Stories by Jon L. Jacobi

Cyberlink PowerDirector 7

Interfaces don't much get better looking than Cyberlink PowerDirector 7, nor do they get easier to use.

File recovery programs come in many different flavours. They run the gamut from simple undelete programs that work only under optimal circumstances within Windows up to heavy-duty sector-by-sector scanners that can piece back together files sans file...

Miraplacid publisher converts PDFs every which way

Miraplacid Publisher is a PDF printer driver with a twist.

Watch YouTube Videos Offline With Ask & Record Toolbar

If you get tired of steering to YouTube every time you want to see the look on Simon Cowell's face when Susan Boyle starts singing, you need a way to save those videos locally. If you're an Internet Explorer user, that way would be the free <a href="...

VisiTrax Lite

If you're a DJ or music aficionado with a large collection of CDs and/or LPs, you know that keeping track of them can be a chore. VisiTrax Lite is a free librarian that helps you catalogue your tunes (automatically for CDs by looking them up in an on...

Acronis True Image Home 2009

Acronis has finally done something about the ode-to-redundancy interface that’s been the fly in the otherwise excellent True Image ointment. It took about 4 iterations, but now the number one imaging program on the planet is actually easy enough to u...

MP3Producer

MP3Producer is an app that rips CDs to create MP3 files.

WinAVI Video Converter

WinAVI Video Converter is a nice little video conversion utility that creates VCDs, SVCDs and DVDs.

DriveClone Pro

DriveClone Pro offers both imaging and file backup, incremental backup, and a hidden automatic restore partition.

EverNote Plus

EverNote Plus puts your text, images, videos, and other data in order, and converts handwriting well.

CDRoller

The makers of CDRoller claim it can recover data from any type of UDF/ISO9660/FAT32 disc that can be written: CD, DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray.

Sony ACID Pro 7

Sony ACID Pro 7 is a powerful pro-level DAW (digital audio workstation) package for music creation.

FL Studio 8

You've got to love a software company that would actually name a program Fruity Loops. It's now been renamed called FL Studio to rein in the more staid customers, as well as reflect the program's move from a strictly loop-based (arranging looped samp...

Bullzip

Bullzip is an excellent free PDF printer tool

Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker

There are number of good CD/DVD label designers on the market, but Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker is a cut above in terms of flexibility, learning curve, and ease of use.