Macromedia Flash (May 2002, page 60), Dreamweaver, Fireworks and FreeHand (Studio MX, November 2002, page 71), have all been given the MX treatment, and now it's Director's turn.

Support for new file types and platforms plus improved 3D rendering, but director is yesterday’s tool – and it shows

Director 8 Shockwave Studio is now the platform of choice for those sites determined to provide the richest possible Web experience

Are they having a laugh?.

More from the biggest Microsoft launch in ten years. Kodak, BigPond Movies and Sanity Music partnerships announced and explored in detail.

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Protect your PC from itself and yourself

Future of graphics, or load of hype? See this interview with AMD and form your own opinion on Cinema 2.0.

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Director of the failed Froggy Group, Karl Suleman, has been sentenced to 21 months’ gaol and won’t be up for parole for a year.

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Tom Hanrahan to head up Microsoft-Novell Interoperability Lab.

Comparatively pricey, but IBM delivers a quality rack-server package.

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Only director Michael Bay could have made a film like Transformers: Revenge of the fallen. It's a head-ringing, ear-crunching and ultimately exhausting experience, filled with more than two hours of constant robot destruction.

We attended the Sydney press conference of the upcoming blockbuster GI:Joe and learnt about their Twitter use, their feelings on Internet fanboys and the inspiration behind some of the military tech on display in the film

Unix vs Linux continues

Remakes don't always go down well, but JJ Abram's Star Trek is the rare example that defies expectations and delivers. Daniel Long boarded the new Enterprise and survived to tell the story.

The Espresso Book Machine has made its worldwide book chain debut, and can print cheap paperbacks on demand in seven to 14 minutes while you wait.