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SO YOU'RE ANNOYED, EH? Ticked off about your PC's dumb habits? You've come to the right place, because I'm PC World's foremost complainer. And my editors have unleashed me to […]

Versions * Novell GroupWise 6/5 It's a phone call any GroupWise administrator would hate to get. A virus is eating through the company network, and it appears it was introduced […]

For all the keen interest in front-office/back-office integration, end users find themselves in a dilemma. Their predicament, as summarized by Accpac product marketing vice president Craig Downing, is this: 'I'm […]

ASK ANY INTERNAL AUDITOR TO NAME HIS OR HER favorite audit software, and you're likely to get a lengthy response. Auditors who favor a particular tool often feel quite strongly [...]

RECENTLY, A DEVELOPER complained to me about 'Excel hell.' Intrigued by the colorful description, I asked him to elaborate, and he said he was concerned about the proliferation of automation […]

The electronic spreadsheet, the first 'killer app' for the PC, enabling the user to create, visualize and change calculations, altered the accounting world forever. Junk bond financier Michael Miliken once [...]

AT THE GARTNER SYMPOSIUM in April 2002, much of the discussion in the keynote interview of eBay's CEO, Meg Whitman, and President, Maynard Webb, focused on some of the outages […]

Is momentum building for the revolutionary business process of CPFR? IT HAS BEEN SEVEN YEARS SINCE WAL-MART Stores and Warner-Lambert Co. tested an early version of Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and [...]

The Laptop That Plays Anything Toshiba describes its Satellite 5105-S607 as the ultimate multimedia notebook. You can see why without even opening it. The front edge has an infrared port [...]

Few of us are completely satisfied with the speed of our desktop PCs or the servers that most of us have to use--hence the huge market in processor, memory, disk […]

When I hear that organizations have decided to enter the wireless/mobile space I often think of the television commercial in which two businessmen say confidently to each other, 'We can […]

No one doubts the enormous benefits that open-architecture computing holds for quality control systems and continuous improvement programs. Using an open computing network, a supervisory control system would be able [...]

The so-called duopoly of Intel and Microsoft brought one great advantage to personal computing -- a uniform runtime platform for application software. Application software developers need only code the application […]

'There's no such thing as an XML application.' A strong statement, perhaps, but what do we mean when we talk about an XML application? Is a publishing system that relies […]

WELCOME TO OUR ANNUAL REVIEW of the products that help Mac users work and play--the Editors' Choice Awards. Macworld's editors surveyed every Mac product released between November 1, 2000, and […]

THE ARCHITECTS OF MICROSOFT'S Visual Studio.NET may not have had data-acquisition and instrumentation applications in mind when they created their new environment for software development, deployment, and maintenance, but they [...]

In last month's Power User, we looked at the ramifications of applying the various Outlook security updates available to deal with mail-borne viruses and other threats. This month, we're again […]

If you're like most people, you've spent years building your music collection. From Elvis on vinyl to Kiss on eight-track to Men at Work on cassette, you bought tons of […]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE a mobile warrior when.., your laptop case weighs more than your suitcase. Hot syncs are more important than hot showers. You've seen more movies on airplanes than [...]

Pharmaceutical companies are generating more biological and chemical data than ever before but have yet to capitalize on the data's full potential. The ability to use data to make better, [...]

While the notion of computers that can do our thinking for us will remain in the realm of science fiction for many years to come, the age of intelligent software […]

AFTER LANGUISHING IN THE SHADOW of the Palm Pilot, the Windows CE-based Pocket PC platform is showing new vigor and deserves careful consideration for your next embedded project. With a [...]

Case Study: Savannah R-III school district. Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier Software Enrich Learning for Gifted, Educationally Motivated Students (GEMS) The 40 Gifted, Educationally Motivated Students (GEMS) […]

With Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0, you can securely hook your LAN to the Net and increase performance. Security and performance are two keys when it comes to connecting your LAN […]

OEMs and suppliers are replacing their dated and rigid business information systems with enterprise solutions to implement processes that improve material and information flow within the supply chain. In the [...]

