home video editing suite with easy YouTube uploading

Corel's VideoStudio Pro X2 Ultimate offers some great editing opportunities at a reasonable price. Despite the 'Pro' tag, making an enjoyable, professional looking video is a possibility even for the complete novice. The Movie Wizard option is good for in...

Operating System virtualisation

By virtualising the host operating system rather than hardware, Virtuozzo Containers can match the best hypervisors on performance, while containers are quicker and easier to deploy. You can also host more containers per system and patch all your containe...

the planet's most famous archiving software continues to evolve

An excellent utility that continues to evolve and improve, without losing sight of what made it a success in the first place. But there are so many free alternatives out there that we can't see it having much of an increased take-up compared with previous...

Sony's strong video editing suite just got easier to use

A Rolls-Royce video editing suite that justifies its asking price and makes things much more accessible than before. Bravo, Sony.

crunch your media down to portable size

A good, efficient and friendly way to optimise your media. It's not the fastest but it's little hassle to use and worth checking out.

affordable and reliable image editing power

There's no denying that Adobe Photoshop Elements is one of the most user-friendly, powerful and reliable image software series around. Unbeatable for the price in terms of features and performance, Elements 7 packs in plenty of new filters, tools and shar...

comprehensive web design package

Whether you're an experienced or inexperienced developer or designer, there's a comprehensive and integrated selection of design programs here that have excellent tutorial support and, while not as advanced as some of the rivals, still have a number of us...

revamped and improved media manipulation collection

Pretty much the ultimate, comprehensive collection of media copying, burning, sorting, cataloguing and transporting software available, with a host of new extras and improvements, for an accommodating price.

multimedia suite for Mac owners

iLife '08 is something of a mixed bag. Of the two heavily-reworked apps, iPhoto and iMovie, iPhoto is an improvement; it's easier to use and with something for the more serious photo editor as well as the beginner. iMovie is not going to win friends with...

Photo and image editor

Not worth upgrading to if you have either of the two previous Corel versions of Paint Shop Pro Photo, especially as some of the familiar keyboard shortcuts have been changed, but it should be at the top of your list if you're looking to move up from the f...