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Quickbooks QBi 2008/2009

Existing users of Reckon's line of accounting packages have the best reason in years to upgrade with the QBi series. New users should find the attractive pricing of the entry-level versions pretty compelling too.

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Trend Micro Antivirus plus Antispyware 2008

Trend Micro Antivirus plus Antispyware 2008 offers a variety of features designed for the home and small office.

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Apple Final Cut Studio 2

Final Cut Studio 2 is a solid value and worthy upgrade for serious film editors who work on Macs. However, hobbyists should consider simpler software.

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Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

For composing long PDF packages at an office that requires security and wants to use the new digital forms, Acrobat 8's got the goods, but it's overkill if you only seek to make short PDF files.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3

With its streamlined tools, enhanced nondestructive editing capabilities, and better performance, Adobe Photoshop CS3 will look very attractive to almost any user.

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Apple Aperture 1.5

This raw work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture 1.5 could make life easier for photographers who need to cull, retouch, and output large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.

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Norton PartitionMagic 8

If you need to partition your live hard drive, Norton PartitionMagic 8 is still the application to beat.

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System Mechanic 7 Professional

System Mechanic 7 Professional goes beyond its original greatness, morphing a system utility suite into a kind of grand security suite. As such, it comes up short.

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Adobe Fireworks CS3 beta

Adobe's page prototyping tool plays better with Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

The professional's choice for image editing spawns Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended to appeal to select vertical markets, but it delivers mixed results.

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ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware 7

ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware is the least expensive paid antispyware option we reviewed, and also one of the very best.

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CA Internet Security Suite 2007

CA Internet Security Suite 2007 feels like a pasted-together trial version of what CA offers in terms of consumer protection. The suite fails to integrate and lacks antiphishing, antirootkit, and basic IM protection found elsewhere.

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Spybot Search and Destroy

Spybot is both free and adaptable for both beginning and power users, but it left behind several known spyware apps.

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PumpOne PumpedForLife Level 1

iPod owners with a gym membership and a hankering to get in shape will be well served by PumpOne's PumpedForLife fitness software.

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Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007

Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 is a well-designed reference tool that's especially friendly for young learners.

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Grisoft Ewido Anti-Spyware 4

Grisoft Ewido Anti-Spyware is very good at identifying and removing spyware from your PC. We recommend trying the online or free edition for starters.

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FileMaker Pro 8.5

Filemaker 8.5 lets you drop Web pages into database layouts, so you can map contacts' addresses, track FedEx packages, display encyclopedia entries, or whatever else you imagine without leaving the application.

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Microsoft Student 2007

Microsoft Student 2007 is a friendly, thorough homework resource for primary and high schoolers learning maths, foreign languages, literature, and more, but you'll need to buy Office to fully use it, and you'll pay dearly for tech support.

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Opera 9

We really like Opera 9, but we like it more as the cool, arty browser that it is and not as our everyday workhorse for the Internet.

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Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp is a flexible, powerful app for quick 3D sketching on the fly, but professionals will want the US$500 version.

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