There's a concise advertising message with this product; do your books, and do them quickly and Intuit(ively). A somewhat "brick-through-your-window" advertising delivery, true enough, but there's an inherent appeal therein, mainly because this isn't mere marketing ...

Being able to dictate to your PC and have it reproduce the text in Word, Word Perfect or Outlook Express still has a twinge of magic about it. That's what Dragon Naturally Speaking does, though, and ...

It's hard to justify the installation of hundreds of megabytes of office software when all you really want to do is run off a few letters, keep track of the accounts with a spreadsheet and maybe ...

For the average business user, keeping in touch with contacts, organising meetings, sharing information and generally maintaining details of work-related activities is fundamental to the smooth and successful running of your company. Frontline Solutions has just ...

The plethora of accounting packages available for the small business user can seem quite daunting and choosing the correct type for your business is not always easy. TAS Software has recognised this and produces a range ...

It's been a while since we last reviewed a 'Mind Your Own Business' product (here) and things have moved on a little since then, both in terms of program features and version numbers. This version, which ...

Talking to your computer is one of the first signs of madness, probably. More realistically, given the average PC, it's generally a choice of yelling at it to relieve your frustrations or forking out for a ...

This OCR (optical character recognition) product comes in two versions; one for Western European languages and another which adds support for Cyrillic languages. The former, which is the one we've reviewed here, supports recognition of 122 ...

Speech recognition is an application which has been 'nearly there' for a long time. Early examples worked to an extent, but needed a lot of training and had to be pulled up immediately they made mistakes, ...

There are several software packages on the market that incorporate data from the electoral roll to allow you to find phone numbers and addresses based on people's names. UK-Info Disk 2002 Version 7 is one such ...

CRM is a popular acronym in the IT press. It stands for "customer relationship management" and explains how companies have to keep close tabs on the way they're dealing with their customers. This has obvious benefits ...

One of the best-selling collections of business applications is Microsoft's Works Suite and it looks as if Corel wants a slice of the action. In the same way that Microsoft combined related but separate applications into ...

Adobe's PDF (portable document format) is a compact and efficient way of distributing product specifications, brochures and other formatted documents. It's convenient because the file size is kept to a minimum, relatively complex page formatting is ...

Communicate (there's supposed to be an exclamation mark at the end of the name, but...) is an all-in-one fax, voice and data messaging system. It is aimed at the home office user who wants the features ...

For the average computer user, Notepad and Wordpad are the only text editors required. But for more demanding users who, for example, need to edit and create HTML code, develop Perl, VisualBasic or C++ programs, or ...

MapPoint is one of the least-known of Microsoft's line-up of office applications, yet it's arguably one of the most interesting, particularly for sales and marketing departments. At its heart is the concept of geographical data mapping. ...

Back when OmniPage was developed and sold by Caere, there was an ongoing battle with Xerox's OCR software. It seemed that a new version of each product was released on a monthly basis, which helps explain ...

For those new to Money, this is a complete personal finance manager, not just a bank account and cash flow organiser. Money organises your savings and investments, and tracks performance with a built-in portfolio manager. You ...

Dragon has developed a reputation for delivering very high accuracy rates for its speech recognition software. However, compared to some of its rivals it has lacked some frills and functionality in its command interface. Version 5 ...

The latest version of Lernout & Hauspie's Power Translator Pro translates foreign letters, reports, e-mail and Web pages into English. Version 7.0 of the software supports six of the world's most widely-used languages including Spanish, German, ...