Buyer's Guides
HP TouchPad hacking guide: get full access to Google's Android Market Get hold of the ful range of apps on your HP tablet
Buyer's Guides Smartphones & tablets
Installing Android 2.3 'Gingerbread' on HP's cut-price TouchPad tablet (reviewed here), alongside the existing webOS platform, gives the device access to far more software than would otherwise be the case - but not everything...
27 Oct 2011 by Gareth Halfacree
How to install Android on your HP TouchPad - step-by-step guide Get Google's mobile OS on your £89 HP tablet
Buyer's Guides Smartphones & tablets
[UPDATE 27/10/11: If you've installed CyanogenMod's Android port for the HP TouchPad, find out how to gain full, unfiltered access to the full Google Android Market in our step-by-step guide here.) Hewlett Packard's cut-price...
24 Oct 2011 by Gareth Halfacree
HP TouchPad ultimate hacking guide - upgrading WebOS, performance tweaks, overclocking and installing third-party apps Step-by-step guide to customising and making your tablet faster
Buyer's Guides Smartphones & tablets
Getting your hands on one of HP's discounted TouchPads - a bargain £89 for the 16GB model and £115 for the 32GB model - is tough, but if you're one of the lucky few to get your hands on what we're tentatively calling...
31 Aug 2011 by Gareth Halfacree
Choosing the best desktop publishing and web design software: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide Getting the best deal on creative software for publishing and web design
Buyer's Guides Graphics, design and video
IT Reviews has recently updated its Buyer's Guide content. If you're looking for information on vector drawing and image editing software, visit our new dedicated guide to image manipulation software here. If you need to...
11 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best antivirus and security software to protect against viruses, hackers and spyware: IT Reviews.com Buyer's Guide Everything you need to know about virus, spyware, phishing and other threats
Buyer's Guides Security software
The Internet is an amazing place: from the comfort of your own home - or a coffee shop if you're a laptop user - you can gain access to the world's information with just the click of a mouse. Unfortunately, it's also home to some...
11 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best photo and image editing software: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide Our guide to the best vector- and raster-based image manipulation programs
Buyer's Guides Graphics, design and video
IT Reviews has recently updated its Buyer's Guide content. If you're looking for information on desktop publishing and web design software, visit our new dedicated guide to graphic design software here. Computers are great for...
11 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best space sims and flight sims: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide A guide to the best flying games on earth... and beyond
Buyer's Guides Space and flight sims
Space. It's the final frontier, where Star Trek fans argue about whether there should be a 'whoosh' noise when the USS Enterprise zooms past during the titles, because sound waves don't travel in space, so that's totally...
11 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best projectors for movie, home entertainment and business: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide Full HD and business projectors for home cinema and presentations
Buyer's Guides Monitors & projectors
If your thirst for visual entertainment has outgrown the size of - sensibly priced - monitors and TVs, the chances are good you need to start looking at a projector. Whether you need one for business meetings, gaming, or for...
11 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best football, tennis, cricket and other sports games: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide Sports simulations, virtual football matches and more
As a youngster, you may have dreamed of playing football in the Premiership, or walking onto the centre court at Wimbledon with the royals watching. Of course, the odds of reaching the pinnacle of a sporting career are roughly...
10 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best role-playing games (RPGs) and adventure games: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide Fantasy, adventure, RPG and MMORPG games explained
Buyer's Guides Adventure games & RPGs
Traditional adventure games involve exploration, puzzle solving and logic skills. The adventure was one of the first genres of computer game invented, after the basic arcade stuff such as Pong, simply because at their simplest,...
10 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best joysticks, mice, keyboards, graphics tablets and gamepads: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide Keyboards, mice, pointing devices and games controllers
When you're buying or upgrading a PC, it's all to easy to overlook its peripherals. Doing so is a major mistake: with an outdated mouse or clunky keyboard, even the nippiest of new PCs can feel like a nightmare to use. Splashing...
10 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best RTS and turn-based strategy games: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide Understanding turn-based and real-time strategy games
In crude terms, strategy games are the exact opposite to 3D action titles. This is a sphere of gaming in which cogitation is required, not reflexes, and decision-making skills win the day, not hand-eye coordination. There may...
10 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best 3D action games and shooters: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide A closer look at 3D action games, including first-person shoot-'em-ups
Buyer's Guides 3D action games
By the broadest definition, action games are quite simply those which are action-packed. There's a lot happening on screen and your awareness and reactions are constantly tested, with little pause for breath. Expect a lot of...
10 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best racing games, F1, rally and driving sims: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide Bring you up to speed with the world of virtual driving
Buyer's Guides Driving and racing games
Racing games are all about going really fast - virtually, that is. Which is quite therapeutic when, in the real world, even if you own a Ferrari, you probably spend half of your time on the road travelling at less than 20mph,...
10 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
Choosing the best office suite: word processors, spreadsheets, database applications and more: ITReviews.com Buyer's Guide How to get the best deal on your productivity software
Buyer's Guides Office software
One of the most common reasons for owning a computer - besides gaming - is for productivity. Whether you're a student, a home user, a business user, or just an avid letter-writer, the chances are that the first thing you'll...
09 Aug 2011 by IT Reviews Staff
