Stuart Turton spends the fourth day of his one week odyssey with Linux, hailing the ease of GIMP, before a graphics card meltdown destroys his desktop and forces him to rethink his next move.

Not only can you stream movies from your PC to your big screen TV, but you can turn an Xbox into a media centre, and tap into online video on demand, all from the comfort of your lounge

Backup & restore your important files

Protect your system from spyware

Portable & quick PDF reader

Free Vista-compatible anti-virus client

Burn data & audio discs with ease

Synchronise documents between different locations

Quickly backup or restore your entire drive

Pro-actively protect your system from attack

Check whether your PC can host Windows 7

A solid draft-n router with NAS and media-streaming features – though it’s a little on the slow side.

The best Canon home all-in-one yet, with flawless quality and an impressive feature list.

Nokia has outed the 6700 slide and 7230, two colourful sliders aimed at social networkers on a budget

Give your PC a boost with this system optimisation tool

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has put together a supercomputer that's based around a cluster of graphics processing units (GPUs)

Take a trip to the shops today and you'll see two main types of flat panel televisions on the shelves - plasma and LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). But will 2010 be the year OLED televisions storm our lounge rooms?

If you're shopping for a flat screen TV, be prepared to be wowed by wafer-thin LCD televisions. But while they certainly make a fashion statement, such dramatic weight loss can come at the expense of picture quality

An explosion in high-def Personal Video Recorders with VoD services, like the TiVo and Telstra's T-Box, is making it harder and harder to justify paying for Foxtel each month

The strange, the antique and the downright geeky – we chronicle the 10 best (and worst) vintage tech advertisements of all time