PC World December 2003 DVD Edition

Expo Walkthrough
EXCLUSIVE FULL VERSION (as sold for £226)
Visually communicate information needed to plan, evaluate, and use your software. Expo Walkthrough’s intuitive screenshot capturing and annotation technology and task-based assistants make it easy to create engaging, professional-looking animated product tours in no time. When you are done, distributing your content on the Internet, Intranet, or CD-ROM using the Flash format.

Acronis Partition Expert 2003
EXCLUSIVE FULL VERSION (as sold for £31)
Acronis PartitionExpert is the only disk partitioning software that allows you to automatically resize partitions without losing data. It also lets you reorganise the hard disk drive structure. FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS partition support.

Hide Folder 2.7
EXCLUSIVE FULL VERSION (as sold for £25)
Password-protect your important files, folders and discs and prevent unauthorised access to your sensitive information. The software makes the protected folders completely invisible, inaccessible or accessible in the read-only mode.

PhotoArtMaster Classic 1.5
FULL VERSION (as sold for £10)
If your digital images are short on inspiration, then PhotoArtMaster Classic could make all the difference. To check out some of the possibilities, just open your image, then select Editors > Studio. Here you can select your image from “My Sources”, choose from one of the 28 different brushes available.

xmlspy 2004 Home Edition
EXCLUSIVE FULL VERSION (as sold for £30)
xmlspy 2004 is the industry standard XML Development Environment for designing and editing professional applications involving XML, XML Schema, XSL/XSLT, and other XML-based technologies. The xmlspy 2004 Home Edition makes these technologies available in an affordable package ideally suited for hobbyists, entry-level developers, and students.

Firegraphic 6 Express
EXCLUSIVE FULL VERSION
Firegraphic is a digital imaging management software designed for people who need to work with digital images every day. Firegraphic enables you to batch rename, convert, rotate, enhance, or resize images in a single operation. The advanced print features allow you to print multiple images on one page with print preview.

BitDefender 7.1 Standard
EXCLUSIVE FULL VERSION (as sold for £18)
BitDefender Standard Edition is a powerful antivirus tool with features that best meet your security needs. Features as easy to use and automatic updating make BitDefender Standard Edition an “install and forget” antivirus product. Includes 6 months of free anti-virus updates to keep your system virus free!

LOGINventory 3.2 [30-user]
EXCLUSIVE FULL VERSION
LOGINventory lets you perform an inventory of your Windows network numbering thousands of PCs within a few minutes’ time – without having to install any additional software on the client PCs. This provides you with an up-to-date overview of hardware and software used within your entire business.

PC World January 2002 CD Edition

Eyewitness History of the World     
Journey through twelve time periods, to any part of the world, in this highly visual interactive encyclopedia, presented in the inimitable Dorling Kindersley style. Witness the building of Stonehenge; join the German crowds as they tear down the Berlin Wall. Learn what people ate throughout history, how they dressed, and what medicines they used. Turn the pages of interactive books to meet Mahatma Gandhi, Lucrezia Borgia, and dozens of others who have shaped our world. Rich in multimedia, dense with information, Eyewitness History of the World is the ultimate trip through time. With more than 700 photographs and illustrations, and three hours of audio as well as numerous animated sequences and narration.
NOTE: to install this program, use the pop-up installer which appears when you load the CD, or use Windows Explorer to find and run the file [CD:]\setup.exe

MindManager Smart (worth £23)    
MindManager Smart was developed to enable people to create attractive MindMaps on their PC in a simple and intuitive way. MindManager Smart produces maps that can be linked to other documents, maps and websites. IMPORTANT: you will need to obtain your access password BEFORE INSTALLING. Visit www.murge.com/register.html and register your details. On this disc you’ll find a full version of MindManager Smart plus a 21-day trial version of MindManager 2002 Business Edition.

PC World July 2002 CD Edition

GSP’s Family Tree, Full Version
GSP’s genealogy software will speed your ancestral research by helping you to organise the data as you find it. Using this package you can produce high-quality, professional-looking family trees.
Key features include: research facility; “Tree Detective”; new tree styles; individual record sheets; picture compatibility; and links to popular UK genealogy websites.

Security and Standards, Growl II, free version 
• Is the website legal and secure?
• Which trade associations and merchant agreements (credit cards) really are connected to the site?
• Is the site a clone of the real thing?
Growl offers a simple “Traffic Light” system indicating the level of security in place at any website you visit. It automatically validates the integrity of that site, and confirms any associations, merchant agreements (credit cards) and validity of the SSL connection. When first running Growl II you will be required to enter the User ID and Password provided through registration. You should restart your computer after installing Growl II.

