Microsoft Publisher 2013 is a desktop publisher included with Microsoft Office 2013. The program is designed for novice users, allowing easy access to a large amount of editing tools. You’ll be able to design publications such as cards, magazines, menus, and posters. This free trial version will require you to stay logged into your Microsoft account.

Features

The canvas is where you can upload multiple pictures and arrange them by dragging them. New in this update you can now easily swap in pictures by dragging the new one over the old one and releasing the mouse.

This action uses clearly visible icons and a pink highlight, making it easy to avoid accidental swaps. Another handy new feature is the Apply to Background command. By right clicking on a picture you can Fill or Tile a single image to the entire canvas.

Compared to the 2010 version, the program is better integrated with the rest of Office. The program even includes tools, panes, and formatting found in Word and PowerPoint. The most useful tool taken from the rest of Office 2013 is the ability to pull images from multiple sites such as Flickr or Facebook.

You can even search through these sites, local images, and Office.com’s clip art within a single dialogue box. The clip art available is already plentiful and having an extra tool to locate more images across the web makes it even faster to find the right image. The only draw back is that you cannot access new online images if you become disconnected.

Usability

The interface is streamlined and very easy to understand. The majority of commands are controlled with the tool bar, corresponding hotkeys, or editing menus brought up by right clicking. The biggest design improvement is the addition of the right hand column Scratch Area which contains all of your images.

Unlike the 2010 version, images will no longer simply be dumped on the canvas. Instead you can easily drag and drop images between the scratch and canvas, allowing you better control of your final publication.

Quality

The layout is clean and avoids any unused space or clutter. The program generally functions quickly, even when you add in many large and detailed images. You can still edit clip art from Office.com and other sites that you have already downloaded even if you become disconnected from the web. When you are connected your work will automatically be saved to cloud storage.

Conclusion

Microsoft Publisher 2013 is a powerful tool to construct various printings and publications. The ability to quickly gather images from Office.com and other image sites will make it easier to find just the right image. The new Scratch Area is a welcome addition to help organize all of these pictures. This trial will give you a taste of Microsoft Publisher 2013’s great upgrades.

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There are few things that Google don't do well and this even extends to making 3D art accessible to the most inexperienced artist in the form of Google SketchUp.

Google SketchUp bucks the trend of expensive 3D modeling software such as 3DSMax and Cinema4D and presents a free, easy to use alternative with which you can even post your creations onto Google Earth for the world to see. The latest version has been integrated with Google Maps too so that geo-tagging your creations is easier than ever.

There's a refreshing lack of technical jargon in Google SketchUp and unfamiliar terms to beginners such as the 'Extrude' tool have been renamed to the more obvious 'Push/Pull' for example. There are plenty of helpful hints and guides throughout too helping you get to grips with 'snapping' when you draw rectangles, circles and other shapes. Google Sketchup intelligently predicts where you want endpoints to meet and snaps them shut for you, saving lots of time messing around.

SketchUp doesn't lack in functionality though despite its ease of use and includes all the usual collection of drawing and filling tools you'd expect, neatly accessible in the toolbar across the top of the screen. Instructor hints pop out on the right of the screen when it thinks you need them. Other options can be accessed via the menu system, or you can choose to place extra palettes on the workspace to save wading through menus. Of particular note is the 'Materials' palette, which contains over 100 different preset swatches, such as vegetation, metal and glass. The Shadow Settings palette is also worth keeping to hand, as it allows you to apply realistic shadows via simple sliders.

The real fun however is when you export your Google SketchUp drawings into Google Earth. You can send images of your 3D designs via email or upload them for free storage at Google's 3D Web Warehouse. Alternatively, you can geo-tag them in one-step using Google Maps which has now been integrated into Google Sketchup. You receive a snapshot when you add a geo-location to your model which now includes 3D terrain data plus color aerial imagery.

There are some problems with Google SketchUp however. Most annoying is when trying to create domed surfaces because of the cumbersome nature of the Extrude tool, although pushing and pulling straight lines is considerably easier. Being free, it also obviously lacks some of the advanced features of many of its heavyweight rivals.

Google SketchUp provides a refreshingly simple approach to 3D graphic design and modeling and is ideal for non experts in CAD technology.

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SLG Photo Album is a free software but allows you to print professional look images and album pages within seconds. The program allows a high degree of customization to meet user requirements as accurate.

SLG Photo Album is for those passionate about photography or those who want to create high-quality printed album art.

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Using Hofmann Digital Album is very easy, thanks to the program's step-by-step album setup process and intuitive customization interface. All you have to do is select a few basic settings for your album, such as cover, design and number of pages, and choose the photos you want to include in it. Note that you must select complete folders, not individual files.

