Speed reading is one of these ideas that has been on many people's ‘to-do' list for far too long, offering significant, time-saving benefits to those who need to absorb large amounts of information on a regular ...

With summer approaching it's a good time of year to be thinking about a holiday or two, and if you're jetting off to foreign climes why not take the opportunity to get your hands dirty with ...

This kids' music making program designed for 9-11 year olds is the third in the Groovy Music series invented by Sibelius, one of the leading providers of music creation, notation and teaching software for schools and ...

Aimed at the younger end of the educational software market, Miffy's World Of Colour And Shapes is the latest title to be rediscovered and republished by GSP/Avanquest. As part of that process it's fully able to ...

Mention the name Abbey Road Studios to any seasoned professional musician and they'll rapidly become misty-eyed, recalling the days of the Fab Four on that pedestrian crossing. The quality of the recordings there have attracted classical ...

Why employ an expensive solicitor when you can create a will yourself, courtesy of some clever document assembly software and the relevant up-to-date advice? That's the theory behind Will Maker Deluxe 2009, a program designed to ...

An intriguing little product this, and one that's not without some advantages. Press Release bills itself as a piece of software to help you put together a press announcement, and then it connects up to a ...

It's never been easier to make music at home and, thanks to the ever increasing number of affordable music editing software programs, there's no need to splurge out on expensive studio equipment to make something that ...

Microsoft Songsmith takes technology from PG Music's Band-in-a-Box and sounds from software synthmeisters Garritan and wraps them up in an easy-to-use song-writing tool that's primarily designed for kids, but may appeal to 'proper' musicians looking for ...

Can you really predict the traits of someone using a small downloadable program that analyses their face? That's the theory behind the sub-4MB download that makes up Digital Physiognomy. It's easily one of the most fascinating ...

It's the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: producing the ultimate music album from your bedroom laptop using no more than a canny piece of software, a microphone and an array of digital ...

When people moan that Hollywood is run by sheep and that all films are basically the same, they don't know the half of it. Mariner Software, the company behind Contour, believes that behind hugely successful movies ...

Curriculum Vitae translates as "the path of life", although in actuality it's the path travelled that you want to mention. You probably won't bother highlighting the time you were an ice cream van driver for two ...

There's nothing quite like a software programme opening up at a registration screen set against an enormous Union Jack, but perhaps Focus's new Life In The UK: Citizenship Test is the only application out there that ...

Memories. They're like the corners of your mind, if the famous song is to be believed. Some you remember, some you forget, and some you wish you could forget. Yes, we know all about that incident ...

The slow but steady abolition of DRM (Digital Rights Management) has all of a sudden made music download services much more appealing, while at the same time catalysing the release of a series of more dedicated ...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that budgeting is something of a lost skill in today's borrow-all society. Although given the possible harshness of the oncoming world economic depression, it's one that might well come back to ...

If you're not familiar with it, Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV programme. It's what some people would call a 'property porn' show, but a high class one (think Playboy not Razzle) featuring monster self-build ...

Following a happy and sparky introduction in the printed manual supplied with Rescue Your Vinyl & Tapes! (their exclamation mark, not ours), you quickly get the impression that this is a very friendly product indeed. And ...

The chances are that if you've ever gone hunting for a last minute birthday or anniversary card, you'll have ended up picking out a card made by Hallmark on most of those occasions, as that is ...