At first glance, Safari 3.0 seems a solid upgrade. There may not be any earth-shattering new features, but what is new feels well thought-out and improves on Safari's already strong performance.

It's undoubtedly going to be a popular service, although there's some way to go before Webaroo can offer the whole of the internet on your hard drive. This program has a lot of promise, and credit must be given for sheer innovation. But is it going to be the next big thing? Only time will tell.

Good reporting and recording functionality ensures that Spector Pro 5.0 has some appeal.

Are you sick and tired of Internet Explorer?

Despite SeaMonkey's rough edges, its bundling of a browser, an e-mail utility, and an HTML editor in one package is appealing.

If you post multiple items on Ebay at once, there is no better tool available for doing so

Combining the engines of Mozilla Foundation's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer in a single browser is a neat trick, but Firefox is smaller, simpler, just as safe, and--in some important ways--more functional. Free

An interesting and useful tool that is all the more valuable because it is free.

What impressed us most about Onspeed was the quality of its compression technology. Pages spring into your browser two or three times more quickly than normal and images are not overly degraded in the process.