Best Home & Hobbies
Consider Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC to get the latest updates, and ensure that the software works with raw files from the newest cameras.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Like several other one-star reviewers I could not find the serial number to install the software, even after over an hour of browsing the Adobe www site and going in circles that always led to having me look on the box or the DVD sleeve."
"There are four new features that are intended to convince version 5 users to upgrade: -Better performance. -Facial recognition. -Panorama merge. -HDR merge. I suspect what people care most about are Panorama and HDR. Here's the good news about these features: The output file for both the HDR and Panorama merge is Adobe DNG (RAW) so you can continue to modify the photo as a RAW film in Lightroom. Every program I've used for HDR and Panorama can only output a JPEG or TIFF even when they can accept a RAW files as an input (and of course, it's a major pain to have to convert your RAW files to TIFF or JPEG for programs that cannot accept RAW). Despite the lack of controls for HDR and Panoramic merge, there's a huge plus to having these features built into Lightroom and having the output file kept in RAW. But if you want the ability to control the process than the upgrade may not be worth it for you at this time (especially if you want that surreal look to your HDR images)."
"I was on the verge of purchasing the Lightroom 6 standalone product when I discovered the following: Adobe is in the process of moving its products to a subscription-only based business model."
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Kindle for PC reading app gives users the ability to read Kindle books on an easy-to-use interface. Buy once, read everywhere.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Each of them were going on and on about how they can travel anyplace and have a ton of books on their Kindle, with none of the bulk or weight of traditional books. Typcially, I don’t have to think about loading any particular book, since I randomly download a ton of books on any topic, to have at the push of a button. Given the quality of the majority books I have used, there are times I spring for the cost of owning a book. Kindle book reviews are a real help to me, pointing out books I can consider and for the most part, the majority of Kindle books have had good formatting, and other e-book features I look for. In a world of constant complaints, isn't nice to know Amazon gives you a world of books to read, or have on hand at the click of a button, and many of them for free?"
"I am very happy that the Kindle app is available on smartphones, tablets, PCs, and other devices. The Kindle app is free, so there is no excuse my reader friends."
"After months of forced coupling with the Zikri and evading both Zikri and Human NAVO forces they crash land on a primitive but hostile planet where Miko escapes Audra by slashing their bio conection violently. Miko is trying to evade a vicious pack type creature hunting him when he stumbles into the remains of an alien ship that reveals itself to be a slaughterhouse torture chamber and as the pack creatures close in on Miko suddenly Audra is there dispatching them brutally while Miko escapes to a room where there is a glowing 3 sided apparatus in desperation. On board the immense Locust ship Miko releases a fellow human named Fenli who has been slowly having his life force sucked out of him literally in the Locust feeding tank for the last four years. Fenli turns out to be more than a bit of a con man and during their escape sees a very valuable item trapped in a tank which he convinces Miko to help him get aboard a ship they are commandeering from the Locust mother ship."
"With hundreds of millions of PC users, you'd think Amazon would care enough to create - BARE MINIMUM - a competent app. I just know in the future to buy my content (movies, music, video games, books) from a company that actually cares about me."
Organize, perfect, and share - Lightroom combines all your digital photography essentials in one fast, intuitive application.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It is my go-to program for importing / editing / storing photos both from my Canon DSLR and my family's smartphones. Looking at updates to the *previous* Lightroom 5, there were bug fixes of course, but Lightroom also gained the following functions: - Lightroom 5.2: added Feather control for the Clone/Heal brush, added Smoothness adjustment slider for Color Noise Reduction. However, this flies in the face of real world examples from the small (Angry Birds supplying many new levels for the initial 99 cent purchase) to the quite large (Microsoft giving all Windows 7 and Windows 8 users a free copy of Windows 10)."
"Lone wolf that exists outside the Creative Cloud subscription scheme."
"Well, Adobe is generally recognized as the leader here, and this is a very good product, but even though this is touted as a "workflow" product integrated with RAW edit/processing, I don't like their forced workflow--it does not seem to allow me to fit it to my manner of working, which I find annoying."
"Now that I've delved more into the editing capabilities, I'm very happy with my final image outputs and am really pleased with how well LR fixes both spots and various detractors, such as a piece of fishing line stuck on a wood duck's green head."
"That particular tool is not in this version."
"I need a serial number, which I don't have, because I was not given the option to register product with Adobe. January 12, 2016: I'm updating this review because the problem has been resolved. I have to give credit to the Adobe customer support person (Jeff T.) for reaching out to me and walking me through the troubleshooting process."
"Most video and photo editing software is going to cover the basic functions you need to clean up and publish, especially if you work to get it right in the camera first. I have a decent laptop purchased for graphics and video editing, and Lr is the only one that runs quickly and smoothly for me."
