Jan
26

H&R Block Tax Software Just Reduced!

We just got a great deal on some of our tax software. H&R Block At Home Deluxe 2011 has been reduced to only $29 ($44.95 on H&R Block’s website). This includes 5 federal programs and 1 personal state program. Additional personal states are $36.95 each and if you choose to e-file it is $19.95 extra for each state e-file used. We recommend e-filing so you can get your refund sooner and to ensure better accuracy. State programs are required for those who have investments such as owning a home or owning stocks, bonds or mutual funds.

These software programs make it super easy to do your taxes yourself, and you don’t need an accounting background to figure it out. These products guide you through every step of the way and are up to date with all the latest tax laws so you don’t need to worry about a thing.

Is your New Years Resolution to save money? Then start 2012 off right with Quicken 2012 so you can keep track of all your checking, savings, credit card, loan, investments, and retirement accounts in one place. Set reminders so you don’t miss payments and create customized goals and budgets to make sure you stay on track over the next year. And when tax time comes around next year, all you have to do is import your data into H&R Block Software and voila! See more info on Quicken Software.

Still have questions on tax software? Check out our Tax Filing Guide.

H&R Block Tax Software on Sale

Jan
25

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Review

Many organizations are constantly looking to address their business needs with flexible and scalable applications. In most cases, the time and resources necessary to build those applications are not always available.

Here’s the solution: Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 has the potential to meet these business needs.

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a flexible development tool that helps developers to rapidly develop polished and fantastic business applications for the desktop as well as the Cloud.

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Jan
25

Microsoft Word 2010 Ribbon Tutorial

In this Microsoft Word 2010 tutorial, Kyle gives us an introductory look at the “Ribbon” that has replaced the traditional toolbar in Microsoft Office.

 

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Jan
24

Insperity: Ultimate Employer Professional Review

One of Insperity’s best selling products just got better with the addition of OrgPlus 9 Professional. With Ultimate Employer Pro you get all of the great Human Resources features of Ultimate Employer with the added visualization and organization software OrgPlus. Ultimate Employer Professional is the quintessential HR software.

The standard version of Ultimate Employer helps you streamline all of your HR-related tasks with Policies Now, Performance Now, Descriptions Now and People Manager.

Policies Now allows you to effectively and professionally communicate your organization’s values, culture and expectations. You will be able to create a valuable employee handbook with the easy to use features of Policies Now. Some of the features included are the Q&A process that allows you to consider important issues and customize your policies, along with the wizard that provides professional results by writing policies for you. It can publish  in 11 different design layouts with either formal, informal or plain English and can be distributed online or in print. You can record and track policy changes and maintain up to six different handbooks.

Descriptions Now is a very user friendly software tool that provides fast and easy ways to hire more efficiently. Defining jobs is made simple with their library of thousands of jobs that is customizable with questions about specific requirements and responsibilities. The ad writer will then help you create effective ads based on the job descriptions and links to advertising gateways online to make posting jobs easier. Descriptions Now will even generate interview questions so that you can ask the right questions once you start hiring.

Performance Now helps you to quickly write in-depth employee performance reviews. This tool allows you to track and measure employee goals and log performance year-round and provide them with useful feedback. Performance categories allow you to choose which measures are relevant for each position that you are evaluating. Perfomance Now will develop a concise performance review based on the elements and ratings that you enter with a customizable form designer.

People Manager is a personnel manager that helps organize your employee’s tasks and information. You can view daily tasks assigned to employees and schedule reminders. People manager keeps track of important employee information and maintains accurate records. As with the other features of Ultimate Employer, you can access Human Resources advice and information.

Org Plus Professional is the new addition to Ultimate Employer Pro and provides an easy to use organizational chart program. With OrgPlus org charts are made easy with various templates and built-in reports. You can add HR metrics and model scenarios to the org chart to help with visualization. You can track changes and manage your workforce with automatic data importation and dynamic reports.

For a limited time all Insperity Software will be 15% off only at SoftwareMedia.com

 

Jan
24

SoftwareMedia.com – Customer Advantage Program

Over the years, SoftwareMedia.com has established itself as the premier online software shop for businesses and individuals across the country. We pride ourselves in our knowledgeable sales staff, our quality customer service team and our consistent 5-Star Ratings from third-party sites.

In addition, we boast one of the largest software catalogs around and hold some of the highest certifications of many top software brands. Combine that with discount prices, free shipping with every order, and a Price Match Guarantee, and you’ll see why we strive to become your one stop software shop.

