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 ...

If music be the food of love, then eJay is probably the equivalent of a quick fumble round the back of McDonalds. Its takeaway tunes can be swiftly composed and the program requires absolutely no knowledge ...

Back in the eighties, if you'd have told someone that in the future they'd be able to carry around a tiny music player the size of a lighter which was effectively a jukebox with thousands of ...

With so many video and audio formats currently available, there's never been a better time to have an all-in-one encoder that can deal with anything thrown at it. Pegasys has gradually been expanding its range and ...

Now here's a thing. A piece of software that animates a still photograph; specifically a still photograph of your face. Rather than taking a video and playing it back on your PC, you can take just ...

A lot of people think about writing a novel. It sounds like a marvellously fun idea, until you actually sit down at your monitor and start typing away. Or rather, staring away. The first problem any ...

Tesco started this off. Early in 2007 it unleashed a range of software - rebadged Ability products - adorned with its logo and quite low price tags. Woolworths clearly thought that it'd have a bit of ...

Although there's nothing intrinsically wrong with iTunes, for many people the overwhelming attraction is what it works with; the Apple iPod. But when you spend your day working with Windows and Windows programs, it's peculiar to ...

X-OOM, a division of the German company BHV Software, has just launched this application which lets you transfer all those old tunes you have languishing around on vinyl or cassette onto your hard disk. The program ...

When it comes to typists there are generally two types, if you'll forgive the pun (though you really shouldn't). There are touch-typists and then there are those who prefer to exercise their psychic powers and press ...

Any parent who has had to sit through the seemingly interminable Big Cook Little Cook on television will perhaps view this educational CD-ROM as some form of virtual purgatory. After all, it's a programme based around ...

Fish. We watch them to feel better about ourselves. They help us to relax, to unwind, and generally to remember that however bad life might be, at least we're not swimming around in a one foot ...

MP3 Maker 12 is designed to handle your collection of electronic music. Although the title says 'MP3', it's just as happy with WAV, WMA, OGG and AAC files. It can record them, organise them, convert between ...

Although there are several software packages on the market that will play DVD films on your PC, Cyberlink's PowerDVD has always been one of the most user-friendly, both in terms of the operating system and in ...