After several beta versions over the past few months, the ever-popular VoIP chat client Skype has been officially updated to version 5. As in previous Skype updates there are a number of performance enhancements and …

The increasingly popular web browser Opera has been updated to version 10.63. while in terms of version numbering this could be seen as a minor update, the latest version of the browser includes a number …

Microsoft’s Windows Live Mesh Service has been designed to make it easy to synchronise files between the two or more computer that many of us find ourselves working with these days. Windows Live Mesh for …

Mac owners are generally the happiest computer owners to be found, but if there is one irritation with OS X that riles more than anything else, it is the startup sound. Psst is a free …

There are a number of ways in which you can store notes on your Mac, but to keep things as simple as possible, it makes sense to use a dedicated note taking tool. Once such …

eBooks have been available in various forms for a number of years now, with PDFs being the most obvious example of electronic publishing. But more recently, dedicated ebook readers have meant that there has been …

If you have more than one Mac, it is likely that you will want to be able to access the same information on each of them. Having two separate address books, calendars and set of …

Buy an Intel-based Mac and it’s easy to have Mac OS X and Windows 7 booting on the same computer. Sharing drives between Macs and PCs is still a problem, though, as Mac OS X …

One of the problems associated with working with both Macs and PCs is the different disk formats that are used. Windows computer make use of the NT file system (NTFS) and this cannot be read …

It is now increasingly common for people to own both PCs and Macs, and in many types of work it is necessary to work with both types of machine at the same time. Ordinarily this …