When we decide on the burning software we'll use with our PC, we often stick with the application that was pre-installed on our computer. How many of us bother to go out and look at other burning suites and see if there is anything more substantial? With this issue we have the full Nero 7 Essentials, which is a complete disc burning suite. It will operate in full functionality mode for 30-days and then revert to a basic tool to enable burning (due to the various royalty issues with supplied codecs). You can get a good feel of the functionality offered and, if you only really want to just burn discs, Nero 7 Essentials will do the job.
We also have Ashampoo Multimedia Pack 1, which is a suite of media tools, as well as a six month edition of Avira AntiVirus Personal Premium.
If you have bought the DVD edition, try our our brand new Resources section which consists of 120 applications across eleven categories. There is an introduction to this section in this issue, so read through this to get started. The new Resources is primarily made up of free applications, including three commercial tools.
Important: Problems Obtaining Full Application Serial Codes
Over the last few months, we've noticed that readers have had problems obtaining serial codes from online registration pages. This isn't always a problem with the online registration page, but a problem with anti-spam filters, which filter out the incoming email (containing the serial code). If you have an internal anti-spam filter installed on your computer, check your 'junk mail' or 'spam' folder, to see if the email has accidentally been classed as spam.
Alternatively, you may find that you're Internet service provider (ISP) has implemented a server-side anti-spam filter. A server-side anti-spam filter filters email at the ISP...so you don't even see the spam. However, the downside is that any email that your ISP classes as 'spam' means that it gets filtered, by your ISP. Our advice would be to turn off your ISP server-side anti-spam filter and use a filter on your system, which means that spam is filtered by your own preferences (ie what you regard as spam).
