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Review Date:04.06.2012

Bottom Line: Pimsleur Unlimited edition brings much needed interactive features to this well-known language-learning program, but it still needs to make a few more leaps to fully catch up to the digital era.

Pimsleur Unlimited
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Review Date:04.06.2012

Bottom Line: The social-photo app Instagram for Android lets you put folksy effects on dull photos with a single tap, and quickly share them on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.

Instagram (for Android)
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Review Date:04.05.2012

Bottom Line: Part crowd-sourcing project to translate the Web and part language-learning site, Duolingo (beta) has several incredible and unique tools for practicing Spanish and German. Duolingo is the only crowd-source language-learning website to get it right.

Duolingo (beta)

Preview Date:04.04.2012

Bottom Line: Product not yet reviewed by PCMag Editors.

Elefile
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Review Date:04.04.2012

Bottom Line: CipherUSB is a pass-through USB device that encrypts any USB-based storage device using hardware-based AES encryption. Use it to protect multiple devices, use it under any operating system; it's very simple and very flexible.

CipherUSB
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Review Date:04.04.2012

Bottom Line: For the fastest, most backward-compatible mobile browser on the market, tune your phone to Opera Mini 7.

Opera Mini 7 (for Android)
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Review Date:04.04.2012

Bottom Line: A Norton One subscription protects up to five PCs, Macs, or Android devices and offers 25GB of online backup. 24/7 premium support for all security-related issues makes it a great choice for those who want no security worries.

Norton One

Preview Date:04.03.2012

Bottom Line: Product not yet reviewed by PCMag.

oneDrum (beta)

Preview Date:04.03.2012

Bottom Line: Product not yet reviewed by PCMag.

Igloo Software

Preview Date:03.30.2012

Bottom Line: Editor's Note: Product not yet reviewed by PCMag Editors.

Xara Web Designer MX (v8)

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