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(http://www.jokes-n-stuff.com) CONTENTS 1=> This Week's Notes, Add your link as a CompuNotes' Friend ... By Patrick Grote, mailto:pgrote@compunotes.com 2=> This Issue's Winner! Reviews: 3=> Product: QuickTax Deluxe (Canadian Tax Return software), TurboTax (US) Reviewed By: Stu Craine (QuickTax), Howard Carson (TurboTax) 4=> Product: Star Trek Bridge Commander (game) Reviewed By: Howard Carson, mailto:agitater@compunotes.com 5=> Product: Cool Info 2001 Reviewed By: Paul Schneider, Ph.D. mailto:paul@studio5d.com 6=> Product: Disk Alert Reviewed by: Don Hughes, mailto:dhtech1@sympatico.ca 7=> Product: Macromedia Sitespring Reviewed by: David Bell, mailto:david.bell5@sympatico.ca --- Why not suggest CompuNotes to a friend, family member or co-worker? You can win $10,000 and they have a chance to win each week with great information! 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MSRP: CDN$49.95 (QuickTax Deluxe), US$39.95 (TurboTax Deluxe, 1 free TurboTax State is included via download) It's that time of year of anxious foreboding during which, with many frustrating calculations, manipulations, shaky decisions and much speculation we attack our tax returns. QuickTax Deluxe is a piece of software that I believe will make tax return chores a whole lot easier and less frustrating for Canadians. I found completing and filing the actual tax return as easy and accurate as the 1-2-3 steps in the guide. (Ed. Note: TurboTax is reviewed below, after QuickTax). INTUIT QUICKTAX DELUXE STEP 1: There are two choices in filling out your actual return. With the EasyStep Interview option, you are asked all necessary questions and, as you answer, all the pertinent Government approved forms that are appropriate for your situation are filled out. All calculations are performed and any money-saving tax tips are highlighted. With the other option, you can do your own taxes, with the added ability to perform some what-if planning. I explain elements of this what-if planning below. STEP 2: In this step, your information is double-checked. Any entries that need clarification or missed deductions are flagged. As part of this review, I did my taxes both by hand and using QuickTax Deluxe. I found the software-compiled return complete and accurate in all respects. I also did a couple of what-if scenarios in the same manner, with the same results of completion and accuracy. Another plus was the elimination of shuffling through a mess of unnecessary forms. STEP 3: In this step you have two choices for filing your return: by mail or NetFile via the Internet. NetFile is the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency's (CCRA) and MRQ's (Quebec) electronic tax-filing option and is operated by CCRA (formerly Revenue Canada). Users of this service typically receive their refund in less than two weeks. Before sending your return, QuickTax does a final review and assists in correcting any missing information or omitted questions. There is also a QuickRefund option whereby tax refunds can be obtained in as little as 24 hours through Liberty Tax Service (there's a service charge and you have to pick up your refund at one of Liberty's locations). QuickTax Deluxe offers much more than a simplified and speedy way to fill out your taxes. It is also a comprehensive tax and financial analyzer. One of the build-in-functions that I was most intrigued with was the Scenario Analyzer. You can create unlimited number of what- if scenarios that do not count against your five-return limit. Create different scenarios changing claim amounts, deductibles, incomes, different RRSP contributions or registered charity contributions, assigning current charitable donations to your spouse. Then with side- by-side comparisons see which scenario gives you the best tax benefit. If you're planning on moving soon you can even find out what taxes you would pay in another province. Live Tax Advice is a pay-per-use service that allows you to speak directly to a Canadian tax professional by telephone. Choose from a list of tax professionals who are available to answer a tax situation or issue that requires assistance or clarification. RRSP Wizard shows what effect different RRSP contributions will have on your net income, tax rate and taxes owed or refunded. It also gives real-time online access to shop for RRSPs. Capital Gains Analyzer presents a picture of after-tax returns of various types of investments. The Investment Savings Planner and Loan Planner are excellent features too, and provide quick, accurate calculations with any combination of real or projected savings and loans. Quicken Mortgage (partnered with The Mortgage Alliance Company of Canada) analyzes individual requirements and shows the different mortgage products available, helping you to decide which one is better for you. Have you had or heard as many discussions as I have on the pros and cons of leasing a car over buying one? The Buy vs. Lease Analyzer will help you decide which option is best for you. I am very impressed with QuickTax Deluxe. With a list of latest tax changes from CCRA, and all government approved forms and worksheets your return is accurate and complete. Completing and filing of taxes cannot be easier and quicker. Tech Help is excellent, as I received instant response to my e-mail inquiry. I am very