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

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

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.)

Don't confuse Microsoft Works with a slimmed-down version of Office, because Works is for the home productivity market.

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...

You still get a lot for your money, but HD optical burning only extends to data discs

Do the new features of McAfee’s latest addition to its Security Suite stack up for home and business?

A three-PC licence as standard, superb silent interface and effective security utilities make Norton 360 a tempting buy.

A best-of-breed approach to Internet security pays off. This flexible and resource-friendly suite returns to the A-List.

The booming interest in genealogy created by the Internet has provided a lucrative market for programs that help the home user research and create their family tree...

Excellent support, but a confusing user interface and disappointing firewall let AVG down