Modern day desktop publishing programs, and even word processing packages, have vastly simplified the job of designing business cards at home. So much so that it's not even the kind of feature that's talked about on ...

Downloading music off the Internet has become a bit of a minefield in recent years, with sites appearing and disappearing at a bewildering rate due to the often confusing laws governing copyright. With the huge surge ...

The continuing evolution of the media player shows little sign of slowdown, if Songbird is anything to go by. Granted, it seems impossible to go to a software download site in 2008 without having an assortment ...

Is your dance floor half empty... or is it half full? Either way, that's no good: as a DJ you want it to be jam-packed, with elbow-manoeuvring room only. That's mostly a matter of picking the ...

Specialist software to format the likes of a screenplay or theatre script has for a long time been the kind of luxury few can afford. Granted, there are some cut-down, low cost packages available, but movie ...

In the olden days (back when a bag of sweets was a penny and small boys rode bikes with baskets on the front down cobbled streets) we used to listen with mother. Now, we can get ...

Packed with a level of enthusiasm you hope for - and increasingly expect - from educational software, Science Genius: Solar System Explorer is designed to bring the discovery of outer space to an eight- to eleven-year-old ...

One of an increasing plethora of applications that promise to organise your music collection, MediaMonkey has one major factor in its corner: it's free (although there's also a Gold Edition, which we'll come to shortly). Oh, ...

As the version number suggests, Magix Music Maker 14 is a mature product and you might think there was little left to add to it... not so. Music Maker is a loop-based music editor, meaning it ...

When even the average computer user has had a good tinker with Google Earth for free, you'd better have something impressive up your sleeve if you're trying to sell a product called 3D Globe Deluxe. Especially ...

The raging onslaught of so-called ‘authorative' Web resources has driven down the cost of optical disc-based knowledge banks, meaning this Britannica-endorsed product will only set you back a tenner. That's fair value in anyone's money, and ...

Magix's audio cleaning software is designed to freshen up the sound from your old records and tapes (or, for that matter, any sound file). It's been a few years since we looked at the program - ...

Job interviews are easy. A piece of Battenberg. Who needs help preparing for them? Everyone knows that all you've got to do is turn up and be yourself. And wear a nice suit. But not one ...

There are lots of ways of learning a foreign language: you can take individual tuition, join a class, listen to recordings or run a computer application. Rosetta Stone, as you might guess, is the last of ...

ALK's CoPilot software has become a leading add-on for handheld devices and mobile phones. The latest edition, version 7, has just been released for Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone and Pocket PC, with other device formats to ...

Targeting three- to six-year-olds, Noddy and the Magic Clock is a 3D adventure that promises a healthy degree of educational content, wrapped around a plot involving the popular title character. Unusually, the software is not just ...

The British may know John Lithgow best as a bad guy in movies such as Cliffhanger, or starring in the TV show Third Rock From The Sun, yet he's actually built up quite an alternative career ...

Wouldn't it be good be able to take a computer on the road with you, without lumping a laptop around in your car? You can access your e-mail with a service like Hotmail, but that's not ...

Those CGI animated kids' films are quite marvellous things. They always manage to pitch them well for both children and adults, with daft slapstick humour mixed in alongside plenty of jokes laden with hidden meanings and ...

Either class it as the depressing level of piracy on the PC, or else the over-draconian software publishers at work, but do we really need to have a registration code to enter on a £10 PC ...