Popular Photography and Imaging is one of the magazine that runs review of new products, hardware and software from average to experienced level. Their reviews is good for beginner but had some limits for professional. Here is the set of 2007; 1-3 and 9-12 of 2006

Driver Updater Pro is a professional driver management tool features both driver management and hardware diagnostics. Driver Updater Pro provides such practical function as driver update. If you often reinstall your operating system, you may not forget such painful experiences of searching all around for all kinds of drivers. Is you happened to lose your drivers CD, the attempt to recover them will be very troublesome and time-consuming.

AnyReader - Effectively copies corrupt data from any type of disks or erroneous connections if standard copying methods fail. AnyReader supports resumed downloads from the remote PC if the connection was broken during the copy process (especially useful for unreliable Wi-Fi networks).
AnyReader is great for copying files from scratched CD/DVDs or defective floppy/hard disks. Normally when your computer is unable to copy files from a damaged disk it will abort and delete the part of the file it has copied. AnyReader will continue copying the file right to the end; any data that hasn't been recovered after several retries is replaced with blanks. This will allow you to effectively read every byte of information that can be read at all.