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Review: Phoenix Slides lets you image search and play full-screen slideshows

Phoenix Slides for Mac helps you easily navigate through directories and subdirectories containing images and then play slideshows in full screen. The program is easy to use, performs fast, and, above all, is free.

Phoenix Slides for Mac offers a clean and easy-to-navigate interface. There is a separate window for image info., which you can close or move anywhere you like on the screen. It's fairly easy to get started, but there is comprehensive documentation available on the developer's Web site to guide users through all available features and shortcuts. Browsing through directories containing images is a smooth … Read more

Play word games on your Android gadget with What's the Word

Puzzle games offer loads of fun for smartphone users. What's the Word is challenging and quite entertaining. It also requires very few resources such as memory or advanced graphics. This fun word game combines some Scrabble-type elements with charades.

A fast and easy download sends users right into the action. The application opens with a clean blue screen and a short tutorial on how the game works. Four pictures are presented in full color and decent resolution. These four images have something in common and it is up to the user to find the common word. Letters are located … Read more

Bible Heroes Noah and the Ark offers child-friendly fun

The Bible goes mobile with Bible Heroes Noah and the Ark. This colorful app does the storytelling for you: a voice reads aloud a child-friendly version of Noah and the Ark. It includes a few other fun features, but you'll have to pay for better selection.

Bible Heroes Noah and the Ark opens with a colorful homepage featuring Noah front and center. There, you have three options: Read, Color, and Sing. A Menu button takes you to other apps in iTunes from the same publisher that feature Bible-centered characters. We first selected Read, and a woman's voice read … Read more

Get back online fast with Complete Internet Repair

Lots of things can scramble your PC's Internet settings -- even good things like removing viruses, updating software, or simply surfing online. Datum's Complete Internet Repair is a free tool that can reset or repair your Internet Protocol, Winsock, and other crucial settings that hook you up to the wider world. Complete Internet Repair is portable freeware, so grab it now and keep it on your USB drive or hard drive. It's easy to use, but you have to have it to use it, so we're telling you about it now since you can't download … Read more

Pocket Amazon

If you're looking for one-stop shopping on your iPhone, Amazon's app is about as representative of a Web site as one can find in a mobile app. You'll need a strong data or Wi-Fi connection to troll Amazon's vast database of merchandise, but if you do, you'll be be able to easily find anything you need that the retail giant can sell. Deals, recommendations, and other tools you find on the online site have also made it into this app, and you can log in to see your wish lists and shopping cart. Moreover, you … Read more

Video to go

Every now and then you stumble across something really great on YouTube that you want to save to your computer for later viewing. There are a plethora of programs that do this, but GetYouTube is an extension for Chrome that lets you save YouTube videos using nothing but your browser.

GetYouTube integrates well with Chrome--a little too well. Unlike many extensions, it didn't place an icon to the right of the address bar. There was no trace of it at all. The publisher's description tells users to select a format from a dropdown list and click a button. … Read more

Competent converter

4U M2TS Converter is an easy-to-use program that lets people convert not only M2TS files, but also MTS, M2T, and AVCHD videos into a variety of other formats. It's nothing fancy, but its intuitive operation makes it a good choice for this kind of file conversion.

The program's interface is quite basic and uncluttered, and even inexperienced users will find the program's functions obvious. Users simply select the file or files they want to convert, select the desired output format and video and audio options, and click OK. The program quickly converts the files and saves them … Read more