‘Reviews’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 4

The latest version of Microsoft’s venerable Office suite for the Macintosh does a better job of delivering elegant functionality than any release since the days of Word 5.1. Is it enough to enable Mac OS X-based practitioners to interoperate seamlessly in a Windows-dominated world?

Following our popular articles on creating a backup strategy for your private practice, we review two leading contenders for the external backup drive of choice. Although the LaCie and Maxtor drives we tested were very similar in some respects, important differences in speed and in bundled software mean the two are most appropriate for different groups of users.

If your computer permanently stopped working right now, this very instant, what would happen to your practice? How about your clients? Just how much will it cost — in time, money, or stress — to recover your tax and financial information, client records, and other critical practice data in the event of a minor computer disaster that can happen in just milliseconds? Two new articles in our practice building section help you to formulate a secure and reliable encrypted backup strategy that can save you money and may save your practice.

Is your mouse giving you grief from too many hours spent pointing, clicking, and dragging your way across a desktop? If you’re a mental health practitioner working extensively with clients online, you probably cannot avoid the pointing, clicking, or dragging — but you can avoid the mouse. Just turn it upside down, cut off the cord, and call it a trackball instead. Or, like Kensington, call it the Expert Mouse Wireless.

BBEdit complements the more usual site-building tools with powerful text transformation capabilities that far exceed any available within the leading packages from Macromedia and Adobe. Our review has been updated to reflect some important feature enhancements and bug fixes in the latest version of the software.