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Logitech G500
If you loved the G5, you'll continue loving the G500, the natural evolution of Logitech's classic gaming mouse. Though Microsoft brings stiff competition in the form of the SideWinder X8, which may be more appealing to some.
Lexmark Prestige Pro805
The Pro805 frustrates as much as it innovates with a touchscreen interface and an interesting, iPhone-style app store.
Reviews
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Beaterator (PSP)
Beaterator is a music-sequencer for the PSP. It combines hundreds of loops and an unexpected level of depth to give you a full music creation experience.
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Halo 3: ODST
An awesome campaign and addictive new Firefight mode make ODST a thrilling new entry in the Halo franchise.
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Guitar Hero 5
Wide-ranging improvements and an excellent new Party Play mode make Guitar Hero 5 a great way to bring some rock into your living room.
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Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)
Intel Mac users will like Snow Leopard's smartly designed interface enhancements, and its Exchange support is a must-have (especially with Outlook for Mac on the way). With a ton of technological improvements, Snow Leopard is worth the AU$39 upgrade fee.
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Windows Live Movie Maker
All in all Windows Live Movie Maker is decent freeware that lives up to its promise of making movies fast. Regardless, Microsoft would do well, at the very least, to build more sharing plug-ins and a fleshier Help menu.
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Toshiba NB200
The Toshiba NB200 is an excellent netbook — we just wish someone would evolve the platform already, but with Microsoft and Intel holding the reigns it doesn't seem set to happen soon.
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HP TouchSmart tx2 (1015AU)
HP's TouchSmart tx2 is its next-generation tablet PC, stuck in last generation's body.
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Apple iWork '09
Intuitive interface design and easy access to useful features make iWork the best office suite choice on the Mac. Though it lacks some of Microsoft Office's advanced options, iWork '09 is an emerging powerhouse in its own right.
Features
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Microsoft Office Web Apps: Hands on
Microsoft has finally started to open up its web-based versions of Office apps to early testers. We got access to a "technical preview" of Excel and PowerPoint on the web (not, notably, Word).
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The best mobile processor is...
Today's notebooks come with a vast range of processors, but will they give you the best performance? Our comprehensive review benchmarks 19 of the latest mobile processors, giving you an insight into the best chips on the market.
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Censory Overload: Games censorship in Australia
How much does the right to choose what content you view mean to you, the consumer? GameSpot AU explores the thorny issue of videogame classification and censorship in Australia.
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Start-page smackdown: Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle and Live.com
Want to create your own homepage? We put four personalised start pages through their paces and rank them according to looks, features and performance.
News
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Office 2010 beta gets LinkedIn
Microsoft has released a beta of Office 2010 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The beta integrates social network LinkedIn with Outlook, offers a stripped back Excel for browser editing, and video editing tools for PowerPoint.
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Windows Phone: Everything you need to know
After months and months of waiting, Microsoft has finally kicked its latest mobile operating system out of the nest to see if it can fend for itself in the big, bad world of smartphone rivalries. Alongside the OS itself, Microsoft also rolled out a bunch of new web-based services as well.
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Beatles perfect storm on 9 September 2009?
For the first time, the Beatles' entire catalogue will be released, in stereo, in one fully digitally remastered collection. Will an iTunes announcement happen the same day?
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Yahoo7, ninemsn won't talk Australian deal yet
Neither Yahoo7 nor ninemsn was today willing to comment on what the implications would be for their operations from the global search and advertising deal inked by Yahoo and Microsoft overnight.
DIYs and How-to
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101 software tips, tweaks and tricks
Our insider secrets will help you master your PC and its most important applications.
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How to share files between Office and iWork
Sharing between these two office suites is possible but clunky. Follow our guide to make sharing between Apple iWork and Microsoft Office easier.
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Reduce digital photos for the Web
In this CNET quick tutorial, you will learn how to quickly reduce digital photos to e-mail and post on Web sites.
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Build the perfect baby video
With the imminent arrival of a new baby, your life will become a whirlwind. If you're planning to capture the whole experience on video, plan carefully and you'll have a priceless record of those fleeting early days.
Downloads
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Altova MapForce Enterprise Edition
Enable programmatic XML-to-XML or XML-to-database data transformations via custom mapping code.
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Altova XMLSpy Enterprise Edition
Develop XML, SOAP, WSDL, and Web services applications.
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Altova MapForce Professional Edition
Transform data between XML, database, and flat file formats.
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Serna Free
WYSIWYG XML editor, supports DITA, Docbook, and other XML formats.
The Explain Series
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Get (laptop) smart before you buy
Win the numbers game and get the laptop that's perfect your needs as well as your budget!
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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.
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Whereis® maps
If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.


























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