One year after launch and it's still tough to get hold of a Nintendo Wii games console. Now in the run up to Christmas the Asus Eee PC is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain with most retailers running out of both the black and white versions. Asus says...
Tuesday December 18, 2007
Eees as Rare as Wiis!
One year after launch and it's still tough to get hold of a Nintendo Wii games console. Now in the run up to Christmas the Asus Eee PC is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain with most retailers running out of both the black and white versions. Asus says...
Vista SP1 - our verdict
Much has been said about SP1 being a bit of a non-starter compared to XP's Service Pack 2, but on first impressions Vista is finally a faster OS. After a few hours of playing with the Release Candidate I was impressed by the improvements in file copying speeds...
SP1 finally reaches Windows Updates
Just after Vista's first birthday Service Pack 1 has arrived - and here's the proof from one of PCAnswers' machines this morning. The first thing we've noticed which came as a bit of a shock was that a warning window tells us the installation may take an hour...
Monday December 17, 2007
Win total protection for your PC
As New Year approaches you're likely to need to new security software to help you keep your PC in good shape for 2008. As much as we'd like to think 2008 will the year that spyware and viruses come to an end the reality is that the Internet will once again...
Wednesday December 12, 2007
Do more this Christmas
Get your hands on PCAnswers' first ever Christmas-themed issue. Why have we gone all festive? Well, the holiday period is a great time do all those things you've been putting on the backburner, and your PC can be at the centre. That's why we've got 30 all-new...
Can you rely on Web apps?
The desktop is dead. At least that's what the giant Web corporations would have us believe. The future of our applications is online, but the recent outage I experienced with Google Docs shows exactly what's wrong with putting all your trust in the Internet....
Monday November 19, 2007
BT Digital Vault winner
The winner of our BT Digital Vault competition is Matthew Mella. He will receive a one year subscription to a BT Digital Vault Plus account, which provides 20GB of online storage. Congratulations!
Thursday November 15, 2007
Switch on to Internet TV
Why shell out on a new Freeview box or Sky TV when you can get thousands of channels, many for free, right through your PC? This month in PCAnswers we're looking at Web TV and what it can do for. Follow our in-depth guide to all the latest services and learn...
Win a copy of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
We've teamed up with Corel software to offer the brand new Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 to five lucky readers and for one really lucky reader there's a copy of Painter X, worth £250!
Corel's Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is rated at 95 per cent in the latest issue...
Tuesday November 13, 2007
Vote for your favourite gear of 2007!
Wishlist 2007 is a brand new annual awards event from the team behind Windows Vista: The Official Magazine, and by taking part, you could win a fantastic prize. Prizes include digital photo frames, MP3 players and more.
As we look back on the first year of...
Thursday October 18, 2007
Get a better network today!
Networks are what make home PCs great, the ability to share files between machines and even connect wirelessly around the home. But getting networks to behave can be tricky - until now that is. This month PCAnswers looks at the most common network woes and how...
Monday October 15, 2007
Win a sat-nav!
Sat-nav units are everywhere, but they're not all made equal. In issue 176 of PCAnswers we reviewed the latest offering from Route 66, the Chicago 6000, and we found it one of the best overall devices around. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Route 66 to offer...
Thursday October 11, 2007
Is it illegal to listen to the radio at work?
Yes, it is. That's according to an organisation called the Performing Rights Society which is suing Kwik-Fit because customers can overhear car mechanics listening to their radios. This apparently constitutes a public performance, Kwik-Fit don’t have the...
Thursday October 04, 2007
Why my new laptop is a Macbook
As well as several PCs, I also have a laptop, and although it's about five years old, it's served me well. It's thin, light and copes with pretty much everything I've throw at it, other than PhotoShop. However, for a long time the DVD drive has been playing...
Wednesday October 03, 2007
WUSB 1.1 rings death knell for Bluetooth
This week at a launch in Amsterdam, Wireless USB (WUSB) 1.1 was announced which is being seen as the first WUSB to kickstart a flurry of high data rate wireless USB devices. Devices with 1.1 certification have yet to see the light of day and we were only able...
