Sep 1996




News

Apple Performa 5260; Microsoft Office 97; Escom in hands of reciever; Nikon Plustek OpticPro 4800P, ScanTouch 110 flatbed scanners; Pentium Pro Pcs ; Sibelius software; Compaq Prolinea, Deskpro, Deskpro XL; Brother 700 series Epson EPL-5500W laser printers; Corel Wordperfect 7, Presentations 7, Quattro Pro 7, Ventura 7, Web.move and Web.draw; Pipex ‘global roaming’; Creative Labs Graphics Blaster MA302; NEC 13.3in TFT computers; Fractal Design Expression

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Up Front reviews

US Robotics Pilot 1000 and 5000;Sound Blaster Multimedia Family 32 8X; Casio QV-10A; Diamond Stealth 3D 2000; Number 9FX Reality 332; Helix Hurricane 2.0; Corel WordPerfect Suite for Windows 3.1x; Mitac 5024; Hotmetal Pro 3.0; ImagePals 2.0; Epson Stylus Colour 500; Plasmon CDR4240; HP Pavilion 7130P; Dotlink Ruby-133; Miromedia View.

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In Brief reviews

Print Shop Deluxe; Iomega jaz drive; SpeedyRom; Reveal Multimedia keyboard; Incontext Spider; Learning CorelDraw 6; PartitionMagic 2.0; Corel Stock Music Library; Pace Microlin GSM phone and data card; 3D kitchen; Action Pro.

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Image Editing Software

Photofinish 3.0; Paintshop Pro 3.12 (Recommended); Adobe Photoshop 3.05 (Best Buy); Picture Publisher 6.0; Macromedia X-Res; Corel PhotoPaint; Fractal Design Painter; alternatives: PC Paintbrush, Dabbler, The Hijaak Graphics Suite; Flamingo; PhotoStudio.

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Presentation Software

MS PowerPoint 7.0 (recommended); Harvard Graphics 4.0; Gold Disk Astound 2.1; Claris Impact 2.0; Corel Presentations 3.0; Lotus Freelance 96 (Best Buy); ASAP WordPower (recommended); alternatives: Scala MM100; Multimedia MasterClass 3.0 (Personal Edition)

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Fast Desktop Modems

BT Prologue V34EX; Dynalink 1428VQU (Best Buy); Modular Technology Super Highway 288 (recommended); Hayes Accura 288 Message Modem (recommended); Lasat Safire 288; Motorola 3400 Pro 28.8; Multitech 28K MultiModem; Pace Linnet 34fx; Racal MDF 34; Tricom Tempest 34 Plus; Trust Communicator 28; US Robotics Sportster Vi28.8 (recommended); alternatives: Lasat 288V Int.; Diamond SupraExpress 28.8I; US Robotics Sportster 28.8.

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Luxury Notebooks

Panasonic CF-41 Mk111; Compaq LTE5200; Texas Instruments Travelmate TM5300 p133; Viglen Dossier CD(Recommended); Olivetti Echos P133; NEC Versa 4080H (Recommended); IBM Thinkpad 760CD (Best Buy); Toshiba Tecra 720CDT (Best buy).

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Dangers of the Internet

Setting up a Home Office - Corel PerfectOffice 7; Filemaker Pro; Quicken; Sidekick; Officetalk; Quarterdeck Internet Suite.

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Computer Class

Setting up a Home Office (2) - Corel PerfectOffice 7; Filemaker Pro; Quicken; Sidekick; Officetalk; Quarterdeck Internet Suite.

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Question Time

PS/2 Mouse that won’t work when plugged into PS/2 port; What is the cheapest way to get film onto PC - Quickcam; Keeping track of computer settings; Print button on Microsoft Works; Sensitive trip switch on mouse; Growing collection of AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files.

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After Hours

The Muppets CD-Rom; Cyril Cyberpunk; Outdoors Bass Tournament 96; SFX CD; Makers of the C20; My First Amazing World Explorer; LandDesigner 3D

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Cover CD

The Gene Machine; Euro ‘96; Return Fire; Wayne Gretski NHL96; Scala Multimedia X-Res; The Offical Driving Test Instructor; The Unexplained.

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Competition

US Robotics Pilot 1000, US Robotics Sportster Vi modem.

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