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Introduction to PC's course included on CD plus 3 free online courses: The Internet, Searching The Internet and Windows XP.
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The latest demos from Adobe and Macromedia to get your website up and running.
GoLive CS
Dreamweaver MX 2004
Contribute 2
Instant Messaging
Latest versions of the major clients plus afew alternatives you might not have heard about.
AOL Instant Messenger 5.5
Exodus
Gaim 0.77
ICQ 4.0 Lite Edition
ICQ Pro 2003b build #3916
Miranda IM
MSN Messenger 6.2
Odigo 4.0
Psi
Trillian Basic 0.74H
Game demos
Pain Killer
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots
The first Dothan notebook to roll off the rank, we were interested to see exactly how much real-world gain Intel is offering in its revised Centrino platform.
The web was designed to be a simple publishing medium but over the years it’s been extended by a range of technologies. Here’s a list of jargon busters...
A fantastic specification notebook with all the trimmings you'd expect to find on more expensive notebooks, the Joybook 8100-V13 has a 15.4in widescreen WXGA with native 1280 x 800 resolution. With ATI's Mobility RADEON 9600 graphics, boasting 64MB dedicated video memory, it's great for DVD playback or gaming -- the unit returned 9,502 marks under 3DMark01SE Pro, more than enough to provide comfortable gameplay with a decent number of fps even in recent games. BenQ has gone as far as to include not just a DVD-ROM for DVD movie playback, but an optical DVD writer, capable of 2-speed DVD+R media writing, ideal for both business archiving or for personal backup.
Blogging has been a growing online phenomenon for the past few years. Some blogs are funny, some profound and moving, others annoying and petulant: but all blogs are personal outpourings. Many blog authors are people who never considered themselves writers or journalists, yet there's a vast range and amount of high-quality blog content on the internet.
Blogging has been a growing online phenomenon for the past few years. Some blogs are funny, some profound and moving, others annoying and petulant: but all blogs are personal outpourings. Many blog authors are people who never considered themselves writers or journalists, yet there's a vast range and amount of high-quality blog content on the internet.
Look at any web page in your browser’s source code view and you’ll see the actual visible content of the page surrounded by reams of text in angled brackets.
Every search engine uses a different method to score and rank websites. We give you the tips and tricks to get your site higher on the results page.
Content management systems promise to take the drudgery out of site maintenance. Angus Kidman looks under the hood.
Surround sound is an important part of DVD movies and the uptake of full surround sound in computer games is increasing. Most soundcards and even integrated sound systems on a motherboard have support for 5.1 surround sound audio, and yet many systems are used with 2.1 speaker systems or with stereo headphones.
Want to kick your website up a notch? Jacinta Thomler gives you 10 ways to make your site stand out.
The i-mate Smartphone2 is one of the new breed to feature the new Smartphone 2003 OS, and is almost identical to the O2 Xphone (March 2004, page 55), except for a few cosmetic changes.
Jakob Nielsen is the world’s leading expert on web usability. Over the years, he’s pointed out many mistakes web designers are making. He’s put together a list of mistakes.
Sixteen notebooks under $2500, we've separated the winners with the goods from the less impressive performers.
How much notebook will $2500 actually buy you? The PC Authority Labs team investigates.
Taking first place overall, the MegaBook M510C had a bit of a mixed run to the final score tally, managing only fifth place in PCMark04 then unanimously taking out first place with a score nearly breaking 10,000 3DMarks, impressive for a notebook, let alone one under $2500.
The annual battle of the small business accounting programs has flared again as both MYOB and Quicken roll-out their 2004 editions. While both have made several tweaks and additions to last year’s models, the main difference this time around is in MYOB’s new product activation model.
While many users will consider it overkill, there is little doubt that MYOB and others have suffered as a result of software piracy over the years and this time MYOB is determined to stop it.
It turns out that Microsoft [I]is[/I] bringing out Windows XP Media Center Edition in Australia, but until such time as it materialises -- and Microsoft Australia is being very sketchy on the dates -- those of us looking to integrate our PC media files with our televisions and hi-fi systems have to turn to bridging solutions.
Punch Technology's Punch Biz+ system features a 2.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, half gigabyte of PC3200 DDR-SDRAM, 52-speed CD-RW and a 17in monitor for under $2000 -- impressive pricing for this sort of spec machine.
FAQ: 10 Frequently Asked Questions about Sony DVD players
Recognising that the Linux desktop market is only going to grow, and that there's money to made in the corporate arena, Sun's Java Desktop 2003 is squarely aimed at companies looking for a cheap, easy, and compatible alternative to Microsoft's (often expensive) dominance.
This unit plays more than just your rental movies and existing DVD discs, it's also capable of VBR MP3, WMA, JPEG, PhotoCD, HDCD Xvid, AVI, MPEG layers 1, 2, and 4 play, the latter of which is more commonly referred to as DivX, named after the compression codec.
