admin @ January 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet
As technology has evolved with dizzying speed in recent years, one thing that’s not changed is the huge importance of RAM, or Random Access Memory, to the performance of computers.
RAM is where a computer holds information while it works with it. Data is read from the hard drive, but processors are capable of computing [...]
admin @ December 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just got a new Mac for Christmas and feeling a little bewildered?
Fear not – Switch to Mac, brought to you by our colleagues over on MacFormat magazine, shows new Mac users how to move comfortably from the familiarity of Windows.
Below are 20 common tasks that PC owners perform without thinking about, and their equivalents on [...]
admin @ December 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Transferring files from one PC to another can be troublesome. If both computers are in the same room or house then you might make do with an intermediary hard drive or device such as a blank CD or USB flash drive.
It’s fine for one-off transfers, but if you find yourself transferring files on a [...]
admin @ December 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just click your way to a custom distro?
After all, most of the packages you will need are sitting on a well-connected web server somewhere, so it makes sense to build ISO images and repositories directly on that server. And since that server has a HTTP interface, why [...]
admin @ December 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
One of the questions we get asked most is: “which TV should I buy?”
And no wonder, as well as two main types (plasma or LCD) the TV market is vastly complex and can be very confusing.
To help you here are the answers to the most common questions you need to consider – and [...]
admin @ November 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
After so many shoddy sites, pop-up windows and forced registrations, the truth is that if people don’t find your website easy to use, they won’t come back. Worse, they’ll tell their friends just how clueless you are.
The answer is, of course, to design everything around the needs of your users. We’ve known this for [...]
admin @ November 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Netbooks have exploded onto the market. And apparently it was a surprise to everyone in the computing industry that Joe Public fell in love with them. Oddly, it seemed we weren’t interested in investing the monetary equivalent of a luxury Mauritius holiday in buying a steel box of components that connects to the internet and [...]
admin @ November 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Christmas is coming and you need some gift ideas. And you have an iPod (and so do your friends). So what better thing to get them than something to go with their slice of Apple goodness? Courtesy of our friends at MacFormat, here’s the ultimate guide to iPod-related gifts.
As ever with such guides, there’s [...]
admin @ November 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The most recent official count of Linux distros put the number at ‘one hell of a lot’.This is good because it gives us plenty of choice, and choice provides freedom and freedom is good, right? Maybe it can feel as if there’s a little too much choice at times, but there’s no doubt that the [...]
admin @ November 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apple pioneered the idea of a Desktop containing files and folders with the earliest versions of the Mac OS, and the basic idea has not only remained but also been adopted by practically every other computing system.
On a computer, it’s hard to tell at a glance if a machine is chock-full of stuff. The [...]