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Article | 13/10/2011 Guide: How to upgrade your iOS device to iOS 5
iOS 5 has hit the stage, and eager users everywhere are getting ready to upgrade their devices. If you're concerned about the upgrade process, or simp...
Article | 29/09/2011 Guide: How to sync your PC, smartphone, and tablet
A few years ago businesspeople carried a laptop on the road, used a desktop PC in the office, and worked on another PC at home. Maybe they had a Black...
Article | 21/09/2011 Patent madness! A timeline of the Android patent wars
History may look at Android as the tech industry's Helen of Troy: The OS that launched a thousand suits.
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 | 25/07/2011 Why IT won't like Mac OS X Lion Server
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server adds innovative features and a new low price tag, but cuts in services and the elimination of advanced GUI administration to...
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 | 21/06/2011 How to take a great Facebook profile picture
Recently, I saw something online that struck me as a little funny: Someone was advertising a service to take portraits for Facebook profile photos. Wh...
Article | 8/06/2011 iOS 5: What you need to know
When Apple senior vice president Scott Forstall took the wraps off iOS 5 at Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, he focused on ten of wha...
Article | 30/03/2011 5 features iOS needs, in order to sway me from Android
With Apple preparing to talk about the future of iOS at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and the rumor mill churning, it's time for an old...
Article | 18/03/2011 Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone
The past year has been a remarkable one for smartphones, with the meteoric rise of Google's Android OS, the restart of Microsoft's mobile strategy wit...