Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 review: Extending video editing beyond the desktop Last year, as I was sprinting down the street trying to stay ahead of six angry bulls in Pamplona, Spain, I held my phone behind me to capture some video of the experience, all the while thinking, how am I going to color-correct this video? Okay, so I didn’t run with the bulls—I was busy climbing Mt. Everest at the time—but if I had, I could have used two iOS applications, Adobe Premiere Clip and Adobe Hue CC, which attempt to expand video editing beyond the desktop.
Review: Adobe Acrobat Pro DC's electronic signatures are its killer app With the new Acrobat DC, Adobe offers a killer app that could lure at least some users back from cheaper PDF editors: electronic signatures. Signatures are an essential part of business, and one that’s now made much easier with the new Document Cloud service you can get on subscription with Acrobat. No other competing PDF utility has anything like it.
Premiere Pro CC 2014 review: New features allow video editors to do more If you’ve been caught in an embarrassing situation by the local 6 o’clock news crew, then you’ll appreciate that professional video editors often must protect the innocent by obscuring people’s faces in broadcasts, and in some cases, they may need to avoid trademark infringement by blurring company or product logos. A new feature in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 can make that a much less tedious task.
Dreamweaver CC 2014 review: Web design and development tool gets even more visual With the latest version of Dreamweaver, Adobe adds even more visual aids—so many that it might be possible to produce Web content without even looking at the application’s code view. But it’s not FrontPage 98 or PageMill 2.0, by a long shot—Dreamweaver CC 2014 is so deep and so complex that you’ll spend as much time learning the application as you do building your pages.
Review: Adobe Premiere Pro CC moves to the cloud Premiere Pro CC, the newest version of Adobe’s pro-level video-editing application, gets a slew of modest tweaks as it migrates to the cloud along with its fellow Creative Cloud suite mates. It’s not a ground-up overhaul, and it doesn't incorporate hot new technologies. But these tweaks indicate that Premiere Pro has taken on some of the characteristics of a cloud application, adding features as they are developed, rather than making customers wait for monolithic annual releases.
Review: Adobe Dreamweaver CC makes CSS more visual, less coder-friendly With the amazing leaps in Web design over the past couple of years, sites can fall out of style quickly. How do you keep up with the technology, and how do you keep your websites looking fresh and interesting? Adobe’s Dreamweaver CC provides tools that can help you do both, but some people may feel that it distances design from code more than previous versions did.
Privacy in Peril I know your name. I know where you live, and everywhere you've ever lived. I know when and where you were born. I know how many credit cards you have--and how good you are about paying them off. And I know all about your insurance claims, your work history, and whether you have a criminal record. (2006 ASBPE Gold award winner)
The Future of the Web
The Web's most common method of interaction is the tried-and-true link: "Click here and we'll show you a different page." But the future of online will be fast, two-way communication, the roots of which are beginning to take hold. New technologies will soon give us speedy, uninterrupted access to the Web wherever we wander.
Readers Report: The Products You Miss Most
I don't miss too many technology products or services. In fact, I was--or in some cases, will be--glad to see many of them go. See you in hell, Windows 95! What's your hurry, here's your hat, America Online! Die, Microsoft Access! But we all have a few rosy recollections of great old products of the past.
Are Extended Warranties Worth It? When I buy something, I want it to last. But if it fails prematurely, I want the company I bought it from to replace or fix it. Unfortunately, that's not always the way things work. With standard warranties dwindling, you need to decide whether to pay for coverage you used to get for free. Our survey of 2000 readers reveals some suprising data about extended plans.
Celebrity Gift Guide Lindsay Lohan has been in more scrapes with the law than a curb in front of a doughnut shop. Her alcohol- and cocaine-fueled driving mishaps are legendary, even by Hollywood standards. So tarnished has her reputation become that, when she offered her services to the Obama for President campaign, she was rudely rebuffed. What do you get a gal like that?
Broadband Abroad: Internet Connectivity Outside the United States Nearly 60 publications in countries ranging from Australia and Bangladesh to Venezuela and Vietnam either carry the PC World name or are associated with us in some way. So we asked editors at several of them to tell us how their readers get online. Not surprisingly, our colleagues report that many countries are substantially ahead of the United States in many respects. PC World reports.
Hot New TVs for the Fall
Along the same lines, Scott Ramirez, Toshiba vice president of group marketing for TVs, spoke at length at Toshiba's press conference about profit margins, and the fact that Toshiba sets would gain retailers more money than they would from manufacturers like Westinghouse. And JVC reps made a point of saying that it would not permit online sales of at least some of its products. All of that seems like something of a losing battle.
Tech Trend: Windows Hungers for RAM Everyone knows that PCs sold today have more RAM than they did in the olden days. The question is, why?
Big Drive Backup You press one button to pop popcorn in the microwave. You press one button to close your garage door. You press one button to start up your PC, and you press one button to sync your PDA with your PC. One button is easy to understand; one button, you can remember how it works.