If you use Microsoft Word the built-in spellchecker is your best friend, automatically highlighting miss-spelt words and helpfully suggesting alternatives. One of its most useful facilities is to add words it doesn't know to the Custom Dictionary, but here's the rub. If you are in a hurry it's very easy to add miss-spelled words to the Dictionary and thereafter Word will always ignore your mistake. So how do you correct the Dictionary? It's simple, as today's top tip from Propellerhead demonstrates; just go to Options on the Tools menu and select the Spelling and Grammar tab. Click the Dictionaries button and your Custom Dictionary -- and any others you might have installed -- appears in the box. Highlight the entry and click Edit and a list of all the words you've added appears. You can now edit the list like a Word document and when you've finished Save it as normal. Don't forget there are hundreds more great tips on the BootLog website at www.rickmaybury.com

Three months down the line from the launch of the 15-inch MacBook Pro comes the 17-inch MacBook Pro - effectively the Intel-powered MacBook slightly enlarged in both screen size and features.

The new 17-inch MacBook Pro includes a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, running up to five times faster than the 17-inch PowerBook G4 and with an all new system architecture including a 667 MHz front-side bus that is four times as fast as the old Powerbook and 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory expandable to 2GB. There's also a 120GB hard drive, a bigger and 36 per cent brighter display and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 PCI Express graphics with 256MB of dedicated GDDR3 graphics memory.

I love Bayraider. While I spend my time looking for things I genuinely want to buy, they're out trawling the darker side of eBay - the weird, wonderful and just plain odd auctions that go to show what a crazy, mixed-up world we live in.

Take these beauties - a set of four wall-plaques with sculptures of the faces of Kiss - Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley and Peter Criss if you want the names. Would you have them gazing down from the living room wall?

If they do actually tickle your fancy, the bidding starts at $800 - certificate of insanity authenticity included. Find out more on these and loads more quirky auctions at Bayraider.

The budget DAB market already seems over subscribed, but that doesn't stop new models appearing on an almost weekly basis. Intempo is the latest comapny to bring new sets to market with an expansion of their KT series of radios.

The Intempo KT DAB radio is fairly basic in specification - it's a dual band DAB (digital and FM) with eight presets, mfour for each band. There's also an alarm with sleep and snooze, plus the LCD screen for that all-important station and track information. No pause and record functions sadly.

Another PC/home entertainment unit for the living room has been launched, this time by Evesham, with the e-box3. It combines PC, TV, DVD and Hi-fi capabilities in one box, powered by Windows Media Center Edition.

Running from an Athlon 64 processor with Hyper Transport technology (up to 4800+X2), Evesham claims the e-box3 is both "ultra quiet" and compact at just 430 x 288 x98mm. It's got full PVR functionality and comes with either a single hybrid (digital/analogue) TV tuner, or twin tuners, so you can record one TV channel while watching another or record two TV channels while watching a previously recorded programme.

Thinking about entering the world of HDTV? If you've not bought the TV yet (or are thinking of upgrading), new Sky HD customers will soon be eligible for £100 cash back on Sony Bravia TVs. 

To be eligible for the cashback offer (which starts on Wednesday 26th April), you need to purchase a Sky HD box and subscribe to Sky HD before the 10th of July and purchase their Sony Bravia TV (26-inch or above and excluding U-series TVs) between the 26th April and 10th of July. 

As a football fan, I just can't wait to spend every waking hour glued to the TV watching this year's World Cup (check here for the coolest World Cup blog) not to mention all the news, analysis and general gossip. My only problem is breaking out of "World Cup mode" and fitting some work in. If this Toshiba Dynabook TX FIFA Version notebook comes to the UK, it should solve my dilemma.

Definitely the smartest bit of World Cup memorabilia I've seen so far, just check out the looks - the gold casing features all the dates and countries hosting the event, along with the winners, not to mention a nice engraved World Cup itself.

These days we treat our cars like mobile homes. We've had the music player, the hands-free phone, the TV - now there's the first coffee machine.

The WMF espresso machine features in Audi's latest concept car (the Roadjet) and sits neatly in the central arm rest between the passenger. WMF claim their machine is "fully functional" and "provides fresh coffee at the touch of a button". Now presuming you'll have to top this up before you set off on a journey, I would be very worried about a spillage occuring during a traffic slowdown.

With the Premiership season coming to its usual predictable end, all eyes are focused on the excitement of the World Cup - and we're still trying to work out if anyone's going to give us this feast of football on our mobile.

By far the most promising so far is 3. They're still being a bit cagey with what's on offer, but recent noises from the 3 camp indicate we might - just might - get the goals to our handsets.

Gear4, formerly known as PodGear, has been making iPod accessories for as long as I care to remember and we've had the chance to play around with its diminutive speaker set - the PocketParty. The amount of sound produced by the device is quite impressive it seems, even though the actual 1 watt spec makes most of us smirk. Read the full run down at reviews and features website GadgetCentre.

