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Article | 16/05/2006 NetSupport Manager 9.1

Remote-control offerings aren't exactly rare - Microsoft Windows XP Professional has one as standard, and there's always free VNC (Virtual Network Com...

Article | 14/05/2006 SpectorSoft Spector Pro 5.0

This is some spooky software. Although it politely bills itself as an Internet-monitoring product, under other circumstances you'd probably call Spect...

Article | 18/04/2006 Whats Up Doc?

Given the complexity of modern operating systems, it can be challenging to monitor and manage a single computer, let alone a network full of them.

Article | 14/03/2006 Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 14.0

Trend's 2006 PC-cillin Internet Security suite features a much-improved user interface compared with last year's version. The core bundle remains the ...

Article | 9/01/2006 Zetadocs PDF

Equisys is best known for its network fax software, Zetafax. As the sun sets on faxing, it has turned its attention to emailing documents. The best fo...

Article | 23/05/2005 Backup and imaging: Acronis True Image 8.0

There's lots of backup and imaging utilities out there, but few are as easy to use as this one. Not only can you clone a complete drive, but restoring...

Article | 9/03/2005 PDF conversion utility

Hard on the heels on ScanSoft PDF Convertor 2.0 comes a rival. PDF Transformer's brief is identical: to take a PDF document, extract its contents and ...

Article | 4/02/2005 Network protection: Active VirusScan Suite SBE

Small businesses are often vulnerable to viruses and other security problems. Despite this, they seem to be the very organisations that care the lea...

Article | 3/02/2005 PDF conversion/creation tool: PDF Converter 2.0 Professional

DF Converter 2.0 Professional is an amalgam of two ScanSoft PDF tools sold separately: PDF Converter and PDF Create. The former lets you transfer the ...