Are you a Linux user longing for iTunes? A bit of time and a little custom software can bring music to your ears.

We open up Serious Samurize and show you how to create a desktop object that displays free hard drive space.

Custom build your own Windows styles. PC Authority shows you how to get started with TGT Soft's StyleBuilder.

PC Authority gives you the low-down on skinning your XP system using Stardock's SkinStudio.

More DSL flavours than colours of the rainbow. Tim Dean breaks some of the acronyms apart.

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Are your Windows 95 apps not running under XP? Tim Dean goes through a few tricks to help you get it running.

All the acronyms and obscure new technologies got you in a jargon jumble? Tim Dean busts it up to help us make sense of it all.

Data recovery is a mystical and varied art that shares much with archaeology. Depending on where you dig for data you may or may not find what you are looking for, and the longer you leave going after your lost data the greater the chance it will be worn away by age and reduced to fragments of its former self.

It's an accepted fact that most Microsoft Office users only ever use about 20 percent of the suite's capabilities, often because they don't have the time to learn about all of the goodies it contains. Excel, with its complicated interface and feature overload is notorious for baffling even experienced users. However, many of its features are very useful in their own right.