Disguise your email address to stop spam Sending an email is one of the first digital skills most of us learn, but protecting your email address from junk messages requires expert know-how. In the past, the easiest option was to use a disposable email service, but this made it difficult to retrieve messages containing important information and to reply to emails. A much … Read more
Endless OS 5.0.1 Nate Drake has hours of endless fun with the colourful and simple-to-use Endless OS without once needing to go online. Read our Endless OS 5.0.1 Review. IN BRIEF Endless is the perfect OS for offline environments, coming with a colossal range of built-in programs, games and educational materials. Still, it’s let down … Read more
I’m currently sorting out my accounts and want to print hard copies of all my invoices and receipts from the last year. Some of these are in PDF format, while others are Word documents. Is there any software that can print the contents of my accounts folder in one go, so I don’t need to … Read more
Nate Drake climbs on his soap box and explains why Brave is the last word in private browsing. Read our Brave Browser 1.48.171 Review. IN BRIEF Brave is the last word in privacy, with a built-in ad-blocker, antitracking and support for Tor. It’s simple to use, though new users may struggle with how to earn rewards. SPECS CPU: Pentium 4 class SSE2 Mem: 1GB HDD: 400MB OS: … Read more
Last year, my son bought me a Netflix subscription for Christmas. I have a problem hearing and so rely on subtitles. While Netflix provides subtitles for its content, I find them too small to see clearly. Luckily, it’s easy to make them bigger. Log into your Netflix account (www.netflix.com), click your account dropdown menu at the … Read more
We all know about browsers such as IE, Firefox, and Chrome, but there are many more, and some are well worth a look The internet browser is an essential application. Everyone with a PC needs one if they plan to go online, and a minuscule amount of PC users go without one. Therefore, the humble … Read more
David Crookes looks at how you can identify system resource hogs and what can you do about them Can I Remove Windows Services? The short answer? Of course. There is a handy list at 7tutorials.com that shows you what you can disable without destroying the way you use your computer. They include Fax, the Print … Read more
Downloading free software can be a minefield. If you don’t know which boxes to untick, your PC could end up riddled with junk. Here, Jane Hoskyn reveals how to install the best programs safely You’ll already know your pups from your PUPs (one is a cute young canine, the other is a trouble making program … Read more
Going all-AMD definitely has its advantages. Read our Alienware M17 R5 Review. Ryzen 6900HX meets Radeon RX 6850M XT. we’re now at a place where it’s truly a competition in the laptop space. Instead of Intel and Nvidia ruling the gaming scene, AMD is making some serious noise and OEMs are starting to dance to … Read more
Is it as good as it looks on paper? Read our ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16 2023 Review. It’s a good machine, but not easy to justify for the price. it’s crazy how a GPU as powerful as the RTX 4090 can be condensed to fit within a laptop, let alone alongside the rest of the … Read more
Prevent a rainy day disaster by using Cloud services for backup These days it seems that all the online services are offering online storage space. Recently, prices have been dropping across the board with Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft and others slashing prices to encourage users to move services to them. Dropbox, one of the first … Read more
Enhance the quality of your video calls During the Covid lockdowns, millions of us discovered the benefits of making video calls on our PCs. Software such as Zoom, Skype and Google Meet lets you have free face-to-face chats with friends and family anywhere in the world, so you can stay in touch when you can’t meet in person, and make group … Read more