$40 Plus Pack Adds Even More Goodies to Windows XP - 10/1/2001 Got Win XP yet? When Microsoft's ultimate operating system reaches stores on October 25, it'll be joined by Microsoft Plus for Windows XP, offering extras ranging from enhanced digital media tools and games to 3D screen savers.
11 Fearless Predictions for Free Software in 2008 - 1/8/2008 From KDE to the OOXML controversy to video drivers: a gaze into the crystal ball for free (as in "free speech," not as in "free beer") software.
30 Boxes: Take Your Calendar and Scheduler With You Wherever You Go - 3/23/2006 Wouldn't it be nice if you could easily access your calendar and scheduling software from any internet-enabled computer? Enter 30 Boxes, a remarkably powerful, flexible, and easy to use Web-based calendar application that's always as close and accessible as the nearest browser.
3D-FTP - 4/8/2004 A great-looking, full-featured FTP client with 3D skins support
602Pro PC Suite 2001 Review - 1/27/2003 We’ve tested affordable home-PC productivity packages from Microsoft and Corel; now we’ll conclude our search for who-needs-Office? alternatives with a word processing, spreadsheet, image-editing, and photo-organizing combo that’s as affordable as you can get -- free. Are an unbeatable price and impressive functionality worth few frills and no hand-holding?
7-Zip: The Digital Equivalent of a Sledgehammer and Crowbar - 5/23/2007 A good compression tool like the freeware 7-Zip can be a helpful friend that saves storage space and reduces upload and download file transfer times. The real question is how 7-Zip stacks up against its well-entrenched competition, WinZip and PKZip.
A Buyer's Guide to Time-Tracking Software - 4/3/2008 Whether your livelihood depends on billable hours or you just want to get a handle on multiple projects, time-tracking software can help you be more focused and precise. Guest columnist James Martin offers a handy guide to what you need to know before you buy.
ABBYY Says FineReader 7.0 OCR Boosts Accuracy 25 Percent - 9/8/2003 If you've got to turn printed documents, spreadsheets, or PDF pages into editable, archivable, and distributable PC files, a new version of ABBYY's optical character recognition software offers sharper recognition and support for the latest Hyper-Threading and Office 2003 XML technologies.
ABBYY Updates FineReader OCR Software - 6/10/2002 Promising more accuracy than any other optical character recognition program, ABBYY FineReader 6.0 Professional boasts improved format retention, Adobe Acrobat PDF input and output, and a variety of ease-of-use enhancements.
Ability Office Review - 1/5/2004 Most Windows users don't need the bulky muscle of Microsoft Office, and we're on record as recommending several alternatives to that super-powered, high-priced suite. Does this $50 entry from the U.K. join OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Works on our short list, or is it too little, too late for anyone who's outgrown, say, Office 95?
AbiWord 0.9, Atlantis Ocean Mind 1.0 Reviews - 10/15/2001 Do your word processing needs really call for the price, size, and complexity of Microsoft Word? Told of a program named Atlantis Ocean Mind, would you guess that it's a word processor? The answer to both is almost certainly no. We test the $27, fits-on-a-floppy Atlantis and free, open-source AbiWord to explore shareware solutions for everyday writing and editing (math equations and indexed textbooks excluded).
Abobe Photoshop Elements: Elements of the Real Thing - 7/14/2004 Adobe's sub-$100, trimmed-down version of Photoshop is a well thought out response to the rash of requests from its customers for affordable image editing software. Photoshop Elements includes a reduced set of Photoshop features along with some handy additions to enhance overall ease of use.
AbsoluteFTP - 4/8/2004 A relatively new FTP client patterned after the Windows Explorer
ACD Systems Offers Zip Tool Optimized for Digital Images - 11/26/2001 The makers of the ACDSee image viewing and management program unveil a zip tool that specializes in compressing, previewing, and distributing digital images -- though it works fine for audio, video, and document files, too.
ACDSee - 4/8/2004 An extremely quick image viewer with new photo enhancing tools
Acronis Offers Fast and Friendly Disk Partition Manager - 12/30/2002 IT professionals can use Acronis' PartitionExpert 2003 to create, resize, or copy hard-disk partitions with 10 times the speed of rival utilities. Thanks to an automated task-wizard interface, so can nontechnical PC users.
Act 2000 Makes Contact with Windows XP - 11/19/2001 Interact Commerce Corp.'s popular Act 2000 contact manager gains compatibility with Microsoft Windows XP and Office XP, including seamless integration with Outlook, Outlook Express, and Word.
ACT by Sage 2006: New ACT, Same Success Story - 11/3/2005 If you can't keep up with your customers, colleagues, and clients, contact management software such as ACT 2006 can track every correspondence, meeting, and e-mail when your memory can't. While version 2006 lacks any groundbreaking features, it's great for managing your hectic schedule and many business ties.
Act Contact Manager Advances To Version 6.0 - 8/26/2002 Shakespeare's plays have five acts, but the popular Act contact manager enters its sixth -- an upgrade that gives busy salespeople or execs even more tools to keep track of their contacts and clients, including a flexible new e-mail client and smooth integration with Microsoft Outlook and Excel.
