Computer Software Reviews

by Christina Conley If you’ve ever wanted to know if you’re getting a good value out of your online DVD rental subscription (and really, who among us has never calculated their usage and done a quick cost-benefit analysis?), FeedFlix could be a perfect service for you. FeedFlix is free, and functions by aggregating RSS feeds [...]

by Ashley Patrick More and more people are now realizing the possibility of getting their own free TV on PC by just paying the small one-time fee. This entails that there is no need to pay the monthly bill to cable or satellite TV providers. Modern technology paved the way to making our computers at [...]

by Andrew Whiteman Are you fairly new to QuarkXPress? If so, you may be guilty of making some of the errors mentioned in this article. Have a quick read and see if there are any pitfalls that you are commonly falling into when you use QuarkXPress. The New Project dialogue window (which appears automatically whenever [...]

by Andrew Whiteman A typical Photoshop file consists of three colour channels: Red, Green and Blue. However, in addition to the colour channels, Photoshop can also use channels to store information used in the process of selecting and masking different parts of an image. To distinguish them from the colour channels, these channels are normally [...]

by John Jones The Internet is great, it offers a wonderful opportunity to improve your knowledge and capabilities, but it is always the safest place to hang out. Security is a prime important thing to think about when running your computer. Especially on the Internet. I have put together this guide for you to make [...]

by Andrew Whiteman If you have recently started using QuarkXPress, you may find yourself making some of the errors outlined in this article. Take a second to read through our top beginner pitfalls and spare yourself a little frustration in getting to grips with your new software. The New Project dialogue window (which appears automatically [...]

by Andrew Whiteman Everybody knows Microsoft Word. It’s on almost every PC in the world and fair few Macs as well. However, a lot of users have picked up bad habits, things that detract from the usefulness of the document being created. This article looks at the most common basic errors among Microsoft users. * [...]

by Andrew Whiteman Whether you are communicating with an audience, your colleagues at work or a group of clients or potential clients, a PowerPoint presentation is a great way of getting you message across. But did you know, you can base a PowerPoint presentation around a group of images and, what’s even better, PowerPoint will [...]

by Carol Alexander Whenever you choose New from the File menu in Adobe InDesign, you may have noticed the option to create a new book without ever knowing exactly what a book is. Well, it turns out that books are a pretty cool feature: they allow you to take a bunch of related InDesign document [...]

by David Peters If you are not quite familiar with Photoshop, this program has these wonderful little features called Actions. These Actions have many different uses from creating remarkable effects to maximizing your productivity and of course they can always be counted on to handle the common and tiresome tasks that are nothing more than [...]