Yearly Archives: 2012
Snagit 11
Sooner or later, almost everyone needs screen captures—images of all or part of a computer screen—to use in presentations or Web pages or printed documents, and writers for PCMag.com typically make hundreds of screen shots a year. Our favorite screen capture, for a very long time, has been SnagIt, which combines traditional image-capture with video-capture…
Canon Pixma MG6320 Wireless Photo All-in-One Printer
The Canon Pixma MG6320 Wireless Photo All-in-One Printer is a handsome and well designed multifunction printer (MFP) primarily for home use. It’s a joy to use, and it prints very good text; otherwise its output quality is solid if unspectacular. It is relatively slow, which may not be an issue if your printing demands are…
BenQ VW2430H
With its soft white finish and slightly rounded corners the BenQ VW2430H looks like it came straight out of Cupertino. That’s not a coincidence; BenQ touts this 24-inch monitor as a MacBook companion, as well as a Windows multimedia display. It uses a Vertical Alignment (VA) panel to deliver a high native contrast ratio, bold…
Western Digital My Book Studio (4TB)
Aimed at the Mac user, the Western Digital My Book Studio (4TB) ($259.99 list) is a metal-clad external hard drive. Its matte silver chassis matches the aluminum case of your new iMac, Mac mini, or MacBook Pro, and its USB 3.0 connection means that it’s speedy for new Macs, while remaining compatible with older Macs…
LaCie Porsche Design P’9223 Slim
The LaCie Porsche Design P’9223 Slim ($149 list) is a sleekly designed external solid-state drive (SSD), and it’s quite speedy while transferring data to your slim laptop or ultrabook. If you bought your laptop for portability, as well as making a design statement, this is the drive to consider. It’s pricey on a dollar per…
Kashoo online accounting service
First things first. Online accounting service Kashoo was named after some noodling-around with the phrase, “making your nut.” After considering various varieties of nuts, the founders settled on Kashoo because of the first syllable in “cashew.” Kashoo is available as an app for the iPad, the only site the group we looked at in late…
Victorinox Swiss Army 16GB Jetsetter Flash Drive
The Victorinox Swiss Army 16GB Jetsetter Flash Drive ($49.99 list) is a multi-tool that happens to have a 16GB USB flash drive as one of its implements. You really should be buying this drive for its tools first, and as a USB drive second. While completely usable and both Windows and Mac compatible, the Jetsetter…
JBL OnBeat Micro speaker with Lightning connector
The JBL OnBeat Micro is a small speaker designed to take up very little surface space on your bedside table or kitchen counter. Beyond that, it’s the first speaker dock we’ve tested to feature the new Apple Lightning connector, compatible with the latest iOS devices. At $99.95 (direct), it’s unrealistic to expect much in the…
Less Accounting
Like Outright, Less Accounting was launched because its founders were working on other applications and weren’t happy with the options available for small business financial management. They thought that QuickBooks was just too much of everything for many small businesses. They also believed there was room in the market for a simpler online accounting service that…
Google+ Mobile App (for iPhone)
If I chose which social networks I used based on the mobile app experience alone, I’d be all over Google+. And indeed, since rediscovering the app in its latest release, I have been much more active, with the help of my trusty iPhone. Posting updates, sharing links to interesting content, and browsing the wild array…