FontAgent - Insider Software offers this font management tool for Mac OS X. You can activate, manage, preview and print your fonts with this package. This is a tool for designers that claims to repair and optimize the fonts. It helps reduce font related lockups and crashes. All the …

I recently bought Paint Shop Pro 9 to help me in my website that I am building. I really like it, and I’m glad I bought it. My favorite part about it is the Animation software. On this part, you can make great animations or cool banners or even …

I recently purchased FrontPage 2003 in order to make a website. I have NO experience with websites or computer graphics/language/anything. FrontPage 2003 is wonderful!! In practically no time, I had a pretty great looking website (I’m still working on it touching it up). This software is awesome! ANYONE can …

Aol instant messenger is a horrible program to get if you are using Earthlink DSL. it will crash your connection everytime you sign on and talk to people.
Aol has many fun features such as away messages, profiles, buddy icons, and specail fonts. Best of all–its free!
If you have a …

I have some free software on my computer called Ad-aware by Lavasoft. What it does is take out all the tracking cookies companies send into my computer to find out information. I didn’t like this so I decided I needed the free software to get it out of my …

Post It notes are fantastic things… especially if you’re a writer, like me, and you’re constantly getting loads of ideas for articles.
They stick to pretty much anything - but only for a certain amount of time. After this time has elapsed (I’m not sure quite how long this …

Xn view is an excellent image viewer I use. It is free to download . can download it from URL: http://www.xnview.com http://www.xnview.org The latest versuion is 4.47
Apart from image viewing, Xn view comes bundles with screnn capture toll , Image editing tool. The images can also …

iTunes is a great Apple invention! It is the software that holds all of your songs on your computer. It comes standard on all Macintosh computers and its free to download from the Apple website for everyone else! iTunes makes storing and ordering and categorizing your music so easy! …

I recently bought a new computer. It came with the AVG Antivirus 7.1 installed on it. Earlier i had used anti virus software like Norton and Zone Alarm but was never satisfied with their overall performance. But AVG Antivirus 7.1 seems to have come as the perfect solution. With …

Words have taken on a whole new meaning for me since I discovered this piece of software. Visual Thesaurus is a software package providing its users with an electronic thesaurus, available as a “desktop” version, via download or shipped CD-ROM, or an “internet” subscription version.
“Fine,” I hear you say. …

When I need to convert a Word, Excel, of PowerPoint file into a PDF file, I use PrimoPDF. This program is free to download, easy to install (and uninstall, if you no longer want it), and very easy to use. It creates high quality PDF files in seconds. After …

I used AVG free anti-virus software for about a year. When we got our stand alone computer, the technician installed a free version of AVG for us.
At first I thought AVG was great. I used it each day before logging on to the internet or using MS Office. I …

Irfanview 3.98 is another great freeware program available online. It allows you to resize, crop, and enhance the colors of photo media on your computer.
I find it much easier to work with than Kodak for resizing photos and provides many extra features, such as being able to change …

Audacity Software is freeware, and can easily be obtained by downloading it from online. This is great software for beginning sound record artists, or someone who is just looking to add some audio files to their computer. All you need is a microphone to plug into your …

I have the AVG Free Anti-Virus by Grisoft on my computer and just love it. It was completely free with no monthly fee for personal home computers. It was easy to install and started working immediately. My uncle who knows a lot about computers told me about it …

IrfanView - created by Irfan Skiljan, a bosnian programmer with a big heart, is known as a compact and easy to use image viewer. But it goes more than being an image viewer. You can also edit images using its effects library. Speaking of tools, this one makes real …

Finale 2005b is a great tool for writing music. Several different options are included that makes this a nice program.
First of all, there is the set-up wizard. This helps you to come up with a template for your piece of music. You can first …

Windows Defender (beta2)
I have enjoyed working with computers. This is my vocation. I am learning more and more everyday about computing. My first operating system was the Windows 98. I had dial-up service at that time. Downloading programs were much slower. The pop-ups were terrible. It was hard …

I’ve always wanted to write a novel, and although I did manage to achieve this a few years ago, I can’t help but think it would have been easier if I’d known about NewNovelist at the time.
NewNovelist is a software program that makes planning your novel much easier than …

Dreamweaver MX comes with a more simplified functionality in creating websites. The website tool is heavily loaded with several plug-ins ranging from servlets and other mini-scripts to database and publication and set-up over the internet.
In making a basic page, you can find the 1-Library item 2-Actionscript 2-css 3-javascript 4-xml. …

Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe recently announced it’s latest product as Photoshop CS2, the new second edition of Adobe’s Creative Suite. The new software combines the full new versions of it’s existing products ; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive and Acrobat 7.0 Pro. This move brings together the new features …

GenealogyJ 2.3.2 is free, open-source software for creating a family tree. The features that it offers are quite impressive. It can import a GEDCOM file from any family tree software and save to a GEDCOM so the file can be read by any family tree software. …

Google Desktop Search is a free search program that you can use to search your computer for documents and other files. It makes a small Google search box on your Windows taskbar and if you type something in the box it instantly finds files on your computer with …

it was really a hard work for me on image editting and Ulead photo impact 11 is simple and easy to edit images. Ulead photo impact 11 is a complete image-editing suite with easy-to-use tools for all my image and photo editing needs. my workspace fits the …

I got Quicken Premier 2003 at a garage sale and used it to upgrade from Quicken 98. I like the new user interface, with all of the account balances on the left and the information in the middle. I find the calculators, such as the savings/investment calculator, …