Actiontec USB Call Waiting Modem Will Support Macintosh - 8/9/1999 Actiontec Electronics, Inc. announced that the revolutionary Actiontec 56K USB Call Waiting Modem will support the iMac, G3, and other USB-equipped Macintosh computers.
Active Security Monitor: Track Your PC Protection with Ease - 8/22/2006 By now you've hopefully protected the PCs in your home. You've shielded them against viruses, spyware, and a host of potential maladies using a range of defenses. But how do you know for sure those protections are actually working the way they should? Enter AOL's new ASM freeware tool.
Active Worlds Browser - 4/8/2004 Your portal to an intriguing multi-user 3-Dimensional community
ActiveWords 1.9 Review - 2/24/2003 Have you always secretly felt you can be more productive with the keyboard than with the mouse? A time-saving new utility agrees -- and lets you launch programs, type boilerplate text, send e-mails, and perform Web searches with just a few keystrokes, no matter which application you happen to be using (even Solitaire).
Ad-aware - 5/10/2004 Ad-aware arrives as an easy to use, must-have utility for detecting and protecting yourself against data mining, advertising, and tracking components — in other words, all forms of adware.
Ad-aware Reference File - 6/10/2004 The latest reference file for Ad-aware can be downloaded directly or through Ad-aware's Web update tool to ensure protection from new and emerging adware threats.
Add-On Packs Bring MP3 Creation, DVD Playback To Win XP - 10/22/2001 Windows XP's improved, ballyhooed Windows Media Player can't rip CD tracks to MP3 files, or play DVD movies, unless you have an MP3 add-on or MPEG-2 decoder installed -- but links inside Media Player take you to Web sites where CyberLink and InterVideo are ready to remedy those shortcomings.
Adobe Acrobat 7.0: A Feature-Packed Acrobat Upgrade - 3/3/2005 Adobe Acrobat junkies rejoice, the 7.0 upgrade comes jammed with features you're sure to love. Occasional dabblers or the uninitiated, on the other hand, may fare better with earlier, less confusing versions.
Adobe Acrobat Reader - 12/22/2003 A useful plug-in/ActiveX control for viewing inline Acrobat PDF files
Adobe Adds New Creative Options to After Effects 5.5 - 12/10/2001 Adobe Systems keeps After Effects in the top rank of cinematic software, adding new views, lighting, and creative effects and import/export integration -- including ties to Alias/Wavefront's popular Maya -- to its motion/animation toolkit.
Adobe Announces DVD Authoring Package for Fall - 3/31/2003 It won't ship until the third quarter, but Adobe Systems' DVD creation program -- offering seamless integration with the company's Photoshop for menu backgrounds and Premiere for video chapters -- promises to combine professional-quality controls with entry-level simplicity.
Adobe Courts Digital Camera Fans with Photoshop Elements 2.0 - 7/15/2002 It's not just about removing red-eye: Adobe upgrades its home and small-office image editor with new digital photo management, lighting, color correction, and creative tools, as well as handy e-mail and slide-show output options.
Adobe ImageReady - 4/8/2004 Now integrated with Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady originally debuted as the perfect companion to Photoshop for creating & optimizing web graphics
Adobe ImageStyler - 3/15/1999 Heavyweight Adobe's entry into the instant Web graphics arena offers a rich selection of effects and impressive editing flexibility
Adobe Media Player: Entering a New Dimension in the Realm of Multimedia - 5/8/2008 Better late than never, Adobe has leapt into the media-player field. Discover how the recently released Adobe Media Player stacks up against - and sets itself apart from - Windows Media Player and the long-time industry standard RealPlayer.
Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Offers New Features, Free Version - 10/6/2003 Digital camera owners will cheer as Adobe upgrades its easy image cataloguer, organizer, and card/calendar/slide-show maker with new viewing options and photo fixes. Penny-pinchers will cheer as a limited trial version is made available as a free download.
Adobe Photoshop Album Helps Consumers Find, Fix, and Share Digital Images - 1/6/2003 You've got thousands of digital-camera shots or favorite downloaded images, but they're no more organized than your desk drawers and shoeboxes full of real photos? Adobe's new Photoshop Album lets you turn them into an automatically organized, instantly searchable gallery; preserve them on CD or DVD; or turn them into Acrobat PDF slide shows to share via e-mail or the Web.
Adobe Photoshop Album Review - 3/24/2003 Got a digital camera? You've got pictures -- images filling your PC's hard disk, hiding under cryptic names in buried folders, photos and wallpapers stashed as messily as snapshots in a shoebox. Adobe's $50 organizer lets you manage, search, and share those images -- assigning keywords and finding long-lost shots in seconds, or touching them up and turning them into slide shows, Web albums, and more -- with style.
Adobe Photoshop CS - 4/8/2004 The premier image editing software package — nothing else comes close
Adobe Premiere 6.0 Announced - 12/11/2000 Adobe has announced the next version of Premiere, the renowned video editing software.
