The 1998 edition of Following the Fairways is a comprehensive reference book on many of the finest golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland, plus a chapter on golf in France. The book is an easy-to-follow guide on "Where to Play- -Where to Stay" and has 30 chapters, each of which deals with a small geographical area.

An attractive, hand-drawn map at the start of each chapter shows the location of each golf club and the information is then given under three headings. First th..

You dont have to be paranoid to buy Internet Cleanup--despite the packagings message "Whos watching what you browse on the Internet?" The fact is that what we surf from the "privacy" of our home PCs is far from secret, let alone what we log onto at work. Every time you visit a Web site, tracks are left on your hard disk in the form of cookies, history files and cache files.

Now these are not all bad. Cookies let a Web site recognise you the next time you log on. Thats how your online bo..

Microsoft Works 7 is essentially a cut-down version of Microsoft Office but manages to pack a lot of functionality in while still offering superb ease of use.

Works 7 combines a word processor, spreadsheet, database, calendar and more in to an easy-to-use, project-driven package. You start by choosing a project such as "Do Well in School" then select one of a series of tasks for instance "Track Homework Assignments". Works 7 uses a series of pre-written templates ..

Its fitting that one of the training texts for this package is from Arthur C. Clarkes 2001: A Space Odyssey. This widely respected large-vocabulary voice-recognition application does an astonishingly good job at delivering what once seemed like technology of the distant future.

There are a few catches, however. The system needs to be set up for a specific users voice through a training session: a time-intensive process that involves what seems like yelling into the small Time-Life ope..