QMind Eases Content Creation, Management The hosted QMind Design Collaboration Platform makes it easy for companies to organize and create training and marketing content through a project-based methodology. 6/26/2006
Sales Asset Manager 5.0 Sales Asset Manager 5.0 Savo Group's Sales Asset Manager is a hosted Web-driven application that makes it easy to manage sales communications. 5/8/2006
Two Services Help Firms Make the Sale Sant Suite On-Demand 7.2 and Sales Asset Manager 5.0 make customer communications more streamlined. 5/8/2006
Sant Suite On-Demand 7.2 Sant Suite On-Demand 7.2 Sant's Sant Suite On-Demand is a flexible service for creating and managing marketing and sales communications and collateral. 5/8/2006
FeedDemon 2.0 FeedDemon 2.0 is the best desktop RSS aggregator money can buy. 4/11/2006
Clipmarks Clipmarks is much more than just an easy and effective way to store pieces of Web pages for future reference, sharing, and gathering commentary—it can actually become a way of life. 4/10/2006
CSS Software Chaperone Professional 5.0 Chaperone Professional 5.0 combines an awkward and antiquated user interface with an unusually limited feature set. 4/6/2006
SafeBrowse.com Safe Eyes 2006 Safe Eyes offers parental control for the modern multi-computer family. 4/4/2006
ContentWatch ContentProtect 2.0 ContentProtect offers complete and flexible content filtering. 4/4/2006
Preclick Gold Photo Organizer Preclick Gold is undoubtedly the best photo organizer for PC novices, and more experienced users may like it as well. 3/29/2006
Iomega ScreenPlay The Iomega ScreenPlay promises to liberate your multimedia files, such as pictures, video, and music, from your computer and play them back on a TV. If only it really did. 3/6/2006
Kodak EasyShare v5.2 Though Kodak's EasyShare software isn't as slick as Picasa, it's a good choice if you want something simpler, whether you use a Kodak camera or not. 3/1/2006
Portfolio 8 Puts Focus on Flexibility With the latest release of its Portfolio digital asset management program, Extensis focuses on flexibility, letting users manage photos pretty much any way they want to. 2/27/2006
Apple Aperture 1.0.1 Despite its sleek, state-of-the-art interface and many excellent features, Aperture 1.0.1's occasional bugginess and generally inferior RAW image rendering make it hard to recommend to professional photographers. 2/27/2006
Podzinger The most efficient method yet for searching podcast content. 2/16/2006
Phanfare Unlike many similar services, Phanfare isn't free, but you'll get what you pay for. 2/15/2006
Applications Bring Order to Workgroups Taking two markedly different approaches, Alexsys' Team 2 and Itensil's Teamlines give organizations a way to put workflow and rules behind workgroup applications. 2/13/2006
Teamlines Focuses on Documents Itensil's hosted Teamlines application does a good job of abstracting the process of building a workflow for companies that need to formalize document-centric workflow. 2/13/2006
JotSpot Increases Excel's Usefulness Users who spend lots of time tracking information in Microsoft Excel will find much to like in JotSpot Tracker, essentially a spreadsheet wiki that allows users to collaborate by importing and exporting Excel data. 1/30/2006
Apple iTunes 6 The latest iTunes scores with its ever-expanding video library, but it continues to disappoint by neglecting to offer a music subscription option. 1/26/2006
Adobe Lightroom Adobe Lightroom seems like it will evolve into an excellent workflow solution for professional digital photographers. 1/9/2006
PhotoImpact 11 PhotoImpact 11 adds a few enhancements to the package's powerful image editor. 12/20/2005
PhotoPlus 10 Studio Pack PhotoPlus 10 Studio Pack disappoints in its meager options for sharing your digital photos with others. 12/20/2005
Abbyy FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition Abbyy FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition offers a new ability to automate common OCR tasks. 12/9/2005
FilmLoop FilmLoop's ticker-like interface is wonderfully addictive. Give it a try, and you may not give it up.
