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 ...

We have a lot to thank the open source software community for, including Linux, the GIMP and now VLC Media Player. VideoLAN started as a student project at the École Centrale Paris, with the goal of ...

Specialist software for specialist jobs more often than not comes with a specialist price tag. That's certainly the case for Final Draft, a product that usually sells for £150, although we found discounts of £30 at ...

Digital composers of the world rejoice, because Magix's latest music making suite is now available. The question is, does it sound sweet or sour? Is it a symphonic piece of software or the programming equivalent of ...

Finally for this round-up, it's a quick trip over to the GSP range and the budget release of The Cat In The Hat. The program is one of the Living Book range of titles, and that ...

Age is something that slightly hurts Jump Ahead: Reading Year 1, too. Because while it boasts that it supports the National Curriculum, things will inevitably have moved on a little in the years since Knowledge Adventure ...

We've looked at Thomas The Tank Engine games before, but for those who haven't chosen to take the plunge, Focus has now bundled two of them together in a specially-priced double pack. So, for a tenner ...

There's an increasing trend among software publishers to lump a set of applications together and tack on a label such as 'Suite' or 'Studio', no matter how well or poorly those applications interact with one another. ...

Do silicon chips make us dumber or smarter? Is the calculator robbing the next generation of the ability to do basic maths in their head? Are video games rotting the nation's collective brain? That's certainly an ...

Avanquest has a growing list of music software from eMedia in its catalogue which appeals to all ages and skill levels, including tuition courses in rock, bass and blues guitar. This latest package is designed to ...

We've all been there. It's late evening and you're out at a twenty-four hour supermarket, having just remembered that your mum's birthday is tomorrow. Scanning the racks of cards, there are sickly sweet ones with teddy ...

The GSP label is currently bustling with licensed titles from the BBC. That means its range features several pieces of software that boast characters from TV shows that pint-size computer users are, in principle, going to ...

What's so easy about food? We're talking about those famous sayings such as "easy as pie" or "a piece of cake." Have the engineers of these foolish utterances ever tried to produce a delicate short-crust pastry, ...