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| APRIL COVER CD'S - IBM VIA VOICE | |||||||||
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some of the best of what is on offer in the magazines in
April: Dreamweaver 3 has only just been released and is probably the best WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) HTML editor that you can buy. [PC Pro, April 2000, Trial Version] IBM ViaVoice 98 is a very accurate voice recognition package that types what you say straight into Word 97. You can also collect the data into SpeakPad, which is also included, and copy it later into any other application. A microphone is of course required. [Personal Computer World, April 2000, Full Product] Lotus Organizer is the world's most popular personal information manager and it is easy to see why. [Version 5, PC Plus, April 2000, Full Product] Digiguide downloads a comprehensive TV guide and then customises it to take account of your viewing tastes. [PC Magazine, April 2000, Free] NetOptimizer speeds up your internet browsing by anticipating the links you will select and pre-loading the page for you. [Computer Shopper, February 2000, Full Product] If, like most people, you hate doing your tax returns then you should find Tax Kit '99 to be a useful assistant. The final printout will be accepted by any Inland Revenue office. [Computer Buyer, April 2000, Full Product] WS_FTP is an excellent FTP tool (for transferring files between computers and over the Internet). [.net, April 2000, Full Product] PC Advisor has a beautiful collection of 3,000 images from National Geographic. It also comes with Print Master Gold 4.0 so you can use the images in email greeting cards, photo calendars, newsletter etc. [April 2000, Full Products] If you are looking for a free HTML editor there are plenty to choose from this month: LiquidFX 3 [PC Format,
March 2000, Full Product] NetObjects Fusion 2 [PC Magazine,
April 2000, Full Product] PC Plus has JBuilder 3 Foundation, a full Java development environment, for Linux and Windows. [April 2000, Full Product] Serif PagePlus 3 is a few revisions out of date but it's a very usable Desktop Publishing package. [PC Format, March 2000, Full Product] Making Waves 2 enables anyone with just a PC and 16-bit sound card to create professional sounding music using sampled sounds. [PC Format, March 2000, Full Product] PC Plus has the entire BT phone directory on CD. [April 2000, Limited Demo] PlanIT's Marketing Plan is another useful package from a software company with a great reputation for helping small businesses. [PC Direct, April 2000, Full Product] G |
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| Are you tired with
the grey uniformity of your Windows applications? Take a
tip from the mobile phone people and get a bright new
clip-on cover for Internet Explorer. 'Skins' are the
software equivalent of clip-on covers. Nip over to www.Hotbar.com and download their activeX plugin for IE5.
You can choose from thousands of Skins - from a picture
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| KEN'S DEN | |||||||||
| Since the February
Glencom meeting a delegation of us travelled to far
county Down to visit the mecca of computer memorabelia -
Ken's. What Ken modestly calls his den is a room large
enough to hold a dance. If that were not enough he opens
a door to reveal another room almost the
size of the Balmoral Hall housing his unique collection
of vintage PC's. The dominant theme is of course Tandy. He has hand-helds, x-y plotters the Amstrad with the hinge up screen, a Tandy 4P, and taking pride of place and in immaculate condition, a TRS80. Folks, we've come a long way. |
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| UTILITY OF THE MONTH | |||||||||
| Don't
you just love surfing the web and scanning cover CD's in
search of that program-you-didn't-need-till-you-saw-it? I recently came across a wee gem called ColorPad. It is literally 'wee' - just 62Kb zipped. It does just one job, but it does it well. It captures and records colours from web pages or anything on your screen. Once captured the colour is displayed on ColorPad's screen allowing you to adjust red, green and blue. It will copy the resulting hex code to your clipboard so you can use it in your own application. Need an exact match for 'IBM blue' or Orange's orange - capture it with ColorPad. Get it free from www.webattack.com G
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