Real World Computing

Simon Jones welcomes the upcoming upgrade to Office 2007, and tries to slow down the rush to web-based applications....more

Jon Honeyball tries not to get too cynical about azure, finds the best of British in a high-end hi-fi kit, and breaks the iris scanner at Heathrow....more

Tom Arah explains how to make the most of Photoshop's non-destructive approach to image adjustment....more

This month, Paul Ockenden ponders touchscreen phones and PCs, and discovers a new way to buy laptops....more

Steve Cassidy gives his take on cloud computing, and asks whether green computing will lead to a desktop slow-down....more

This month, Davey Winder is in a 007 mindset and looks for a quantum of solace in the bad news about encryption....more

Ian Wrigley takes an up-to-date look at Ubuntu Linux, raises his head above the iPhone parapet, and gets to grips with writing a cross-platform application....more

Jon Honeyball reports on how the current economic climate is affecting IT departments and David Moss looks at RRAS within Windows 2008 Server....more

Mark Newton passes judgement on google chrome and iE8 beta 2, and adds his thoughts to the plethora of hype surrounding cloud computing....more