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.

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.

Our pick of the low-cost office suites has had a much-needed overhaul, and now battles Microsoft in terms of features, not just price.

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

Protect your PC from itself and yourself

Commercial image editing suite

Make the most of your phone

Demo releases of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth are online now for Mac and Windows. Here's what new in the latest releases..

Make the most of your phone

Make the most of your phone

Make the most of your phone

Make the most of your phone

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

Complete drive management & maintenance suite

Make the most of your phone

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

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.)