After the launch of the latest Acrobat a few months ago, everything went quiet on the Adobe front. It's now clear what the company was working on, with the simultaneous launch of each of its main creative design packages -- Photoshop/ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign and GoLive. (Please see individual reviews of all of these packages on this month's cover CD.)

Don't be confused; this XP has little to do with Microsoft. It's what happened when software developers pushed the best practices of programming to the edge, to the extreme.

Computer mice are arguably the best thing since sliced bread - for computer users anyway - until you try to draw with one.

Cutting edge technology is bringing powerful enterprise-grade solutions to the small and medium business sector. Read on for tips, analysis and tutorials about how you can take advantage.

Paul Ockenden gets to grips with MOTOROLA’s impressive push-email system, “GOOD”- a great competitor to both Microsoft’s and Blackberry’s systems.

Australian office workers are unproductive for two out of five working days, according to survey.

Leigh Dyer lets rip on digital TV, video conversion tools, aspect ratios and video formats.

1918 Enigma The German Enigma is surely the best-known mechanical cipher machine. Invented in 1918, it was developed as a commercial and military encipherment system. Enigma

Cramped conditions and poor IT see decrease in intellectual performance.

There’s a lot to consider before jumping on the BlackBerry bandwagon. Should you or shouldn’t you use a dedicated blackberry device?

PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

Video editing can make or break those home movies of your latest adventure or that important business presentation. Until recently you only had the choice of some expensive professional, or some fairly crude software packages, but over recent years Ulead has put video editing within the reach of most video camera users, and at a reasonable price.

Slim, good-looking and affordable – and you can even work outside in sunlight. Just note the niggles.

The Quadro FX3000 is based on the same NV35 core that powers the latest GeForce FX 5900 cards, but with a few new additions to cater to the professional market. Compared to the older Quadro FX2000, which was based on the NV30, or GeForce FX5800, the FX3000 has double the memory, at 256MB, as well as a 256-bit memory interface, giving double the theoretical graphics bandwidth, hitting just over 27GB/s. It also supports other features from the NV35, including a 128-bit floating-point precision graphics pipeline, 128-bit colour, 12-bit sub-pixel accuracy, 16x full-scene anti-aliasing, 3D volumetric textures, and of course support for all the latest OpenGL, DirectX and NVIDIA’s own Cg graphics language versions.

Lets first look at the implications on connectivity: at present, the Internet is defined, for most users, by the needs and demands of the World Wide Web. This is the space they see and work with on a

Your wireless network is more powerful than you imagine. Use this guide to fully understand and utilise it.

PC Authority had the opportunity to interview Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian Entertainment on the occasion of his latest AAA roleplaying game release.

With the free products on our new cover DVD, you need never buy software again. So why do we still keep paying?

An improved working environment and ground-breaking colour handling make Illustrator fresher than ever.

Online services are growing smarter by the day – but can they replace desktop applications? We spend a week working online to find out.