The Internet is booming again, but this time it’s very different. PC Authority brings you up to speed with the global Web 2.0 phenomenon.

Your photos, music and data are just a virus or hard disk failure away from oblivion. Build a triple-layer defence using PC Authority's practical guide.

To help you find the best plan for your needs, we've split up users into the following common profiles and provided recommended plans for each. Note that many ISPs have more plans than we could list in the table. We chose to only include the plans from each ISP that were the most competitive compared to the rest of the industry. This means there might be a more suitable plan for you that we didn't list, so be sure to check out the complete range of plans from an ISP if you don't find a good fit.

We've searched every corner of the web for the most useful (and useless) sites you've never seen. Download free movies and music, find the cheapest shopping sites, get a degree, make money, walk on Mars and much more.

Love or hate them, the Netbook is here to stay in 2009. We take a look at five new models: some are contenders and others are likely to be quickly forgotten.

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The first place to start tweaking is your BIOS. Enter your BIOS by hitting a key combination on system boot (look out for F1, Del etc). A word of warning though, the BIOS is a very powerful tool, but can cause damage if pushed the wrong way.

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Want to perform an extreme makeover of your system's motherboard, processor, memory or hard disk? We'll show you how.

Krome is busy putting finishing touches on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. We spoke to them about the game, Krome's new Merkury3 engine and more.

When the head of Australias stock exchange urges investors to look before they leap, it is wise to take notice. In this case, ASX Managing Director, Mr Richard Humphry is calling investors to listen b

LCD monitors look pretty slick, and beat most of the competition on looks alone.

The Web Powers attempt to look futuristic, with its silver and pastel-blue colour scheme doesnt quite pay off, and it ends up looking a little tacky and cheap instead.

There are plenty of GST accounting packages to choose from, but which is right for your business? Clem Roberts takes a look at four of the best. The new tax system will mean huge changes

Occasionally glitchy with some sources, this works well enough with most. The lack of HDMI's a pain, but as a bargain solution to a problem that afflicts most gadget fiends, it isn't bad...

While PDAs began their life as the same kind of techno-curiosities that mobile phones once were, their popularity is now rocketing. In researching this Labs it struck us that nothing cou

If you want something done properly, do it yourself. Gareth Ogden and Valens Quinn don their overalls to make a DIY dream machine. Here at PC Authority were constantly testing the

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It’s lovely to look at, with a full size keyboard and glorious screen. See why the Benq Joybook Lite U121 is one of the best rated in our latest netbook roundup

Lets first look at the implications on connectivity: at present, the Internet is defined, for most users, by the needs and demands of the World Wide Web. This is the space they see and work with on a