Once the initial setup is complete, you're ready to start customizing album details. Hofmann Digital Album displays your album in a multi-paned interface, with different areas for selected photos, album pages and extra effects – which you can apply just by dragging and dropping them onto the album’s page.

Hofmann Digital Album includes tons of different covers, page layouts, album backgrounds, clipart, masks and frames to turn your photo album into a truly personal work of art. The Preview function enables you to check the album’s final appearance before ordering it online. You can also download images from your favorite social networks like Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa.

With Hofmann Digital Album you can easily turn a collection of digital pictures on your computer into a fully customized printed photo album.

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Microsoft OneNote 2013 is a digital notebook designed for multiple users. Microsoft OneNote 2013 is part of the Microsoft Office 2013 release and contains a large amount of updates from the previous version. These changes include compatibility with Windows 8 and improved features. Microsoft OneNote 2013 is one of the best means of gathering notes and sharing them with others. This free trial version will require you to stay logged into your Microsoft account.

Features

Microsoft OneNote 2013 allows users to freely type, draw, or insert media anywhere on a document page. Microsoft OneNote 2013 combines aspects of Word, Paint, and Excel to make a free form document. You can start by typing out an idea and articulate it with a quick paint sketch. If your art skills aren’t very good you can instead opt to upload images from your computer, or search across Bing and Flickr. Occasionally there are minor hiccups when importing pictures from the web.

You can further improve your notebook by adding in time stamps, spreadsheets, web links, attaching files, or even recording audio. When you’re satisfied with your notes you can review and spell check all of your entries before sending it to other users. Microsoft OneNote 2013 allows you to send your note over e-mail, save as a large number of document types, or share via meetings and invitations.

Usability

Microsoft OneNote 2013’s interface is simple and easy to use. Each menu and tab is clearly labeled and includes recognizable Microsoft icons. Large plus signs will allow you to quickly insert new sections and pages on the fly. As with other Office products, Microsoft OneNote 2013 relies on use of the tool bar or corresponding hotkeys. You can also right click to bring up a convenient editing menu.

Quality

Microsoft OneNote 2013’s appearance is in line with other Microsoft Modern programs. The layout is very clean without any clutter. The program generally functions quickly, even when embedding or attaching large video files. Even if you become disconnected from your Microsoft account you can still work on a document and save it for later. When a session is restored you will be able to once again directly share with others or save to cloud storage.

Conclusion

Microsoft OneNote 2013 has many powerful tools to easily create a detailed notebook and share them with others. This trial will give you a taste of Microsoft OneNote 2013’s Windows 8 upgrades.

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Argos Monitoring provides a completely invisible solution, which together with its encrypted storage of the data makes it the most secure and invisible monitoring solution available. Additionally, Argos Monitoring provides a very user-friendly interface for setup, configuration, and viewing the recorded data. A novel "Playback Mode" plays all the recorded data (keystrokes, visited websites, and screenshots) as a video, as if you are sitting besides the user while the actions were taken.

Argos Monitoring's ease of use, in addition to its advanced security features, makes it an ideal solution especially for parental monitoring, but can be also used for employee monitoring and monitoring of a spouse suspected of cheating.

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Easy to use interface scans, collects, displays and exports license information from your computer Accurately searches for software license information on your local computer and network computers The database supports more than 3,600 software vendors and products including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Adobe products, O&O Software products, Acronis products, Electronic Arts games, WinZip products, Nero products and many more Our database gets updated frequently and additional program licensing definitions are added on a daily basis to be up-to-date

Our always growing and updated database currently support more than 3,600 vendors and software products. Product Key Finder supports scanning of local computers as well as remote network computers. You can export (Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, CSV and XML) or print your license information from within Product Key Finder and store these in a safe place for backup reasons.

Product Key Finder is typically being used by home users as well as corporate admins.

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While the original Premiere application is mainly intended at professional video editors, Adobe Premiere Elements brings video editing closer to the average user. The program features a complete set of simple yet powerful tools that will help you extract video from several sources, combine them into a movie, add special effects and filters and share with family and friends.

The interface in Adobe Premiere Elements is very similar to that in Adobe Photoshop Elements. The application is divided into two main parts: the Organizer and the Project editor. Both work seamlessly with each other and share the same sleek, elegant dark interface.

The Adobe Premiere Elements Organizer lets you browse your media (photos, audio and video), rate them and add captions to them. The Editor, on the other side, is where the creative part comes in.

The editor in Adobe Premiere Elements features the classic video editing working space, with a special area for imported media, a built-in preview window and a timeline at the bottom. Though it may seem confusing and difficult to use at first sight, a bit of effort and patience on your side will help you master the program without much fuss.

Adobe Premiere Elements works with all popular media formats (including HD video) and features a bunch of extra material (special effects, transitions, graphics and text, menus, titles and more) with which you can easily create awesome movies.

