High In The Sky-Greater London

It claims to come with photographs from "over half a million miles across the UK." While exhaustively trawling through this footage might not be for everyone, the views will surely be appreciated for the aerial panoramas it gives of places that people know well.

The CD-ROM comes with a zoom function that allows the user to focus closely on specific points--you may even be able to pick out your own house on some of the more detailed footage. The software also allows you to measure the distance between two points on a photograph, so that you will be able to discern how long a particular walk or cycle ride may be (rather than exaggerating to make yourself feel fitter).

These features illustrate how the designers have cannily targeted the package as a natty gift item, which will surely be appreciated by many people who hitherto have been "difficult" to buy presents for. There is no longer any need to pick up the first paperback that comes to hand. Although the notion of looking at wide-open spaces through a computer screen, rather than getting out into them, may seem somewhat postmodern, this is definitely an entertaining package which will interest many people. --Toby Green

If you're hoping to look for something particular, good luck. To begin with, you are presented with a ridiculously zoomed-out view, and are left to guess where to start 'zooming-in', which doesn't help.

Later-on, once you get beyond a certain (fairly pathetic) level of detail, attempting to zoom in only stretches part of the overall image - reducing the quality, meaning you cannot see anything!

Furthermore, there is no easy way of moving the image - the only obvious way of moving is to use the scroll-bars, which move the picture in 'jumps'. This means you can only move it vertically and horizontally, and it is easy to lose where you are!

One would at least expect a POSTCODE search facility, especially when you are paying that amount of money, but you don't get anything of the sort.

All in all, this profoundly feature-less program is a waste of hard-drive space, and a waste of time. I wouldn't buy it for 99p - you may as well look on the Internet at some of the (better quality!!!) images you can search for FREE by postcode!