An old PC is like putty in your hands. Tim Dean looks at how you can shape it into a new system with a few easy upgrades.

The Punisher, developed by Red Faction’s Volition, is the latest franchised game to roll across our desks.

Trackmania’s back, bigger and better, with the Sunrise sequel. The developers have a clear understanding of where the original went right and wrong, and have delivered something closer to the ultimate track building sim.

Although CM 5 sounds like an annual refresh of the series, Eidos has made significant changes behind the scenes.

It might seem unfair comparing MYOB’s best selling single user product with Quicken’s multi-user small business accounting package, but the key difference between the two is number of licences and not the functionality.

PVX is designed as an office application but could as easily appeal to people wanting to make personal video calls.

The Close Combat RTS series has been held in high regard among strategy gamers, despite the mediocre later releases.

We’ve all been warned a million times since the dawn of computing – but we’ll knock it into your head once more for posterity: save often.

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.

Panasonic has gone above and beyond, releasing its NV-GS35 with its massive 30x optical zoom, dwarfing the usual 20 or so times zooms found on other cameras.

The $1000 PC was once regarded as the Holy Grail of computing, but now almost every manufacturer has one.

Producing a PC for under a thousand dollars will inevitably lead to compromises – do you go for a better screen or more processing power?

The Acer Aspire SA20 is a machine built on a budget and it performs accordingly.

Why bother buying a big screen that takes up part of your wall, when you can buy a cheap projector and take up the entire wall?

The Optoma H27 is one of the best home theatre projectors we looked at here.

Priced a little below the popular $2500 ceiling, the NEC HT410G is a very funky looking home theatre projector.

The brand new HC100 from Mitsubishi Electric is a more traditional looking home theatre projector with a centremounted lens, and curved lines.

The utilitarian looking InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 is a very capable home theatre projector, provided that you’re looking for a projector mainly for home theatre use.

The PE5120 from BenQ is a native widescreen projector, and while it’s happiest displaying DVDs and home theatre inputs it also performed well with desktop and text projection.

Hitachi’s PJ-TX10 is the monster of the group – in that it’s by far the biggest and the heaviest projector.