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Website creation made simple

Once upon a time, learning some basic HTML and CSS commands was enough to put together a competent web page. But things have got more complicated, not least because people use a wider variety of computers and mobile devices to browse the web. So these days the best options are either to use an online service that does most of the work for you, such as Weebly, WordPress.com or (if you don’t mind paying a subscription) Squarespace. Alternatively, get yourself a web-design program like Xara Web Designer.

GoPro Hero4 Session

A smaller action camera

Cramming most of the essential parts of an action camera into half the size is quite an achievement. The point of these devices, after all, is to be as small and light as possible, to clip on to your equipment while you run, ride, sail or surf. In fact, GoPro were so pleased with themselves, they decided to charge the same price for the Hero4 Session as they do a full-size Hero4 camera (around £330).

Philips Izzy BM5

A cheap multi-room speaker

Multi-room audio, where speakers around your house link up electronically so you can control what plays where, has traditionally been the preserve of expensive systems from brands like Sonos and Bose. More recently, though, cheaper options have emerged, such as the Gramofon, which lets you stream music to your existing sound system. Philips’ Izzy BM5 has the speaker built in. You can use it as a standalone wireless speaker, or use up to five units in tandem.

CaptionBot

Want captions for your photos? Microsoft’s new tool can help

What is it?

Microsoft’s new photo-recognition website that ‘reads’ images then provides suitable captions describing the scene. You upload a photo at www.captionbot.ai, wait for Microsoft to analyse it, then mark the resulting caption out of five for accuracy. It’s the company’s latest attempt of many to demonstrate how its artificial-intelligence (AI) software can understand the content of a photo without human help.

Samsung Galaxy TabPro S

The first Galaxy Tab with Windows 10

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Samsung must be Apple’s biggest fan. It already makes the closest rivals to the iPad Mini and iPad Air, so it’s only natural that it would come up with an alternative to the 12.9in iPad Pro. And here it is.

Although its rear panel is plastic rather than aluminium, the TabPro S looks very much like an iPad, even down to the design of small features like the speaker grille. Yet it’s really more of a rival to Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4, a 12.3in tablet with a clip-on keyboard. Both run Windows 10, so you can install exactly the same apps as you would on a laptop. The iPad Pro, by contrast, is based on iOS, like iPhones, so it can’t run the same apps as a MacBook.