Digital photography has made enormous strides in recent years, and as a result, the technology is being incorporated into affordable consumer products.

Successor to the ubiquitous 350D, Canon's affordable yet powerful 400D D-SLR is a serious weapon whether an amateur or pro.

Voice recognition is the holy grail of computing: the ability to walk around your room and dictate to your PC is an attractive one, however the real experience with voice recognition is far different.

Improved interface, object and layer handling, plus integrated 3D painting add greatly to power, usability and value

COREL DESIGNER 10

Not flawless, but Sony’s debut DSLR impresses with a 10.2-megapixel resolution and built-in anti-shake.

Why are we reviewing something that is a mere 36GB? Simple -- because this one drops access times and pumps up the transfer rate. Not targeted at the home user, the 36GB WD Raptor is marketed as an enterprise-level SATA drive -- the fastest drive on offer by WD. Capacity becomes an afterthought for the Raptor with its 10,000rpm spindle concerning itself with speed, resulting in seek times of around 5.2ms, compared to the 8.9ms of a 7,200rpm drive.

Now a true all-in-one package thanks to file and folder backup, but it can’t match Acronis for value.

Superpowered and workgroup friendly with great features, but with a steep learning curve for administrators. Find out what the "other" side of the server world looks like

You still get a lot for your money, but HD optical burning only extends to data discs

Protect your PC from itself and yourself

Excellent support for PDF files, an intuitive user interface and a low price make Readiris the best choice for the majority of people.

For those who don’t own version 9, a few improvements should put this at the top of your shopping list.

Without support for differential backups and with a light feature set, Norton Ghost feels cheap, nasty and dated.

A new interface delivers significant improvements, but the bundling of separate apps for related tasks raises concerns.

Eighteen months after the release of Panther, Apple's Mac OS X 10.4, codenamed Tiger, is finally here, and it has been well worth the wait.

The 207MW may be bandwidth hungry, but image quality and features are superb.

It looks like a standard webcam, but the Axis 205 is cleverer than that. Its internal web server and 10/100 Ethernet port mean it can be directly connected to and accessed by anyone on the network.

This is the kind of workstation that budding 3D artists have wet dreams over. It packs two Hyper-Threaded 3.06GHz Xeon processors – currently the best workstation processors on offer from Intel – a gigabyte of RAM and a 10,000rpm SCSI hard drive. In short, you'll be hard pressed to find a faster workstation without forking out the $15,000 or so for a blazing Silicon Graphics machine.

A very fast, well-built high-end PC. But a few niggles and high price keep it off the A-List.