Stories by: Jason Whittaker

Flash animation gives websites pizzazz. It's used for video and other moving graphics, as well as non-static adverts. Flash is an excellent way of adding a little something extra to your site and making it stand out from the crowd.

Storing important files online has become a useful option for home and small business computer users, and Webroot Secure Backup is the second such product to be reviewed in as many months, the last being BullGuard Backup 8.0.

There are many aspects to web security. You can hardly move for apps that automate online protection and safeguard your identity, for instance. But one area that gets less attention is IP-address tracing.

BullGuard Backup 8.0 is the second generation of Bullguard's off-site storage app. And with 10GB storage included, it's excellent value

How often have you found yourself immersed in a film or computer game and had to remind yourself that none of it's real? Computer animation has brought an astonishing level of realism to the big and small screens. And, while the likes of Wallace and Gromit show there's still room for the old-fashioned virtues of character and personality, no one can deny the impact technological advances have made in animation.

Actinic is one of the longest-standing e-commerce packages around, and its maturity means that Actinic Catalog 9.0 is a program that can do just about anything your business requires to sell online

Antics 3.1 ProPack offers a simple way to prepare storyboards created with 3-D characters and scenes.

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