The most recent Software Reviews from VNU Business Publications

REVIEW: Linguatec Personal Translator 2008 Professional Edition

Marcus Austin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:55:00 GMT

Marcus Austin, CRN, Friday 9 May 2008 at 13:55:00

Translates and speaks in seven languages

Personal Translator enables users to translate text into and from seven different languages (English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portugese and Chinese) using a dictionary with over 3.8 million words, it...

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REVIEW: Blubox

Marcus Austin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:52:00 GMT

Marcus Austin, CRN, Friday 9 May 2008 at 13:52:00

Zipless picture compression

Blubox is an easy-to-use tool that quickly compresses and de-compresses digital photos for sharing over the internet. Blubox uses what it calls the Blu format to offer a dramatic improvement...

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REVIEW: Magix Movie Edit Pro 14 Plus

Marcus Austin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:00 GMT

Marcus Austin, CRN, Friday 9 May 2008 at 13:49:00

A powerful and affordable video editor

There is no doubt that Movie Edit Pro 14 Plus is packed full of useful video-editing tools. However, they are often presented to the user in a confusing manner....

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REVIEW: Avanquest Fix-It Utilities 8 Professional

Marcus Austin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:43:00 GMT

Marcus Austin, CRN, Friday 9 May 2008 at 13:43:00

A selection of tools to cure computer ailments

Fix-It Utilities is designed to keep a computer running smoothly and fix problems using a huge selection of hard-disk optimisation tools, fix-it utilities and a special disk that will boot...

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Avanquest Fix-It Utilities 8 Professional

Marcus Austin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:43:00 GMT

Marcus Austin, CRN, Friday 9 May 2008 at 13:43:00

A selection of tools to cure computer ailments

Fix-It Utilities is designed to keep a computer running smoothly and fix problems using a huge selection of hard-disk optimisation tools, fix-it utilities and a special disk that will boot...

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REVIEW: Actinic Catalog v9

Marcus Austin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:37:00 GMT

Marcus Austin, CRN, Friday 9 May 2008 at 13:37:00

Actinic goes multi-channel

The latest version of Actinic's e-commerce package includes changes to help with site management, some enhanced usability, a new payment option, a welcome multi-channel facility and changes to accommodate Vista....

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REVIEW: Abbyy FineReader 9 Professional

Marcus Austin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:18:00 GMT

Marcus Austin, CRN, Friday 9 May 2008 at 13:18:00

OCRs any document on any media

FineReader 9 takes Abbyy's very successful OCR package and enhances the usability and recognition rates. The first change is QuickTasks, which gives access to regular OCR tasks....

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Review: Abbyy FineReader 9 Professional

Marcus Austin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:18:00 GMT

Marcus Austin, CRN, Friday 9 May 2008 at 13:18:00

OCRs any document on any media

FineReader 9 takes Abbyy's very successful OCR package and enhances the usability and recognition rates. The first change is QuickTasks, which gives access to regular OCR tasks....

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Review: System Suite 8 utility software

Anthony Dhanendran — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:53:00 GMT

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Thursday 8 May 2008 at 15:53:00

Cover all the PC protection bases

System Suite 8 aims to cover all the bases when it comes to protecting your PC, whether that's from online threats and criminal activity or from old-fashioned malfunctions and breakdowns....

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Review: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Nintendo DS game

Anthony Dhanendran — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:31:00 GMT

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 7 May 2008 at 15:31:00

More courtroom drama for the handheld console

Nintendo's DS handheld console has become home to a number of unusual but compelling games over the past few years. One surprise success was Capcom's conversion of an old title, Phoenix...

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Review: Beautiful Katamari Xbox 360 game

Anthony Dhanendran — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:15:00 GMT

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Sunday 4 May 2008 at 16:15:00

It's still all about the rolling

There's a certain beautiful simplicity in the notion of a game that involves rolling a big ball around. That's the essential working of the Katamari games, from the original Katamari...

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Review: Roxio MyDVD 10 Premier

Jonathan Parkyn — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:30:00 GMT

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Friday 2 May 2008 at 11:30:00

The quick and easy route to the Hollywood A-list?

