Our hardware and software reviews are ‘real world’: we typically work with a product for several months in a real business setting before offering our reactions and assessments. In offering these impressions, we recognise just how significant technology is becoming in the lives of many mental health practitioners — whether for working online with clients, for strategic marketing using the internet, or just for helping our practices to run more smoothly.
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? And is the full Office suite necessary for the typical mental health professional in private 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.
