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

Get your licensing shop in order before you build you new server.

Mike MacCana ponders the wine industry, rants online, and discovers a neat tip for intra-server messaging...

Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

David Kidd investigates why open source software still falls into the same old traps

Not Apache, MySQL or Firefox, but lesser-known apps that serve a particular function very well – a Top Ten of open-source applications you’ve never heard of.

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

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.

In the age of Web 2.0, people are no longer looking to a single source for recommendations for information and entertainment on the ‘Net. It’s far better to have a collective recommendation, ranked by hundreds of like-minded people. How does it work? Read on.

This year's CeBIT was a mecca for demonstration and discussion of technology. Here are some of the highlights.

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

Content management systems promise to take the drudgery out of site maintenance. Angus Kidman looks under the hood.

Want to break free from a Microsoft world? Leigh Dyer looks at the alternatives.

Run Windows apps on Linux by running Windows itself. Leigh Dyer shows you how.

High definition video is the next big thing for Australia. We explain the essential technologies for your TV or living room PC, and what to expect from our broadcasters.

David Fearon explains how to save energy and hassle by converting your old Windows XP PC to a virtual one that you can run on your Vista machine

PC Authority speaks to Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian king of security software about cutting-edge programming, cyber criminals, pinball, and life in Moscow.

Automatic, push button, remote control, synthetic, kinetic, commanding your soul... Who needs imagination when you can get some basic tech to do the thinking work for you?

Network reporting tools are a necessary evil for the SME. We unravel the mysteries of Syslog

David Fearon introduces 3D models and rendering