NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2004

Norton Antivirus 2004 cannot be used until the product is “activated,” just like Windows and Office. That means a separate copy has to be purchased for each computer – you can’t run around with a single CD installing it all over the place. I...

QUICKBOOKS CUSTOMER MANAGER

Quickbooks Customer Manager is an inexpensive new program aimed squarely at the market previously dominated by Act. It integrates with Quickbooks and Outlook and presents all the information about a customer in one place – address and phone numbers, account history,...

NORTON ANTISPAM 2004

Here’s a glowing review for Norton Antispam 2004 – high marks for the interface and for its effectiveness. At $40, it’s more expensive than competing programs like IHateSpam, but Norton’s reputation carries considerable weight. More and more programs are being locked...

FREE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ALBUM

Adobe has released a new version of Photoshop Album, its software for organizing digital photos. (Click here for my description of the original program.) The new version adds a handful of new features, but my guess is that Adobe focused more on fixing the bugs in the...

BUGGY SOFTWARE

Even though Windows XP is solid and stable, it’s still possible to write bad programs – and sometimes it seems that buggy software is on the rise. The Register has an article today complaining about programs that too often rely on patches delivered later...

NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2004 WILL USE PRODUCT ACTIVATION

Norton Antivirus 2004 will be released next month. For the first time, all versions of the product will require product activation, similar to the process of activating Windows XP and Office XP. (The downloadable version of Norton Antivirus 2003 required activation,...