Personal Computer World

Serif PagePlus 8

It's 16 years since PagePlus first revolutionised the desktop publishing world, with its combination of low price, powerful feature set and general ease of use. Constant development ever since means it's still one of Serif's flagship products, and version 8.0 is packed with reasons why it should be your DTP application of choice.

McAfee SpamKiller 2005

Are you drowning in a daily deluge of junk email? You're not alone: spam, scams, viruses and other unsolicited nuisances now comprise up to 92% of email traffic. This means protecting your Inbox is now absolutely essential, and McAfee SpamKiller is an ideal tool for the job. Will automate the process of filtering your spam email.

Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2005

Creating your own home movies is easy and affordable these days. Sharing them, though? That's another matter. Re-encoding a video so that it'll be small enough to email or download is usually a hit and miss affair, involving lots of guessing about the best resolution, bit rate, encoding scheme, and so on. Movie Shrink & Burn 2005 takes the guesswork out of this process.

PC Tools Privacy Guardian 4

After installing a firewall, antivirus tool and spyware detector, you might think your PC privacy and security was assured. But you'd be wrong. The reality is that Windows, web browsers and most other applications all maintain details of things you're doing. Privacy Guardian resolves these problem by clearing away many of the tracks left behind on your PC.

Font Expert 2004

Font Manager that will cleanse and manage your font collection. As time goes by Windows will inevitably collect more and more unnecessary fonts, consuming system resources and slowing down your PC. Browse through your fonts, locating any you don't need, then uninstalling them.

NovaPDF Lite 2.5

This useful tool works by installing a virtual printer driver on your PC. Select Print in any Windows application, point at the novaPDF driver, and in a few seconds your document will be saved as a standard PDF file. Simple, really, although if you want a little more control over the finished results, then novaPDF does make some configuration options available from the Printer Preferences dialog.

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