The most recent Desktop Tools articles from Computeract!ve

Gallery: Store notes on a USB key

Jody Elphick — 2008-05-22T11:29:00.000Z

Jody Elphick, Computeract!ve, Thursday 22 May 2008 at 11:29:00

Find out how to take your sticky notes with you

Review: Spinvox messaging service

Cliff Joseph — 2008-03-31T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Computeract!ve, Monday 31 March 2008 at 00:00:00

Converts your voicemail into text messages and emails

Spinvox calls itself the world’s first voice-to-screen messaging system. When you sign up, it intercepts voicemail messages that are left in your mobile phone’s voicemail box....

Review: Cosmi Perfect PDF Creator

Andrew Zarkesh — 2008-01-17T00:00:00.000Z

Andrew Zarkesh, Computeract!ve, Thursday 17 January 2008 at 00:00:00

Save any document as a PDF file

It can be frustrating to receive an important electronic document only to discover that you do not have the appropriate software to open it....

Review: Nero 8 media management

Paul Lester — 2007-12-07T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Computeract!ve, Friday 7 December 2007 at 00:00:00

A new version for the veteran media software

Thanks largely to being bundled with several manufacturers' CD and DVD writers, Nero Burning Rom (later expanded into the Nero suite) has been many people’s media-management application of choice for...

Review: Systran6 Home Translator 2007 utility software

Paul Lester — 2007-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Computeract!ve, Thursday 11 October 2007 at 00:00:00

Translation for word documents and web pages

There aren’t a great number of applications around that translate text to foreign languages, because it's a tricky business. Professional translation software runs to hundreds of pounds, but there are...

Review: Clearmymail utility software

Andrew Zarkesh — 2007-10-09T00:00:00.000Z

Andrew Zarkesh, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 9 October 2007 at 00:00:00

Kill off spam remotely

Spam email is a problem we all encounter at some point, and Clearmymail claims to be able to rid your inbox of it....

Review: Diskeeper Undelete 5 utility software

Anthony Dhanendran — 2007-08-20T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Monday 20 August 2007 at 00:00:00

Bring files back from the grave

Since Windows 95, the operating system has included a Recycle Bin, which would catch files as they were deleted, allowing users a second chance, in case the first was an...

Image gallery: Stickies

Jody Elphick — 2007-03-02T00:00:00.000Z

Jody Elphick, Computeract!ve, Friday 2 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Review: Roxio Toast 8 media management

Cliff Joseph — 2007-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Computeract!ve, Friday 12 January 2007 at 00:00:00

A worthy upgrade for Roxio’s popular Mac disc-writing software

All Apple Mac computers come with basic software for burning CDs and DVDs. They also include Apple’s iDVD program, which creates slick menus for home DVDs....

Image gallery: Workshops using Task Panes

Caroline Boyle — 2006-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

Caroline Boyle, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 1 November 2006 at 00:00:00

Review: Abbyy PDF Transformer Pro 2.0 utility software

Paul Wardley — 2006-08-29T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Wardley, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 29 August 2006 at 00:00:00

Create your own PDFs and edit those made by others

Anybody in the business of producing PDF files uses serious (and very expensive) software such as Adobe Acrobat Professional to create them....

Review: Expert PDF Pro 4 utility software

Anthony Dhanendran — 2006-07-21T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Friday 21 July 2006 at 00:00:00

Create and make changes to PDF documents

Until recently, while we could all view PDF files just by downloading the free Adobe Reader software, the only people who could create them were those who could afford to...

Review: Ability Ink Saver

Anthony Dhanendran — 2006-07-17T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Monday 17 July 2006 at 00:00:00

Save money on your printing

All printers come with a 'draft' mode, which is designed to be used for documents that don't really need to use a lot of ink – travel directions, things to...

Review: Smart PC Professional utility software

Paul Wardley — 2006-06-27T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Wardley, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 27 June 2006 at 00:00:00

A utility to fix Windows problems, remove junk files and tweak Windows settings

Smart PC Professional is a utility program available only by downloading it from the internet. It claims to fix, clean and optimise your PC, and its control panel is equipped...

Laplink PDAsync3

Jonathan Parkyn — 2005-05-17T11:48:01.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 17 May 2005 at 11:48:01

Synchronise in seconds with this program for handheld computers

One of the big benefits of using a handheld computer, smartphone or other portable device is that you can keep all your important data with you at all times.Owners of...