If you're going to take our advice and start working from home away from crowded commuter trains and the rest of the rat race, you'll welcome the headstart this month's CD gives you. Install all the latest essential software straight from disk and free your bandwidth up for more important stuff!

Our featured file this time is EasyOffice from e-press. It's a fully functioning office suite compatible with Microsoft Word and Excel. Features include EasyWord for word processing, EasySpreadsheet for creating advanced spreadsheets, EasyPresentation - a PowerPoint-like presentation tool, EasyDatabase - a simple yet powerful database, EasyBookkeeper accounting system, EasyContact Manager, EasySpeaker, EasyZip, EasyCalculator and more. It's a large (75MB) download, but a quick install from your cover disk.

If you're following this issue's projects you'll be pleased to see Actinic Catalog 6.1.2, Greymatter 1.21 Web logging software, the SWiSH 2.01 animation tool, plus the usual PHP and MySQL essentials. From reviews we've got the brilliant EvoCam software for the Mac, and JbidWatcher. All available Hot Downloads are included, plus we've also got Report Magic for Analog and WebLog Expert Lite from our site visitor analysis group test.

Enjoy getting to grips with the 100+ tools and apps on your CD over the next couple of weeks, and please mail us to let us know what you'd like to see on the next one.

Until next time,