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Targus Armoured Notebook Case

The TANC is a tad bulky, but it's a reasonable price to pay for the protection it could afford your child's school laptop.

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro's broad feature set combined with its look and feel make it a serious contender, but questionable efficacy and middling performance mean it's a program we're not recommending for this year.

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Reviews

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010

Kaspersky's 2010 updates for its Internet Security and Anti-Virus programs introduce several useful features, including behavioural-based threat detection, program sandboxing and a gamer mode.
Disney Sing It

It's great fun for kids and fans of the Disney films featured, with practical tools to help take melody and singing skills from average to awesome!
Wii Music

Wii Music is fun and charming, but it's also simple and shallow.
Fable II

This Fable is light on morals and rich with adventure.
Motorola Hiptop Slide

The Hiptop Slide is social networking heaven paired with average standard phone features. This is one for the kids.
Telstra TicTalk

Parents will probably love it, kids will probably hate it. What is it? Why, it's the Tic-Talk, Telstra's play for the presumably lucrative junior mobile phone market.
Windows Live OneCare Family Safety beta

Microsoft's beta version of a free service that filters Web sites for content for children makes parents and guardians system administrators for their kids' Windows Live accounts.
mobiles2go i-Kids

mobile2go's i-Kids mobile phone lets tweens call up to four pre-programmed numbers, while the GPS component lets concerned parents keep track of their children's whereabouts.

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Features

Mobile phone buying guide

Buying a mobile phone is more than a matter of picking the most feature-rich or slickest-looking device — your usage and lifestyle are going to help you decide which is the right plan and handset for you.
The best new Windows programs of 2008

In 2008, there were several standout new applications and here are six of what we think are the best ones.
Leopard vs Vista

What's inside Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and Windows Vista? Here's a rundown of the features offered by each.
GPS: not just for the car anymore

Declining prices and improved miniaturisation mean GPS is making its way out of the car and into other gadgets. You may never get lost again.

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News

Govt to survey schools on e-security

The Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy intends to survey school children, parents and teachers on e-security and cyber-safety threats from late July 2009.
Govt's banned sites list leaked online

Whistle-blower site Wikileaks has published what it claims to be the government's blacklist of banned websites, but experts warn banning these sites won't prevent child pornography.
Games desensitise children to violence: South Australian Attorney General

South Australian attorney general says he is not the only classification minister to oppose R18+ classification; lauds current system's ability to "encourage modification".
GetUp raises money to save the net

"Community advocacy" group GetUp is raising money to fight Labor's proposed internet filter.

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DIYs and How-to

Security Starter Kit: Apps to protect your PC

Viruses, spyware, rootkits, hackers — a new PC can be susceptible to the most insidious of plots. We've devised a list of essential and free security programs to protect your computer and your sanity.
How to shoot a sports video

We show you how, with a bit of effort, you can make sports videos so good that your kids will want to show them off to their kids one day.
DIY: Master your Windows processes

Suffering from a slow PC, but bamboozled by what's going on with Windows Task Manager? Here is some software that will take the mystery out of what's going on with your system processes.
100 tips to speed up your software

Do more faster with these amazingly useful shortcuts.

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Downloads

Airship

Guide your child safely through the Internet.
Child Safety

A compendium of tips on child safety, from infancy to pre-school years.
Pocket Informant 9 - GTD, Franklin Covey, Calendar, Notes, and more!

Pocket Informant brings order to your life. With a beautiful user interface that can be customized to your whims and is designed to help you see...
MB Parent-Child Name Compatibility

Analyze the compatibility between parents and children.

Get (laptop) smart before you buy

Win the numbers game and get the laptop that's perfect your needs as well as your budget!
Microsoft Windows® 7. Your PC, simplified.

Windows® 7 has been designed to be more reliable, more responsive, and to make the things you do every day easier.
Whereis® maps

If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.