Ian Harac - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Ian Harac

Article | 11/08/2009 MDB Viewer Plus

MDB is the format used by Microsoft Access, one of the most popular databases in the world. Usually, a front end application of some type is used to -...

Article | 4/08/2009 Iolo System Mechanic 9

It is easy to use, with an elegant interface and an extraordinary degree of customisability and fine control. Unfortunately, System Mechanic 9 has one...

Article | 9/06/2009 Game Booster

Back in the 1980s, gamers would laboriously hand-edit autoexec.bat files to squeeze every kilobyte of RAM they could from their cutting-edge 80286 box...

Article | 4/06/2009 SpaceSniffer identifies hard drive hogs

"Where did all my space go?" This question has been asked by every computer user since the days of the 5.25" floppy (probably since the days of the EN...

Article | 21/05/2009 Plangarden

Plangarden is free software to help you lay out, plan and manage your vegetable garden. It does require that you take out a subscription to the Planga...

Article | 11/05/2009 Textmaker Viewer 2009

TextMaker Viewer 2009 contains no editing functionality, but does allow you to open, search, and copy text from a variety of common document formats, ...

Article | 8/05/2009 Lucky's Puzzle Carnival

The Puzzle Carnival features three puzzles: the classic memory match game, a game in which you add colours to balls to form rows which then pop, and a...

Article | 30/04/2009 JavaRebel

Edit-compile-test-edit-compile-test. This is the "software development cycle" all programmers know well, from "Hello World" onwards. JavaRebel is a JA...

Article | 27/04/2009 MindRaider

MindRaider - a free mind-mapping software program - is one of those programs which looks like a nifty idea until you start trying to use it.

Article | 24/04/2009 Dyson

Real-time strategy games have a fairly basic gameplay model: acquire resources, build units, swarm the enemy. Dyson, a freeware game from Dyson Games,...

Article | 23/04/2009 Runes of Magic

Runes of Magic is something almost unique in the world of free to play (F2P) MMORPGs. It's worth the price.

Article | 3/02/2009 Digital Postman Pro

Digital Postman Pro is a straightforward program that allows you to put a document on your scanner (or load one from your hard disk), and then email i...

Article | 27/01/2009 FastSum Standard

Can you be sure the file you burned on a CD burned correctly? Or that the version of a file floating around your office net is the same one you've got...

Article | 22/01/2009 Drive Manager

Drive Manager is a nice little utility which becomes more useful the more drives - including USB keys and the like - you use regularly.

Article | 17/01/2009 Create Gorgeous Galleries with Jalbum

Jalbum is an easy-to-use freebie which can take folders of images on your hard disk and turn them into a sophisticated, attractive, online gallery wit...