My 10yr old daughter has been hassling me for an IM account of some form. She even asked her elder brother to intervene on her behalf. His reply was “forget it, dad will find out and anyway you won’t...

Tired of crappy software? So goes the opening line of alternativeTo.net‘s website. Their mission is to help us unhappy users find the right bit of software for our computers and smartphones. And...

I’m a tool fan. Or is that fanatic? I’m almost as bad with tools as I am with books and the easy answer is do not leave me alone in a book or tool shop. I’m bound to buy something. However...

If you’re running Windows then it’s inevitable that your PC will slow down sooner or later. A lot of times the slow down is just user perception – what is possibly still taking the same...

Who knows the name Heath_Robinson? Or more precisely what it refers to when linked to a project or a request for something to be done? Well the other day I certainly undertook a Heath Robinson setup –...

Unless you hide beneath a rock then you probably know by now that Microsoft has released service pack 1 for Windows 7. But that doesn’t mean you should or even have to install it. In fact I’d...