New Mac offering from the established anti-malware name

Our favourite Mac OS X monitoring tool just got even better – and it's still free

Is it worth giving up control to hosted blogging sites in the name of simplicity?

Virtualisation software is going mainstream – but which app is best?

Is Microsoft's free anti-virus package really essential software for your PC?

A virtual DVD drive for your netbook

Write scripts with the software the pros use, if you can work out how to use it…

The release version of Skyfire comes out this week for Windows Mobile and Symbian (a BlackBerry version is in private alpha) and delivers on the promise of the beta version: full Web browsing with Flash, Silverlight and JavaScript that works on a mobile.

The service formerly known as Sky Anytime on PC has evolved

The days when you needed expensive software or serious coding skills to build decent websites are long gone. Whether you're a blog beginner or need a content management system for a giant corporate website, WordPress can cope with almost anything - and with version 2.7, it's better than ever.

When MobileMe was launched, it sounded so good. It turned out to be a fiasco: a mess of unresponsive web apps, syncing issues, access to email being denied, confusion about when a MobileMe update was coming out and just what it would do anyway.

RapidoSerial's sole purpose is to create a database of all the applications you own so that you can easily store their serial numbers and retrieve them in seconds

After using AOL Desktop for Mac for a fortnight, advertising revenue appears the main driver here. The browser, for example, has permanent links to a walled garden of AOL- branded internet content, nearly all of it US-centric celebritology, and doesn't allow you to add you own bookmarks. Adverts continue in other areas of the suite

Yosemite recently carried out a survey and discovered that 76 per cent of laptop users never back up their hard drive, let alone just before going on a trip. If you lose your laptop, you lose all your data, so it pays to back up often.

Cleaning out your Registry, startup items and other Windows tweaks are all free to execute, but there still exists a trade in so-called system tuners. Largely, these products fail to live up to expectations. Many either do very little or are too destructive in the way they purge system files.

Off-site backup guards your data against fire, flood and most acts of the gods. With broadband connections becoming more reliable and more efficient, online backup has become a viable option for many home users. BullGuard Backup 8.0 provides a year’s subscription to an online drive of up to 10GB, with an option to use local back-up sources for any other data.

AVG 8.0 includes all of the core elements you'd expect, including anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall and anti-spam. Taking things up a notch, the suite now includes root-kit scanning, as well as instant messaging and Web surfing protection features. Is it enough to keep your PC protected?

Drivers are the pieces of code that allow devices you plug in to your laptop to communicate with the OS. So it’s important to have the latest versions, as this will speed up your laptop as well as resolve any potential compatibility problems.

A re you worried about what your children get up to online? Then a parental control package could help you out... just not this one. Webroot Parental Controls is wrong in several ways, but we’ll start out with the most fundamental problem: it just doesn’t do its job.

Take one look at the box and you might think that Christmas has come early. Not only does CA Internet Security Suite Plus contain just about every type of security software you think you might need, it works on three PCs and promises to pay you up to £2,500 for any damage that’s caused through virus infection after it’s been installed.

We’ve always found Safari frustrating, in that it’s full of potential, but always manages to fall short of being great. And so it goes with Safari 3.1, although this release at least continues the browser’s agonisingly slow crawl towards its superior contemporaries.

If you have ever deleted a file or folder by accident, you’ll be thankful for the Recycle Bin acting as a safety net. However, what happens if you delete this folder, then discover you need the file after all?

The FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN (£140 inc. VAT) succeeds by packing an array of features into a small and easy to set up unit.

Fix-it Utilities 8 brings together over 30 of the best third-party utilities in one easy-to-use interface. The suite is based around a single interface that breaks the utilities up into sub-menus relating to Diagnostics, Fixes, Optimisation, Recovery and Clean-up tools

It may have a quirky name, but the Yoggie Pico certainly is a serious approach to security. In short, it's a self-contained security suite on a USB stick. It intercepts all incoming data from your internet or network connection before it reaches your PC