After the Deadline review: Every writer needs an editor, and this one works for free

Writing can be hard enough, and editing's no cakewalk, but editing your own writing...whew. After the Deadline helps you get the job done, bringing the full complement of editing tools found in office suites to browser-based applications and blogging software.

After the Deadline integrates neatly into other programs (Chrome pictured here) to help you check for style problems.

Available as an add-on for Chrome, Firefox, OpenOffice, and Wordpress (as well as some lesser-known programs), After the Deadline goes well beyond the basics of spelling and grammar checks. It conducts stylistic analysis, outlining passive voice usage and other pitfalls common to fiction writing. Its implementation is very unobtrusive, with suspect words or phrases underlined in red for spelling errors, green for grammar suggestions and blue for style issues.

After the Deadline is free for personal use and requires an Internet connection.

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UndeletePlus Review: Recovery program works well on simple tasks, but try before you buy

ESupport's UndeletePlus isn't free like some of its rivals, but to go along with its $40 price, you do get a full-featured recovery application that's a bit easier to use.

UndeletePlus features an attractive interface that makes it easy to get started. You can set a filter in order to search for a file by all or part of its name; the date it was modified; and its size. Then you click "Start Scan" and let the application go to work. It returns a neatly organized list of results, sorted by file type so you can easily scan through to see if your missing file is among them.

Restoring the files is easy—just a few clicks required—and the application offers helpful hints on how to recover files most effectively. UndeletePlus is user-friendly in a way that few free file recovery utilities are. Like rival Recuva, UndeletePlus managed to track down one of my two missing files, and did so quickly and easily. If only this product were free, as Recuva is, I'd be more willing to recommend it.

Liane Cassavoy is a veteran technology and business journalist. She contributes regularly to PCWorld and has written about business issues and products for Entrepreneur Magazine and other publications. She is the author of two business start-up guides published by Entrepreneur Press.
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Review: DeepDyve works like a low-cost subscription to expensive journals

DeepDyve DeepDyve brings true change to scholarly and professional research with its affordable rentals and free full-text previews.

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If you're not affiliated with a university or don't have access to its proxy, getting full-text versions of articles is either expensive or impossible. DeepDyve is an innovative service targeted at individuals and companies alike, which makes the game much more affordable by letting you rent articles from thousands of journals.

DeepDyve lets you browse many major journals and spend up to five minutes a day on an article.

An abstract is not enough to judge an entire paper. A free account with DeepDyve gets you free access to full-text articles for five minutes a day. If you deem an article interesting, you can pay $20 for five 30-day rentals, or $40/month for 40 monthly rentals (or by DeepDyve's odd definition, "virtually unlimited").

DeepDyve's interface is friendly and easy to use, and a browser plugin for Google Scholar tells you which articles in the results list are available for rent. Your DeepDyve personal homepage is an RSS reader of sorts, and can be used to follow your favorite journals . Even if you are affiliated with a university, DeepDyve is a great way to preview full-text articles when you don't have access to the proxy.

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Google Glass Retail Shops Reportedly In The Works

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Review: Mysms works with Android or iPhone to let you text from your PC

mysms MySMS offers free tools for messaging other mySMS users, but its functionality beyond that is a bit limited.

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Mysms is the only service we've tested that works on iPhones and Windows Phones in addition to Android devices. It does require that you install an app on your handset to use it, but its desktop component is not solely browser-based. Mysms is the only program we tested that's available in a desktop client that you can download and run locally on your PC. That's why mysms looks good on paper. But it leaves something to be desired when you actually use it.

If you're using an Android phone, mysms displays recent text messages in a column on the left side of the screen; clicking on one brings up your message history with that person, displayed in a larger column to the right.

To use mysms, you first install the app on your phone. Once  set up, it sends you a text message with a PIN. You enter that PIN in whatever version of the application you'd like to use on your computer: The desktop version (available for Windows and Mac) or the Web app, which runs inside a browser. Mysms also is available for tablets running Android or iOS.

The Windows application and the Web app feature nearly identical interfaces, but the experience of using mysms varies greatly depending on what kind of phone you're using. I tested mysms on an iPhone and an Android phone. We did not have a Windows phone available for testing, but the company says that many of the restrictions set on the iPhone by Apple's limitations also exist for Windows Phone users.

If you're using an iPhone, Apple does not allow mysms to access your text messages, so you're restricted to texting other mysms users. If no one you know is using the application, you're out of luck. But if you can recruit a few friends to use the service, you'll be able to exchange messages for free—and they don't have to use the same type of phone as you.

If you're using an Android phone, mysms can do a lot more. You'll see your recent text messages in a column on the left side of the screen, organized by the phone number or contact name. Clicking on one of these brings up your message history with that person, displayed in a larger column to the right. You can compose a message at the top of the screen, and can choose to send it via mysms (which requires the recipient to use the app) or your mobile carrier. Additionally, mysms lets you use a service called mysms out, where you can purchase credits for sending texts to users who don't use mysms.