Best Cooking & Health
Stream hundreds of Beachbody’s most popular workouts including: 80 Day Obsession, PiYo, P90X, 21 Day Fix, INSANITY, T25, 3 Week Yoga Retreat, and all future releases.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I now only use the service across devices, laptops with Windows and Chromebook, to tablets, and both my personal Samsung s8 on Sprint and work iPhone 7 on AT&T. At home, I only use my TCL Roku TV which includes a BOD app. Using BOD, I have completed many 4-month p90x3 sessions, one Insanity, a bunch of the Goga Studio workouts, altbough p90x3 YogaX is my go-to favorite, and I am now two weeks into my 4th straight month of doing Corps de Force, mixed with at least one p90x3 The Challenge so I do not lose my ability to do pullups. I have also tried a bunch of the daily challenge workouts, which lead me to try Insanity and Corps de Force. In every case, I print out and follow the daily calendars that Beachbody publishes. To be fair to Beachbody, this is the first program she has continued to use for two years now, albeit inconsistent."
"The workouts are only a minute or two long each, so there is a ton of variety every day."
"Large assortment of workout programs and can download all the associated material (workout tracker, meals, etc."
"Having used Beachbody on Demand recently, I have to say its perfect to get me to go out of my comfort zone and try new types of workouts which obviously work as I have been completely sore, even after the shorter videos."
"BOD has the BEST and most effective in-home fitness programs. The combination of the fitness programs + the nutrition plans + the support of a Coach... that's where the magic happens."
"I have lost and kept off 30 plus pounds with Beachbody on Demand (BBOD)."
"Beachbody on Demand is perfect for working professionals like myself, or anyone who happens to have a busy schedule and can't find time to get a good workout in."
"I purchased Beach-body on amazon but not able to log-in to beach-body."
Best Fashion & Style
Provides all the essential tools for organizing and finding your design files - locate, print, sort, drag and drop, cut, copy, paste, rename, convert, zip and unzip files and so much more! Organize and Manage Your Embroidery Designs.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"BuzzXplor is very user-friendly and an invaluable tool for machine embroiderers."
"It shows embroidery pictures instead of the little machine icons."
"It works but I was hoping it could capture more than 1 folder at a time - to drill down and find all embroidery designs."
"Love this program."
"I use it for creating to view my many embroidery designs, for unzipping files, for printing thumbnails of each embroidery design set (with associated data), and for printing paper templates of full size designs."
"Came without required to code to activate product."
"Purchased this on the recommendation of a friend -- it is great software for organizing, printing worksheets, and viewing embroidery designs."
"Bought as replacement for version one which is no longer supported."
Best Genealogy
Create beautiful family tree charts, including Family Historian's unique 'All Relatives' charts. The program automatically finds matches for your tree among billions of historical records and family tree profiles on MyHeritage. Creating family tree websites or family tree CDs/DVDs is easy using Family Historian's powerful wizards. With its innovative and visually-oriented user-interface, Family Historian is not just easy to use - exploring and working with your family tree data has never been more fun. Create beautiful charts including Ancestor, Descendant, Everyone, Fan, and All Relatives charts.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I had downloaded the trial version from the Calico Pie website and was very pleased with its operation. Even the trial version took in my whole combined family tree."
"The "eye appeal" of these reports is a big selling point for some of the companies even though all such reports should contain the same basic information. Family Historian does not provide the option to customize the appearance of the interface colors available in other companies. There are numerous sites where actual documents, other than the census, can be viewed and often downloaded."
"The Family Historian 6 Genealogy and Family Tree software arrived in perfect condition and on time."
"I've built a 12,000+ person database in The Master Genealogist, and the information transferred to FH6 with only a few tweaks."
"I chose this program because I wanted a program that would be able to make a website (that I can control, rather than Ancestry) and most importantly: LINK MULTIPLE FACES IN A PHOTO. I can make a box around the face in the photo, and it links that crop to the person. I can link multiple people in the photo. It's flexible enough to link lots of nuances and does not lag, regardless to size."
"The GEDCOM files imported easily, it's intuitive, screens contain plenty of information but are not cluttered."
"This seems like a great genealogy program."
"never could get the registration key code to go in, tried about 6 different ways."
Best Home Publishing
Kindle for PC reading app gives users the ability to read Kindle books on an easy-to-use interface. Buy once, read everywhere.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It is a simple work around to reorganize your book files as you would like then open the file system and click on the file name after setting Kindle as the default app."
"This works great on my Windows PC, which enhances the functionality of my existing hardware."
"I use it with Bluetooth speakers in my car, to listen to text to read or audible, I use it in waiting rooms, sitting on the beach, while in hospital & sitting at home."
"I am grateful for Kindle given it takes 7 weeks minimum to get my hard copy books from U.S. to Rwanda since I am an online student here at a US university while serving at a post in Rwanda. Students beware, however, that some information is missing with the auto-quote references that appear instantly when you copy quotes from the Kindle edition."
