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Ceton InfiniTV 6 review: A six-tuner dynamo for Microsoft’s dying media center
Tired of renting your cable company's lousy DVR? Buy this box, and you can record six channels at once—and watch those recordings on any PC in your house.Reviews
Review: Minitube brings the YouTube experience at its best to your desktop
Minitube is a well-designed YouTube app that makes it easy to watch interesting videos quickly and continuously, with a viewing experience that's even better than get from YouTube's Web interface.Reviews
Review: iTunes Library Toolkit tidies up iTunes
ITunes Library Toolkit offers a host of features for cleaning up and maintaining your iTunes library. It can add files automatically and delete dead links, but doesn't always offer you perfect control.Reviews
Review: iTunes Folder Watch does what it promises
ITunes Folder Watch is an inexpensive utility that helps you monitor what does— and doesn't—get added to your iTunes library. It only does one thing, but it does that one thing very well.Reviews
Review: DriveTunes adds a music player to Google Drive
Chrome app DriveTunes lets you hear all the music in your Google Drive files.Reviews
Review: Fantashow makes (almost) fantastic videos
Fantashow offers an easy way to combine your own video clips and still photos into one polished video. You can save your video for viewing on a PC or TV, or share it online.Reviews
Review: SynciOS takes over for iTunes
SynciOS is a free tool for managing your iOS device from your PC. It lets you transfer content to and from your mobile device with ease, though it stumbles a bit as a contact manager.Reviews
Review: Notion 4 shatters your musical notation notions
The slickest musical score editor on the planet has new entry tools and a significantly lower price.Reviews
Review: Corel VideoStudio X6 eases creative video production
Corel's VideoStudio X6 is the easiest-to-learn, easiest-to-use video editor out there. It supports most major technologies, and the creative tools are first-rate.Reviews
Upgrade your home network with a media-streaming, backup-ready NAS box
Single-drive, network-attached storage boxes attach to your router and start at around $200.Reviews
Review: Name, tag and sort your MP3 music files with Mp3tag
Sometimes when you rip your CDs, the tags and album art don't come with it, leaving the MP3 file without identifying information. Mp3tag is here to help you add those tags and album art back.Reviews
Review: Three amps for building your own desktop audio system
If you've got a set of traditional bookshelf speakers gathering dust, it's time to pull them out of the closet. We take a look at three compact amplifiers for creating your own desktop audio system.Reviews
Review: Slice your AVI files up into separate files with AVI Splitter
When you are watching a media file in AVI format, you may want to copy a section as a separate AVI file for easier watching later. AVI Splitter makes this a quick and painless process with a few clicks of the mouse.Reviews
Review: Amara is a Web-based service that lets anyone transcribe and translate online video
Once the domain of trained professionals, Amara tries to put the process of video transcription, subtitling and translation within reach of everyone.Reviews
Wi-Fi hard drive showdown: Corsair Voyager vs. Seagate Wireless Plus
A new class of portable hard drive creates its own Wi-Fi hotspot, so you can stream media or transfer files from a PC, notebook, tablet, or smartphone without a cable. Which one's best?Reviews
Review: DivX Stash stores Web videos for mobile viewing
DivX Stash lets you store links to Web videos so you can view them later on your PC or mobile device. It's a great way to get your videos organized, but it stumbles a bit with Hulu content.Reviews
Review: PowerDVD 13 Ultra media player is loaded with under-the-hood improvements
While unchanged outwardly, PowerDVD 13 significantly enhances 1080 video, delivers better performance, and remains the premiere DVD/BD/3D playback solution.Reviews
Review: Freemake Video Downloader grabs any video with a URL
This standalone utility will download any video you can grab a URL for, and it can download directly from YouTube.Reviews
Review: MediaMonkey organizes your MP3s
MediaMonkey is a free media organization and playback application for Windows users. Its interface is a bit heavy on the text, but it offers many handy ways to clean up your digital media collection.Reviews
Review: MuseScore is powerful and free musical notation software
This free cross-platform notation editor has a surprising amount of power and great looking notation. It's not as slick as some of the paid competition, but it will surpass the needs of most users.Reviews
Review: Defishr removes fish-eye distortion from video
Defishr is an easy-to-use utility for removing the fish-eye distortion from your video. It can even create profiles to optimize the process for unknown devices.Reviews
Review: WeVideo is a cloud-based video editor that makes editing in your browser fun and simple
WeVideo is a simple and solid Flash-based video editor that runs in your browser. With Dropbox and Google Drive support, it makes it easy to pull raw footage in and export edited video out.Reviews
Review: Google Chromebook Pixel is an expensive curiosity
As an idea sprung from Google’s view of the future of technology, the Chromebook Pixel is intriguing, even intoxicating. But it’s hard to fathom how it works as a real-world product.Reviews
Do social media ads really work? We put them to the test!
