Software

Not everybody can afford the premium price levels of the market leading vector drawing packages. Fortunately there is a more economic offering.

It’s time to strap on your cannon and destroy creatures that are intent on laying your home city to waste.

Since taking control of Paint Shop Pro, Coral has added “Photo” to its title and provided annual versions of the software.

Some games lead you in gently; others throw up a brick wall. This next title falls into the latter category.

As a long time user of FileMaker Pro, I was keen to check out the latest version of this cross-platform database product.

Time to climb aboard a miniaturised tank and tackle all the enemy can throw at you.

Putting your digital video content to good use is the aim of software available from Pinnacle.

Sometimes a review can be difficult to complete especially when you have become addicted to the game on which the review is based.

Taking its inspiration from a comic book series, this title features a betting scam, bone characters and a great cow race.

Runes, magical artefacts and hairy characters are all waiting for those who venture into an Emerald Tale.

Your personal data belongs to you so make sure others can not use this information for their own use.

Autumn must be here as the round of ‘08’ releases start to rear their heads, the first this year goes to Britannica, certainly one up on Encarta that as yet I have not even heard whispers about.

A childhood recollection and a computer offering come together with a new game from Popcap.

Putting on my director’s hat, it is time to check out a new CD & DVD creation suite from Avanquest.

While protecting your computer is optional, it is a task that you should seriously consider as a top priority.

While wandering around a cloud kingdom, I came across a game of Mahjong that including a points total and the chance to collect artefacts.

Want to do business on the global stage? Need to be able to communicate with people in other languages? Juliet Bernard shows how tranlsation software still has a long way to go before it can replace a highly skilled interpreter.

This is an updated version of the ‘All Tests’ product I reviewed last year. The driving ‘Theory’ test has recently been made harder and now you need to answer 50 rather than 35 questions.

When was the last time you gave your system a spring clean? Perhaps it is time you looked at a suite designed to carry out this task for you.

The recent deluge of rain and floods, at least at the time of writing, does seem to be the ideal opportunity for getting in the mood for a trip to Venice

When you are unable to deliver your message in person, what better substitute than using a talking head.

Out of sight, out of mind is not a sensible approach to your data when disposing of unwanted storage devices. Every effort should be made to ensure the data is destroyed before parting company.

Turning your home videos into DVD content is becoming a popular activity. Corel has recently entered this area following its take over of Ulead.

Leading and providing the competition, Nero 8 is packed with enough tools to satisfy most users looking to transfer data to optical media.

Magic, good and evil with a large amount of destruction come together in a game developed by Sky Fallen and released on Koch Media’s Deep Silver label.

Deleting a file does not remove it from the media but sometimes it can prove difficult when trying to resurrect it.

This Nuance software is now Vista compatible and the version I am looking at here comes with a wireless (DECT) headset that works superby.

Cameras, lights and action are all under your control when using the latest 3D animation software from Reallusion.

Whenever you feel competent with a software application, the developers come up with a new version and the learning process starts again. PC Tutor offers to help.

Rosetta Stone present an entirely new way to learn a new language, modelled closely on how children learn their native tongue.For some of us learning a new language is easy, for others tortuous. However, we over look the fact that we all learnt our native language without a textbook or translator in sight. Usually by about the age of 5 we have a large command of our mother tongue and a vast vocabulary without ever knowing about verbs, nouns, pronouns a