The AA Where to Stay in Britain & Ireland CD-ROM is a comprehensive accommodation guide covering all types of places to stay from bed and breakfast to the most expensive of hotels.

The AA has been publishing this guide for several years now and this time around the interface has had an overhaul. There are more than 7,000 establishments covered and it is still easy to find precisely what you want. First choose a location. Then point-and-click at the screen to indicate the maximum you ar..

Next time you go travelling across Europe, think about packing some software. European Travel Companion provides you with eight handy CD-ROMs to improve your language skills and help you find your way around the leading cities.

If you are heading for Paris, the Great Cities of Europe discs let you quickly call up maps of the streets and discover useful local information about tipping at restaurants, bank opening hours and airport contact details. The information is concise and e..

You dont have to be paranoid to buy Internet Cleanup--despite the packagings message "Whos watching what you browse on the Internet?" The fact is that what we surf from the "privacy" of our home PCs is far from secret, let alone what we log onto at work. Every time you visit a Web site, tracks are left on your hard disk in the form of cookies, history files and cache files.

Now these are not all bad. Cookies let a Web site recognise you the next time you log on. Thats how your online bo..

The Sony DCR-TRV130 Digital8 Camcorder provides a good introduction to the world of digital video, being an easy-to-use and capable entry level digital camcorder. Despite being Sonys "best value" Digital8 camcorder, the TRV130 has a list of features that would fill this review on its own.

The Digital8 format uses standard 8 mm tapes to store digital video rather than the more expensive MiniDV format. You can fit up to 90 minutes on a single tape in LP mode. The TRV130 is respectably compact a..

McAfee Internet Security 5.0 protects your PC against a wide range of viruses as well as other external threats such as hackers.

McAfee Internet Security 5.0 combines McAfees VirusScan 7 and Firewall 4 programs into one product along with a new interface allowing you to configure everything from one place.

On the virus front McAfee Internet Security 5.0 operate..

Norton Internet Security 2003 Professional helps you to protect your PC from online security risks with a firewall, plus it blocks ads, filters spam and includes parental controls.

Setting up a firewall can be complex, but the Security Assistant wizard walks you through all the choices you need to make, and it automatically sets up PCs on a home network to work behind the firewall. The Program Scan looks for Internet-enabled software on your system so you can let all your Internet too..