We placed ads on AdWords, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and StumbleUpon. Which service provided the best ROI? The results will surprise you.Reviews
Review: iSpy lets you monitor and record multiple webcams and IP cameras for free
iSpy makes it easy to connect your computer to multiple cameras and microphones, specify their locations, and selectively record activity.Reviews
Review: MobileGo for iOS goes where iTunes won’t
Wondershare's MobileGo for iOS is a full-featured media management tool for your iOS device. It offers a host of useful features, including a robust contact manager, but it's pricey, at $40.Reviews
Review: AlbumPlayer really lets the music play
AlbumPlayer is a digital jukebox with a slick design and some cool features for music playback. Unfortunately, though, this software is expensive.Reviews
Hands on with Chromebook Pixel: Google goes after the MacBook
With a Retina-class display and top-of-class build quality, the Chromebook Pixel is Google's answer to Apple's vaunted MacBook. But does the laptop's usefulness match its sky-high price tag?Reviews
Review: Songbird Desktop is much more than just a media player
Songbird Desktop is a free tool for managing your music collection, but also includes features for streaming content around the house and letting you connect with friends and artists.Reviews
Review: MP3 Rocket makes YouTube videos into MP3s
MP3 Rocket is a free application that converts videos into MP3s. It's easy to use, free, and offers a slick way to convert videos for later listening.Reviews
802.11n Wi-Fi Routers: Tested to the Nth degree
We benchmark five of the best 802.11n routers available today. Don't you dare upgrade your Wi-Fi without first reading our results.Reviews
Review: Slicetige-G takes the pain out of designing your Google profile
Slicetige-G is a simple and lightweight program that can help you design an attractive cover image for your Google profile, complete with a sliced out profile picture, and other customizable extras.Reviews
Review: Elpis lets you jam to Pandora with zero fuss and maximum fun
Elpis plugs into the Pandora API and makes it possible to enjoy the service with no ads and no interruptions, but with all of your stations and music preferences.Reviews
Review: CopyTrans TuneSwift automates iTunes chores
CopyTrans TuneSwift offers an easy (if time-consuming) way)to back up, transfer, or restore your iTunes library. At $15, though, this program isn't exactly cheap.Reviews
Review: Camtasia Studio 8 raises the bar on interactive video creation
TechSmith's Camtasia Studio version 8 is a completely rebuilt program that goes far beyond screen-capture video creation. It can now incorporate videos from other sources in multi-track editing, including videos with embedded hyperlinks.Reviews
Netgear A6200 review: A cost-effective and fast 802.11ac adapter
If you need to connect just a single client, such as a laptop or a home-theater PC, to your 802.11ac network, Netgear's A6200 is a far cheaper alternative to a wireless bridge.Reviews
Western Digital My Net AC Bridge review: Another great 802.11ac bridge
If you're putting together a wireless network based on the 802.11ac Draft 2.0 standard, choose between this bridge and Cisco’s Linksys WUMC710 when you're ready to add hardwired clients to your network.Reviews
Review: SuperSync merges iTunes libraries and more
SuperSync will sync all the iTunes libraries from your various devices and PCs as well as perform maintenance tricks like delete duplicates.Reviews
Review: TuneUp cleans up your misnamed music files with a few clicks
If you are in the habit of ripping CDs, you know how frustrating it is when the ripped CD doesn't provide track names, and you have to manually type them by hand. TuneUp is an add-on for iTunes and Windows Media Player that renames your files for you and adds album art.Reviews
Battle of the pint-size PCs: Cotton Candy, MK802 II, and Raspberry Pi face off
They're incredibly small and surprisingly powerful: We tell you what these devices are capable of, and how well they perform.Reviews
Linksys EA6500 review: A user-friendly 802.11ac router with decent performance
The Linksys EA6500 is a very good consumer router for mainstream users who don’t need a lot of bells and whistles, but the Asus RT-AC66U remains the absolute best 802.11ac Draft 2.0 router for now.Reviews
Review: Wavosaur is tiny and free, but it’s still a full-featured audio editor
Wavosaur is an impressive programming feat with full support for VSTfx and ASIO. This free, full-featured audio editing (sans FX) packs a lot of power into a tiny, ultra-efficient package.Reviews
Review: Sony’s Sound Forge Audio Station 10 is powerful and versatile
An old-school interface belies this program's power and versatility. It's limited to stereo, though; no 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound.Reviews
Best Products of 2012: Entertainment
PCWorld's editors select the best tech-related entertainment products of 2012.Reviews
Pick a pico projector: We review four of the best and brightest models
These tiny projectors weigh less than a pound, but each is capable of delivering business presentations, slideshows, and video to audiences in boardrooms and living rooms.Reviews
Review: Sony’s Acid Music Studio 9 offers no-nonsense interface
Acid Music Studio's bland interface belies a very powerful digital audio workstation with advanced features, VST support, and a steep learning curve. At $65, the chief investment is time, not money.Reviews
Ripbot264: Rip Blu-ray movies without filling your hard drive
Ripbot264 is a front end for free video tools. With it, you can transcode video without a lot of fuss (and without making massive files).Reviews
Gmail vs. Outlook.com: Which offers the best email in the cloud?
How does Microsoft’s new webmail service stand up against longtime favorite Gmail? The answer may surprise you.Reviews