We gaze into a crystal ball and and ponder the future, or possible demise, of some well-known technologies.

Defragment your hard drives

On-the-fly encryption tool

Test and examine your new PC

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

Give your PC a performance boost

Zip drives were once the top choice for storage, well before DVDs and USB sticks gained in popularity. But whatever happened to this once mega-popular format and what sealed its demise?

Jam-packed with features, but it struggles to compete with the best.

The Thecus N5500 NAS is a pricey option for your storage needs, but its loaded with useful features and delivers decent performance.

Portable system cleansing & optimisation tool

System cleansing & optimisation tool

Red Hat has released the latest version of its Fedora open source operating system and has added new video, virtualisation and networking support..

Recover lost & deleted files

Portable cross-network instant messenger

Basic & free disc burning suite

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

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

Optimise, tweak & defrag your system

Cleanse & optimise your PC

The cheapest way to get OS X, but it has all of the MacBook Pro’s shortcomings and more of its own