When we first started testing Roxio MyDVD 10 Premier, we began to get a sense of déjà vu. It didn't take us long to realise this was because we had,...

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Review: Jack Keane

Jonathan Parkyn — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Jonathan Parkyn, Computeract!ve, Friday 2 May 2008 at 10:00:00

Head for the high seas in this adventurous nostalgia trip

Jack Keane is a light-hearted adventure game in which you play a cheeky young seafarer who finds himself on a mysterious remote island populated by lots of monkeys....

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Review: Modus Interactive Powerwise

Alan Stevens — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:44:00 GMT

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Thursday 1 May 2008 at 14:44:00

Go green with this energy-saving software

Soaring electricity prices have prompted more and more companies to look for ways of managing the amount of energy they consume....

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Review: Coreldraw Graphics Suite X4 design software

Anthony Dhanendran — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:26:00 GMT

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 29 April 2008 at 15:26:00

Easy-to-use but powerful drawing software

Coreldraw has a long history as a drawing tool, having been around for nearly 20 years. It's aimed primarily at illustrators, but it's easy enough to use that home users...

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Review: Audiosurf

Jonathan Parkyn — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Monday 28 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Race to become top of the pops with this innovative indie game

One of the great things about computer gaming is that for every expensive, samey shooter there are several instantly playable free games online (here, for instance)....

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Review: Blubox utility software

Andrew Zarkesh — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Andrew Zarkesh, Computeract!ve, Sunday 27 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Save space with a new kind of compression tool

Despite the high download speeds of modern broadband connections, upload speeds remain low. This is why it's still much quicker to compress large image files before uploading them to the...

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Review: Playstation Portable Go Messenger service

Jonathan Parkyn — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:06:00 GMT

Jonathan Parkyn, Computeract!ve, Friday 25 April 2008 at 12:06:00

Get talking on your PSP

Go Messenger is a new software add-on for Sony's Playstation Portable (PSP) games console that allows users to communicate with each other in various ways: via video, voice and text...

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Review: Corel WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray

Cliff Joseph — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Friday 25 April 2008 at 00:00:00

DVD player that upscales standard movies to near-HD quality

Any PC with a DVD drive will probably have at least two DVD players already installed on it - the standard Windows Media Player and another player that was bundled...

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Review: Carbonite backup software

Simon Williams — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Simon Williams, Computeract!ve, Thursday 24 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Would you trust a backup of your vital data stored in Boston (Massachusetts, not Lincolnshire)? There's no reason why not

Online backup has been around for a while but the idea behind Carbonite is to make it easier, so the user hardly even knows it's happening....

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Review: Recover My Files utility software

Paul Wardley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Paul Wardley, Computeract!ve, Thursday 24 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Bring deleted files back from the dead

It's all too easy to accidentally lose files, either by clearing out the Recycle Bin at the wrong time or through over-zealous pruning....

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Review: Nuance PDF Converter 5 Professional utility software

Simon Williams — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Simon Williams, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 23 April 2008 at 00:00:00

If you can't afford Acrobat or need more flexibility handling PDFs, Nuance has an application you should see

Adobe's PDF format is now popular - a version of it has been accepted as an international standard and there are several programs, in addition to Adobe Acrobat, that can...

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Review: Army of Two Xbox 360 action game

Anthony Dhanendran — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Saturday 19 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Buddy up and get shooting

Unlike most combat games, which pitch the player in on his or her own, Army of Two gives you a buddy with whom to face the terror....

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Review: Lost: The Video Game

Jonathan Parkyn — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Thursday 17 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Fun while it lasts, but not challenging

Television programmes tend not to get the computer game treatment as frequently as feature films do and there's probably a good reason we never see desktop adaptations of Coronation Street...

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Review: Art and Craft T-Shirts and Transfers Kit children's software

Cliff Joseph — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cliff Joseph, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 15 April 2008 at 00:00:00

A simple and affordable way to be crafty with your computer

Art and Craft Studio is a series of affordable and easy-to-use design programs aimed at home users who want to experiment with creative projects at home....

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