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Tuscany and Umbria
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Cadogan Guides Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches is a good example of these always-reliable guides friendly format. The book acknowledges that the travellers have moved beyond the golden hills of Tuscany west to the Bolgheri and Maremma seasides and east into the regions of equally stunning Umbria and the Marches. Its insider focus on food and wine based on a healthy appreciation of the culture gives it a mix that other guidebooks can miss. The drawback to this approach, when coupled wi..
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AA Where to Stay in Britain & Ireland
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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..
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Lonely Planet CitySync for Handhelds & PDAs
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While there are fine freeware products that present maps and similar information, sometimes its just worth investing the cash in a product as fantastic as Lonely Planets CitySync. So well designed and so encompassing, and yet bite-size, CitySync provides information in categories such as shopping, nightlife, safety, and sleeping in exactly the manner most likely to please travellers most. Integrated maps, keywords to learn more specifics, up-to-date phone numbers, and other vital i..
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European Travel Companion Bundle (Auralog Spanish, French, German, Cities of Europe, Atlas, Ski, Cabrio)
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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..
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Rio Volt SP250 MP3 CD Player
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The Rio Volt SP250 is a neat, portable digital-audio CD player which handles MP3 and WMA tracks as well as standard audio CDs. It includes an FM tuner, too. Portable MP3 players have been around for a while and CD-based Walkman-style devices much longer than that, but a player which combines the two is more of a novelty. Rio Volts SP250 is the top model in a range of digital audio players which aims to play just about anything you drop into it. This is a versatile device. For a start, it can ..
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Internet Cleanup
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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..
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