Archive for November, 2006

Outlook is overkill as a home/small-business personal information manager (PIM). I’ve abandoned it for this easy-to-use, inexpensive software that packs all the features I need including several Outlook 2003 lacks. The product wrangles info like a pro, with extensive calendaring, contact management, to-do, and note-taking functions that offer day, week, month, and year calendar...
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Workgroups in need of help managing their projects will appreciate Intuit’s QuickBase . This Web-based program offers a flexible means of coordinating sales, marketing, customer service, and other business projects. I looked at the final version of the recently revamped application and discovered that, while larger companies requiring QuickBase’s power will find a lot...
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Casual photographers will appreciate the straightforward organization and editing tools in Corel’s $40 Snapfire Plus, but they may be left wishing that its editing functions were a bit more flexible. Snapfire’s user interface is well laid out and easy to navigate. You can accomplish your basic editing with just a few clicks, but only...
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Lately, every time you turn around Microsoft seems to be releasing or rechristening a Web service with the Windows Live moniker. To date, seeing how all of these Windows Live tools work together has been difficult, but in the new Windows Live Toolbar 3 for Internet Explorer 6 we finally get an inkling of...
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Spyware Terminator delivers, absolutely free, comprehensive anti-spyware with anti-virus protection. “The best things in life are free.” Now that saying applies to the ultimate in real-time anti-spyware and anti-virus protection. Spyware Terminator, from Crawler, gives users the peace of mind that pesky spyware programs can be stopped at the gate and disabled before they...
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Hard drive performance is one of the major bottlenecks in today’s PCs: The drives just can’t feed data fast enough to system memory. And matters only get worse if a hard drive is severely fragmented. Windows ships with a basic utility to combat the problem of disk fragmentation, but power users need something more...
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If you’re the type of user who never likes to shut down or restart your machine, PGWare’s SuperRAM 5 may become one of your favorite applications. This tiny program optimizes a system by freeing wasted memory that crashed, closed, or otherwise disabled applications or services didn’t properly release. You can run SuperRAM 5 as...
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