With free video services like MSN and Skype, you’re missing out if you don’t have a webcam.

External hard disks are a great way to add storage. We test 13, from sub-$130 portable drives to mighty terabyte desktop units.

Internet everywhere, for affordable prices. Dave Stevenson investigates the claims, tests the speeds and delivers a verdict on the best plan for your mobile dollars.

Play your video, photo and music files on your TV from a networked PC. We put five network players to the test

Stuck for storage space? Upgrade to one of the latest disks and you’ll benefit from better performance too

Beware the hype when buying a digital video camera.

A PC in the lounge room too complex and cluttered? You need a media adaptor.

Evaluating barebones systems is quite different from performance-based testing using benchmarks. As such, we opted to do a feature-based roundup, covering all aspects of the hardware, including but not limited to: build quality, ease of install, and included feature sets.

Now more than ever before bulk optical storage is available to the masses with the steadily falling prices of both the drives and media. This month we look at the feasibility of ditching that CD-RW drive in favour of updating to something with a little more room to grow.

Viruses are really nasty. Even though this fact seems self-evident we thought it was worth reinforcing, especially as there are still a many people who seem either happy enough, or are blissfully awar

Not long ago both Intel and the underdog, AMD, battled to reach the coveted and psychologically significant 1GHz mark. When the AMD Athlon reached the landmark first - it marked a new era in c

Many people upgrade their PCs by adding the latest CPU or more memory, but leave their old hard disk in place. The humble hard disk is one of the slowest components inside a PC (in fact, only optical

We test 11 keyboard-based smartphones to find the best tools for staying connected on the move

Testing anti-virus software is a tricky endeavour at the best of times, due to the inherent nasty nature of the test subject. For this anti-virus roundup, we asked independent anti-virus testing lab, AV-Test.org (www.av-test.org) to conduct the testing for us in their controlled environments. AV-Test.org has access to thousands of viruses, and is a respected anti-virus testing lab.

We put every current model from ATI and NVIDIA through its paces to find out which offers the best performance and value.