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Name | Price | Rating | Comment | Win 95 | Win 3.1 | From | Tel no | Issue | Page | Additional comments, notes | |
Travel/Journey Planning | |||||||||||
Autoroute Express | £51 | lllllm | Excellent mapping and fast route calculation. | Y | Y | Microsoft | 0345 002000 | 13 | 154 | recommended | |
Info Travel | £49 | lllmmm | Clean and simple, basic information for international travellers. | ? | Y | InfoSoft | 01753 539393 | 3 | 182 | ||
Rail Journey Planner | £30 | lllmmm | A useful product that's improving slowly. | Y | Y | RailDirect | 0191 269 0232 | 23 | 167 | ||
Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
Avery Label Pro | £50 | lllllm | Beautifully simple if a little limited in scope. | Y | Y | Avery | 0800 805020 | 16 | 145 | recommended | |
Logical Decisions | £400 | llllmm | Can solve problems that involve lots of data. Expensive. | Y | Y | POW Distribution | 01202 716726 | 16 | 130 | ||
Win95 Advisor | £30 | lllmmm | Gives an idea of how your system will cope with Windows 95. Poor value when compared to the actual cost of upgrading. | ? | Y | ||||||
desktop utility | Officeblox | £100 | lllllm | Easy to use set of small applications. | Y | N? | AlphaBlox UK | 01628 777475 | 12 | 142 | |
meetings organisation | Meetings Manager | £195 | lmmmmm | Failed attempt to make time spent in meetings more productive. | ? | Y | PC Control | 0171 454 1235 | 9 | 130 | |
ideas organiser | Inspiration 4 | £149 | llllmm | Useful for ideas processing and drawing diagrams. | Y | Y | Roderick Manhattan | 0181 875 4444 | 8 | 134 | |
photo library | Corel Stock Photo Library | £795 | lllllm | 20,000 royalty free images. Largely good quality images. | ? | Y | Corel | 0800 581028 | 6 | 133 | |
statistics | SPSS 6.1 | £3,560 | lllllm | The most complete package available. Base version also available. | ? | Y | SPSS UK | 01483 719201 | 5 | 149 | |
statistics | SPSS 7 | £695 | llllmm | Improved with new modules and features that add to its power. | Y | N | SPSS UK | 01483 719201 | 24 | 188 | |
cd authoring | Corel CD Creator | £169 | llllll | Fully featured, and excellent value. | ? | Y | Corel | 0800 581028 | 4 | 148 | |
cd authoring | Corel CD Creator 2 | £169 | lllllm | Well designed, fast and easy to use for no-frills CD burning. | Y | N | Channel Market Makers | 01703 814142 | 21 | 154 | recommended |
screen saver | The Far Side | £29 | llllmm | Highly colourful, well executed. | ? | Y | Delrina | 0181 207 3163 | 3 | 178 | |
doc management | AskSam 2 | £295 | llllmm | Excellent free-form text database. | ? | Y | Guildsoft | 01752 895100 | 3 | 180 | |
doc management | AskSam 3 | £100 | lllllm | Versatile and easy to use. | Y | Y | Guildsoft | 01752 895100 | 20 | 148 | recommended |
share analysis | Updata Teleshares | £295 | llllmm | Useful for any business involved in the stock market. | ? | Y | Updata | 0181 874 4747 | 2 | 147 | |
market research | Pinpoint 3 | £499 | llllmm | Expensive but well designed tool. | ? | Y | Longman Logotron | 01223 425558 | 2 | 164 | |
midi sequencer | Cakewalk Professional 3 | £299 | llllll | Brilliantly designed, effortless to use. A star performer. | ? | Y | Et Cetera Distribution | 01706 228039 | 1 | 133 | excellence |
multitrack editing | SAW Plus | £680 | lllllm | More suitable for recording studios than one person multimedia production. | Y | Y | Et Cetera Distribution | 01706 228039 | 18 | 134 | recommended |
business planning | Business Plan 2 | £149 | llllmm | Useful, but somewhat expensive. | Y | Y | Roderick Manhattan | 0181 875 4444 | 18 | 118 | |
share dealing | Infotrade | £60 | lllllm | Impressive security aspects and plenty of help with broking jargon. | Y | Y | BT | 0800 226600 | 18 | 126 | recommended |
employee appraisal tool | Emlpoyee Appraiser 2 | £77 | lllmmm | Not a one-stop appraisal solution, but a handy management tool. | Y | Y | Softline | 0181 401 1234 | 19 | 134 | |
data mapping | Mapinfo Pro 4 | £1,095 | lllmmm | A useful tool for data mapping, but too expensive. | Y | Y | MapInfo | 01344 482888 | 20 | 155 | |
writing aid | Creative Writing 2 | £43 | lllmmm | Plenty of helpful advice, but it's all been seen before in paper form. | Y | Y | Way Ahead | 01952 243153 | 21 | 152 | |
music creation | Koan Pro | £140 | llllmm | One of the most original pieces of music software to hit the market. | Y | Y | Sseyo | 01344 712017 | 21 | 153 | |
contact management | Goldmine 3 | £395 | lllllm | Feature-rich, fast, efficient, intuitive and flexible. | Y | N | AVG | 0171 454 1790 | 22 | 160 | recommended |
business templates | Planit Letters | £26 | llllmm | A good starting point for people who have difficulty composing letters. | Y | Y | Roderick Manhattan | 0181 875 4444 | 23 | 166 | |
multimedia presentations | Picture Album | £20 | lllllm | Affordable and innovative approach to organising multimedia material. | Y | Y | TGL Multimedia | 0171 474 1765 | 23 | 166 | |
to do lists | Action Pro 3 | £34 | lllmmm | Well executed but very basic. | Y | Y | Wessex Systems | 01202 896986 | 23 | 173 | |
management | Manage Pro | £249 | llllmm | Could save time and money if used in the right situation. | Y | Y | POW Distribution | 01202 716726 | 24 | 184 | |
genealogy | Family Origins 4 | £26 | lllllm | A superb application, very easy to use. | Y | Y | Guildsoft | 01752 895100 | 24 | 193 | recommended |
speech recognition | Kurzweil Voice 2 | £595 | lllmmm | Voice dictation that works, although accuracy could be better. | Y | Y | Responsive Systems | 0171 602 4107 | 24 | 201 | |
colour matching | Pantone ColorDrive 1.5 | £149 | llllmm | Comprehensive palette based colour matching. | Y | N | Computers Unlimited | 0181 200 8282 | 24 | 202 | |
postcode retrieval | Probe 1.6.1 | £1,650 | lllmmm | First class tool, but prohibitively expensive. | Y | Y | Hopewiser | 0161 980 6001 | 25 | 202 |
Last Update: 15/10/96
Name: PC Pro