PC World’s Top 100: A Few Will Interest Writers

Posted by Tom Colvin

June 11, 2007

PC World has just released its list of the top 100 computer-related products for 2007. It’s a diverse list: hardware, gaming machines, cell phones — and software. A few of these selections are of particular interest to writers. Gathered below are links that take you direct to the relevant online review.

Google Apps, an enhanced offering of its free Docs & Spreadsheets online programs, took top honors. PC Magazine earlier in the year came to the same conclusion. Obviously, this product deserves attention by writers. My own interpretation is to take these endorsements as indications that the free Google services are top-rate as well.

There are two other substantial online office suites, Zoho and ThinkFree. Surprisingly, the word processor of Zoho was selected as best of breed. The review of the three online word processors is instructive. I’ve been using Zoho selectively over the past two months: I like it. Google Docs, on the other hand, seems better as a collaboration tool, which may be especially handy with communicating with an editor.

For the full list of 100 products, go to the PC World overview. While not of direct interest to writers, I was pleased to see several of my own selected favorites listed there: gMail, the Firefox browser, Google’s Picasa photo organizer. Skype 3 is also on the list — while I’m currently a Vonage customer, I’ll probably get onto this online telephone platform as well, especially following my review of CallBurner.

Microsoft Word 2007 made the list at #56 — the magazine’s earlier review provides insight into the program’s new features and enhancements [not worth the cost of upgrading, in my view].

BackPack is an online project management/organizer and ranks #66 on the PC World list. The magazine links back to its earlier review of online ToDo lists, which is worth a read.

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