Despite it being April 1971 when the first FTP standard was published, FTP is still a popular downloading method. If you're transferring a group of files using FTP, a standalone client can make your job much easier.WS_FTP is one such client.

An FTP client that actually says 'uh-oh' when things go wrong

There's little doubt that a lot of software these days is produced with the 'less experienced' user in mind

We've all deleted things by mistake. Microsoft aims to tackle this problem with Vista by adding an unlimited 'undelete' function that should enable you to rollback to any previous version of a document or deleted file.

Paragon Drive Backup 8 Personal makes short work of a range of tasks, including imaging entire disks or individual partitions, copying old drives to new and even disaster recovery operations.

Symantec's Norton Save and Restore offers an easy way to back up your files, programs and settings. Should the worst happen, it also offers a simple restore option and anyone who has used other Norton products will be familiar with the user-interface.

The McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007 box proudly claims it's an 8-in-1-protection tool. With all suites offering similar services, it's increasingly hard to find ones that offer something different.

When you want to copy the odd file, Internet Explorer or the generic FTP Client can be of service

System Mechanic (£50 inc. VAT) is a set of tools designed to help you keep your laptop running, if not improving its performance

FontVista 3.5 is a font manager that serves as an interface for any fonts on your Mac. It displays them in a single panel, with the fonts listed in a menu on the left, and inspects them for corrupt files.

The past few years have seen Webroot firmly entrench itself as a forceto be reckoned with in the anti-spyware business with its flagship SpySweeper software. As most users of the previous release (4.5) will testify...

Keep back-ups of important data

Norton Save & Restore is a backup and recovery package that includes drive imaging functionality and a recovery environment on a bootable disc. It aims to provide a complete solution for backing up your data and restoring your whole drive

Jon's Phone Tool provides a single interface for all your contacts and all your phones. Whatever phone or phone-like system you have, provided there's some way for your Mac to connect to it, Jon's Phone Tool can dial it.

Ulysses is a text pad for creative writers or anyone slightly scatterbrained wanting to record thoughts on- the-fly. Think Microsoft Word without the formatting clutter, and with more work areas displayed at one time.

The cover artwork for Internet Cleanup 4 (IC4) may be a little OTT - all dark glasses and predatory, evil- eyed figures - but actively securing your interests online is a sensible course of action.

There are times when it would be handy if you could make the connection between an IP address and a geographic location.

Erase all trace of your online tracks

The modern Web is a strange beast indeed. For many, the rise of blogs and hosted services has meant an end to worrying about actual Web design and a renewed focus on the actual content.

When we first saw that XP Tuning Suite 3.0 offered over 600 options forfinetuning your XP-based system, we didn't know whether this was a goodor bad thing. It sounds comprehensive, but we wondered how the averageuser would be able to make sense of it all.

OneCare is in many senses an admission of guilt. It's the embodiment of Microsoft pulling its head out of the sand, noticing that there's something fundamentally wrong with its flagship OS, and finally doing something about it.

We've all heard the stories about laptops left in taxis with sensitive information stored on them, but never whether the data stored on them was properly secured.