Gibbs corrects his comments about the availability of Adobe's CS6, recommends Pixelmator to replace most of what you want Photoshop for, and suggests the Button TrackR to help you find your keys

UPDATE: When I wrote last week's Gearhead, "No more Adobe Dreamweaver, so how about Xara Web Designer?" I had looked at Adobe's online shop to make sure that CS

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Adobe has finished with Creative Suite and now plans to only offer the subscription-based Cloud Suite. If you don't need all the complexity of Dreamweaver, how about Xara Web Designer?

If you're doing serious Web content engineering you might well choose an all-singing, all-dancing product such as Adobe's Dreamweaver.

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The coming meltdown of IT; the out of control proliferation of IT failure is a future reality from which no country – or enterprise - is immune.

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Pneuron's eponymous data access and massaging solution is truly enterprise-scale

How would you like to build a global enterprise-scale data access infrastructure? A daunting prospect, yes? Imagine creating a system that could make any subset of any significant data resource in your organization available where it's needed without incurring insane implementation and maintenance costs ... sounds too good to be true?

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This week two outstanding products: The Jynxbox Android HD and Seagate Wireless Plus

Back in February I reviewed the Favi Smart Stick, a computer the size of a large USB drive that runs Android, plugs directly into your TV's HDMI port, and is intended to turn a "dumb" TV into a "smart" TV. As I noted, the UI was just OK but at a price of $50 for the 4GB version I thought it was a pretty good deal.

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Just when you thought that webcams couldn't be improved, along comes the Logitech Broadcaster Wi-Fi Webcam

Considering the enormous webcam market and the number of products available it's hard to believe that anyone could come up with anything new, novel and useful but, impressively, that's just what Logitech has managed to do with its Broadcaster Wi-Fi Webcam, a really well-designed webcam for OS X and iOS only.

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Gibbs discusses how Apple just lost an enterprise VPN feature to a judgment in the favor of a patent troll and reviews a portable storage device for iOS

First up, serious networking stuff concerning Apple and how iOS supports VPNs and how it won't in future.

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Business travel is, under the best of circumstances, a royal pain in the butt, and when you're roaming internationally with a smartphone and need to make some calls and keep up with email, you face a zonking great bill when you get home.

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Presentation controllers are cool gadgets but when they have lasers built in they become even cooler

Every now and then a company appears that makes a slew of cool products. The latest of these is Satechi, which I think should use the tag line "purveyors of fine gadgets." Satechi just sent me a few very cool items and in a couple of weeks I shall review their remarkable Wireless Mini Router/Repeater.

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The question of whether you're getting the bandwidth you pay for is one that just doesn't go away. Twice in the last few months I've suspected my ADSL connection of running slow and, sure enough, despite the modem telling me I had 3Mbps down and 500Kbps up, for whatever reason, restarting the modem fixed the problem.

I personally blame AT&T for not cleaning the bits as they route them to me and because of that my modem is getting a build-up of digital residue.

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