This month we've been getting back on the right track, greeting friends and family, blogging like crazy, making music, mastering our remote controls and cooking up a Caribbean storm. As kids we were never that struck ...

Focus Multimedia has been earning a fair crust out of its Driving Test Success line of tutorial products for many years now, and it's thus hardly likely that the company would throw anything into the pot ...

Avid Vocal Studio is a replacement for the existing M-Audio Pro Tools Vocal studio, and like its predecessor it's a combination of hardware and software aimed squarely at those wanting to dip a nervous first toe ...

This month we've been busy using our Android handset to look at Flash movies, find hidden treasures, listen to radio from around the world, convert every kind of measurement imaginable, protect our passwords and do a ...

As the leaves turn, our thoughts have been drawn towards the simpler things in life - distraction-free writing, inexpensive ringtone creation, listening while we work, ride and play, the joys of free Satnav in-car or on-foot ...

The Mac and speech synthesis are hardly strangers. In fact, the first time the world met the Apple Mac it actually introduced itself - "Hello, I am Macintosh" - courtesy of some hastily acquired speech technology. ...

Modern security suites have done a fairly decent job of supplementing core protection with online and local backup functionality, but few offer the kind of automated protection found in dedicated solutions such as Carbonite. Updating its ...

This month's iPad app roundup has been skywriting, getting inspiration, looking like we're thoughtful, trending, making more lists and running away. Remember the 90s, when someone in a suit would say “let's blue-sky this for ...

This is the first of a monthly round-up of applications for Android based smartphones. Every month we will bring you a six snappy review of apps we've found and liked. This month we've had our eye ...

This month we've been riffing, biting our nails whilst waiting for the right result, laughing our heads off, indulging in a bit of slack-jawed, solar system-inspired wonder, getting things done one thing at a time and ...

English may be the default setting for doing business the world over but there's still no substitute for some basic-and-beyond conversational skills in the native language of another country if you're visiting on vacation. Berlitz's traditional ...

In the main, genealogy software is notable for two things: its popularity (no-one likes to pass up a good family history/mystery) and the awfulness of the interface. Web-based services had made some progress here but much ...

This month we've been cycling round London, calculating our VAT on the fly, yo-ho-hoing on the high seas, brainstorming, planning dinner parties and gazing at beautiful pictures. It's a hard life. Say what you like ...

The enduring appeal of the BBC TV series that traces the ancestry of celebrities sees no sign of diminishing, with stars like Bruce Forsyth and Jason Donovan eager to track down any villains in their past. ...

Keeping track of household items is a chore that not many of us enjoy. But we enjoy it even less when said item breaks down or gets broken or, worse, stolen, and the mad scramble for ...

In this, the inaugural edition of our regular round-up of new and notable iPad apps, we've taken extra care to arrive at a selection of the programs we think celebrate the excellence and the idiosyncrasies of ...

This month we've been rhyming, climbing, Facebooking, radio taping, scanning and bed and breakfasting. All in a month's work here at iPhone Central. Our inner poet - or so we'd like to think of ourselves - ...

Tunebite Platinum is a small and compact application whose aim in life is to help you convert media into the format of your choice, and also to remove copy protection where applicable. It goes without saying ...

The World Cup is a wonderful marketing opportunity, not just for FIFA and its sponsors but for anyone, anywhere in the world who can tap into the passion and enthusiasm that millions - maybe that should ...

This month we've been keeping in synch with our partner, jumping pebbles, eating right, waiting for the tide to come in, playing the accordion and following the World Cup. No wonder we're knackered. Another task manager? ...