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Stardock Start8 vs. Classic Shell

Posted 03/12/2013 at 2:13pm | by Josh Norem

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Stardock Start8 vs. Classic Shell

Most power users would be perfectly willing to upgrade to Windows 8 if it weren’t for two things—the tile-based “Metro” interface and the missing Start button. While Metro is like a rash in that you eventually get used to it, we can’t imagine getting used to the lack of a Start button. It’s too bad Microsoft didn’t give us the option of using both features, but fortunately, two third-party utilities do. If you want the speed of Windows 8 and your old buddy the Start menu, one of these utilities belongs on your system. Let’s find out which one.

Note: This head-to-head feature appeared in the Holiday 2012 issue of the magazine.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.0 Review

Posted 01/16/2013 at 2:30pm | by Gavin Farrington

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The premier asset manager

Adobe’s Lightroom has never been an easy application to explain to the uninitiated, but we’ll give it a shot. Lightroom 4 is, at its core, two things: a DAM (digital asset manager) and a raw-file developer. Sure, it also comes with new or updated modules for mapping and creating books, slide shows, and the like, but the key features are its Library and Develop modules.

Lightroom 4.0 allows you to bulk-edit images quickly so you don’t have to sit in one photo for hours.

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