INDEX to PRODUCT REVIEWS in BCUG Bytes
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Year |
Month | Product | Title |
Author(s) |
| 2012-02 | February | Software | Snap 5 Screen Capture Tool | Lewart, Ruth |
| 2012-02 | February | Mac OS's | PearOS is [not?] like Mac OS X | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2012-02 | February | Book | Beyond Bullet Points | West, Greg |
| 2012-02 | February | Software | Stellarium excellent FOSS | Esneault, Cal |
| 2012-01 | January | Software | LXDE: A simpler desktop envoronment | Esneault, Cal |
| 2012-01 | January | Book | mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide | Greenbaum, Dave |
| 2011-12 | December | Book | Beginning Drupal - an amazing book! | West, Gregory |
| 2011-11 | November | Service | Evernote - remembering stuff for ANY platform | Jacobson, Lou |
| 2011-11 | November | Accessory | SleepPhones | Greenbaum, Dave |
| 2011-11 | November | Book | Digital Photography Composition for Dummies | Kamper, Donna |
| 2011-10 | October | Software | Apple OS X Lion: Lots of cool stuff, some bugs | Jacobson, Lou |
| 2011-10 | October | Software | Smart Converter Pro: I'm Ready to Convert | Petrie, Frank |
| 2011-10 | October | Software | True Crypt: Free open-source data encryption software | Langill, John |
| 2011-10 | October | Software | Recuva: When digital disaster strikes, smile! | West, Gregory |
| 2011-09 | September | Service | Disappointment: Slides to DVD from Costco | Ingle, Jim |
| 2011-09 | September | Software | Corel Paint Shop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate packs a lot | Rump, Sharon |
| 2011-08 | August | Software-Mac | Contact Book looks like Apple apps, works OK | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2011-08 | August | Software | Good fences make good desktops (apologies to Frost) | Asling, Joe |
| 2011-08 | August | Book | How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5 gives good tips | Kamper, Donna |
| 2011-08 | August | Software-Mac | TVShows 2: Snip goes cable, snap goes torrent | Petrie, Frank |
| 2011-08 | August | Hardware | What's Your Angle? Glif gives the iPhone legs to stand on | Petrie, Frank |
| 2011-08 | August | Book | 11 photographers write about the Wild Side of Photography | Harold, Clara |
| 2011-06 | June | Books | Three books on Access 2010 | Rand, Sandy |
| 2011-06 | June | Software | Bean, a simple, streamlined writing app | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2011-05 | May | Software | Corel Paint It is a fun, easy-tp-use paint app | Page, Lynn |
| 2011-05 | May | Software | AutoDesk SketchBook Pro redefines drawing | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2011-05 | May | Software | Stellar Drive Toolbox: Not Quite Stellar, Yet | Petrie, Frank |
| 2011-04 | April | Software | Apple's Mac App Store works as promised | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2011-03 | March | Software | When Outlook dies, Windows Live Mail lives | Grazide, Jo |
| 2011-03 | March | Softward | Boom! | Petrie, Frank |
| 2011-03 | March | Book | The iPad Project Book | Greenbaum, Dave |
| 2011-03 | March | Hardware | Apple TV: Fits well into Apple ecosystem | Corzo, Richard |
| 2011-03 | March | Windows utility | Soluto Software improves boot time | Wilsker, Ira |
| 2011-02 | February | Dropbox | Drop it in the Box: Dropbox, what it is, how it works | Grazide, Jo |
| 2011-02 | February | Book | iPad Portable Genius a so-so beginner's guide | Greenbaum, Dave |
| 2011-01 | January | Mac Software | Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac: Run Windows on a Mac | Jacobson, Lou |
| 2011-01 | January | Software | BCUG members try, pan "free download" software | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2010-12 | December | Hardware | Otterbox Commuter for iPhone 4 | Greenbaum, Dave |
| 2010-11 | November | Hardware | Apple Magic Trackpad pleases fingers; two thumbs up | Jacobson, Lou |
| 2010-11 | November | iPad App | New York Times iPad/iPhone/iPod, Phase 2 | Petrie, Frank |
