Cyber Mercenaries – Book Review

Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power by Tim Maurer Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2018, Paperback 266pp $29.99USD ISBN-10: 110756686X | ISBN-13: 978-1107566866 Cyber Mercenaries: publisher’s website

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Pixelmator – Review

In the digital age, all discussions of image editing software lead to Adobe Photoshop (PS). PS dominates its software class, but there are alternatives that challenge PS by offering the most used features at a lower price. Heavyweight software comes at serious prices with gigantic overheads. For people who want to avoid the Adobe business model and the various costs and other overheads that PS demands, Pixelmator is an alternative.

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NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter – Review

There are any number of scenarios in which it is necessary to connect a bare which is to say uncased previously internal hard disk (HDD) to your Mac so that the data on the HDD can be retrieved, edited, or have new data added alongside. The NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter makes that possible.

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BitTorrent Sync file transfer software – Review

Commonly abbreviated to BTSync, BitTorrent Sync is software that implements file sharing across computer networks using the peer-to-peer protocol. This means each computer doing the sharing can act as a server for the others, allowing shared access to files without the need for a cloud computing central server.

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Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 – Book Review

If you check out Stephen Laskevitch online you will find that he has been teaching his subject for many years and cofounded Luminous Works, a training and consulting company in Seattle, WA. It would be a surprise if such background did not directly influence the structure of his book

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