impressed with QuickTax Deluxe and do not hesitate to recommend it to anyone doing his or her own taxes. QuickTax, available in both English and French, is designed especially for Quebec’s unique tax laws. Intuit Canada’s Quebec if Different feature allows Quebec tax preparers to enter a value on their return that is different from the CCRA return. INTUIT TURBOTAX DELUXE TurboTax is similar in design and implementation to QuickTax. But there are huge procedural differences due to the vastly different tax, savings and declaration requirements between Canada and the US. Above all else, TurboTax seems well-designed to maximize your tax savings and it's clearly implemented Interview process helps prevent any chance you might forget or skip over some important deductions. As with QuickTax, TurboTax is powerful, fast, easy to use and above all else accurate, incorporating the latest tax laws, incentives and options. Importing data from Quicken and Quickbooks is straightforward and all data is properly incorporated into your return. Intuit includes one free state tax add-on via download. Additional TurboTax State add-ons are priced separately, but the end result of combining Deluxe and State are extremely accurate. Once again, as with QuickTax, TurboTax is thorough and easy to use, even when filing complex returns. We'd like to see Intuit offer at least a three state pack along with TurboTax Deluxe (lots of people pay taxes in more than one state). Creating such a bundle would really help keep tax filing costs down. Better still, an integrated release which included Deluxe and the ability to activate as many states as a user was willing to pay for would have a very wide appeal and eliminate fiddling with multiple downloads, CDs and installations. TurboTax also uses the EasyStep Interview process and provides on-the- spot access to tax information and advice as the software places your interview answers into the appropriate fields in the tax form. You can also use the software in 'manual' mode, choosing the forms and schedules to work on. But as with QuickTax, we think most people will like TurboTax's Interview process. We like the IRA selection analyzer. If you don't have an IRA yet (or if you've been contemplating one), there's no time like the present to start saving. Even a few dollars a month can make a huge difference 25 years from now. TurboTax makes it easy to choose the right IRA. There's also some good advice that may help straighten out some mysteries about the new Tax Relief Act (do you know about the Alternative Minimum Tax, Child Tax Credit and the major new education and retirement provisions?). Lots of good tax, savings and investment planning advice here. Another feature we really liked was Instant Data Entry. It automatically retrieves W-2 wage, 1098 mortgage interest and 1099 investment data from participating employers and financial institutions, then enters it in the right forms - eliminating manual data entry and simplifying tax preparation. There's nothing like this available in Canada yet and although it is limited to participating employers and financial institutions, it sure looks like the wave of the future. (Ed. Note: We culled some great tax advice from quite a few sources this year and the most oft-heard point is that if you receive a large refund this year, you may want to adjust your withholding so you can receive this money in your paycheck each week instead of lending it to the government throughout the year. If you have to write a check for taxes due with your return, you should definitely review your W-4 and make adjustments so this doesn't happen next year. The IRS' W-4 Calculator - on the IRS and Intuit web site - will help you determine how many exemptions you should be claiming). Two great packages revised for the 2001 tax year. You can't go wrong. Make sure you're talking to a good and trustworthy financial advisor at least twice a year. Make sure your savings contributions throughout the year (RRSP and IRA at least) add up to the deductions you need to pay as little tax as possible. Canadian and US governments use our income tax deducted at source all year long, so don't give the government any more than exactly what's required - not a penny more. The money you save now is the money that will collect interest and reinvest in the years to come. Intuit QuickTax Deluxe & TurboTax Deluxe Product Web site: http://www.intuit.com 4=> Product: Star Trek Bridge Commander (game) Reviewed By: Howard Carson, mailto:agitater@compunotes.com Requires: 3D hardware accelerator with 16MB VRAM; US version of Windows 95 (OSR2), 98, ME, 2000 or XP; Pentium II/300MHz or AMD Athlon processor; 64MB RAM, 750MB disk space; 100% DirectX8 compatible sound card, video card and drivers; 4x CD-ROM drive, 100% Microsoft compatible mouse and keyboard. MSRP: US$49.99 Star Trek Bridge Commander is the first comprehensive space simulation set in the Next Generation universe and it puts you in command of your own Starfleet starship and crew. Are you ready to take the Con? Totally Games, the developer, claims to be taking us where no one has gone before. Now where have I heard that line before? Just kidding. Star Trek Bridge Commander has been designed to integrate all elements of starship internal & external controls/systems, navigation, battle and armaments and even some crew