Guides
How to upgrade your TV to the digital age
Adam Turner With the digital switch-over looming, it's time to learn how to upgrade your television viewing to the digital age.
How to keep family videos private
Imaging Not everything you film need be shared online with the entire world.
Where do I click, again? A guide to Windows 8
PETER SVENSSON With the launch of Windows 8, people are about to discover a computing experience unlike anything they've seen before. Here's a guide to getting past some of the hurdles.
How to avoid a Facebook faux pas
Katie Cincotta The unique conditions created by Web 2.0 have prompted the need for an etiquette reboot, writes Katie Cincotta.
Making mics really sing
Jane Rocca Mastering the skill of capturing sound requires gentle precision, writes Jane Rocca.
Stuck in a bad mode
Terry Lane You know those scene mode settings on your digital camera? Do you ever use them? The portrait mode is supposed to give better separation between face and background.
Q and A
Nicole Manktelow I've lost the iTunes icon from the icon bar on my MacBook. How do I get it back?
A clear reception for digital TV
Adam Turner The untold downside of upgrading to digital television is that a less-than-perfect signal can leave you with no picture at all.
Black and white photo magic
Terry Lane There are photographers around who still think the black and white image is the real deal while the colour picture is eye candy.
Macman: taking shortcuts
Garry Barker Some use technology to save themselves time, effort and perhaps nasty outbreaks of RSI. For them, it is all about shortcuts.
Q and A
Nicole Manktelow Every time I plug my iPhone into my Macbook, it opens iPhoto as well as iTunes. I don't mind iTunes opening but how do I stop iPhoto?
Q and A
Nicole Manktelow I have just moved house and want to change my wireless internet for a fast broadband connection. It seems I need to have the phone on to get ADSL.
Macman: cloud cover
Garry Barker On almost every cybercorner of the web these days, you are likely to find someone talking about cloud computing.
Let the internet come to you
George Skarbek I suggest that any reader who visits some sites on a regular basis should click on the orange RSS symbol and experiment with RSS.
Recharge purchase didn't go to plan
Nick Galvin It's often the little things that rankle when it comes to dealing with businesses such as mobile phone companies or internet service providers.
Q and A
Nicole Manktelow Help! My computer is talking to me. I must have pressed some key combination and I can't turn it off. The grating computer “voice” states every move I make.
Macman: fingers the best cursor control
Garry Barker A little button on the tab-bar of Firefox's latest browser, version 3.5, has kindled a new flame in the hoary debate on whether it is quicker to use keyboard shortcuts rather than a mouse.
Beginners' guide to WiFi
Claire McEntee Wi-Fi allows computer users to surf the internet free of wires. It uses radio waves to transmit data and a wireless adapter on a computer translates data into a radio signal and transmits it via an...
An Apple a day
Garry Barker There is one school in Melbourne, Coburg Senior High School, where computers — in this case, all of them are Macs — are integral to an educational project that is rare in the world, maybe even unique.
Spelling it out for you
George Skarbek Automatic spell checking in word-processing programs is now accepted as an essential part of accurate writing and most users appreciate it picking up typing errors, duplicated words, incorrect...
