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Advantages: Saves your fingers
Disadvantages: Doesn`t work well if you have an awful accent like me

If you haven't heard of voice type, then it is exactly as it indicates. It enables you to do such things as essays, notes, email and Ciao opinions without typing. Instead, you just talk through a microphone and your type will appear on the screen. Now before you all go rushing out to buy this to save your poor little fingers, let me tell you about it`s good points and bad points. Included in the box is a microphone, software on CD Rom, small instruction ...
...easy to set-up, you just plug it in to the back of your PC then insert the CD. The software on the CD will automatically install. You then just open up the programme and select microphone set-up. As long as your microphone is plugged in correctly then this part shouldn't take you more than five minutes. The next step in the set-up is to get voice type to recognise your voice pattern. First you click on start dictation then you have to repeat a sentence ... Read review

Advantages: Useful if you can't type
Disadvantages: Instalation was a major problem

...It seemed to go well but at the end, the program reported that it could not analyse the results. I still use ViaVoice but had expected far better results, even if you ignore the instalation problems. I believe that my expectations were realistic as they were based on previous experience. ... Read review

Advantages: Novel for about 30 minutes. Microphone is handy
Disadvantages: doesnt really work all that well

...search brought me to the viavoice range of products. I had heard of these types of software before, the give themselves the ostentatious title of "voice-recognition-systems" That pretty much sums up what they do - you speak into the microphone provided and then it puts it down as text in a word processor. The very thought of this sounds futuristic and exciting, but in reality, for all it's promise of ultra-fast typing, it is very infuriating and ...
...two syllables abandon hope now." In essence, the Viavoice dictation software ultimately fails to achieve any of its uses. I imagine, to get software that actually works, you have to spend hundreds of pounds on a more professional version of IBM's novel product. Thanks for reading Tom ... Read review

Advantages: Norton Internet Security 2008 offers solid protection for your desktop
Disadvantages: The way that it slows your PC down to a snails pace

...the average users experience within Norton Internet Security 2008 could be greatly improved. Not all the features work together, and the program could use fewer system resources. And paying to call support is not really playing fair on their part, as the software is not free in the first place. Specs: License qty: 3 users; License type: Complete package; Min Operating system: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Microsoft Windows XP Professional ... Read review

Advantages: Simple to use, useful, reliable, nicely formatted
Disadvantages: Expensive

...came up with. The Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is very basically a package which you can load onto your computer, it contains Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007 and OneNote 2007. It is the most basic package they do and is made for non comercial use only, I have to admit considering that it is a very basic package the price of it is rather excessive. Mine cost me £100 from the Comet in the Birmingham Bullring, but that was because ...
...most of the packages that Microsoft make, the installation of this is very, very easy. You don't even need the instruction booklet that comes with it. Every step you have to go through is explained as you move through the installation. I have to admit that this package has been one of the easiest things I have ever installed on my computer, there is none of the complicated and confusing steps, just a simple step by step way of doing it. It really ... Read review