Product Spotlight
TechRepublic puts its unique stamp on the traditional product review to make it more useful for technology decision makers. Each review concisely evaluates the product from a business perspective and
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Review: Lenovo IdeaPad U260
The Lenovo IdeaPad U260 is a lightweight, durable, and attractive laptop and is excellent for business professionals who don't wish to lug around a heavy laptop, yet still desire solid performance.
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Review: Protected Folder from IObit
Justin James reviews Protected Folder, which allows you to make portions of your file system completely invisible and inaccessible to others.
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Product Spotlight: Backup application review roundup
Over the past several months, TechRepublic has reviewed several backup applications, but which backup solution do you use and recommend?
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Review: AceProject cloud-based project management
AceProject is a web-based project management suite of applications that provides the framework for better planning, regardless of your operation's size.
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Review: Product Spotlight on up.time 5 IT Systems Management
If your business and your IT department continue to grow, you will likely need to consolidate your system management into a cohesive application suite.
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Review: Carbonite offsite data backup and recovery
Carbonite is a good option for PCs in homes or small offices that lack central management or storage. Justin James explains in this Product Spotlight.
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Review: Samsung Galaxy Tab
After testing three different versions of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, I found some pleasant surprises and one big drawback.
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Review: RAMOS MID W9 Android Tablet
Can an inexpensive Android tablet direct from Asia make the grade as a portable business device in the United States? Mark Kaelin finds out with this review of the RAMOS MID W9.
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Review: Ashampoo Magical Security 2 for easy encryption
Ashampoo Magical Security 2 is a tool that enables you to encrypt/decrypt files and folders either from a simple to use window or from within Windows Explorer.
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Review: Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility
With the Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility, system administrators can consolidate their toolkit on to one disc or flash drive, increasing productivity and reducing headaches.
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Review: Windows Se7en File Replacer 1.5.4
There are instances when a Windows system file must be replaced and some times that means using a third-party app like Windows Se7en File Replacer.
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Review: Boxer Text Editor
Boxer Text Editor is a serious tool for serious users. If you are a coder looking for a text editor that will make your coding life much easier, Boxer may be the tool for you.
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Review: Joliprint PDF converter bookmarklet
With Joliprint, users can convert a Web page into a PDF on the fly without leaving their Web browser.
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Review: Ragic cloud collaboration tool
Ragic allows non-programmer users to bring the ease-of-use of a spreadsheet to an online application development collaboration.
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Review: WinDirStat disk usage cleanup tool
WinDirStat reads the entire directory tree of your Windows machine and reports back exactly what it is that is taking up that space on your drive.
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Review: Achievo resource management tool
Achievo is a resource management tool for any size SMB who wants to focus on using their tools, not administrating their tools.
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Review: OWC USB 2.0 Display Adapter
Some small form factor computers do not have external display connections, but with the OWC USB 2.0 Display Adapter that does not matter.
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Review: Wireshark network analyzer
Wireshark is an open source network monitoring and analysis tool that can also read captured information from applications like Snoop, Sniffer, and Microsoft Network Monitor.
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Review: Active ISO Burner 2.0
Sometimes a task is best accomplished by an application that is designed solely for that purpose. For the simple task of burning an ISO image to optical media, there are few applications as simple to use as Active ISO Burner 2.0.
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Review: Ironkey encrypted flash drive
With an increasingly mobile workforce, keeping sensitive data safe and secure is becoming an evermore pressing priority. For many, the most efficient way to secure data is with encryption. That is where the Ironkey encrypted flash drive comes into play.
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Review: Paragon Partition Manager 10 Professional
IT professionals who support desktop computers will appreciate the functionality in Paragon Partition Manager Professional.
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Review: Quickbase online data management
Quickbase is an online database designed for any team or enterprise looking to seriously improve their work flow or the management of their data.
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Review: Evernote knowledge management application
Evernote is a knowledge management application targeted at people who need to wrangle large amounts of unrelated or loosely related information.
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Review: Quickbooks Point of Sale
Quickbooks POS makes simple the overly complex problem of tracking and quantifying the numerous aspects of running and managing a business.
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Review: OrangeHRM human resource management tool
Orange HRM is a resource management tool for any SMB or enterprise looking for a cost-effective tool to manage a large number of human resource tasks.
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Review: Microsoft Expression Web 3 HTML editor
The target audience for Expression Web is graphics artists, Web designers, and other professionals who work with Web pages at the code level, but are not going to be writing server side code.
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Review: IBE Software's HelpNDoc documentation tool
Creating both an online Help system and printed documentation from a single source, then you should consider the HelpNDoc Help Authoring environment.
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Review: Foxit PDF Reader
Foxit PDF Reader is a no-frills PDF reader that is light-weight and extremely quick loading, perfect for desktops, laptops or even netbooks.
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Review: Wiresoft Firegate 100 Series firewall
Small businesses that require a unified threat management solution will find serious capacity packed inside the Firegate 100 Series firewall.
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Review: Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus application
Microsoft Security Essentials is the company's foray into the crowded antivirus scanning software market. Justin James reviews it for us.