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There are staggering technical obstacles in training programs accurately to recognize text printed hundreds of years ago. Much early printing is of extremely poor quality, by modern standards. ABBYY has partnered with IBM and several major universities and libraries to solve these problems. We can't think of any project of this scope that will have a more beneficial impact on future cultural dissemination and study.
Backup
Nothing is more important than frequent backups. On OS X, the venerable Carbon Copy Cloner, recently updated for Lion, is still
best
Mac backup program. It is more reliable, and faster, than any backup strategy Apple has ever produced.
The best backup program we have ever used on any platform is StorageCraft's ShadowProtect for Windows. One reason is that it does a
system backup, something that Apple hasn't been doing well in recent years— and it does it well and quickly. This program is bulletproof and is the only backup program I have used that consistently gives me usable restores, other than CCC. We've previously awarded ShadowProtect 3 in our must-have Windows category. This year we award ShadowProtect 4, which is even better. We wish they'd create a Mac version.
Norton Internet Security 2012
One price of Apple's success is viruses. When Apple only had 3% of the computer market, we lived in a blissful virus-free zone. Not any longer. Norton is the only compelling solution. For both PCs and Macs, we wholeheartedly award Norton Internet Security for the third consecutive year. This software is miles ahead of the competition. It's a huge achievement and it has taken decades of hard work to get
Media Server will now deliver HTML5 content— Flash content —to IOS of
devices. In
Adobe's September releases does the term HTML5 appear. Yet that's all they're about. Little wonder Steve Jobs didn't want to do business with Adobe anymore. C'mon Adobe,
still love you,
but you gotta try harder than this. Think different!
Directory Opus, or How do I find Finder on Windows?
to this place. In 2012, Norton is taking a logical next step with its Norton Everywhere initiative. Norton's goal is to protect
your devices now—mobile
phones, tablets, laptops, gaming consoles, and of course desktop and network devices. There are now too many features to describe in this class-defining software, so head on over to