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If you snap tons of photos on your smartphone, you need a full-strength photo editor. With a price tag of $1.79, you would think Photoshop Effects-Photo Editor would do all the editing you need and more. Instead, this app offers some of the most common filters and limited cropping features instead of real Photoshop effects.

By cashing in on the name of the popular desktop photo editor, Photoshop Effects-Photo Editor makes you think you're paying for quality. Instead, you're getting a simple filtering app that adds effects that would have been cool 15 years ago. Now, they … Read more

As a pain-in-the-cache, searching archived e-mail messages has nothing on Skype's chat history and call logs. Scand's SkyHistory is a free Windows program that lets you view, manage, search, and save your Skype chat and call logs independent of your Skype client and settings. SkyHistory collects and stores all of your Skype data in a single database on your system's hard drive, ideally with a portable USB drive as backup. Its advanced searching, filtering, and bookmarking capabilities let you exclude senders whose messages you don't want to save (like spammers) and search for single messages or … Read more

This program converts a variety of file formats to PDF files. We hit a few bumps at the beginning, but ultimately, it proved to be a valuable file conversion tool.

When we first installed 1-2-3 All to PDF, we encountered a few error messages. Luckily, we were able to bypass them and move on to the main interface, which can be accessed by right-clicking on the file you wish to convert. The program can also be accessed through your Print interface. Once activated, the user interface is fairly straightforward. All we had to do was select the location to save … Read more

If an encryption program does its job, you're left with a feeling that your private information is safe and secure. After putting LockPhix to the test, we were left feeling apprehensive about our PC's security.

At first glance, the user interface seemed simple and to the point, a definite plus in our book. But it turned out that with LockPhix, looks are deceiving and we had problems from the get-go. First, the program's limited browsing capabilities prevented us from finding the file we wanted to encrypt. Also, the password manager's empty fields aren't immediately intuitive, … Read more

It may not be the glossiest Twitter app for iPhone and iPod Touch, but it is among the fastest and easiest to use. You'll be able to post and refresh the screen from each of the four tabs. Your friends' timeline is the logical default, followed by replies, direct messages, and a search screen that can also show you public tweets from people nearby.

Composing messages is especially cool. After pressing the word balloon, you can begin tapping the keyboard or can press one of three buttons to geotag your tweet, take or upload a photo, and select a … Read more

IBM has released a patch for highly critical security flaws in its Lotus Notes, following the discovery of vulnerabilities in a third-party software component used in Lotus 1-2-3.

Users who open a malicious file attachment can trigger a buffer overflow, as Lotus 1-2-3 tries to process the Lotus Worksheet file format. The vulnerabilities could allow a malicious attacker to take control of a user's system remotely and execute arbitrary code, according to Core Security Technologies, which issued a security advisory on Tuesday.

"Although these specific vulnerabilities exist on a third-party component, the problem is compounded by the way … Read more