Buying Guides & Articles:Reference Software

In the days of film prints, you could always stuff another shoebox with your latest photos or buy another sticky album to expand your library. Your digital camera,... Read more

I know you like free stuff. This week I have a free Web-based calendar, a way to protect your phone number from telemarketers, and free, licensed copies of SnagIt and... Read more

Without software, a computer is basically useless. After all, the whole reason we buy computers is to run programs. Some are games; others are utilities that protect us... Read more

David PlunkertStuck with a boring browser? Wish that Word could handle more tasks? Feel hemmed in by Photoshop? You don't have to toss (or upgrade) your existing... Read more

For a long time now, software-as-a-service companies have been championing the benefits of no-software and minimal computing infrastructure on the desktop. These... Read more

Clearly, we've barely scratched the proverbial surface here, and the breadth of the reference software market means our hands are tied... Read more

On Tuesday at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008 in Orlando, Bill Gates gave what was billed as his last keynote as a full-time Microsoft employee. He talked about the past and the... Read more

Notoriously grumpy tech pundit John Dvorak has projected his grumpiness onto the U.S. presidential election and the effect that he thinks it will have on the tech... Read more

One of the nice things about Perl is that, because it is a scripting language, people give away source code for their programs. This gives you the opportunity to learn... Read more

Imagine that you've been assigned the task of pushing a very heavy car up a hill. You're allowed to recruit people who aren't doing anything else to help you move the... Read more