Moreover, Adobe Premiere Elements also features all the necessary tools to share your movies, either by burning them to DVD and Blu-ray, or by uploading them straight away to Facebook and YouTube.

Adobe Premiere Elements is the perfect way to get started with video editing and the powerful tools included in the original Premiere suite.

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With so much content out on the internet these days, many people are beginning to realize that they don't even need a cable subscription any more. While Free Online TV won't help you with getting local programming, it does provide tons of live video feeds from across the world.

Free Online TV actually requires you to install the VLC Media Player to watch anything. VLC opens up these URLs and begins streaming live. You'll want a decently quick connection to stream these channels, though none of them are in HD.

Using Free Online TV can be a headache. Many channels didn't load and gave vague error messages. There is also no easy way to browse the different channels. Every channel is presented in a list. Free Online TV could really use a graphical overhaul with large art for each channel, making browsing easier.

Overall, Free Online TV does what it sets out to do, which is provide tons of free internet streaming TV channels. Unfortunately, most of the channels don't work and its interface leaves much to be desired.

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Highlights of the program:

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* Smartly handles large media libraries - sorting them into easy-to-manage categories
* Advanced playlist rotation logic and scheduling will make your station sound professional - even if you are not in front of your computer
* Advanced streaming encoders - able to encode MP3, mp3PRO, WM9 and Ogg
* Support for all major streaming servers, including SHOUTcast, Live365, IceCast, Windows Media and P2P Streamer
* View statistics in real-time: know how many listeners are connected at any time
* Interfaces directly with your website to allow automated song requests and improve the experience of your listeners by providing them with Artist, Title, Album, Cover art and other information on songs being played
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RapidTyping Portable includes a series of simple exercises to get you started in the art of typing without having to be constantly looking at the keyboard. The program lets you train specific groups of letters that are located next to each other on the keyboard, and also shows you the right finger to use for each of them. At the end of the lesson you're presented with some colorful statistics that show information about your performance and improvement.

The interface in RapidTyping Portable is a bit weird, as it includes some background images and animations that can be quite distracting. Luckily you can disable both and use a plain, white background during your lessons.

Regarding lessons, the ones included in RapidTyping Portable are quite basic; they only cover groups of letters and don't include any real words or sentences. On the upside, you can easily create your own lessons, and put yourself to test with real custom texts. And of course, being a portable application, you can run RapidTyping Portable without leaving any trace on the computer – or even run it from a USB key.

With RapidTyping Portable you can easily improve your accuracy and speed at typing.

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As long as you have some degree of artistic talent, it's possible to give your digital photos a creative new look by applying effects to them. DreamLight Photo Editor is a program dedicated to helping you do just that, and adding special effects is as easy as opening a photo, then viewing the preview of an effect before selecting it to apply it to your image.

There are dozens of different filters to choose from in DreamLight Photo Editor and all are clearly divided into different categories. One of the best things about DreamLight Photo Editor is the fact that you can apply as many effects to the same image as you please, giving you the ability to get very creative (though, of course, it's easy to go overboard sometimes).

Annoyingly, the Undo feature in DreamLight Photo Editor only removes the last effect you applied, so we often found ouselves having to restart if the combination of filters we added didn't look right. Despite its name, DreamLight Photo Editor doesn't actually include any image editing tools, meaning that you'll still need to use an external graphics app to process any other changes after you've added the effects.

It's much easier to use than Photoshop, but if you have the Adobe app already then you certainly won't need DreamLight Photo Editor.

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What is Inspiration?

Graphic diagram editors are often quite complicated to use, mainly because they include so many tools and customizing options that you can't help feeling lost. Luckily enough, Inspiration goes beyond these first difficult steps and offers users an easy-to-use, yet very complete diagram tool.

Inspiration is an app that can be used by a wide variety of people. We can see it being of use to students, who might make diagrams as a study aid, professionals, who might use it to plan out new structures or business plans, and even everyday people who simply want to transfer an idea to a solid plan in a more ordered, practical way.

How does it work?

Using Inspiration is very easy. Start with your main concept and drill down from there. The great thing about this app is that you can add images, music, text and more to really make the diagrams complete, and, of course, they are completely modifiable, in case you find that your plans change, or work better in a different order.

The Inspiration interface is very easy to use, and a few moments playing around with it should let you get the gist very quickly. Even so, Inspiration offers a huge variety of templates, help documents and even videos designed to let you get the most out of it, while the floating Symbols bar makes the job even faster.

The only downsides to Inspiration is that, despite support for simultaneous documents, there's no handy way to move between them. Maybe a tab bar would fix this. Secondly, it's not the slickest application on the block - even on Windows 7, Inspiration looks like something from the last decade. While that has little impact on functionality, it will put some users off.