relationships. The back story is relatively straightforward. While on duty in a remote area of space, a nearby sun suddenly erupts releasing a deadly blast that damages your ship, kills your Captain and threatens nearby colonists. You must take control of the ship and lead the crew in order to solve the mystery. The game mission is also clear - discover the cause of the devastating explosion and prevent it from happening again. During it all you'll battle the Cardassians, ally yourself with the Klingons, investigate the unpredictable Romulans and uncover a secret plot which threatens the Federation. There are more than 30 missions, most of which include variations on fundamental Star Trek elements such as defense, combat, diplomacy, exploration, rescue and scientific discovery. You also get to command a variety of ships in both Galaxy and Sovereign classes as well as the U.S.S. Enterprise-D and U.S.S. Enterprise-E. You need to think about what you're doing when you take command. For example, at one point early on I routed sensor and shield power to the phaser array (for the extra power needed to blast through a bunch of space gas, rock and junk that was in my way). A few minutes later though, I found myself attempting to scan for enemy ships but got absolutely nothing but dull fuzz on my sensors. DUH-UH!! It helps to remember to re-route power BACK to the sensors. There are a lot of details to remember and the deeper into it you get, the more fun it is. Totally Games has spent a lot of time getting the details right. Can you keep your cool while bulkheads fail? Will you save your crew? Will you save the colonists and defend the Federation from a new threat? Graphically, the game is interesting but certainly falls short of the latest in animation. The crew characters are somewhat wooden and most word/mouth motion looks too much like a marionette - up/down only with no cheek or lip movement. The best graphical work seems reserved for the giant viewscreen featured on all command bridges. That also means most of the action takes places in an area much smaller than the available space on your monitor. You're kept busy enough - even stressed to some degree - so that you won't notice the smaller action area however. Audio is good to excellent. Patrick Stewart recorded a lot of dialog for this game and it has been carefully combined with the reasonably good AI. Exploratory, battle, sensor, general effects and scientific sound events are quite good and add lots of useful and effective atmosphere to the game play. Cons: The usual gripes about lock-ups, video card driver hassles and a couple of noteworthy bugs. One bug in particular allows one character to speak at the same time as another (the pilot speaking over top of Picard in one case) resulting in a lot of difficulty understanding what's being said. The program could not detect and load our saved game on a PIII/550 Windows XP system. Good stability in Windows 98, but a couple of crashes out to the desktop in XP. Pros: This is not a brainless shoot-em-up - you've got to think about what you're doing. Lots of story and technical contributions from D.C. Fontana and other well-known Star Trek collaborators. Star Trek Bridge Commander is also compatible with the latest voice-recognition command technology which lets you issue verbal commands to your crew in the game without the use of a keyboard or mouse. This is so cool we could not resist trying it out - it works and you have got to experience saying "ENGAGE" or "FIRE" and then watching and listening to the resulting action. Distributed and marketed by ActiVision. Lots of somewhat serious fun. Recommended. ActiVision Star Trek Bridge Commander Product Web site: http://www.activision.com 5=> Product: Cool Info 2001 Reviewed By: Paul Schneider, Ph.D. mailto:paul@studio5d.com Requirements: Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP MSRP: $29.95 for single license Inventory management, unfortunately, is one of those necessary evils of life and although there are probably some out there that enjoy doing audits, I think it is safe to say most of us would like this task to go away. Although Cool Info 2001 doesn't remove the task from your list of things to do, it does make this task much easier to accomplish when it comes to computer inventories. Cool Info 2001 is based on its successful predecessor and now sports improved network support and Windows XP compatibility. In order to best assess the product it was tested on both a single machine and on an office network consisting of 50+ computers. However, before we get into those results, let's examine the product's capabilities. Cool Info is about as easy to use as the Control Panel on your computer. The look and feel is very similar except it contains additional icons and multiple ways to view the information that is available. Cool Info provides collective wisdom on just about everything on your computer. The information is broken up into the following categories: General Information, CPU, Display, Drives, Environmental Variables, Files, Fonts, Input, Memory, Modem, Network, Printer, Software, Sound card, System Devices, and System Directories. Some of these categories provide only sparse amounts of information, giving you just the manufacturer's model name and number. Most of the categories abound with different factoids, some of which