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Can you trust the Net Nanny?

Advantages: Restricts online chat, blocks unsafe websites
Disadvantages: Cannot properly determine safe and unsafe websites

Net Nanny 5 is just another 'Security Package'. But with the insurance of Internet Security, there is an added bonus of 'Parental Control'. The Net Nanny 5 provides a Chat Monitor which discretely monitors and records popular chat and instant messaging programs. It will also notify you when your child is in a potentially risky conversation, limit the time spent on online chat and will stop your child from giving out personal information. Net Nanny ...
...parents who use the internet. Net Nanny 5 will block potentially unsafe websites even though you change the settings in your user profile to 'not block anything'. You may also get problems with programs that are not related with the Internet, such as Microsoft Word. Net Nanny may bring up a 'connect' box while you are in the middle of some important work. The problem with this software is that you will never be able to get the security settings ...

yassarikhan786 19.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Net Nanny 5 Complete package

I Can See Clearly Now ..U..

Advantages: Fast; Handles loads of file types
Disadvantages: none

ACDSee is an absolutely essential piece of software for every PC user. It's a lightning-fast image viewer which handles every image file format I've thrown at it for the past 2 years! And that's no exaggeration... The latest incarnation of this program for Windows is "ACDSee 3.1 SR-1"; Mac users have the special edition "ACDSee for Mac" all to themselves! Minimum system requirements are: Windows 95, Intel 486DX, 32 MB RAM, 20 MB free disk space. ...
...to the excellent program then! ACDSee allows you to specify file associations (i.e. which file types you want to use ACDSee to view by default). The range on show is quite astounding, from the common BMP, GIF, ICO, JPG to things I've never even heard of; in short, if ACDSee can't open an image, it probably isn't worth looking at! New plugins are easily installable of course. The ACDSee user interface has 3 main windows: BROWSE You'll probably ...

jefferson 20.02.2001 · Read full review
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Review of ACDSee 5.0 Complete package

Press the Nuclear Button! - DriveErase Pro

Advantages: Gold-plated solution to destroy data. Wide range of deletion options.
Disadvantages: Over-long user guide. Too many choices. Gutmann method takes 6 hours!

...desire to smash the hard drive with a hammer - too much like hard work! - I was looking for a quick and simple solution to wipe the PC clean. In the immortal words of Intel founder Andy Grove, “Only the paranoid survive”. So a non-systematic, random walk search on Amazon led me to “Drive Erase Pro – Total Privacy Protection”, with the promising tag-line, “Erase Sensitive Data from your Hard Drive Permanently!” This was priced at £27.99, significantly ...
...being an installer for the Drive Erase Pro application and another application called Surf Secret (which I wasn’t interested in). The second CD looked like a nuclear detonation program, being packaged in bright red, coloured red and entitled – “Boot CD”. It contained the cheerful warning “Using this disc will completely and permanently erase everything on your hard drive”. Fantastic – abandon hope all ye who enter here! This was the magic bullet ...

Westocean 18.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Drive Erase Pro

good strong firewall

Advantages: cheap, good
Disadvantages: can be a pain sometimes

Firewalls as most people know and for you people who dont, act as a barrier between your computer and other computers. Firewalls in this modern day and age are a must on every p.c, anyone who doesnt have a firewall is asking for all sorts of trouble from a simple virus to a full attack on their system. Zone Alarm have created a very nice and simple (not always though) to use firewall and with a small price tag it is very affordable. The firewall ...
...and in experinced users keep their computer safe from attacks by computers and products. It will warn you of dangerous programs and ask you if they should run or be allowed certain access to certain files, this can help you keep your computer very safe. The firewall also as a built in spyware remover for that bit more extra protection, its hard to fault this product though sometimes it will block certain tasks youve told it to remeber its settings ...

grimworld 12.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of ZoneAlarm Pro 5 Complete package

Scrapbook Factory Deluxe V3

Advantages: more photorealistic clipart, PDF output, big range of clipart & projects
Disadvantages: a bit slow in places, some instabilities

This is actually a review of the newer version 3.0 rather than 2.0 but Ciao doesn't seem to have V3 yet.. Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 3.0 provides a large range of options for creating scrapbooks, paper crafts and other projects. The program comes bundled with a vast amount of clip art, fonts, designs and other embellishments providing an all in one solution for anyone who wants to make creative and attractive pages from their photos. The box contains ...
...manuals!) and a chunky container for the CDs. Installation is straightforward although I felt a bit concerned over the idea of installing 1000 new fonts on to a system. Too many fonts can impact performance but to be fair, there is a minimal install option that only installs the essentials. The new features over version 2 aren't too numerous and are mainly grouped in to three areas. Firstly, lots more fiddly stuff to play with. This release sees ...

ilaskey 07.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0 Complete package