Microsoft paused their twice-annual Windows 10 feature updates in the autumn and relegated that update to a "maintenance and security" release. It's therefore been a year since any significant new features have been added to the operating system, so what can we expect to find when the update starts rolling out later this month?
Did you know you can "donate" some of your machine's processing power towards fighting Covid-19 and other diseases? The Folding@Home project sends chunks of data to devices all round the world for them to analyse and send back to them. This month's HowTo explains the very simple steps necessary to get this up and running on your device.
There's a glimmer of light for Microsoft in the "browser wars" as their Edge browser has leapfrogged Mozilla's Firefox to become the second most popular browser according to recent statistics. No guesses as to which browser remains firmly in the lead...
A few months ago, we explained how to make a drive on your own computer available on a machine you're controlling from elsewhere using a remote desktop connection so you can transfer files between the devices. This month, we're going to expand on that and explore some of the other options available when using Windows Remote Desktop.
Given that many of us are having our first experiences of home working, we thought it may be worth us relaying some things to consider having already done this ourselves to varying degrees for many years, and to also cover off some points that have been raised by those working at home for the first time.
As if we didn't have enough to worry about at the moment, criminals are now using the panic surrounding the global Covid-19 pandemic as a hook to try and get people to follow links and / or run software that will compromise their machines.
You may or may not remember there was a big fuss back in 2017 when it was revealed by Apple that they had been "secretly" slowing down old iPhones. They have now been fined 25 million euros by France's competition watchdog for this practice.
A slew of articles have appeared in the last couple of weeks that suggest that there's a massive malware problem for users of Apple's Mac devices. Threats have "surpassed Windows—by a great deal." So should Mac fans be running back to Windows?
As Sonos announce that they are dropping support for some of their older speakers rendering them all but useless, in one of our 3a Analysis series, we wonder if we're sleepwalking into a world in which we'll be forced to constantly replace everything we own long before it is looking long in the tooth
This month's HowTo explains how to use a powerful and often underused tool in Microsoft's Outlook email application. Message Rules allow you to automatically apply all sorts of actions to your email. Always move an email from a certain address into a separate folder? Easy. Always mark an email with a certain phrase in the subject as important? Simple. Let's show you how...
