Software

Giveaway: $2,000 Worth of Software!

by Jeff Weisbein December 16, 2011

I have a great holiday giveaway to share with everyone! BestTechie has teamed up with discount software website BitsduJour.com to giveaway $2,000 worth of professional graphics software from SmithMicro, the makers of software titles such as Poser, Manga Studio, and Anime Studio. It’s super easy to enter and if you enter during the special BestTechie [...]

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RockMelt Review: One Year Later

by Jeff Weisbein November 1, 2011

A review of the social browser RockMelt and look at how it’s doing one year after its release to the public.

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How To: Customize the Mac OS X Menu Bar

by Jeff Weisbein September 25, 2011

Have you ever wanted to customize your Mac OS X menu bar? Tired of the transparent white menu bar at the top of your screen? Perhaps you want a sleek black menu bar. Well, good news. Now you can have one. MenuBarFilter is an extremely lightweight app with only one purpose. It changes the color [...]

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Windows 8 Will Impact Microsoft’s Presence Even Outside of the Desktop

by Mike Mansell September 23, 2011

Considering Microsoft’s on-off history with releasing successful operating systems it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Microsoft’s success with the Windows platform from here on out (in a world where Apple is thriving and consumer-focused Linux distributions are popping up like advertisements for Internet Explorer users) rests on their ability to make another [...]

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Windows 8 to Run Windows Phone Applications

by Mike Mansell September 8, 2011

Anyone who remotely follows Microsoft’s release cycle of the Windows operating system has likely noticed the somewhat obvious fact that Microsoft’s success with each release is spotty at best. Sure, Windows 7 has been on the market for a while now and has achieved a pretty outstanding adoption rate and has earned a killer reputation [...]

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WebOS For Sale Again?

by Mike Mansell August 31, 2011

Boy, the mobile industry sure has been interesting lately. In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen HP essentially give up and walk away from their entire mobile operation, discontinuing the development of WebOS and slashing what may very well have been a promising future in the mobile industry.

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Microsoft Implements Ribbon UI in Windows 8 Explorer

by Mike Mansell August 30, 2011

There’s no denying the fact that Microsoft has been walking on egg shells a bit in the last couple of years after having publicly humiliated itself with the failure of Windows Vista (something that many people still refer to even to this day) and the less than admirable reputation that many of the company’s other offerings [...]

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Why I Avoid the Mac App Store

by Mike Mansell August 29, 2011

When I first heard that Apple was working to put out an “App Store” for Mac OS X following the incredible success that the company had with a venture of the same name and stature on the iOS platform I was initially very excited. Such an organized system for buying, downloading, and updating software seemed [...]

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Open Source: Constructive or Harmful to Competition?

by Mike Mansell August 24, 2011

When we look at the success of businesses and projects – both from the standpoint of those with interest in a business and the consumers that buy and use their products – competition is one of the most important components in any market. Working in retail, competition is what forces me to offer my prospective [...]

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Here’s Why HP Is Moving Into the Software Business

by Jeff Weisbein August 19, 2011

It’s clear to us that HP is looking to focus on the software industry now and while many sites and blogs have been attempting to dissect the actual words HP used in its announcement that were discontinuing the TouchPad, WebOS devices, and planning to spin-off its PC business, I’ve thinking about what they didn’t say. It all starts [...]

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