Project Companion, free version 
Project Companion is a valuable, yet free-of-charge, source of hints, techniques and terminology for Microsoft Project users. The 26 topics within Project Companion have been chosen to illustrate best practices in applying Microsoft Project to a real environment – working on real projects.

Liquid Player 6, free version
Liquid Player for Windows lets you stream, download, purchase, play, rip and burn digital audio CDs, all in one convenient application. Click on a button to view album and promo art, or liner notes, lyrics, composer information, and more included with each Liquid Track. Liquid Player supports industry standard formats such as Liquid Audio, WMA, and MP3.

PC World October 2004 CD Edition

Netviewer
Full Program, 2-month edition, as sold for £200
Netviewer is a sleek, easy-to-use desktop sharing tool that enables you to logon to a remote computer and access/control or simply view their desktop from across the net. Better still, transfer files in real-time from machine to machine! You can connect to any remote machine, including your own desktop.

StyleBuilder v2
Full Program, as sold for £11
Play around with StyleBuilder companion program Style XP and you’ll have access to thousands of ready-built Windows XP themes, freely available in online libraries like ThemeXP. Get creative, and use StyleBuilder to customise the Windows interface yourself.

StyleXP v1.01
Full Program, as sold for £11
Apply new Windows Themes, coordinated collections of backgrounds, cursors, icons, sounds and screen savers. Add visual styles, defining elements like colour schemes and fonts, and you can completely change the appearance of Windows.

Ashampoo Uninstaller 2002/2003
Full Program, as sold for £21
Do you remember when your current PC arrived? Setting it up, being amazed at the speed boost, wondering how you’d fill the spacious hard drive? Install programs leave “temporary” files behind, uninstall options don’t work properly, and in no time at all your disk is cluttered with junk. Let Uninstaller remove the clutter and junk from your drive.

Ashampoo PhotoIlluminator v1.53
Full Program, as sold for £21
Entertain your friends and relatives with a slide show of your holiday pictures, build a short flyer presentation of your product pictures for your customers or create a screen saver with your own photographs! Whatever you wish to do with your images – there is no limit!

WISE-FTP 2.1
Full Program, as sold for £16
Powerful FTP client – software which enables you to connect to any FTP server to upload or download files. With WISE-FTP, you can manage files quickly and easily without having to know how FTP works. This makes WISE-FTP an ideal tool for people who update their web sites regularly.

PC World June 2004 CD Edition

Steganos Security Suite v5
Full Program, as sold for £40
Installing a firewall keeps hackers away from your confidential files, but is that all the security you need? If others have access to your PC, then could they see or copy important data? And can you securely email key information to others, without it being intercepted? Includes everything you need!

TypeTool 1.3
Full Program, as sold for £55
TypeTool is designed to meet the needs of entry level typographers. Those who need a quick font fix such as an addition, deletion, or manipulation of a few characters in an existing character set. The product is compatible with either TrueType or Adobe Type 1 font formats

Panda Titanium 2004
Full Program, limited to 3-months of anti-virus updates
For users who need security combined with ease of use: it detects and resolves security holes, includes self-diagnosis and can reinforce itself against virus attacks. The most advanced security technology ensures maximum speed with minimum resource use. Ships with 3-months of anti-virus updates.

Camtasia v3
Full Program, as sold for £210
Camtasia provides a suite of tools designed to capture activity on your PC screen, and convert it to a high-quality, professional video. In just a few minutes you could create movies to help with technical support, software demonstrations and computer-based training, amongst other applications.

HyperSnap-DX 4.52
Full Program, as sold for £30
In theory, grabbing screens in Windows should be easy; just press PrtSc and paste the results into your application of choice. And that’s fine for a while, until you discover some applications where it doesn’t seem to work. HyperSnap-DX can help, capturing DirectX, Direct3D or 3dfx GLIDE screens just as easily as anything else.

Organic Master Toolbox
Full Program, includes only two Acrobat plugins from Toolbox
Two Adobe Acrobat Plugins: with DocuMerger, you can merge template PDF files with the existing document content, specifying which page you want to merge. Using DogEars you can quickly mark a page as interesting, perhaps to review later. You can navigate from one DogEared page to the next, or extract dog-eared pages into a separate document.

