This month, we've sourced a superb business design tool, ConceptDraw V Personal, which should enable you to design and create the busines forms, invoices, diagrams you'll need. If you have a large an extensive digital photo collection, sending photos to friends and family isn't easy. You could upload to the web, alternatively you could export your photos to a digital slideshow, then burn a slideshow to CD with Roxio MyDVD Slideshow. If you're planning on backing up important data to your hard drive, have a look at Cyberlink PowerBackup, whilst LP Recorder 5 will enable you to take your old LPs and tapes and extract the audio to your computer.

DVD users get even more, including the SuSE Professional 9.3 Live DVD and exclusive Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 and Serif MoviePlus 4 trials. In addition to this, there are over 50 freeware and OpenSource tools and so much more.

Spam Filters (local and server-side spam filters)
Over the last few months, we've noticed that readers have had problems obtaining serial codes from online registration pages. This isn't always a problem with the online registration page, but a problem with anti-spam filters, which filter out the incoming email (containing the serial code). If you have an internal anti-spam filter installed on your computer, check your 'junk mail' or 'spam' folder, to see if the email has accidentally been classed as spam.

Alternatively, you may find that you're Internet service provider (ISP) has implemented a server-side anti-spam filter. A server-side anti-spam filter filters email at the ISP...so you don't even see the spam. However, the downside is that any email that your ISP classes as 'spam' means that it gets filtered, by your ISP. Our advice would be to turn off your ISP server-side anti-spam filter and use a filter on your system, which means that spam is filtered by your own preferences (ie what you regard as spam).