I'm guessing you didn't even know were available. In looking through the information provided it becomes obvious that this tool can also be a great help for technical support during the diagnosis of different computer problems. Some of the more interesting and useful pieces of information were the computer's serial number, BIOS information, what the CPU supported, model information, all of the display settings, formats and extra drive information, all of Window's path information and what files and programs load at startup, file header information (which tells you what program a file belongs to), a font display tool and a total memory usage chart for all types of memory. There was also a plethora of information that I barely understood, such as page size, call instructions, streaming SIMD Extensions, Int13 support, MAC Addresses and RAS. I know something about a couple of these but not enough to explain them to anyone! Once you view the information you can easily save it in a variety of formats including MS Access database, XML, text and HTML. The program performed flawlessly on my home system. For a single user situation, the HTML and text exports worked the best - information is well- grouped in a nice, easy-to-see/use format. Testing in the network environment was also successful and in a short time we were able to gather all of the information about each computer. The export format that worked best here was MS Access. The tabular information grouped each segment appropriately. One downside I could see with the program is that it is not supplied with any default Access reporting templates. Although you can't predict how someone will use the data, report templates would probably be a nice extra feature. The only other problem was that even though the network support was fairly simple, it wasn't point & click, and may be something best left to your network administrator to initially set up. I reviewed Cool Info 2001 on an AMD Athlon system with 256MB RAM, running Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Overall Cool Info makes good on its promise to ease your inventory and audit woes and provide some pretty cool info about your computer. For those looking to track computers for their organization, do yourself a favor and evaluate Cool Info before you create more work for yourself. If you are a tech support or network administrator you too may want to give Cool Info 2001 a whirl as it might make your job a wee bit easier. Tometa Software Cool Info 2001 Product Web site: http://www.tometasoftware.com 6=> Product: Disk Alert Reviewed by: Don Hughes, mailto:dhtech1@sympatico.ca Requires: Server, laptop, workstation running Windows NT, 2000, or XP and Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher MSRP: US$49.95 (electronic download) Losing data is a catastrophe for any company. The DiskAlert hard drive monitoring utility is another in a long line of quality system maintenance programs from Executive Software. The software is designed to protect desktop and laptop computers running Windows NT4, 2000 or XP. DiskAlert's main function is to give you early warning when a fixed disk (hard drive) is no longer 100% reliable. In most cases, you have enough time to copy the data and replace the hard drive before disaster strikes. Alerts are sent by your choice of phone, pager, e- mail and/or pop-up message. IT personnel normally have no way of knowing which disks are going to go, so any piece of software which meets DiskAlert's claims is bound to be useful. I downloaded the DiskAlert review copy provided for CompuNotes from Executive's web site. The server and workstation versions are both 10.5 MB in size. In a hurry to install the program, I did not temporarily shutdown the firewall, so the first installation attempt was not successful. Executive's telephone technical support figured out the problem and after a complete removal of DiskAlert's temporary install directories I was ready to reinstall. This time I shut down both the anti-virus and firewall programs and DiskAlert installed without any errors or hiccups. Executive Software not only makes excellent programs, their technical support staff is first rate when it comes to customer service. There is no manual supplied with DiskAlert. However, the online help system is very easy to read and the program has a built in DiskAlert Configuration Taskpad to aid users in setting up the program. The Configuration Taskpad is a menu-driven wizard and users can Select Drives to be Monitored, Configure Notification Alerts, Install Assistant Console, or Purchase Licenses. System Administrators can set DiskAlert to send them e-mail, or send a telephone message or call a pager with a customized message. Administrators can set up assistants to help monitor drives. However, the assistant cannot alter the settings nor add or remove drives from monitoring. After I installed and set-up DiskAlert, I turned both the anti-virus and a firewall program back on to protect our system, and rebooted the computer. After restarting the computer, no errors, problems or conflicts were encountered with DiskAlert running in the background, when I used other programs. If I did not see the icon for DiskAlert on the status bar, I would not even know the program was running unless I checked Windows 2000 Task Monitor. A quick double click on the DiskAlert icon