The prospect of playing DVD movies on a PC or notebook is quite an appealing one. True, you won't usually have the luxury of a wide-screen monitor (unless you can plug your PC into your TV) ...

Illuminatus Opus is the successor to Digital Workshop's very popular multimedia authoring tool, Illuminatus 4.5. It's ideal for creating anything from a simple slideshow of your holiday pictures to a full-blown corporate presentation or even an ...

Page Plus has reached version 7, so logic dictates that maker Serif must be doing something right. However, unlike some of the professional-level products here, Page Plus is a home-user tool, offering a semi-professional range of ...

Quark XPress holds a warm place in the heart of many journalists and layout artists. It's been around for well over ten years (a lifetime in computing terms) and has built up an army of satisfied ...

Corel Ventura doesn't so much install on your PC as colonise it. Installation takes in the order of 15-30 minutes and a total of 259MB of programs is copied to your hard disk (much more if ...

Legacy is a powerful concept in the world of computing. It explains why your PC boots through DOS, for example - Microsoft had to retain compatibility with the old operating system in case any users out ...

Two years ago Adobe introduced its In Design product as a direct rival to Quark XPress. The company simultaneously released Macintosh and PC versions, both of which operate identically (the instruction manual is the same for ...

Digital MediaSuite is a combination pack of three existing MGI products: PhotoSuite Platinum Edition, VideoWave and SoftDVDMax, all of which are 'version 4'. The product makes little attempt at integrating the three disparate programs, and is ...

For the last few years, Xara came under the auspices of Corel, but now, as before, it's published by the company of the same name, Xara. This means that the full product name is Xara Xara ...

At the beginning of the 80's there was a fantasy piece in a magazine on computing life at the turn of the century. One of the imagined events was the release of CorelDRAW 10. How we ...

With each new release of Photoshop, Adobe manages consistently to deliver image-editing features that seem indispensable as soon as they are used, making graphics professionals everywhere wonder how they ever worked with the last version. Given ...

If a picture could paint a thousand words, then by a process of inverse logic a room full of monkeys on typewriters tapping away for near eternity could probably knock out the Laughing Cavalier, with a ...

There's a booming market for image editing software at the moment, driven primarily by the popularity of digital cameras and scanners. PhotoSuite 4 Platinum Edition is very firmly aimed at that market, and is supposed to ...

There isn't exactly a shortage of photo-editing and image-manipulation packages on the market, driven even more in recent years by the Internet and the increasing popularity of digital cameras. NewSoft's latest suite of photo tools is ...

If you've ever fancied trying your hand at creating 3D models on your PC (you have?), but you've held back because of the cost and/or complexity of the available software, this little package might be of ...

Everybody, it seems, wants their Web page to look bright, cheerful, stunning and interesting (everybody except us, that is), sometimes regardless of the download time suffered by dial-up surfers as a consequence. But since great designers ...

As most parents will know, young children are creative little things. When they can't draw on paper, they are apt to head for the nearest wall, crayon in hand, to create a mural for Mummy and ...

To say that Adobe knows a thing or two about image editing is like saying that Michael Schumacher knows how to drive a car. Both are masterpieces of understatement, as this year's British Grand Prix proved. ...