Acer XG270HU

Acer's 27in FreeSync display is sure to impress the moment it lands on your desk. Its striking bright black and red frame makes it stand out, and the almost impossibly slim bezel, measuring no more than a few millimetres across, goes some way towards shrinking the space between screens in multiple-display setups.

Make Dropbox even better

Dropbox may be great at keeping all your files up to date, but add-ons make it capable of so much more, as Clive Webster explains

With so many people using Dropbox, it’s no wonder that developers have created their own applications to use the service in different ways and to extend its capabilities. This month we’ve rounded up the best Dropbox apps and services, so that you can get more from your account.

Jenny LeClue

A very young inspector calls for a mysterious adventure

Remember poring over those choose-your-own-adventure books, before videogames turned your brain to pixels? Well this visualy striking episodic adventure is here to remind you exactly how all those nail-biting decisions felt.

Jenny LeClue is a young detective on a quest to prove her mother 's innocence in a murder investigation, in the seemingly idyllic town of Arthurton Dark already, isn't it? Every decision you make counts, and to make things even more meta, Jenny has a narrator called Arthur К Finklestein, who lets you write and alter the story as you go.

OS explained

What does your operating system really do? Mike Bedford explains all in this in-depth guide to the brains behind your PC

The launch of a new version of Windows is always a major event in the world of PCs. The introduction of Windows 10 this year means the operating system is, once again, vying for our attention. Although it’s the most visible element of a computer, in some ways the operating system is the least well understood. It’s easy to view it simply as the means through which we interact with a PC -mainly to start and stop applications - but it’s actually much more than that. To give this unsung hero the respect it deserves, therefore, we’re going to consider what an operating system really is and what it does, much of it behind the scenes.

ADOBE Photoshop Lightroom 6

ADOBE Lightroom has been our favourite photo editor ever since we first clapped eyes on version 1. Adobe already had Raw processing in the bag with its Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) engine for Photoshop, and Lightroom packaged it with elegant library management, printing and sharing facilities.

Version 6 brings relatively modest changes to the image-editing tools. It’s now possible to modify the shape of a linear or radial graduated filter using brush strokes, which is ideal for darkening skies without inadvertently also darkening the tallest trees in a scene.