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The programmers at Netscape have made a two-headed monster of a browser in the new Netscape 8, which lets you view Web pages as if you were running Mozilla Foundation's […]

No one appreciates saving money more than small-business owners. Corel is betting on that with its $599 WordPerfect Office 12 Small Business Edition, which it touts as a low-cost suite […]

THE PROGRAMMERS at Netscape have made a two-headed monster of a browser in the new Netscape 8, which lets you view Web pages as if you were running Mozilla Foundation's […]

NO ONE APPRECIATES saving money more than small-business owners. Corel is betting on that with its $399 WordPerfect Office 12 Small Business Edition, which it touts as a low-cost suite […]

If you need an easier way to share and comment on documents, take a look at Adobe's Acrobat 7 Professional. The $839 program lets you create Portable Document Format (PDF) […]

IF YOU NEED an easier way to share and comment on documents, take a look at Adobe's Acrobat 7 Professional. The $449 program lets you create Portable Document Format files […]

IF YOU FIND yourself spending more time sorting your e-mail than reading it, consider the Mozilla Foundation's new Thunderbird e-mail client. The free program, which complements the group's Firefox browser, […]

THERE'S A NEW CHALLENGER for the browser crown, offering security the champ can't match. Microsoft appeared to put a resounding end to the browser wars back in the late 1990s […]

GRAPHICS PROS will notice a new look to Wacom's Intuos 3 tablet. Gone is the row of function keys that graced previous models; instead, it features four programmable buttons, called […]

Act! 7.0 is a major revamp including more than 50 new features for Interact Commerce Corporation's venerable contact management software. Its new interface is largely an evolutionary jump, but the […]

TO CAPTURE FIRST-rate video, get the most portable camcorder you can afford, carry it wherever you go, and be ready to start recording at a moment's notice. Use a tripod […]

Why sink hundreds of dollars into an office software suite with scores of features you'll never use? Microsoft's, $99.95 Works 8 gives you all the word processing, spreadsheet, database, and […]

Act 2005 is a major revamp of Best Software's venerable contact management software. Its new interface is largely an evolutionary jump, but the new database underneath effectively makes this a […]

YOU WOULDN'T use a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame, so why would you sink hundreds of dollars into an of. rice software suite with scores of features you'll never […]

ABOUT FIVE minutes away from home, you voice-activate your VoIP-based mobile phone, set your house's thermostat to a comfy 68 degrees, and preheat the oven. As you pull into the […]

VIEWPOINT'S new toolbar combines the company's graphics technology with Yahoo's search engine to create an Internet Explorer add-on that serves up convenient thumbnail images of your search result pages before […]

Prophet 2004 brings customer relationship management (CRM) techniques to Microsoft Outlook. Unlike Act 6, GoldMine 6.5, and even Microsoft's own Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003, this plug-in works directly […]

IF YOUR WORK involves using Microsoft Outlook, you probably know that the savvier it becomes, the more productive you can be. Avidian Technologies' $150 Prophet 2004 can help you get […]

IF YOU'RE LOOKING to add a little more depth to your Web site, Adobe's $399 Atmosphere may be the tool for you. Designed to make it easier and less expensive […]

WIRELESS NETWORKING IT DIDN'T TAKE long for the wireless network in my home to become a necessity. Still, no matter how I tweaked the settings, the back patio remained a […]

Vision has long been the application of choice for business and technical professionals who produce flowcharts, organisation charts, time lines, network diagrams and the like. If you're new to Visio, […]

Microsoft's $369 Office FrontPage 2003 Web-design software adds some great tools to help new users post an inviting Web site quickly and simply. Chief among its improvements is better HTML […]

The shiny new Platinum version of Wacom's Intuos2 graphics tablet is designed to look right at home in a digital artist's workspace. But don't let its pretty face fool you: […]

THE SHINY new Platinum version of Wacom's Intuos2 graphics tablet is designed to look right at home in a digital artist's workspace. But don't let its pretty face fool you: […]

If you think that your only business productivity software options are an old version of Microsoft Office or a new version of Microsoft Office, think again: Corel has released a […]

IF YOU THINK that your only business-productivity software options are an old version of Microsoft Office or a new version of Microsoft Office, think again: Corel has released a new […]