| 2010-11 | November | iPad App | Wall Street Journal, iPad/iPhone/iPod, V2 | Petrie, Frank |
| 2010-10 | October | Hardware | Affordable OWC external USB hard drive case | Greenbaum, Dave |
| 2010-10 | October | Device | Blue Pack 53: Battery pack for many handheld devices | Harding, George |
| 2010-10 | October | Book | The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web | Barbee, Tammy |
| 2010-09 | September | Mac Software | Power Manager for Mac: Power to the People | Petrie, Frank |
| 2010-09 | September | MP3 Tag | Useful utility to edit music metadata | Sorrentino, Phil |
| 2010-09 | September | PC Mover | from old PC to new | Harding, George |
| 2010-08 | August | Corel | Corel Painter 11: As feature-filled as Photoshop | Yoffa, Iris |
| 2010-07 | July | Mac Software | Quickbooks 2010 for Macintosh disappoints -- again | Greenbaum, Dave |
| 2010-07 | July | Mac Software | Good Sync not-so-good at syncing Macs | Petrie, Frank |
| 2010-07 | July | Work smarter, let Google Alerts do your grunt work | Thiel, Tom | |
| 2010-07 | July | Google Voice, free long distance telephony | Pearson, Hank | |
| 2010-06 | June | Mac Software | Magical, menubar clock/calendar application | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2010-06 | June | Book | Office 2007 -- The Missing Manual | Harding, George |
| 2010-06 | June | Book | The Non-Designer's Presentation Book | Arguello, Marie O. |
| 2010-05 | May | Adobe | Adobe Photoshop Elements 8: Still Top Notch | Huddelston, Louise Maye |
| 2010-05 | May | Adobe | Premiere 8 suffers from driver conflicts | Huddelston, Louise Maye |
| 2010-05 | May | Open Office | A First Look at Open Office | Page, Lynn |
| 2010-05 | May | Pixelmator | Pixelmator: Color me satisfied | Petrie, Frank |
| 2010-05 | May | easyConverter | easyConverter converts a PDF file to a text file | Robinson, Dorothy |
| 2010-04 | April | Book | Engaging, witty book about web standards | Zebo, Tim |
| 2010-04 | April | iDive | iDive: Truly The Digital Video Shoebox | Petrie, Frank |
| 2010-03 | March | Windows 7 | Windows Live Photo Gallery is a keeper | Grazide, Jo |
| 2010-02 | February | Windows 7 | Upgrading not as bad as she thought | Berger, Sandy |
| 2010-02 | February | Windows 7 | Thanks, But No Thanks! | Goldstein, Herb |
| 2010-02 | February | Book | The Best Camera: The App and the Book | Petrie, Frank |
| 2010-01 | January | Windows 7 | Windows 7 - What are you waiting for? | Austin, Mike |
| 2010-01 | January | Dragon Burn, also Toast 10 | Two apps help users "burn different" | Shindel, Bob |
| 2009-12 | December | Registry First Aid | Registry First Aid cleans Windows Registry safely | Goldstein, Herb |
| 2009-11 | November | Photoshop | The Missing Manual | Arguello, Mana |
| 2009-11 | November | Adobe | Adobe Photoshop Elements 7, Classroom in a Book | Irons, Willis |
| 2009-10 | October | Software | My Factory Restore, or How I got My 'Puter Back | Grazide, Jo |
| 2009-10 | October | Hardware | Verbatim Nano Wireless Notebook Mouse | Janiger, Art |
| 2009-09 | September | vReveal | Motion DSP vReveal: Flawed video no more | Miller, Steve |
| 2009-09 | September | Foxit Reader | Foxit Reader: A Worthy Alternative to Acrobat Reader | Walbran, Sharon |
| 2009-08 | August | Book | Google: The Missing Manual, Second Edition | Ransom, Victor |
| 2009-07 | July | Book | Book shares tips on low-cost computing | Powell, Doug |
| 2009-05 | May | Internet Explorer 8 | Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8 | Wilsker, Ira |
| 2009-05 | May | Dropbox | Dropbox provides free file netsyncing between different PC's, platforms | Richard, Ed |
| 2009-04 | April | Windows 7 | Running Windows 7 in Virtual Machines | Kagel, Fred & Maxwell, Lee |
| 2009-04 | April | Utilities | Four third party application removal utilities | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2009-02 | Feb | LapLink | LapLink's PC Mover | Kagel, Fred |
| 2009-02 | Feb | Unibind Kit | Unibind Photo Book Creation Kit | Zebo, Tim |
