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... and hopefully great alternatives ( e.g.  PhotoLine for photoshop,  Corel Draw & Serif Draw & Inkscape  for illustrator; there is an endless number of worthy acrobat alternatives ) will get more visibility.   

For what it is worth,
I have been extremely happy with two recent earphone purchases - these are not gaming headsets, though, and they are not for bass heads either.  Both sets are very balanced and neutral instead, and the sound is very satisfying already at lower volumes. The earphones I had before (Sennheiser, JVC, Audiotechnica) all started to sound really good only at elevated volumes.

The Nox Scout (http://www.nox-audio.com/Products/Scout-2) are balanced armature in ear phones which you can find as low as $25 currently.  This is a speaker technology usually found in much more expensive earphones and these are way better than my more expensive earphones, one of which is also a balanced armature design.  I am going to get a second set, just in case.

The Philips uptown over-the-ear headphones provide very efficient noise insulation and a wonderfully clear sound.  In addition, they are comfortable on my huge head - which happens very rarely.  In contrast to one reviewer the cable and volume control work just fine for me.  I got a "refurbished" unit for $50.
http://mp3.about.com/od/i...k-Headphones-Reviewed.htm
http://www.head-fi.org/pr...905bk-28-citiscape-uptown

Hi,
does any of these light Linuxes render fonts similarly to windows out of the box or with minimal fuss?
(are hinting and subpixel smoothing used and actually producing tolerable results?).  I would like to run Linx on a netbook, but so far I really have problems dealing with the (distracting) font rendering (Suse, Ubuntu).

Just one more very late opinion. If you are into sports photography or birding a DSLR is still required.  
If not, than DSLRs are outdated.  Mirrorless is the way to go.  Even there, the autofocus of the olympus and panasonic top models is almost, almost already equaling the phase detection based AF systems of DSLRs.
I would suggest to dump the annoying mirror, for usable autofocus in video, real live view, focus peaking, and much better portability, touchscreen UI, etc. There is no way I would want to go back to mirror flapping systems.  The sony alpha DSLT cameras (working with minolta and sony lenses; they have a non-moving mirror) is a great compromise, though for sports and birding like demands.
Sure, most people are still buying CaNikons DSLRs, because of the deeply ingrained image and their marketing big bucks - but innovation is happening elsewhere.  Please note that the mirrorless offerings from Canon and Nikon themselves are carefully designed so that they can't compete with DSLRs (thus they can't compete with the mirrorless systems from Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Fujifilm, or Samsung either).

I had good experiences with Paragon so far.  Their free stuff is good enough most of the time.  
Acronis "Nonstop Backup" feature was a total failure on my wife's PC - it turned out be "No Backup"; no working backup anyhow.

I have a hunch that you might have perhaps a little bit too much security software on your computer.  Just a hunch...
My opera browser has no problems with the websites mentioned (no such problems in general) and I very, very rarely encounter this redirection warning.

An interactive addressbar (aka navigable breadcrumbs) would be very appreciated in XYplorer
- the best breadcrumb implementation I remember is in  Ac Browser Plus (one can intuitively navigate through the entire file system).

While Don is around I will ask one of those questions all developers hate  

zip, rar support any closer? thanks

Last time I looked it was on the roadmap.

Oh, yeah - let's follow the shining example of aluminum apple then.

The Nexus 7 does not even support external memory through the USB port - which is not a matter of cost.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/...l-7inch-Tablets-656002/1/

I guess Google intentionally wants to force your data into "the cloud" - more specifically their cloud. The Nexus phones are also the only (?) android phones without mSD card ports.

Thanks!!!   this is a veryhelpful review.

CleverPrint  has a perhaps a few features less than the competition - but does everything I need it to do (and also does PDF and PNG conversion).

Hi,

Any comparisons of CleverPrint with PriPrinter and Fineprint ?

This is around $10 which is a good deal.
$10 more for 2 years of upgrades, probably worth it, if it is in the league of the other two.

Steven

[ClipMate]

I once purchased a Clipmate license about 7 years ago (maybe), but ended up de-installing it much sooner than expected because it slowed down my PC considerably.  I did test several newer versions and still had the same problem.

I'm another person who has tried several clip managers, but none I've tried has come close to ClipMate, which has been my favorite for more than (gasp) 15 years.  Unfortunately, ClipMate's developer seems to have disappeared from the forum and, perhaps, from working on the software as well.  So while I continue to use and value ClipMate, I'm now keeping my eyes open for an eventual replacement.  I took advantage of the BitsduJour offer for Clipstory, but I haven't (yet) installed it.  But belated thanks, erikts, for calling attention to the offer.

Glary also offers a free version:
http://www.glarysoft.com/...tilities/glary-utilities/

Thanks a lot for this maxi-review!!!
Very interesting - I am testing the software right now.

Idimager is in another league (a higher one) with regards to image organization.  You can create your own scripts for all possible management scenarios and you can download a lot of them from the forum.  That said, the learning curve is immense and the nomenclature used for the various categories of groups, tags, and database structures is not exactly intuitive. In my eyes it is really a tool for professionals (and perhaps micromanaging zealots).

I've tried this one...looks REALLY similar to acdsee pro.  What does it do that makes it unique or special?  I couldn't really tell.

Whatever file manager I would be using (currently "xplorer2"), for me the most important file management related tool is not a file manager but Listary - it makes navigating so much faster and easier after remembering two keyboard shortcuts (it works great with xplorer2).

yeah, Opera for me. Why not?

Try the Opera browser or NetTransport.

Comodo Dragon (like SRWare Iron but with automatic updates) and Opera.  I very much wish however all the TabMix plus options would be supported by those.

I do not have X5 (using X4 instead) but just wanted to point out that DrawPlus is indeed a fantastic piece of software for artistic drawings on a PC.  It can render fantastic vector art, that does not look like typical vector art.
Sometimes I finding searching for some small features that I am used from Corel Draw and cannot find an equivalent in DrawPlus.  It is not as feature complete as CorelDraw, but for me a lot faster andit has these cool painting-like tools.

BTW, this sale is still on TODAY.

Color? Yes!
Size? No.

http://www.theverge.com/2...-e-paper-display-on-video

I guess this is old news, but the android version looks  quite interesting.

http://softmaker.com/english/blog/?p=194
http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofatmcomp_en.htm

Hi Curt,

Photoline is more like photoshop (but can also do some drawing and some desktop publishing).  The 64bit version will certainly handle your filesizes (I have not used the 32 bit version for more than a year or two). I have read here on DC that Xara 5 is available for free at the moment - the Xara people often claim that their product is unbeaten in handling large bitmaps.

Hi Curt,

it seems your looking for a solution that creates your collages automatically?  If so, my suggestions likely won't help.

For laying out your pictures manually: Any image editor capable of using layers should do the trick. Photoline (my favorite) certainly does and the free Gimp, Paint.Net, and RealWorld Paint (introduced on DC) should do too.
Perhaps a bit easier to use are actually drawing applications for this purpose (no need to dig into layers); the free Inkscape and DrawPLus SE should do this very nicely.

... just two days ago I discovered the fantastic "batch replace" tool in EMeditor - it saved my a##.  Dedicated one-trick tools for this do cost more than this fully featured editor.