For at least 6 months my mantra has been, “Gotta get a Mac, gotta get a Mac, gotta get a Mac”. Whenever I visit the Apple store at Oxford Circus, I am always impressed by the speed at which the Mac can work. My old XP computer seems more that a little...

Imagine if all the items on eBay were being given away completely free. Sounds too good to be true? Well you can stop dreaming because this is actually a reality. The only catch is that you normally have to go and collect the item, but apart from that it ...

These days lots of people are earning money online with their PCs. Depending on how much time you want to spend and how much cash you want to make, there is likely to be a technique suited to you.To make a little extra pocket money, why not fi...

In London we have one of a handful of Apple stores that are dotted around the world. One of the most amazing products in the store is the massive flat panel monitors on display. These are 30 inch monitors and although they are incredibly pricey but I woul...

I’ve just been helping a friend with his new printer. It was worth £80 but he got it for just £40 because it there were some items missing. It was an ex-demonstration product and the shop had lost the box, cables, CDs, and manuals.It was a...

Digital photography is really a two step process. Step one is taking the photograph itself, and that this you need to have a good understanding of the manual settings of your digital camera. The second step of the process is the postproduction phase. Usin...

As consumers become increasingly more environmentally aware, PC manufacturers are starting to respond with more a conscientious attitude towards the issue of global warming. The next PC you buy may be one of a new breed; lean green eco-machines are set to...

If you have enough people in your household, or if you can afford it, you should try buying your shopping online. Although there are some disadvantages of buying from the web, I would say they are outweighed by the advantages.Most reluctant sh...

Although no one has specifically said this to me, I think there is a common misconception with digital photography. It seems like people treat new digital photography technologies as if they were magic – expecting much better results from traditional ca...

When friends of mine are about to buy a computer they often ask which brand is best. In my opinion you shouldn’t really shop by brand, but by individual product. The reason I say this is because if you read computer magazines, no brand receives consiste...

Whether you require extra storage space or your old hard drive is on its last legs, installing a hard drive is a skill that everyone could do with.Adding extra storage space can be done with either an external or internal drive. The internal d...

The few months ago my girlfriend called me from work. The previous day she had been working on a document, but it was missing from where she thought she had saved it. Her first reaction was to call the IT department, who were about as useful as a chocolat...

I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day about the ending of analogue TV broadcasting. Over the next couple of years each region in the UK will start to switch off its analogue transmissions permanently. Televisions bought in recent years will hav...

I just bought a new Samsung DVD burner – an optical drive that is completely lead free. As far as I know, lead is used in as the soldering material when manufacturing printed circuit boards. There are so many poisonous substances in consumer electronics...

“A stitch in time saves nine”. This is a common quote that says that if you take a precautionary measure today you will reap the rewards from it in the future. Although this phrase was coined many years ago (probably hundreds of years but I’m not su...