The most recent Browsers & Browser Companions articles from Personal Computer World

Review: Apple Safari 3 Public Beta

Cliff Joseph — 2007-06-19T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 19 June 2007 at 00:00:00

A challenger for Internet Explorer or a marketing aid for the iPhone?

It’s an odd time for Apple to kick off another round of the browser wars. Apple is still waiting for Microsoft to release a ‘native’ version of Microsoft Office for...

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Review: My Active Desktop

Emil Larsen — 2006-12-27T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 27 December 2006 at 00:00:00

An expensive online home for your bookmarks and calendar entries

At first, we could see a target audience of people who travelled a lot but would need access to specific links and a calendar wherever they where....

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Review: Internet Explorer 7 web browser

Tim Smith — 2006-10-25T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 25 October 2006 at 00:00:00

After a long period of silence, Microsoft updates its internet browser

Since Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the browser favoured by the vast majority of internet users, this new version is going to send waves around the web for some time....

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Review: Mozilla Firefox 2

Tim Smith — 2006-09-19T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 19 September 2006 at 00:00:00

Will the second version of the internet-changing browser live up to expectations?

There are few software programs that have had such an impact as the Firefox internet browser. It brought advanced features such as tabbed browsing to the mainstream, so the upcoming...

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Review: Browzar web browser

Marc Delehanty — 2006-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Marc Delehanty, Personal Computer World, Thursday 31 August 2006 at 00:00:00

Protect your web surfing with this privacy conscious browser

The Browzar web browser is aimed at users who share computers or have privacy concerns regarding their activity on the internet....

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Review: Flock web browser

Tim Smith — 2006-07-18T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 18 July 2006 at 00:00:00

A quality browser with extra features for bloggers

With the rise of blogs, photo sharing and RSS news feeds, much has been said about Web 2.0. Flock is a browser built on top of Mozilla Firefox with all...

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Review: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2

Tim Smith — 2006-04-27T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Thursday 27 April 2006 at 00:00:00

A range of new features brings this browser up to speed with its rivals

Microsoft's release of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) brings with it plenty of new features. With a revision of the basic code of Internet Explorer, this new beta offers better security as...

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Databecker Web to Date 2

Tim Smith — 2006-03-09T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Thursday 9 March 2006 at 00:00:00

An easy to use tool for managing constantly updating sites

Web to Date 2 is different from many other web design software because it works as a content management system (CMS)....

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CMSimple

Tim Smith — 2006-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 22 February 2006 at 00:00:00

Quickly create impressive looking sites using your web browser

Content Management Systems (CMS) have mostly been the preserve of large websites where many articles are posted and ranked on a daily basis - www.pcw.co.uk being a prime example....

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Website Pro Net Objects Fusion

Clive Akass — 2004-11-22T12:49:58.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Monday 22 November 2004 at 12:49:58

A low-cost package with all you need to set up shop on the web

Net Objects Fusion was one of the first website design and creation packages to offer professional-class what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing (in as much as you can predict how a page is going...

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Macromedia Contribute 3

Cliff Joseph — 2004-10-27T15:41:42.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 27 October 2004 at 15:41:42

Website maintenance software aimed at non-technical users

It's always been a bit difficult to explain how Contribute works. It's a web page editor of sorts, but rather than creating and designing websites from scratch, Contribute concentrates on...

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Net2roam Netaway

Chris Cain — 2004-09-23T10:34:24.000Z

Chris Cain, Personal Computer World, Thursday 23 September 2004 at 10:34:24

Worldwide net access at local call rates.

Cheaper notebooks mean more of us can enjoy computing on the move, but getting online when abroad can still prove awkward....

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On Instant On4

Kelvyn Taylor — 2004-09-20T11:44:49.000Z

Kelvyn Taylor, Personal Computer World, Monday 20 September 2004 at 11:44:49

Make free calls over the Internet.

On4 is the latest voice over IP (VOIP) service from relatively new company On Instant. If you've heard of Skype, you'll be familiar with the idea - using secure peer-to-peer...

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Onspeed

Nigel Whitfield — 2004-07-06T12:02:51.000Z

Nigel Whitfield, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 6 July 2004 at 12:02:51

Turbocharge your dial-up connection.

Not everyone can access broadband and people on the move often have to use a GPRS connection. The new version of Onspeed claims to speed up Internet access....

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4D Business Kit

Paul Wardley — 2003-11-07T13:49:52.000Z

Paul Wardley, Personal Computer World, Friday 7 November 2003 at 13:49:52

A comprehensive and powerful web-development tool.

Retailers who want to be etailers (seemingly all of them these days) will find the initial expense of 4D Business Kit could be offset by ongoing savings on site rental...

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