pops up the DiskAlert Enterprise monitoring window. A system administrator or user can click on Disk Health and a line graph showing drive throughput and drive errors appears. The top of the Disk Health window lists drive details including Name, Volume, Status, Vendor, Type, Product ID, Revision, Serial Number, Average Error Rate and Average Throughput. A report button summarizes the data for printing or e- mailing. Another button provides access to drive properties. Select the Free Space listing and the administrator or user can view at a glance the amount of free drive space and usage. You get a large pie chart of each drive and partition. The Free Space window also lists the Volume, Status, Layout, File System, Capacity, Free Space and percentage of Free Space. You can print reports and look at the drive properties using the General, Notifications and Drive Threshold tabs. An added bonus is the program's ability to notify users when free space falls below a set value. I found DiskAlert to be easy to install and configure from a central console. The program deploys across your network in minutes and you can just set it and forget it. It's completely transparent, uses next to no system resources, works on SCSI and IDE disks, and works with software RAID and most hardware RAID controllers. The DiskAlert utility is the kind of program no one wants to spend money on, until a major drive failure takes down a network or workstation. DiskAlert will not stop a drive failure from occurring, but will give administrators and users advance warning of probable events, most often during bootup. It is a necessary maintenance program that system administrators and small business owners should not be without in their software system tool kits. You can download a trial-ware copy of DiskAlert from Executive's web site. Executive Software International, Inc. Disk Alert Product Web site: http://www.diskalert.com 7=> Product: Macromedia Sitespring Reviewed by: David Bell, mailto:david.bell5@sympatico.ca Requires: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 6a) or Windows 2000 Server (with Service Pack 1), 400MHz Intel Processor or faster, 256MB of System RAM, 200MB of hard disk space (400MB or more recommended), NTFS formatted hard drive, CD-Rom drive MSRP: US$999.00 (5 user account), $1995.00 (10 user account) Your Web development company has just landed a large contract to provide a huge client with a state of the art Web site to launch a new product. You've got one major problem. It's a huge undertaking with animations, special 3D effects, video, graphics, secure e-commerce forms, order processing capabilities and you only have two weeks to complete the project and get it published. You've got the specialists to do the job but one is in California, one is in Boston and another is in Vancouver and your server, staff (and you) are in Atlanta. Is it a dilemma, or is it a job for Macromedia's Sitespring? Macromedia has produced the ultimate collaboration tool for professional web development teams. It enables them to create large, complex web projects using human resources from various sites at the same time, on the same project, integrating interactive communications and programming. A Project Manager can monitor and review the web project as it evolves while the Project Teams work together from separate areas compiling the data. Sitespring has several good features. It is cross-platform and cross- browser compatible providing for interfaces between Microsoft and MacIntosh as well as Explorer and Netscape. The Project Site template simplifies the approval process by featuring online client review, document approval and automatic history tracking. A personalized Home Page keeps track of individual team member's projects, tasks and progress status. You can centralize and record important conversations and decisions with single-threaded discussions. You can easily connect the appropriate files related to each task and ensure that the team is always working on the most current file. As revisions are received from the client, you can effortlessly integrate the changes and automatically archive project files with Transparent File Versioning. Several problems come to mind when considering a task of this size that requires interfacing from various sources. Security of information is always a prime concern and the ability to communicate assignments, changes, corrections and revisions while viewing the current status of the project is always paramount. Macromedia has covered all the bases with Sitespring. The Project Manager can determine, assign and change user names and passwords using the Project Manager Permissions settings. The Project Manager can also control the User Permissions settings for client viewing of the project's progress. The Discussion Module allows concurrent information exchange between project team members and the Project Manager. Macromedia's Sitespring has broken the barrier to eliminating cumbersome and costly co-locating of resource teams to produce effective e-commerce capability. Sitespring gives Web development companies the capability to contract the best specialists for a project from around the world, not just around the corner, to collectively produce the best product. Another two thumbs up to Macromedia on this one. 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