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Real Time Virus Alert World Map
Propellerhead has just found something scary on the F-Secure website. The World Map of Viruses. It's just like a weather map but instead of fronts and anticyclones it shows waves of nasties like Netsky32 and Trojan Downloaders sweeping across…
Automatic Backup Utility for Word
Contrary to popular belief Microsoft Word doesn’t have an automatic backup facility, features like Save Auto Recovery info (Tools > Options) merely save your document as a temporary file, which may get you out of trouble if Word or…
Flash Drive Peril – Protect your PC
We're all using USB flash drives these days, and very useful they are too, for transferring data from one PC to another. But the next time you plug your drive into someone else's PC just ask yourself, am I…
Win £500 for writing about football – cool eh?
Ok, so there might be a lot of World Cup competitions around, but this is the coolest by far. How would you like to write for Who ate all the Bratwurst? as well as be the first footy blogger…
Review: Koss Porta Pro
There aren't many portable (aka folding) headphones filling the gap between compact, often uncomfortable earphones and more cumbersome fixed headphones. Koss Porta Pros have been around for some twenty years now and haven't been subjected to much change in…
GEAR4 LeatherJacket review
There are tons of iPod accessories out there but GEAR4, formerly known as PodGear, has been making them as long as any company we can think of. If you fancy giving your iPod video or nano a smart leather…
Review: QTek 9000
Being fancy business types who want to read and reply to e-mails while balancing a latte and croissant on our laps, and making/receiving important voice calls all at the same time, the thought of owning an all-singing, all-dancing smart phone…
Seeing More Of Your Word Documents
When working on long or complex documents in Word the jumble of toolbars, menu and status bars can be a real distraction, as well as taking up valuable screen space. Word has a facility to make them all vanish…
First in depth Sky HD box and channelreviews
The lucky blighters at HDTVUK got their Sky HD box today (here's the friendly installer), and instead of sweating away at work like the erest of us they are sitting at home watching high def versions of Star Wars,…
BSOD Heart-Stopper — Relax, It's Only A Screensaver…
The BSOD, in case you didn't know is the Blue Screen of Death, which pops up on Windows PC following a crash or serious problem with the operating system. They used to be a depressingly regular feature on older…
