The most recent Desktop Tools articles from Personal Computer World

Review: Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 10 utility suite

Jonathan Parkyn — 2007-10-23T00:00:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 23 October 2007 at 00:00:00

If Nero’s no-nonsense suite doesn’t take your fancy, Roxio has an alternative

Looking at what Easy Media Creator Suite 10 offers today, it’s hard to imagine the program started life as a simple CD-burning application....

Review: Nero 8 utility suite

Jonathan Parkyn — 2007-10-12T00:00:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Friday 12 October 2007 at 00:00:00

It’s time for the battle of the burning suites again and Nero’s first in the ring

It’s like Cavaliers and Roundheads; with disc-burning software suites you usually belong to one camp and not the other. Half the time it really depends on what you’re used to...

Review: Media Now CD & DVD Burning Suite

Paul Lester — 2007-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Personal Computer World, Friday 24 August 2007 at 00:00:00

A basic collection of tools at a reasonable price

There’s no shortage of software for burning and authoring media to optical disc, and with some pretty impressive entries from Roxio and Nero among others, Nova Development’s Media Now suite...

Review: SWsoft Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac

Ben Tudor — 2007-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

Ben Tudor, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 7 August 2007 at 00:00:00

Run Windows and OSX on your Mac without rebooting

Apple’s move to Intel processors has opened many new doors to users, but one of the most important is the ability to run Windows....

Review: VMware Workstation 6 software

Alan Stevens — 2007-06-25T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Monday 25 June 2007 at 00:00:00

Market-leading virtualisation that’s worth paying for

The trend with virtualisation is for vendors to support the running of virtual machines on the same PC at no extra cost, but there are exceptions....

Review: XP Tuning Suite 3

Paul Lester — 2006-06-22T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Personal Computer World, Thursday 22 June 2006 at 00:00:00

Give XP a spring clean with this comprehensive utility suite

You're spoilt for choice when it comes to tweaking or optimising Windows XP. Microsoft did such a good job of hiding many of XP's configuration settings that it prompted a...

Review: Miracle Type 5.1

Anna Lagerkvist — 2006-06-13T00:00:00.000Z

Anna Lagerkvist, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 13 June 2006 at 00:00:00

Learn to touch type with this intuitive and affordable tutoring software

If you're still typing your emails and memos using the old, time-consuming, hunt-and-peck system, Miracle Type has just released a new version of its popular typing software that might help...

Review: 01 Communique I'm Oncall

Paul Monkton — 2006-05-22T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Monkton, Personal Computer World, Monday 22 May 2006 at 00:00:00

Remote, hands-on technical support made simple thanks to an easy, web-based interface

Wherever you are, as long as you’re connected to the Internet, you can initiate remote technical support sessions using only a web browser....

Hands on: Quicker queries gallery

Rob Jones — 2006-04-05T00:00:00.000Z

Rob Jones, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 5 April 2006 at 00:00:00

Make your database queries run faster

Review: 3am Labs Log Me In IT Reach software

Paul Monckton — 2006-03-29T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Monckton, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 29 March 2006 at 00:00:00

Fast, easy control and support of remote PCs from anywhere with access to a web browser

Part of a range of Log Me In products, the IT Reach version takes the concept of web-based remote access and augments it with powerful management and support features that...

Iolo System Mechanic 6

Paul Monckton — 2006-03-13T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Monckton, Personal Computer World, Monday 13 March 2006 at 00:00:00

A range of useful tools and utilities to keep your PC in tip-top condition

Iolo ’s System Mechanic 6 is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to keep your PC running efficiently and safe from Internet nasties, such as spyware and viruses....

ILife Gallery

Will Stapley — 2006-01-31T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 31 January 2006 at 00:00:00

ILife 06 features updated versions of four key applications; Iphoto, Imovie HD, IDVD and Garageband. It also introduces Iweb, a brand new web-design program optimise for use with Apple's .Mac...

Mindjet Mindmanager Pro 6

Tim Smith — 2006-01-28T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Saturday 28 January 2006 at 00:00:00

Capture, organise and share your thoughts using visual mapping techniques

Organising complex issues can be frustrating when you’re presented with a blank document in Word. Mindjet Mindmanager 6 helps organise your thoughts in a visual way....

Winzip 10 Pro

Will Stapley — 2006-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Thursday 12 January 2006 at 00:00:00

Updated interface and more advanced compression

Winzip remains the most popular compression tool for Windows and the recently released version 10 offers some interesting new features....

Abbyy Finereader 8

Tim Smith — 2005-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Friday 4 November 2005 at 00:00:00

A new, improved version, but its cost may diminish its appeal for some

The paperless office is a great idea, but if you have large amounts of paper-based records needing to be converted into electronic format, things can start to get tricky....