"Although I love the ability to use the collections, it's just a bit tedious to use."
"I like the updated features like the different colors for highlighting importance sections in the chapters."
"I personally don't like looking at a small screen, like a phone screen, trying to determine what I want to purchase."
"With hundreds of millions of PC users, you'd think Amazon would care enough to create - BARE MINIMUM - a competent app. I just know in the future to buy my content (movies, music, video games, books) from a company that actually cares about me."
Best Scrapbooking
Sure Cuts A Lot Cd ROM. Works with the Cricut Personal (firmware v1.34), Cricut Expression (firmware v2.43), Cricut Create (firmware v1.54), and Cricut Cake (firmware v1.54 or v2.3) machines.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This is great, I can choose my own fonts from online instead of what is only on my Cricut Cartridges!"
"The product arrived promptly within the advertised timeframe."
"I just love this program, cutting shapes and SVG files and using my fonts from my computer saves alot of money."
"I have Sure Cuts a Lot 2 and they've made a lot of improvements."
"I love the software because it saves me money from not having to buy font cartridges for my cricut."
"Very useful software."
"I took my Cricut and the Sure Cuts Alot to a friend's house and her computer allowed me to upgrade the firmware."
"Don't bother!"
Best Sewing Software
The Monogram Wizard Plus greatly increases the power of the Monogram Wizard, while at the same time maintaining the ease of use that made the Monogram Wizard the most popular selling monogramming software available. Monogram Wizard Plus Embroidery Machine Software.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The program was not hard to figure out; I was able to download it and monogram within 30 minutes."
"I have been wanting the Monogram Wizard Plus for a long time."
"I have entered into this problem, because I now have 2 computers tied up with different Monogram Wizard programs. Upon further inquiries, transference from XP to Windows 7 was accomplished. The Point of contact was unable to transfer the "code" so that the software can be activated for Windows 8. Because the point of contact that transferred to Windows 7 did not provide the new "code" to my wife. I'm sure this will be resolved now that emails are involved (Unless I am instructed to converse by phone). He went into my computer, found the problem (which was on the FAQ's at the website, downloaded a fix, and, lo and behold!!!"
"did not make as large as I wanted or I may need to learn more ."
"Despite Windows recognizing the external drive and recognizing the CD itself, and loading the program properly, the software would not run from the external drive, generating a repeated error message that the disk was not in the drive. Bottom line: Monogram Wizard, by my testing, will not run on external CD drives (a **serious** issue, given the cost of the program, if your computer lacks an internal CD/DVD drive, as many newer ones do), and the company's useless tech support doesn't care--at all--about problems with their software."
"I agree with the other low star users that this is outdated software and it is a real pain to have to take your cd to whatever computer you need to use it on."
"Sorry to say but I am a little disappointed with this software."
Best Home Design
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Sweet Home 3D is aimed at people who wants to design their interior quickly, whether they are moving or they just want to redesign their existing home. View the changes in the plan simultaneously in a 3D view, in which you can navigate either from an aerial view point, or from a virtual visitor view point. PC Minimum System Requirements: PC Recommended System Requirements: Processor: Intel Core RAM: 1 GB Hard Disk: 280 MB Video Card: Any Supported OS: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP. Customize colors and texture of furniture, walls, floors and ceilings.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I say it is freeware because you can go to their home website and download the exact same program and furniture collections for free, but you have to download each and install the program and import the collections. By buying it through Amazon, you get the program and all available furniture collections packaged into one installation program and you provide the developers with a little cash for their efforts. If you can't find an item of furniture or a door or window you need, you can install the free Sketchup Make program, search the Sketchup 3D Warehouse and import any 3D model, or draw your own in Sketchup (steep learning curve, but worth it)."
"This software is not only VERY affordable but easy to use for ALL."
"Before purchasing this though, I played with a few free download program from various vendors ranging in price from $60-$200. I would not expect to use program to turn plans directly over to a builder, but it will save you thousands in architectural fees by laying out your own floor-plan first."
"This includes what we normally think of as furniture (tables, chairs, beds), and also doors, windows, staircases, appliances, cabinets, fixtures, tools and so on.). After a few hours of trial-and-error practice, I was able to produce respectable concept drawings (to show to a contractor) for a home addition, and for separate woodworking workshop and garden tractor garage buildings. The program author lives in Europe, so an American user may notice a few quirks."
Best MIDI
Band-in-a-Box 2017, RealBand 2017, Over 1,800 RealTracks, Over 150 MIDI SuperTracks, Over 2,000 MIDI Styles, Over 300 MIDI Soloists, Over 200 MIDI Melodists, 21 Nature Sounds and Percussion Loops,98 Artist Performances, 1000 Dubstep, Modern and Top 40 Loops.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This is what you see and hear in the videos!"
"Been a fan of this product for years."