Workgroups can now get more out of their favourite Microsoft Office applications by using them less. Rather than collaborating on separate files that make up a typical project (a Word […]

WORKGROUPS CAN now get more out of their favorite Microsoft Office applications by using them less. Rather than collaborating on separate files that make up a typical project (a Word […]

Do you only occasionally need to convert a single document to PDF? Try a program such as PdfEdit995, which is available free (with banner ads) from www.pdf995.com or our April […]

DOUGHNUTS AND WEB sites have at least one thing in common: Freshness counts. But relying on professional Web developers to keep your site's information up-to-date can quickly get expensive. Macromedia's […]

Creative TravelSound, $199, www.creativelabs.com.au **** When you're on the move with your notebook, one thing that really limits is the sound quality. This highly portable set of speakers would add […]

Logitech MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse, $190, www.logitech.com **** Though the MX700 may sound like the name of some exotic testosterone-driven sports car, it's not: it belongs to Logitech's Lamborghini of […]

Kensington FlyLight and FlyFan, $24.95 each, www.kensington.com ****1/2 With their flexible, 38cm extensions, the ingenious Kensington FlyLight and FlyFan are highly practical--and simple--notebook add-ons. They have no switches or software: […]

Ultra Mini USB 4-Port Hub, $50, http:// australia.targus.com **** Targus has staked a strong patch in the market for practical, affordable accessories. This USB hub is all that--and cool, too. […]

Belkin PenLight, $29.95, www.helkin.com/anz ****1/2 Belkin adds a tiny but surprisingly bright LED tip to its PenLight PDA stylus. Spring action in the twist-on power switch at the top of […]

Addonics Mini DigiDrive, $40, www.addonics.com and www.bits.com.au **** Raise your hand if your desktop PC lacks a drive to read and write small memory cards for cameras, MP3 players, notebooks, […]

USB Drive, $98 (16MB), www.usbdrive.com.au **** Imagine a hard drive the size of a small cigarette lighter. That's what you get with this tiny 16MB USB storage device. Simply plug […]

Kensington StudioMouse, $89.95, www.kensington.com **** Most of the time, mice don't get much respect. Plug 'em in, click left, click right, scroll--that's about it. The tricks the StudioMouse performs will […]

SanDisk Cruzer, $233 (128MB), www.sandisk.com ****1/2 Floppy drives are almost history. Even Zip drives can hardly compete with the latest in high-capacity flash memory. But until recently, people had no […]

Keyspan Mini Port Replicator, $179, www.keyspan.com and www.fosh.com.au **** Something's missing from most notebooks--and many desktop computers--made in the past year: serial and parallel ports. Maybe that's the price of […]

Xitel HiFi-Link, $119, www.xitel.com and www.minidiscaccessories.com **** We weren't so impressed the first time we looked at this product, but Xitel engineers convinced us to give their HiFi-Link PC-to-stereo connector […]

RoadWired Pod, $94, www.roadwired.com or www.baltronics.com.au **** It's called The Pod, and with more than 20 pockets and compartments, this 17.78x16.51cm bag has space that belies its size. The fully-padded, […]

MP3 WAV Converter 2.65, 2.6MB, $US20 ****1/2 When it comes to digital music, sometimes you want the compactness of MP3s, and sometimes you want the quality of a CD. MP3 […]

MakePDF for Word 4, 1.7MB, $US35 **** Maybe you need to convert your heavily formatted Microsoft Word documents to Adobe's Portable Document Format so people who don't have Word running […]

Wordware Personal Information Manager 2002a, 602KB, $US24 **** A cottage industry has developed around utilities that add functions Microsoft neglected to provide in Word. One of the most useful of […]

Delta Mail, 76KB, $US12 ****1/2 Two words people rarely use when describing e-mail software: simple and safe. Delta Mail's (www.zenzon.fsnet.co.uk/ download.html) clean interface recalls the days when e-mail clients weren't […]

IF YOUR only encounters with Macromedia Flash--used primarily to create Web navigation and other interface elements--have been via gratuitous Web animations, get ready for a change. The features added to […]

YOU DON'T NEED a sledgehammer to hang a picture on the wall, and you don't need a $400 software package in order to create and post a simple Web site: […]