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Article | 18/08/2011
Nine absurdly useful file management utilities
Back when Windows Vista was but a twinkle in Bill Gates's eye, Microsoft had some extremely ambitious plans to rid computer users of an outmoded conce...
Article | 21/07/2011
The 5-minute Mac OS X Lion configuration
Reader David Mitchell delves into the personal with this question about Lion. He writes:
Article | 21/07/2011
What's new in Lion: Versions, Auto Save, and Resume
Thanks to three new features in Lion -- and improvements to one older feature -- losing your data or your place may soon be a thing of the past. Versi...
Article | 21/07/2011
What's new in Lion: the user interface
Lion introduces a slew of changes to the OS X interface -- some of them entirely new, others variations on existing features. In either case, they're ...
Article | 21/07/2011
Installing Lion: a complete guide
At long last, Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) is available, and unlike previous versions of the Mac OS, getting it doesn't involve driving to the nearest Apple S...
Article | 21/07/2011
What's new in Lion: the Finder and files
While there are many new features in Lion -- like Mission Control and Launchpad -- you'll also find some old familiars: The Finder, Spotlight, Quick L...
Article | 5/07/2011
The Bootable Maintenance Flash Drive
I enjoy being the tech hero. Relatives and friends come to me with their computer problems, and more often than not, I help them. Their problem gets s...
Article | 1/02/2011
Microsoft Word alternatives: Wordsmiths, rejoice!
Microsoft Word is ubiquitous: It's the standard word processor in most places of business, and it often ends up installed on home PCs due to compatibi...
Article | 14/01/2011
Windows on verge of dropping below 90% market share
Windows is on the verge of dropping below 90% market share, with smartphones and tablets posing an increasingly serious threat to Microsoft's dominanc...
Article | 13/01/2011
Wozniak: Voice recognition is computing's next frontier
Look for more robust voice recognition to take hold in the realm of personal computing, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in a brief interview this ...
Article | 12/01/2011
For an old or slow PC, try Puppy Linux 5.2
There's no doubt Canonical's popular Ubuntu Linux distribution gets the majority of attention in the Linux world these days, but there are myriad othe...
Article | 11/01/2011
10 new open source projects to watch
One of the most exciting things about open-source software is the sheer diversity of projects that are always under way. Aiming to recognize some of t...
Article | 10/01/2011
Master hand-drawn art
Think back to the first time you wielded a pen, pencil or crayon. Drawing is one of the first ways children express themselves visually.
Article | 10/01/2011
Apply the Orton Effect for Glowing, Vibrant Photos
There are a handful of photographers whom I've admired and tried to emulate over the years. Michael Orton is one of them. His soft, glowing, almost et...
Article | 8/01/2011
Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?
Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forwar...
Article | 29/12/2010
The 20 Biggest Tech Failures of 2010
You can't appreciate the highs without looking at the lows. Here are 20 of this year's biggest failures in consumer technology
Article | 28/12/2010
20 Photoshop Tips for incredible artworks
Photoshop includes a huge number of tools, and here we expose some of its less well-known features and reveal new ways to use some familiar favourites...
Article | 25/11/2010
The Golden Gobblers: Biggest tech turkeys of 2010
For the fourth year, I'm trotting out my nominations for the biggest turkeys of tech.
Article | 11/11/2010
12 amazing productivity boosters
It's official: I can no longer think of a single person I know (unless, of course, you count my two-year-old) who doesn't have more work on their to-d...