Mysms makes it easy to add add attachments and emoticons to the messages you compose.

The look of mysms is appealing and the program has benefits for both Android and iPhone users, especially when you consider that you can choose between the downloadable desktop app and the Web app. I also like how mysms syncs any messages you send on your PC with the mobile app. But iPhone users without any mysms-using friends will find it hamstrung by Apple's limitations.

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Review: BrowserTexting works fine for SMS in a browser, but so do free options

Texting from a desktop browser is a sight easier than from a phone. Android phone owners have several options, such as MobiTexter and MightyText. BrowserTexting ($10, 30-day free trial) is a two-part solution that includes an app that you install on your phone and a Web app that you use on your computer.

You first need to install the app on your Android phone, which is a quick and simple process. You then fire up your computer's browser and head to BrowserTexting.com. The setup process here was also simple and streamlined: The website displays QR code that you scan to connect your phone to your browser.

BrowserTexting's bland interface isn't the worst of its sins. That would be charging $10 for what free services do just as well.

Then you're good to go. BrowserTexting automatically displays a list of your contacts. You can select one from the list or enter a number on the screen to begin texting. Once you start the message, BrowserTexting brings up past conversations with that person right on the screen, so you can view your texting history as a conversation, just as you would on your phone. You can send MMS messages and group texts, too. New messages pop up on your computer screen, and all of your correspondence is synced back to your phone.

The interface is bland, featuring little more than a big blank space for messages, but easy enough to understand. I like that BrowserTexting offers extensions for Firefox and Google Chrome, which allow you to read and compose messages without opening a dedicated browser window or tab. And I like that it opens new text message conversations in tabs, making it easy to switch between them.

I did notice a slight delay when clicking around the interface, whether I was entering a contact name or number or trying to compose a message. That's a minor annoyance, though. More troublesome is BrowserTexting's price: at $10 (after a 30-day free trial), this application is expensive. When most of the competitors are free, an application that costs $10 has to offer far more features. And this one doesn't. BrowserTexting is just as good as some of its rivals, but it costs far more.

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Review: Architect's Daughter font works with playful precision

Inspired by the formal handwriting of architects, Architect's Daughter is delightfully precise, yet lighthearted and not at all bossy. Architect's Daughter is a TrueType font you could use at larger text sizes (14 point) and encounter no problems with legibility, or use at poster sizes to enjoy the detailed edges of the letters (the tiny serif at the end of the upper case E, and gentle slope within the center stroke of the F, for example).

The slightly off-scale width of some letters, like lower case o and c, and upper case B, D, and R among others; plus the non-mirror image lower case b and d seem to aid the legibility. Indeed, many experts cite these differences as things that can make a typeface easy to decipher, especially for early readers and people with a disability such as dyslexia.

When you need a friendly font, look to Architect's Daughter. It plays especially well in large sizes.

The lower case a and g in Architect's Daughter also are handwriting style rather than letter-press, similar to Comic Sans, which is a benefit to beginner readers. Although Architect's Daughter may seem casually handwritten, 377 accurate kerning pairs help give it a sensible cleanness that expands its usability. However, still pass it through the suitability filter: Just like Comic Sans, this is not the font for memorial signs or grave markers.

Architect's Daughter includes full upper and lower case glyphs, plus numbers, punctuation, and accented characters; all at 400 (regular) weight. It's fully installable, allowing you to embed the Architect's Daughter font in documents ready for other users to install. Architect's Daughter is free for personal use; for commercial use, contact designer Kimberly Geswein.

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Review: Architect's Daughter font works with playful precision

Inspired by the formal handwriting of architects, Architect's Daughter is delightfully precise, yet lighthearted and not at all bossy. Architect's Daughter is a TrueType font you could use at larger text sizes (14 point) and encounter no problems with legibility, or use at poster sizes to enjoy the detailed edges of the letters (the tiny serif at the end of the upper case E, and gentle slope within the center stroke of the F, for example).

The slightly off-scale width of some letters, like lower case o and c, and upper case B, D, and R among others; plus the non-mirror image lower case b and d seem to aid the legibility. Indeed, many experts cite these differences as things that can make a typeface easy to decipher, especially for early readers and people with a disability such as dyslexia.

When you need a friendly font, look to Architect's Daughter. It plays especially well in large sizes.

The lower case a and g in Architect's Daughter also are handwriting style rather than letter-press, similar to Comic Sans, which is a benefit to beginner readers. Although Architect's Daughter may seem casually handwritten, 377 accurate kerning pairs help give it a sensible cleanness that expands its usability. However, still pass it through the suitability filter: Just like Comic Sans, this is not the font for memorial signs or grave markers.

Architect's Daughter includes full upper and lower case glyphs, plus numbers, punctuation, and accented characters; all at 400 (regular) weight. It's fully installable, allowing you to embed the Architect's Daughter font in documents ready for other users to install. Architect's Daughter is free for personal use; for commercial use, contact designer Kimberly Geswein.

