Curriculum Vitae translates as "the path of life", although in actuality it's the path travelled that you want to mention. You probably won't bother highlighting the time you were an ice cream van driver for two ...

There's nothing quite like a software programme opening up at a registration screen set against an enormous Union Jack, but perhaps Focus's new Life In The UK: Citizenship Test is the only application out there that ...

Memories. They're like the corners of your mind, if the famous song is to be believed. Some you remember, some you forget, and some you wish you could forget. Yes, we know all about that incident ...

The slow but steady abolition of DRM (Digital Rights Management) has all of a sudden made music download services much more appealing, while at the same time catalysing the release of a series of more dedicated ...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that budgeting is something of a lost skill in today's borrow-all society. Although given the possible harshness of the oncoming world economic depression, it's one that might well come back to ...

If you're not familiar with it, Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV programme. It's what some people would call a 'property porn' show, but a high class one (think Playboy not Razzle) featuring monster self-build ...

Following a happy and sparky introduction in the printed manual supplied with Rescue Your Vinyl & Tapes! (their exclamation mark, not ours), you quickly get the impression that this is a very friendly product indeed. And ...

The chances are that if you've ever gone hunting for a last minute birthday or anniversary card, you'll have ended up picking out a card made by Hallmark on most of those occasions, as that is ...

The commercial version of the open source Xen virtualisation product, XenServer is what's referred to as a hypervisor. That means it can be installed and run directly on bare hardware instead of being loaded as an ...

Rupert The Bear didn't really like our copy of Windows Vista. In spite of the box claims that Rupert The Bear: Nutwood Games would work happily on any version of Vista post-Windows 98, whenever we tried ...

The raging success of Nintendo's Wii Fit has seen a clamouring of companies quickly look to jump on the same gravy train, and mix the generally exercise-free activity of computing with software and games to persuade ...

Language learning isn't what it used to be. Interactive DVDs that were basically glorified school textbooks have now been replaced with ‘revolutionary' new systems that stop just short of promising to trick you into learning while ...

It's usually a good sign when our pint-sized test subject doesn't require us to sit on his shoulder when testing out educational software. And that was the case for much of The Backyardigans: Mission To Mars, ...

If you can forgive some restrictions brought about by the age of the product, then Winnie The Pooh Pre-School is a good, rounded package of activities that kept our four-year-old test subject happily entertained for a ...

What would your ideal home have in it? Ours would be equipped with built-in fridges in every room (for easy beverage access), self-vacuuming carpets and a quiet dishwashing machine (she does tend to go on a ...

Nuance is now the only major software house producing speech recognition software, so those interested in talking to their PCs must either go with it or resort to the engine included with Windows Vista. While the ...

When games consoles first came onto the market there was a clear distinction between them and PCs: all you did was slot in your cartridge, cassette or disk and you played your game. PCs were for ...

A scrapbook is a collection of notes, photos and memorabilia that focuses on a particular theme or topic, and makes for pleasant reminiscent browsing on some future rainy day. Either that or it's anything written by ...

Focus Multimedia has got this down to a fine art. In Dinosaur Activity Studio, the company has plucked a product that you'd ordinarily not bother with and pumped it out with an attractive, impulse-purchase, £4.99 price ...

We don't know if you've ever noticed, but the lottery - at the risk of stating the obvious - is a bit of a lottery, isn't it? The idea of a lottery number prediction program is ...