Tutorials

• Article | 21/07/2011 How to install Mac OS X Lion

  For over a decade, installing the latest major version of Mac OS X meant buying a disc and slipping it into your Mac's optical drive. No longer. Mac O...
• Article | 21/07/2011 How to install Mac OS X Lion over Leopard

  One of the requirements for installing Lion is that you already have Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) version 10.6.6 or later installed. The main practica...
• Article | 21/07/2011 Should you do a 'clean install' of Lion?

  With some previous major releases of Mac OS X, upgrading over an existing OS X installation -- for example, installing 10.3 over 10.2 -- entailed some...
• Article | 5/02/2011 Prepare your PC for future data disasters

  Reformatting and restoring a PC is not fun--in the way spending 2 hours in the dentist's chair is not fun. You have to back up all your data (and pray...
• Article | 27/01/2011 Switching to desktop Linux? 6 ways to ease the migration

  With all the many compelling reasons for a company to switch to Linux on the desktop, it's no wonder that businesses large and small are increasingly ...
• Article | 5/01/2011 Overclock your smartphone, if you dare

  WARNING: Overclocking is not for the faint of heart. Do not attempt to hack your phone unless you understand and accept the risks of turning it into a...
• Article | 5/11/2010 Is your business compliant with open source licenses?

  There are many ways that vendors of proprietary products try to scare business customers away from open source software, and one of the more commonly ...
• Article | 21/09/2010 Windows 7: 10 Cool Keyboard Shortcuts

  Keyboard shortcuts are wonderful time-savers but many of us are either too accustomed to the mouse or too lazy to get beyond Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.
• Article | 28/08/2010 How to choose a desktop Linux distribution

  With all the many reasons to use Linux today -- particularly in a business setting --it's often a relatively easy decision to give Windows the boot. W...
• Article | 27/07/2010 Why Ubuntu Linux is a good business choice

  Chances are good that if someone walked into your office right now and peeked over your shoulder, they would see a Windows operating system on your co...
• Article | 21/07/2010 5 ways to use bootable Linux live discs

  In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for anyone to use and modify however they like, the operating system has be...
• Article | 12/07/2010 How to keep Windows XP SP2 safer after Microsoft stops patching

  Maybe you didn't get the memo: Tomorrow marks the end of patches for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).
• Article | 30/06/2010 Install the latest Firefox 3.6.6 in Ubuntu Linux

  Firefox 3.6.6 with crash protection is now available, and according to Mozilla it "provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when th...