Note: The Download button on the Product Information page will download the font to your system.

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Wireless Pen Mouse Works on Your Jeans and Skin

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Koubachi Sensor Works with iOS App to Keep Your Plant Alive

Is there room for a plant-themed app at a show known for its business and IT bent? Sure there is–there are 24-plus halls here at CeBIT, after all. Koubachi adds a little bit of green thumb to the show floor with its sensor for plants. You simply place it near your plant of choice, download the app (iOS only now; Android coming by this summer) and connect it to Wi-Fi, and the sensor will send you alerts when temperature, light, soil and other conditions are less than optimal.

The Koubachi sensor is selling for €109. If you have some really expensive greenery–or just can’t seem to keep anything alive–it might be the gadget for you. Our video hands-on gives you a closer look.

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Platformer Game Hello Worlds! Works Out Your Brain

Addictive, minimalistic, frustrating, brain-melting fun. If I could have just four adjectives and a noun to describe Hello Worlds!, I would pick those exact words. Get ready to meet one of the most engaging Flash platformers you can play in your browser, for free, right now.

In Hello Worlds!, your character moves across all parallel worlds at the same time.Other platformers, such as Elephant Quest, involve vast, sprawling levels where you are beset by enemies on every side and must shoot your way to freedom while frantically running and jumping all over the place. By contrast, Hello Worlds! has no shooting whatsoever. The levels aren't exactly sprawling, either, with each taking up just one screen (700 by 550 pixels). In that regard, it is similar to another platformer, Achievement Unlocked 2, but that's where the similarity ends. Created by the University of Washington's Computer Science department, Hello Worlds is a very cerebral platformer.

Each Hello Worlds! level is split into two, three or four parallel worlds. A wall in one world will block your way in all worlds; a platform in one world will hold you aloft in the other ones. The whole game is built on the interaction between these worlds: Stand on a ledge in one world, and jump onto a higher ledge in another world.

Each world has a door; when you get to it and hit Space, that world disappears. Sometimes it goes away entirely, leaving you with a simpler level, and sometimes it is replaced with another world which you must now navigate. Every Hello Worlds! level also has a "level door," which you must reach to complete the whole level. Oh, and don't forget to collect the stars you see along the way: They help the score, and allow you to get to the more advanced levels.

Making it through a level depends on navigating all worlds correctly. If you trigger the door on one of the worlds too soon and make it disappear when you actually still needed it, you will not be able to complete the level. Fortunately, you can press and hold V on your keyboard to undo your actions. This isn't a quick undo to a save point, but actually a rewind much like the one in a VCR (or VLC, if you're more modern). You see your character quickly retracing its steps, and can release the V key at any time you want to stop, even midair.

Hello Worlds!'s rewind feature doesn't just retrace running and jumping, but all actions. So if you just realized you shouldn't have made that last world disappear, no problem--just rewind.

When a level is split into four, it can get tricky to visualize. Sometimes you see where you're trying to go, but you're not quite sure what you should be standing on to get there. When that happens, you can hit C to converge all parts of the level, so you're looking at the whole picture for once. But you can only look: While holding C, you are not allowed to move.

Hello Worlds! does away with many of the frustrations present in other games, such as constantly dying or having to run like mad. If you like to combine running and jumping with thinking, this free game deserves at least one coffee break.

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HDD Recovery Pro Works Well, Has a Clean Interface

There's a bottom line with data recovery software: Does it get your data back or not? If it's on a FAT or NTFS partition--as it will be on any Windows PC--then the odds are that HDD Recovery Pro ($140, free demo) will recover it.

HDD Recovery Pro's interface mimics Windows XP Explorer, but has a wizard to help you through the recovery process.HDD Recovery Pro has a lot of nice features. You can create images of partitions for future recovery as well as mount them.It also supports removable media such as flash drives and will recover files to any drive visible on your network. It recognizes and previews a large number of file types, making it easier to find that one particular file you were looking for.

HDD Recovery Pro's interface is clean and attractive, though it sometimes mistakes simple for easy. All that is required is to select a drive or partition, the file system (rule of thumb: Windows 9x = FAT, XP and later = NTFS), then click Search. The program will search the drive and come back with a list of the files that it finds. The demo version will only preview files, but the company guarantees that if you can see them, the full version of the program will recover them. Logical enough.

In my brief test spin with HDD Recovery Pro, the program performed flawlessly. It found and recovered files from new and deleted partitions, including all the files that seem to confuse freebies such as Recuva and cheapies such as Ashampoo Undeleter. It also found a lot of stuff that the average user won't recognize, so be careful when you browse the files and even more careful if you delete any.

My only issue with HDD Recovery Pro is the price. $140, despite being considerably cheaper than EasyRecovery Professional, is far more expensive than R-Studio Data Recovery, which is tried and true and also supports Mac and Linux partitions. That said, HDD Recovery Pro works well and has probably the nicest interface in its field.

--Jon L. Jacobi

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