If your hard disk has ever crashed, you know the feeling of despair that overwhelms you when you realize what's happened. If your hard disk has never crashed, you can count on having this experience. Recently a spate of packages aimed at data...

Gander at the facts and maps that make up the globe in the latest version of the complete and pretty darn snazzy Atlas CD. Twirl the 3D atlas around to pick a favorite nation. Pull up info on its population, exports, even the number of pigs and...

If you’d gone up to a digital video pro last year and said, “In 12 months you’ll be using your Mac to paint on any frame of a hill-screen, video resolution movie, with a full range of sophisticated paint and spline-based tools, and...

This retooled Grolier boasts more multimedia and twice as many videos and photos, but only slightly enhanced articles. The big change in this version is the Online Knowledge Explorer, which allows you to hook up with Grolier’s two online...

METAL is an extended BASIC language metacompiler.  It supports provides access to graphics, sound, sprites, speech, math, system and file I/O, and QuickTime integration.

One of the advantages of being small is that you can move fast. Paragon Concepts has updated its high-end word processor, Nisus, twice since the program's introduction in January 1989. In roughly the same time period, Microsoft has yet to update...

GoLive has overhauled its underpowered Web page builder (the lowercase golive), turning it into a “studio” that aims to provide not only pixel-perfect page layout but also Web site management. CyberStudio is packed with powerful...

The word ballyhooed doesn’t even begin to cover the PR buzz around the Java programming languae. Platform independent. Portable. So, cries the real-world user, what do I get out of it? Just some little Web page animations? RandomNoise made...

There’s an expanding market for entry-level photo editing tools such as Connectix PhotoMate (see Reviews, Jun/97, p72) and Adobe PhotoDeluxe. Most try to look like baby brothers of Adobe’s main man, Photoshop. Not Kai’s Photo...

Dolphin is a GameCube and Wii emulator with high compatibility across the majority of titles for both platforms. It was first developed as closed source in 2003, and as open source since 2008. Official site

Read faster. Now faster. Now FASTER! Alright, so speed reading isn’t exactly rocket science, and Davidson’s disc is more drill sergeant than professor, but the exercises and gentle coaxes make it easy to learn nonetheless. Practice...

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