We'll make no secret of the fact that we like Intuit's QuickBooks software. We've used it for running our own accounts in the past and we were impressed by the enhancements implemented in recent incarnations of ...

There's an old adage that runs along the lines of never judging a book by its cover. Usually, it refers to something that looks an awful lot better than it actually is. In this case, quite ...

If you often need to print documents in unusual formats, then ClickBook might be what you are looking for. But let's be clear from the start; it is not a design and print application. The design ...

The Portable Document Format, PDF to its friends, has arguably been Adobe's finest gift to the computing world. Yet now that its PDF creation package, Acrobat, has reached the seventh incarnation in its comparably brief life-span, ...

The number of speech recognition systems readily available for general use has been dropping over the years, and with IBM saying it's no longer actively developing ViaVoice, ScanSoft's Dragon Naturally Speaking is the only real player. ...

Reviewing Microsoft Works Suite 2005 is, for us, like visiting Harrods in the January sale. We can't afford 95% of their distinctly overpriced products for the rest of the year, but when they're benevolent enough to ...

Quicken 2004 XG, as with Microsoft's Money 2004, is a product waiting for the banking world to catch up with it. Its aim of getting you to effectively manage your finances has stood it in good ...

Adobe currently markets three editions of its Acrobat software for creating PDF documents, the cheapest being Acrobat Elements which costs £50 per seat as long as you purchase a minimum licence for 1,000 seats. ScanSoft's PDF ...

Ability Office (last reviewed here) has, for many years now, been pitched as the low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office. With a sub-£50 retail price, its suite of programs has always matched Microsoft's market leader in terms ...

It would perhaps be easy to imagine that Microsoft Office rules the roost when it comes to office suites, and that no other products stand a chance. That is certainly not the case, however, and Word ...

With the capability of handling up to eight terabytes of data, and a boast that it's "the world's leading workgroup database software", you could immediately be forgiven for thinking that FileMaker 7 Pro is a piece ...

Some time ago we took a look at Corel's WordPerfect Family Pack 5, a compilation of seven applications for a reasonable £65. For its comparable Works Suite 2004, Microsoft is asking twice as much and offering ...

OpenOffice.org is one of the main pretenders to the Microsoft Office throne, one of the few that can measure up to one of the most formidable office suites in the world. There's a number of features ...

Adobe may have invented the Portable Document Format (PDF) standard, and its free Acrobat reader is, without doubt, one of the most downloaded tools on the Web. However, it doesn't have a total monopoly on the ...

There's little realistic hope that in a review of this size we can possibly get across the intricacies and details of Microsoft's latest edition of its hugely successful Office suite. And, being perfectly truthful, there's a ...

Users of GoldMine, the contact management software for businesses, will already be aware of its key strengths. The core of the software is its ability to capture, organise and make available information relating to contacts, marketing ...

Perhaps it's an indictment of how far Money 2004 is from the usual user-friendly Microsoft approach; the firm includes a tutorial book, Microsoft Money Made Easy, with the Financial Suite edition we've got on test here. ...

At an attractive price point, Corel's WordPerfect Family Pack 5 is clearly battling the likes of Microsoft's Works Suite, throwing in seven applications at a surprisingly decent cost. That Corel sweetens the deal with a total ...

As the information age unravels at a faster and faster rate in the world and workplace, we find that our little "hamster" wheels are spinning with an ever-quickening pace as we try to keep up with ...

Sending an e-mail is a bit like sending a postcard, in that it can be read by all and sundry on its way from the sender to the recipient. Not, though, if you subscribe to XenoMail ...