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 ...

A second outing for what Microsoft clearly hopes will be an indispensable educational tool, Student 2007 actually manages to pretty much replicate the peaks and troughs of last year's edition, which at the time made it ...

Many digital camera owners use their camera as they would a PC: they simply point and click. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as many cameras are designed to be easy to use and convenient, ...

As the old joke goes, a fat bloke stands on a speak-your-weight machine and it says, "One at a time please." In a similar vein, a geek software reviewer completes the quizzes in Test Your Own ...

Permit the break from party line for a second, because there's a sporting chance that this reviewer is about to be relieved of his duties. But is there actually much point to a review of Encarta ...

What does Eingana mean? If you know without Googling or wiki-ing the name, then colour us suitably impressed, as we didn't. Eingana is actually an aboriginal snake Goddess, who created all animals and humans. By using ...

Promising you four simple steps - Organize, Create, Archive, Share - to record your family history, Family Tree Legends Starter Edition isn't a bad way to start charting your ancestry. It won't do much of the ...

If you're interested in walking, and thousands of us are, there are all manner of guides available to provide interesting routes within many of Great Britain's wilder places. Most of these are in printed form, however, ...

Where there's a will, there's a way, the cliché goes. But an alternate saying might be: where there's a will, there's an old person. Forgive our momentary glibness - it serves to make a point. Namely, ...

Did you know that only 40 percent of people pass their car driving test? Another interesting statistic is that 100 percent of people who fail the first attempt certainly won't fail to inform you that the ...

Tracing your family tree is, in theory, supposed to be a bit of an adventure. It's supposed to be fun, surprising, educational and worthwhile. It's not supposed to make you feel that you're inputting data into ...

This deluxe version of Geoff Hamilton's 3D Garden Designer contains three programs. As well as the Garden Designer software itself, it includes a Plant Encyclopedia and a disc entitled Gardening with Wildlife in Mind. More about ...

For Autoroute, it's pretty much business as usual, as anyone who has used the program over the past couple of years will testify. Little has aesthetically changed with the 2006 edition, in fact at first glance ...