on every
operating system, multi-session [...]

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Monday 12 October 2009 at 00:00:00

Replace Notepad with a more capable version

Many people use Notepad for editing simple text documents and program/webpage
code because it is small and fast. The disadvantage is that it lacks many
features that would be very useful, especially when looking at programming
code.
Notepad++ is designed for this purpose and so [...]

Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 12 October 2009 at 00:00:00

Take your diary & contacts on the road

Back in the 80s business people carried around a huge Filofax full of
information. It stored their diary, ‘to do’ list, business cards and contact
information. The thicker and more well used the Filofax, the more important you
were perceived to be, to [...]

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Monday 12 October 2009 at 15:20:00

Easier access to online storage sites

There are plenty of places to store files online at no cost, but accessing
files on them can be tricky at times.
Gladinet
Desktop makes these online accounts look like an ordinary networked drive so
copying files is as simple as dragging and dropping them. This [...]

Lee Collins, vnunet.com, Monday 12 October 2009 at 12:08:00

Control a remote computer from your PC

They say there’s nothing better than someone showing you how to perform a
particular task. Back in the late 80s, this was how information about how to
understand computers spread from person to person. Problem is that we now have
to rely on books, [...]