Accurate speech recognition, a flexible control system and a good price – for those in need, Dragon delivers.

Surround-sound support and mastering-quality plug-ins mean Sound Forge is better than ever.

Surround-sound support and mastering-quality plug-ins mean Sound Forge is better than ever.

Confounding and half-baked. You either love it or want to boot it out of the window.

Expensive but potentially very useful for those whose Wi-Fi has failed.

Why settle for ordinary sunglasses when there's all this silicon around us?

There's no denying the power of the PlayStation 2 gaming console. Once again it's going to be one of the must-have Christmas items for the home this year.

This unit is quite similar to the Pinnacle ShowCentre in look, as it's a wide and deep slimline component for nestling in amongst your other hi-fi componentry.

The TViX is a fairly small box, roughly about the same size as a good DVD box-set, but inside it's got some amazing smarts. This also technically isn't a media streamer as such - it's more a media cacher thanks to the 80GB hard drive inside.

Netgear's Wireless Digital Music Player, the MP101 is one of the easiest music streamers we've reviewed, but for rich multimedia support you should look further a field especially if you're keen on streaming video to your equipment.

Hey ladies, hands up if you are tired of lugging your fashionable handbag as well as an ugly laptop around the city - not to mention finding one that matches your shoes! Well the new Diva bag from STM is here to answer your stylish prayers.

Ongoing concerns about the security of wireless networks and an increasing demand to be able to connect remotely to office and home networks has forced many people to look for a reasonably priced VPN solution. Virtual Private Networks use the Internet to establish a secure link between an external PC and a local network.

Not only is SuSE Linux Professional 8.1 the most complete distribution, it's also one of the friendliest.

Accounting software is a tough market to get into and is littered with the carcasses of many who had tried and failed to take on the established giants in Quicken and MYOB. Business Breeze is a locally designed product specifically aimed at the small business market.

This solid metal access point is made for business with plenty of ports and connectivity options, but it's a little light on software and driver support.

Although the dual-band NETGEAR WAB501 was an excellent PCMCIA card and scored well, we rated the single-band 802.11a NETGEAR HA501 higher because of its ability to cope with dire signal conditions.

This is another dual-band 802.11a/802.11b PCMCIA adaptor that offers the best of both worlds.

The NETGEAR WAB501 was a contender for a Recommended Award, with incredibly solid results in all tests conducted.

We received an early version of Booya's BWMR15, so we had to guess our way through most of its installation.

Booya's BWSC23 PCMCIA card was one of the few pieces of hardware we tested that offered an amazing level of interoperability with other manufacturers' access points and PCMICA cards (for ad hoc networking). Set-up was so easy in fact, that it quickly became the default card for testing other 802.11b-compliant hardware.