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You don't have to rely on a statistician or SAS to analyze data for projects thanks to this handy app. AcaStat Plus provides the most common tools for performing statistical processes.

It launches a nice-size interface with a large pane taking up most of the window, and a vertical row of displays on the right side of the window that changes based on the procedure chosen in the top display. The large pane is tabbed for manipulating the data: Output, Charts, and Decision Tools, along with Glossary and Handbook. This app performed very satisfactorily in our tests, responding quickly … Read more

"Database" has come to be largely synonymous with a relational database management system (RDBMS) or, more specifically, a relational database that is accessed using the SQL query language. Some simpler products run on desktops, but if you are talking about products used for serious business computing on a server, SQL it is. The widespread adoption of open-source products such as MySQL and PostgreSQL only cemented SQL's dominance by making it available to a broad audience that couldn't afford licensing fees for products from Oracle and other large database vendors.

An RDBMS stores data in the form … Read more

Flash Card Factory provides users with a simple way of improving their foreign language vocabulary. Though it features a pair of excellent tools for the job, the program doesn't provide all it promises.

The program's interface will take some experimenting in order to get used to it. For the most part, navigating and utilizing its functions is simple, but the smaller tools are unlabeled, and it might take a visit to the Help file to fully understand them. The program's flash card function was the highlight of the program. A cartoon image of a hand holding a … Read more

dB Organizer Deluxe allows users to create and manage databases with ease. The program contains a lot of features but is easy enough to be used by database novices.

The program's interface isn't particularly attractive and is a bit cluttered at first glance, but it's not difficult to figure out how to get started. dB organizer splits the database into a Table of Contents section and a Details section, showing a list of database entries on one side and detailed information about each one on the other. Users can add or edit information in the Details section … Read more

Books is a free tool that can help you organize your book collection, acting as a sort of iTunes for physical books. This "virtual card catalog" lets you classify all the books you own using predefined fields (like title, author, publication date, etc.) or you can create your own. Books also lets you track and store summaries, cover images, personal reviews and ratings, notes on multiple copies of a single book, and more--and it even helps you track a book's lending history. "Smart Lists" (similar to iTunes' Smart Playlists) let you group books by any … Read more

SousChef is a sleek, easy-to-use cooking tool for collecting, organizing, searching, modifying, and sharing--and even blogging about and cooking from--your recipes. SousChef provides a very straightforward interface for navigating your recipe collection, but its stand-out features are its import tools and full-screen Cook mode. If you paste in recipes as text, SousChef prompts you to drag boxes over the different parts of the recipe, so it can automatically organize ingredients, instructions, notes, and so on. If you want to cook from a recipe, SousChef has an easy-to-read, full-screen "10-foot mode" that lets you keep your computer at a … Read more

Webjimbo lets you access the popular information management program Yojimbo from anywhere on the Web--even from your iPhone, which Webjimbo has been optimized to handle. You work through a Web-based interface that's very similar to the Yojimbo desktop interface, letting you add new information and access anything you've previously stored--from text to images to PDFs--from anywhere you can open a browser. There are some limits, however: for example, you can only edit notes in plain text, and you can't view some encrypted data (such as PDFs or images).

Webjimbo doesn't duplicate your data and uses standard … Read more

While some programs focus only on passwords or account information, eWallet promises to help keep all of your important numbers together in one secure place.

This program's colorful, busy interface looks overwhelming at first, but there's an excellent Wizard to guide you through the process. The interface has a large central screen to view a selected record. Along the left side is a file tree that is dedicated to your virtual wallet and all the records it will contain. The top of the screen houses the commands that allow you to develop this wallet. Adding an item is … Read more

Band tracker and concert reminder service Songkick is venturing into new territory on Tuesday. The site is launching a feature that lets users chronicle all the shows they've ever been to. Think of it like a virtual shoe box for your old ticket stubs.

Users can either add these shows by hand, or search from a database that includes more than a million concerts. Each show page includes things like set lists, photos, videos, and posters. This information has been aggregated from various Web sources, including blogs, band pages, and event sites. If users have their own videos or … Read more