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Help protect your family and property, quickly and easily! Create a legal will, make final arrangements, and access extensive legal information. As an added bonus, included Free on your disc is the Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law. Get answers to all those questions you couldn't afford to ask! ... Read more

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Solid and User Friendly, Great for Straightforward Situation
BOTTOM LINE:Quicken Lawyer Wills (`QLW') is a great, low-cost alternative to hiring a lawyer to prepare your will, which will run you a minimum of several hundred dollars.It takes just minutes to prepare a will, but its legal manual/support resources are extensive enough for those that want to spend much more time understanding the what/why behind their document.

QLW is published by Nolo Press, a well established publisher of self-help legal books.When creating a will, the software creates all of the legal language for you - you do not write a single word of legalese - and docs are tailored to each state's requirements.To get information from you and have you make decisions about the content/structure of your documents, QLW follows the typical "interview" format - easy to use and informative along the way.My wife and I each created wills in literally 20 minutes (but you probably have to put a bit of forethought into it, especially if you are married).

PROS:
- Ease of use:idiot-proof interview format
- Legal help:good offline manual, good resources at Nolo website
- Clear execution information:tells you exactly how to execute the will
- Address book: enter a person's info (i.e. you spouse) and don't need to enter again in other parts of same doc
- Ease of use for married people:prepare one spouse's will and QLW has a function to flip the names to create the other spouse's will without starting from scratch

COMPETITORS:Kiplinger and Broderbund also publish estate planning software but I've had a chance to look at them (pre-installed on my computer when I bought it) and I'd stick with Quicken.

GET A LAWYER IF:While QLW functions well as an advisor, guiding you through the specific provisions within a will, it has its limits and is candid enough to admit it during the interviews/tutorials.Get a lawyer for situations like: you expect to owe federal estate taxes ($1.5 million limit in 2003 and going up rapidly), you own a small business or you expect to have a messy family situation upon death (i.e. an ex-spouse or children that don't get along) or live in a community property state.

THINK ABOUT QUICKEN LAWYER PERSONAL:If you have the sense to prepare a will and are in a life situation to start preparing a will, you probably could stand to have a few other basic estate planning documents like a living will/healthcare directive and a power of attorney (especially if you're married).So for a few bucks more, I might check out Quicken Lawyer Personal instead which will do all of this plus prepare a will for you (see my review of Quicken Lawyer Personal for more info). ... Read more

Features

• Add on or create your own templates to match the way you work.
• Carry a single computer for all your needs without losing your calculator's functionality.
• Calculate the way you prefer: RPN, order and chain input modes; quick access to routine functions.
• Templates appear like mini-spreadsheets, making it easy to verify your information, show clients, and work with colleagues.
• Save calculations for later review; print calculations for your own or your client's files.

Features

• Minimum: 32 MB RAM 256 Color Monitor at 800x600 resolution 4x CD-ROM drive Recommended: 64 MB RAM
• 16-bit Monitor at 800x600 resolution 10x CD-ROM drive Windows: 200 MHz Processor (350 Recommended)
• Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4/2000/XP MAC: Power PC Processor (250 MHz Power PC Recommended) System 7 or above
• CSDC
• MAC/PC

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Mutual Fund and Growth Investment For The Home Investor! Let Your PC help you profit from today's stock and mutual funds market with Fundwatch Plus! Monitoring your investments will no longer be a hassle. Fundwatch Plus features a number of options to help put you in total control of your investments. Colorful graphics allow you to compare investments directly, identifying cyclical patterns, volatility and changes to market trends. Whether you're a novice or a pro investing in mutual funds, stock or commodities, this easy-to-learn software helps you select investments that are right for you. Fundwatch Plus can even help you determine when the time is right to buy or sell. It's all the serious home investor needs. ... Read more

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• PC: Windows 3.1/95/98/ME

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With an ever changing marketplace, it's important to keep on top of the latest trends and information. Now, you can be in the front line for detailed company news, quotes, profiles, performance charts and graphs, even SEC filings and analyst ratings. Stock and Fund Toolkit is the premier investment management suite. Includes: Financial Tools Deluxe 2nd Edition for FREE! ... Read more

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3 Books/120 Minutes of Video
3 Excellent printable books.Original The Entrepreneurs Guide published by Macmillan and Ballantine; updated colorful Business Startup with practical tips and advice; Finance Your own Business.Two hours of helpful video advice.