When our friends at Pull Down Your Pants Productions (founded by three very talented ex- Industrial Light & Magic folks) asked us to contribute visual effects for their motion picture […]

Adobe Photoshop's selection tools have long ranked among the program's most attractive features. Armed with marquee, lasso, or magic wand, you can isolate a specific element inside a photograph. After […]

When people start talking about the big 'four-oh,' they usually look down in the mouth (unless it's someone else's birthday). However, the long-awaited 4.0 version of the world's most popular […]

Intranet sites are supposed to make life simpler. But managing company intranets, many of which contain thousands of document pages, has proven to be difficult and costly. New intranet search […]

50-plus tips for mastering Netscape and Explorer. The internet goes through more changes than Bill Clinton's cabinet. Unfortunately, the software you use to access it changes almost as quickly. Browsers […]

Before the first electronic spreadsheet, Visicalc, burst on the scene in the early 1980s, spreadsheet preparation was a slow, painful, manual job. Although Visicalc proved that the silicon chip was [...]

PEPSI-COLA GENERAL BOTTLERS, THE LARGEST INDEPENDENT PEPSI BOTTLER IN THE WORLD, is ill the process of migrating off an S/390 mainframe onto an HP 9000-T520 UNIX system. Pepsi began the […]

In the first wave of Web sites, companies simply advertised what they had to sell, But a new class of software may help customers tell companies exactly what they would […]

The latest trend among library automation software publishers that create integrated online library systems (IOLS) software is the development of versions of IOLS software to run on the Windows NT […]

Overhauled interface spotlights hidden strength for Web and print designers Both old and new again--that's the new PageMaker. Version 6.5 adds a range of useful new features, but the best […]

Our expert guide to the new interface gets you up to speed fast Some of you are not going to like Adobe Photoshop 4. Not at first, anyway. If you're […]

The new packages for calculating corporate budgets consolidate spreadsheets and create financial models, Used wisely, they can even enable the finance department to improve profitability. Just make sure you aren't […]

Lynn Brenton uses Quicken to handle her personal finances, and overall she's very happy with the program. But the Decatur, Georgia-based computer specialist for a lighting fixture manufacturer knows the […]

HTML-based CD-ROM is a valuable medium. It has advantages for consumer title developers and small organizations who wish to reach huge audiences inexpensively and across a variety of platforms. The […]

That's how Ted Temkin, director of the mental health division of Humana Health Care Plans -- Chicago describes the position of behavioral health when it comes to healthcare disciplines receiving [...]

There are almost as many replication schemes as there are databases that use the technology, Our database consultant tells you just exactly what's what and who's got what, Plunge into […]

The seemingly endless IS quest for how best to get data into a database has given way to a different imperative: the search for the optimal methods for pulling data […]

NT IS STILL LACKING A FEW FEATURES available in UNIX and other enterprise-level Operating systems, one of the most important of which is clustering. Early NT-clustering products are now on […]

If you're like most IS managers, your ideal site would run a single operating system. Right, and winning the lottery would be nice, too, but what are the chances? Increasingly, […]

You know the drill: Never, ever buy the first release. And if you do, use it only in some small pilot project, hidden away in some obscure corner of your […]

* The folks at PacifiCare were committed to building a data warehouse. A good OLAP tool would let them peek inside and manipulate the data. It's April 15--a day on […]

The IS director for a large manufacturing company has a dilemma. As a newly inked SAP America customer, the technology chief wants to remain mum on his company's decision to […]

There must be hundreds of help desk software vendors. Why not? It's a snap to code a little call tracker, add a third-party text retriever, and call it a product. […]

An operating system without applications is like a car without gasoline: You know what it's supposed to do, but you won't know how it performs until you gas it up. […]