Things that make you go aaaargh, including Vista, Bluetooth and other things that may or may not make you mad

We list the world’s 10 most annoying viral marketing campaigns; the one’s that had you wondering ‘WHAT THE!?' from the moment they popped up in your inbox or clicked on them in YouTube.

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..

Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..

Every expert has a toolkit. Tim Dean takes you through the 10 tools any Windows expert cannot live without. So, to give you a head start, here are PC Authority's top 10 tools for the ultimate Windows user.

There are any number of reasons why you could be delayed by traffic congestion and up until now, there’s been little motorists could do about it. We've road-tested a traffic-equipped GPS for a week to see if it can help.

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One of the really annoying things about PCs is the sheer amount of desk space they occupy. This concern led to motherboard manufacturer, Shuttle, creating the product line called XPC.

Foxtel's iQ2 problems are hopefully now a thing of the past, if today's announcement proclaiming a program-by-program recording option is anything to go by. Judge for yourself.

There's one thing that's immediately noticeable and annoying about the otherwise superb Xphone II: it's incredibly slow to turn on and boot up. We clocked about 72 seconds from pressing the power button to connecting to our service, with about a minute of that taken up by just booting the phone's OS.

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David Moss tackles Vista queries, as well as dealing with floating bars and annoying pop-up reminders.

One of the most striking things about Pioneer’s entry this month is the cosmetics: it’s 24hr karaoke bar meets street-racing BMW. And lots of blue LEDs! And these LED’s can get a little annoying – especially the super bright “headlight” LED’s. They shine directly ahead, and at desk height they beam straight into your eyes. There is also a large, illuminated ‘Xfinity’ etched into the front door of the case. Suffice to say this case won’t be to everyone’s taste. But otherwise, the rest of the externals are OK – the top mount houses two of the six total USB ports beneath a tidy flap, and a large power button with a good action.

Blogging has been a growing online phenomenon for the past few years. Some blogs are funny, some profound and moving, others annoying and petulant: but all blogs are personal outpourings. Many blog authors are people who never considered themselves writers or journalists, yet there's a vast range and amount of high-quality blog content on the internet.

At just on $4,400, the 500A cannot really be considered a consumer DV camera, however, it is no doubt a camera a lot of consumers would like to own. However, the price and some annoying little problems stopped this camera from being the Labs Winner this month.

Every industry has its share of villains, and the computing world is no different.

National Geographic is a magazine that garners respect whenever, and wherever it is read. Covering a gamut of topics, the magazine typically runs nature conservational pieces, sociological profiles of countries, histories of ancient civilizations, pieces on scientific discoveries and natural occurrences such as earthquakes and weather phenomena.