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Top travel apps for the iPhone

Top travel apps for the iPhone

A rundown of the most useful iPhone apps for travellers, from currency converters to dictionaries, health advisers and data-usage monitors Read more

11 May, 2012 by Jesse Sutton
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: The morning after

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: The morning after

Having reviewed Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04), we gave it the responsibility of running on a work PC rather than a beta testing system. Here are some further observations on the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release. Read more

11 May, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is an extremely solid, usable, fast and secure desktop Linux OS. It continues to hone the Unity user interface introduced in earlier releases, and also migrates to a new version of the kernel. Read more

26 April, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight
Adobe Creative Suite 6

Adobe Creative Suite 6

Adobe has updated its flagship suite of creative tools, bringing new features and updates to key applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign and Premiere Pro, and introducing Creative Cloud. Here's ZDNet UK's guide to CS6 Read more

23 April, 2012 by Staff
After Effects CS6

After Effects CS6

After Effects CS6 offers a flexible user interface, a new cacheing system, ray tracing, 3D camera tracking, mask feathering, rolling shutter repair, and more. Read more

23 April, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight
Premiere Pro CS6

Premiere Pro CS6

Premiere Pro CS6 offers a streamlined user interface, an enhanced Mercury Playback Engine with improved GPU acceleration, a host of workflow-improving tweaks and supports Blu-ray and DVD authoring via Encore. Read more

23 April, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight
Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud

The full release of Creative Cloud gives subscription access to the full range of Adobe's applications and services. Read more

23 April, 2012 by Charles McLellan
InDesign CS6

InDesign CS6

The latest version of InDesign is a versatile application that can efficiently repurpose page layouts for print and screen-based output, and create interactive PDF forms independently of Acrobat Pro Read more

23 April, 2012 by Charles McLellan
Photoshop Extended CS6

Photoshop Extended CS6

As well as enhancing its classic image editing functionality, Photoshop CS6 expands what you can achieve without switching to another application, including tools for working with video, 3D and text. Read more

23 April, 2012 by Mary Branscombe
Illustrator CS6

Illustrator CS6

The new features in Illustrator CS6 concentrate on making the program faster, better organised and easier to work with. Tracing and creating patterns, in particular, get big improvements. Read more

23 April, 2012 by Mary Branscombe
Flash Professional CS6

Flash Professional CS6

Flash Pro CS6 adds more tools for building hardware-accelerated games that work across multiple platforms, as well as tools for designing and testing mobile applications, without leaving your PC. Read more

23 April, 2012 by Simon Bisson
Dreamweaver CS6

Dreamweaver CS6

Dreamweaver CS6 delivers enhanced HTML5 and CSS3 features, flexible design tools and better mobile support. It also integrates Adobe's Business Catalyst hosting service. Read more

23 April, 2012 by Simon Bisson
SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2012 supports everything from departmental servers to large-scale enterprise clouds. With Hadoop integration imminent there's much to be said for upgrading — if only to prepare your datacentre for big-data private clouds. Just keep an eye out for the effect of per-core licensing on your costs. Read more

16 April, 2012 by Simon Bisson
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6

The latest update to Corel's venerable vector drawing package brings several overdue features, does some catching up with Adobe and adds useful new tools for working with vectors. It all adds up to a powerful but still-challenging graphics suite. Read more

2 April, 2012 by Mary Branscombe
Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta

Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta

Adobe has released the beta of the CS6 version of Photoshop, the industry standard image editing application. We've been looking at some of its many new features. Read more

22 March, 2012 by Charles McLellan

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