Logic Express and its more powerful relative Logic Studio share a past typical of many software products that have been around for a while. They started life designed by a different company, on a different computer ...

This month we've got a free, internationally-renowned, trend-bucking newspaper, a price comparison app that reads bar codes, slow motion video effects, a Google Calendar that stays in sync, a clever camera app and the entire night ...

This month there's European football and old-fashioned fairground games, a notepad par excellence, notes from abroad, a novel way to exchange contact information and a singing alarm clock. Well, why wouldn't you? Now that the UEFA ...

Music has been made since cavemen hit sticks together, or indeed made rudimentary drum sounds by cracking each other with sticks on their thick foreheads. Then came the flute, apparently, with the oldest bone flute (no, ...

Writing is a skill what we all hopes to do good at, though it is nothing but not easy, is it? And that's where a grammar checking program like RightWriter 5 comes in, hopefully ensuring that ...

This month there's a shoot 'em up, the complete Shakespeare, travel planning and task management, a recording studio and a recipe book: all available on an iPhone near you. First stop is Earth Vs Moon (£1.19) ...

The much-loved Reason from Propellerhead, a superb collection of software synthesizers, samplers, effects, sequencer and other digital music goodness, has long had a missing component - the ability to record audio. This has driven fans into ...

When it comes to drumming you need three core qualities. One: A good sense of rhythm - obviously. Two: A high level of co-ordination - using both hands and feet simultaneously is ridiculously tricky to begin ...

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 ...