Useful for the very basics, but it’s early days for Google’s latest venture.

Improved interface and drawing capabilities, new photo matching and hand-drawn effects – and it’s still free

Modern photo management software that offers surprising power, especially considering it’s free.

Google's free document editor is serviceable but lacks all the tools we wanted.

The next Google phone will be Kogan's Agora and it's looking to be much more understated, but perhaps sensible, design than the flashier T-Mobile G1.

Piranesi gets the major overhaul of interface and tools that its extraordinary creative power deserves

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

Added features and fixed bugs mean that Firefox remains our browser of choice

Encarta Premium Suite claims a base of 130,000+ articles, along with 25,300+ photos and illustrations and 1.8 million map locations. That's more than a bit of bedtime reading, although of course there are really only two reasons why people buy digital encyclopedias these days -- either they've got kids to educate, or they're after some verifiable and quotable facts for a research project. For almost anyone else, of course, there's Google.

Piranesi gets the major overhaul of interface and tools that its extraordinary creative power deserves

A capable and beautifully designed smartphone, but weaker battery life means it can’t match the E71

Lacks in power, but terrific hardware design makes this an intriguing take on the Eee brand.

The ability to build a fully updatable, portable and offline personal web makes this a useful tool For home and Business users

Cleverly extends Photoshop Elements’ appeal to both digital photo novices and the more experienced

Efficient photo management and sharing, but let down by some surprisingly underpowered editing.

With Internet Explorer’s security flaws and no way of securely erasing footprint files, the boost to privacy is minimal.

You might think making sense of numeric error codes is no big deal now that we've got the web, but it's not quite that simple yet.

Drag and drop functionality that allows audio to be recorded direct to page.

We've had a quick play with the new version - and we like what we see. Definitely one to stick in your PC toolkit for 2008.

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.