How about this for an idea? Find as many Internet radio stations playing music as possible and monitor the music they play. Match the tracks with those on a wish-list and rip them to build up ...

Long before Firefox made its mark, there was a serious alternative to the Microsoft Web browser monopoly. Opera originally existed in a paid-for version, or one with advertising splattered around the browsing window. Fortunately those days ...

The beauty of Firefox lies in its approach. The browser itself is a streamlined affair, requiring a download of a little over 5MB. This standard core will do pretty much what you'd demand of such an ...

Arriving long after it was initially promised, and some five years after Internet Explorer 6 first saw light, Microsoft has a lot resting on IE7, and the most to lose. Over the past two years, Firefox ...

If, unlike our esteemed editor, you don't fancy coding an entire Web site in HTML, your choices are to spend hundreds of pounds on Dreamweaver or FrontPage, or to look at WebPlus. Serif has long championed ...

The idea behind FastTrak's Web To Date 2.0 is that, in using it, a completely inexperienced user can put a Web site together with little trouble. And that process encompasses the design, structuring and uploading of ...

The idea behind Cloak 8.0, a small utility that amounts to a download of under 6MB, is that it will secure your personal information and documents from those who should be pointing their unwelcome eyeballs elsewhere. ...

Complete the following sentence: "Internet radio is the best thing to happen to music since..." (a) Jimi Hendrix got an itch on the back of his neck and decided to scratch it with his guitar. (b) ...

If you are a keen Web user and have not heard of Firefox by now then surely you must be living in some sort of vacuum. Firefox is not the only free Web browser available, but ...

Dreamweaver is the market leading professional Web design and development tool. It can be bought as a standalone product, or as part of Macromedia's Studio suite, along with Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute and FlashPaper. Now in ...

You'd have thought that putting anything 'Harry Potter'-related on eBay would be a blatant licence to print money. Sadly, for this reviewer, that's not the case. A lavishly-styled Harry Potter ornament, which admittedly looks as if ...

If you want to build a small, or even medium sized, Web site then NetObjects Fusion version 8.0 could be the tool for you, especially if you have no interest in getting involved in HTML. Fusion ...

When it comes to avoiding life's little pitfalls, received wisdom is hard to beat. My mum, for example, always warned against keeping my coat on indoors, otherwise I "wouldn't feel the benefit", and it's true. Likewise, ...

Given the steady stream of security alerts associated with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, it should come as no surprise that many organisations and end users are actively looking at alternative browsers. However, for many users Internet Explorer ...

Think e-mail software and the chances are you think Outlook, or Outlook Express, either of which you might have obtained for free in various ways. Getting software for free is not the only reason to use ...

It's always fascinating to see the way that applications such as this are marketed. In the same way as the raft of DVD 'backup' utilities that came to market recently, Steganos Secure Filesharing 6 has some ...

The Studio MX 2004 package includes new "2004" versions of Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX Web page editor, Fireworks MX Web graphics editor and Flash MX interactive animated graphics creator. Between them they provide you with everything you ...

For those expecting 602Pro LAN Suite to be all about network management, disappointment looms. However it won't last long as what you get instead is a whole bundle of communications tools, starting with an SMTP/POP3 e-mail ...

SMS messaging has been a source of considerable revenue for mobile phone companies for several years. It's cheap to implement and users love it, since messages can be sent in privacy even when you're standing in ...

Companies are increasingly selling software products over the Internet - it costs them much less in packaging and distribution costs and is usually cheaper for us, too. Even small applications can still take a long time ...