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Another Printer Review Online at Computer Shopper

October 29, 2009

Tags: Computer Shopper, Printer reviews, HP Printer


Our review of the HP Photosmart Premium TouchSmart Web printer has been posted online on Computer Shopper:

Professional-Quality Slideshows for Photographers

October 29, 2009

Tags: PC World, Software reviews, Photodex, Slideshow software


When Sally needs to create a DVD of slideshow of her photographs (for clients, grant applications, exhibit proposals, and such), she often uses Photodex Presenter. Photodex’s software focuses on making high-quality presentation composed primarily of still images. You can see our review of Presenter’s less expensive, less full-featured sister program by clicking on its name, here: Photodex ProShow Gold .

Recently, our review of a plug-in of additional animation effects and template for both Photodex programs was posted online at PCWorld.com:

QuickTake Palm Screen Capture Software

October 29, 2009

Tags: PC World, Software reviews, Palm software, Utility, Screen Capture


For those of us who have been involved in digital photography since the early days (when it used to be called “filmless photography,” because not all the cameras were actually digital), the name QuickTake is quite familiar. It was Apple Computer’s very early, very low resoution (640x480) digital camera, which was the same as the Kodak D50. (Both cameras were made by Chinon.)

Today, QuickTake refers to a screen capture utility for Palm devices, which we use whenever we do a review of Palm software.

Here’s a link to our review of the QuickTake screen capture utility, which is online at PCWorld.com:

Adobe Lightroom 3 Public Beta

October 23, 2009

Tags: Adobe Lightroom, Reviewers Workshop, Journalism, PC World, Software reviews


As journalists, we receive a number of invitations to events from various companies. When the invitation will provide us with information that may be useful, we will sometimes attend. If it is a Reviewers Workshop related to a program we cover, we usually make every effort to fit it into our schedule.

A Reviewers Workshop is typically (more…)

Calories Galore

October 23, 2009

Tags: CalorieKing, Diet diary, Diabetes log, PC World, Software reviews


Our reviews of two more CalorieKing products are online at PCWorld.com:

This is in addition to the previous reviews of a couple of Diabetes programs for the Palm:

Hot & Cold Running Printers

October 7, 2009

Tags: Computer Shopper, Lexmark, Printer reviews, Printer testing, Lexmark Platinum Pro 905, Lexmark C546dtn


Our UPS and FedEx delivery people are beginning to wonder when we’ll be putting in a conveyer belt at DigitalBenchmarks Labs’ front door. Until we do, they have to continue using their hand trucks to manhandle (womanhandle? – but doesn’t that mean something else?) all the printers that have been coming and going. (more…)

Review of Akvis ArtSuite

October 5, 2009

Tags: Software reviews, PC World, Image editing, Akvis, Photoshop plug-ins


Our review of Akvis ArtSuite is posted on PCWorld.com:

"Simple photo effects program Akvis ArtSuite offers a generally attractive selection of frames and effects that can be used to decorate your pictures.

“ArtSuite's tools are divided into Frames and Effects. Frames has a library of hundreds of edge effects, including...."

To read the full review, please click on: Akvis ArtSuite review