| 2009-02 | Feb | Book | Linux programming book gets second edition | Chriss, Bill |
| 2009-01 | Jan | Camera | Flip Mino HD, smallest HD camcorder, excels | Arguello, Maria O. |
| 2008-12 | Dec | ZoomWare | Screen Magnifier from ZoomWare | Lewart, Cass |
| 2008-11 | Nov | Roxio | Roxio Creator 2009 Basic | Miller, Steve |
| 2008-10 | Oct | Adobe | Adobe in Design CS3 | Lewart, Ruth |
| 2008-10 | Oct | Book | Photoshop Elements 6 The Missing Manual | Grazide, Joanne |
| 2008-10 | Oct | Book | Beginning PHP5, m\Apache, MySQL Web Development | Zebo, Tim |
| 2008-09 | Sept | Pinnacle | Pinnacle Studio Plus 12 fixes most bugs | Miller, Steve |
| 2008-08 | Aug | Pinnacle | Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick brings HDTV, HD radio, internet radio to your computer | Lewart, Cass |
| 2008-08 | Aug | Firefox | Hot New Browser Firefox3 blazes | Wilsker, Ira |
| 2008-08 | Aug | Skype | Skype: internet telephony | Nuvolini, Joe |
| 2008-07 | July | Roxio | Roxio Popcorn still solo part of Toast that rips copies of unencrypted DVDs on Macs | Shindel, Bob |
| 2008-06 | June | Adobe | Vector Drawing Software | Auer, David & Paul |
| 2008-06 | June | Acronis | Acronis True Image 11 Home | Rand, Sandy |
| 2008-06 | June | Video | Videography Training Video | Benson, Barbara A |
| 2008-05 | May | DVD | Film Editing Software Training DVD | Lewart. Ruth |
| 2008-05 | May | Book | Visual Quickstart Guide Microsoft Expression Web | Grazide, Joanne |
| 2008-05 | May | Book | Running Windows on your Mac | Shindel, Bob |
| 2008-04 | April | Roxio | Roxio Toast 8 thrives as alternative suite of optical apps for Mac OS X | Shindel, Bob |
| 2008-03 | March | Roxio | Roxio Creator 10.0 emerges as a well-rounded media burning app | Miller, Steve |
| 2008-03 | March | Book | Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (Peachpit Learning) | Arguello, Maria O. |
| 2008-02 | February | Adobe | Adobe Photoshop Elements v.6 Adds Features to Good Photo Editing | Grazide, Joanne |
| 2008-02 | February | PPTshare | PPTshare File Compressor slims PowerPoint presentations | Lewart, Cass |
| 2008-01 | January | Pinnacle | Pinnacle Studio Movie Box Ultimate easily converts old media to DVDs | Lewart, Cass |
| 2008-01 | January | Applian | Applian Technologies Audio/Video Streaming Capture Suite | Scheerer, Bill |
| 2007-12 | December | Adobe | Adobe After Effects CS3 Pro is just the latest must-have upgrade | Corbo, Dominick |
| 2007-12 | December | Camtasia | Camtasia Studio 4.0 utility: Ideal companion for Snagit | Kagel, Fred |
| 2007-12 | December | Book | Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide helps learning the new version of Office for Windows | Grazide, Joanne |
| 2007-11 | November | Adobe | Adobe Photoshop CS3 Standard Just the Latest Must-have Upgrade | Shindel, Bob |
| 2007-11 | November | Pinnacle | Pinnacle Studio Enables Your Inner Hollywood Director | Lambert, Jeffrey |
| 2007-11 | November | SnagIT | SnagIT Delivers Screenshots in Windows | Lewart,Ruth |
| 2007-10 | October | Adobe | Premiere Pro CS3 is a Professional Editing Tool | Corbo, Dominick |
| 2007-09 | September | Conference | Speech TEK 2007 Conference | Lewart, Cass |
| 2007-09 | September | Pinnacle | Pinnacle PCTB HD Stick: easy access to HDTV | Lewart, Cass and Ruth |
| 2007-09 | September | Apple | iWork '08; Elegant, feature-filled office suite | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2007-08 | August | Book | Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2007-08 | August | Garageband | Apple Garageband 3 | Shindel, Bob |
| 2007-07 | July | Adobe | Fisheye-Hemi Plug-in fixes distortions | Longmuir, Neil |
| 2007-07 | July | Mac Software | Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Yep, it's great | Petrie, Frank |
| 2007-06 | June | QuickBooks | QuickBooks Premier Accountant’s Edition 2007 offers some priceless features to accountants | Corbett, John |
| 2007-06 | June | Convention | Consumer Electronics Show, Jan. 7-11 | Lewart, Cass and Ruth |