PC World August 2004 CD Edition Disc 1

ShowShifter 2.05
Full Program, as sold for £34
TV schedulers, don’t you just love ’em? One day every channel is packed with home makeovers and ‘sell your old stuff for cash’ shows, the next you’ve got three favourite programmes all on at the same time. Turn your PC into an VCR, courtesy of Showshifter

AllWebMenus 3 Lite
Full Program, as sold for £20
Navigation is key when designing a Web site, and using a good DHTML menu system can make all the difference. Instead of a boring, static column of links, your visitors browse menus and submenus that reflect the sites structure. The end result? They quickly find pages of interest, and are more likely to come back in the future.

CodedColor
Full Program
Spend some time with a digital camera and your hard drive is soon packed with images. Finding a particular set of pictures later can be difficult, unless you’ve got a tool such as Codedcolor to keep yourself organised. Everything you need to manage, edit and preview your digital photos.

PC World September 2004 CD Edition

FotoFinish Basic Edition, Full Program, as sold for £38
Having trouble finding the digital photo you need? Fotofinish organises your images into albums, where thumbnail previews make it much easier to locate those missing shots. And you can view the contents of your album as a slide show, or set it as your screen saver, in just a couple of mouse clicks.

e-txt v2.01, Full Program, as sold for £15
Enables you to send and receive text messages via your PC. The program works much like an email client, so you’ll start off by creating a list of contacts. These can be saved individually, or you can sort them into groups, making it easier to send a text message to just your family members, say.

Ashampoo Privacy Protector
Full Program, as sold for £21
Your PC might have a firewall and anti-virus tool installed, but does that mean its data is really safe? What happens when you’re emailing confidential information to a colleague? Strong encryption is the only way to guarantee your data stays private, no matter what happens.

ArtRage
Freeware – superb natural painting tool
Painting package that lets you play around with realistic painting tools in a simple, intuitive environment. ArtRage lets you paint your own picture from a blank canvas, or load an image to ‘trace’ using any of its painting tools, letting you recreate your own paintings.

TaxCalc 2004 Lite
Full Program
Autumn is coming and it is finally time to complete your tax return? Hold on, don’t turn the page, it really isn’t that bad. Especially with a little help from Taxcalc Lite 2004. The program uses an easy step-by-step approach to walk you through every part of the return, helping you calculate your tax.

Ashampoo WinOptimizer Suite
Full Program, as sold for £23
Does your PC appear to have slowed down recently? Could be it’s weighed down with junk, ‘temporary’ files that have been created by your applications, but somehow avoided deletion. Launch the Drive Cleaner option in Winoptimizer Suite and it’ll track down many of these files, making them easy to delete.

Maxivista SE
Full Program, special edition
Maxivista makes the sharing of your desktop, across two machines, regardless of the video card you’re using. All that you need is a network connection to a nearby PC. Install and launch the Maxivista SE Server on your main PC, the Maxivista Viewer on its neighbour and you’re ready to go.

AceBackup 2003
Full Program, as sold for £17
Backups can be fun. Well actually, no, they can’t. We made that up. They don’t have to be a tedious hassle though, especially with a tool like Acebackup. Choose the Backup project type if you’re saving files individually, or Archive to compress them all into a single file.

PC World December 2004 CD Edition

Ulead PhotoImpact 8, Full Program, as sold for £60
Are you making the most of your digital photos? Ulead PhotoImpact can help transform average shots into something special. And although it’s packed with powerful features, you can get started with no graphics or photographic knowledge at all.

CD-ROM Emulator v3, Full Program, as sold for £18
Is your PC surrounded by piles of loose CDs and DVDs? This tool may help reduce the clutter. In just a couple of mouse clicks the Emulator Manager can add a virtual CD drive to your PC. Use the Grab Wizard to make an image of virtually any CD or DVD, and drag and drop that image onto your virtual drive.

Ashampoo SeeYa! v2, Full Program, as sold for £13
Sharing photos with friends and family normally means just zipping up a few JPEGs, but there is a better way. Run SeeYa! and you’ll be able to build a complete slideshow, , within minutes. And the results are output as a stand-alone EXE file, so anyone can instantly view your pictures.

4D 2003 Standard Edition, Full Program, as sold for £229
Whatever you want from a relational database, the chances are 4D has implemented it already. Client/server? Did that in 1993. Cross-platform? Running on the Mac since 1995. Internet-enabled? A built-in Web server appeared in 1996. Ditch Access and try 4D 2003.

