While Microsoft's completely rewritten version of their Edge internet browser has been available for a few months now, users have previously had to deliberately download it. This is no longer the case as it is now being pushed out via Windows Update. The question is, for those that have ignored it up until now, is it worth another look?

June 22nd saw Apple's annual developer conference move online-only for the first time. While the event may have been scaled down, the announcements of what's coming to their product range in the next few months were not. In this blog, we'll take a glance at some of the highlights.

We know many of you like to pile up the tabs in Google Chrome. While tabbed browsing is certainly a useful feature, it can start to get unwieldy once you have more than a handful of pages open at once. Google will soon be adding improvements to their Chrome browser to make things easier.

It used to be the case that if someone sent an email, that email would almost certainly have been sent from a single device that person owned. This meant an email signature only needed to be set up on that one device. That has not been the case for some time, and Microsoft will soon be introducing a feature to solve this problem.

Our HowTo section this month takes a look at the Wayback Machine. This online tool allows you to view almost any website at various dates going back many years. While many probably use it just to see how their favourite websites have evolved, it can occasionally be a very useful tool if you need to find something from your old website.

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.