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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.

Photoshop is one of the few applications that stands alone in its market. There may be other ways to edit images – photographers have Adobe's own Lightroom and Apple's Aperture – but nothing matches Photoshop's breadth and depth of features.

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

PopChar 4 sits discreetly – even invisibly, if you like – in the menu bar, but when you click that little icon a floating window pops up showing you the full range of characters available.

Without fonts a designer is nothing.With too many fonts a designer can be paralysed.So how do you keep a decent collection of typefaces under control? FontAgent Pro 4 claims to be the answer, providing you with fast and efficient ways to keep your fonts organised, helping you browse, search and find the right ones fast, turn individual fonts and whole sets on and off, and more besides.

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

GarageSale and iSale update themselves with near-identical features at near-identical times of the year. They are both now on version 5, an update bringing YouTube video integration.

You may have heard of Evernote on the Mac blogosphere. It has just been launched for the Mac OS, after being available for a few years on Windows. It’s a simple journal and database tool that syncs your phone and Mac over the web.

Sorting your digital files is relatively straightforward, but what about your real-world possessions? This is where Delicious Library comes in. Now at version 2, its purpose is to help you keep track of your belongings, catalogue them and sort them onto neat digital shelves.

AudialHub is a cheap-as-chips audio conversion tool that turns obscure music files into common formats. It’s useful if, for example, you download audio files from the internet that iTunes can’t handle and want to convert these files to a more manageable format.

Typical of the web 2.0 generation, Blurb is one of those nebulous entities that is a service, but also a company, a program, a website, a community, a blog and a bookshop. Confused? Don’t be.

Web design is a bit of a black art. Anyone armed with a ‘Dummies’ book can knock together a page of HTML that will display in everything from NCSA Mosaic to Safari 3.1, but creating something richer – with navigation, images, dynamically updating sidebars and more – that conforms to XHTML and CSS standards is a much bigger challenge.

What do you do if you’re a company that has developed a whole range of well-regarded, one-trick, photo-editing packages? Why, you sit down with your marketing manager and work out how you can bundle different ones together in new, exciting and profitable ways.

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.