Software

When searching for a missing professor, especially one involved in magic, it is a good idea to take precautions as the heroine of a game from Alawar discovered.

The proliferation of mobile devices using different video standards has created a market for companies to develop video conversion product such as the subject of this next review.

Time to put your hidden object finding and puzzle solving skills to the test as you enter the world of Mystery Case Files.

Forget conquering a single country. There is a whole galaxy out there waiting for just the right person to take complete control.

You are invited to a murder. But can you arrive at the correct solution within the designated time limit?

Like many others I have a collection of VHS tapes holding video content that I would hate to loose. Looking to safeguard this content, I decided to checkout a product from K-World.

Forget the chips, the fish in this title are of the tropical variety and they promise to be at your beck and call during relaxing interludes.

They are small and round, some would say cuddly but others might prefer tasty. Can you help them escape before they are served up for dinner?

X-OOM Photos on TV 3 is a photo presentation tool that, as you might well suppose from its title, lets you display your favourite digital images on a television screen. It does this by providing the means to create and edit personalised slideshows of your images and content from sources such as Google™ Earth.

With paddle in hand and a ball under control, the latest Arkanoid-style game from Alawar has been keeping me busy of late.

Whether you adopt the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mantra or can not help making adjustments, you could benefit from using a set o software tools from Avanquest.

Unlike other Website design packages I’ve seen, a product from Mr Site uses the Web as its construction environment.

Fresh from a mountaineering trip up Everest, I set out once again but this time to explore the Amazon Rain Forest.

Gardening and I have never been even closely compatible as partners but maybe after playing this game I should try even harder.

For those who feel that they do not want the full protection and functionality offered by Norton Internet Security 2009, Symantec has released Norton AntiVirus 2009 with AntiSpyware (NAS 2009).

The individual components of your computer system require drivers in order to communicate with each other. From time to time these drivers will need to be updated.

Hidden objects, puzzles and a touch of adventure are brought together in the next episode of MumboJumbo’s Samantha Swift story.

Microsoft has made the release candidate (RC) of Windows 7 available for free download in advance of its October scheduled launch. If one has a suitable spare machine, this provides an opportunity to try out what, as many people have suggested, Vista should have been.

Putting aside my fear of heights, after this was to be a virtual rather than actual expedition, I put my hidden object seeking skills to the test at altitude.

It’s time to get into survival mode as you need to escape after being washed ashore on a mysterious island.

From the printed page to the computer screen comes a murder mystery from the fertile imagination of a best selling author.

While hardly the sexiest of products, database software does have an important task to fulfil especially when it is available in cross-platform format.

While listening to commercially created music is a popular pastime, have you thought about creating your own compositions?

Just the thought of the difficulties that could ensue following a hard disk failure should be enough incentive to encourage users to consider taking precautions and follow the Boy Scout motto of “Be Prepared”.

Mixing together match-3 action, strategy and a storyline that involves dragons, magic crystals and user-selected wallpaper offerings, a new game published by Alawar has been taking over my game-playing time.

Conducting a web search for “Ancient Secrets” could well result in hits relating to hygiene and gift products, exotic cooking, nasal cleansing, bikini waxing or even Mayan civilisation. However, in this case, “Ancient Secrets” is a game developed by GameHouse.

With most All In One or Multi Function units coming with bundled OCR software, is there still a place for a standalone suite not tied to a scanner. For any user who takes time to train for near perfect results the answer is yes.

The Hidden Object game format continues to be a popular genre with software developers and the game playing public. Various types of storylines have been used to package the concept of finding items that have been positioned in a range of locations and graphical scenes.

Starting life as a Shareware product, Paint Shop Pro has developed into a full featured graphics product.

This product arrives with the claim of being able to “back up and recover your hard disk with ease” and is made up of one, two and free (no that’s not a misprint) elements. For more information about this product from Paragon, read on…