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.

Where's the #@$%? Device Manager in Windows Vista? Steve Polak exlains how to find all the system settings you know from Windows XP, in the sometimes confusing Vista interface.

Leigh Dyer lets rip on digital TV, video conversion tools, aspect ratios and video formats.

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.

After the disappointment - perceived or otherwise - of Windows Vista, many are pinning their hopes on a revival with Windows 7. And from our first impressions of the pre-beta code, that's exactly what they can expect.

A Foxtel IQ2 killer or just another DVR – we look at what Tivo is and isn’t for the Australian market in our special Tivo FAQ.

Tim Dean thinks we need to look to notebook technology to save the day

Once you go mobile, you won’t go back. We uncover the hardware, the plans and the services that’ll unshackle you from the office.

Blu-ray and HD DVD players will come out fighting this year. We reveal which format is best placed to be DVD’s successor.

The entire industry is moving towards dual-core technology, but why? Tim Dean looks at some of the reasons for the shift.

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.

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

Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

Ever wondered what a particular acronym stands for? Find the answer in our comprehensive reference guide to computer industry acronyms. RTFM!

Expand your application choices with USB flash drives and portable software.

Creative finally delivers a portable media player that trumps them all.

A preview of Samsung's first Blu-ray player, and the technology that drives it.

David Field attends the motion picture industry’s biennial forum to see what the professionals are talking about.

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.

The HST (Hubble Space Telescope) was first conceived back in the 1940s, designed and built during the 1970s and 1980s, and finally launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery on 25 April