Jon L. Jacobi - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Jon L. Jacobi

Article | 20/05/2009 Mirror

Mirror couldn't be simpler to use, and couldn't be more handy. Put simply, what this free program does is what it's named -- it mirrors, i.e. copies a...

Article | 20/05/2009 Fabrik Ultimate Backup Home

A Mozy by any other name is...Fabrik. Although resold by Hitachi-owned Simpletech, the only differences between Mozy and Fabrik Ultimate Backup Home a...

Article | 18/05/2009 Make iTunes and Windows Media Centre work together

Though Windows Media Centre Edition and the Windows Media Player are very good at what they do, there's no native support for iTunes file types. Thoug...

Article | 13/05/2009 Keep safely backed up

Online backup makes some people nervous. It shouldn't--especially with program-and-service combos like MozyHome (2GB storage free, other plans availab...

Article | 6/05/2009 Cyberlink PowerDirector 7

Interfaces don't much get better looking than Cyberlink PowerDirector 7, nor do they get easier to use.

Article | 28/04/2009 Miraplacid publisher converts PDFs every which way

Miraplacid Publisher is a PDF printer driver with a twist.

Article | 28/04/2009 Watch YouTube Videos Offline With Ask & Record Toolbar

If you get tired of steering to YouTube every time you want to see the look on Simon Cowell's face when Susan Boyle starts singing, you need a way to ...

Article | 28/04/2009 PC Inspector File Recovery

File recovery programs come in many different flavours. They run the gamut from simple undelete programs that work only under optimal circumstances wi...

Article | 30/03/2009 VisiTrax Lite

If you're a DJ or music aficionado with a large collection of CDs and/or LPs, you know that keeping track of them can be a chore. VisiTrax Lite is a f...

Article | 5/03/2009 Acronis True Image Home 2009

Acronis has finally done something about the ode-to-redundancy interface that’s been the fly in the otherwise excellent True Image ointment. It took a...

Article | 18/02/2009 MP3Producer

MP3Producer is an app that rips CDs to create MP3 files.

Article | 5/02/2009 WinAVI Video Converter

WinAVI Video Converter is a nice little video conversion utility that creates VCDs, SVCDs and DVDs.

Article | 3/02/2009 DriveClone Pro

DriveClone Pro offers both imaging and file backup, incremental backup, and a hidden automatic restore partition.

Article | 2/02/2009 EverNote Plus

EverNote Plus puts your text, images, videos, and other data in order, and converts handwriting well.

Article | 2/02/2009 CDRoller

The makers of CDRoller claim it can recover data from any type of UDF/ISO9660/FAT32 disc that can be written: CD, DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray.