Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..

Power, strong build and an added splash of style make the Asus G60J a gaming laptop worth paying top dollar for.

Turn your iPhone into your own personal gym and fitness instructor with these five fitness-centric apps

Not only can you stream movies from your PC to your big screen TV, but you can turn an Xbox into a media centre, and tap into online video on demand, all from the comfort of your lounge

A hugely likeable phone that excels at web browsing and manages to just live up to its ambitious name.

Make this year’s biggest games shine with glorious high-detail, thumping sound and the best accessories

Try this alternative version to Google Chrome

Intel has released a short animated video illustrating the process by which sand is turned into silicon and a CPU. But the over-simplicity has us leaning towards AMD's older and more interesting video

Mount an ISO image as a virtual drive

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on your iPhone. Here's seven great Christmas-themed apps

Optimise and tweak Windows

Which crapware cleaner is really best for giving your laptop of PC a new lease of life? We put TuneUp Utilities 2009, Autoruns and CCleaner to the test.

Launch your portable applications

On-the-fly encryption tool

Disable spyware functionality within Windows

Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

Cameras and accessories to whet the appetite of photo enthusiasts

Wireless in-car connectivity centres are gaining popularity thanks to 3G and burgeoning 4G services. We take a look at a couple of the bigger examples and investigate how they're changing the way we drive.