With the free products on our new cover DVD, you need never buy software again. So why do we still keep paying?

Built-in tracing and improved drawing, formatting and colour correction make X3 the best CorelDRAW upgrade in years.

If your Website is hosted by an effective ISP you should have access to reams of information about who looked at your Web pages, when they viewed them, how long they were navigating your site for and much more.

A powerful high-end suite with a lot of potential. Make sure you have a high-end system to run it as the listed system requirements are very optimistic.

Protect your PC from itself and yourself

The Vista version lacks many of the features of the XP suite, while slowing down the PC noticeably in usage

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

A mixed bag of features, with some fundamentally flawed defaults and too many opaque alerts.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

After the launch of the latest Acrobat a few months ago, everything went quiet on the Adobe front. It's now clear what the company was working on, with the simultaneous launch of each of its main creative design packages -- Photoshop/ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign and GoLive. (Please see individual reviews of all of these packages on this month's cover CD.)

The Ultimate Reference Suite is the latest digital edition of the Britannica. Consisting of three encyclopaedias, numerous dictionaries, thesauri, timelines and even an atlas, it's just as exhaustive as its predecessors, covering mountains of topics in impressive detail.

But developer claims he doesn't want to sell.

A reliable means of backing up virtual machines to prevent disasters.

We evaluate the various versions of Office 2007 and what they offer, and find a companion to help with search

130MB download promises to bridge the online-offline gap.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Powerful new versions of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, and now Acrobat 8 Professional too.

There is little doubt that digital photography will take over from film, and it will happen sooner rather than later. As more people buy and start to use digital cameras there is an ever increasing demand for simple-to-use photo editing software that will allow them to get the best out of their photographs.

Creating your own custom DVDs and VideoCDs becomes fairly simple with Adaptec's MyDVD Video Suite 4.0 from Sonic Solutions.

Microsoft has been producing its Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas since the early 1990s, but despite several attempts it has never produced anything that could rightfully claim to be an Australian edition...