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Advantages: GREAT DESIGN AND POTENTIAL: PUTS POWER IN YOUR HANDS
Disadvantages: HANGS OFTEN -BUGGY

...corrupts quickly. As yet Adobe have not made a 64 bit system - but the 32 bit versions will last a while yet. I like the design and potenital - but cannot gve it five stars as it is too unstable (a problem reported frequently in Adobe technical forums). I am about to learn Vagus 8 out of necessity as I cannot afford to fix Premiere so often as I am turning professional again and need reliability. If Premier was more robust I would not hesitate ... Read review

Advantages: an amazingly versatile software application
Disadvantages: requires a bit of effort to study the basics

Microsoft Excel is a briliant application if you need to routinely do mathematical calculations as part of your job. It is amazing to think that accountants and administrative workers over the centuries had to manage without it. I am not a maths boff by any means and excel and spreadsheets isn't limited in usefulness only to people who love and use maths daily, if you need somewhere on your computer to save a simple list of names and addresses (which ...
...microsoft applications such as word for ie Christmas mailing lists), your shoping lists, household budgets, your bank balance reconcilition to track uncleared cheques and card payments, there is no better place to start experimenting with what excel can do. It can also be used for stock control or commission analysis to check what is on one list but missing from another. Anyone interested in knowing how to do this learn how to use the vlookup option ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to programme
Disadvantages: requires a bit of effort to learn the basic syntax but then you are away

Microsoft Visual Basic 6 is probably the best and easiest programming language that anyone can learn quickly, and being a microsoft programming language it can be used to manipulate virtually anything microsoft based, whether it is access databases, excel spreadsheets, word or other applications you are running on windows such as windows explorer. You are only limited by your imagination. Being a microsoft product there is plenty of online support, ...
...code. Primarily it is a great programming tool if you wish to creat cusomised database screens, as all you have to do is draw the form using the mouse and drag and drop text boxes, combo boxes, drop down menus, labels into the form, double click on them to see the properties menu to point them to the database source you want them to retrieve the data from, and write the necessary code. ... Read review

Advantages: An easy database programme that virtually anyone can learn quickly
Disadvantages: might not be the techies favourite but does everything I need it to do and more

Microsoft Access is microft's own database programme, and Microsoft Access 2007 is still a great programme, even though is had been superceded by Office 2000. Can be used for anything from managing and creating your own name and address lists for friends and family or for keeping a record of all your books, music, videos, dvds etc., It can be used in a professional capacity for almost any kind of business that has to keep data records. I have also ... Read review

Advantages: Almost guaranteed to pass
Disadvantages: SO boring

I took my driving theory test back in March and used this CD to help me. ~~~What's on the CD?~~~ *Practical video* When I first put the CD in it automatically came up with the video section which was all about manoeuvres in a car and shopping you how to do them. I got this CD the weekend I turned 17 and I had not started driving and so I was curious at first and watched it intently. However I struggled to remember everything they told me without ...
...imagine driving and soon it became very boring. There is also a whole practical driving test, this was just as boring. In fact, truth be told, I used to watch it just before bed time when I had trouble sleeping and it would send me to sleep. I had the intention of starting to drive but I never quite got around to it so just like everything else I am meant to do I ignored it. So February came around and I decided to start driving and booked my theory ... Read review