I have no graphic artist training. I have never been to university or college, but I learned how to lay out my own newsstand magazine in less than three weeks. The QuarkXpress web site has a free tutorial that is written for people who are not techie. If …

I have heard good things about Mozilla Firefox several times before deciding to try it.
This product is an alternative to Internet Explorer, a web browser.
It says that the product has better, more enhanced security features than its’ competitors and that it’s easy to use.
It’s a free download and easy …

Web Extractor.
It is irritating to browse the web hour after hour to download the flash and other Contents. Especially in case of research work. There are thousands of links and We have to click the mouse thousand times. It is also time consuming to browse
So large web space. But …

Adobe Audition 1.5 is one great audio editing program for both professionals and those who love to experiment with sound or even make music of their own on non-professional level.
Adobe Auditions offers a set of very useful features and doesn’t make it too complicated to figure how to use …

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 is the latest version of Acrobat and seems to be the least successful.
Basically I do not need a professional version, it was just available for downloading and installing and I wanted to upgrade an older version. Well why not?
It works perfectly well, and has all the …

Phot Impact is a graphic design program that is easily used to create web pages and web graphics.
I purchased this software a year ago with little expectation. It was on sale at a local computer shop and I decided to check it out. I have used programs like …

I’ve been running Norton on my PC for a long time. Most of the time it works well and I would say I it protects my PC rather well. Of course if fails from time to time which makes me frustrated, but I believe there isn’t yet a flawless …

I’m not a big fan of Microsoft, but I have to say that their Home Media Center is definitely something to be on the lookout for. I haven’t bought it yet but I am eagerly anticipating the chance to buy it (post-tax season). I watched the demonstration …

Being one of the most advances graphic programs in general, Photoshop has much more to offer in its new version.
It would take a lot of time to describe all the possibilities of Photoshop CS2. In a few words it is extremely handy software for photographers, image editors, artists, designers …

Macromedia Studio MX 2004 is a complete package of professional (web) designer software. The package includes the following programs: Dreamweaver MX 2004, Fireworks MX2004, Flash MX 2004, Freehand MX 2004, Coldfusion MX 6.1.
Each of this programs separately are great tools for web developers and designers. Being brought together in …

This is an awesome piece of screenwriting software that every screen writer should own. I have been using Final Draft as long as I’ve been writing screenplays. The software formats your screenplay for you in proper format, which is invaluable. it saves you TONS of time trying to make …

If you like to edit video, then final cut express can be a good video editing option for you. Final Cut Express is a consumer version of Macs award winning video editing software Final cut pro. the software doesnt have as many effects as the full version of the …

Firefox was my first experience with tabbed browsing, and consequently, is the browser that I associate with completely changing the way that I use the web. Of course, most other browsers have tabbed browsing also (if you’re reading this in IE, please download any of these three browsers, go …

Safari came preinstalled on my powerbook, and is the browser I use most often. Now that you know that, there are some problems with it. Page rendering is highly unreliable - flash frequently disappears when I scroll. All of those neat formatting tools in GMail don’t show up.
Lots, lots, …

Opera has recently become free. I’m not sure what its “marketshare” is, but it’s tiny. Although their homepage (opera.com) is popular enough that’s it’s the first result for a googling of “opera.”
Because of its relative obscurity, pages render a bit oddly in Opera, or sometimes not at all. Extentions …

Tired of always opening multiple programs to chat with friends and check email, programs such as Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Jabber, AOL Instant Messenger even Google Talk? Then Adium is your one stop all in one messenger program that allows users to connect to all the messenger programs …

There are a lot of software utilities out there to assist you with doing your taxes, but TurboTax Deluxe is definitely one of the easiest ones to use. As we start heading into tax season (April 15th isn’t too far away) its time to start thinking about buckling …

Ares is, well, Ares. It’s nothing spectacular as far as a P2P program is concerned. It is good, gets you results and downloads. You can search for more than just audio, which is fairly standard these days. No ads or adware whatsoever, putting it ahead …

In the past iMesh has been notorious for Adware. My own system was damaged by previous versions of iMesh (particularly 4.0) with the Adware that it introduced to my machine.
With version 5.0 this Adware was removed, thankfully enough. With the same functionality of the iMesh system but …

One of the best parts of the Mozilla Firefox browser is the extensions. It is a heavily customizable web browser, and this is always a plus.
My favorite of Firefox’s extensions is Adblock. This wonderful extension blocks all advertisements that appear as you search the web. I’ve …

This is what P2P software is supposed to be like. Quick, efficient, easy to use. Looking for any type of file? Chances are that Limewire’s Gnutella networks can find it for you. I’ve used iMesh and Ares, and neither of them can hold a candle …

This is an incredibly useful little freeware utility. It serves two functions: hard drive clean up (getting rid of loose unneeded files, temporary files, cookies and so on) as well as a registry doctor (removing outdated and incorrect registry entries so that your system runs cleaner).
It handles both …

Filseclab Personal Firewall Professional Edition 3.0.0.16 is one of the best freeware utilities I have ever used in my life. After finding my system corrupted with all kinds of spyware, I cleaned it all out then decided to protect my computer.
I went to download.com, looked for a free …

I generally use Nero 6 ultra edition software to burn cds. I use especially its Nero Burning ROM application to burn CDs. After capturing the data from video source and making video file, my very next job is writing the video file on to the CD. So I use …