The DVD-based version of the Encyclopedia Britannica is back for its yearly regeneration. A bit like Doctor Who, but with a little less pizzazz. Interestingly, the promotional blurb for the package states the advantages of Britannica ...

Billed as an interactive guide to the seas, Our Living Oceans comes in a box adorned with the badge of the National Museum Of Natural History, and there's the Dorling Kindersley logo on there too. There's ...

Recently we looked at the revamped version of Dorling Kindersley's Encyclopedia of Science, and here's another one that Avanquest has polished up and re-released for the education of the masses. As you would expect, it deals ...

The Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness encyclopedias have been around for a while, but Avanquest has just launched version 3 of the product. This is a polished and enhanced program which has been updated to keep it relevant ...

Rather than the traditional single language, this program attempts to tackle 31. An ambitious project undoubtedly, although it doesn't try to teach every language in full. Instead, a fair smattering of up to 5,000 words is ...

The title gives it away. This is genealogical or, more accurately, family history software. It's eminently capable of recording every scrap of information you collect while researching your family history, and storing it in minute detail ...

Judging by the amount of family tree software available, it's clearly one of the more popular pursuits to take up on your PC. That isn't surprising, as the alternative (pre-digital) method of hunting through musty old ...

Way back in time, there weren't so many roads. And they were mostly straight ones. Getting somewhere wasn't such a faff, but since modern Britain has come to look like some gluttonous deity has stuffed its ...

The “No.1 Selling Family History Software for 18 years” trumpets the CD case. That may be about to change. Family Tree Maker has been through several hands since its launch in 1989, with a new version ...

The Britannica 2008 DVD is nothing if not thorough. To throw some of the obligatory back-of-the-box statistics at you, there are over a hundred thousand articles on the disc, backed up by a wealth of multimedia ...

AutoRoute is an excellent tool for planning road trips of all kinds and can now give you street-level maps, as well as sets of directions, timings and costings. Its main use has always been to plan ...

Do you wish you had green fingers? Maybe you have an extensive garden and have been taking tips from all those garden programmes on UK Living but now can't remember when to plant that amaryllis belladonna ...

So, you have a hankering to find out more about how your brain works but you don't fancy reading a dry old book on the subject? For £9.99 you can get your hands on Secrets of ...

Genius is as genius does, they might say, except of course geniuses are likely to work out a smarter catchphrase. One that's a palindrome, or something else that's a really clever long word which sounds like ...

"This is Major Tom to ground control... I'm stepping through the door... And I'm floating in a most peculiar way... And the stars look very different today... There's this wibbly, swirly, white thing underneath Ursa Major... ...

The tree is a powerful symbol in life. Its out-stretched branches represent growth and ambition, while at the same time mighty roots anchor it deep in the Earth. It's strong and silent, Mother Nature's observer of ...

Astronomers. What winds them up? Is it people who don't believe in the power of the stars? Those who aren't open-minded enough to recognise that there could be a correlation between your time of birth and ...

The latest version of Microsoft Windows is now here, and Vista is a brave, new, visually overhauled and user-friendly world. However, facing a new operating system for the first time can be a trial of sorts, ...

What generally happens in life is you learn a bit of French at school, then think you can speak it just about passably. Then you go to France and discover you can sort of get by. ...

You know the phrase: "I've got half a mind to..."? Well, if like us you sometimes find yourself under the genuine conviction that you really have only got half a mind, you can always attempt to ...