Google's attempt to muscle in on the browser market, and to take on the dominance of both Internet Explorer and the ever-growing Mozilla Firefox, certainly made a splash when it launched Chrome in 2008. But that ...

One of a number of hosted remote access services to hit the market in recent years, I'm InTouch provides the usual facilities to connect to and remotely control your desktop PC when out and about. In ...

The latest version of Coffee Cup's WYSIWYG web site designer adds significant new features, including some which are overdue, like W3C compliance and support for web-friendly PNG image files. Elsewhere the changes are primarily cosmetic, with ...

It's increasingly common for many of us to have more than one e-mail address on the go. By the time work, home, webmail and mobile addresses have been taken into account, the theory runs that you're ...

If you don't fancy falling into the clutches of Adobe or learning how to program in some odd web language, or getting inside the head of WordPress, then your web design options can seem a bit ...

The success of the Windows 7 Beta programme has clearly been a shot in the arm of sorts for Microsoft. Not only has the way in which the firm went about opening up the development of ...

Pressure has been building on established MP3 download services like iTunes. Rivals such as 7Digital and Play.com are now offering DRM-free content, and with more set to follow we could soon be seeing the end of ...

For a 12.1MB download, Pidgin doesn't half manage to solve a problem or two. Over a decade after instant messenger software started to creep into our lives, many of us still experience the problem of having ...

Microsoft's Expression Studio 2 package brings together the cream of the PC giant's Web and desktop design software and, while it's unlikely to seriously threaten the mighty market-leading Adobe kings, there are plenty of good reasons ...

Since broadband became widespread and YouTube fever took hold of the computing community, we've all watched a lot of online video. And while streaming media's all well and good, if you see a particularly corking clip ...

Right up until the end of August 2008, it's a fair bet that most people would have been utterly nonplussed at the idea of yet another web browser being launched. So strong has been the monopoly ...

The Web design package NetObjects Fusion has been with us since 1996 thanks to some former employees of the Apple Corporation, and until Dreamweaver came on the scene it was pretty much the software of choice ...

Actinic has been around for a long time now and we've been impressed by every new release of this popular e-commerce application. However, as the years roll by, new features and enhancements have become a lot ...

If you want to design a Web site using an Apple Mac, you'd probably consider iWeb if you're working from home, or Dreamweaver if you're in business. Perhaps you ought to think Freeway Pro, for both ...

Most of the fuss made earlier this year, when Apple used its software update mechanism to download Safari to PC users without their specific consent, tended to overlook one fairly major problem: Safari is not a ...

There are three ways of getting yourself a website: you can pay somebody to do the design and expect to spend between £50 and £200 per page; you can design it yourself, using a professional website ...

Web site design is not just for professional graphic designers, whose fingers have grown hairy through long hours of hand-coding HTML. Anybody can do it, though the range of budget Web design programs is surprisingly small. ...

Online storage seems to be all the rage at the moment. We're seeing more and more security suites offer this form of backup option, along with announcements from companies such as O2 and its Bluebook service. ...

One of the beauties of the Firefox Web browser is that it's possible to tinker with it, customise it, and use it as the basis for effectively a different product altogether. That's what the team behind ...

It's a paradoxical sign of the times that Internet download acceleration tools first appeared in the dial-up days, back when broadband speeds were some way off for the average home user. How strange that now we ...