QMind Eases Content Creation, Management The hosted QMind Design Collaboration Platform makes it easy for companies to organize and create training and marketing content through a project-based methodology. 6/26/2006
Final Draft 7.0 If you're a serious screenwriter, it's well worth the purchase. 5/30/2006
Wiki App Boosts Content, Collaboration CustomerVision's BizWiki includes a very good set of authoring and workflow tools for companies that want to collaborate on documents with customers and partners. 5/22/2006
Magix Movie Edit Pro 11 If pushing the creative envelope is a top priority—and usability's not—you might like Magix Movie Edit Pro 11. 4/11/2006
Adobe Production Studio Though there a few rough edges, Adobe Production Studio is an affordable, stable production suite with outstanding functionality and usability. 2/24/2006
SnapJot SnapJot is an attempt to inject some creativity into photo sharing by letting you add text, photos, and videos, as well as open up your online albums so other people can contribute. 2/16/2006
Yahoo! Local You'll find both breadth and depth when using Yahoo! Local—in fact, it feels more like a blog maintained by locals who know their turf than the offspring of a national search site. 2/8/2006
XMetaL Adds DITA Features What's DITA? It's Darwin Information Typing Architecture, a standard designed to provide greater portability and modularity for XML documents. 2/6/2006
WordPress 2.0 Needs Bit of Styling Change isn't always good. 1/20/2006
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 It's not as strong as Adobe's offering, but it costs a lot less. 1/18/2006
Xara Xtreme If you need to create graphics for the Web or print, Xara Xtreme is an excellent and economical choice. 1/13/2006
DivX Create A very cool way to distribute videos when DVDs won't do. 1/11/2006
muvee autoProducer 5 muvee autoProducer helps you produce exciting home videos with styles that match the occasion. 1/11/2006
Google Base (beta) Google Base gives everyone a single point of entry for posting information to the Internet and getting that info into the hands of people who might want it. A promising service that still needs some tweaking. 12/5/2005
Macromedia Studio 8 With a host of improvements centered on a new graphics engine at the heart of a new Flash Player, Studio 8 is a significant release aimed at getting the most from the Macromedia platform. 10/12/2005
ProShow Gold 2.5 A strong slide show tool with a professional feel for serious digital photographers. 10/12/2005
Magix PhotoStory on CD & DVD 4.0 Magix PhotoStory is an okay offering, but others (namely Microsoft PhotoShow 3 and PictureShow) do more. 10/12/2005
PhotoDex ProShow Producer Useful but expensive tool for professional videographers. 10/12/2005
Creature House Expression 3 If you want to create graphics and illustrations on your computer from scratch, Expression puts enormous power at your disposal. 9/28/2005
WordPress 1.5.2 The open-source blogging platform WordPress is an excellent choice for building a straight Web log site. 9/19/2005
Corel Photo Album 6 Deluxe Edition If you're a beginning photographer who needs an image-management program with light image editing, Corel Photo Album 6 may suit your needs. 9/8/2005
JotSpot JotSpot builds versatile, team-friendly Wikis in a flash, but the interface needs work. 8/31/2005
Enterprise Document Management Suite 5.0 Although Xythos' Enterprise Document Management Suite 5.0 emphasizes easy user interfaces and simple and quick deployment, we were impressed with the product's broad, capable features. 8/8/2005
Feeder 1.1 This little gem makes creating podcasts and other distributed content a cinch. 8/3/2005
NewzAlert Composer 1.70 NewzAlert Composer offers basic RSS features in a no-frills interface. 8/3/2005
Adobe Bundle Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts With its latest release, Adobe's Creative Suite has moved beyond simply being a nicely priced bundle of applications to become a truly integrated, compelling suite of content-creation tools. 7/25/2005
Pros' Appetite for Megapixels Is Sated Greater sensitivity for low-light shooting would be a more meaningful advance than an increase in megapixels could be. 7/22/2005
New Tools Simplify Development of Flash With release of a new authoring software and Web page content tool, two companies aim to give graphic artists more expedient ways to add some Flash. 7/20/2005
PDF Converter Professional 3 ScanSoft's PDF Converter Professional 3 is an ambitious, full-featured PDF creation and management app. 7/13/2005
Arts PDF's Nitro PDF Desktop Arts PDF's Nitro PDF Desktop capably creates and converts PDF documents, but it doesn't come close to offering the enterprise-class functionality available in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0. 6/20/2005
Bubbler Bubbler is a unique cross between a blogging tool and traditional (and less approachable) Web site creation software. 6/10/2005
RedDot CMS Eases Web Content Creation As Web sites, portals and intranets have become more common and more vital to corporate infrastructures, it has become important for companies to have a platform that makes it easy for nontechnical users to contribute to these sites.... 5/16/2005
Adobe GoLive CS2 GoLive CS2 packs enough new features to keep Web designers happy, and makes important inroads in authoring content for mobile devices. 4/4/2005
Adobe InDesign CS2 Yet another must-have upgrade in the Creative Suite, InDesign CS2 has several excellent enhancements and is worth the price of the upgrade. 4/4/2005
Adobe Illustrator CS2 Illustrator CS2 is an essential upgrade, with brilliant new features and interface enhancements. 4/4/2005
Adobe Photoshop CS2 Photoshop users of all levels will find something to love in this dynamic upgrade. 4/4/2005
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition An outstanding collection of software at a terrific price. 4/1/2005
Poser 6 Poser 6 is a fun, powerful, and relatively inexpensive application for creating images and animations of realistic human characters. 3/22/2005
AutoSketch 9 AutoSketch is an odd duck since it doesn't help you pick out patterns or see, for example, how the couch would look next to the window. 3/2/2005
Kontiki Manages More Content Companies looking for a way to distribute multimedia or large files to internal and external audiences will find that Kontiki Inc.'s Delivery Management System 4.0 provides the flexibility and customization needed to suit a range of purposes. 2/7/2005
Acrobat 7.0 Eases Document Reviews With this compelling upgrade, Adobe proves why Acrobat is a necessity for organizations publishing documents for a multitude of platforms. 1/17/2005
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Acrobat 7.0 is startlingly faster than earlier versions of the PDF-creation app, and includes more than enough new conveniences to justify an upgrade. 1/13/2005
FormServer Builds and Delivers Rich Surveys BenQ Quask's new FormServer simplifies the creation and deployment of forms. 1/10/2005
WebSurveyor Fine-Tunes Surveys WebSurveyor's update to its flagship product makes the survey creation process quick and painless. 1/10/2005
TeamSite 6.1 Interwoven has long been one of the leaders in Web content management, and its TeamSite product shows that wealth of experience. However, maturity is often accompanied by a lot of baggage.... 8/2/2004
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