Starry Night Beginner
FULL VERSION (WORTH £19.99)
See the sky from any location on Earth. Identify any constellation you're viewing. "Point and click" for information on 100,000 realistic celestial objects. Identify and locate planets as they change positions during the year. Learn the popular names of the star patterns. Print out customised star charts to take outside with you. And travel 3,200 years through time to see what the stars looked like on any night from 200 BC to 3000 AD.
PentaZip 4.1 FULL VERSION
PentaZip is a compression software utility and file viewer. Features include the ability to view and, in some cases, edit compressed files without the need to first extract them. PentaZip also scripting tools (for automating repetitive tasks) and a command-line interface. Its Windows Explorer-integrated interface provides instant right-click access to create, add to or freshen files. Several compressed files to be opened within the same window, providing easy drag-and-drop movement between archives. PentaZip is compatible with almost every compression format on the market today.
McAfee Firewall FULL VERSION
Easy-to-use, yet highly secure, McAfee Firewall safeguards your PC's connection to the Internet whether you connect via DSL, cable modem, satellite, or dial-up. You'll find all the tools you need to control the communications into and out of your PC. Its Intrusion Detection System (IDS) detects common attack types and other suspicious activity. And colour coded alerts provide a simple and intuitive display of any potential security or privacy threats to your PC while online.
Plan IT Marketing Plan Pro
FULL VERSION
Writing a marketing plan can be a difficult and time-consuming task. PlanIT Marketing Plan is designed to take some of the pain out of it, guiding you through the process of writing a marketing plan using the question, example, answer technique. At every step, you're given context-sensitive help and advice on what you should be including, together with the best way to present it. The software assumes that yours is a small to medium sized business, although you'll still find it useful if you work as part of a team or department within a large company.
Plan It Letters Suite FULL VERSION
PlanIT Sales Letters contains over a hundred letter templates designed for use in a wide variety of sales situations. With help from British letter-writing expert, Clive Goodworth, PlanIT Business Letters has every imaginable business situation covered. Drafted by John Nilsson – lawyer and author of the book Ready Drafted Legal and Business Letters – PlanIT Legal Letters will help keep you out of trouble.
PlanIT Sales Letters
PlanIT Business Letters
PlanIT Legal Letters
Remote Administrator TRIAL
Radmin is a remote control program that enables you to access and work on one or more remote computers, on a LAN or on the internet, from your own PC. It's designed for helpdesk managers, network administrators, IT consultants, and laptop users who need to access their desktop PC while on the move. Features include file transfer, NT security, Telnet and multilanguage support.
Mindmanager 2002 TRIAL
MindManager is designed to help you explore and develop ideas in real time as the brain does – visually. From a graphic symbol in the centre of the screen, users add branches and sub-branches, labelling thoughts as they unfold. Users can connect thoughts with arrows, add meaningful symbols, and emphasise key points with colour highlighting, with limitless space. The result is a visual "map" of the thinking process that can be shared over the Internet, used as a presentation or a set-up as a web page, etc. NOTE: you'll also find the free viewer in the folder \software\murge\
Project Kickstart TRIAL
From the makers or MindManager, this is an easy-to-use program for small to mid-size project planning. You can brainstorm, plan, and schedule projects in (it's claimed) around half an hour. There are no manuals to read – the built-in Planning Wizard helps keep you on track as far as project logic and strategic thinking are concerned: Phases, Tasks, Goals, Resources & Obstacles. Your project is displayed as a Gantt chart – the standard tool for scheduling tasks and status reporting. You can also include hot-links to a variety of applications and team members.
Railplanner Pocket TRIAL
With comprehensive details of all the different UK rail networks and Eurostar services, RailPlanner Pocket provides a quicker, easier alternative to sifting through bundles of different paper timetables to collate the best journey. Where trains are delayed or cancelled, users have an instant view of all available alternative routes. Access to travel information via a stylus on a touch-screen of a handheld PC. Click INSTALL to copy the files to your desktop PC. (The same applies to TubePlanner, below.)
Tubeplanner Pocket TRIAL
Designed for Pocket PCs, this software offers detailed information on first and last trains, fares, and station facilities. A 'Smart Search’ option allows you to enter a street, cinema, hotel, restaurant, bar or place of interest, as departure or destination point with over 50,000 streets and 250 landmarks to choose from. An on-screen itinerary is displayed, with estimated overall journey time, the number of changes en-route and the journey time between calling points. Included is a zoomable London Tube map.
Presto Web FX TRIAL
Now you can quickly create eye-catching animations in Macromedia Flash format, without the need to learn Flash. Presto Web FX comes with ten different styles of special effects that can be implemented at the touch of a button. These include: Wave, Cube, Morph, Explode, Curl Up, Twist, Spiral, Rotate 3D, Cross Fade, Lens. Simple controls allow animations to be fully customised for a wide range of variations. The animations produced can be used directly on a website or as part of a larger Flash file. The finished movie can also be assigned a hyperlink and embedded in an HTML file.
ACT! version 6 TRIAL
Keep track of addresses, phone numbers, e-mail, appointments, birthdays, and more. ACT! lets you write or fax letters or send e-mail, and have those activities recorded in the contact’s record. It tracks sales opportunities; offers features for managing a group of contacts in the same company; and includes enhanced Microsoft Outlook integration sharing e-mail and calendar information
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Nvidia NVDVD TRIAL
The latest version of Nvidia's NVDVD multimedia software, NVDVD 2, combines video and audio playback with advanced features and intuitive controls designed to bring the home cinema experience to your desktop or notebook PC. NVDVD is a full media player with play-list support - you can create custom playlists of MP3 music, photo slideshows with background music, or any mixed audio and video presentation.
PCW on CD-ROM No.18
FULL TEXT APRIL 1999 TO MARCH 2001
PCW on CD-ROM saves you space and time by providing you with thousands of articles, reviews, and group tests from 24 issues. Find any article fast using the software's comprehensive keyword search command. Apart from anything else, this is a great slice of computing history right at your fingertips. And if you feel like getting hold of the most recent version of PCW on CD-ROM, visit the offers page on our website (click below).
PC Magazine Ebook 2
Here's the second PC Magazine e-book edition, designed to give you a taste of what's to come. It's part of a new venture that will make PC Magazine available to readers online. You'll need to install a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader or Ebook Reader (click either of the buttons below).

Webguide on CD-ROM
FULL VERSION – SPRING/SUMMER 2002
Here it is in its entirety – from our sister magazine Computeractive Web Guide, thousands of websites, all neatly sorted and categorised, together with full reviews and one-click links that take you straight to the site. AND, Web Guide's special Autolinks feature ensures that there are no outdated or broken links.
Graphics cards drivers for Nvidia & ATI cards
You'll find a selection of drivers for these cards in the \software\nvidia_and_ati_drivers\ folder on this month's disc. If you have one of these cards you can copy the installers individually to your PC, or install them directly by clicking the appropriate buttons below.
ATI: wxp-w2k-radeon-6-13-10-6218.exe (Windows 2000)  
ATI: wme-ref-7-72-020524m-004274c.exe (Windows 98/98se)  
ATI: wme-radeon-4-13-01-9072.exe (Windows Me)  
ATI: wxp-w2k-radeon-6-13-10-6218.exe (Windows XP)  
Nvidia: 41_09_win2kxp.exe (Windows 2000 and Windows XP)