OmniPage by Nuance really requires no introduction, the name is synonymous with Optical Character Recognition, more commonly known as OCR. Few software have had the longevity in the market place, and the fact that DigitalReviews is taking OmniPage Professional 17 on a test drive is testament to its pedigree. What is in the latest and greatest version of OmniPage and how well does it perform? Acknowledgement goes to Nuance for providing a demonstration copy for this review....more
I have mentioned before that the coolest game I saw at E3 2007 was Burnout Paradise from EA for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Finally the game is available to purchase and today we are going to check out Burnout Paradise and see if the really game is as cool as the demo and what I saw at E3....more
There are lots of people out there who have been collecting music for some time. While having plenty of music is great, the problem starts to become that I can only listen to CD’s on my cdplayer, LP’s on my record player, and MP3’s on my IPod. If this sounds familiar, then Roxio’s “Record Now Music Lab” is targeted just for you....more
PhatWare's new PhatNotes Professional Edition is an application that
was created as a replacement of the rather limited Notes application
from Microsoft for the PocketPC platform. The functionality of PhatNotes was quite impressive.
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It’s that time of year again, and I don’t mean the Valentine’s Day. It’s the countdown to Tax Day. This necessary evil involves serious quality time with nothing but a mountain of forms, receipts, and tax booklets in front of them. Migrating this mess to electronic format is increasingly popular, and TaxCut 2006 from H&R Block is a capable assistant to do most of the heavy lifting.
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PhatPad is an advanced notes organizer for Microsoft Windows Powered Tablet, Desktop and Pocket PCs. It allows you to draw pictures, jot text notes, or put a mixture of pictures and typed text on a virtual scratch pad. The program uses new digital ink technology, which provides a very smooth ink flow, so it feels like you’re writing on a piece of paper....more
This software is first grade level audio editing software that takes files from your audio collection, truncates them, and sends them to your cell phone to use as ringtones. The software works well enough for this very basic purpose. Exporting the files out and receiving them on your cell phone has its stumbling [...]...more
Are you awakened by phone calls in the middle of the night from a panicked matriarch who just lost all of her family photos for the last 1000 years? If so, this software might be the answer to your prayers. Norton Save and Restore allows you to schedule backups of just photos or documents to entire hard drive and operating system backups. This is the answer to every family tech support guru’s prayers. ...more
Did you lose some data? Perhaps you deleted the wrong file? Perhaps your trusty USB flash drive became corrupted?
What do you do now!? You probably lost countless documents of extremely high importance! You would do anything to get them back! ANYTHING! WAIT! Don’t Panic! There might be something simple you can do!
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Want to be able to type faster than the best secretary? With unerring accuracy?
Have a look at the latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, arguably the best speech recognition software around. This particular edition that we are reviewing today is called Preferred Mobile and includes a digital Philips VoiceTracer recorder....more