The 1998 edition of Following the Fairways is a comprehensive reference book on many of the finest golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland, plus a chapter on golf in France. The book is an easy-to-follow guide on "Where to Play- -Where to Stay" and has 30 chapters, each of which deals with a small geographical area.

An attractive, hand-drawn map at the start of each chapter shows the location of each golf club and the information is then given under three headings. First th..

The Olympus C-1 has all the key functions of a brand-name digital camera, but at a price previously reserved for imitations. Olympus was one of the first companies to see the potential of digital photography and now has a wide range of cameras from fully-professional SLRs down to happy-snappy cameras like the C-1. You can liken the C-1 to a typical compact 35 mm film camera, the type you might take on holiday with you to capture the best moments with the minimum of setting up.

The C-1 follows..

From la Mucca (cow) to la Corona (crown), la casa (house) to liglu (igloo), EuroTalk Interactives Italian Vocabulary Builder will give you most of the elementary Italian words you will want to learn, together with a few that you would never dream youd need on your first trip to Italy!

Ridiculously simple in format, the CD-Rom first asks you to register your name, then presents you with three options: "Learn", "Games" and "Record". First try the "Learn" function, where you can scroll t..

In an ambitious attempt to get more people into the wonderful world of the console, game developers are designing and creating new methods of interactivity. This one sees us move away from fishing rods and guns to amore gentle pastime, that of music.

Beatmania, following in the footsteps of others before it, like Parappa the Rapper and Bust-a-Groove is released later this month by Konami, and is one of the latest games to come from Japan.

Based around a keyboard and tu..