| 2007-05 | May | Apple | Apple iWeb: Web authoring for the Rest of Us | Shindel, Bob |
| 2007-05 | May | Adobe | Adobe Acrobat Professional V.8 Allows for Easy or Complex PDF's | Lewart, Ruth |
| 2007-04 | April | Adobe | Adobe Dreamweaver keeps getting better | Shindel, Bob |
| 2007-04 | April | Zune | Zune, Microsoft's new digital media player, is superb hardware | Lewart, Cass |
| 2007-03 | March | Adobe | What’s New in Adobe Flash Professional 8 | Shindel, Bob |
| 2007-02 | February | Adobe | Adobe in Design CS2 brings ease to page layout | Lewart, Ruth |
| 2007-02 | February | Mozilla | Mozilla Firefox 2.0 | Lewart, Ruth |
| 2007-01 | January | Adobe | Third Time's a Charm for Premiere Elements 3 | Perkinson, Bill |
| 2006-12 | December | Adobe | Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 | Grazide, Joanne |
| 2006-11 | November | Adobe | Adobe PhotoShop CS2 | Tarr, Andrea |
| 2006-11 | November | ClickBook | ClickBook Version 9 for Windows | Kagel, Fred |
| 2006-10 | October | Apple | Apple's Boot Camp a flaky install but runs Windows, Windows software well | Arguello, Maria O. |
| 2006-10 | October | Vista | Continuing Microsoft dominance depends on acceptance of Vista | Moore, Mike |
| 2006-09 | September | Norton | Norton System Works 2006 | Lewart, Ruth |
| 2006-08 | August | Roxio | Roxio's Boom Box Suite | Shindel, Bob |
| 2006-08 | August | Ulead | DS DVD XPRESS, Ulead Movie Factory 5 | Favin, David L |
| 2006-07 | July | Book | SAMS Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2002 Programming in 21 Days | Rand, Sandy |
| 2006-07 | July | Book | FileMaker Pro 8 -- The Missing Manual | Kagel, Fred |
| 2006-06 | June | Free Software | Crimson Text Editor, Audacity Sound Editor, XV132 Hex Editor | Lewart, Cass |
| 2006-06 | June | Roxio | Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 | Perkins, Bill |
| 2006-05 | May | TaxAct | TaxAct 2005 | Lewart, Cass |
| 2006-05 | May | iClone | iClone 3D software | DiGiacomo, Daniel |
| 2006-05 | May | CCC | Carbon Copy Cloner for Tiger | Petrie, Frank |
| 2006-05 | May | Printer | Brother HL-1440 Laser Printer | Klappers, Bill |
| 2006-05 | May | TightPod | TightPod Laptop Skin | Arguello, Maria O |
| 2006-04 | April | Paint Shop | Paint Shop Pro X | Grazide, Joanne |
| 2006-04 | April | NTI | NTI CD/DVD Maker | Miller, Steve |
| 2006-04 | April | NTI | NTI Backup Pro | Francis, Robert |
| 2006-03 | March | XP | Casper XP 3 backup tool | Rand, Sandy |
| 2006-03 | March | Amnesty | Amnesty Widget Browser | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2006-03 | March | Book | Absolute Beginner's Guide to eBay | Powell, Doug |
| 2006-02 | February | Verifi | Verifi fingertip scanner | Lewart, Ruth |
| 2006-01 | January | TaxAct | TaxAct 2005 | Blumenfeld, Jerry |
| 2006-01 | January | nik | nik Sharpener | Tarr, Andrea |
| 2006-01 | January | Virtual PC | Virtual PC for Mac | Bill Martens |
| 2005-12 | December | Corel | Corel Photo Album 6 | Powell, Doug |
| 2005-12 | December | Book | Easy Creating CD's and DVD's, 2nd Edition | Miller, Steve |
| 2005-12 | December | Book | Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Automation by Mike Soper | Ransom, Vic |
| 2005-11 | November | Plextor | Plextor TV-on-PC software | Lewart, Cass and Ruth |
| 2005-10 | October | Plextor | Plextor Convert X PVR for the Mac | Maxwell, Lee |
| 2005-07 | July | Google Maps | Lewart, Ruth | |
| 2005-06 | June | Wacom | Wacom Intuos tablet | Arguello, Maria O |
| 2005-05 | May | Virtual PC | Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac 7.0 | Arguello, Maria O |
| 2005-04 | April | An Examination of Google's Gmail | Johnson, Richard | |
| 2005-02 | February | Sound Pool | Sound Pool 2005 and Audio Cleaning Lab 2005 | Silverman, William |
| 2004-12 | December | Book | The PhotoShop Elements Book for Digital Photographers | Tarr, Andrea |
| 2004-12 | December | Linux | How LINUX Works, What Every Superuser Should Know | Fowler, Bruce |
| 2004-11 | November | Book | Digital Photography Hacks: 100 Industrial Strength Tips & Tools | Tarr, Andrea |