Functionally, there are pluses and minuses across the board. The find facility in Entourage 2004 was easy, now it’s been remodelled on the needlessly complicated interface of Outlook’s search tool. But for the first time, Spotlight search covers Entourage emails.

Another new feature promised was the extraction of short clips from any DVD-Video disc but whether it was a copy protection issue on the discs Desktop tried, we had trouble getting it to work. If you’re a camcorder user, Toast also now comes with the ability to extract and archive AVCHD formatted footage straight from your device.

Mask Pro runs as a Photoshop plugin — you open it from within Photoshop to manipulate the image you’re working on then and there. As such, it doesn’t suck up massive amounts of your system resources.