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 ...

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, ...