Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Buyer’s Guide: antivirus, Photo & Tax Software – PC World

Whether for security to work for tax returns or to photos – these are the best software packages for the end of 2015.

Most of the tasks on the home PC can be today with Windows-board resources do or via online services. But for some important work Recommend still good buy-back programs. Here we present tools in the areas of virus protection, image processing and tax returns.

This is what

antivirus program: The virus protection by Internet security packages has for years been largely mature , Accordingly, there is little news in versions for 2016: F-Secure and Avast have installed about a router check. This verifies that the DSL router has been tampered with. In our last test Kaspersky IS yielded from the best antivirus and receives our Buy recommendation.

Also interesting: antivirus packages for Windows 10 in the test

photo management / image processing: The trend in 2016 with the photo management and editing very clear on the Internet. Who uses the free Google Photos for PC and Smartphone, receives from all his shots a backup at www.photos.google.com where the pictures can also edit. The storage space is unlimited. However, high-resolution photos are automatically scaled down to a size of 16 megapixels. Very interesting are the automatic wizard. Create slideshows from your photos vorzeigenswerte, travel stories, collages or short films. Warning: Google analyzes your photos very accurately. So you tell many details of your life. Those who do not want to, stays with proven tools, such Xnview and Paint.NET.

control software: The tax return in Germany is complicated, and these are also the control programs. The best reputation has tax-saving declaration from the publisher Academic Working Group (from 25 euros). You can file your tax return under www.elster.de but also free and do online.

The needs of technology-Fan

antivirus program: As a technology fan you know at PC and on the Internet under the best conditions. They do not fall so easily to a virus trick in. So you enough a free antivirus software. Recommended is about Avira Free Antivirus.

Image processing: The software Lightroom from Adobe is the tool for the ambitious photographer who takes his pictures in RAW format. In this format, the camera chip stores significantly more data than a JPG image. However, the RAW image needs to be developed on the PC. This means that you are responsible themselves for white balance, saturation, contrast and more else. Here you supports Lightroom with decent wizard. The image management Lightroom is useful. Since version 6 of 2015 Lightroom uses the GPU to calculate the image manipulation. This innovation was sorely needed, because previously the implementation of image manipulation often took long annoying.

program Description system Price
Avast Internet Security Internet security package Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 3.30 euros per month
Avira Free Antivirus antivirus software Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 free
F-Secure Internet Security Internet security package Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 35 euros per year
Google Photos Backup Backs up all photos in the cloud Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10 free
Kaspersky Internet Security Internet security package Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 40 euros per year
Lightroom image management and editing Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 120 euros / 12 euros per month
Paint.NET Images Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 free
tax-saving explanation software for tax returns Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 from 25 euros
Xnview Image Management Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 free

PC World Recommendation image editing Lightroom 6 or CC

Price: around 120 Euro (street price) for version 6. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC will cost 12 euros per month in subscription. There are also Photoshop, image editing on the Web and via app and feature updates.
Info Adobe Lightroom is the tool of choice for developing photos in RAW format. Who snaps in JPG format, can also rely on free tools for image editing and management.

By the way: For more useful buying guide you will find on the subject notebooks and tablets, smart phones, video cards, wireless routers, hard drives, printers, monitors, wearables and VR goggles.

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