A real guy author:Cofounder of Umbroller stroller company; American Power Conversion (APCC); now running the publisher of this CD, Simply Media (founder of this too).

One CD is Business Startup; the other is Finance Your Business; each has 60 minutes of how to videos.Helpful because he shows the same scene two ways:the right way and the wrong way.Pretty funny in parts too....

Good crisp writing.As a woman, I particularly like the neutral gender approach of the book.Yet it has good tips for women too. ... Read more

Features

• Work with relational databases while you travel
• Create new queries to filter your data
• Visualize your results in custom-made forms
• Stay up-to-date with your desktop PC
• Export and import data Microsoft Access and Excel

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Do you want to make a lot of money...starting with very little money? Then Shoestring Investing Made E-Z is for you! Here are all the secrets from America's top investor. Discover how to find, evaluate and buy stocks, mutual funds, and other hot huge potential investments that can make you wealthy. Pick winning investments and little known places to find the best opportunities Profit in bull and bear markets Learn the language of Wall Street and trade like a "pro" Exploit dividend re-investment plans for even faster growth Learn to invest in foreign markets Great Canadian investments A wealth of information about your retirement options Valuable on-line resources help you profit from your home...and much, much more ... Read more

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• Pick winning investments and little known places to find the best opportunities
• Profit in bull and bear markets. Learn the language of Wall Street and trade like a "pro".
• Exploit dividend re-investment plans for even faster growth. Learn to invest in foreign markets and more.
• PC: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
• Macintosh System 7.5 or Later

Features

• PRACTICAL! Portfolio management allows you to create multiple portfolios to track all your investments (i.e., domestic & Canadian stocks, mutual funds and listed options). You can even back test investment strategies.
• Get full analyst commentaries on up to 1700 stocks
• Read quites, news, options, company profiles and SEC files with just a mouseclick
• Browse the message boards, alert and technical analyses
• Talk to your online broker for better securities management, with up-to-the-minute information

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Simply Awesome!
When I bought this (actually the plus version), I thought I was getting an e-book and a program that would simply access the Value Line survey pages. After all, it was listed as a book. But to my total surprise, it is a full-fledged windows application that is simply awesome. You can filter, sort, chart, manage your portoflio - like Quicken, get alerts and so on and so forth. I admit that I hesitated a bit before I decided to offer this opinion, because I really didn't want the word to spread. But, since I doubt many will see this anyway - for those of you who do - buy it!

This is a good product.
The thing I like most about this software is that you can chart the changes in Value Line's recommendations over the past 5 or 6 years. Look at when they reccommended to sell TYCO and you'll see what I mean. I wish it had real time data though. But all in all it is definitely worth the money. ... Read more

Features

• Integrated, editable notes means you don't need to carry a manual.
• Carry a single computer for all your needs without losing your calculator's functionality.
• Calculate the way you prefer: RPN, order and chain input modes; quick access to routine functions.
• Templates appear like mini-spreadsheets, making it easy to verify your information, show clients, and work with colleagues.
• Save calculations for later review; print calculations for your own or your client's files.

Features

• Used by agents, mortgage brokers, loan consultants, appraisers and real estate students.
• Carry a single computer for all your needs without losing your calculator's functionality.
• Calculate the way you prefer: RPN, order and chain input modes; quick access to routine functions.
• Templates appear like mini-spreadsheets, making it easy to verify your information, show clients, and work with colleagues.
• Included templates designed for loans, closing costs, qualification, commissions and general business.

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Hello Investing Strategies 2.0
I hope it can help me on the stock analysis

Hello Investing Strategies 2.0
I hope it can help me on the stock analysis ... Read more