Sometimes people have good ideas but desperately need some advice on how to put them into action. This survivor's guide is a case in point.

If, like us, you’ve ever had the deep pining associated with wanting to build a robot or two, this book is definitely for you. This 360-page guide to everything you’ve ever wanted to know about robots covers how they work and how to build your own. You’ll learn how to select the right power source, use the tools you’ll need and how to build a robot from things you have around the house or from kit form.

Tony Stevensons book, The Australian Guide To the Internet, provides an excellent introduction to the absorbing world of the Internet.

The Australian Guide to Online Business provides a thorough overview of the various facets involved in establishing and managing an online business.

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Project Arcade, subtitled Build Your Own Arcade Machine, takes a shot at being the definitive guide to sticking a PC into a wooden cabinet for the single purpose of playing retro arcade games. It's a big task, and author John St. Clair almost gets there.

Joining the current popularity of book titles on all things Internet is The Internet Companion: The EASY Australian Guide. Both authors have been writing about computers for several years.

This is another one of those doorstop Wrox titles in the Programmer to Programmer series. Its no surprise then that its not just another overview of the Internet business revolution, nor a business school primer for the would-be e-entrepreneur.

According to a recent ACCC study, people are jumping on the broad-bandwagon in droves. In fact, the amount of people upgrading to broadband has doubled in the last 12 months. And as you might expect, the hardware community has responded by ramping up both Internet sharing and security devices for homes and businesses.

Upgrading and Repairing PCs is now on its 11th Edition, and it just keeps growing.

Beginning with the basics of digital cameras, the underlying hardware and the concepts of taking a good photo, Click!, by Ron White expands on this information in great detail in the following chapters. Although this comes across as a ‘Dummies' type title, it contains enough good information to be considered by the self-styled digital photo enthusiast as well as the beginner.

Our first impressions of FoxTel's new HD box are positive - four TV tuners means more HD than you can handle, though it does miss some of the tricks of the TiVO.

A highly polished, enthralling 3D guide to the universe, although it lacks convincing reasons to upgrade.

One of the better instructional booklets, Belkin have supplied a manual and a three step quick start guide - easy to follow, and even easier to set up

The new interface plus PDF and AIR export sees Fireworks CS4 fully integrated into the Creative Suite.

An inexpensive, neatly designed sat-nav that happens to offer additional travel info if you want it

Buying a business PC, or indeed looking for a fleet of PCs for your business, can be a tricky enterprise at the best of times. While we've taken a lot of the hard work out of this for you with this guide to what's available, there are a few things you need to consider when shopping for your business.

Samsungs new entry into the laser printer market isnt as intimidating as its rough exterior looks.

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There's no ad-skipping, but we've had a play and we're still impressed. Slick recording options make the TiVo HD outclass a great option for keeping up with favourite TV shows and movies.