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A few weeks a go Propellerhead mentioned that there was just one unwinnable game in Windows FreeCell and it generated a huge amount of interest so it seems that quite a few of you out there are addicted to this little timewaster. Those of you who indulge during office hours might be interested in this shareware variant from FreeCell.com, which can be configured to look like a spreadsheet, so the boss will think you are hard at work while you are having a crafty game. Don't forget there's plenty more top tips over on the BootLog website at www.rickmaybury.com

The words eco-friendly and iPod aren't usually found in the same sentence, but over at Hippyshopper, they've managed it with the discovery of the Jimi case for your iPod nano.

It's made from 100% recycled plastic and is available in six striking, translucent colours - there's also interchangable face plates, so you can mix and match the colours. It also comes with a belt clip and allows access to all the ports and controls.

The Jimi case is available now for around £15. To find out more about this and many other environmentally-sound products, visit Hippshopper.

I don't tend to do much running (unless I'm being chased), but a lot of people do - just check out the numbers for this weekend's London Marathon for proof. If you like a bit of music with your exercise, Sennheiser has launched a new "Sport" range of headphones.

The headphones look good and fit securely and as they're for sporty types, they're safe from the elements, sweat and extreme temperatures. The stereo earphones MX 70 Sport and MX 70 VC Sport are ideal for joggers. The faces of the earpieces are magnetic, so they can clip around the neck. There's also an extension cable, so the player to be worn at different heights, with a clip to fix the cable to the clothing. The MX 70 VC Sport also has a volume control integrated into the cable.

Back at work after Easter? Moaning that you don't get enough holidays? Well, here's something to ponder - UK industry is losing 40 days a year because of wrongly filed material on increasingly huge servers. That's around 15% of a company's total productivity lost. Fix that and the whole country could get an extra two months holiday without any loss to industry.

According to Tony Speakman of Filmaker, who carried out the survey (and coincidentally specialise in data management solutions): "It's incredible to think each worker is throwing away over 40 full working days a year just looking for documents and reformatting information. What's more amazing is that British Industry is unwittingly creating these delays through poor management of its own data and materials".

Every month we seem to get another landmark for hard drives, wheetehr that's smaller in size or bigger in capacity. For April it's looking like capacity, with Seagate believed to be on the verge of announcing a 3.5-inch 750GB desktop drive.

The drive hasn't officially been annonced yet - but it is beginning to appear on the company's marketing material.The drive runs at 7,200rpm and contains 16MB of cache memory. Seagate will offer the HDD with a choice of Ultra ATA 100, 1.5Gbps SATA or 3Gbps SATA interfaces. The Serial ATA versions both support Native Command Queuing (NCQ).

Designed with those hard of hearing in mind, the Humax PVR-8000T80 HDD recorder records digital subtitles on shows you save to the hard disk - and doesn't cost the earth.

The Humax recorder has a built-in Freeview tuner, so you can receive Freeview with digital subtitles and record programmes on the built-in hard disc drive, which offers around 40 hours of recording. Simple to use, digital subtitles are recorded in "closed format", so you can switch them on or off when replaying a recording. It also features time shift recording, so you can pause live TV. 

If looks alone could sell a digital camera, the Leica D-Lux 2 would fly off the shelves. Obviously that's not the case, but luckily for Leica, their camera has enough to compete as a piece of technology too.

Leica created the first 35mm camera - and it looks like they've gone back to their early days for this stylish and unfussy retro design. The camera itself features a 2.5-inch display with a high resolution,. which should give you a bright and sharp display when you're out and about. The D-Lux 2 is Leica's first 8.4MP digital camera, providing the option to reproduce unlimited images in the 16:9 format. It also features a wide-angle 4x zoom lens.

Well, here at Tech Digest we're nothing if not topical. We've searched around to find the best St George's themed gadget and believe this Kenwood St George's Day Café Retro espresso machine is about the most stylish one around.

Not much we can say about it, except that the 15 bar pressure ensures high quality of espresso and an adjustable steam frother froths milk easily and conveniently if you fancy a cappuccinos. There's also an integral cup warmer heats cups to perfect temperature before serving. Nice touch.

Perfect for drinking coffee while checking out our brand new World Cup blog.

Despite the outcry from some Apple devotees, it seems that the computer giant has it all to gain with the introduction of Boot Camp, if new retail analysis is to be believed. According to brand research company Millward Brown, Apple's decision to enable Apple owners to install and run Microsoft Windows operating software on Intel-based Macs, creates a huge opportunity for revenue and brand growth.

The research firm says the benefits for Intel Mac owners are the "Microsoft safety net" - enabling them to run all mainstream applications that Microsoft supports, whilst at the same time, owning a "cool" item. Apple is currently the ninth most valuable technology brand and the 29th most important global brand. Microsoft is at number one. Millward Brown believes Apple's position should rise considerably.

Effective immediately, Sony America has announced the PS2 is going from $149 to $129. No news on whether European pricing will follow.

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