Design

Five Best Wallpaper Sites

Personalising your desktop starts with customising your wallpaper. Finding wallpapers for your desktop isn’t difficult, but everyone has an opinion about which sites offer the best selection of wallpapers for high-resolution displays, multiple for screens, or with the best imagery. Here are five of the best wallpaper resources, based on your nominations.


January 9, 2012
Work

Five Best Goal Tracking Services

Whether you’ve made fresh resolutions for the new year or you’re just looking for a tool that can help reinforce your existing commitments, the web is full of goal tracking apps and systems. Here are five of the best of those services, based on your nominations.


January 2, 2012
Fix

Five Best Drink Mixing Recipe Apps

So you have a home bar fully stocked with all of the essentials, but you haven’t a clue what to make first. Thankfully your smartphone can help, and with the right app, you can unveil a world of mixed drinks and beverages that let you play the bartender, whether you’re at home with your own bar or at a friend’s house in front of theirs.


December 27, 2011
Work

Five Best Blu-Ray Playback Suites

Playing Blu-ray movies on the go on a laptop or in the living room on an HTPC with a Blu-ray drive doesn’t have to be difficult, but if you want true HD video quality and the experience of navigating disc extras and menus, you’ll need a Blu-ray media player that’s up to the task. Here are five of the best Blu-ray compatible media players, based on your nominations.


December 19, 2011
Work

Five Best Android Tablets

Android tablets come in all shapes and sizes. They often run different versions of Android, some can be easily attached to keyboards, others are designed to be slates, and some are ebook readers. Regardless of what you need a new Android tablet for, here are five of the best ones for the job, based on your nominations.


December 17, 2011
Work

Most Popular Hive Fives Of 2011

2011 was a great year to get your feedback. Every week we put out the call for applications, gadgets, products, or services in a given category, and every week we challenge you to vote for the best in each category. Here are the most popular Hive Fives of 2011.


December 5, 2011
Work

Five Best Video Editors

Whether you’re editing home movies to send to family and friends or working on something more professional, it’s important to have the right software. This week we’re going to take a look at five of the best video editing tools, based on your nominations.


November 28, 2011
Organise

Five Best Recipe Organisation Tools

Keeping digital copies of all of your hand-written recipes, favourite recipes from cookbooks, and other dishes you find on the web can be a difficult task, but there are plenty of tools to help you do it. We asked you which tools you used to manage your collection of hand-me-down recipes and favourite recent finds. Here’s a look at the top five, based on your nominations, many of which can handle more than just recipes.


November 21, 2011
Work

Five Best Online File Storage Services

Working with the same files in multiple places used to be a hassle. You’d have to make sure to bring the file with you, email it to yourself, or save it in a place you could get to it later. Now, there are a number of online file storage and syncing services that will make your data available on as many computers as you like. Here’s a look at five of the best of those services.


November 14, 2011
Work

Five Best Desktop Comic Book Readers

There’s a certain nostalgia to reading a paper comic book and flipping the pages, but if you can get digital copies of your favourite comics and you can use your computer’s large display to read them, why not? This week we’re going to take a look at five apps that can make downloading and reading comics on your computer fun and easy.