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Google Base (beta) Google Base gives everyone a single point of entry for posting information to the Internet and getting that info into the hands of people who might want it. A promising service that still needs some tweaking. 12/5/2005
Alfresco Platform Automates Chores When productivity applications such as WordPerfect ran on 80-column, 25-line text-mode screens, it was easy to write simple scripts that knew where to find information on that grid and could automate many content management tasks. 11/28/2005
TagWorld If you like deli.cio.us or Flickr, you'll love TagWorld. 11/9/2005
ACDSee 8 Photo Manager Professionals and prosumers should love the detailed management features of ACDSee 8 Photo Manager. 11/8/2005
Inform Inform offers a new way to stay on top of current events, but in its current incarnation it's a bit too cumbersome to use effectively, at least without some practice. 10/24/2005
Shadows If you're in the market for a bookmark organizer, Shadows is better than del.icio.us but not quite ready to claim the social-bookmarking crown. 10/21/2005
del.icio.us del.icio.us competently tags and stores your bookmarks online, but it's too limited and too hard to use. 10/21/2005
Clipmarks Clipmarks is an easy and effective way to store pieces of Web pages for sharing, reference, and review. 10/21/2005
Zoto Despite a few navigation issues, Zoto trumps all other image banks with its generous, ad-free storage, sharing, and blogging tools. 10/12/2005
Ulead CD & DVD PictureShow 4 Easy-to-use tool for quickly creating attractive slide shows. 10/12/2005
Memeo If Memeo continues to refine the product, and resolve the restore problems, it's a nifty solution for multiple destination data backup. 8/17/2005
PhotoShow Deluxe Extremely powerful yet wonderfully easy to use. 8/8/2005
FeedForAll 1.0 FeedForAll is the most complete Windows RSS feed creator we've come across. 8/3/2005
Adobe Bundle Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts With its latest release, Adobe's Creative Suite has moved beyond simply being a nicely priced bundle of applications to become a truly integrated, compelling suite of content-creation tools. 7/25/2005
Talisma Widens Its Knowledge Base Enterprise Edition For companies looking to make it easier for customers to help themselves over the Web, Talisma's KnowledgeBase.net 5.0 Enterprise Edition is a compelling option because of its remarkable flexibility and robust workflow tools. 7/18/2005
Sun's CIS Is Ready to Go Sun's CIS is the closest thing to a plug-and-play ILM solution on the market today. 7/18/2005
Edit.com Small businesses looking for a simple way to make routine updates to Web sites can use Edit.com's browser-based service. 6/28/2005
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 The suite is now a contender, at least when it comes to organizing and sharing photos. 6/21/2005
Arts PDF's Nitro PDF Desktop Arts PDF's Nitro PDF Desktop capably creates and converts PDF documents, but it doesn't come close to offering the enterprise-class functionality available in Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0. 6/20/2005
RedDot CMS Eases Web Content Creation As Web sites, portals and intranets have become more common and more vital to corporate infrastructures, it has become important for companies to have a platform that makes it easy for nontechnical users to contribute to these sites.... 5/16/2005
GalleryPlayer View high-quality, high-res paintings and photos—never available digitally before—on your Media Center PC, as a Spotlight application. 5/4/2005
WANSyncCD Boosts Data Replication Speeds Xosoft's WANSyncCD is a simple but efficient content replication tool that can be used to consolidate or distribute data efficiently over WAN links. 2/7/2005
Kontiki Manages More Content Companies looking for a way to distribute multimedia or large files to internal and external audiences will find that Kontiki Inc.'s Delivery Management System 4.0 provides the flexibility and customization needed to suit a range of purposes. 2/7/2005
Rhythmyx 5.5 Percussion Software has updated its highly capable content management system, which has long been strong in usability and extensibility. 1/31/2005
Microsoft Photo Story 3 Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a truly significant upgrade, offering dramatic improvements to almost every feature. 1/10/2005
FormServer Builds and Delivers Rich Surveys BenQ Quask's new FormServer simplifies the creation and deployment of forms. 1/10/2005
TeamSite 6.1 Interwoven has long been one of the leaders in Web content management, and its TeamSite product shows that wealth of experience. However, maturity is often accompanied by a lot of baggage.... 8/2/2004
Make Eye-Popping Charts With PopChart Enterprises that need to make interactive charts available on the Web should look into PopChart Enterprise ($6,990 direct) from Corda Technologies. 8/19/2003
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