Mail merge is a very powerful feature that allows you to produce individual letters, emails, envelopes and address labels without having to type out the details one letter at a time.

IPv6 should solve the problems with overcrowding on the Internet. Tim Dean delves into the guts of the next generation protocol.

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.

Another facet of life is undergoing a similar change - dating. People have been meeting and falling in love via the internet since before the web was invented.

Supercomputers crunch data that could hold the secret of life, the weather and the effect of nuclear war. David Tebbutt investigates.

We open up Serious Samurize and show you how to create a desktop object that displays free hard drive space.

1960 Hypertext Conventional wisdom has it that the Internet started off as an American defence and educational network, then Tim Berners-Lee came along and invented the World

Are we being watched? Tim Dean thinks privacy advocacy groups have blown the issue out of proportion.

I'm currently in the market for a new car. My 1977 Datsun 260Z, the current much-loved but abusive incumbent, has quite simply gone on the fritz one too many times (or ten too many if you listen to my friends and family). By the repair bill from the last few years, you'd be forgiven for thinking I owned a Collins class submarine.

Cohen is in his early 70s and looks every bit the successful artist - grey hair pulled back into a short ponytail, sweatshirt and chinos. Only the voice is a surprise - halfway between cockney and Cal

Barry Collins takes a nostalgic look at the biggest mistakes in the recent history of the computing industry.

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.

How can you make OEM products work for you? Ty Pendlebury looks at how these three letters can help save you money.

One of the best places to find out about telecommuting is the Web itself. Here are five sites, plus brief descriptions, to get you started on your telecommuting career: 1. Miningco

It's always a bonus to uncover a shortcut or program enhancement, and here we bring you 100 tips and tricks that we hope will make your computing experience quicker, simpler or more rewarding.

The Internet, and to a degree wireless networking developments, are an attractive source of inspiration for NASA engineers. After all, with budget constraints on everyones minds, if lessons can be lea

With the free products on our new cover DVD, you need never buy software again. So why do we still keep paying?

We test the big three OSes on level ground - Boot Camp.

An old PC is like putty in your hands. Tim Dean looks at how you can shape it into a new system with a few easy upgrades.