 

Jan
23

Free Flash Drive with Any ABBYY Purchase

SoftwareMedia is teaming up with ABBYY Software and offering some insane deals over the next couple months. Not only will you find the lowest prices out there on ABBYY’s OCR & document conversion software, but SoftwareMedia is also throwing in a free 2 GB flash drive with any ABBYY purchase from now until March 31st.

ABBYY FineReader is one of ABBYY’s top selling software products. It converts scans, PDFs, and digital photographs into searchable and editable documents with unmatched recognition accuracy so you don’t need to worry about retyping or reformatting. Read our in-depth ABBYY FineReader 11 Review.

ABBYY Screenshot Reader is one of their other main products. It lets you take screenshots and turns them into editable text so you can cut out a piece of it or add more information.

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Free Flash Drive with ABBYY Software

Jan
19

Intego – Antivirus and Security for Mac

SoftwareMedia.com is now carrying Intego Mac Antivirus and Security software! Intego Software

The Internet is rife with dangers: from viruses and malware that can infect and delete files, to hackers and vandals who can infiltrate computers. Mac users have special security needs, and Intego has been working to protect them from the dangers of the Internet for more than ten years. Founded in 1997, Intego is the only company focusing solely on Mac security. With a full range of products to protect Macs, Intego makes the Internet a safer place for Mac users.

 

Jan
18

National Internet Blackout Day – The Fight Against Censorship

For the past few months, the internet has been abuzz with news of some controversial -many would say dangerous- pieces of legislation:  The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). If you are not yet familiar with these proposed pieces of Orwellian control, you can read the full text of the Stop Online Piracy Act here.

Today, January 18th, 2011, SoftwareMedia.com and Software News Daily have joined hundreds if not thousands of websites (including Google, Wikipedia, Mozilla, Tumblr, and many others) in the National Internet Blackout Day, one of the largest online protests the world has ever seen.

You too can do your part to help tell Congress that We The People oppose SOPA and PIPA, by signing Google’s Online Petition.

Protect the freedom of information – say NO to SOPA and PIPA!

 

Jan
13

Adobe CS6 Upgrade Policy – Changing the Rules (Again)

Back in November 2011 Adobe announced that you would need the most recent versions of Creative Suite, 5 or 5.5, in order to upgrade to CS6. This policy meant that if you had an older version, such as CS3 or CS4, you would need to upgrade to CS5 or CS5.5, which could run you anywhere from $400 – $1000, and then have to pay a fee to upgrade again to CS6 once it comes out. When Adobe announced this in November they offered a 20% off promotion till the end of the year for upgrades to CS5.5.

Here at SoftwareMedia.com we felt the pain of being forced to upgrade and dropped our CS5.5 upgrade prices even lower than Adobe’s advertised discount and now include a free gift with purchase. Late December, in an attempt to give customers a break, Adobe announced their 20% off promotion would continue until March 15th. But this plan still wasn’t satisfactory with customers and, most likely due to the overwhelmingly negative response, there was a change of heart over at Adobe.

Fortunately, Adobe has revised their upgrade policy once again. For a limited time customers will be able to upgrade to CS6 from versions going back to CS3, reverting to the previous “3 versions back” upgrade policy. So, if you have CS3 or CS4 you will no longer have to upgrade to CS5 or CS5.5 before upgrading to CS6 when it is released. But, this offer is scheduled to be a special introductory price only.

This special upgrade policy will be in effect from the release of CS6 until December 31st, 2012.

This change in upgrade pricing will hopefully allow industry professionals to stay on top of their game with all the new features in CS6, without breaking the bank. But, as we mentioned before, the previous policy wasn’t unanimously disagreed with. Some argued that encouraging people to stay up to date will make collaboration easier among teams by avoiding the headache of sharing files with older versions. In any case, creative professionals will now have more flexibility with upgrading older versions or upgrading to CS6 once it comes out. We’ll have to wait and see what Adobe does with later versions but we’ll keep you updated if Adobe releases any information.

Jan
13

2011 Tax Filing Guide

April is just around the corner, and that means that tax season will be upon us quicker than you can say “audit”. Deductions, profits, losses, dividends, income, IRA, W-2, 1099… the endless string of numbers and terminology may seem intimidating at first, but it doesn’t have to be. SoftwareMedia.com has put together a comprehensive 2011 Tax Preparation Guide that details the many options (both free and paid) you have when choosing how best to prepare and file your 2011 Tax Return.

Of course, for those of you who already know a thing or two about filing your own taxes, feel free to peruse our selection of 2011 Tax Software for all of your tax preparation and filing needs.

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