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 ...

Encarta seems, more than ever, to have adopted an 'if you can't beat them, join them' approach. Upon loading the program for the first time, we were prompted that updates were available for download. Smashing, we ...

The Britannica approach to fighting off the prevalence of Web resources is quickly apparent. It involves finding as much content as possible and throwing it in the direction of the DVD-ROM. Thus, as the packaging proudly ...

Sooner or later, most people think about tracing their family tree back through the generations to see if they're related to William the Conqueror or Vincent van Gogh. The problem is, who has the time, energy ...

You can't blame GSP for trying. Adorned with an 18 certificate, the promise of video clips and a full encyclopedia of sex, they've put together a product that's no doubt eyed-up by anyone trying to legitimately ...

The English language is such a quirky and eccentric thing. Someone who's good at gardening is said to have green fingers, yet we don't call an adept swimmer blue fingered. Or a bad mountaineer black fingered. ...

If you've ever been to the outback of Australia, you'll know that the night sky is a breathtaking display of clarity, with pin-sharp stars glistening against a pristine black backdrop. Go out on a wet Wednesday ...

History. It's all in the past, you may scoff. It's all dates. And currants, and brandy... Wait a minute, that's the recipe for a Christmas pudding, and you may scoff that as well. Oh no, it's ...

So you've got your driving test coming up? The best advice we can give, apart from obvious nuggets of wisdom like "Don't mow the lollipop lady down at 50mph" and "No handbrake turns", is to stay ...

Encarta, for a long time the multimedia encyclopaedia of choice, continues its reign at the top with the 2005 edition. It's traditional at this point to note how Britannica is continually closing the gap on Microsoft's ...

Once Britannica has stopped trying to sell you things, it's a grand piece of software. Yet the box comes with leaflets for extra products, the lengthy installation routine sells you them too, and you're not even ...

At first glance, there's no discernible difference between Autoroute 2004 and this latest version. Second glance? Er, the same conclusion actually, with the look and feel of the program seemingly photocopied from last time around. In ...

It's always been quite difficult to demonstrate the value of an electronic map. The printed versions are so easy to use and comparatively cheap that you need to be able to achieve more with an electronic ...

With all this renewed activity around Mars, and George W. Lightyear's decision to send humans there, you might, like us, be taking a more active interest in the night sky. Red Shift 5, which was launched ...

Ever since AutoRoute Express was launched for Psion's 3a palmtop in the mid-1990s, route planning and city mapping software has been very popular for palmtop computers. It makes sense, really. Rather than carrying a bulky guidebook ...