Software

Strap yourself in as we take off in our spaceship to protect the planet from waves of alien attacks in a new game from Enkord.

Certainly the most talked about new operating system I can remember. I have been using it on a PC for a few weeks now and the learning curve seems to be decreasing.

Have you lots of LP’s and cassettes you no longer play but still love the music they contain? Then one solution could be Music Clean 4 that allows you to transfer it to CD or MP3 amongst other formats.

Enhancing your home videos requires specialist software such as that on offer from Adobe for the budget-conscious discerner user.

Like a blast from the past, aliens are on the menu for this mission-based shooter game.

Look back via the search button on the site front page and enter Family Tree or Build a Model Railway to find earlier versions of both these products, in both cases Focus has added even more value.

Corel expands its product portfolio as it takes on board the latest version of WinZip’s compression software.

This product has been a niche offering for quite a while, however the new version could well make it a mainstream product that gives people like me with no artistic talent a chance, of course should you have talent you will already know that.

While Adobe PhotoShop is the market leading product, not everybody can afford its premium price. There is an alternative.

Taking on the big boys is a task always relished by Serif. We check out the company’s photo editing offering.

This package from Focus come on no less than five CD’s and contains four different but connected products. The connection is knowledge, two from Britannica and one each from Oxford and Penguin Hutchinson.

This is not just something to find you a route or show you a map. It’s a very long way from the early Next Base product on a floppy disc, and it now comes on a DVD.

Photoshop has long been the image manipulation software of choice for professional and keen amateur photographers. However for those who are ‘hobbyists’ the cost is a problem.

It is puzzle solving time again as we check out an ancient tower that hides secrets of the Zodiac.

Imitating the style of a popular artist is the sole function of a software product from Serif.

Jewels, gold coins and ancient Egyptian symbols are just some of the elements found in a new offering from URSE Games.

It’s been a while since I have reviewed an educational product. This one is from Focus, it has some great maps with views from space and satellites but the info is the king.

I have used Paint Shop Pro since it’s very early days of being a shareware product. It has come a long way since then, it is now owned by Corel and also has a slight name change.

It is time for some play as we take a look at a new entry in the Breakout/Arkanoid genre.

While route planning software is ideal for vehicles, walkers and ramblers require a different category of software.

As a leading UK developer of graphics software, Xara continues to impress with its latest graphics package.

No matter how careful you are problems can occur and a back-up program can come to your rescue.

These two groups of products have had millions of words written about them, yesterday in London they were finally launched as retail products and Bill Gates and I were among those there.

Along with taking over a couple of software developers, Corel has recently released a new title.

I must admit that my mouse and hand/eye coordination has been put under considerable pressure recently. The cause of all this activity is a new game.

One reason for an underperforming system could be the result of file fragmentation. The solution is to “defrag”.

I doubt whether they will feature as a “buy one, get one free” offer but software titles are being stocked by Tesco and include a personal finance manager.

When using your computer to watch DVD movies, the experience can benefit from specialised software.

As yet I do not think Tesco do funerals – except perhaps for their competitors – this is an ‘Office’ suite of software that originally appeared on the Ability label.

Sometimes software code gets a packaging make-over and reappears under a different branding as has happened with burning software available from Tesco.