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Trend Micro Mobile Security Personal Edition

An easy to use security and anti-theft suite for Android smartphones

Apple Mac OS X Lion

Mac OS X Lion review: a shock to the system

Trend Micro SafeSync online data backup service (50GB)

Trend Micro SafeSync review: An easy to use and good value cloud-based backup service

Numbers for iPhone

Numbers for iPhone review: Not all is perfect in Numbers-land

Keynote for iPhone

Apple Keynote review: This app remains a work in progress

Pages for iPhone

Apple Pages review: Apple's word processor is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch

Corel VideoStudio Pro X4

Corel VideoStudio Pro X4 review: Speed enhancements for the latest processors are the highlight of this video editing package.

Microsoft Office 365 beta

Microsoft Office 365: The suite of cloud-based business applications offers definite advantages -- if the rough edges can be smoothed out.

Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac operating system

Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac: A versatile package for running Windows and Linux on a Mac without rebooting

Alibre Design 2011 Personal Edition

Alibre Design 2011 Personal Edition: CAD Software Slightly Simplified

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Windows 8 will tame data loss and storage bloat on PCs by offering a simple form of the thin provisioning and virtualisation technology more commonly ...

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A lot has happened since 2001. Technology evolves rapidly, and you won't find many instances of someone using the same technology today that they used...

Article | 15/09/2011 How to convert PowerPoint to Flash

We look at several different ways that you can convert PowerPoint to Flash

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If you use PowerPoint on a regular basis, you will no doubt have been occasionally frustrated that the backgrounds available do not always match your ...

Article | 15/09/2011 Windows 8: Way too early for the hype

Windows 8 looks awesome! I watched the keynote -- a couple times actually. I am impressed. There are too many cool, "gee whiz" features and capabiliti...

Article | 26/08/2011 Google Maps adds voice search to Chrome Desktop

If you talk to your desktop PC, it's probably for all the wrong reasons -- usually to hurl expletives at the machine for not working properly. Well, u...

Article | 20/08/2011 Firefox 7 Beta puts priority on performance

Just days after the ready-for-primetime version of Firefox 6 was released, Mozilla, sticking to its aggressive development schedule for the browser, h...

Article | 6/08/2011 Microsoft and Google's 5 Most Ridiculous Fights

This week's war of words over software patents and Android has seen both Microsoft and Google get off some pretty good shots about Android and softwar...

Article | 3/08/2011 Business Software Alliance: take a quiz, win $2000; dob your boss, win $5000

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