GenieBackup Standard v4, Full Program, as sold for £42
Indispensable utility for every computer user, whether for personal use or as part of workplace network. Its the number one desktop Backup utility due to its simplicity and unparalleled capabilities. The simplicity of Genie Backup Manager is due to the fact that Genie Backup Manager uses wizards to guide users through whatever task they want to perform.

Buyers Guide, Exclusive Hardware Buyers Guide
If you’re looking to purchase new hardware and peripherals for your PC, we’ve collated buyers guides from everything from motherboards to digital cameras, along with links to the best and current prices, all presented within a fantastic Adobe PDF magazine!

PC World May 2004 CD Edition

Sonic MyDVD for CD v5, Full Program
Creating your own video CDs can be complex task, made much easier with Sonic MyDVD for CD v5. The program can capture footage directly from your digital camcorder, for instance, or other video and audio sources. There are settings to tweak recording quality or capture length, along with an automatic scene detection mode.

BlackICE Defender 2.9, Full Program, as sold for £30
Keeping yourself safe online can be a complicated business, with lots of firewall rules to create and manage. BlackICE Defender offers a different approach. Rather than purely managing ports (block traffic here, let it through there), the program monitors all your network packets for the tell-tale signs of an intrusion attempt.

Quask FormArtist Presto, Full Program, as sold for £27
FormArtist Presto makes it easy for anyone to create Web forms, and we don’t just mean basic multiple-choice pages. Complete control over layout, background and graphics means you’ll have the best-looking surveys around. Ships with a sizeable library of predesigned forms, so it’s just a matter of picking one of these, and customising it to suit your needs.

FontExpert 2003 v5, Full Program, as sold for £19
Enables you to preview and manage both installed and uninstalled typefaces, plus examine your system for font errors. You can display the list of installed font faces, customisable font samples and advanced font properties. The program allows you to print different types of reports, and offers many printing options.

Ultralingua English, Full Program
The next time you’re confused about a word definition, don’t go off to search online, or reach for that dictionary on the bookshelf. There’s no need, because Ultralingua Express contains all the definitions you’ll need. It’s also supremely easy to use, and you’ll be looking up information within seconds. Quick and easy reference for the words you require.

Alcohol 52%, Full Program, as sold for £18
If you’re tired of having to keep referring to your CD collection, then Alcohol 52% can help clear away all your desktop clutter. The program reads your key discs, then creates an emulated CD or DVD-ROM drive to hold each drive image. The application then reads from the Alcohol 52% drive, instead of the real one, so your disc can stay safely in its box.

PC World November 2004 CD Edition

Namo 4, Full Program, as sold for £56
WYSIWYG HTML editors were originally supposed to make your Web development life easier, but that’s no longer the case for the current market leaders. Steep learning curves and high prices can make some products less than appealing. But then again, who cares when there are alternatives like Namo WebEditor 4? The program gets you started very quickly.

BitDefender Professional v8, Full Program, with 3 months of anti-virus updates
Internet security researchers at the SANS Institute have discovered that an unprotected PC lasts an average of 20 minutes online before it’s infected by a worm. Yes, only 20 minutes. So if your PC isn’t secure yet, it’s time to get some serious protection.

Databecker Mail To Date, Full Program, as sold for £68
Conventional email clients are fine for personal use, but when it comes to managing newsletters, keeping in touch with customers or other mass-mailings, they’re a little underpowered. Which is precisely why you need a specialist tool like Mail To Date.

Cyberlink Medi@Show v2, Full Program, as sold for £24
Let’s be honest here, most presentation software is extremely dull, used only by corporate types to display bulleted lists or Excel charts at the next sales meeting. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Medi@Show creates multimedia presentations so quickly and easily that you’re sure to find a host of uses for it. Even if you don’t have to give a monthly report on widget sales in the North-East.

Ashampoo BurnYa! AudioCD, Full Program, as sold for £10
BurnYa! AudioCD is a simple tool that concentrates on one task only: creating audio CDs. No label design utilities, sound file editors, or unwanted extras that add yet more icons to your system tray, just a simple music CD burner.

Ashampoo MP3 Check and Convert v2, Full Program, as sold for £8
If you use MP3s that you didn’t make yourself you’ve probably often experienced problems trying to burn them to audio CDs. This quickly and easily identifies defective and incompatible MP3 files that would cause problems when you try to burn them to CD.