The most recent Software articles from What PC?

Ulead DVD Picture Show

Ben Lewis — 2002-09-13T11:01:57.000Z

Ben Lewis, What PC?, Friday 13 September 2002 at 11:01:57

An excellent way to store and share digital images.

Burning to disc has now become the most easy and efficient way to store and display digital photography, but software is needed to prepare information for transfer....

E-Promo CD-R Presenter

Ben Lewis — 2002-09-12T11:22:01.000Z

Ben Lewis, What PC?, Thursday 12 September 2002 at 11:22:01

A simple but well-executed program for making business-card-sized CDs, CD-Rs or DVD-Rs.

When presenting yourself in business or personal circles, it is important to make a good impression. E-Promocard has therefore designed this program for making business-card-sized CDs, CD-Rs or DVD-Rs.Called CD-R...

Showshifter

Cliff Joseph — 2002-09-12T11:18:38.000Z

Cliff Joseph, What PC?, Thursday 12 September 2002 at 11:18:38

Showshifter promises to turn your PC into a digital video recorder and save you up to £300 in the process.

Showshifter is a very useful piece of software that could save you £200 to £300. That is the cost of buying one of the latest digital video recorders (DVRs) such...

Sun StarOffice 6

Anthony Smith — 2002-09-09T15:02:32.000Z

Anthony Smith, What PC?, Monday 9 September 2002 at 15:02:32

At a fraction of the price of market leader Microsoft Office, StarOffice is an attractive option for the cost-conscious user.

In place of a review, we could have printed a comparative table highlighting the strengths and deficiencies of StarOffice against those of Microsoft Office, the undisputed market leader in office...

Nova Video Explosion Deluxe

Ben Lewis — 2002-09-06T10:29:25.000Z

Ben Lewis, What PC?, Friday 6 September 2002 at 10:29:25

Video Explosion will bring out the Steven Spielberg in you.

Video Explosion Deluxe is the latest addition to the steady stream of new DVD video-editing suites currently hitting the market....

Scarlet Software Crazy Talk 2.51

Leo Waldock — 2002-09-04T09:37:38.000Z

Leo Waldock, What PC?, Wednesday 4 September 2002 at 09:37:38

More sophisticated than the animation in Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Most people know that movie clips take up a large amount of hard drive space and that streaming media only works well over a high-speed internet connection....

Abbyy FineReader Professional 6.0

Cliff Joseph — 2002-08-29T14:00:17.000Z

Cliff Joseph, What PC?, Thursday 29 August 2002 at 14:00:17

Low-cost OCR software that converts printed pages into editable text and graphics files.

Optical character recognition (OCR) software is very much a niche market. Most people will never need to do any OCR work at all.But if you do find you need to...

Roxio Toast With Jam

Cliff Joseph — 2002-08-02T10:44:24.000Z

Cliff Joseph, What PC?, Friday 2 August 2002 at 10:44:24

The latest version of this popular Mac CD-creation application boasts many new features and an incredibly daft name.

There are several CD-creation programs available for PC owners, but the Mac side of the CD software market has long been dominateed by one application....

Jasc After Shot Premium Edition

Andy Gordon — 2002-07-11T12:20:38.000Z

Andy Gordon, What PC?, Thursday 11 July 2002 at 12:20:38

Paint Shop Pro's little brother is very affordable and crammed with useful features.

Jasc is an old hand at digital imaging. It is the company behind Paint Shop Pro, the hugely popular graphics software that emerged as an affordable alternative to Adobe's Photoshop.After...

Roxio WinOnCD 5

Ben Lewis — 2002-07-05T11:34:27.000Z

Ben Lewis, What PC?, Friday 5 July 2002 at 11:34:27

Roxio's multimedia authoring software offers professional editing facilities in an easy-to-use package.

CD-burning software has become a saleable commodity in the PC market now that most new computers include CD-RW drives. People have taken quickly to the idea of burning music compilations....

Intuit Quicken 2002

Paul Wardley — 2002-07-04T10:42:22.000Z

Paul Wardley, What PC?, Thursday 4 July 2002 at 10:42:22

The finance manager gets an upgrade.

Intuit started selling Quicken in 1984. When reviewing a software product with such a long history, it is easy to assume that everybody already knows about the program.This assumption can...

Microsoft Works Suite 2002

Andy Gordon — 2002-07-02T12:46:30.000Z

Andy Gordon, What PC?, Tuesday 2 July 2002 at 12:46:30

A well-balanced suite that works out cheaper than buying components individually.

For home-office workers Microsoft offers three varied suites of software. At the top end is Office XP, which includes Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint and costs over £400....

Choosing the perfect software package

Andy Gordon — 2002-06-06T23:00:00.000Z

Andy Gordon, What PC?, Thursday 6 June 2002 at 23:00:00

You need the right software to make your PC do what you want. We look at typical tasks and suggest suitable packages to carry them out.

In an effort to keep prices down, a number of today's PCs come with nothing more than Microsoft Windows pre-installed.Windows itself only provides the user with basic facilities and, to...

Adobe Photoshop 7

Cliff Joseph — 2002-05-15T11:09:43.000Z

Cliff Joseph, What PC?, Wednesday 15 May 2002 at 11:09:43

Quite simply the best photo editing program in the history of the universe.

Photoshop is an expensive title aimed at professional designers and photographers. However, it dominates the image editing market to such an extent that many non-professionals buy it simply because it's...

Ontrack EasyRecovery FileRepair

Dominic Bucknall — 2002-05-14T13:18:37.000Z

Dominic Bucknall, What PC?, Tuesday 14 May 2002 at 13:18:37

Welcome to the Last Chance Saloon of the software world.

The version of FileRepair we reviewed is designed to rebuild damaged files created by Microsoft Office applications. In fact FileRepair is more of a toolkit than a single, integrated product,...