MICROSOFT DIGITAL IMAGE PRO 9

Microsoft Digital Image Pro 9 is a new version of Microsoft’s high-end program for working with photos and scans. The interface is slightly updated from last year’s version, and there are a handful of new tools and filters. If you’ve been using Digital Image Pro...

MICROSOFT INSTANT MESSAGING

A few years ago, Microsoft introduced two programs with similar names and similar functions – Outlook and Outlook Express. The result was years of confusion and ill will by understandably confused people clicking on the wrong icon by mistake. I thought perhaps...

TALKING COMPUTERS

Speech recognition programs have been around for years and have made great strides recently. IBM, Dragon, and Lernout & Hauspie have all offered programs for dictating to a PC. Nobody uses those programs, for a lot of reasons – technical and social....

BROWSER WARS

Not long ago the conflict between Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator was covered in the newspapers, filled courtrooms, and inspired heated arguments. Now there’s a lengthy lull. Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer will not be significantly...

MICROSOFT READER AND FREE BOOKS

Microsoft Reader is free software designed to display books onscreen in an appealing way. It’s available for Windows computers, as well as being supplied with most Pocket PCs. Microsoft’s copyright protection scheme was broken by hackers, so Microsoft has just...

PARENTAL-CONTROL SOFTWARE

PC Magazine just ran a short review of parental-control software that can block Internet sites with inappropriate content when kids are surfing. The magazine liked Cybersitter 2002, which stops web pages from appearing, as well as filtering POP3 and web-based e-mail,...