Hands up if you remember WordPerfect 5.1, lauded by many as the peak of word processing perfection, with an extraordinary set of features hidden behind a screen without menus or toolbars, which featured a single, blinking ...

The idea of Power Translator is as simple as the name suggests. Depending on the language options you opt for, you basically feed it words in one tongue and it spits them out in another. It ...

Have you ever been given a load of documents for work or for study and wished there was some way you could edit them on your computer, without having to type up the entire document first? ...

Expert PDF has long been a popular alternative to the more expensive Adobe Acrobat as a PDF editing and conversion solution, and the new version 6.0 promises a number of powerful additions and improvements. For the ...

ACT! seems to have been around forever, with the latest implementation the eleventh in the long, long, history of this popular contact management package. Despite which it goes on getting better, with plenty to tempt new ...

It's a compelling question. While the Google Apps suite of products has a convenience factor for individuals looking to take their documents from place to place without the worry of software compatibility or major storage restrictions, ...

I've a confession to make. Although I've reviewed Mindjet's mind mapping software, MindManager, a number of times now, it's never really grabbed my imagination, at least not in the way it has with some of the ...

As some of you will no doubt be aware, StarOffice is based on the OpenOffice suite (although, confusingly, OpenOffice was initially based on an early version of StarOffice). Naturally, there's a number of differences between them, ...

While other databases have either been brushed aside by Microsoft Access or sidelined in favour of products that handle specific tasks like inventory, contact management and time billing, FileMaker Pro just keeps on going, courtesy of ...

Because of its huge market share it's easy to forget that Microsoft's Exchange Server isn't the only email and collaboration server on the block. Indeed, if you're a small business there are plenty of cheaper and ...

One of the hassles involved in running a small to medium sized enterprise is managing the software that your employees use to go about their daily tasks. Leaving aside word processors and spreadsheet applications for a ...

If you currently pay for Microsoft's Office suite (or any other office suite for that matter), are on the look-out for an alternative and aren't a ‘power user', then the completely free and gratis OpenOffice has ...

Serif's flagship program, PagePlus, has entered its teens with version X3 but the company is still building in major new features. As background, PagePlus X2 could already create and edit all kinds of print and electronic ...

A brand name that has had a shoehorn into the low-cost office suite market for many years, Ability has been pushed a little to the sidelines by the OpenOffice.org movement in recent times, but that shouldn't ...

So Adobe's done it. Having worked for well over a decade to make its PDF file format ubiquitous, it's finally made it as an ISO standard for electronic documents. Almost in celebration, Adobe has released version ...

Databases are useful, but if you've had to grapple with tools like Access you'll know how fiendishly complicated they can be. Little wonder that most of us turn to spreadsheets instead, which may not be as ...

It's hard not to have some sympathy for Corel's WordPerfect Office suite. For some time it's been delivering a set of tools that at worst tend to equate to those that rival Microsoft puts out, usually ...

The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working, and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the edge, it's ...

Aimed at the small business with little or no bookkeeping expertise, the latest version of Sage Instant Accounts is designed to make life easier for the accounting novice. There are no big changes, more a collection ...

The next step up from a standalone Voice over IP (VoIP) phone is your own, in-house switchboard (PBX), able to support multiple extensions, handle voicemail, route incoming calls and so on. Hardware solutions can be expensive ...