Software And Application

If you do a lot of video or photo editing, the one thing you want to avoid when buying equipment is nasty surprises. A slow or badly equipped PC, laptop or tablet will be a drag on your creative process. Meanwhile, a subpar monitor or laptop display could yield videos that look shockingly different than what you saw during production. And you may miss a deadline if your machine can't render the final product quickly enough. This doesn't just apply to PCs. Adobe is planning a full version of Photoshop for the iPad, and it's developing an all-in-one video tool, Project Rush, that will work across platforms. Whichever app you choose, it's crucial to do some hardware research to ensure that your equipment will work with the app rather than against it. Luckily, we've already done a good chunk of the homework for you. Here's how to pick gear for photo and video creation, whether you've got $500 or $5,000. The demands of photo and video editing After inst...

YouTube is one of the most visited platforms worldwide. The platform receives millions of visits each day. Therefore, creating content has become easier than ever, especially due to several amazing intro maker apps. However, despite the presence of these applications, there are several things one must keep in mind before beginning to create videos for the audience. On top is the need for perfect tools that offer appropriate introductions to your videos, known as intros. Content creators can check out several inexpensive tools that are definitely worth all the hype. An intro maker is highly beneficial in the world of content creation. This article aims to walk readers through the eight best intro maker apps for iPhones and Androids. Best Applications for Android: Intro Maker – Outro Maker – Video Ad Creator With Intro Maker – Outro Maker, users can create video intros in minutes. The app is highly user-friendly and features a wide collection of customizable templates. ...

Whether you're a small business owner running your entire operation from home, or a student who needs to turn in the best research papers possible, you need to have Microsoft Office on your workstation. It has a variety of applications and services that are crucial to your productivity. However, a full subscription to Microsoft Office tends to be quite pricey, which is why we needed to tell you about one of the best Microsoft Office deals we've seen in a while. Right now, you can get a 12-month subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Personal on Amazon for only $42, which is $28 off of the original price of $70. This deal could end at any moment, so we recommend clicking on that "Buy Now" link as soon as you can. Microsoft Office is the most comprehensive and widely used office application suite around, and the cloud-based subscription model of Office 365 contains all the most essential programs for school, work, or your business. You'll get access to powerful to...

Ransomware is everywhere these days, striking fear into the hearts of IT and business managers alike. And studies support that perception, showing ransomware growing in both prevalence and effectiveness. Recent research by Positive Technologies looked at the cyber threat landscape during Q2 2021 and found that ransomware attacks reached "stratospheric" levels, accounting for 69% of all malware attacks, a huge jump from 39% in Q2 2020. Attacks against corporate assets like servers and network equipment are growing. QNAP network drives, used to aggregate large amounts of data from companies and individuals, faced a growing number of attacks. Email was the main method of spreading malware in organizations (58%), followed by compromise of computers, servers and network equipment (33%). All this adds up to bad news for IT teams in just about every vertical. Employee training, patching and multiple layers of defense remain critically important. But more and more, organization...

Square's popular free invoicing software is becoming the company's next big subscription service. The company is poised to announce a paid subscription offering called Invoices Plus, which will offer sellers a set of advanced features, including some that had previously been available with the free service. The service itself had been quietly introduced to individual sellers, but has not yet been publicly announced. Some sellers who were already using Square Invoices were recently alerted to the upcoming changes via email. In the announcement shared with some sellers (the details of which can also be viewed here on a Square Seller Community forum), the new subscription will include a series of features that were released in the past year as part of a limited trial. This includes multi-package estimates, custom invoice templates and custom invoice fields. These will now become a part of Invoices Plus, as will two other features: the ability to automatically convert accep...

Software applications are interconnected. Almost every piece of software we use takes the form of an app that has the potential to connect to other applications, data streams and functions as well as internal (in your PC or on your device) and external third-party IT services. This interconnected reality was less true prior to the millennium (remember when a web browser came on a DVD-ROM disk that you had to install?); that was a time when a PC did often stand comparatively alone, it's only 'connection' being to the company file server for saving and backup, or to access the occasional shared spreadsheet. But that was then and this is now… and now, cloud-native web-centric mobile-first software is massively connected to other entities, often via an Application Programming Interface (API). APIs have the ability to 'speak' to and 'glue' together application elements and services together. They are written to a required syntax and are implemented by what are kn...

For years Microsoft has been running its own storefront for Windows 8 and 10 for different apps and games, but you were always restricted to the small variety of software available, especially if you were using a device with S-Mode enabled. Luckily, that's changing a bit now.  Microsoft has announced that its opening its storefront in Windows 11 to more apps in a blog post today. And while right now that includes some super-useful apps like Discord and Zoom, it's also opening its doors to third-party store apps, which is huge.  Over the "next few months", both Epic Games and Amazon will be bringing their storefronts to the Microsoft Store, and a pretty big reason for that is probably that Microsoft isn't going to require these companies to share revenue. In that blog post, Microsoft states that "Microsoft Store on Windows no longer requires app developers to share revenue with Microsoft, when apps manage their own in-app payment systems...

If you're into streaming forbidden television from overseas using a VPN, but don't want to tether an HDMI cable from your PC to your TV, HMA (formerly known as HideMyAss!) may have a solution. The formerly naughty VPN service provider, now a respectable subsidiary of antivirus maker Avast, today (March 3) announced support for smart TV sets and over-the-top streaming boxes running Android TV.  You can install the Android app directly from Google Play and pay through the app, or go through the HMA website, pay there and then install the app. HMA isn't the first VPN provider to offer direct Android TV support. CyberGhost, ExpressVPN, NordVPN,  VyprVPN and a few others already do.  HMA costs $12 per month or $83.88 per year. There's a 7-day free trial, and if you really like it, you can sign up for a 3-year plans that costs $143.64. HMA says it has "over 1,000 servers in 290+ locations across 190 countries, the largest selection of server lo...

Why picking a good VPN can make your life better  Consumer Virtual Private Networks (VPN) have become increasingly important for people who want to stay safe online, whether it's for work, entertainment, or when passing through airports and cafes with free wifi.  There has been a boom in VPN adoption in recent years. While employees have been using VPN to securely tunnel into a corporate network for decades, Edward Snowden's 2013 NSA leaks made more people jittery about mass surveillance. Russia's and China's recent bans on VPNs show how contentious the technology has become for governments. A raft of national security laws, ...