Bring PC-based intelligence and automation to your home with this complete guide. It's cheap and easy to now have the 'Jetsons' house.

How will you be computing in the next 12 months? PC Authority brings you 2005's big technology stories - before they happen.

The Unwired Garden of the Future at Sydney Olympic Park was an unprecedented Display Garden at Sydney’s ABC Gardening Australia Festival in August 2005. Designed by Andrew Davies (Landscape Design Director of Dig Design Ideas Gardens) and PC Authority magazine, it was built to represent any outdoor space (balcony/courtyard or a section of a backyard) where the user can leave the confines of the indoors and go outside to use the computer. 

The PC was meant to make our lives easier, but as software gets more complicated and operating systems become richer in features, it's hard to remember who's serving who.

Your wireless network is more powerful than you imagine. Use this guide to fully understand and utilise it.

Cebit is the showcase for future industry trends and technologies. Everything you need to know.

I was recently in London for a business trip, in fact while writing this article, and I came across an opportunity that was simply too good to miss. I said to myself what the hell and paid a visit to

Fictional depictions such as these are startlingly accurate, since sci-fi has paved the way for our acceptance of each generation of robots. Capeks prophecies were fulfilled when robots made their fir

When would you want to use Mobile Broadband?

These days, when I need to send someone a document, I use email. Just save it as a Word.

1918 Enigma The German Enigma is surely the best-known mechanical cipher machine. Invented in 1918, it was developed as a commercial and military encipherment system. Enigma

Will a beefed-up firewall, User Account Control and disk encryption make Vista a safer choice than XP?

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.

More functionality with less complexity. That's what convergence means. Tim Dean peers behind the hype of triple play.

What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.

Underneath all the speculation and marketing hype, the Cell processor might actually herald a revolution in computing. Tim Dean investigates.