Inspiration is a highly usable and handy idea-mapping application that everyone can use. It's just a pity it's not a little more modern.

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Photo Art Studio features a pretty, customizable user interface, easy to get along with. The program is easy and comfortable to operate, and its capabilities exceed your expectations! After just a few minutes, you will master the art of professional decoration of photos of any kind.

Photo Art Studio is an ideal solution for home users. The built-in help system and the online tutorial will help you turn your pictures into true masterpieces.

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In the old days one of the main concerns for photographers was coarse, grainy film images. Today's digital photos, on the other hand, are largely often foiled by 'noise' caused by pixellation, which adversely affects the clarity of the image.

As a result, many noise reduction tools have sprouted up, such as AKVIS Noise Buster. The program analyzes photos and corrects the offending pixels without strongly impairing the picture.

AKVIS Noise Buster gives you the ability to correct photos automatically or tweak the individual parameters manually via several sliding controls for both color and brightness noise. Thanks to real-time previews you can instantly gauge the effect the changes will have. AKVIS Noise Buster's blend of automatic and manual tools means that AKVIS Noise Buster is great for both amateur photography hobbyists and those who are more well versed in the art of photo manipulation.

Unfortunately, without any other features the program is a little barren. It does its job well but doesn't add anything extra in terms of photo editing.

AKVIS Noise Buster is an easy-to-use tool that'll help reduce the level of noise in your digital photos no matter what your experience level happens to be.

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If you want to display your drawings online, you have two options: either scan hard copies of your drawings or draw them directly on your computer. TwistedBrush Pro Studio lets you do the latter in impressive fashion once you learn how to use it.

If you're envisioning designing sharp looking graphics for a new website, turn back now. TwistedBrush Pro Studio and its free version TwistedBrush Open Studio has not been developed to create clean crisp graphics. It will frustrate you unless you use it for what it was designed for, which is drawing and art. As a result, one of the best and most effective ways to use TwistedBrush Pro Studio is with a pen and a drawing tablet.

When TwistedBrush Pro Studio starts, a quick-start guide designed to gently introduce you to the features will pop up. While this has the potential to be useful, some users might be frustrated that the guide is largely made up of screenshots with information bubbles. If you have difficulty understanding a concept, there're no links to click on to obtain further information.

Thankfully, TwistedBrush Pro Studio is relatively easy to navigate through. A lot of effort was put into making it a realistic substitute for actual painting, and when you start working with the various brushes you'll immediately see that they interact well with the colors to create a convincing portrait. Undoubtedly TwistedBrush Pro Studio's greatest strength is the vast selection of brush types and styles that are available to use. From simple fine pens, to wet oil brushes and progressive 3D designs, users have a lot to choose from in TwistedBrush Pro Studio. The beauty of each brush is that it can be used quickly and easily, with stunning results.

Users will also find support for all the major image file formats in TwistedBrush Pro Studio, including TIFF, PSD, JPG, GIF, and PNG. Unfortunately, it seems TwistedBrush Pro Studio doesn't have a select tool. After using Adobe Photoshop for so long, many users will view this as key tool in any imaging software. Alternatively it could be the very omission of the select tool that sets TwistedBrush Pro Studio apart, with the production process being more of an evolution than a construction.

TwistedBrush Pro Studio is a quality painting and drawing tool that works best for users who have a drawing tablet handy.

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if you've ever thought about building your own PC from scratch then one thing you'll have to get familiar with is circuitry design?

DipTrace is a professional tool that's not exactly easy for those that have not got much electronic know how but it does produce stunning results. DipTrace allows you to import projects and libraries such as LT Spice, CAD, Accel, Allegro, Mentor, Protel among many others so professionals will find this a really useful complementary tool to their existing toolbox. Creating projects is simple - it just requires dragging and dropping of all the components you need into the work area and then you subsequently make connections between pins to create your own circuit. If you're not sure whether your circuit will work, there is a useful validator which checks whether what you've built will actually work in the real world. If you have gone wrong, DipTrace can suggest how it can be fixed or even automatically shift components into the right position which is where this program excels where others fail.

A professional PCB design program that is not for the faint hearted but will be a delight for professional designers and electronic engineers.

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But it doesn't stop there and gives you an additional value by providing a screen capture mechanism that will allow you to capture entire screens, windows and controls and you will have an option to just place them on the clipboard or save to a.

BMP or. PNG file. There is also a zoom function that will show any part of the screen from 1:1 to 11:1 ratio. Major features include: - Pick up the color value from anywhere on the screen - Sample area to see how the color works with other colors - Zoom any area of the screen up to 11 times the original - Capture any window or control - Save to clipboard,.

bmp files - Instant capture from the taskbar - Very easy to use

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