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XWe'd like to see pronunciation guides to words added, and a larger dictionary (Language Master uses Webster's concise ah  version, with just 80,000 words), but overall, Language Master ah  is a capable tool for those without, those seeking more, or perfectionists.   Windows Express  and  FirstApps ă ah   hDC Computer Corporationă XIn spite of its great new powerful features, Windows 3.0 isn't ah  perfect. The old file extension association rules are still in effect, for example, and it's easy to undo hours of work customizing the interface with just a misplaced mouse click or two. hDC addresses these and other issues with their utility packages, Express and FirstApps. ah  XSold separately (and sharing some features; both packages have screen blanking utilities), the two products are aimed at anyone interested in making Windows easier to use, and more ah  tamperresistent. Both come with clearly worded, short documentation (about 100 pages each, with lots of illustrations), and are installed in a semiautomated fashion by included programs designed for that purpose. Fully implemented, Express occupies about 700 kilobytes of disk space, ah  FirstApps just under two megabytes. ah  y!a ,!yjddPROFILEy U 1  1 [!A(0 T$T$ddq>( 3t> XA  Product Name  3 [ PA,  :=  Windows Express $99.95 FirstApps $99.95 hDC Computer Corp. 6742 185th Avenue NE Redmond WA 98052 (206)8855550[XExpress is designed to be used as a system shell, replacing ah  Windows' Program Manager. Alternately, it can be run like ah  any other Windows application, but most of its utility is ah  defeated when used in that way. Enacting a user interface faintly reminiscent of the Apple MacIntosh "file folder" metaphor, users run all their programs by pointing and clicking on icons, titles, or a combination of the two that launch the appropriate application and optionally load a prespecified file. Unlike using a Mac, folders are full screen $886 ! 7$objects, but they can con! 7tain an unlimited number of ! 7subfolders, and can cross ! 7reference each other. The ! 7filing system is managed via ! 7!0 7use of a separate included ! 7!0 7program, Express Editor, and ah  ! 7!0 7users can be kept from ! 7!0 7tampering with the interface ! 7!0 7that appears on their ! 7!0 7Ԛscreens by installing only ! 7!0 7Express, one a suitable sys ah ԭ! 7tem has been designed. ! 7XExpress Editor can be used ah  ! 7to create and modify folders ! 7and their contents, create ! 7and edit icons (the program  e,88includes a library of 200, mostly application or company specific which, unfortunately can not be exported for use outside Express), assign passwords to the entire system, certain ah  programs, or files, and even create customized help blurbs. XReworking and expanding on an earlier generation product called Windows Manager, FirstApps is a collection of environ5 F0! d 7,!0 T$7{)!5Ԯmenttweaking and productivity tools. Nine separate such modules are included, plus a game called Rocks that illustrates Windows's excellent graphics capabilities or at least ah  you might think so at first look one of the "micro apps" (Desktop) redefines the criteria for such an opinion with full motion animation. Courtesy of hDC, you can now have a cougar sprinting across your screen behind your open windows, or at the expense of considerable system resources (and perhaps some visual acuity), create a constantly changing fractal pattern. Desktop also allows you to customize a logon sequence, or maintain a fullscreen calendar for easy access. FHA couple of the modules are more intriguing than useful; Memory Viewer displays a picture of your system's current condition with regard to available RAM and virtual memory, but under Windows, the limited information provided is of no ah  great impact, and Font Viewer gives you a way to preview quickly all the character sets available to your system, both for screen and print (yes, Windows' control center almost does ah  this). Others, though, are clear improvements. Art Gallery makes access to bitmaps and metafiles for implementation through the clipboard easy, and Character Set does the same for both ASCII and ANSI character sets (notably, the copyright and registered trademark symbols). Auto Save stores your work to disk after a user defined number of keystrokes have been entered or minute have passed, Work Sets automate the process of starting and closing down entire suites of applications, and Alarm Clock takes the Windows calendar ah  concept and improves upon it: even out of a PC's tinny speaker, Beethoven sounds better than that annoying system chirp. FHWe take exception to the heavy handed implementation of both Express and FirstApps. For example, it sure would be ah  nice to use the individual applications of FirstApps indepen ah ԭdent of the Micromanager shell (no, reducing its status to an icon instead of the menu bar imposition isn't good enough, ! 7and yes, we understand the storage issues addressed by this ! 7method), but under Windows 3.0, at least the implications to ah  ! 7memory are minimized. Both packages are professionally ! 7done, easy to learn, and useful, however, and for the price, ! 7you really can't go wrong. ! 7!0 7 ! 7!0 7FLV  t> XfQ Personal Information Managers  }V [ PAd у r  ! 7!0 7 ! 7!0 7FLa Current ă ! 7!0 7FLZIBM Desktop Softwareă ! 7!0 7FL` Your Way ă ! 7!0 7FLZPRISMA Software Corp.ă ! 7 ! 7FHWhen you look at much software as we do at IYMSR, you ah  ! 7get a little jaded. To use a cliche, we were missing the forrest ! 7for the trees when we started to review these two products, and about to give you a lot of statistical information on them. As we pointed out in our Personal Information Manager issue in May of this year, though, the nature of the PIM is that selection of one is driven more by personal need then the technical specifications that affect most other software purchases. We owe a debt of gratitude to Guy Chiattello at