From watching iView on your mobile to live Australian TV while overseas, to Freeview, Foxtel IQ2 and TiVo, Stuart Andrews and Zara Baxter perfect the menu for takeaway TV.

Climb the steps all the way to Windows guru status with our invaluable selection of tips and shortcuts for XP and Vista.

Stuart Andrews shows you how to set up and maintain the perfect backup routine.

From budget laptops to ultra-tiny netbooks, ultraportables and high performance, we explain the tricks to finding out the ultimate laptop at the right price.

With online services easier to use and cheaper than ever, there’s now no excuse not to back up your files, says Stuart Andrews.

Our full guide to saving cash-saving secrets is here, from how to get discounts on PCs, to SIM only phone contracts, the best DSLR cameras deals, and discount licensing from Adobe, Microsoft and others.

Could you really replace your home or business broadband with a mobile dongle? Our broadband buyer's guide names the best plans, the most attractive deals and the best value for money.

Stack your system full of software without paying a penny, with our guide to essential downloads

Find out how Microsoft’s impressive new OS will share and back up all the data on your home PCs, among other tricks.

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.

The world wide web is celebrating its twentieth birthday. Over those last two decades, the web has changed the way society works, plays, and interacts..

Despite the profusion of point-and-click web-design software, there’s still no excuse for not knowing HTML. Will Head walks you through the basics

Discover how Google Sky, Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, and dedicated software such as Starry Night or Stellarium allows you to explore the stars and view the planets in stunning detail without even touching a telescope

This feature is for anyone who's finished a working day with the horrible sense of dissatisfaction that things didn't go to plan, that you've been ineffective. That you just didn't do all the things you wanted to.

Want to perform an extreme makeover of your system's motherboard, processor, memory or hard disk? We'll show you how.

Still not sure whether it's worth upgrading to Vista? We put XP and Vista through the ultimate face-off.

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

How did a vibrant palace of bargains and trust turn into a standoff between buyers and sellers? Part one of our major feature.

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

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