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Serif chooses Website Designer and Adobe Dreamweaver as competitors in its WebPlus X7 comparison chart, but there are many more it needs to fend off. WebPlus continues with its traditional front-end interface, with the page under design positioned centre screen, menus across the top and palettes of colours and objects down the right, with drag-and-drop assets – like buttons and menu bars – on the left. The design process is very like using a desktop publishing editor and there is a wide range of predefined templates, where you can take an existing design and change the text and pictures to complete a personalised site....

Save ripping down the walls for a modern open-plan interior, powerline adaptors (also known as HomePlug) offer an effective workaround. Rather than laboriously running ethernet trip wires from room to room, powerline technology lets you create an internet network using the existing mains electrical wiring in your home or office. One adaptor is plugged into a mains socket next to your router, with the two connected using an ethernet cable; the second is plugged into a wall socket elsewhere in the home....

Nintendo is having something of a bumper year with the Switch console, 2DS XL, plenty of top games like Zelda: Breath of the Wild and there’s a load more to come. It’s a good job, too, with the Xbox One X coming out soon. Samus Edition 3DS XL release date and price First up is the Metroid themed 3DS XL which is called the Samus Edition and it will launch on 15 September....

Price Sonos speakers aren’t always the cheapest around, and the Playbase is one of the firm’s most expensive products. It’s priced at £699 which matches the Playbar, as this is a sort of base version of its bar-shaped brother. So it’s a top-end soundbar and if you’re not looking to spend that much then you’ll want to look at the likes of the Orbitsound One P70 and Q Acoustics M3 – Both of which are less than half the price....

Sony h.ear on Wireless NC review: Price and alternatives Priced at £220, the h.ear on Wireless NC headphones are fairly expensive but it’s nothing dramatic. We’ve seen plenty of pairs which fetch more and don’t have some of the features available here. The model number is MDR-100ABN to help you find them online. There’s some stiff competition in the area and the long awaited Bose QC35 wireless headphones have just been announced....

Sony Xperia M4 Aqua review: Price and competition The Xperia M4 Aqua is a follow-up to the M2 Aqua which also had a non-waterproof version. There was no Xperia M3 in any shape or form which is a little confusing but let’s move on regardless. Although we initially thought the M4 Aqua would be cheaper than the HTC One mini 2 but more expensive than the impressive Honor 6,it’s actually cheaper than both....

Sony Xperia Z3 vs Xperia Z2 comparison review: Price & availablilty So far, we don’t know exactly when the Sony Xperia Z3 is coming out, though the company has promised a September launch so we shouldn’t have too long to wait. See: Sony Xperia Z3 hands-on review It’s available to pre-order now, though, with a price tag of £549. See also: Sony Xperia Z3 vs Z3 Compact Sony Xperia Z3 vs Xperia Z2 comparison review: Design The Sony Xperia Z3 looks quite similar to its predecessor with an aluminium and glass design, but you’ll be surprised to find out that it’s actually one of the biggest areas of change....

Also see: Best Black Friday Phone Deals Before we launch into the review it’s worth pointing out that not only is there an Xperia Z5 and the Xperia Z5 Compact, there’s also a new Xperia Z5 Premium which features the first 4K screen we’ve seen on a smartphone. Sony Xperia Z5 Compact review: Release date and price Now widely available across the UK, the Z5 Compact costs £429 if you go straight to Sony....

With multiverse villains including Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin and Jamie Foxx’s Electro, the movie is a must-see for any Marvel or Spider-Man fan. If you’d like to watch the third Marvel Spidey outing on your own TV, then you may want to wait for the home release – and catch all of those highly anticipated behind-the-scenes moments. We’ve rounded up everything we know about watching Spider-Man: No Way Home, including the VOD release, the streaming release and the DVD and Blu-ray release....

It was totally expected that Microsoft would announce the Surface Pro 4 at its event last week. It also announced other products including the Lumia 950, Lumia 550, new Band 2 wearable and a big surprise in the Surface Book laptop. See also: Surface Pro 4 hands-on review. Surface Pro 3 vs Surface Pro 4: Price UK Due to go on sale with a release date of 12 November in the UK, the Surface Pro 4 starts at £749 which is a little more than the Pro 3 which was £639....

