The strange, the antique and the downright geeky – we chronicle the 10 best (and worst) vintage tech advertisements of all time

Cameras and accessories to whet the appetite of photo enthusiasts

The market is adapting to photo enthusiasts with a number of better-than-compact technologies and camera sizes. Here's a 5-minute primer to the pros and cons of four different types of digital cameras

Image and digital photo viewer

Mount an ISO image as a virtual drive

Full commercial download, worth £30

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ6 is the best option here for pure image quality and flexibility, if you can live with its size and quirks.

Powerful & modern paint program

Superb screen-grabbing tool

A father and son team have completed an arduous 3000km journey across Australia on an ex-'postie' motorcycle, all for the sake of proving that the impossible can be done with expensive Polish alcohol

Photo & image manager

The Dell U2410f features breathtaking image quality, but the price is steeper than most are willing to pay for it.

If you haven't set up your desktop with two LCD monitors, then now's the time. We've picked this LG Flatron as the winning 24in LCD in our latest group test

Output just about any document as a PDF file

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.

High-profile short films from around the world are now getting made on DSLR cameras, thanks to rapidly improving sensors and prices. Judge for yourself, with these five videos made with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Simple controls, friendly design and a tiny size make the Nikon Coolpix S220 a great choice for summer snaps.

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

Backup or restore your hard drive

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management