Acer brings 3D to the masses with a 3D screen on a mainstream laptop

Stuart Turton spends the fourth day of his one week odyssey with Linux, hailing the ease of GIMP, before a graphics card meltdown destroys his desktop and forces him to rethink his next move.

Bringing destruction to life on screen is a everyday job for the effects wizards behind the upcoming film 2012. In fact, the filmmakers produced a whopping million gigabytes of data

The Mayan prophecy might be counting down, but the science behind the new film 2012 might leave a few people confused. We look at what the film got right and what is best left to conspiracy theorists.

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Test and examine your new PC

The little R2D2 from Speaker Realm certainly packs a punch - and very cheap too.

Nothing incredible in terms of design, but it’s an impressively cheap way to get quad-core in your PC.

There’s so much to like about this package that it might just be worth switching operating systems to get hold of it.

Play old arcade games on your PC

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

Cameras and accessories to whet the appetite of photo enthusiasts

A hugely likeable phone that excels at web browsing and manages to just live up to its ambitious name.

Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..

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Professional screen grabbing tool

Powerful & modern paint program

Image and digital photo viewer

What, you haven't set up your desktop with two LCD monitors? Not only do you get double the amount of screen space, you can run work and World of Warcraft side by side. Plus it just looks more impressive

Superb screen-grabbing tool