Do as we say, not do as we do.

Creating a half-decent looking Web site usually requires pulling out the big guns - a heavy-duty graphics program, a few choice plug-ins such as Alien Skin for button and text effects and some sort of HTML editor (and a text editor, of course, for die-hard hand coders).

Life would be easier if we didn’t have to patch our operating systems and apps. Patrick Gray explores the real reasons why updating is important.

Over 60 new tracks plus more to download means our love affair with Guitar Hero continues. It’s only rock ‘n’ roll but we like it – a lot

With the increasing size of operating systems, games and the broadband smorgasbord of music and movies, it's just a matter of time before that dreaded message box pops up to tell you just how little space you have left.

Windows Vista and Office 2007 are pulling in the big bucks, but the numbers show Microsoft's online services business is yet to take off financially.

There's more life in the x86 yet, with Intel pulling up to 8 core multi-threading out of its bag of tricks.

David Kidd investigates why open source software still falls into the same old traps

“It’s really beautiful”. “Just stunning”. “It’s pretty spectacular”. Thus spake Steve Jobs.

New numbers out today from market research outfit Jon Peddie (JPR) predict worldwide growth for PC gaming hardware shipments and regional market share to be “amazing”.

Founder furious over Intel's behaviour.

Rearrange the furniture in your rooms. This program will simulate furniture movement in a room -so ...

New super thin notebook comes with 64GB SSD, multitouch, and amazingly it doesn’t cost the earth.

Awesome skating realism with motion capture playback

Global gaming population reaches 217 million.

David Kidd reminds himself that complacency is the enemy of discovery.

A keyboard shortcut for viewing open applications, files and switching from one to another. Even th...

Planet of the Apes screensaver is a playable screensaver and will work alone or can be used by a pla...

Sydney Trains is a great little program. As the name implies, this is a time-tabling application for the Sydney metropolitan train network. Written for PDAs, Sydney Trains works on both Palm OS and Pocket PC.

The first thing we noticed about this printer was its strange physical resemblance to the Labs Winner, and significantly more expensive, HP LaserJet 1300. There are plenty of technical specs to differentiate the two, including RAM, print resolution and OS support, all swinging in HP’s favour though.