That explains why data allowances with most smartphone plans are getting bigger and bigger, but plenty of users are so worried about running out of data that they end up paying for far more than they really need. One study from Kantar Worldpanel found that UK phone users waste an average of £100 each year on data that they don’t end up using. That’s why Sky Mobile plans are all about helping customers make the most of their data, letting you roll all un-used data over for up to three years, so it doesn’t go to waste....

This is the new DS415play netword-attached storage ( NAS drive) unit from Synology. The Play series is designed to fill a gap in the Synology lineup, to cater for home users. For a NAS drive aimed at home users it has some useful specifications, starting with an Intel Atom dual-core CPU running at 1.6 GHz and backed up by 1 GB of DDR3 memory. This is a considerable step-up if you have been using one of the company’s budget J-series units....

iPad The decade started with a bang as Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s vision for tablet computing in January 2010: iPad. While there were those at first who thought of it as just an oversized iPhone, it wasn’t long before the device had firmly ensconced itself in the hands of millions of people around the world. iPhone 4 Apple was in something of a purple patch in 2010, as following on from the iPad it released the iPhone 4....

However, all weapons are not made equal and we’ve been hard at work testing and investigating all of them to bring you the information on the best weapons in the game. We’ve also got guides on how to spawn tanks and planes in Battlefield V, and how to customise your weapon loadout too. The weapons you can wield in Battlefield V are dictated by the class you’re currently playing. Each class has access to certain styles of weapon that make them effective at different styles of game play and they are divided up as follows:...

It promises to deliver high-quality audio and a whole lot more – but is it worth over £200? Find out in our Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 review. Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2: Pricing and availability That puts the Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 up against titans like the 1More Spearhead VRX and the SteelSeries Artics Pro + GameDAC. Does it have enough to tempt gamers? Carry on reading to find out....

Mobile operators will also not be able to purchase 5G equipment from Huawei after 31 December this year. The UK’s Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden revealed these new details to the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. “This has not been an easy decision, but it is the right one for the UK telecoms networks, for our national security and our economy, both now and indeed in the long run,” Dowden said....

For extreme sports fans, labourers and the downright clumsy, this tough phone has their backs with IP68 waterproofing, Gorilla Glass 5, and a metal- and plastic outer shell that is strangely alluring with its rugged looks. Adopting the same full-display design as today’s flagships this trendy 19:9 smartphone, with its hulking 6.2 screen and modern comforts including wireless charging and a dual-lens camera, bridges the gap between a life on the edge and a life on the couch....

Right now you can pre-order the UMI Z in grey or champagne gold for just £192.40 (or $239.99). It works with all three UK 4G bands, and runs stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow with an OTA upgrade promised to Nougat in the coming months, so there are no usability issues here. As we’ll see below it is a real bargain at this price, offering excellent value for money. We would advise caution when buying from China, however, primarily because your consumer rights are not the same as in Europe, so should the product arrive faulty or not at all the process may not be as straightforward as you like....

All the changes are visible from the outside, with a new UMIDIGI logo on the back, a black colour option (the Z comes in grey or champagne) and a dual-camera at the rear. That’s really all that’s new in the UMIDIGI Z Pro, so if you can find the UMI Z at a lower price it is worth your consideration. This UMIDIGI Z Pro was supplied to us for review direct from the company, but in the UK there are a number of outlets from which you can purchase it....

See also: The best projectors you can buy in 2015 ViewSonic PLED-W800 review: why 800 lumens is bright enough The product names of these two very similar projectors are based on their ANSI ratings in lumens, and we tested out the brighter of the two. The PLED-W800’s mere 800 lumens looks dim on paper, in comparison with the typical 2,000+ lumens claimed by comparable “hot lamp” projectors. But LED illumination seems to work from a different rule-book, and in practice delivers a very much brighter screen than its specs suggest....