Capture images, menus, windows, and more, and then manipulate them with useful utility HyperSnap.

In comparison to Snagit, the generally accepted leader in screen capture, HyperSnap is close. Snagit has, overall, more options for image editing and capture. On the other hand, HyperSnap is ten dollars cheaper and performs the vast majority of ...

AniTuner (free) is a little utility that lets you customise your cursor.

AniTuner is a good idea for an app. However, it needs a few more iterations to smoothly import animated files and turn them into cursors - which is the main reason to download it in the first place.

Take Command is an excellent tool for anyone who regularly has to interact with the Windows command line (You know, that little window with the "C:\" prompt).

Take Command is a powerful tool for programmers, system administrators, and serious tinkerers. Casual business or home users will probably not get enough out of it to justify the price. Anyone who often gets down and dirty with the command prompt, ...

The latest upgrade to Roxio's comprehensive disc-burning suite introduces some welcome improvements, but Roxio Creator 2010 costs significantly more than competing packages.

In a world where many free programs can handle basic burning tasks and even basic audio video chores, you should spend your money carefully on software that makes video editing, disc authoring, and possibly Blu-ray playback easy. Roxio Creator 2010 ...

QTTabBar is a moderately useful add-in for Windows Explorer that adds tabs and several other features to the Explorer interface.

Whether QTTabBar will be worthwhile to do this depends on how badly you want to use tabs in Windows Explorer, and get other features such as being able to open folders in groups. If you believe having access to multiple tabs and those features is a ...

Freebie MDB Viewer Plus lets you look at Access (.mdb) files - but it doesn't always make it easy to work with them.

It's not all bad. MDB Viewer Plus allows for filtering and sorting, which are fairly intuitive, and also for editing, not just viewing, of data, making it a useful tool for simple database maintenance, especially if it's not possible to get to the ...

Cabos is a useful, simple file-sharing program.

For those who want file downloads simple and straight-ahead, Cabos is a solid bet.

The Sanyo Xacti VPC-FH1 is a hybrid camera and camcorder, with 1080p video capture.

Panda Internet Security 2009 has a good interface and provides the fastest on-access scan speed around, but its good but not outstanding malware detection prevents it from being a top pick.

Although not without problems, Microsoft Visual Studio is the premier IDE for developing applications with the Microsoft .Net Framework and at least a contender for the best Windows-hosted C/C++ IDE.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is a very promising upgrade to the premier IDE for .Net development. It improves the UI, IntelliSense, and Designers; supports parallel programming; and improves support for test-driven development. It's still ...

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 is the latest version of the popular Windows anti-malware package, with a new Safe Run 'sandbox' mode.

Features-wise Kaspersky 2010 is a definite step-up from its predecessor. It's always had a strong feature list but it trod lightly on our clunkier system, having little impact on performance - providing you discount the high CPU use in the Safe Run ...