McAfee Total Protection 2013 Review (Just the Main Stuff)

McAfee Total Protection 2013 is an total protection (as the name implies) security suite. It includes abilities to mark devices connected to your home network as intruders, to cleaning your computer of junk files and malware.

McAfee has a 2-way firewall, much like Comodo's free firewall.

As with any other paid security suites, McAfee has Real Time Scanning. On my computers however, McAfee had some trouble starting the Real-Time Scanning, and the next time at boot, The RT Scanning actually worked.

I don't use the parental controls, nor the data backup and protection, so I can't judge on that.

The user interface is surely improved from the 2012 version, but this interface still lacks creativity.

I'm feeling lazy right now.. lol x) So this is where the incredibly short review ends..

PCWorld says that McAfee is an average security suite, and I have to agree. If you can't afford better security suites, such as Norton, I suggest this product. Rating this 4/5 stars.

Buy McAfee Total Protection 2013:



Norton 360 Premium 2013: 




~Jeff~



*I am in no way affiliated with the products mentioned in this post.*

OnLive Desktop Review

OnLive Desktop is a free app for iOS and Android devices. It creates a virtual Windows 7 looking desktop. Of course it can't compare to the installed Windows OS, but this app can be a great close second for iOS and Android users.

Overall, I say this is a great program, but it doesn't seem we'll developed yet, and it could be a whole lot easier. Out of five stars, I give this app a 4.5. Below, I went over the main features.

With this app, you have access to Office 2010..and you don't have to pay!

This doesn't include all the Office programs though. Just the big three- Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

















That last photo shows how the desktop looks like.
Here's the start menu:



In fact, even MS Paint and the saving screen looks just like on the computer:







The main turn off here is that you can't freely surf the web in this app- you are limited to OnLive's site:







One other thing..the customizations you made on the virtual desktop will not be saved when you close out..

I would recommend this app to anyone who needs to compose a document using Office, but do not want to pay for the program. As this app moves forward, I expect to see more Office programs, ability to save your customizations, and possibly being able to surf the web freely.

~Jeff~

Here's some miscellaneous pictures of the app..

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.



Here's an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 10,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 17 years to get that many views.

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