Pressure has been building on established MP3 download services like iTunes. Rivals such as 7Digital and Play.com are now offering DRM-free content, and with more set to follow we could soon be seeing the end of ...

For a 12.1MB download, Pidgin doesn't half manage to solve a problem or two. Over a decade after instant messenger software started to creep into our lives, many of us still experience the problem of having ...

Microsoft's Expression Studio 2 package brings together the cream of the PC giant's Web and desktop design software and, while it's unlikely to seriously threaten the mighty market-leading Adobe kings, there are plenty of good reasons ...

Since broadband became widespread and YouTube fever took hold of the computing community, we've all watched a lot of online video. And while streaming media's all well and good, if you see a particularly corking clip ...

Right up until the end of August 2008, it's a fair bet that most people would have been utterly nonplussed at the idea of yet another web browser being launched. So strong has been the monopoly ...

The Web design package NetObjects Fusion has been with us since 1996 thanks to some former employees of the Apple Corporation, and until Dreamweaver came on the scene it was pretty much the software of choice ...

Actinic has been around for a long time now and we've been impressed by every new release of this popular e-commerce application. However, as the years roll by, new features and enhancements have become a lot ...

If you want to design a Web site using an Apple Mac, you'd probably consider iWeb if you're working from home, or Dreamweaver if you're in business. Perhaps you ought to think Freeway Pro, for both ...

Most of the fuss made earlier this year, when Apple used its software update mechanism to download Safari to PC users without their specific consent, tended to overlook one fairly major problem: Safari is not a ...

There are three ways of getting yourself a website: you can pay somebody to do the design and expect to spend between £50 and £200 per page; you can design it yourself, using a professional website ...

Web site design is not just for professional graphic designers, whose fingers have grown hairy through long hours of hand-coding HTML. Anybody can do it, though the range of budget Web design programs is surprisingly small. ...

Online storage seems to be all the rage at the moment. We're seeing more and more security suites offer this form of backup option, along with announcements from companies such as O2 and its Bluebook service. ...

One of the beauties of the Firefox Web browser is that it's possible to tinker with it, customise it, and use it as the basis for effectively a different product altogether. That's what the team behind ...

It's a paradoxical sign of the times that Internet download acceleration tools first appeared in the dial-up days, back when broadband speeds were some way off for the average home user. How strange that now we ...

If you're in the market for a hosted remote control product, there are plenty to choose from, all of which let you logon to a PC remotely, requiring little more than a browser and Internet access. ...

The Web is so much a part of our lives that it's hard to imagine a world without it. Yet most people are daunted by the thought of creating anything more complicated than a YouTube or ...

Online TV has been a ‘must-have application, coming real soon now' for some years, so it's easy to be tempted by an application offering over 1,000 TV channels for just £15. PCShowBuzz is indeed an Internet ...

Identity Protector - known by the trendier name “GhostSurf Platinum” in the US - is a privacy protection suite that secures and encrypts your Internet connection to give an extra level of defence for those worried ...

One of the more significant open source projects of the last year or two, and another born out of the beast that was once Netscape, the thinking behind SeaMonkey is to bring together a collection of ...

As the World Wide Web evolves, there are speculators and innovators everywhere trying to guess or invent the next big Internet craze. Recently, the online public's imagination has been fired by the likes of YouTube and ...